5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

And from one offering to another. News, live from the Nest.

5 Breakfast was the normal mushroom fest, with snorkels, bacon, toms, poached egg and toast, washed down with flavoured tea.

4 Just sorting out through the cupboard of photographs. And the photos of BoP are the best again.

3 KO. PM 2 DD UTM what a difference a week makes. And we were free flowing and game over in six minutes. And the crowd at the rusting bus shelter in Scu nthorpe was a bus load as well. UTM.

2 Night we are watching holiday inn. A classic. With some wobbleades and chicken bits.

Live in the landscape, where every day the clouds just whispering lay their waters with eny

Skint_yet_Again

Lots of crumble being scoffed .... I want some !!!

Pleasures

1. off work for 3 weeks

2. ald! and roads were clear at 4pm on Friday due to torrential rain. Usually gridlocked

3. got 2 loads of washing line dried ironed and put away today.

4. had a good tidy round getting ready to go away next week

5. got a refund from shower company on bay of e with no fuss. Trouble is I cant find a replacement of the type of seal I need so I've had to cobble together a few offcuts from old seal and part of piece bought that has not split. Doesn't look good but at least water not leaking.

Frith

I'm glad no water is leaking in your house, Skint....


Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Sons went to the local motor racing practice with my brother.


3) I spent the morning trying to find where the water was coming from... The stairs were wet! Turns out the hot water tank has split :-/ Pleasure was the bathroom man coming round this afternoon and he'll replace the tank while we are on holiday next week. I've looked at them online and the tank alone will be £250 :-(


4) Had a quick look round the village show.


5) Went to second dad's for some soldering wire.


6) Went swimming with brother and bigger son.


7) Chips from the van for tea.


8) Brother has been here playing Wii games with sons.


9) Looking forward to catching up with Casualty later.

DundeeDoll

pm to bop could only muster another draw :-(
wonderfully touching fb post vjsmum
tinned ravioli a gastronomic treat sometimes? i know what you mean dfv
rugby and the ashes, not a good month for the ozzies mhagster
now listening to deadringers &
a very enjoyable day after a bad night's sleep
1) went for lunch with xoh and all 3 children. nice palestinian cafe, very reasonable. didnt invite mum cos xoh being there. awkward. bt she is the children's dad so we muddle along
2) then children and i walked into town. 2 pairs sandals and a pair of linen trousers in exactly the colour i wanted in the sale (also a cardi in exactly the colour i wanted and a pair of white trousers but they werent in the sale ahem) and a tube of my fave royal jelly handcream also in the sale
3) children bought me a lovely ring - silver with 3 hearts each with a different colour stone to represent each of them. sniff.
4) then a bus with dd2 to her bf's house where we watched scotlnd then england rugby matches wth her bf and his dad
5) and they had left over chinese, plenty for everyone. all very mse :P

mcculloch29

1. Decluttered eye cream, face serum, artist's brushes, brush roll, paint tube holder and watercolours to good friend this morning. All brand new, sent to review. The paints etc, had been earmarked for her, she is a professional artist and superbly talented. The roll and holder she can use for herself, and the brushes and paints will be used for demonstrations, as she is also an ex art teacher.

2. Lovely chat with her whilst I was there.

3. Fair exchange being no robbery, I came home with a bag of plums and a bunch of hydrangeas, along with some oregano that has very pretty flowers. Hydrangeas and oregano are looking beautiful on the kitchen windowsill.

4. Tucked £6 into my pocket and had fun going round Aldi working out what I needed and could get for the money. Got the basics of some meals, even with that small sum - a block of cheese, tortillas for tortilla pizzas, chickpeas for hummus, cous-cous, sauce for stir-fry, 29p salad buys. No lemon juice though - sold out.

5. Feeling the need for something sweet, I baked the intriguingly named 'chocolate concrete'. Recipe I found needs tweaking - too much sugar, but it was the simplest thing I've ever made that actually had a recipe.

villagelife

Vjsmum a lovely post by your DD.
DfV I love watching vintage planes

1. Lunch provided at work on Thursday. Sandwiches and fruit but nice and meant I didn't have to take anything in with me.

2. More gardening and planting lettuce seeds amongst others.

3. Picked courgettes, runner beans and potatoes and had for tea.

4. Worked yesterday - double time so not too bad. Gave a colleague some beans and courgettes and she was delighted with them. I generally take stuff in on a Saturday for her as she appreciate it and doesn't have a garden.

5. Watching the rugby.

mhagster

Some weekend pleasures :

The sun has been shining....not warm but bright.

Work has been very busy , 3 down and just 1 more to go.

Popped over to see friends last night for a couple of hours which was nice to catch up with them. He made a ginger fluff cake which was delicious . It was a cake his mum made when he was small. He found the recipe recently , it was very light and very tasty.

Daffodils brightening up my windowsill.

Watching casualty and eating chocolate cake....lovely combination !

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Today I have been provided for.

5 Snoggled ups with BoPsie on the full length leather sofa watching Bing last eve. Full length version as well.

4 Had emergency omelette this morning for breakfast ham Tom and toe nailed onion. Toast and jam. No bits as it is black currant the moment. Full currant version. Washed with tea.

3 Crumble day. Going to make crumbl as butter, dated May, needs crumbling up. With toad in hole and lumpy custard. As I am not a salt, will be on separate dishes.

2 Nite BoP is bagging again. Another week south of sparrashires.

Keep in the window. But careful of the light.

mcculloch29

1. Various lightbulb moments to do with re-arranging the house to my wants and needs.
Today's was the useless lightweight wicker laundry hamper from my bedroom being swopped with my ancient, sturdy Rubbermaid one from the bathroom. The wicker hamper had to freestand on the floor, being light as a feather and wider at the top than at the bottom it spent more time horizontal than it did vertical. It's now tucked into the corner of the bathroom where it looks very stylish.
Meanwhile the blue plastic Rubbermaid one, bought in 1978 in Bochum, in what was then West Germany, is toning in nicely with the blue decor in my bedroom.

2. Yesterday's: useless wickerwork wastebin of same design as above from bedroom now in office, sturdy hard to tip office bin now in bedroom.

3. Finding 2 full bottles of weedkiller spray in the shed, God knows where they were hiding before Dr C removing his bits and pieces put them in the line of sight. Bindweed and ground elder have received a further zapping.

4. Finding where Dr C had hidden my laminate floor cleaner, box of disposable gloves and bars of Knight's Castile (soap is for making laundry gloop.).

5. About to give the Jack Monroe pasta with mandarins as recommended by Frith a go for tea.

ampersand

mcc - you're on such a crest of wave :-))). Lovely to read. And Knights Castile, creamy lanolin soap of NZ childhood! Didn't know it was here. Report back on the laundry gloop if you would - I've mse recipe-read a few times, then found desire sated in so doing. & does use soda crystals.

1. Just to ginger everyone up, esp. mhags in time for no.4/4 shift i.e. brownie points with enzed bosseroo, LISTEN UP, LOOK SHARP. Points will be awarded for intensity, deep looks, 28pts and above winning margin, 'O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done' standing ovation 12 mins from end.....

Great haka and anthem [required World Cup homework] here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_S2V0bASSI

2. Raspberry crop late-ish and odd-ish this year. Measured one this morning: 6.2cms end to end! Fruits of green apple have suddenly boomed in size. B-i-i-i-g, look ready. Triffids.

3. Alma welcomes<français and others upon arrival yday, which always surprises &. ABs' match re-screened @15h. Quel beau geste! & replete:-) Think some albions scrambled a win too, later. Flattered France, 1st half margin should have been bigger. Not sure St AndrÉ is up to job, altho; v.glad longtimenosee Trinh Duc[bad broken leg last year] was given a run. So, him or Camille Lopez for final XV? Qui sait?

4. em+diary crock-ups, not &'s for once. Ended up racing back here, ferreting about for STUFF, then back to Church where blessing of wedding was imminent. Vicar and C.W. found themselves with less than an hour, not one week and two hours, 'til the off!
Knew I'd just acquired good quality[that was why:-)] mid-sky blue candles. Trailed some ancient white and silver filigree lace around them>tall old altar sticks/pewter sconces, which vic and & placed each side of resited pulpit table. Found perfect heavy white lace runner for that. Certificate of Blessing was blue/silver bordered. Maid of Honour wore graduating blue lace. Bride in long ivory and silver. Carpet to choir is blue. Bride and groom kneelers are worked in blues/ivory. All was fluke perfect.
Did 3 more candles for their children. Another beautiful and very special add-on: music to salivate for. 3 remarkable child prodigies, [classical/opera canon, eldest child 12]. A busking family, apparently heard in Cambridge recently. Daughter, 10, patently sings with joy like a resonant pealing bell - already has music scholarship as direct result of busking heard, ditto brothers[violins, trumpet, clarinet and piano]! All right and good, notwithstanding proud tiger mother who & heard each talent-overspill child nicely ignoring when she pushed unnecessarily...good, good.

5. Listened to The Romantic Outlaws, the extraordinary lives of two Mary's, Wollstonecraft and Shelley this morning, early, as here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qftk/episodes/guide

Romantic men, hmm - not for &, not those 2. Have known better....
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Off to shift hose around infinite fruit, give my papaya seeds a go -
http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/1953994/ever-plant-grocery-store-papaya-seeds

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On verra.