5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Skint_yet_Again

Pleasures for Monday

1. early shopping at ald! at 8.30 before the car park got full. People driving round and round shouting at one another when I left

2. popped to sainsbobs for almond milk for DS on offer - bought 12 saving just under £10 :money:
3. little robin hopping round the garden

4. did some batch cooking

5. afternoon snooze

Feeling rough today and lost my voice .... early night methinks

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1) It's finally stopped raining for a few minutes.....and I can see a sunset!

2) Garden has been full of birds today, they were dripping in the trees and looked so miserable I fed them even though it was raining and I think they were hungry because they've been very active all afternoon.

3) Using up some bacon pieces and half a leftover cabbage to make a new Danish dish for supper, was going to have butternut squash and sage risotto but He Who Knows fancied this instead.

4) Doctors surgery texted us both to say the Flu Jab is on Saturday (I know, a dubious pleasure this one) and I'm grateful for the chance to go and hopefully be protected against the main strain this year.

5) Looking forward to some sleep tonight, last night's showers were very loud, very heavy and kept waking me up through most of the night, hopefully I'll be tired enough not to hear them if we get them again tonight!

sparrer

Wishing all the poorlies well

1. Only raining off and on so the loft flood is just intermittent. Hoping it will stop long enough for the roof to be mended soon
2. Sunday lunch and shopping trip with friends, between us we saved a good bit thanks to the sales. We'd have saved a lot more if we hadn't gone shopping, but that's not the point!
3. Saw the first episode of the last series of Downton Abbey. Enjoyed it so much I have to watch all the previous episodes, which I've never seen as I've always been out when it's on. Lots of good Winter viewing ahead
4. DNeighbour gave me some pretty, heavy curtain fabric which I'm making supermarket trolley shopping bags with. I have other odds and ends but as plastic carriers will be 5p each from the 5th October it will be my Autumn project to make some smart ones.
5. Eating a bowl of bran flakes with a banana while I type this.

Sweet dreams

bagpuss38

Got a major grump on so pleasures are not to be seen.
Be back when I'm not such a misery guts
Love to all xx

DigForVictory

sparrer - only you can see the electricity saving bright side of beng swamped - all your tlc of painting & redecorating - how has that fared? Making nice bags before 5 Oct - brilliant!
bagpuss - awed at domestic blitz & hoping OH toothache has now been sorted?
mhagster - a night in hospiotal, things a-changing and you bake? Love that day off - sounds both distressingly productive & also blissfully relaxing! Canny to get the 6' lad to make the bed!
VJSmum - training women to survive & thrive in the construction industry as a PhD - awed. "One email" - oh yes. Rot the technology, some days.
Frith - has the exercise resulted in Any Changes? (Let alone positive ones?) Hurrah sons hurtling happily at airfield!
BoP - there are days when no matter how diligently you teach independence, you have to white night the damsel.
Mrs LW - love your friends present! (Omits obvious jokes about how to wrap.) On the whole, I'm pro the flu jab, as I've seen it wring out a cousin over months...
Skint - attagal having a ball at friend's 50th & I don't think you can go wrong with Moet. Occasionally be grossly overcharged, yes, but rarely actually Wrong! Well done on the almond milk, too!
mcculloch - my house is Never ready for visitors, even ones who arrive 5 hours late, but it is good to see folks. Love the sound of Angrove fillies & why should sisters look alike?


OS Pleasures recently. (Ye Gods. Over a weeks' worth.)
Just seen a miniature pug puppy. Tiny, cute and still wickedly overbred, but charming, curious, fragile-small.

Forgot my laptop. However, locked in boot, & car only a few minutes away & I get to admire the river more. As starts to Friday go, it could all be worse!

The little building site is fitting kitchens and I saw a short length of handsome worktop in the skip. I asked through the fence & they said walks round & help yourself. So I did & told the nice guy who minds the carpark near it, on case he too fancies a smart top to put mugs on.

Spent a happy hour flinging an axe at a tree stump with son. Restful, meditative, family time.

Hurrah! The strife is o'er, the battle done - the mechanic & I have agreed on The One. We'll have a new-to-us car next week & we can go back to travelling & mooching As A Family! (As can my beloved mechanic, husband of a splendid friend, who has been wondrous tolerant & who likewise can return to familiar ways!) [draws veil over false hope & falsely retained deposit - must have a word with union lawyer about that.]

Gentle start to Sunday, cosseting mildly snuffly child in ways I used a decade ago, stroking, crooning, wrapping in my fleece (he's now shrugged it on 'properly' & it's too wide but otherwise right for length!) & we're going to watch an episode of Castle together. I do know there's a delightful young man in there, waiting to emerge once he's outgrown the teenager, but right now his inner toddler & mine are happy together.

Bickering over some number, the brothers pushed their vocabulary - "hecking lots" took the palm for both great size and still repeatable.

Planning which from the edible hedge to take cuttings from, and which to just prune. Windowsills of twigs again!

Autumn colours along the road. Green all summer, now smouldering & scorching shades of yellows, reds, oranges - aflame even through drizzle.

There are times a clean handkerchief is a blessing. Oh this cold!

Phrases I was backed into: "I am not a corrupt sheep!"... Offspring do strange things to you.

I emptied the drier. One school top, one real handkerchief and three socks. Got to hand it to whichever child - I'm impressed by the handkerchief!

Ah, the sharp inhalation of a hungry teen who Has Just Spotted Pizza! Followed by the engulfing hug & "I want you to know that I love you. Not just for food." I could almost believe him. I certainly believed the grimace as he unwrapped his length - he "pulled a Lot of muscles, climbing" with Explorers.

Aww. Completing the voter registration form with firstborn. Who had, of course, utterly lost his National Insurance number. Bonding moment, even if he's still terrifyingly hazy as to What either of these Things Mean!

"Mum, you're acting like an 8 year old who's got a new pony." Well, apart from the actual calendar age & that in fact it's a new to me car? Yep!

Tailor waved to me first! I've missed him recently, seems it's mutual!


Big hugs to all who need them (on t'internet, noone can catch your cold), hwbs gardening tackle and a wary eye on the calendar [it's coming] for any who need same and amidst the awkward stuff, smile at people. It's warming & thus, fun.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Prawn, to the King's Bishop! Ooooh Look, guess where BoP has been!



5 Went to the smoke yesterday, via the bear! Them to the IWM and frankly, I thought the Great War exhibition was carp. Firstly, it missed off the 99 years of no involvement since 1815, and missed the first Prussian liberation of Paris, in 1870, by starting in 1871. Then missed off the Schlieffen Plan! Not impressed. They had a minor bit of the Falklands. Respectfully, did like the heap of rusted metal in the entrance. Not a wreck from the Great War, but a mangled mess from the 21st century. But have to question why the children of today seem to be very able to record what they have done, but not actually view what they have seen. I essence, their life is recorded, of where they where, but nothing on the reason. Must had seen at least 4 groups with a fusillade of camera devices, snap at every object, as they raced through the perimeters of history. Nice lunch with BoPsie though and would recommend the caf!. Rubs Tum. Well liked the heroes room, where many a hard lust fought was gained. Saw Leonard Cheshire's VC. You probably know him by the Messer's Strange that these heroes were accompanied by comic magazines of their deeds.

In the Hero exhibition at the IWM, was a George Cross given to Anthony John Gledhill. And this was accompanied by a comic style sketch of the day he was awarded the decoration.

4 Then off to Trafalgar Square, so great Fish Head! and a Canaletto, a Richard Wilson. Mind you that young upstart laddie, Turner is impressive! Would not mind a couple for the Fireplace!

3 The we went to Old London Bridge and got watered. And fed. Not ripped off, and a talk by Sir Max Hastings on his new book. Now, after reading of his expression of hero in another book, am intrigued with his signed first edition of his latest instalment. Checks pocket. In a passing he mentioned Alan, but others that were there as well.

2 Then it was a crush back to the Bear, and we just missed the through train by seconds, having to be watered by BoPsie with wobbleade as we adjourned to the inn. Watered, we were then eventually ripped off. Now I don't need to explain in this parish, BoP not liker being ripped off. Sausage roll. How much. Well the frogs are no goods anyway!

Strange the comic book description of heroes we read before, are now replaced by the upstaging of thugs and villains? Go watch the film. Not a hero!

Purple_kitten

Awww Paddington bear….

I lost a long post pfft.

The weekend away was one of the best lovely people and place and lots of plants and bulbs snaffled to be planted this weekend.:j
Came back with a chest infection feeling blergh but rested.
Food planning making life easier cost wise and the freezer being very forthcoming with all the meals.:)
Lidl making life even easier and managed to pick up one of the £5 of 40 vouchers, now we need to plan if we will spend 40 on tins / Christmas bits.:D
Strawberries from the garden will go on a scone tonight, and a tonne of beans, coupled with a whole weekend of gardening planned ahead.:cool:
A free kindle book I don’t remember downloading that is literally unputdownable - bliss

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1) Sunshine this morning and a benign day.

2) Planting up the window boxes and pots with winter pansies, they give us colour right through the cold months.

3) A lovely walk with Cookie down to the river and around the village just after lunch.

4) Finding bargains and reductions in W8rose after being horrified at the prices in the supermarkets in town this morning.

5) Finding a new (to me) author to read when I visited the library today.

Kittikins

Big hugs bagpuss xxx

mhagster

I'm now on Thursday and we find out today what our future holds but will deal with that later this morning. It's a beautiful day, washing's been hung out, ironings been done whilst watching Corrie.

Yesterday was day number two off.

Went to cafe for brekkie with OH , who had an annual leave day and DD1 who had swapped her shift with her sister. I had a scone but as always I have scone disappointment....its a sad condition to be afflicted with! scones have a very hard baked bottom ....that would break your teeth!

Then we dropped DD at home and headed out to other side of Mlebourne. There's a British butcher and I bought sliced sausage ( Scottish delicacy) angel delight.....( sad but true and then it seems it's only me that likes it...oh well! ) , potato scones ....love, love, love, pickled onion monster munches....they were in the tiniest packet..they used to be in bigger packets! But ooooh every bite of a monsters foot was a taste sensation!

Then we went to a beach which was almost deserted, blowing a hooly, freezing but stunningly beautiful . Mr Haggis had a fabulous time. Such a fabulous time that he would not come back and get his lead on...bad dog! He had a wee paddle and was having so much fun with a stick in his mouth that why would you want to get your lead back on.some other dog owners grabbed his collar for me.

Then went to next along beach town but where we had hoped to walk right out along the harbour and pier was a no dog zone, which was rather disappointing.

Then nice drive home and cooking of said sliced sausage....I've spent all night with heartburn....need never have 2 again! One will be enough!

Exhausted by fresh air and emotions and slept like a log until about 4.30am


Right , better get my brave face on, son has just told us he's going away camping this weekend today, so need to say goodbye to him, knowing that when he comes back we have news to tell him.

Onwards and upwards Mhags