5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Cappella

1. A pair of greenfinches on the bird feeders at half past 6 this morning. A very rare sight here
2. Just finished another thought provoking book. Fingers In The Spangle Jar. Love reading.
3. Celebrating our wedding anniversary by making cakes to take to the allotment to share with friends. 42 years. Goodness how time flies.
4. Lots of new book stock in Central Library again yesterday
5. I noticed that the poor neglected orchids on the kitchen window sill are throwing up flower spikes! The first for years. Have I finally found a place for them in which they'll thrive? Fingers are firmly crossed.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

10,000 Three Sundaes on the trot, we are talking ice cream now. Tin Pot tomorrow, and the mariners have bought Totteringham's trophy cabinet as they don't need it.

4 Watched the T20 last night, real good slog on the box, but sky had the burger van to talk from! Oh well, wobbleade was consumed again! And proper cheese as well. Rubs Tum.

3 Snorkers were grilled with best back, star toms, topped with sage and pepper. Mushrooms, hot buttered toast, with marmite, topped with poached egg. This week, we had the return of SpagYETTI hoops! Rubs Tum.

2 Day, BoP is going to watch the cricket. And listening to JeffRee yestday, he was nibbling on about the follow on. Could all be over by tea time. Oh, the other tin pot completion. Only keeping seats warm for the Mariners.

Hold on to your dreams, because the path is clear in the barren lands that surround it.

mcculloch29

Quick summary:
1. This story of a maths teacher presented with two kittens by her teenage students after her cat died. I've watched it three times now and cried each time. It is so moving.

2. Speaking of maths teachers, two new students for me and a test pass for a non-native English speaker this week (English his FIFTH language, when he started the course I emailed him a Spanish-English maths dictionary as Spanish is his fourth language and he'd done a master's in it.)

3. A good friend revealed that his daughter in law is pregnant and now 32 weeks, after many miscarriages and a 28 week stillbirth. I now have a home for any newborn baby items I may be offered. Snag is, I have to post them to Norn Iron, but the postage is the gift, I guess.

4. I made drop scones for brunch earlier, for the first time in years, and how I enjoyed them! The cream of tartar I used was very old and probably not as efficient as it should have been, but it still 'worked'. The bicarb was only 14 months out of date, ahem.
I remembered buying the bicarb with a half price voucher from the Mirror in A!di and thinking then it would probably last years, and it has.

Drop scones are the only cake-y item I made that my daughter didn't like; which means I possibly have another recipe to teach my grand-daughter, they are so quick and easy that she should enjoy doing them. Let's hope the dislike isn't a genetic trait that DD has passed on.

As I made the drop scones, I remembered writing down the recipe for the friend I stayed with in Vermont, when I discovered that US breakfast pancakes were just drop scones / Scottish pancakes under another name. She used a mix where you just added water to a bottle, then shook, and had no idea how to make them from scratch, though she wasn't a bad cook at all, generally. She was raised in the Sixties when ready mixes ruled.

Whilst people get nostalgic over returning to OS methods and cooking from scratch, I remember quite a bit of what we ate in the Sixties as not being particularly OS.

My Mum embraced Vesta meals, risotto, chow mein, beef curry all hit our plates, though she drew the line at Smash.
We had Angel Delight, and Mum's own version of mousse, which was a jelly in half the usual amount of water beaten to a froth with Ideal milk then left to set.

Mum did make a lot of stuff from scratch as well, and without a fridge or freezer we didn't have resource to chilled or frozen convenience foods. She did get a fridge after I left home, though.

5. Your pleasures, thank you. Time for some more drop scones, methinks..

Frith

Busy day today. Here are my pleasures:


1) A lie in!


2) Lots of paperwork done (again!) Land Registry stuff ready for Monday. Smaller son's move to upper school forms done. Credit rating checked and Halifax contacted for 4th time about not shutting my a/c properly. Perhaps I will get a THIRD £75 in compensation?


3) Beds changed, loads of washing done. Door frame painted then glossed.


4) Went to Ludlow in the afternoon for a look round, long laces for bigger son's walking boots and black lead for the stove. Stayed in one shop for ages due to a monsoon outside.


5) Chips from the van for tea.


6) Watched Casualty.


7) In bed with 2 hwb as front door is open because the paint isn't dry. Hope no intruders notice and pop in during the night.

Skint_yet_Again

Its been raining all day and haven't been in the mood to get much done


1. good sleep till 6am then got up and had a cuppa with DS who was going on a course till lunch time


2. finished designing DS's bday card just need to get some ink and print it now


3. parcel that arrived mid-week when no one was in was redelivered as arranged online. Annoyingly the wrong item was sent - email to seller and they cant provide what I ordered :(but they have refunded me without any argument or delay. Just waiting for SAE to return item


4. DS home by lunch time and off to bed for a few hours as hes on nights tonight. Good excuse to not make any noise for rest of day and laze around watching tv


5. chicken livers with sage and spirali pasta for tea nom nom !

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

#THISTOWNKNOWS

5 Just had my wheat biscuit with ice cold milk, raspberry jam on hot buttered toast. Copious amounts of tea.

4 Getting too excited again, yet hood that lass that could not sing at the Tin Pot final is not there today! Gosh!

3 And for lunch we are having roast buzzard and chocolate sponge, all home made. Cannot make three weeks on the trot.

20,000 Still flying but today is a tuff one, them Halifax are a bit resurgent. Still, trophy cabinet us already full!

Every snowflake cares not what it lands on, every game ends with a whistle, why ...

mhagster

Evening all. Had a madly busy day ( my busiest day in kitchen ever ) and boss has just kindly emailed me a bad review someone put on tinternet today. I don't like bad reviews and am sure it could have waited until tomorrow at work instead of coming into my evening off......anyway, one more day to go.

Drove to work this morning with a full moon scudding along side me ( up in the sky! )

Then stunning sunrise.

Boss had ordered me 3 cushion covers with chocolate labrodors on them. In lieu of my laundry money this week. They will go on my back porch sofas ...where the other chocolate Labrador spends his time. I drove into driveway this afternoon after work and he managed a wag of tail, from the sofa but no more effort ! Was sitting cuddled in with his dad. Usually he's jumping up at the gate.

DD2 managed to hobble to work yesterday and came home with lots of bread. Some now in freezer.

Her poo head boyfriend has cheated on her ...he is now ex! He's done this before and she keeps going back to him. @rse! However, she now has sold his Debuatante Ball ticket on ....that's my girl!

Have a lovely Sunday

VJsmum

Good morning, and what a glorious one it is...

Sat in the garden, with the warmth of the sun on my skin and the birds chirruping around me

Pleasures lately

Gardening, new wall built, most of the beds now weeded and some shrubs planted. We moved five shrubs o n the basis of "if they die, they die, but they can't stay where they are". Looks like they will all survive...

A horrible job done,
DS took his first AS exam and said it went well. He is revising so hard, I think he must have been abducted by aliens :rotfl:
DD is home for the weekend
Made the cleaner redundant. This will save £1400 a year.. She took it well
Friends over yesterday, walk, pub, joined by more friends for dinner. An excellent day / evening and so far no hangover. - result :rotfl:

Have a lovely day all

Skint_yet_Again

Pleasures for today,


1. slept till 5am then pottered till DS got home around 7.30am. Had a cuppa with him then went back to bed and slept till 10am (he's still in bed & on night shift again this evening)


2. bacon sarnie for breakfast


3. sunny day, nice after the rain all day yesterday, got 2 loads of washing out on the line


4. found a route planner and mapped my afternoon walk along the shore 2.01 miles (burning 147kcal apparently)


5. found the cheapest HP printer ink at wilko's ordered for free store pickup - colour & black twin pack £15


Enjoy the rest of your Sunday x

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all 5 combined today as we went over to the Hillier Arboretum at Romsey where we are members for a walk and

1) Took a picnic made from bits in the fridge and used our Indian Tiffin Boxes to transport it all so no wrappings to dispose of just washing up to do.

2) The Rhododendrons and Azaleas are in full and wonderful bloom and the colour ranges they come in are sizzling bright and glorious.

3) Many new and interesting sculptures displayed including a very beautiful full sized puma made from folded chicken wire stalking some wire hares in the undergrowth and a whole shoal of tiny silver fish suspended on invisible cords in a box over the lake that twisted and turned in sync like a tiny 'real' school would, magic!

4) Gunnera taller than we are.

5) Being shot by a small imp with a stick and rhododendron flower gun while we sat in the summer house to have lunch, he must have been a good shot because he came back and shot me three times altogether much to the amusement of his parents and He Who Knows!!!

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