5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

pirate Pete hope all goes well and we will hear all about your adventure in hospital later.

Good morning from the land of very limited internet connection...sporadic and weak at best, so shall try to type as quickly as I can.

I just want to tell you how stunning Tasmania is, we've never been , we have friends ( who we will catch up with at weekend) who every year when we meet up with them ( around Christmas time) say you must come, you have to visit. But there's always been other things going on, illness, school, work, uni etc . However we are here, it is breathtakingly beautiful in the simplicity and stunning-ness of nature.

Our cottage ... Sourced because we needed somewhere dog friendly and because son's girlfriend was originally coming then not sure what's going on but she then wasn't coming . It is just perfect ( though could do with an extra loo) beautifully decorated , has everything and more you would ever need ( sometimes find when we stay at a s/c place there's always something missing.

The views are stunning, the sea is right in front of us. 180o view from an all glass living room and large verandah. Don't think we will be doing much eating outside ( too cool) but would be lovely in warmer weather . View from my bed is the sea. The girls have built in bunk beds and DD1 is up top and has a view of the sea too. Son is in a little tiny cottage in the garden . Dog has a fabby garden to sniff around and run and be free ( after a night spent in a cage on ferry and a day in the car boot)

Stopped at a few places on drive down, then all piled in. Discovered the sea right at the bottom of the garden through a little pink gate but it's very pebbly/ rocky. OH and I then had to drive to nearest town ( 20mins) and do shop . Used all my vouchers I'd bought. We discovered the nearest sandy beach whilst we drove. Back home, quick late lunch and then out to beach. Walked and walked as the sun was setting. Beautiful and a Haggis dog in his element, as was a son who had ridden his bike there .

Made chilli for dinner then it was zzzzzzzzz on chair for me. Cream crackered!

Then this morning I woke up , it was pouring with rain but has now brightened up beautifully . Pitch black ....out in a dark garden , in the rain shouty whispering at a dog to hurry up and have a pee.
Listened to the kookaburras laughing and then watched the most beautiful sky lightening as the sun rose.

Right ....I'm off for a dog walk along the beach, will catch up when I can .

milasavesmoney

* Plumbing finally completed. Hurray!!!!

* OH was able to talk/cement tile guy into doing the cement ASAP. We have lots of company coming in this weekend and big holes in two rooms because of the plumbing. We have a two yr old grand daughter that's coming. This must be done. The good thing is my OH has had most of the guys in town in his classes in school in the past. They usually will make a way, if they can, to do things for him.

* We found a stray dog and she's a sweetie. She finally let us look at her tags and she belongs to the neighbor. We are waiting for them to get home from work so we can take her home. She has been fed,watered, brushed and petted. She sat in my lap for awhile. Lily is such a good dog.

* DD1 sold her old refrigerator. Payday isn't until Thursday for her, so this gave her breathing room.

* Chicken is on the grill outdoors.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

And relax.

Plain omelette is served. Tea is drunk. Found the rich tea biscuits.

Smiley87

Despite the tap in the bathroom breaking, my car engine light glaring at me and lots of other things happening, I managed to find 5 things for yesterday:
1. One of my items on ebay is doing better than expected
2. Had a chill out night
3. Found peanut butter cornettos in the shop...I think I've fallen in love
4. Sold a few more bits, so the house deposit fund is growing
5. A nice cold can of shandy when I got home from work

Let's see what today brings!

mcculloch29

Hope the road to recovery is very smooth, BoP.
Welcome, new faces.
A collection:

1. Visit to the Angrove horses, I now own 10% of my (our) darling Boo, Angrove Mumsbuns. Boo herself was in good nick, she is HUGE, 16.3 rump, 16.2 withers and still growing. She will probably make 16.3 if not 17 hh. She is a jumping type, massive strength behind, wish she was a Flat type like her full sister Queenie, but no, same parents but totally different outcome.
She goes down to Bridgend in S, Wales next week to start proper breaking in and training. She'll do well in the Vale, mild weather and lush grass.

2. Chat with Sis on phone.

3. Visit from good friend and lots of very black humour. I had been sent some herbal tea to trial which, er, purged me, so her visit was punctuated by frequent toilet breaks by me. We had to laugh, well, not too hard in my case...

3. Puff pastry wraps, yum, these will be the last for a while, and these made with ham and reduced fat cheddar as a way of bringing the calories down. (Usually it's bacon).

4. Great night at the live music club.

5. A new business opportunity for me to work on. Great stuff. To work!

DigForVictory

mhagster - I imagine your family utterly resplendent at the Debs Ball and *beam*. Of course you got a resounding cheer & rightly so! Also, of course it cost a bomb, but miword the memories (and souvenir long white gloves - box frame! With crutch?!) & next stop Tasmania! Dog & son in element, glorious light, everything as should be in cottage? Have a *glorious* time!
MrsLW - a cup of tea in bed - bliss! I only get that when I'm ill. Holly wood? You'll get mobbed with turners et alia - it's tricksy stuff to work but comes up glorious when it does! Or maybe not. Growing your own tea? Awe! Wild rose hip syrup plans & the scent of jasmine - glorious.
DundeeDoll - hurrah graduation shindig and bonus photos (proud mothering is great fun!) and golly to have a pianist friend! Drat on ulcers but to have live music *and* drying weather?! Passport photos signed? Always good to get that sorted. Which herbs?
zaxdog - sorry to hear you are hospital visiting & urge Mr.Z to consider asking to see the halal menu. Hospitals often outsource halal food to local restaurants & he *may* get a really glorious curry. Worth a try? Well done diverting anxiety to scrubbing & gardening!
skint - playing 'now you see me' with the bedlinens and the rain is brilliant if you win - fresh bedlinen is just such a pleasure!
kittikins - well done DD for netball award! All strength with interesting times (ouch!)
Frith - miword, that rugby sounds distinctly disconcerting but variations of rainbows sounds beautifully Welsh! (Might this help for another time? ) Skimming stones is one of the under-recorded pleasures. (Belting good fun on ice too, as you can sometimes get the whole sheet to 'dzoiing!') Gooseberry picking - £5 very reasonable esp if the spinier sort. Steristrips as left some leg in Wales? Heart I can understand, but leg? Eep. Listening to the Icelandic commentator, how not to end up supporting Iceland?!
milasavesmoney - hurrah clean sheets & faster broadband & whoohoo "I'm middle class now!" with a degreee & an unwrung neck to prove it - Well Done You! The joy of having a really well connected OH is that holes will get fixed.
BoP - how'd the kippered haddock go? Hot buttered marmite toast - drattit, I'm getting hungry & it's Ages til lunch. Be nice to the nurses, they aren't allowed to bite back. Welcome back!
drinkupretty - a cuddly kitten is a lovesome thing. How *did* you get the knitting done? Feed the wool through a teapot?!
bagpuss38 - golly Bodiam Castle is beautiful! Then chips by the sea, and a quietly recovering Sunday with squirty cream & strawberries - stunning weekend!
Purple kitten - 13 hours volunteering, with 101 Dalmatians to recover to - another admirable weekend! A messy happy house is far better than the alternatives.
Smiley87 - there's something about a brew & a dunking biscuit. Tempting gravity always fun. Haven't yet seen Thrones season finale (who'll die?! No spoilers!) Peanut butter cornettos? Wow!
LaineyT - treacle sarnies laced with Bute? Neat! Definitely need bribes to fend off other equines. Tilly clipped, likewise lawn & only one sock?!
mcculloch - always good to hear the Angrove family are thriving (share the lift in spirits!) and chuckling at the tea tale. Not, I think, your new business opportunity?

OS Pleasures recently
Bright young thing (somewhere between 3 & 7) trying to cheer up retail-therapy-allergic senior relative with bright red plastic rose "look, a flower for your grave!". Both alive, well & laughing, last seen.

Lanky son hybridises Beatles & Ministry of Silly Walks on crossing. Motorist fortunately minded to chuckle.

Getting teenagers out of bed at the weekend is often challenging but porridge is definitely not the answer. Although their expressions on hearing folk ate it cold, set, sliced & fried will warm me for decades!

Hurrah for the last double up at Tesco - I hope we have enough school shirts & trousers to fit for some time as next size up is 'grown up' & priced accordingly.

"We're re-assembling a cod." Well, that's what the chaps with a heap of fish fingers appear to think. [Never underestimate the OS pleasures of food]

I misheard the news - I thought there was to be a new eun@ch in the Parliament to deal with the EU.

Introduced son to I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue by direct exposure. Whilst initially uncertain about "one song sung to the tune of another", he was soundly taken with the alternative endings to traditional phrases. He snickered over the lovely Samantha - we may manage to coax him to form a Radio habit yet!

The homeless guy reassures me that being British isn't all gloom - he's well sited for passing donations & has a merry sense of humour, teasing me about yesterday's forgotten laptop & sharing my amusement at the Icelandic commentator's infectious delight.

Flexi & Freecycle - a wonderful combination that has put the glass from two glass topped coffee tables to new uses restoring wood working planes & the vital component of a lightbox for accurate tracing.

Two pied wagtails bouncing through the air like kittens - sensational close formation aerobatics. Felt so vast & clumsy & awed.

Two mallards on the river, slipping quietly under the overhanging green. When to hope for ducklings? Or are these two tired souls just hoping for a quiet life and no pestering for a bit?


Great Big Hugs to all who need them, lots of delicious food (probably home cooked) for all [train the young diligently] and hoping the clothing is cooperating with the weather!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

milasavesmoney wrote: »

* Plumbing finally completed. Hurray!!!!

Handy quote! BoP is Haemodynamically stable! Jenny manages a :heartpuls

That was a quick n and out job!

5 Back home. Raffles is intrigued by the wound. On the wrist. Staff nurse yesterday. I have never failed to get the butterfly thing in the left arm. Yesterday she did! We had the extension tubes instead! Guess it is down to the plumbing. On the magic table, x Ray thing buzzing and in the arm! Well, the wrist! Took about an hour. Kink blunted no problem. Still tickles when the things go pass the able. Had no sedation as it makes the BoP wobbly.

4 BoPsie came to pick me up. And my little red book on things to do! Soon rushed back home. Raffles bit miffed as I had been out all day. He normally has food and his bowl was about empty.

3 Feet up for a couple of days. Just watching cricket. And down comes the rain. Oh well.

2 Chocolate was found in the fridge, left by BoPsie. And I found where the millions of pounds has gone that everyone is looking for. It is safe in the NHS and disguised as Rich Tea Biscuits!

You were reading BoP notes.

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Well done BOP may Jenny thrive and behave and may you find the rain stops and the Cricket returns.....till then there's always Wimbledon now they have 2 courts with lids on for the joys of the English summer! I hope RAFFLES has received sustenance and is now a happy chappie!

1) I'm in here and the rain is out there.....and so much of it!!!

2) A trip to Lidl to stock up on porridge, well, a girl can never have too much porridge can she?

3) Jacket potatoes with tuna mayo for lunch, nice to have something hot as it feels chilly today.

4) Popped into B & M which is next to Lidl and found bargains to make it worth while, all now filed in the store cupboard.

5) I have a nice shiny new mobile phone, still very basic but this one even has a camera on it. It will take me a while to get used to it I'm not good with technology but it's a 'shell phone' and folds up so hopefully I won't be getting so many beeps and squeaks from it as I do when I lean on the old one when it's in my pocket!!!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Oooh I forgot. Jenny is being tested again shortly. Last time she had a reboot!

LaineyT

Some pleasures so far this week,

Last episode of GOT, not wishing to give away any spoilers, oooh is all I can say.

Having an built in paddling pool in my car, got in on Tuesday morning and the passenger foot well had big puddle in it!! think the roof drain is blocked again, pleasure is already booked in for MOT/Service on Friday, think the bill will be an ouch though.

Took Tilly back to vets for check-up and alls well, vet said she has lovely temperament and he would love a dog like her, hands off buster.

Relaxed and happy atmosphere at work, supervisor has been away since last week and now held up in France due to strikes, love the French me :rotfl:

Sitting on sofa this afternoon, under warm throw as its so cold, it's July end of week for goodness sake.

BOP glad to hear all went ok, well done on choc find.
McC lovely big girl, jumping backside all my lads power in the front.
Mhags cottage in Tasmania sounds sublime, Haggis will have whale of a time