5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

villagelife

Congratulations dd on your son's first.
1. Worked yesterday and it was enjoyable. I just do my job and no other stuff which I dislike. Everyone else working seems more relaxed too.

2. Tidied the front garden it looks so much better now. I am no longer ashamed of the state it is in.

3. DH needed some new belts so went shopping from work without me. It gave me time to finish the garden and then relax with a glass of wine.

4. DS1 phoned on his way home from work and was chatty. He is still enjoying his job and is financially getting there and is making good inroads in clearing his overdraft from his student days.

5.DS2 being chatty as he won at cricket. It will help him keep fit and widen his circle of friends.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Well done to DDs S. But I did not know that DD was the editor if a student rag!
BoP is not reincarnated yet. Just must not mention darlings, trinkets, auctions, recoup monies in some flocking sentence of disorder.

5 Yestday said that the snorker fest was being split over two days. It was! Snorker, mushrooms, inn same pan. Toms. Grilled Tom, with pepper and sage. Hot buttered marmite on toast, tossed with poached egg. Raspberry jam finished off on hot buttered toast. Tea was also drunk in copious amounts. Fresh concentrated orange juice with fresh Spring waters from the well of BoP was also slurped. Rubs Tum.

4 Watched Hue and Cry last Eve on box of oggle agpfter the cricket. Chick Sticky was also wolfed down with copious amounts of wobbleades. Lovely. Up early as well. Sparras checked.

3 Off for the shop at w8rs. We get paper for nought and £2.50 off shop as well! Think delights of Angels will be sourced for later.

2 Night for tea we is having Snorkers and pan grilled onions, proper own gravy, minted hot buttered new tates. Peas, garden variety, bat on carrots, frozen last weekend. Door stop carrots will be made in the next batch. Delight of Angels, butterscotch will also be gulped down. Go on, you know you want to!

I would never dream of publishing my idioms with ever putting my name to it. TILAMS mk2!

Suggested names for BoP, inn the Bridge this evening. I'll be next to the fire!

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I'm not sure the world is ready for 2 of you BOP?

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I'm not sure the world is ready for 2 of you BOP?

Think weebles! Bounce and back upright!

Just gets back from w8rs. Delights of Angels. On offer, we got three. And strawberries reduced. Cat treats, because we are suckers. All came to £24.75. More change to liquidate inn the Bridge later!

Oh, strawbs and ice cream on Plaza de BoP later!

Hugemongoose Jelly and Fruit Salad inn fridge. Go on, you knows you want to!

DigForVictory

Mcculloch - well done on being usefully decluttered & charmed at chocolates forgotten from Christmas...
Frith - thankyou for the Land Registry link - I'll urge my folks & sisters to sign up. (I already use the Property Alert to keep a digital hand over sundry elderly relatives - this will extend that a bit!)
Purple kitten - that's a *very* well spent lunch hour! <applauds>
Mhagster - lucky daughter to have a mum who knows exactly what she's doing with dressings, & may health return in great soothing draughts. By a fireside, with feet resting on dog?
Skint yet again - so sorry to hear you've been enfeebled over bank holiday weekend but hurrah DS 21st & all your scheming bearing fruit!
villagelife - awed at son having masters! Congratulations to you both, him for the work & you for the support! Son playing cricket also a very good decision. Fresh air, exercise, and all the teamly virtues.
VJsmum - all being well, DD will return to a Kondo'ed environment, learn the wisdom & leave. Or at least the first & last. DS has taught himself piano & guitar? Awed! (If you are not a fan of Oasis, sort him sheet music for the stuff you do like?! My parents were shocked to find we adored Lehrer too.) Think ampersand checking all is well with famberley/relatives in NZ, organising their rugby & generally giving their sporting sides a pep talk.
BoP - now please set up an alter ego for the opinions on doctors etc & stay here with us for live scrabble?! We don't mind if you rattle! <Wondering what hugemongoose jelly tastes like.>
DundeeDoll - yeay Scrabble jokes! [Do I get a triple nerd score?] Three noisy cheers for son's First & thus funded PhD! Warcraft? Ah well.

OS pleasures recently
My bright eyed cousin has spotted a function on my parents microwave I'd not previously noticed: "chaos defrost"...

The crane used to help sort a church roof arrives on a trailer, and there are three steaming polystyrene cups lined up along one edge!

Much enjoying Game of Thrones - "a religion based on CPR" - not quite accurate of the 'Iron born' but very funny! The example of the Most Uncomfortable Family Meal was wonderful &, in it's own sideways way, reassuring.

In the coolth, I have inspected the garden & found it good. My jam futures are looking promising. In the heat I've done a bit of light weeding & retreated.

I do enjoy "training" honeysuckle up a drystone wall. Several v-shape twigs and the plant looks to be deliberately scaling it!

Husband reading aloud from a cookbook with history & telling of the Shouting Roger fruitcakes where the raisins had to shout to see if any others were in the cake....

Staffordshire Hoard visiting Leeds, so a day largely spent gawking & then listening as enthusiasts (who are hired by musea to show & tell) explain links between Hoo & Hoard & display the small world crossovers between Scandinavia, Hoo & the hoard. Their smith revived a lot of the awe and wonder in which their trade was held, by being open both with display & understandable explanation of the unseen graft!

Discovered colleague has an unexpected fondness for The Gruffalo. (New boss big on Yorkshire Tea, brought in a packet with tree promotion & unexpected squawk thereby triggered.) Trying to get the tin tea caddy months after promotion not easy, but has to be worth a try.

Downloaded some old family photos - lovely to see happy family events like weddings done War style - cheerfully OS with cunning ways of making a remodelled hat distract from the same coat. Helps make relative recognition easier even if the menfolk look a bit harried... No hen parties, no wedding list, so much less fuss & yet the same delight.

Lovely colleague sorted me bright felt tips to mark up printout, then said if it all got too much, to page her & she'd help! Truly I am fortunate, even if I do have to do this solo, as a learning experience, at first.

New design of bag for life at Waitrose - promptly bought two for the stash - waterproof gift wrapping! True OS would be to enjoy the design as someone else uses it, but I'll get to that! Sipping a cup of free coffee didn't hurt either.

Sign appreciated "These are old toilets. Flush natural waste and toilet paper only down them please." Unexpectedly charming reserve and clarity!

Son went fishing for the first time. "Caught ten trees", but enjoyed the pursuit.

Spotted pretty mother of pearl & black & white inlaid box on market stall - bigger brother to one husband treated himself to last week & he was touched I'd seen it & realised before he did.

Someone on the bay reckons a portable espresso maker is a holiday essential. "It's a sad world, isn't it?" opines son. (Well, possibly not for the seller.)

"Pass me the remote please, there may be a Western on". Yes, there *is* a slight feeling that Europe may have been debated sufficiently.

New designer bags in Tesco, seemingly these are "bags of ethics" - now I confess, it's news to me that that's what ethics come in, but hey, Tesco...

Mother's little helper manifests the bug after the library but before the supermarket. Happily bottled water & car sick bags are in easy reach & I unload shopping then transfer used bags to the bin. My little helper has now retreated to bed.

Proof positive that son is ill - offered food, he retreated away like a vampire threatened with holy water! I assured him I was not at all offended & he grinned rather palely. It's a bug & will pass but it's a bit rough on its victims.

The hazards of ignorance - son asked what gottdammerung meant & as his kindle app pulled the basics, I explained Wagner to be a composer etc & we amused each other - him recognising my attempt to hum the Ride of the Valkyries, me trying to explain the Ring Cycle in a sentence- before his book lured his attention away. I then had to read up on the Ring Cycle having bluffed it. (18 onstage anvils. Ye Gods.)


Great big not-at-all-infectious hugs to all who need them, health & floppy hats likewise & if caught in the heat, drink lots!

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1) This day, the sun, being warm and lunch in the garden...needing to be under the umbrella, magic!

2) A tiny shrew that Cookie disturbed on the grass verge outside the village hall and it dashed back into the undergrowth like lightning, so sweet.

3) The very first new potatoes from the allotment for lunch, they always taste so nice when they're freshly dug.

4) A gift from the garden, we took out a not thriving eucalyptus tree by the summerhouse after one of the big blows we had this spring and today I found in the same spot a very small but healthy Rowan sapling, I've always wanted a rowan tree so I'll nurture this little baby and see if I can grow him into a tree.

5) Sweet Williams in the garden are finally blooming and I'm going to cut a bunch for indoors, I love the clovey perfume and the fact that they last for such a long time in a vase, He Who Knows always grows me a row on the allotment and these few in the garden are the leftovers.

Kittikins

1. Sunshine!


2. DD's freesia plants are blooming beautifully in her bit of the garden


3. Finally marked the pesky English books......ouch, it was painful after a week pretending the trolley wasn't in the hall every time I left the house!


4. Did a few more bits of the dreaded reports.....still probably more than half to go, but I have a couple of weeks to finish them off (I think!) I feel I've broken the back of them now though.


5. Had a great day out with DD yesterday, visiting Anna Hathaway's cottage and Mary Arden's farm. We particularly enjoyed sitting under the willow peacefully listening to sonnets.


6. I do so love my beautiful DD, she was so caring when my leg hurt like beggary and looked after me wonderfully


7. The NHS, for those moments when over the counter painkillers just don't cut the mustard!

Frith

Pleasures for today and yesterday


Yesterday (Saturday)


1) A lie in!


2) Checked the hens.


3) Smaller son came back from his father's for a while.


4) Went to see my friend in Oxfordshire.


5) Had a bit of an adventure driving home (should take 1.5 hours, along the A44). The window has been stuck permanently open since Thursday - amazingly, hasn't rained since then. So I had got used to driving with my hair blowing around, and being cold. However, left small Oxfordshire village, got on A44, dipped my lights and - nothing! At least not on the driver's side. So took me 2 hours to get home as I couldn't go at any speed in case something came the other way and I had to dip my lights and not be able to see.


Today


1) A lie in.


2) Went to see my aunty and we sat out in the garden until it got too hot.


3) Went to Sainsburys on the way home.


4) Sons home!


5) Went to feed the hens who went mad over some crumbs of date and walnut cake.


6) Went to parents' and played table tennis until after 9pm.


7) Might watch Casualty now.

villagelife

1. A trip to Wakehurst Place which is fairly close to us. I love walking round the gardens. The trees are unusual. DH wanted a coffee as soon as we arrived despite having one before we left home but a fire alarm meant the kitchen had been evacuated.

2. Chat with neighbours over the fence and a glass of wine.

3. Planted out some veg plants after weeding.

4. BBQ with DH and DS2 doing most of the cooking. It was lovely sitting out in the garden and relaxing.

5. Washing dried on the line.

mhagster

Take it like a man pirate Pete and behave yourself!

It's Monday! Yay! Work is done for a few days at least ( squeezing in a tiny shift on Friday as colleague has a funeral to go to) then off for a whole weekend.

Whilst chilly today it was a beautiful star filled sky as I walked to train station at 5.45am , yesterday I'd a scary drive in the thickest of fog. Horrid.
We saw the sunshine for a little while anyway but an icy wind. We've had constant rain since Friday .

Oh my! What a start to my day , all 3 fridges at work had switched off overnight . I had to chuck everything out , all ruined. Such a waste. So not the day I had planned but finished up early as we were quiet.

Haggis snuggles.

Going to see a drama at school tonight at 6pm.

Lots to do in next few days, medical appointments, cooking for going away at weekend ...a list needs written I think.

Have a lovely Monday