5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

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1) VEBs poster, what a girl, what a cracker, give her a hug from me and tell her she's wonderful!

2) Finally got a dry gap in the day and have picked blackberries, runner beans and tomatoes and cucumbers, no longer feel like a caged animal stuck indoors.

3) My friend Brodie the spaniel who lives next door has decided he likes runner beans, so I was his best friend as I was picking them and he kept coming back and looking over the fence as only a spaniel can and asking for more, bless him.

4) Roast sweet potato with chilli beans and grated cheese for our lunch, just the cheer up we needed on such a dull and dismal day.

5) Getting the offer of a replacement item from the E.Bay seller who sent us a broken one yesterday, no charge and delivery on tuesday, good service, result!!!

DigForVictory

Mhagster - atta gal! Huge hugs and hoping you get the help *you* need as well as guiding & supporting all your family. Big hugs from here where rain not dampening post-tent fun as all still on holiday.
Frith - hurrah surgery done, botherations more antibiotics but wheehee drone! Cor, Blists Hill aerial footage...
Ampersand - bless you, our water is fine (yes, we were in a tent counties away) and lady mother now has Evian to swig (she got us two Large bottles before I could reassure her.) All best with vestments (hyssop restore whiter than snow?!) & with person.
VJsmum - rousing cheers on your daughter's clarity & courage (clearly top parenting there)
Knitta - somehow bath bombs & morose tortoise "fit". Aren't Big Cardboard Boxes Fun!
Dundeedoll - tieback hooks? Genius!
Mcculloch - keep on enjoying living Your Way!
Kittikins - so happy you had a grand day out in Coventry, & alternate day dashing? Not 5:2? Ulp...
BoP - Raffles' gastronomic forays have led to serious sunshine whilst we were under canvas - within reason, may he stick at it?!

OS Pleasures recently
I'm very fond of RAF Cosford. For £2.50 car parking, you get picnic space with runway views, all the history your knees/feet/brain can handle, a dab of Ancestor worship (for me) & the shop had a charity fundraising stall - 10 magazines for a pound. So the chaps mop up more history while I sprawl on the nicely mown grass & listen to an aero engine being worked on.
I like the architecture crouched around the edge of the field too. Buildings literally living on the edge should anything go seriously wrong. Some calmly in plain view, others nervously huddled among trees.

It is good to lie on the lawn, listening to small birds twittering & small boys being obedient. Even though the "my, how you've grown" croon is spot on the money, my hulking great louts can achieve creditable manners when they so choose.

Weald & downland - chatting wheat types with the bloke working on the AngloSaxon building, feeling beech nuts under my boots & having Joyce Grenfell flashbacks, crooning over wood tar & the racksaw - all in the first hour!
Time out of time in the stack - Oh My! The things, the juxtapositions, the history within reach of memory & that just out of reach....

Half the fun of a picnic is being mobbed by ducks after crumbs thrown by lads... Although crows are agile if aware they're outmassed by ducks.

Hot chocolate, sipped gawking at a sensational sunset turning mares' tails to flame.

The beach, shared with a few dogwalkers & the sea with a few surfers, all preoccupied so the lads hunted fossils, played tig with waves, had fun & I mellowed out to a near Zen state! My inner toddler reintegrated after weeks of forced exile.

Butser farm - rare archeology-practical - build it & see how close to the dug remains we can get - and rare breeds, not least the black goat who had a black male kid While We Were There! Plus another AngloSaxon building going up & cheerful inter-museum rivalry/bickering.

We went back to the beach. Then to the chippy then ate watching the sea. Utterly delicious & we'd walked a lot first, honest! Fresh lemon chunks to squeeze were a novelty & absolutely worth the fuss. [Memo, add lemon to car supplies.]

The skies have been enlivened by vintage planes - one practicing acrobatics, three coordination flying & gosh the engine noises! Heroic, and musical, and history-on-the-wing all at once. Even the wettest son (not *quite* hip deep, still in trousers) paused to watch. [Seems Bournemouth had an air show - we got to see the rehearsals!]

In the twilight, there's an issue of glowsticks. (Headtorches for full night only, glowsticks for rapid location until within tent for the night.) "I love these pepperonis!" comes the chirp...

Portchester castle, and the display of military training for Agincourt is awaiting the end of a Wedding on site. One family is Navy & there's a cheerful unwillingness amongst the reenactors to go up against dress swords which operate under different rules....

The purr of the gas lantern is a soothing background to the intermittent grasshoppers. Not having heard this many this close, I can only remember the cicadas in California... I was five.

The stars! My sons tow my lagging feet across the grass as I gawk up at the heavens. There's the Plough, and then where's Orion? As there aren't just constellations visible but *galaxies* & they're glorious & deserve attention. For some reason my sons won't let me lie down & gawk properly. Other folks' guylines, or some pretext.

There are times & places where a tin of ravioli is a gustatory treat. Says she, having eaten happily, & curled up in the tent listening to the gas lantern & the rustle of pages turning. [Ah, Pratchett. Bless you, even as I quell another disagreement as to who's "better", Carrot or Vimes...]

Never seen the satnav icon for "take the ferry" before - stylised boat!

Just in case I haven't been absolutely clear, paddling barefoot in the sea is a superlative delight, the whole gloriously serenely meditative. A heretic's Compline?

"It's the asbestos & arsenic - brings out the chocolatey flavour" when complimented on his hot chocolate brewing skills. Boychicks...

The raw, uninhibited excitement at the prospect of a week at Gilwell that bubbles off the Scouts is a delight. Since I missed the memo about non-uniform, I had to do the formalities which I enjoy even if I still feel monstrously unworthy. I can't go - family commitments, but with luck they'll get me a necker...

Son advised me my Carlin pea plants have moved from blossom to pods! (In the lashing rain, he used binoculars.) I'm *very* pleased.

Himself has drilled the Weald & Downland token so I now have a beautiful keyring. One more key to copy & I can return several keys!


Big hugs to all who need them, brollies sunhats & fleeces within reach, and train the young to cook *early*. They become so much more tolerant...

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You've been on my home turf DFV, Portchester Castle, The Weald and Downland Open Air museum, we were members for some years, just love the place and have done some really interesting courses over there including Prehistoric Cookery, Flint Knapping and Cordage and Victorian Cleaning. DD1 has done Bronze Dagger Workshop, (has her own dagger now that she made), Victorian Cleaning with me, Basketwork, Leatherwork and is going soon to learn how to shoot a Longbow as her birthday present. It's such a smashing place. Did you venture next door to West Dean? it's got beautiful gardens and victorian succession houses and they run arts and crafts courses in the house itself, well worth a visit if you're close by again. Hope you enjoyed your stay in the south, Lyn xxx.

Frith

Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Tasty toasted sandwiches for lunch.


3) A rare exciting load of post! My new swimming costume arrived (last was all perished and falling apart alarmingly). Also a leaflet and amusing letter from Tom Watson, a big waterproof map of Amsterdam and (fanfare) smaller son's first bank card! He's been carrying it around all day.


4) Bigger son went swimming with my brother.


5) Smaller son and I went to get some bits of shopping and smaller son paid for some cheese (!) USING HIS DEBIT CARD!!


6) Got our Euros for next week :-)


7) Big tea! Used all the bits left from our roast dinner and made a pie with a puff pastry top. Everyone enjoyed that. Then an apple crumble.


8) Bigger son is out roleplaying with brother and brother in law.


9) Smaller son and I have made millionaires shortbread and been out flying the drone with cat 2.


10) Watching GBBO The Last Slice and looking forward to the Last Leg.

mcculloch29

I read Tom Watson's book on Murdoch a few years ago, and I was so pleased when I saw he was running for Deputy Leader, Frith.
I would have gladly sent you the book if I still had it but I donated it to the local library as it was a publisher's copy.

judi24

Busy day doing not very much -but very nice all the same!
DD1 finally arrived home at Midnight last night after going to see friends on her way home (I have to realise I am no longer top of her list to see when she comes home!!!) Sat up chatting til 2 am - she was telling me she is going to work on a project in Ghana that is trying to get children with disabilities (physical and learning) out of villages and into schools - he is so excited and I am so proud! Down side is her Dad is giving her a hard time and being very dismissive about it and she wants his blessing!!! Why is it she has everyone's blessing in the world but the one she most wants she isn't getting? And no matter what I have done to raise and support her I have not changed history and she is having the same issue with needing her Dad's approval as I did for years!!!!


Your DD post VJ'smum - is very moving!!! She is truly insightful and has no doubt helped people understand how she sees the world! Proud mummy moment no doubt


& conscious truly is a challenge sometimes!


Pleasures for today:


1. Rain stopped play - so had to think of alternative entertainment from the planned Dolly dog walk - went to craft shop with DD3 and had a lovely day planning a craft project as a wedding gift for my cousin - lovely not to be thinking about assignments and dissertations


2. All 4 kids at home - not quiet but is lovely all the same


3. DD1 made dinner (even bough the ingredients) chicken pesto pasta with garlic bread and salad! Was lovely - and so nice to have someone else cook


4. Surprise postman visit - made me smile and food for thought of course!

chella

Good Moning everyone


1. Have been up and about before everyone else and have had a lovely quiet cuppa with the cat laying across my feet keeping them warm


2. 3 loads of washing finally going out to dry after a soaking wet week


3. the whole day is mine to do as little/much as I like.


4 going to make rhubarb crumble with rhubarb I have grown


5, bought a LUSH bathbomb a little while ago and every morning when I come downstairs it smells like blackberries, lovely!!!


seeing my veg growing in my little garden makes me smile

ampersand

1. http://www.theguardian.com/sport/video/2015/aug/14/bledisloe-cup-wallabies-all-blacks-video

McCaw,R, is another leftie, & notes. Good, good.

Full time! New Zealand 41-13 Australia: The hosts keep hold of the Bledisloe Cup and send out a pre World Cup warning with a resounding victory.

France calls. Some France is here! &'s reliable tincans have failed apparently...quelle surprise. Equally rusty around Colchester, apparently.
Handover rv will occur. Maybe we can shout across wheat stubble to arrange.
Chat with dear friend is v.g. We are not as young as we were 40+ years ago and friend needs no angst from ongoing ancient family stuff.

2. Rain's stopped.
Full time New Zealand 41 - 13 Australia And that’s that. A powerful, impassioned, and at times brutal display from the All Blacks.

3. Thankyou Raffles, yellow thinghere.

All Blacks retain Bledisloe Cup with thumping win

The signs for this thrashing were evident from the start, when the All Blacks decided to perform their special haka, the kapo o pango, reserved for the biggest occasions. They weren’t awful, the Wallabies - this was all about just how good the All Blacks were.

4. SMC seeks volunteers here:
http://www.thefold.org.uk/events-and-festivals/

Enquiries to and fro, pendings...
Wallabies roadkill at Eden Park

The All Blacks returned early from the sheds to huddle in the middle of the field before the second half, with Carter giving his team a rev-up.

The Wallabies surrendered meekly to the ensuing black avalanche.

5. New Zealand CRUSH Australia 41-13 in Bledisloe Cup decider

Such a nice start to today.

The World can keep spinning on its axis for another day - because the All Blacks are a long way from falling off any cliff....a possessed All Blacks juggernaut thumped them back in their box with a 41-13 hammering.

Nothing like a glutton-y overdose of unpleasant triumphalism to carry & beaming to The Alma later. Albion vs Bleus' near-as-2nd XV.[they're making excuses in advance]...dropping restored linen into Church en route. Iron on....
Steady &. No scorching reveries.

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Love your post chella:-)
knitta won't mean us to crush our h-m bath bombs for blackberry muffins, I think. I'll definitely try alternative Lush; thanks for post #31939 :-)

mhagster

Just briefly & as it is bedtime.... My kiwi boss sent me a text half an hour ago to make sure I pass on commiserations to one of our customers tomorrow!

ampersand

teeheehee...unfortunately, there's not a lot we like better.
-and
Le RCT victorieux face au Stade Français 31 à 14

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Oh, Frith -
6. Voting papers just arrived. Plenty of enticement ems from all, but no pretty letters from Tom. I did tell him how/where I cheered that morning of the RM book news storm. He asked for pic with &. I am still listening, readng, thinking hard - definitely undecided.:p...except for No to JC[other one]and AE
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Dead Ringers is doing a good job on him. Nothing else may work.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0650623