5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Broomstick

Evening all

&, thanks for the reminder about the Persephone catalogue. Mine arrived as well and I'd put it to one side unopened to read later and had forgotten about it - that's my bedtime reading for tonight sorted.:T Those Dodie Smith covers look so tempting too...

Five pleasures for Friday:

1. DS2 had to take his car to be fixed so I followed him in my car to the garage and gave him a lift from there into work. That meant that we spent more time in each other's company than we had all week so I managed to catch up a bit on some of the things he's been up to. Lovely to chat.

2. Stopped off at the garden centre on the way home and treated myself to a decaff cappuccino and succumbed to buying some spaghetti squash seeds but stopped the unplanned spending there!

3. Managed to get the sports kit all washed and line dried so it will be ready for next week.

4. Have had a mammoth session this evening at the allotment. I stayed planting stuff until it was just about dark. Have got carrots, onions, leeks, chives, spring onions, a row of peas and salad stuff planted and under cloches or fleece since the wildlife is jolly hungry right now. More to go in tomorrow.

5. Not quite a pleasure yet but imminent. I have a nice hot bath waiting for me. Maybe I'll take the Persephone catalogue to read in the bath...

Sweet dreams (and big hugs to the mhags family as well),
Bx

Frith

Pleasures for today (Friday).


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Another day, another infection for smaller son. I think this is 14 in just over 12 months. :-/ So another dash to the duty doctor and another chat about the very necessary operation at which point smaller son ran out (as usual).


3) Returned smaller son to school with antibiotics. Good to see his specialist teacher who was very chatty.


4) I got to school 11ish and it seems nothing awful happens to you if you have to have time off for your children! Bit of a nothingness day there otherwise.


5) Brother and brother in law came round for tea and games night (Settlers of Catan tonight).


6) Enjoyed Gogglebox and about to listen to Dead Ringers. In bed with 2 hwb already.

bagpuss38

Mhags sending lots of cyber hugs to you and your family.
!!!!!! disease!
May you grow as a family with the love and strength of those virtual and real who care about you.
Please post whenever you are able, I love the warm way you talk about your family life in oz and I know that you incredible lady will be a rock for your lovely dh x

Pleasures 1-5 for me a weekend off with nothing planned, just lovely nothingness and the opportunity of somethingness should we wish it.

Sleep well people, hot water bottles and snuggly blankies all round xx

mcculloch29

Having managed to get one video taken off, here we go again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL43JE22Ync

If you have Facebook, this is set to public, so you should be able to see it, please play it in high definition for best quality:
https://www.facebook.com/andrea.mcculloch/videos/o.110845002347648/10152680898162391/?type=2&theater

villagelife

Skint - hope collegue is moved out of your area of work. People like that has an effect on the whole environment.

1. Day off yesterday and is was sunny and warm.

2. Spoke to a friend who gave me advice re MIL.

3. Spent some time in the garden and watered the plants and of course its rained over night!

4. Started the mammoth task of clearing out the old shed we have which needs to be moved unless it falls apart in the process. I need to find somewhere to put all the stuff in it. DH won't be keen to even store some of it for a short while in his new shed.

5. Did some mending of a skirt of mine and DS2 pillow - which has seen better days but is his favourite! I've tried throwing it away before to complaints.

DundeeDoll

back from holibags, the type with no internet, so just caught up on over a week's worth of updates. oh mhags, i am so sorry to read your news. echoing others' loves, hugs and prayers
super week away marred only by going down with stinky cold wednesday evening. very much hoping it's shifted by monday when i'm due to go for a meal on the Discovery. Very posh.
1) lovely weather for our holiday - mum, me and 11 others sharing gargunnoch house near stirling
2) one day went to inchmahome which is on a 4 acre island in Scotland's only lake. when you get to the jetty you turn a board so that the white side faces the island and a chap comes over in his wee boat to take you over.
3) another day we went to Doune Castle. Forgot to take coconut shells and avoided les vaches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ8jGqdE2iw
4) and sometimes we just sat in deckchairs at the front of the house, soaking up the sun http://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/Global/Hero/GargunnockHouseHero2.jpg
5) and evenings we took it in turn to cook and shared feasts, laughs and memories in the dining room http://www.designtripper.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Dining-Room.jpeg

ampersand

dd- stinky cold to be dosed with Discovery drams and flash dins. Do as told, please. What a lovely hols idea and grouping - wonderful place, glorious baronials.

1. Rainy bookends this day and middle 'tears' with both teams losing, &'s local[who needn't have] and Toulon[who shouldn't have]. Hmm, seems that sentence, or one horribly like, has appeared here before.
Vicky, not so chez vous! Cracking victory again, notwithstanding opp. level. La Rochelle were supposed to be that for us too, although we are supposedly safeguarding entire team for Sat's BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG Final.

2. All the black tulips were out, just, this morning. They're tall, stately, stunning.
Halved and re-potted lily of the valley from the wooden demi-tun, which simply collapsed like pickup sticks after many years. Means an extra pot du muguet :-)

3. Merci lettre from S in France for crochet hat which she loves and partner P. loves putting on her. Hair re-growing slowly but further treatment will see this go and come again. Letter is a beautiful chinoiserie-brocade style aquarelle which S has done as a card with early Immortals poem, piquant and bittersweet, in her calligraphy. Her ex-voto paintings are exquisite and were a real surprise to me last year.

4. Checked back for sth and saw thriftlady's starter post. Don't know if any of you glance at her blog. & does occasionally and see she is pausing[that was late March], but she, too, posted the front cover of Persephone Biennially on Instagram just 2 days ago. Luscious.

5. Am more than delighted that this has reached target[and can now over-run, by popular demand:-)]

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5226682

and here:

http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/beavis-fund-hits-target-after-one-day.html
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Many thanks for music links mcc. I'm feeling eager for spookymen's imminent-ish arrival.

mhagster

Is it just me , or is MSE changing from new style layout to old style layout and now back to new style?

Sunday evening here in very cool and damp Melbourne ....been a wet and rainy 12o most of weekend.

DD1 and I went to a local towns Anzac dawn service. It's the first one we've went to and special as it was 100years since the Gallipoli landings. It was a beautiful service which I sobbed through half of, thankfully the rain stayed off during service . Kookaburras laughing in the eucalyptus trees.

Phone call to friend, just off phone to my sister. More sobs.

My sister said in her email ' I so wish I could give you a hug, close your eyes and feel it' much sobbing.

Lots of sobbing overr the weekend. Obviously work has its compensations and gives me other things to think about! Sobs caught either on dog fur or husbands chest!

Food eaten , toast and peanut butter with papers at fave cafe, chicken involtini with the most amazing veggies for tea, BLAT for brunch at another favourite cafe. Sobs amongst mouthfuls at times.

Bit of garden tidying done, three pumpkins picked , the last of the rhubarb picked , a couple of zucchini and a lone carrot. We've emptied the veg patches of the rest of the pumpkin runners and zucchini plants and covered them in a heavy layer of leaf mulch.

Pouring with rain dog walks.

I've just paid my utility bills even though they're not due for a couple of weeks but it's just one less thing to worry about.

Watched casualty this morning .

Having a roast beef dinner , with Yorkshires and veggies and mashed potatoes...all coking away at the moment.

Have a lovely Sunday, I'm off again tomorrow and have lots and lots to do.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Been steaming and now I am off to shoot some ducks!





Too many around I am afraid Skint, but if they don't move, Rule of BoP No 14, part 4. Feet. If my are under the desk, I is no moving!

5 Snorker fest this morning, with cupped mushrooms, SpagYETTI Hoops, toast and poached eggs.

4 Dumped BoPsie at the Duck pond near us, big on that Capt Scott's lad dug up. Now see note above.

3 Paid too much tax again,. well over £400 this week. Far too much and no grace either. Will soon have tax done for this year.


2 See some of my Buck of Face fiends are trying to tell how to vote. They have been sin binned, as I has the Vote of the Postie.

1 If the Tsar was felled, then the whole might of the German Army would had been unleashed in the West?

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/gallipoli-was-not-churchills-great-folly-20110413-1ddzb.html


Not everything you read is what you thought it was! And it was not until late Spring in 1918, when the US eventually mustered enough strength was the German Spring Offensive halted!

Purple_kitten

A mix for the past couple of days
1 I put the brekkie on and went back to bed yesterday.(Oven is right by the bed in the van)
2 Popped to Argos for a cable and paid in necter points.
3 For today up early to massive boot fair but no goodies apart from blue duck eggs.:)
4 The weather is so gorgeous we found a beach for a few hours very remote and soaked up the sun once we blocked the wind off:)
5. Dinner tonight thanks to lidl 30% off and half price strawberries.