5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

marmiterulesok

Good morning! :wave:

For yesterday:

-sorted out some more financial 'stuff' -I can't think of a better word.

-took out the recycling tins,paper,veggie peelings (x3 containers) and glass.I also picked up a few empty cans littering the path and garden.

-an unexpected nsd - always nice.

-did some mending.The zip fastener came off the toilet bag I use for swimming,but I managed to fix it back on securely.

-went swimming in the evening despite the raging storm (and I managed to miss the downpour).I was feeling a bit knackered,so almost backed out,but felt miles better once in the pool.It was quiet too.The backstroke was the best;such a great stretch.

greywitch

friend recommended mse to me and yes have been lurking and reading different threads ampersand plus bit of a novice on
computer so takes me a while.
today got loads of washing done and as weather calmed down and nice and sunny drying outside.
put chicken in slo cooker with veg for dinner tonight.
0H cleaned chicken run out love to watch them run around garden finding worms
looking forward to week off work next week

marmiterulesok

greywitch wrote: »

friend recommended mse to me and yes have been lurking and reading different threads ampersand plus bit of a novice on
computer so takes me a while.
today got loads of washing done and as weather calmed down and nice and sunny drying outside.
put chicken in slo cooker with veg for dinner tonight.
0H cleaned chicken run out love to watch them run around garden finding worms
looking forward to week off work next week

Hi greywitch and welcome! :hello:

This is a great thread.It's always nice to see a new face here.It's great to focus on the good things that have happened in the day and share them.

I do envy you -I'd love to have chickens,but I live in a second-floor flat,so it's not likely to happen.
We've got a bit of sun here too,between the showers.

DigForVictory

Purple kitten - hope that new mattress is comfortable and bedlinens fit? Aww DH hanging on for birthday til the right deal came along! Volume cuddlies for ferrets! A good weekend is its own prize. Well done with Motivational List! Very well done on the weight loss & as Great Escape beckons, breathe! Attitude is envy, but rot them just the same. Which kindle book on herbs? Go for qualification - librarians will back you to the hilt! Well done DH on car. Count the days & enjoy the apples. Ah. Reset the clock, grit the teeth & place the additional money judiciously. When hungry, the men in your life will appreciate the pastry apple & cinamon & not notice *any* soggy bottoms.
Broomstick - glad to hear roses are headache free - hope you are too? A long hot soak - sounds blissful! Texts from livestock advising all well also reassuring.
Ampersand - delighted African gone to right home, grieving that you are vs cold bug. Awed at an annual hobby of 'acquire another language'! Bless you returning chit & £5 to whichever momentary-lapse-of-reason soul left 33% of their world wealth in the cashpoint. Bottle brushes can be made with wire, washing pads & a drill up to a certain width. Hope the moon & good radio encourage healing rest? Hair a la Marge, A being politely mobbed with approval (splendid!), Timoney onto reading list tout de suite & only chap I know w knowledge of old Farsi alas no longer with us, but vibrantly alive in hearts & minds of us children. Chipmunk evading trap & lush green robe to replace previous sacrifice. Assisting referree, eh? Good times! So sorry to read H suffering, but delighted that he has taught you the virtues of A Proper Afternoon Tea and Whisky. Might he know a Farsi bod? "car which damaged yours" oh, Rollocks. On occasion remind your 'putah it is an overpriced lump of sand? Useful cantrip. Oxtail soup better for heart & mind. hang onto roof. Temper can return later.
Westywoodpecker - time with both sounds wonderful!
Frith - major paperwork thing sounds rough. Bus pass muddles? Love RAF Deffords being more fun than the stately home. (NT does a grand job, if you like your history in aspic.) Geocache disaster sounds horrifying - hope sorts? Last Clean of bathroom hurrah! What is Jamie's Cheaty Spelt Mixture, please? (Google bemused by combination) Builders! <inflexion of hand Me That Shotgun> Contact your capable local & get a quote to sort things. Pay noone, yet. Photos burned to CD stored with brother. "Arthur Llama" - snickering at desk here. Brilliant!
marmite - pansies planted? (Finally planted my snowdrop bulbns this morning.) Delighted cat has found an understanding lap after your improving laps! Libraries are places to grow - enjoy yours! Neighbours can be good to chat with. (Steps on rake of location again. Doink!) Loads of housework is a pleasure? To each. Hurrah super swim! Real pumpkin soup! More swimming - mermaid in former life?!
Kittikins - hope a weekend horizontal has improved your health?
mhagster - Milly Molly Mandy? I read that with Granny! Delighted GP could listen. Doglet sounds like a piglet digging things! Biting ducky? Uh-oh. Return Done & Sen, phew. Rousing cheers that Ironing Fairy! Yippee a real wool blanket from "dogpile" - much too nice for dog! Feet again? Owch. Lucky 7 yo penpal & canny shuffling envelopes! Oh blight cook & lost day off but hurrah boss' Turkish sensations & assistance at DD's 18th! Four years? Blimey. Rousing hurrahs at how well you're all doing transplanted into this new soil! Hurrah aircon & splendid not having to cook once home (I hope?)
villagelife - chicken watching is almost as good as pig scratching. I'd include soup - 18 meals! Brilliant!
BoP - Ice Cold in Alex is one of our favourites! No matter how smart the dishwasher, it'll never learn Scrabble, or croon over Raffles. Stir Up Sunday has Been & Gone? We keep the marbles. We had *all* the required paperwork & even paid Elgin about half what he spent. Photo has me near whimpering. Foot on/off eminently sensible, thus no longer taught. Steamed? <thud as swoons> Engagement ring still missing - not happy times. Dehaired? Getting the team back together? Sounds fun - hope it works! Electric board need firm hand.
DundeeDoll - gosh Barcelona sounds glorious, & my thanks for the ganymede explanation (must go make Uncle Galahad's acquaintance, & possibly re-visit The Aunts.) Grand to hear Edinburgh public transport working. Venison pie - that's a splendid friend! geese, Alnwick, Chesterfield - splendid times! Late Medieval England in Rye in sunchine?! A shipwrecks museum - intriguing! Ah yes, the little known sport of grandparent-bagging. I've a short weekend of that imminently.
sparrer - I am so glad that the crem felt right & yes, you probably will do 95% of keeping the family together. You did a full roast for yourself? Awed! The ! invasion is over & you are filling your garden with cyclamen? (I love them - can't stand lipstick but cyclamen colours lift my spirits) Well done both your & daughter penny pinching simulataneously - easier with two. Good to hear the gradually going green bedroom is getting there! Glad to hear DB's birthday a proper family do, with the younglings eating the cake! I love candlelight but it does make dropping off to sleep trickier unless snuffed/blown out. Bedroom now finished & dog&mog blotto beside each other - hurrah! Moving back into your room & sorting wardrobe - awed by your industry! Uncertain Frith's builders capable of sorting mess, let alone amicably, but share your hopes for a resolution. Garden centre sale - of course you must go! Rock on the curtains, bother about the doors & soon sweet dreams in your glorious green & white bedroom! (Whilst others slumber in scarlet, thanks to your generosity!) Billowing sheets & lucky finds amongst basket of bags!
VickyA - has friend recovered from cooking club? Hurrah card for Cafe Rouge! Well done having specific car budget. Good luck w surveys & JL voucher! Fight off lurgy & enjoy the lakeland catalogue! How soon might you need driving licence? As if urgent, I have bribed a child to hunt... Blast MOT but a cunning mix of John Lewis & Asda home will create an impressive ambience! Passed? Yippee! Spiced carrot chutney to Dubai - always interesting to think where your creations end up.
Skint yet Again - yikes, having to clean for parents visit whilst in the grip of bad stomach. Double whammy.
Kittikins - self immolation whilst diseased is effective but eek. Of course your class are happy to have you back & what fun to learn on a real map! a teaching exhibnition about foreign languages & class will be creating dragon themed newspapers. Am I too old to come back to school?!
VJsmum - father sitting can be iffy for the blood pressure. (Mine most easily tended by ys high end rtc delices, without his seeing the ys.) Top front seat of the double decker has a buzz no other transport manages! Yikes these evil stomach bugs. 6th Form open evenings a special form of torture. Glad you're back into land of living, that herself is Facebooking happily & young Sir got a goal!
mcculloch - freebie Hoover? Much impressed!
gallygirl - how goes the sewing machine? (Love your sig!)
Tealady - enjoy every minute of Eng Herit membership & when tired of IoW, try the length of Hadrians Wall? Very different & loads of fun. You remind me I should pry my son's fingers off my Kindle & sort his choice of reading on the nook, which is almost as good & a third of the price. Awesome preparation for Christmas, & baby photos are delightful - all charm, no mess!
Caterina - two weeks of half term?! Enjoy every day!
tumptyteapot - welcome! Tea & origmnai with 11 yo sound wonderful. (If you can get an old Financial Times, then fold an elephant, you can see Pink Elephants together!) I've a kale that's gone rogue (we ignored it for a couple of months & it's now revenging itself with acreage). Must try pegging our wild strawberries, see if they get the hint! Cake with apples from the tree - that sounds utterly glorious! Airer on pulley is a gladsome thing & ability to immediately feed an unexpected guest a definite gift.
bagpuss - welcome back & glad you're better! Heroine with pancakes! Right with you on the delights of a cooked breakfast cooked By Someone Else!
feistyfemme - welcome & well done spotting that one of our foremost pleasures is a good meal. Current affairs junkie too?
greywitch - welcome! Allotments bring many delights as well as fresh air & exercise. Chickens fun to watch - humming "ain't nobody here but us chickens" as I thnk ofthem finding worms!
mrsdwhite - welcome & rosehip syrup is a special gift. The very young don't always "get it" but the senior souls of the parish do & are delighted by it.
topsyturphy - welcome & good call. Bless you for delurking to support our Frith!
supersaver - it is good to see how we emerge to support each other! Here's hoping the team can cope with an older & cannier BoP!

OS Pleasures recently
Sons demanded a library run, then got embarrassed when I made them ask their questions directly to the librarians! Happy outcomes & chuckles that one desired book currently in jail...

Found the big bottle of washing up liquid. Hearing my grief & rage having broken three Denby pots in the hunt, my family were both supportive & even volunteered to do some washing up!

Scout training! As the classroom is over the trading post, I look forward to choosing another patch badge for my camp blanket.

Stunning time at Leeds Armouries when an 'interpreter', having 'done' the history, weaponry & tactical territory (& marched through Tennyson), then doffed the Light Brigade natty uniform to reveal a ragged shirt & laid into Kipling's Last of the Light Brigade with a power & a scorn & a glory. Very few stand up historians can do poetry - he let the words find their targets.

A toy musket was "improved" & on demonstrating it, youngling promptly fired a rubber band into his chin...

One of our new Scouts started the night with a nervous stammer. End of the night, he was yelling & cheering clear & easy as the rest of us & his parents' faces were a real pleasure to see.

Guy Martin's expression when up in a Spitfire & bring introduced to a Messer!!!!!!!...

Chortling at the doctor's designer underwear visible as he folded over to inspect healing.

Wearing amber for an Open Evening. Event uncomfortable but bracelet reassuring. Does jewellery replace soft toys for reassurance over time?!

Two fer one at the Flu Clinic - my husband & I are both now Jabbed...

I'd forgotten how much fun "The Monster Mash" is!

Sudden flashback to structural report phrase (that dropped easily into family language) "sagging noggins"...

A godfather is sorting old photos & has sent over a few. Oh my baby bat! Five years later, you *have* grown into those ears.

Only wanted a couple of wooden handles but took the deal of the entire crate for a fiver. Then found more leather working tools that need a dab of restoration & new handles!

Little Beaver Scout telling the AGM about the 35mm film "used in the olden days"...

Startled exclamation from child using a tungsten carbide sanding block for the first time. Shock & awe!

Eavesdropping on family watching some bike stunt thing. They're not discussing the skill, but the weapons of choice, from a .303 to catapults...


Big hugs to all who need them, health & shotguns likewise, and may all employment happen with grace & courtesy.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Oh. Riley!

Oh Lord me, Riley, let’s live this life. Choccies anyone?
Rant over!

5 Now most that I has wrotten in BoP’s guide to live the life, are really just chapter and verse. Now you does not need me to tell you that. Now, as I put the gremlins into & putah yesterday, as noted on this parish, I know how easy it is for all you lot to just collapse at the knee in awe. Rule of Putah, according to Chapter 5, verse 7. The Old Boy. ‘Turn this bloody answer phone off’ Message recorded when Dad BoP managed to get himself a putah, and then not understand how to use it. Was quite funny explaining a default setting to him, when to him, it was someone whom should be kicked out of their house for none payment. No problem, the putah did out live him! Oh, the message, he had rung so many times during the day, and could not understand why I had not answered. I was at work. Had BoPsie in stitches for weaks.

4 Such a stonking tea last night, with emporium reduced pork pie, so good and mature, that double helpings were had by one and all. All washed down with juice and salad. More than just 5 a day, but does not keep doctor away. Eat on!

3 On visit to emporium, saw them reducing items of evil. Now there is a calamity there, what punter idiot buys evil items, only for them to be out of date on their night of evil? Was pleased actually in a way that emporium not getting excess profit from evil!

2 Not at the salt flats today, working from home as per usual. Now, BoPsie is steaming, the Xmas pud, matured version. Matured just like the bacon on camp years ago, take the top two slices off, and the good was still there. And as BoP is still walking this earth, not a problem either. Last years did not exit February as it was far far far far far too good. Xmas cake today will get his jacket of whiskied marmalade, ruff cut with curd. Icing will take plaice on Monday next. Note to readers Brandy not used due to Frogs continuing to sell Exocets in 1982.

1 It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right. wc



Oh and the Xmas pud. Well Brewed and Steamed. Raffles, he is under the affluence. You no think I has too much Whisky in said Xmas items this season! neat your harts out emporiums, not as brewed and as flammable as BoP's. Party Time!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Oh dear, radio silence is declared

Chickenopolis

Hi all !

remember me?? BOP - lovely to see the food po*n is still a hit !

Thank you for the PM's Have I truly not logged in since Feb !

Can I come back ?

my 5

1. Seeing BOP's post and it reminding me that I have just come back from lovely Perranporth just over a week ago on our hols

2. Took some flexi leave this afternoon

3. Limped around the block with my DOG :T A 6ft 4ins JRT :rotfl:

4. Cold but lovely day

5. Met my neighbours new Springer puppy

That about it x

Have a good evening all !

Purple_kitten

Whoop whoop welcome back Chicken:j
Pleasures pleasures pleasures there are pleasures to dig out.
1.For once I opened the gas and leccy bill and didn’t swear, lovely feeling, however I am miffed at the water company, £42 in “standing charges” feels excessive.
2. I do love to escape into my kindle away from the excessive swearing of commuters.
3. Finding a healthy version of what dh wanted for dinner turning his chips into boiled potato.
4. Being greeted by the animals as if I had been away for months

Frith

Hello again, chicken!

VickyA_2

Good evening everyone :hello:

Getting sorted for our hol. This time tomorrow night we'll be in an airport hotel. Oh the glamour! That's before jetting off to the south of France - temperature is currently around the 20 mark. Not bad, not bad...

Pleasures for the day:

1) Done online grocery shopping, to be delivered the morning after our return from holiday. Had a £20 off voucher, which has been used! :j

2) Self-addressed envelope for Wimbleton ticket application done. My mum has been checking whether I've done it yet. I apply every year in the vague hope that I'll get Centre Court tickets for the Men's or Women's final... This year I got Court 3 tickets in the first week. Better than nothing though!

3) Visited Cath Kidston shop today. DH nearly wept when he saw the size. :rotfl:

4) More ironing done!

5) Phoned credit card company to tell them of my travel plans. Lovely chap called Mark from Brighton answered the phone. Doesn't take much to be chirpy and I really appreciate it when someone, even if they are following the script, is personable.

Right, got to pack my bag. :j :j

Night everyone