5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

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Congratulations to young Master D for V, Head Boy eh? that's going to look awfully good on his CV!!!

1) We have a humdinger of a thunderstorm going on outside and stair rod rain, love a good storm.

2) Jumble sale in the village hall yielded some useful things this morning.

3) Home made cauliflower and stilton soup for lunch was delicious.

4) Sleeping in MY bed last night, blissful.

5) He Who Knows brought me a cup of tea in bed this morning, spoiled or what! Love it!!!

DundeeDoll

Thanks vjsmum graduation was fab.
1) Dd1 not able to get time off work but mum able to come instead
2) lunch very near dd1's work and she was able to join us
3) ds looked very dashing in his kilt and gown but slightly sad he didn't book official photo
4) we nipped down to passport photo place as his passport had expired and they were offering graduation photos yippee
5) then he trotted off to garden party (still in his gown) with his mates and we returned home
Today we have community bbq. Pianist Friend has invited a few friends over to celebrate his birthday. Have spent day tidying, following England rugby (well done boys) and the Eu rumble. Probably no surprise, being in the university, I voted same as you frith as of course was the majority in every single Scottish constituency. We live in interesting times

zaxdog

1. Mr Zaxdog went through his operation well yesterday and apart from complaints about the food appears to be healing well

2. Nervous energy here meant I gutted the kitchen cupboards, scrubbed the tiles, scalded and scrubbed the butcher's block with boiling water and bleach

3. REALLY craving a Chinese takeaway to cheer myself up but used a beef stew from the freezer with added chilli & soy sauce and noodles was a good compromise

4. Made a plan of action for tomorrow: mowing, pruning and weeding

5. Got the laundry done and dried on the line between showers

Skint_yet_Again

Zaxdog well done on avoiding a takeaway & best get well wishes to Mr Zaxdog


DfV well done to DS on being made head boy ! Proud mum & rightly so


Pleasures for Saturday


1. lovely sunny morning... I was wide awake when DS got up for work at 4.30 am so I got up and had a cuppa with him


2. I went back to bed once he'd gone and managed to doze till 9am


3. aldi granola for breakfast with new aldi greek yoghurt (not the greek style one they have always sold, but "proper" greek yoghurt), with a banana and a small amount of golden syrup ....nom nom.
I have noticed a few new ranges at aldi and they are now doing almond milk at 99p - I got one for DS to try as he normally has alpro which I try to buy wherever its on offer at £1 or £1,25 ... anyway he liked it so that means I can buy it when I get my normal weekly shop at aldi without the need to track down the offers and saves petrol... every little helps


4. put bedding on to wash then the heavens opened ! managed to get it out on the line on and off between downpours and thunder and lightening then finished off on airers


5. it finally stopped raining about 4pm so got DS's work shirts on the line and mostly dried by 7pm


supposed to be out with a friend for lunch tomorrow, looking forward to that as haven't seen her for ages

Kittikins

1. DFV's son's achievement, well done Master DFV


2. DD won an award for netball on Friday night, cue proud mummy moments a-plenty! Most improved player


3. Got through another week of 'interesting times' with the class at school....4 weeks 2 days to go!


4. Have finally 'tidied' (ish) my study and can now find things. Bit of a relief....


5. Planning a girls' night in with a friend next weekend.

Frith

Pleasures as quick as I can write them as I'm tired!


1) Birthday breakfast of egg and soldiers.


2) Off to parents' for cup of tea and treacle tart.


3) Spent a while on the allotment weeding and watching hens.


4) Went swimming with sons and my brother.


5) Off to Wales to watch Wales win their match in the Euros! Was a strange evening. The nice pub was full. The nicest pub was completely empty though the nice man said we could watch the football on his laptop. So we ended up in the roughest pub I have been in for decades...


...with half a rugby club who had just completed a fun run - in drag. And a woman who kept reappearing with a different dog.


We hadn't been too worried about being 4 English people in Wales - we thought we'd get away with it with all of us being dark haired and 3 being brown eyed, one with a name more Welsh than anyone else in there and with our lovely Herefordshire accents than are not too dissimilar to those we were hearing.


The tension rose slightly when one particularly large man (in a white dress) talked about spilling English blood (during rugby). Then the diciest moment was when Wales were on the pitch and everyone sang the Welsh national anthem, very loudly. In Welsh. Except the 4 at the back who couldn't...


We left at half time, during their Sambucca competition.


6) Chips.


7) A nice drive home with variations of rainbows.


8) Watched Casualty.


CCP - I believe it is your birthday now?

milasavesmoney

Head boy!
Most improved!
Isn't it a joy to watch as they have success and accomplishments!!!! Swells the heart..... Very happy for you both.

Hurray to operations going well for MrZD!

Happy birthday Firth! Loved reading about your family's adventure in Wales.

I like finding a really good replacement for something we eat SYA. It really adds up too with savings and time spent.

* plumber reconnected washer drain so clean sheets!

* telephone repairman showed up and fixed the line. My internet is so much faster :T and my landline now works.

* bank account still holding steady.

* best dog...rescued 14 yrs ago and he is a dear boy! He was maybe two months old at the time and sort of wild but he has been such a great dog. Blessed!

* and the best for last... Talked to DS3 over the phone about his new job. He loves it and kept saying 'Mom, I'm middle class now!' Proud proud mama moment! This is the one I hung onto for dear life as he careened through teen years and young adulthood. My much older friends at church would tell me (as I was scared and trembly, crying and blubbering)>>> just love him. I wanted to strangle him so this was opposite advise to what I was feeling.
But he was so angry at his absent father and basically beyond listening to anyone. I took their advice, bit my words back and loved him. I'm so very grateful that he has turned around! It has taken years and years. He has a BS degree and is talking now about an MA. Miracles do happen folks! :j

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Somebody get the prefect, the ship is rudderless!
Birthday soldiers and dippy eggs!
Netball. Now when's BoP photos that sport, he sweats!
Please don't put bedding out,mshe heavens are opening up here.

Now it's time for your BoPibits!

5 Stinger this morning. Man groomed. Haircut. No tears shampoo! Double blade razor, and bushed up foaming brush. Well leathered. Goatee trimmed. Showered. Then massive stinger when the spice of old splashed. Now face is as cool as a badgers top lip? Ready!

4 Double snorker and pan field mushrooms, fed up with star griddle Tom, so had half cut, peppered and seasoned! Then kitchen disaster. Air burst poached egg. Had to do two each.mthey were both eaten, on hot buttered marmite toast. Tea was drunk and blackcurrant jam on hot buttered toast as well. Rubs Tum.

3 In w8rs this morning for the usual so. Got some decent tarts as well. Shrimps for fish pies also purchased. Usual shop, but with extra polish. BoPsie had run out, boy, we cannot has that inn BoP Palace. But the woman in front had about the same as BoP. Three Bags worth. Sunday lunch was purchased. Ready bag of vegetables. Ready bags of mixed salad! Big ready ordained salmon, two of! Ready mashed potatoes! Julienne carrots. Now I now these were £1:49! And packaged parsley sauce. Now you has the 10% off card with w8rs. Hers came to £79, reduced to £78 on offers! And she got one meal.

Now when BoP did his apprenticeship, we did food production. One area we had to be careful with was mixed veg! As thus had already been processed once, and then a while matter, processed again. There was always a danger of ... Never have had double processed food again because of that lesson!

2 Day for supper,tea as you call it, as BoP got the smoked Grimsby haddock a time again. So this will be chopped haddock, shrimps, peas with toe nail onions in a fresh parsley sauce. Topped with scallop tatties, chives and proper Leicester red. Mushy peas, not Harry's variety will also be served up! Oh, and remember those Bat On carrots from a few weeks back, some of them as well! And we won't run out of them this week! Then another of them delights of angels bop purchased wage on offer! Tums will be rubbed!

You do not need to blow out the candles on the cake, your deepest wish came true just reading the BoPiness!

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1) Walking the Cookie monster with Sue and Charlie dog this afternoon a) we didn't get wet and b) masses of honeysuckle and dog roses on the footpaths which smelt absolutely heavenly!

2) Watering the poly tunnel this evening, it's so nice to water inside when it's pattering with rain outside, feels cosy and feels good!

3) We got the top off the mis-shapen old holly tree that grows beside the lamp post at the end of our drive, we'll take the trunk down and let one good strong sprout from it go up to make another tree, hopefully a straight one.

4) Lots of things to pick from the plots, strawberries, courgettes, spring cabbages, climbing French beans, cucumbers and the first picking of properly ripe loganberries, lovely.

5) Lovely young couple walking their dogs down the road stopped to give us a hand pulling the top of the holly tree over, bless them, think they quite enjoyed it!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Just had me fish pie, topped with scallop tatties, cheese and toms.

Serous rubbing of tums.