5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Skint- there's nothing like a charity shop.


MHags - sounds good apart from the hurty bits.


Pleasures for today:


1) A lie in!


2) Got lots more done this morning - ironing, cleaned the fridge, washing etc.


3) Collected sons after lunch and it was hen afternoon (photos to follow at some point).


Drove to Coventry (much arguing with the satnav as we went cross country). Quite an organised system of cars queueing, getting their hens and driving away. We got some food too.


The hens were taken from their battery cages at 5.30 this morning. Ours are not too bad (bald spots on their backs and no feathers on their necks). We were taught how to introduce them to drinking from a bowl - if they don't work it out, you have to dunk their heads in! Also, they have never seen rain (sun, wind, grass, soil, other animals etc) so if it rains you have to put them inside. Also at night, they don't know to go in the sleeping end.


We've been watching them since getting home! We chose the names - mine is Marigold, bigger son's is Samantha and smaller son's is Barbara :-D


Only one had to have her head forcibly put in the water bowl. Once they had worked it out, they drank for ages. They went in the sleeping area and couldn't work out how to get back to the run but they're OK now.


At 9pm we went to check on them one last time and they were curled up in the sleeping end in the deep straw. :-)


4) Watched Casualty with bigger son.


5) In bed now with hwb and will watch Holby or put the radio on.

LaineyT

Quick hello to Frith's hens, imagine how fab that deep straw felt last night :T

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1) The view across the river today, all the sky and water beautiful in multi shades of grey and silver like an old Dutch painting.

2) The smell of newly cut grass where someone was cutting their lawn.

3) Beautiful frothy cherry trees in full bloom of pink lace petals, like belles of the ball and vivid yellow forsythia along with cerulean blue ceanothus shrubs brightening the day.

4) The noise of rigging clanging against the yacht masts in the sailing club compound.

5) All the daisies and celandines had their eyes closed tight today as it's so cold and there is no sun, so different from yesterday!

chella

Another no alarm day


Leisurely walk in the rain o meet a good friend for coffee and cake.


Batch cooked some lovely chilli for dinner tonight.


Game of Thrones is back on!! not necessarily OS but I am excited.


Got some reduced chicken portions and my favourite beef dripping Yorkshires heavily reduced so that will make at least 3 cheap meals.


Sitting here with a hot cuppa and the cat on my lap. Browsing the forums and listening to the rain. The house is warm and my scented candle is lit. I have had a second day of leisure and it feels lovely!

Frith

Quick pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Up at 6.30 - and smaller son! He is very pleased with the hens :-D and wanted to feed them before going to school. We checked them over then pulled some carpet (used as weedproofing on the allotment) over most of the run as they would not go under cover if it rained (as they've never seen any!) A mouse came out from under the carpet as we lifted it off the soil and darted about.


3) Work was OK.


4) Back home to check on the hens and.... drum roll...







5) Quorn pie for tea with some Christmas braised cabbage from the freezer.


6) Another couple of checks of the hens including shutting them in the sleeping end at 9pm. They know how to get in and out of there OK now. And - the third egg of the day!


7) Enjoyed watching the Island with bigger son.


8) Smaller son made soda bread at all (not sober bread, as he thought) and we had that toasted with jam.


9) In bed with 1hwb (think there will be a frost) and about to listen to The Unbelievable Truth. Bigger son is asking smaller son a series of questions in a cross voice - though deeply asleep!

Skint_yet_Again

Frith - hens look fab and must be happy in their new home laying all those eggs :cool:


Kittikins - apricot fairy cakes sound nom nom. Good to have some mummy and DD time after teen outbursts


Woke up suddenly half an hour ago thinking I had heard the doorbell ! Must have dreamt it


Bit of a rubbish day yesterday so thinking of some pleasures


1. work went quickly
2. sun was out and rain had stopped at 1pm -home time
3. quick bag of noodles for lunch with some leftover chicken
4. afternoon nap
5. felt bit better after a snooze and did some tidying, put the dishwasher on and DS made me a cup of tea


Have a good day everyone .... must motivate myself to get up and ready for work now

villagelife

Had a great weekend.

1. Quins won and have booked tickets to Lyon.

2. Had a night away in Harrogate with DH. Lovely town and weather was m mainly dry but cold in the wind with some snow flurries. Would go back and visit again.

3. Lovely Italian meal. I enjoyed mine. DH ordered starter with chilli in and then complained it was too hot!!

4. DS2 laptop is working. He thought it was broken with all his course work on it. And not backed up anywhere as he had enough memory on laptop.

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FRITH I can remember the absolute thrill of the first egg from our first 3 hens, we got them on Easter Saturday at point of lay and when we let them out of their nest box on Easter Sunday morning there was one beautiful pale brown perfect egg in the laying box. Such joys are to be treasured and no matter how many years go by, that first egg will stay in your pleasures store! enjoy the chickies lovey!

C_J

Yes indeed. I still recall the absolute joy of finding four still-warm newly-laid eggs the morning after I got my first four hens. I was so excited, you'd have thought I'd found four bars of gold!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Now for clue number ten!

Just BoPinn about as up in Telford. Crossed fingers.

Later, all round to Friths for the dippy eggs! Get the marmite soldiers ready, real butter please!