5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

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1) Fresh baked croissants from the village shop for breakfast.

2) Watching DD1 learning to shoot a Longbow, we bought the course for her birthday. She has a black stripy left arm and is going to ache like mad tomorrow but SOOOOOO enjoyed it!

3) Had a day out ourselves as the course was in Sussex and visited Chichester which is a super place, had lovely lunch out and a general pootle round. Found a board game and a lovely moulded glass dish in the charity shops too.

4) Out for supper this evening, decadent I know, but lovely!

5) Found a 'Tudor Food' recipe book to add to my collection, I'll try some of the new to me recipes, they sound scrummy!

Frith

An exciting day today!


1) Not a bad sleep but up early...


2) Driving lessons! At the airfield by 9 (an hour's drive away). Smiled at one child who looked slightly older than the rest who were waiting. He walked forwards and was smaller son's instructor!! Smaller son had the cool instructor with the flashy black Audi. Bigger son had the old hippy chap with the Mini van!


Nothing stranger than having your children drive past you :-/ Smaller son drove for an hour and learned emergency stops. Bigger son's instructor said he was a natural (he can tell within 15 minutes, apparently) and he wished he could take him on the roads! Bigger son got up to 60 mph and learned how to reverse round corners. I think it is fair to say they will be going again!


3) Went to Croome NT afterwards.


4) Stopped at the Millennium Green so my car could be driven around on the car park....


5) Chips from the van for tea.


6) Went swimming with sons and my brother.


7) Watched Casualty.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

And on the nest.

5 Poached egg on toast for breakfast, with hot buttered and jam crumpet. Tea. And egg and bacon banjo. Banjo, as it ban Jo everywhere. Rubs Tum.

4 T BoP has maid home style crusty apple pie. Served chilled with ice cream. Yes. BoP is off lumpy custard this week. Also hone made chicken tikka, with mushroom cor blimey moorish sauce. Served hot, very hot. Recipe available.

3 No had a BoP failure. While repair treader of BoP, BoP snipped wrong end of new cable for brake. Oops. So, new brake blocks, fitted, new inner tubes puffed up. Including mega blow back when valve came loose. Raffles was hit, but recovered, licking paws. Oh well, treader tested and works. Stops on a tanner.

2 Day BoPsie went shopping and got the weeks grocery in and paper for only £26. And we got the dark chocolate tea cakes as well. Rubs Tum.

Keep watch, the ferryman tariffs are only there for one reason. Same reason as when the parcel landed before the Buerke. The rich got the food, the poor did not. Ethiopia, civil war, been pot shot at. 1984. Not changed then?

uncreative

Was on a night out last night and only drank tap water, got home at midnight but got up just before 6am feeling great.

1) It is always the best decision the morning after not to have drunk the night before!

2) It was a glorious morning.

3) Sat outside at our garden table all cosy in a fleece and had over an hour of peace and quiet.

4) Made a pot of filtered coffee and 2 poached eggs on granary bread toast.

5) Eggs from a farm and bread from Lidl.

VJsmum

Greetings from a train somewhere in the Midlands....

Skint - you sure did need that nap. Glad you got "stuff" sorted
Kittikins - relax, you'll be fine
Frith - amazing for DS's to do the driving thiing. My DS is 16 and a half and desperate to get behind the wheel :eek: Suddenly our v. old tiny "cr*p" peugeot 106 doesn't seem too bad to him
BoP - don't pay the ferryman indeed.:(
Bagpuss - your no. 4 is so true, the poor little boy Aylan, looked just like my DS did at that age. Tragic
Mhagster - Percy pigs? i discovered this morning that dad has a thing for Flumps - most odd....
Uncreative - your morning sounds lovely.

Pleasures for yesterday and today

1. Good train journeys, got lots done. Thank goodness for free train travel
2. lovely Pain au chocolate from my fave food outlet at St p - not Patisserie valerie anymore but a more "wholefoody" type place. Don't eat stuff like that much these days and it was all the better for it. also relished the Baba ganoush, falafel salad box tonight
3. Dad was very jolly. Can be a bit hit and miss at times but this visit was a good one :T
4. Lovely meal out with school friends. We have been friends for 40 years and don't meet as often as we should - mainly due to family pressures and geography. One of us has had a (thankfully benign) brain tumour, so it was lovely to see her so well. Friends OH paid - we have known him forever and he's kind of "one of the girls". it was lovely and kind and unnecessary - but he wouldn't take no for an answer
5. Wore my new, bought with christmas and birthday vouchers jumper and scarf. Looks and feels great.
6. Soon be home :T

have a great evening all

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1) Bacon sandwiches for breakfast, something we don't do often but Oh My! how we enjoy them when we do!

2) Spent a super day at the Dorset Steam Fair, haven't been able to go for years as poor Docky didn't like the crowds and noise, wonderful place to visit, so much to see and do.

3) Had some Moroccan Tagine and cous cous from a stall for lunch which was delicious and sat out of the sun in a tent beside the big arena while we did, so we enjoyed some time out after lunch.

4) Spent some time watching the teams of heavy horses working various agricultural machinery, gentle giants working together and being very effective, wish there was more of it in real life.

5) Best treat of the day.....a ride in the 'Vue' big wheel, I love big wheels anyway but other than the London Eye this is the biggest and best I've ever ridden!

mcculloch29

Thank you for all yours, a collection from me.

1. Yellow thing in the sky, has been MIA for what seems like weeks here. Being east of the Pennines we are in a rain shadow technically, except that the low pressure camped out over us for a while. Washing wasn't getting dry even indoors on my airer.

2. A subsidised afternoon concert at the local-ish Folk Festival, ours isn't free and is sold out weeks in advance. One of my favourite singer-songwriters was there and his spot was very enjoyable.
Actually, everyone's spot was enjoyable, including a local Fisherman's Choir that are every bit as good as you'd imagine they would be.
I've known of this choir for some thirty years now, and I finally got to hear them.

3. A childhood ambition is about to be realised. I got offered a sheepskin rug free to review, not sure if it is real NZ sheepskin, it's sitting in a box in the hallway. I've made myself do some other reviews that were needing doing before opening it as a reward.
When I was small I longed for one of these rugs to bury my toes in on freezing winter mornings.
I'm convinced the UK had a very mini ice age in the Sixties, a lot of my childhood memories are about how cold it was. We were in South Wales, on the coast, as well, it's always far warmer down there than it is up here in the NE.
Anyway, I digress. My rug awaits, crack on...

4. Dr C. doing well in his new abode.

5. Nothing really major to worry about at the moment. How lovely to have that realisation.

Frith

McC - there is a school of thought that there is a terrible winter every 14 (?) years. I can't remember the dates now but I think 1947, 1962-3 and 1978-9 (I remember 1979 as I was nearly 4! I also remember branches falling off the trees in the orchard under the weight of the snow in 1981). And 1992 was pretty shocking when I was at sixth form college. There was a time when I thought sons would never have a snowy winter - just the odd day of snow. Then we had 2 terrible winters in a row!


VJsmum - can recommend ;-) http://www.startinyoung.co.uk/ Sons are going to have a few lessons to really get the hang of it then intermittent ones to "keep their eye in" until they're 17.


Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep. Last lie in for a long while. :-(


2) Eggy bread and blueberries for breakfast.


3) School uniform buying. Smaller son 5 foot 4. Bigger son 5 foot 9 and 7.5 stones. What fun buying trousers was.........


4) HM pizza for tea. Haven't made one in ages. Dough done in the breadmaker.


5) Swimming with sons and my brother.


6) Have been sent an email from work so I shall actually know what I am supposed to be doing before I get there!


7) Phoned call from school friend.

bagpuss38

Hey all.

A gaggle of weekend pleasures

Saturday
1. Up early for what turned out to be a futile gesture, however the pleasure lay in getting round the lovely quiet shops and off to the golden arches for pancakes.
2. Pootled around the charity shops, a haul of books and a frame (see below)
3. Said frame used on a lovely pic I had made of the kids names and DOB.
4. Scrummy burgers for tea.
5. A giggly, funny, happy night in with the family. Watching Saturday tv and doing what families do best.:)

Sunday.
1. Lie in and doughnuts in bed with littles. Crumbs everywhere but snuggles all around
2. Off to local dogs reunion. Just wonderful to see so many happy little and not so little woofers, running jumping and for some sloshing in water
3. Home for a scrummy dinner of roast chicken, homemade potato salad
4. Chill out, tea and shortbread with the hubby watching last leg. Seemed to have developed a crush on Adam Hill:o
5. Hopefully of to pick up shiny new car tomorrow, very excited as the freedom having a car represents is a whole different pleasure.
Hope you enjoyed your weekend xx

Skint_yet_Again

Hi all, some lovely weekend pleasures
... but BoP what the .... no lumpy custard.... tis a tragedy

Heres mine for sat/sun

1. bacon sarnies for breakfast

2. cleaned front of house UPVC windows which were covered in grime - now gleaming white which I don't particularly like but cant afford to replace - but at least its clean

3. went to car boot with friend on sat and got a pine shelf unit for £2 for DS's bedroom so he can get all his DVD/games off the floor !

4. back to friends for coffee and inspect her garden which is having a major landscape and she showed me all the plants they are splitting and has promised me some - I am not very green fingered so anything I shove into my garden has to be pretty hardy

5. she also gave me some rhubarb from her allotment

6. DS got back from team display safely on sat night - this is his last one now. He had a day off everything on sunday so we both had a nice lie in

7. lovely sunshine sunday - managed a few loads of washing and a walk to the shop

8. helped DS renew car insurance he saved over £1000 by switching and a years no claims now

9. sorted some more paperwork - only 2 more boxes to go

10. roast chicken dinner on sunday, followed by chilled afternoon/evening with DS watching films. Havent done this for ages as he is so busy usually but his gf on holiday so was nice to have some time together