5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

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Frith

Quick pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Bigger son had the dreaded English Lit exam 2. Inspector Calls question OK, poetry OK and "it was the best Eng Lit paper I've ever written". :-)


3) Bigger son spent the day in the river with his friends after that!


4) I went into town (because I thought I would be picking him up after the exam) and chose my new glasses frames and picked up the history revision guide...




5) Cleaned the turtles out, fed the hens, did 3 loads of washing and dried them all outside - hot, but not uncomfortable like yesterday.


6) Football practice for smaller son this evening and my former colleague was there so good to chat with her. Bigger son cycled to join us.


7) Watched Gogglebox and the Last Leg.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Not quite!

5 Wobbleades inn town last night. Milk train caught home. Stops at every blade of grass. We only go one stop as well!

4 Film sorted for tonight. Looks like a BoPsie as we had a Lancaster on offer. I just hope her legs don't give way!

3 Of course BoP started today with a mega fest. Snorker, best back, mushroom. Chopped toms and Tom grilled. Hot buttered toast with poached egg. Wolfed down with tea and concentrate of orange and eau de faucet. Tum was rubbed.

2 Night we are have chicken tikka bits, now brewing in natural yogut. Spiced with hot chilli, garlic etc. Served with dynamite mushrooms and fridgeies! Wobbleades have been secured!

And on your way

milasavesmoney

* Cheeseburgers last night. Mine without the bun. So good on the grill. Tonight, it's biscuit's and hamburger gravy. No not cookies! Real southern biscuits. My Texas heritage shows up when this meal is made.

* Ceiling work starts Monday

* Daughters at the beach for Memorial Day weekend...one on the Atlantic and the other at the Pacific. Both are so happy. Well, anyone raised in the desert is happy to see water to swim in! Quoye is having a wonderful time. She loves clam chowder!
I didn't see the ocean, and it was actually the Gulf of Mexico, until I was 25 yrs old. We slept out on the white beach sand of the Florida panhandle and saw a red fox with two kits that night as we sat by our fire. I loved the sound of the waves. Sweet dreams.

* Huevos con chorizo for breakfast fixed by DH! Mmmmmm
No cheese is an oversite that needs to be corrected next time!

* Halo Top ice cream!!! 20g protein!! Diet friendly!!!!

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1) All the trains were on time, all the trains weren't broken and all the trains ran without any disruption.....well done!

2) Twickenham is the most amazing stadium, it's huge and very well set up with big screens at either end behind the goal posts that are 'big enough' to see the action properly when it's up on the other end of the pitch and the sound system is fab, you can hear words and understand them.

3) It was such a lovely experience being a neutral 'fan' in amongst both sets of supporters sitting mixed up in the seating, with kids, teenagers, mums, dads, grandparents and in some cases toddlers too. Everyone regardless of allegiance was chatting together, both teams were applauded and cheered by all of us when something good happened on the pitch, kids were smiled at, hands were shaken, thoroughly restorative experience all round.

4) On the way from the station to the stadium people had either rented out their front gardens or set up stalls themselves selling a huge variety of delicious food at not unreasonable prices. We had the best bratwurst in a bun that I've ever had in the UK and they even had German Senf (mild mustard) to go on top absolutely delicious.

5) Home again now in the cool of the evening, got out of the car to the briny smell of the river that says 'you're home' in bright sunshine and made a very much needed cup of tea and luckily I'd cooked jacket potatoes earlier in the week and made vegan chilli mole yesterday so within half an hour we had a filling and tasty supper. Just having a cup of coffee and then there's very little day left in me so off to an early night. Catch you tomorrow xxx.

mhagster

A good morning from very early on a rainy Sunday. I was out till way past my bedtime last night.

Nice chat with friend from home.
Email that first house viewer lined up for Sunday afternoon.
Went grocery shopping , was $7 over my $200 voucher. I'm so glad I had it . I needed loo roll , toiletries, washing powder etc as well as food.

Pottered around in afternoon, hoovered, tidied desk ( a bit!)

Went into city , on a very busy train. Lots of footie fans going in for games.
I'm glad we got a seat. DD2 had bought tickets to a play & someone couldn't go, so I had to go. Only problem was it was a concession ticket & I'm not! So had to cough up an extra $34 to get in. She loved it. I did not. She then gave me a critique and an explanation of what everything represented. I'm obviously less intellectual than I thought! Tram & train home and a walk in the rain.

Best bit? Climbing in to bed! This was my first time of getting dressed for going out and about since OH died, we go past the hospital where he died twice, I'd much rather have been in my jammies 3 hours earlier but didn't want DD2 to be further let down. She had already seen the play ion Tuesday night as a school trip and wanted to go back. It's part of her coursework. Blah!

Today is another day! We will all be in together at teatime so have all agreed to a nice tea, we are often like ships in the night but with me the harbour master...I see them all at different times as they are in and out.

DundeeDoll

Today was a rest day with optional extra of boat trips. We did the boat trips
1) speedy gonzale boat to malcensine. We got top front seat on boat
2) castle at malcensine was fab. €6 entry but had bottled water to drink (refilled at breakfast) and refilled it at drinking tap at castle
3) speedy boat to limone (named after Latin for borders- guess lemon-themed stuff is easier to sell to tourists than borders) where we had lish lunch.
4) then speedy boat back to riva where we walked along lake back to hotel just in time for afternoon tea
5) then, after a swim, dinner. Tiring life this enjoying myself. Back to reality Monday when we had to leave the hotel at 6:40am groan

Frith

Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Cooked breakfast.


3) Bigger son's first day at work lasted about 2 minutes until he cycled off... I suppose the pleasure was that he has been very subdued and helpful since!


4) Had a couple of games of football with smaller son and watched a kestrel hunting in our neighbour's garden.


5) Watched Dr Who.


6) Roast dinner this evening with enough left over to make a large pie tomorrow.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

5 Finished painting upstairs for now. Has to wait to get caries and that. Tax bill to pay!

4 Had oats this very morning for breakfast. Rolled oats inn porage. Toast with jam was wolfed down with orange.

3 Just had proper sandwiches on the plaza, cheese onion, and marmite. Tasty. Tum was rubbed. Belgium chic ice was also eaten.

2 Nite was heading to Town. No trains. Not even big Warster train.

Would have been more ...

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1) A bowl of strawberries for an afternoon snack still warm from the sun in the garden.

2) A gap in the rain after lunch and a nice Cookie walk through a deserted village with only the dripping trees and songbirds for company, we had just over an hour and it started to drip again as I reached the house.

3) Skype with DD2 and the Zebra and a very spotty Oreo child, oh my goodness he's got a wonderful crop of spots and is a poorly pickle at the moment but he cheered up when mummy put Paw Patrol on for his big brother!

4) I've just podded the first picking of peas from the polytunnel! it always makes me very happy!

5) Trip out this morning to a new to us garden centre where He Who Knows had a voucher to spend, we had coffee, got his weed killer and a few packets of seeds and a hatchable dinosaur egg for Zebras Christmas stocking, that's what I call an eclectic shop!