5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mcculloch29

How sad and what rotten luck to get something so uncommon. RIP Caramel.

Frith

PK - very sorry to hear about Caramel. :-( I am sure he had years of happiness after finding his feet at your house.


Pleasures for today:


1) A bit of a lie in!


2) Spent nearly all day on the allotment. Lots of slow motion digging as the hens were sometimes perched on the tines of the fork, spadey bit of spade or standing where we were about to dig. They must have eaten their own weight in worms!


We planted squash (nurtured on windowsills but now find there might be a frost tonight!), carrots, courgettes, more radishes and lettuces.


My sister and her baby came to see the hens.


3) Went to Sainsburys for lunch and shopping.


4) Went swimming with sons and my brother.


5) Chips from the van for tea.


6) Watched Eurovision.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Losing my heart on a bench in Sydney Park. Here it comes, I am inn the mood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwN1gQqdSDc

Especially for DD.

I sing Black and White for you, Orphan Boy.

I THINK THIS GOING TO BE ...

[Deleted User]

1) The smell of the river on a warm day compounded of seaweed, estuary mud, salt water and just a hint of marine fuel in the background, it's the smell of home!

2) So many new things open today Californian poppies, pink hawthorn, masses of wisteria, sweet sultan, scented azaleas, pinks, forget-me-nots, rosemarys of every shade of blue, choisya, and we've still got primroses opening their eyes in very sheltered corners.

3) The big fig tree that hangs over the wall by the entrance to the park is back in leaf and with multitudes of developing fruit, no one ever picks it, such a shame.

4) The rugby yesterday from Lyons Racing 92 vs Saracens, cracking good game.

5) IPL cricket on the TV, one of the better pleasures in life!

Kittikins

RIP Caramel, hugs x


1. Sunshine!


2. Pretty caught up with marking and planning for next week


3. Took DD to a netball tournament where all the girls played fantastically and nearly won their semi-final, a close call. The picnic went down well too!


4. Finally girded my loins and tidied my pigsty of a room! I feel so much better for it...


5. Have been invited to a hen do afternoon tea in July. I'm obviously not one of the cool gang, but TBH, I'm relieved! Would rather not do the drink til you drop version.....


6. Bought tickets to see the Groundhog Day musical over the summer Can't wait - love Tim Minchin's lyrics, especially in Matilda, so have high hopes.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

And relax.

Ayr United. Promoted.
Gooners finish second.
Mariners promoted.

I am just orbiting Mars!

Skint_yet_Again

PK (((hugs))) sorry for your loss x


Sunday pleasures


1. drove DS to train station at 6.30am and there was hardly any traffic


2. egg on toast for breakfast


3. dug over the rest of the alley way and my neighbour helped me load my car with 8 bags of green waste and an old dustbin dumped in the alley with concrete in the bottom :mad: Anyway, all now taken to the tip (recycling centre) There was a huge queue of cars at 10am but thankfully they were moving quickly !


4. was feeling grubby after digging and tip visit so I had a lovely long shower and treated my feet to a bit of pampering


5. it clouded over around 11am but was still warm so I put some washing out


6. sunny afternoon had a walk round the local pond


7. afternoon snooze


8. woke up with a sore throat so made some vegetable soup only basic carrot, onion & potato and a couple of stock cubes but was just what I needed


9. caught up on some recorded tv - Blacklist and Blindspot


10. lovely chat to DF whilst ordering him a cable he needs online - he's only just mastered email and hasn't quite got the confidence for online shopping yet !

Back to work tomorrow so normal posting will resume

DundeeDoll

see you next season BOP
sorry to read your news PK
Can't believe the weekend has gone so quickly.
1) lovely sunny Saturday. lots of dog walking and a bit of gardening
2) went to see Gertrude Jenkins with 2 friends and 2 others from cathedral who i hadn't really met
3) film was surprisingly lovely (i am familiar with her 'singing' so was dubious)
4) then we went for a Chinese and can now say i ended the evening with 4 friends
5) and today, pentecost. bring and share after a red-filled service, then more chatting in the pub, back to walk the dogs and of course catching up on the mariners

Frith

Quick pleasures for today (Sunday)


1) A lie in!


2) Went to my brother's tennis club open day. Signed sons up as junior members - only £5 p.a and they got a free T shirt!


3) Egg mayo sandwiches for lunch, thanks to hens.


4) Bigger son started stripping paint off the front door frame - presumably the frame is 180 years old and seems to have about 180 layers of paint on. He has been using a grinding disk to get through it all.


5) Did a bit of work on the allotment and let then hens out. One of them started trying to eat a toad under the raspberries so we let him loose in the field.


6) Went swimming with sons and my brother.


7) Cauliflower and macaroni cheese for tea.


8) Just working out routes for holiday. Don't know if it will be doable but it would be nice to visit as many countries as possible. Looks like it will be train to Paris, one night there. Trains to Switzerland and first day in Swiss army knife museum. Second day trip up a mountain. Next day train to Stuttgart (know nothing about Stuttgart) then early train to Paris on the last day and back home! Toyed with the idea of somehow fitting in Austria/Lichtenstein/Luxembourg/Belgium) but just too expensive on the train.

mhagster

Tis ever so windy here, eucalyptus trees are whooshing and swooshing and bending and swaying in the wind. Lovely sunset too.

Business is very slow, hours have been reduced even more, finished and hour earlier both Saturday and Sunday and you don't need to come in till later today and finished an hour earlier. So whilst it's nice to get away early now and again , just not every shift, it's a difference of about $200 a week.

So this morning I did not set my alarm, I walked to the train station in a very cool 6o morning , the sun was rising over the far hills and it was a beautiful morning if just a tad chilly. Train was mobbed at that time.usually when I get on there's maybe 20 people waiting, well there must have been around 200 at our station. But I managed to get a forward facing seat.

Work was pleasant enough , just had one mad rush . That's me done until the weekend.

Got to station and one of my nice customers was also waiting for a train, he's a very well mannered , young man who works in the bookshop, so we chatted all the way to my station, made the journey fly by.

Popped into salvos on way home and bought a lively navy / white stripes cardi for $2.60 ( was half price ) ...that's a good bargain said the lady at the till. Indeed!

Had to pick up DD2 from school and cart her very heavy school bag for her.

Just watched Undercover ....anyone else? Bit of an odd ( disappointing ) ending.

Nice phone calls with my friend from home and with my sister last night.

We have some lovely late blooming roses in the garden having a last autumnal hurrah.

We are having meatballs ( made from left over work burgers) for dinner.

Have a lovely day

PK sad news about your pet, it's hard when you lose one. Be kind to yourself.

Sparrer[/B hope all is well.

& not sure when you are heading to the bottom of the world but safe trip !

Frith loving the tales of your free range hens, they must be happy ladies!

Mrs LW I love your descriptions of nature. I can imagine all the lovely flowers and trees in bloom. Keep 'em coming!