5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Quick pleasures for today as am yawning!


1) A lie in!


2) Went to a local farm park with my friend and her children and stayed for 6 hours!


3) Went swimming - 0.5km today.


4) 3 egg day for the hens.


5) Painted over half of the kitchen. Same (nearly) colour but looks cleaner for it.


6) In bed and about to listen to I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

ampersand

1. Just finished doing this:
https://www.facebook.com/www.jammylady.co.uk/posts/637084429707337
-which appears when '700gms cherries' is googled.
Seemd to have eaten the other 300 gms..........:-) huge dark juicy morellos - gorgeous - from Trumpington carboot hier. [Had forgotten when I wrote yesterday's osps.]

2. Reading mhags and OH's memory bankers:-) Thankyou.

3. Just now hearing trailer for rpt of this [ref: 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth] heard 0400h yesterday:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b041th7q?imz_s=omi67d54dduohsak39tvd5ta94
It's superb - as is anything with Stephanie Cole. Catch it if you can.
DG for what remains of Auntie Beeb wireless.

4. Heads up Lainey. Emporium in town of horse is over-run with coffee grounds. & had carton-full pressed upon her today and some are already trowelled out on slug buster duty. & posted a ? earlier today. &'s usual method is daily killer screwdriver stalking. They are vile. These ones, 10cm glutinous thickly viscous slime thugs:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=red+slugs&client=firefox-b-ab&biw=1024&bih=581&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJjr-t5I_OAhWkJsAKHYRPBsQQ_AUIBigB
Biggest YUCK of YUCKS.

Waitrose have lost their previous big 'subscriber', so want them taken, apart from which they do good on the garden. On verra.

5. & counted 22kg of raspberries in no.2 freezer this evening. How come? Ah well, will be doing a lot of raspberry clafoutis for Churchathon this weekend. Finally set the frozen rtc emporium blueberries into vodka too, using handsome big 3-qt lugged curved jar. They can get on distilling themselves until crimbo. Deep fed and watered the rhubarb, too. Corollary weeding happened, unintended.
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mcc - that's a very special memorial. Picked up 1974 Queen's Scout award, ex NZ, from our 1st-rate town-of-horse framer on Saturday [Lainey will know who]. He is exellent, empathetic and I am steadily in and out of there. prob half a dozen times a month, with work for Spitalfields, or self. In this case, 2 frames brought back in suitcases needed re-glazing.
& lived in an Ypres Road in NZ teen years. Cousin became a Queen's Scout in 1980.

Frith - how are you coping with your tooth? Your descriptions
give me 'pass on quickly' shivers. Loved ISIHAC in Glasgow tonight
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07knqy0
Jack Dee is in brilliant form sending up my unfave JAM.
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Thus ends this disjointed post. Bonne nuit à tout et à tous:-))) with pedalo wave to Jenny later today and hope i/v Aye is not long in coming, bop.

milasavesmoney

Excellent news Smiley!! Will the move be soon? I had a google look-see of the area. Very nice! Of course anything green looks fab to me!
Kitti you were well loved today. Very sweet! They will miss you.
PK Date nite! Yes!

* Smothered burritos followed by peach cobbler with vanilla ice cream. The guys are now comatose. I'm still sick and didn't eat any of it. :A

* 12 gal of exterior latex originally $56/gal down to $20/gal after a little wheelin and dealin.

* I hate nasal wash! Oops that's not an OS pleasure of the day.

* DS1 only had to have one wisdom tooth taken out. He's in a good mood about it even though in some pain. First tooth with a cavity in years and years and on the back side. There was no room to get behind it to fill it so it was pulled. For some reason DD1 thought both bottom wisdom teeth were to be pulled.

* Starting week four of grand hound sitting. They go back this weekend come hell or high water! :j Yes there were extenuating circumstances but hey!

Was thinking baby heads were a local name for some type of veggie...fennel come to mind. BoP glad to know for real! Good luck with Jenny. Tell Mrs BoPsie hello from NM. :wave:
If Marmite encourages hair growth I can think of a few fellows who should rub it on their heads. :cool:

Smiley87

Completion date is September so it gives us time to get ready and organised

Monday:
1. Chin wag with family
2. Other half getting very excited about the move - it's funny listening to him and his big ideas
3. Feeling much more relaxed - think I was exhausted physically and mentally
4. On an OS money saving mission as a couple to get ready for the house - thinking of as many ways as possible to save is actually quite fun!
5. One very happy pooch after her walk and bath

villagelife

Mhags what lovely memories you are creating.
Smiley September will be here before you know it.

1. On Sunday went up to London with DH and DS2 to look round. Regent street was closed to traffic and managed to take one of the free magnums on offer. It was a busking weekend so loads of street acts in Trafalgar square.
We did treat DS2 to a new pair of shoes reduced in the sale. The shoes should last him a while.

2. Now away for a few days with DH. We came by train (free). Good trip and wonderful to see people helping others with suitcases and others offering to help.

3. Arrived at the cottage we rented which is lovely and tea, coffee and biscuits had been left out for us. Most welcome.

4. Watching the birds in the garden this morning as I'm writing this and looking at the blue sky.

5. I am on holiday!!! I feel so much more relaxed.

Yvieblue

Hello mind if I join in?
I've not posted on the forums in an age, but regularly read this thread when I need a boost - it's a lovely idea. So, if I may, in order to focus on the positives, I'd like to come out of hiding and contribute?!
So - pleasures for yesterday..
1) Coffee and chatter in the sun with a good friend.
2) A companionable chat with teenaged youngest (these are rare treasures when they're going through "that" age!)
3) Home cooked chicken and mushroom pie for supper that turned out lovely, though I do say so myself.
4) Quizzes on TV last night - and did much better than usual at Only Connect
5) A cooler evening meaning a better night's sleep.

mhagster

Very quick update as I'm out for lunch and trying not to be too rude! But we have free internet , so shall quickly type whilst I wait for my steak pie!

Out for lunch with SIL and niece and nephew.

Have spent the morning down our woods with my niece and great niece, lots of fun, lots of hugs and lots of smiles.

Yesterday , a quick pop into town ( very uninspiring ) but picked up enough Percy Pigs to do a while. Popped into see my mother , then down to old work for lunch and more hugs, then out to my lovely friend who lives in countryside in a beautiful cottage, with a beautiful garden and I met her beautiful granddaughter for the first time. Had a lovely afternoon tea and more hugs, love and laughter.

Home and other SIL came in and we had a blether then we were zonked by 8pm.

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Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

OMG Percy Pigs! You did not come back just for them!

Jenny is about to be tested. More later.

LaineyT

Lovely reading about your adventures in Scotland Mhags, thank you for sharing.
Enjoy your holiday Villagelife
Hey Yvieblue
:j on house Smiley, will whizz round am sure
& thank you for reminder of framing option in horse of town, had totally forgotten about that chap. Need a picture re-glazed after dusting whoops, not worth a jot but has precious memories attached. Also heads up on coffee grounds at W8rose, hate hate slugs with a vengeance.

Some pleasures for last couple of days,

DM feeling better than last weekend and enjoying her food, she had second helpings of Sunday lunch plus ice-cream in various forms

SIL and youngest niece popped over to see Mum at ours, learner driver niece drove over and was highly praised for her roundabout skills.

Nights are cooler and easier to sleep through, although the warm weather seems to have hatched numerous spiders of the tiny body, long spindly leg variety. Captain is handy with vacuum and they don't last long in our house.

The lavender is in bloom and giving the bees an alternative to the honeysuckle, interestingly the butterflies still prefer the privet flowers to the Buddleia.

Just finshed work and have rest of week off, after some improvement over the last couple of months it's gone downhill again, am keeping options open.

Hope all has gone well with Jenny test BOP.

ampersand

1. Not one slug in sight this morning. & was thus denied her daily round of slaughter. Coffee grounds redouts really do the trick.

2. Ready for early bed already, after new book start outside in cooling evening air. Philip Kerr's 'Prague Fatale'.

3. &obile and full-to-brim trailer 'to-the-dump-to-the-dump-to-the-dump-dump-dump....' with old timber, prunings, metal, defunct outdoor chairs and miscellaneous more, lot more. As always, good natured help, insistently offered. M not there today - a pity, as & had Hawkes Bay property mags for him, something he'd asked about before trip back. Loads more to do yet. I'll get there. M may not - another 4.5 earthquake last night, apparently. 'Geonet initially reported it was a 4.5 magnitude, which has been downgraded to a 4.3. The quake's intensity was also changed from light to moderate. It struck at a depth of 31km and 15km east of Waipukurau in Central Hawke's Bay. The service reported earlier this evening it struck at a depth of 55km, 20km east of Waipukurau.

4. Mystery thaw ce soir. UFO - unidentified freezer object. Well, misidentified. HAD thought they were sliced mushrooms. No. Mussels, gorgeous biggies. Cuisine intended, all change. Terrific fritters made instead, with salad and a mushroom/courgette/garlic medley zapped in whizzbang. Truly lush.

5. NSD, but not tmrw. Rang Fenboys re: necessary &obile work: it's going to be exhaust-ing, I fear. Oh well, what must be....etc.
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Really ready for bed.
Lainey - it feels strange that N R-H doesn't bound down the stairs after his 2 terriers if J isn't in Gallery. I was shocked by his appearance a fortnight before heading to NZ, then learning of his sudden death. DP's tribute was perfect: '...said four generations of his family had known x, who "evoked the 18th century" and "could easily have been any of the characters in the prints of that period hanging on his walls".
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Oh, have just realised I should have been at an auction tonight. Never mind. Have worked long and hard today.

Right mhags - looked up Percy Pigs. Hmm - so they're not Pascall's Pineapple Lumps [NOTHING else can be those antipodean gorgeousnesses] but I can feel something like identical love going on.

Raffles - red carpet swank in the bunkhouse tonight please and best behaviour [you, not the 2-foots] for bop and lady bop, with extra smooch and purr for the latter :-) Hope all has gone well today.