5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

VJsmum

Morning all

Sat at the desk about to launch the work mojo - no, really, I am like a coiled spring about to go off :o

Pleasures for yesterday

1. Lovely bath with DCI Mathias for the last time (Hinterland, it's finished ) Didn't realise until yesterday that DCI Mathias is also Capt. Andrew Blamey from Poldark - I think he looks better as a moody bu88er than he does in a wig :rotfl:
2. Breakfast in the garden, watching and listening to the birds. Scared the bejesus out of an unsuspecting squirrel when it sauntered around the corner :rotfl:
3. House is clean (ish) and tidy
4. Read my book in the garden - lovely to sit in the sunshine
5. left over takeaway curries from the freezer for tea.
6. France has rejected the right wing

Have a great day all

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

5 Back again I know. Last week at mill till apple of big. BoPsie is all pieces. Still do her good! Friends funeral today, having to miss as I am sorting big trip up norff out, via the Warster avoiding lines! Oh, it goes at a snails pace pass the chocolate manufactory. More on the trip later.

4Did loads of tatties of roast yesterday. I cannot tell you how good they were. Some left over for tomorrow night, as tonight is going to be a Ming Inn Curry of chicken. Proper food, not cheese on toast delivered for £20! Freezer is nearly empty of food. Waste not.

3 Gosh I does rabbit on and on sometimes! Must have been inn the Old Nags Head last night! Just checking my elevenses! Cakes of Jaffa! These are not for dunking. Orange is being wolfed down as well!

2 Nite beach ready BoP is off to the gym this evening. Should be a right push now.

Dogs. Have Masters. Cats have Staff!

ampersand

If it means 'owt[mila's dictionary homework :-)], just a repeat that &'s Thanks go on, disappear, are replaced, disappear, usw...

What sumptuous tatoes bop, superb!

Genuine Lainey alert: Which of the surrounding wealthy-ish villages has a CS that & may not know of, please? Could only think Trumpy and don't know of any there.

mhags - your tin of beans fell out on &'s hand last night. Hurty-hurt! Just as well you had them for supper:-)

mila - yes, cooking on gas, every time. Kitchen sounds Saturday Evening Post/Colliers Magazine superb, from the slow seamail arrivals in &'s household, throughout 50s enzed childhood. Norman Rockwell, of course.
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I know I'm missing intended pleasure replies, but busy busy and shouldn't even be here now. But, desktop has had rare moment of oblige, so...
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1. Bank Holiday absence in/around Peak District, based Edale. How beautiful is this place! Loved it all. Much stampies about, gazing up to crests of hills and getting there. Good wild-ish sheep and lambs. Good people. Great Hostel and staff. Vote Labour and Vote Green Party boards side by side behind one cottage wall - pic duly taken :-) Blue John and old millstones left where they grew and were hewn.

2. Point of 1, &'s 1st ever sortie>Manchester: Lucienne Day Centenary Exhbn@ Whitworth Art Gallery. Can't begin on its glories. Were I to do so, certainly wouldn't end. Please go. Love ethos of Gallery - just one example: family-friendly art hampers. [Long-established]Love all of Lucienne and Robin Day's lives, selves, works, philosophy, everything. Ditto Barbara Brown - fantastic. Will be going again. Equally loved hairy drive up and over Winnat's Pass. Caravan[another bop fave] scrunched in narrows and started to slide back. Silly peeps. & was 5th in queue behind. &'s hair, already long, became slightly hairier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbhalgHyNM0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPjQsREj7uM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe4WfLN8cEs [well done, &]

& has the bug again, known over 60 years ago, starting here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngaio,_New_Zealand

then 1960s hiking here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaimanawa_Range
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaweka_Range

3. 1st teaching/assessment/meeting with gracious, earnest family's 2 daughters, 1 son, [post passim]. A delight, intensive. All keen, natural, with parents' backing, enjoying their education and opportunity. Stunningly beautiful elder daughter, already marked out as Maths high-flyer, has English SATS test today. We worked on a probing poem+comprehension questions: Saved? C.J. Fenton. Lions/one lion of the Serengeti, past/pres./future. Well-scribed, says &:-)
Tried to find it to post here, but have instead found this curious worry piece from Michael Rosen[Yes!]
http://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/servicing-satsservicing-free-schools.html

4. Thought at the time, after early carboot* in Edale, how I'd be writing 'Went to Church in Hope...'. Confusingly written notice meant & did whizz back from Castleton. Made it, just:-) re: *, such expensives!!! But also, some ludicrously affordable finds of &y-type loves, which had 1st outing at Spits last Thurs. Wonderful studio pottery and I have just id'd maker, Gerry Unsworth. Next surprise - and shame on moi - female Gerry, which didn't even occur to &. But then, have a fab pen and ink+ground colour dabs Ursula Mommens shape on hand-made paper which speaks to these 3 new acquisitions. Smokey tenmoku glaze externally, black gloss internally, milky blue/green/white rim eruptions and fractures. Fabulous scholarly pieces - BIIIG interest, all from 3 French chaps, separately, all prev. buyers. Group price given. Unconcerned by how long I keep these - privilege. Thinking 'There's a divinity that shapes our ends. Rough-hew them how we will' because the 2 Camilla Gurn pieces fired on slate [loved since buying<Exhbn some years ago] sold well to someone who went on to spend 3£igs. These new GU pieces somehow sit in their stead.

5. Disciplined sticking to 5, as over w/e. Early a.m.launch mtg for Dan Zeichner in town of gown. Not &'s MP, but the one successfully worked for 2015, elected, unseating sitting lurchdem, who sided with tories 782 times in that parliament. He hopes to re-take, with local rag press onside, malheureusement but predictably. & is no corbynista, knows what is said, feels same, BUT GOVERNMENTS EXECUTE POLICIES. It is policies which affect people. Any current figurehead is less important than principled policy. We have a real battle. DZ is too principled, too nice, too decent :-) Told him so, Sat pm.
[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/27/labour-turmoil-deepens-second-frontbencher-defies-jeremy-corbyn/
Will do all I can and much more, as last time. 1st job done: 14000 leaflets counted, bundled. Have put that Spits big£s txn where mouth is, >Labour+DZ. & is a survivor, despite all.
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My true blessings to all who read and lurk here. Great Church yesterday. News that & marmalade nearly sold out, with mediaeval London group visit/lunch on Sat. Extra£s donated by many. Sermon: significance of Gates+Mother Julian strongly present. Early today, shock sudden death among our number. The circle of Life.
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vjm - oui, re:France, ma belle. Thank God, no matter whose.

ampersand

Separate - and required reading for every real human on Planet Democracy:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy

Please make others aware of this piece.
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ps>bop+bopsie. & is expert, canniest weigher/sitter on/closer of suitcases>anywhere. Oh, forgot you have Raffles for this. Surprised he has allowed you leave of such a far-off absence. Have you promised newts of NY?

LaineyT

ampersand wrote: »

If it means 'owt[mila's dictionary homework :-)], just a repeat that &'s Thanks go on, disappear, are replaced, disappear, usw...

What sumptuous tatoes bop, superb!

Genuine Lainey alert: Which of the surrounding wealthy-ish villages has a CS that & may not know of, please? Could only think Trumpy and don't know of any there?

& that would be the AR one at Gt Shelford m'dear, close to L's heart of course.

ampersand

Lainey, thankyou:-) Didn't know of it.
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&'s sorties that way stop either at Scotsdales[Garden Society free drink + cakey voucher in hand. Must remember to use], or across road to rugby:-)
Collection of teatowels for next season resumed at Fordham yday, so thought of recent Capt S b'day[sth has crossed & path]

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

The tatties. I don't has to tells you lot. Proper food. And good for you.

Tum is ready now for curry. Second bird feast. Then roast again tomorrow.

[Deleted User]

1) NOT being on the worse train I've ever travelled home on any longer!

2) 3 very large cups of tea.

3) A bathroom to use (no loo on the train).

4) We have a strawberry almost ripe in the patch, He Who Knows bless him has put it inside a lidless jam jar to keep the birds off and help it ripen fully, awwww!

5) Home, oh yes!!!!!

chella

I have been trying very very hard to not spend money. I struggle. Daily, I pop in marks and spencer after work etc. Today is the first day in probably months, that I have not spent a single penny. I am feeling good.


Made it home without the black cloud drenching me.


Feet up with a cuppa,cat by my side.


House is looking tidy from the weekends efforts, no need to do much at all.


Tonight I can stay up late, and tomorrow I get a lay in.


Just watered the plants with last nights bath water, no slug attacks so far!!


Ate half a chocolate fairy cake (home made by me) when I got in, the other half had been eaten by Mr Chella earlier


Got a beautiful. pink rose in bloom on my rose bush.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Monday)


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Bigger son too stressed to go into school (well, he did go for about 15 minutes). So picked him up and went out for breakfast.


3) Went to the building society and they were quite helpful in dealing with my mortgage query.


4) Spent the rest of my vouchers from work on some compost and seed trays.


5) Went to the garage in the next village and the car is booked in for a week tomorrow.


6) Bigger son did some maths and biology revision - hoorah!


7) Hens OK.


8) Borage plant came through the post.


9) Went to a nursery locally with my brother.


10) Had a cup of tea with parents (and brother). Dad had upset the bees by lawnmowing by them so I had to wear the bee suit to get to the car!


11) Planted wallflowers, hollyhocks, sunflowers and sweetcorn this evening. Nearly all windowsills filled now. Courgettes and pumpkins growing well.


12) Going to watch The Island with bigger son just now.