5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

10,000 Still on Mars and the agony is over!

4 Had to feed neighbours cat this morning. Raffles minded me that he is our cat. Gosh!

3 Just listening again to the Lord Tondeur describing the third goal at the new home of the Mariners, Wembley. Not saying he is biased! That's it and as cool as a cucumber!

2 PM2DD All to do again next Sunday!

Some many lows, so many highs. Grimsby are back!

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FOR MHAGS! (and the rest of you if you like the nature report!)

1) A walk along the front at Lee on the Solent, lovely sunshine, blue water, white sails of yachts and the Isle of Wight basking in the sunshine across the river, coffee outside and just enough breeze to make it comfy, heaven on earth.

2) A white flowers day, walked Cookie along the footpaths and we have white blooms everywhere, the tiniest starry flowers of 'cleavers' nestled in the leaf joints, galaxies of daisies on the grass, mini forests of dandelion clocks, fluffy seeds everywhere, 'Queen Annes Lace' on all the verges, hawthorn in full blossom with its heady musky perfume, guilder rose, white lilac in gardens and rowan trees frothy with white flowers all topped off by the stately spires of Horse Chestnut flowers, like vast gigantic Christmas Trees decorated with candles.

3) Green and growing things, I never fail to wonder at natures capacity for different shades of green and leaf shape, everything from blades of grass, through box hedging, twisted willow, holly, heart shaped silver birch leaves, beautiful bronze green canopies of oak leaves to the leathery grey of eucalyptus and everything between, 'tis truly marvellous!

4) Banks of vivid hot pink oxalis flowers bright in the sun with their lively soft green trefoil leaves.

5) Small but very, very welcome clusters of soft pink buds on my big old apple tree on the front lawn, I thought we'd lost him over the winter but not so!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

PM2DD The Lord Tondeur describes the moment. 2:52:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03ts75j#play

LaineyT

PK so sorry about your furry friend, they are such a huge part of our lives aren't they, bless you for giving him a happy life.

Some pleasures for the weekend,

Despite the Captain's best lawn-mowing efforts our garden is full of tiny daisies, reminds me of being a kid and making Daisy chains.

Like Lyn's our old apple tree has finally come into blossom, wonderful smell as you walk through the garden gate and white confetti everywhere.

Text from darling Mum to say she had arrived at her brothers and loads of good stuff was planned.

CS and youngest SS took themselves off to the North East to watch last game of season, think DSS was happier with the result than his Dad!

Leisurely stroll round BuryStEd, it's my middle niece's 18th next weekend and she wants a new suitcase for her travels, picked up bargain in Debnams. Had threatened her with animal trunki!

Took Sir Billy for quick stroll down the lane, felt good to be riding again and he was well-behaved if a bit......jolly...aka jogging on the spot and snorting at everything.

As the Captain is staying up north to watch beloved Lancastrians play cricket had the TV to myself and watched three episodes of GOT back to back.

Frith love the hen stories too:T

Cappella

Monday's pleasures:
1. A morning spent watching two friends spinning. I can spin, but badly:) so I carded fleece for them.
2. Lovely soft hands after handling fleece all morning. The lanolin in fleece is so heavy and good for my dry skin.
3. An evening spent knitting and listening to an audio book. Peaceful and happy.
4. A delicious lunch of humus, crusty bread and salad eaten with friends
5. Walking the dog along the canal bank and watching him bustling along so happily. Priceless.:)

mhagster

Evening all, so , let's go to the beach said I, both OH and I off today, it's to be cloudy but it'll be fine! Well , we had rain, we had wind, we had wind and rain and then we had a bit of a calm but cool calm.

Dropped DD2 off at school then off we set. I wish we lived nearer the sea than we do, was only a 12 minute drive or so when we lived in Scotland and we were there at least once a week. I am very soothed by the sea.

We went to 2 different beaches, Mornington and then one of my favourites at Flinders. We had the beaches to ourselves , Haggis had a time most fabulous and was in and out if the sea and tearing up and down the sand.

Had a picnic in the car ....ever felt you're being watched? That would be the seagulls !

Snoozette on way home .

Picked up DD2 at school, had to humph her very heavy school bag. Is a tonne weight.

Rissoto for tea.

Have a good day

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

10,000 Just like meeting on Grimsby Road.

10,000 BoP cannot say he is bouncing, but, feel the buzz while the beat goes on. I am sat in a Forest of Green, yet not afraid to wear the black and white. BoPsie even went to work with my special mug! It has been noted. Proper Football, Proper club!

4 And after all that if it was not enough, on Sunday again we do it. I feel a double, but this is a more difficult task. Against a resurgent Halifax, or what are they called these days.

3 Now where was BoP. Oh, look it is elevenses time, so out comes the mug of tea, and biscuit. Crumbly one today. You cannot beat it! No dunking allowed.

2 Night BoP will again be watching the game from Sunday!

If success is a ladder, you can only climb up one rung at a time

DigForVictory

Frith - appalled to hear lack of robust health, but charmed by hens & Stick it to yon weasel-lawyer. Do hope son's detention means he was allowed to bring poster home? Are chickens like cats? Able to see where you will go next along a timeline so they can get in the way? or just so happy to be out on allotment & sharing time with you?
mhagster - so sorry son not getting into birthday spirit & that sisters unable to hammer reminder in. Fingers crossed debutante palaver does not clash with *sorting* hip. Required to vote? Blinks, then agrees. Happy beach time!
VJSmum - very impressed by direct action with cs to sort recalcitrant blouse & hurrah cashmere. All luck/joy/manageable cost with teeth. I too buy offspring toiletries by the galore, saves both money & lifting...
BoP - all health to you & yours, & hoping the good Dr pays up pronto so we can admire Sydney! Surely that manly complexion has no need for creams where inner beauty maintained by internal application of Real Snorkers.
Mrs LW I too adore your outdoor observations, but the Oma moments are very special. American Biscuits - I get confused by this shared language malarkey - please share your recipe?! Hurrah proper whistling kettle & bless HWK reintroducing you to photos. Hurrah old apple tree! Jasmine swap brilliant! Can you reach the figs?
Skint - low Vit D? Devote 10 minutes to photosynthesis daily, yellow stuff cooperating & you may manage to reduce the pills. Well done on the last tin of paint! DS bitten? Hurrah magpie boxsets for birthday (bookmarked for future use!) Awed at you gentling DF down digital path towards ongoing independence.
DundeeDoll - very glad your boss agrees that idea of cap numbers or increase resource should be discussed - senior colleague must surely have seen burnout before?
capella - brilliant bird watching & in Heaton Park! 'We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves' moved firmly onto my Must Read list (mentally shelved along cherished Gerald Durrell's My Family & Other Animals which blows the TV out of the water & has me sniggering at recalled lines Decades Later. What *might* Life With Brothers have been like?) A special grace to card for spinning friends & yes, chucking fleece around does wonders for the hands!
LaineyT - always good to please mum if just for the expressions! Love imagining bluebell blue porch & frilly tulips...
zaxdog - know how mad lurcher feels! The weather is so rarely exactly right.
purple kitten - Caramel had a loved & wonderful life with you & I'm so sorry for your loss.
kittikins - happy belated birthday & yippee Minchin-mania at Groundhog Day! (Much of the Matilda team reunited so should be fun!)


OS pleasures recently

Reading all yours!


"What the actual heck are you doing?!" Ah, family...


We have coke [not anthracite, nor coal, but "Smithy's Breeze"], we have worn files, he's made bellows from scrap wood, old upholstery leather & a shell case - the guys will start forging things shortly!


Brothers reassuringly supportive of little brother's broken wrist (football...) but dad will assist showering. [Clean child in bath towel & strategic bag for life always a happy sight!]


New cube photo frame (present for sister) turns out to take slightly smaller photos so 6 cut down carefully... If desk sharing gets real [hm, when] then a cube will not just hold photos but also cables & charging tackle.


Made it to Booths for the first time in ages! (The Waitrose of the North, with fresh orange juice squished from Real oranges by machine before your very eyes!) Resupplied on Darjeeling (my Special Event tea).


Recognised the lines of a little brown jug - and then looked up what the markings meant - imprints & stamps date it precisely to 1926. Pot geek pleasure...


Terracotta warriors on TV! Love these guys - and bemused by the awe/terror the Emperor must have commanded that they didn't even make it into myth. Just wow to all the detail & crooning over the terracotta cavalry!


Finding myself sending youngest out "to photosynthesise" - or at least sit in the sun for 10 minutes to generate more vitamin D to help his wrist mend. As the alternative is being chivvied into eating mackerel, he cooperates (& I eye the mackerel!)


Scout leaders meeting & the debriefs included a memorable end event sight - a parent handing his son a bin liner, & child obediently getting into it, before hopping into the car.


Oh wow - Boys Own Hero name or what, "Wulstan Tempest", who on research turns out to have been both real & absolutely full of the Right Stuff. Ye gods, how can we hope for heroism when we name offspring such weedy names as Apple & Brooklyn?


Eurovision. Always a reliable source of entertainment, even if it leads to a certain amount of geographical confusion.


Large Hadron Collider & the weasel. Somehow that seems spectacularly British, even if it happened in Switzerland.


Not your usual pleasure but just so proud of fans stewards etc getting the stadium evacuated without harm in the teeth of plenty of fears the bomb might be real. Wry grin at stock control failure but hurrah everyone safe.


That schadenfreude feeling when a mobile goes off & it isn't yours. (Well worth reading Wikipedia - seemingly an international concept.) Not certain where I learned it meant the satisfaction (or whatever) of 'seeing an old friend fall from a rooftop' - rather hope it was Latin & learning about pentameter rather than actual nearest-English-gets.


Foaming drifts of fallen cherry blossom still pink, beauty & colour underscored by fast food wrappers & other rubbish.


Great big hugs to all who need them, rousing thanks to Raffles for all the recent Yellow Stuff and good luck to Everyone Involved with Exams (teachers, parents, siblings, markers, invigilators, administrators & even candidates!)

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1) A couple of anomalies on our walk a magnolia tree completely in bloom with pinky/purple outside of the flower petals and a little further on two deep red poppies with almost black thumb prints in the base of their leaves, both beautiful, both well out of season.

2) The perfume from the first bush of Philadelphus (Mock Orange) to fully open its flowers, one of my favourite perfumes along with lilac, freesias, clovey scented pinks and sweet peas.

3) Cookies owners have asked us if we'd have her here at home for the week they're on holiday this summer, smashing!

4) Lunch out, spur of the moment, at a local garden centre today, He Who Knows needed some grass seed and said let's do lunch there, lovely!

5) Another picking of asparagus ready in the garden bed which will be a starter for supper tomorrow, I picked up some YS rump steaks in Mr.T this morning so a real treat tomorrow.

pinkypig

Hi everyone.

Got all my domestic jobs done before work so could take things at a more leisurely pace when I came home.
A load of washing dried on the line
Home made soup for lunch. - much nicer than a sandwich
Make do tea using left overs which everyone enjoyed
Warm enough not to need the heating or the log burner on
Lovely run in the late evening sunshine

Not a bad day at all:A