5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DigForVictory

Dear Gods I've been away a while.
mhagster - Haggis recovered? Hurrah DD2 reporting a bully - takes strength! Hope boss remembers shopping list in full?! Real Steam Trains are a good thing. May counselling come soon & *help*.
VJsmum - *love* "full range of available marks" & getting him suited & booted... Atta DD baking when needed!
Frith - Game of Thrones isn't quite marmite, but it can be divisive. (We adore it as a family. I think watched alone we might not have taken to it as vehemently.) Broken foot & no comms? Poor form. How does one bathe with broken foot & finger (other than Dashed Carefully?) but hurrah deep hot water! Faster on crutches - oh dear, yes... Anchor? Have fun! (We drop in on their warehouse sometimes - vast amounts of amazing & weird as well as humdrum.) Lots of clean warm dry affordable stuff? Excellent & yes they have cadets, women & hulking great chaps in today's army... Mostly in green, but sand & others!
Mrs LW your freezer only goes back to 2010? We've stuff Japhet's daughter froze... "all is safely gathered in" yes indeed. Longbow skills are transferable & the sport makes for sensational photos.
sparrer - ah, Tom Thumbs! Lovely cooperative plants. Vicariously So Proud of you swimming!
BoP - midear is this peripatetic life really worth it? A nasty lack of Proper Feeding does not sound good & I'm missing the live scrabble.
dundeedoll - Malta? Just wow!
oldtractor- I covet your cheese sandwich...
purplekitten - oooh, real home made home grown pear crumble.
ampersand - did that glorious voice & diction get the mower to cooperate? "I don't know if I'll miss you but" oh, & <fumbles for hankie> Have you a postal system or a lottery with letters?! Also leaning towers of books by bed! Any tsundoku? (M'father so taken with the idea, he made a label to identify one batch & remind himself to read some of them before the siren call of Blackwells drew him in again.)
mcculloch - love the idea of the racehorse who doesn't sprint so needs hauling up before starting another lap! Glad he's sussed stalls.
VickyA - I must try living with parents briefly to see how OH copes. All joy with new term... Well done DH, ironing! Family WW2 memorabilia varies but oh the conversations & the memories (& the songs if grandad's allowed) - storming stuff!
village life - you had routine? I'm still waiting for my lads to go back to school so we can re-establish one!
bagpuss - *awed* at camping by train & yes play is universal language - why Richard F Burton said to be able to speak hundred of languages courtesy of his itinerant childhood! Stats a beast but masterable.
Skint! welcome home & hurrah DS hasn't flattened the place.
Judi - I'm all for MrT's deals & Ironbridge gives a *lot* of fun for the money. Corsets & clay pipes amongst very serious engineering - in spaces which do help put things into perspective.

OS Pleasures recently
My family, trying shandy as an experiment, have decided they'll tolerate it as I croon over the little bottles and make Christmas plans... Ginger cordial as a minimum!

"I went through my entire interview with my shirt buttoned wrongly and they Still gave me a place!" - Y'know, suited & booted is sounding better & better...

Big oak chest from being-sold property arrived earlier than expected at 6.15 am. Eldest teen woke me & muttered imprecations about The Welsh for some hours (between further naps) Researching the battered old box is fun, but really all I want to know is how to clean it... [Tub of specific furniture wax has appeared. Hm. Be careful what you wish for?!]

Enjoying Bolt's run & win. I don't usually watch running but when the matter is settled in seconds & the delight goes on for months? [Not just me? Splendid!]

Delayed as youngest got bootlace locked in the front door.... The fraternal exchange through the letterbox was both unedifying & utterly hilarious.

Child considering exchanging a brother for an Infinite supply of Reece's Pieces. I tried to explain this could have a bad effect on his health, & ultimately the economy and he asked why I was so sanguine about him trading a brother? Oops.

The new carpark is beside a construction site - and whilst it makes me feel like a mouse scurrying past a bad-tempered elephant, one of its gate staff has a lovely grin & "Good Morning!".

Colleague just handed me an armful of old SFX magazines - that'll wind down the summer holidays Beautifully.

Little building site now unwrapped from scaffolding, and a garden chair is still perched amongst the building leftovers, a brightly striped reminder of sunshine & smiles & breakfast in bread.

The outraged squawk as streaking son hears his father suggest someone points an iDevice at him & takes photos... Who was chatting to mother-in-law on the phone at the time, so the chuckles were across three generations.

Temporary office & code on ladies loo has Been Changed - glorious female bonding/problem solving moments.

Family Golden Wedding fun - wonderful to watch Strip The Willow! As well as chuckle at grandchildren photographing cakes whilst uncle awaits his slice... (I'd've tried the dancing but my lower back went pop yesterday & I'm now moving with impressive stately grace & impeccable deportment. Happily I can still drive, & sleep.)

The pipe smoker took the palm at the party - across the road, a house being refurbished had heavy linen blinds being abandoned on the pavement, awaiting driving to the tip. We rescued them - it's interior decorators linen, but that'll do nicely for several projects...

Mother-in-law's birthday - boys Keep Asking what is she doing so we've fantasised skydiving, drystone walling, having her toenails painted Bargello style with roses, having her first flying lesson in a Lancaster then a chocolate cupcake with lots of extra toppings. And since another nephew's birthday is tomorrow, their *joint* cake is topped with Transformers & roses....

Kanye West's declaration to run for President. Dear me - the livestock show disconcerting political acumen as well as an intriguing command of the English language. I'm proud of their neat ability to pr!cis the chap's career to date. As Last Leg enthusiasts, they have become very deft at the verbal filleting...

Puttered around the garden, crooning to my AngloSaxon pea crop (four juicy pods drying now, & still blossom on the plants!), murmuring encouragement to the apple trees (especially the little cheap supermarket one looking distinctly puny beside the nurtured nursery one) & greeting m'father-in-law's oak.

The warm glow of handing a hire car back & being assured your full deposit will be refunded. (Especially after you've spent a full 15 minutes going over every inch inside & out to get that!) Better still, as I was driven home, the assistant had exactly the same issues with it I had! Nothing to do with my driving, phew.

New washing machine installed by team effort & suddenly laundry is the new hobby as the lads like the new display & the melodic chirps! OS as efficiency rating takes 4 characters.

Rosebay willowherb brightening an overcast morning with it's own drifts of pale sunrise. It's a vile weed in the wrong place, but driving past it? Very restful colour amidst greys & muted greens.


Big hugs to all who need them, hot water bottles pencil cases and nametapes likewise and frankly hurrah - we're heading back to school again. I need the normality.

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Hello all, back home now after a couple of days with DD1 as it was her birthday yesterday. Conglomeration of days but pleasures were really good ones

1) DDs garden is now bereft of some large and hairy bushes that had got badly overgrown. Tussle and mattock sorted out the problem and He Who Knows will be seeding the area they occupied. Also high conifer hedge was given a much needed haircut and all looks much better now.

2) DD2 and Zebra came to visit at DD1s home yesterday and we had loads and loads of fun. Spent most of the day outdoors in the garden and the park and took the birthday girl for supper at a pizzeria in the evening. Slept well as small people are very quick and need chasing, again and again and again!!!

3) Good run home this morning, motorways moving well and no holdups.

4) New Hotter shoes for both of us from a sale and used 20% off voucher from the garden centre where the outlet was and they honoured it for both pairs, result!

5) Not too much produce to pick in the hothouses, everything seems to be slowing down which is a good thing and the year feels as though it's turning and Autumn is in the air. I like Autumn, how it looks, how it smells and like also the cooler temperatures and that first lighting of the woodstove, there's a rightness to it all!!!

DundeeDoll

frith just reading your updates exhausts me! glad ds on the mend
ditto your oh mchags
so malta was fab. last day it was my birthday and lovely corinthia palace gave me a huge chocolate cake with 2 sparklers at the last coffee break. enough for the 25 lovely libyan doctors, my colleague and of course me
then back to our hotal, dumped my stuff in my room and guess what corinthia marina (wasnt it fab sparrer) had left a smaller birthday cake in my room! and a birthdya card from the maid who i had left the tip for the night before (not in anticipation of a birthday card lol).
took the cake down to balcony where my coleague was already sat with g&ts and he, his son and i ate half the cake, but what to do with the other half? offered it to a family from watford (i know bop and me a hatter!). they were so sweet - they invited me to join them on the 2 harbours night boat trip and share their picnic, complete with champagne!
home friday, ceilidh for friends' 50th (husband and wife both celebrating 50 not out), church sunday, back to a gazillion emails monday.
off on retreat tomorrow with cathedral friends. they pick me up at 11, so planning lie in and bath will be offline again till monday x

ampersand

Putah probs...yawn, yawn.

1. Cracking result for Johanna. Longest women's match ever in US Open:
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/sep/03/johanna-konta-defeats-garbine-muguruza-us-open
STOP PRESS @ 22.24h. Andy 4-1 3rd set, but 2 sets down...to a français n/k>&. Don't want him to win though [&, are you ailing?]

2. 3rd day in row to Bank re:NZ gubbins. & opens the 'Go advanced' toolbox for these:mad::mad::mad:, BUT, is it possible, after further call[cut off, natch] to enzed late hier midnight soir, that conversion to NZ$ bank draft is underway? Hope so. Lovely Natwest Bank Mgr v.pleased with & merci: Vicar's girls' eggs. enzed emailed, if it gets there...:(

3. This morning's attempt, 4th of over 3-figs' worth in recent times, to speak with oldest enzed schoolfriend, WORKED!:j:T:j:T:j.
'&sie, dahlink!...' and off we [mostly] went until usual beep-beep-beep and gorn.
Late b'day nonsense duly posted, Royal Mail actually cheaper, by BIG £20+ far, than parcel2go[ascertained via Library putah, bien sûr, as &'s was sulking] Has been in hospital, hernia out, then back for rehash. Take care, dear friend now 67. Let others care for you, pretty please .

4. What does & think of John Niven? 'The Second Coming', goodness me!
Even spoke of it and him at vicarage brekkie. DD, kk, mcc...when you've a spare term or three, as we all know teachers have long hols. with rien à faire.:D, [citing book of bop, Edgy-cationers, Chapter Consistent.]

5. What to have for no. 5?
-'nother kg rasps in freezer?.......but where do the zillions of miniscule leaf-grazing snails come from?
-On again/off again/on again/off again for spookyfest...if & goes, off tmrw. On verra, je suppose.
http://www.thefold.org.uk/events-and-festivals/spookyfest/
- still can't see if mower works. Drenchy every day. Why's that a poss. pleasure?:p
- more oxtail and greens in a mo. It's gorgeous, improving each day, as is wont with such dishes.
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Skint_yet_Again

Happy Birthday DD - have some more cake !! :bdaycake:

Have had a dodgy tum since got home sorry TMI - but have some pleasures

1. sorted out some paperwork for filing/shredding

2. Tesco have offer on Almond Milk for DS and used my clubcard vouchers. Don't normally shop at Tesco but I get petrol from Tesco express on way to work so get vouchers from that but petrol is esso so cant use them to buy petrol - seems a bit daft to me

3. nice catch up with friend today

4. more washing done and line dried

5. slippers and snuggly furry fleece out tonight - brrr its chilly

ampersand

:DMight have guessed summat else.:D Shouid have known.:D

ANOTHER BIRTHDAY

dd - this looks about the right size, and a certain something in the expression seems a bit sated suitable???....
Just as well it won't feature this w/e.

Frith

Quick pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Bigger son opened his first bank account today.


3) Popped to Sainsburys.


4) Booked sons' first driving lessons on an airfield!


5) Bigger son dug out the overgrown path so it will be easier to walk to the car.


6) Plumber came back to turn the thermostat down on the water tank.


7) Two from smaller son yesterday. "Don't row the boat over there! It'll get grounded on the skilt!" and "Look at the pellets on that cake" (Great British Bake Off). Me "What pellets?" "You know, the pellets that go round a flower...."


Work tomorrow. Boooo :-(

Frith

Happy birthday, DD!


Laptop won't let me put a birthday cake icon in here!

bagpuss38

Happy birthday dd! 🎂
Lost yesterday's pleasures and was too tired to retype
Pleasures for Thursday.
1.Both girls off to school in one piece....
2. ....Returned to a lovely quiet house, watched gbbo in peace. Just me,the dog, tea, toast and marmite bliss
3.DS in a fab mood now uni stress behind him. Had a good giggle as our humour is more than a match for each other.
4. V good first day for both girls, DD3 made me laugh when she said why has it gone so quick I wanted to stay longer with miss!:o
5. Hot bath and new jammies. Nothing beats that.
Love to all x

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

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