5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Purple_kitten

1 DF seems to be responding to meds – phew.

2 DH helped me with garden work and together we tackled strimming, mowing both front and back lawns, weedkilling and weeding, and tidying the neighbours unkempt fence from our garden to bin.

3 Had rather too much chicken salsa wraps feeling too full.

4 Popped to lidl only for bread and milk as need to make sarnies for tomorrow.

Frith

Quick pleasures for today as am a bit under the weather.


1) A bit of a lie in.


2) Went to the nearest big village to get new hen food then fed the hens and tidied up the allotment a bit.


3) Bigger son went on a massive bike ride (about 25 miles) and met up with his friends.


4) Smaller son and I went to our local football team's match. One corker from smaller son. "Well, of course we beat Halifax. How stupid to add "Town" to their name. Halifax Town. Why put Town when we all know they are named after a bank?" :-D


He met up with 2 of his school friends at half time then those 2 came back to sit with us. Cue much silent laughter when son's Smarties tipped over and all fell in the open handbag of the lady sitting in front of us, unknown to her!


5) Watched Casualty.

mcculloch29

Frith wrote: »

Quick pleasures for today as am a bit under the weather

4) Smaller son and I went to our local football team's match. One corker from smaller son. "Well, of course we beat Halifax. How stupid to add "Town" to their name. Halifax Town. Why put Town when we all know they are named after a bank?" :-D


He met up with 2 of his school friends at half time then those 2 came back to sit with us. Cue much silent laughter when son's Smarties tipped over and all fell in the open handbag of the lady sitting in front of us, unknown to her!

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Hope you recover soon.
I smiled at the 'Halifax' but had a fit of the giggles at the Smartie incident. It's possible lady with the open handbag worked it out but thought it was deliberate.

Can't you just picture her face though - goes in to her hand bag, rummages for her lippy ....
"Hang on... WHAT THE ???" :rotfl::rotfl:

I fell asleep from c. 7 pm to 10 pm, then was wide awake, but my brain is shutting down again now so I will collate pleasures tomorrow, when I may have some more to add, hopefully.

mhagster

Late afternoon here. Just put chicken pie ( with the words PIE) in the oven along with a small bread and butter pudding ( posh pudding...apple and blueberries drizzled with the remains of an 1/8 tin of condensed milK! )

Dreadful night! DD1 came in ' I may be a little bit drunk ' really? Dog barking, her friend using the loo before she went home ...me wide awake! Then at 3am dog crying so had to get up and he dashed outside. So then I lay on sofa in case I had to get up again. Then I ( as I'm such a lovely mum!) had set my alarm to wake up so I could wake up son who was going out very early. Normally I would have been up at that time ..anyway...I'm sure I will sleep tonight.

Dog has been okay for rest of day.

Made both girls lovely breakfasts.

Wrote to my letter writing friend and me and Mr Dog wandered up to the post office .

Decided ( in my wisdom) to paint a pine dresser ( or hutch as they call them here) I had some leftover green chalk paint and some cream paint. So I thought I would do back of shelves green and then rest all cream. Oh dear...who knew that chalk paint can go off! It was rancid! Had to wash it all off. So first coat of cream paint on, think it will need a few coats. A job for the coming week I think.

Pie for tea with cabbage and cauliflower. Giving potatoes a miss.

Have a good day
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VJsmum

LOL at the smarties :rotfl:

Mhags it has to say YUM #it'sthelaw

Welcome RageInEden - this thread is lovely

Pleasures for Friday

1. Good journey. Got some work done on the assignment i need to set for second job
2. Went for a walk by the sea as per
3. OH turned up and we had a lovely meal together
4. Then DD turned up. we didn't think she'd get here till Saturday so t'was lovely that she made it.
5. Birds on my nuts and fatballs

And yesterday - what a lovely day

1. Cycled 22 miles with friends. It was tough going in parts but we are nicely achey today
2. Had a whole loaf of sourdough bread between OH and i Usually we only eat SD that i make, which isn't as light as the commercial sort (which usually has a bit of yeast in it). This was warm from the shop and 'lish
3 - 5. Got back from cycle ride and straight on train to Machynlleth which has an annual comedy festival on this weekend. We had beer :beer: and street food curry (£5 for a huge tray of rice, salad, fenugreek potatoes, dahl, slow cooked lamb curry and chicken curry. £8 for an even more mahoosive one). We saw two acts (there are some lovely venues but, by sheer chance, both of ours were in the school canteen :rotfl:). Different from each other but both excellent. One was Rob Deering (who has done some radio and telly stuff) and the other Joseph Morpurgo (who hasn't ) the second one was an 'in development' show. It was really good for DD to see that these things exist - that you can trial stuff in such places, it hadn't occurred to her before. Lovely festive atmosphere in the town (which is fairly hippy, bohemian-y town). Frith, they reckoned between 10,000 - 13,000 visitors daily :eek: Next year we will be more organised, go for the whole day and maybe try to see one or two of the more 'famous' ones - Arthur Smith, Stewart Lee, Nish Kumar were all sold out.

A quieter day today - OH is going to cook Sunday lunch, then a walk by the sea and a honey ice cream. Then the cinema tonight.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Would link to the Tiger Lilies and Gin, but this would make &'s Hairy men look tame!

5 Tiles were all over the place last eve. Wobbleade and large gorilla (grill of mix!) wolfed down, All paid for because his teams came inn. BoPsie was inn rags of glad.

4 PM2Mila. Only days now to apple of big. More soon. Photos will be available! Still waiting for the invite!

3 Buzzard is readying. Stuffing and horsebacks go. Says it served 3. I know it will serve 8. Roast tonight, Roast tomorrow. Stove brewed curry on Tuesday and Friday! More this week.

2 Cannot believe that the gloss of paint is on in the bedroom! No more later, no pictures either!

The party can begin!

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1) The 'after the rain smell' when I was walking Cookie this lunchtime.

2) The discovery that toasting (YES!) crisp breads which are often cardboard laced with dust straight from the packet in the UK turns them into light, crisp and nutty delicacies of deliciousness!

3) Queen Annes Lace (Cow Parsley!) in full flower on all the banks hereabouts like Elizabethan lace ruffs on painted ladies, beautiful!

4) The first swallows have arrived, I watched them fly in over the water and then on up and across the hayfield in Greenaway Lane, they're late this year but I'm happy they've arrived.

5) A beautiful old cottage garden in the middle of the village, the house is 16th century and the garden has a brick path and a bench, no lawn but is full of very well established perennial plants and just now is full of Aquilegia (Grannys Bonnets) of every colour and has an arching Wisteria all across the front of the house and over the porch, sheer loveliness!

chella

I sat by the riverside this morning, I think, I saw a grey wagtail. Very long tail and pretty yellow under belly. I also saw a heron!


Coffee outside too.


A lovely walk in the city, the flowers are all in bloom.


My little lavender plants are growing well.


I am home now cooking a roast chicken dinner for tonight.


Feels good to know that tomorrow is another day off of work.

mcculloch29

Combined pleasures:

1. Managing to inflate a trike tyre to a higher pressure so that the trike was a bit easier to ride. I sometimes struggle to do this, but this time I managed it with relative ease.

2. A trike ride followed that didn't involve cycling in to a howling gale, as most journeys seem to do. The wind often drops early evening so I tend to shop then, for this and other reasons. Saturday I had to go out at midday, and there was barely a puff of wind.

3. Picked up a parcel of clothing items to trial from the sorting office 2 miles away.

4. Once again the kindness of strangers when I went shopping after picking up my parcel. At every stage of pulling a shopping trolley out and putting it away I had help, in 2 very different emporiums.

5. The little girl who said 'Thank you' to me when I stopped the trike to allow her to scooter past as she exited the park alongside my house. I'm more used to blank stares when sat on the trike. Dad was following up to acknowledge my comment of 'Nice manners' with a 'Thanks'.

Your pleasures, thank you. I hope your tummy is better, Haggis.
There is a lot of use in chuckling over spilled Smarties, Frith. Still giggling.

DigForVictory

ampersand - please make the time and take the money from this family - a good education is worth more than their bodyweight in rubies. Noisy "hear hear!" to your every word to Frith!
Frith - *awed* at your parenting, sign of four a ripping yarn (& BBC bitesize help available), all strength with trust fund, vs bullying, courgette & pumpkin germination, et alia. Admirably industrious day & what are brothers for if not snaffling a few chips from? Delighted by your sons albeit vicariously & just hooting over smaller's antics. Oh, to see Madame's expression, (but my imagination is coping.)
mhagster - you rock that orange gilet, and float as needful. Wholeheartedly understand you want to know documents have arrived safely! Please instigate FAFL? (If not bookended, gently squashed under pile of tomes?!) Yikes Haggis & vet but ear infections gruesome. Love real Pie properly labelled but oh gosh children. At least DD1 came home accompanied by friend, even if you got not enough sleep before son set off...
LaineyT - apple blossom snow - glorious! Having examined assorted tomes and images of sidesaddle riding, elegance not required as much as stubbornness. Many of the ladies have a jaw I would not argue with beneath the veil.
Skint yet Again - I'm all for the afternoon snooze. Just m'family are rotten uncooperative. Very happy long weekend! There's something about a proper roast chicken dinner - delicious & then all the lovely leftovers!
Mrs LW - I do like a polytunnel that's warm. Especially since they turned the heating off at work & summer frocks have disappeared under fleeces! I do love the colours of rhodos in full whoopee, even if I abhor what they do to the soil. Cow Parsley is more prettily known as Queen Anne's Lace? Delightful - both the words & the plant (confess I'd thought QAL was a carrot but willing to learn)
BoP - awed at prawns & immensely impressed at bonus spinach. Spring painting of the bedroom, to leave sorted in time to lunch with Donald? Ah, Mixed Gorilla: I love it when the bookie pays for the night out. Buzzard....
VJsmum - congratulations of 26 years & flowers! Men, eschewing sugar & resulting grump - oh yes. ICT could never be as hazardous as Midsomer - the French are petrified of the Cotswolds, apparently. Nearby Oxford required Morse after all... Long bike rides, lish street curry & glorious sourdough! What fun to see a routine being trialled & tuned in a small venue before reappearing at a more expensive one!
Mila - two months without a kitchen & 5 months without water there?! My eyes blur just at the thought. So glad one medic is alert & hope the drops are working! In my tea, I have a generous chug of milk, but others take a splosh (or even a drop.)
villagelife - so sorry back & shoulder in unfriendly duet but hurrah a nicer office. Touched by baby geese - awww. All good luck with both headboard & 5-10 year planned garden!
RageinEden - phew CT results & may ENT progress promptly. Admirable wringing out of maximum value from one bus ticket!
Purple kitten - hurrah dad responding to meds & hoping today as much fun as hoped?
mcculloch - I too can visualise Frith's Madame, rummaging & "eh?!" I wonder how long before she dare try one & 'ooh - smarties!' Delighted trike tyres cooperative & that a youngling showed the proper courtesy. (Why are please & thank you such rarities?)
Chella - a heron? Such a sight is not just a pleasure (unless you're fishing) but a privilege!

OS Pleasures this week & Bank Holiday Weekend (so far!)
Some healthy blighter jogged past me going upstairs, from the 5th floor. I do hope he was just trying to get to a loo, as otherwise he's mercilessly young fit & insensitive.

Wondering at what ongoing high net worth you define "oligarch" & whether you need to include time as a function in the definition. (So I'm a word nerd - happily a mostly harmless hobby!)

"Dammit, I'm skipping again..." Some days it is just So Tough being a teenager! (Not in love, as far as I know.)

So proud of candidates approaching impending exams with determination and calm (so far). [I allow myself to jitter here! Elsewhere I have to be supportively tranquil & organised ye gods.]

"I've stick the batteries in the microwave" - we are accumulating stuff to go to the tip, not planning a demented explosion!

"I'll go for the demon hunting, thank you." Eavesdropping on literary decision-making can disconcert!

Youngest brought jar of Nutella to add to breakfast toast. "I wonder what Nutella on gingerbread tastes like?" I mused. Youngest swooped on jar & left the room, replying "we may never know." ! I could be peeved but choose to chuckle.

I told eldest his aunt is getting kittens "she's going to be a crazy cat lady!" - clearly no point mentioning she has 2 undertrained Labradors and (last I heard) 2 cats already.

Aw! Just found An Solas Buan (Lighthouses of Scotland) with English subtitles. For the lighthouse enthusiasts in my family, this is gold! No longer on iplayer but message me if you're curious?

Researching beef jerky. Sometimes research is almost more fun than doing...

Fleeting glimpses of husband replacing grease in Kenwood Chef gearbox suggest this will be looked back on proudly but right now? It's not Lego. [Turns out we are (thanks to a charity shop find) a Two Kenwood Household, so have been despatched to being the second up for treatment!] Such a shame sons studying or bathing as retailing for over £150 each, maintenance has to be a lucrative sideline. Whole family invoked in hunt the screwdriver with the weird head....

Sorting Macbeths & Christmas Carols by various artists to help the candidates. Seemingly a range of media helps quotes & characters stick in the mind, though how Kermit will help in an exam I'm not *totally* sure, but Candidate delighted.

Youngest taught me "malaforms" (I commend Scott Kaiser on the subject)


Right. Thank you all - I'll fall asleep beaming at the thought of discovered Smarties. Wishing you all successful medication, thriving wildlife, courteous children [hey, a gal can dream] and a splendid Bank Holiday weekend!