5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Pleasures for today (Saturday)


1) Had porridge for breakfast, with leftovers for the hens.


2) Bigger son popped in (they're staying at their father's until tomorrow) and his driving licence came in the post! He then started his first proper paid job, in the pub in the next village.


3) Then met up with smaller son to go to a local fayre but his friends appeared as I was getting out of the car so I was surplus to requirements and went home!


4) Spent over 2 hours doing the garden and it looks much better for it - weeding, sweeping, cleaning the slabs.


5) Watched Dr Who then Casualty.


6) Cleaned the turtle tank out then cleaned the bathroom.

LaineyT

Some pleasures for yesterday,

Boiled egg and soldiers for breakfast, real treat as have been low-carbing.

Summer dress ordered with money off voucher arrived and looks good, am determined to have brown legs this year!

Sweet Williams on the hearth.

Both honeysuckles are in bloom, their lovely smell is wafting into the kitchen.

Caught up with HIGNFY, First Dates and Fake News.

Skint_yet_Again

Saturday pleasures


1. snorkers and fried eggs for breakfast
2. wandered round local monthly car boot with a friend, only spent £1 on 2 bracelets.
3. we went to local community centre garden for a sit down and friend treated us both to an ice-cream (only 50p each but I bought last month's so she was returning the favour ).
4. cooler day but still sunny, managed to get 3 loads dry on the line & mopped / bleached the kitchen floor - am still cleaning up after the mouse invasion but they seem to have gone.
5. starlings, about a dozen running around on my lawn eating something creepy-crawly

mhagster

Bedtime and it's blooming freezing!

Lazy day .
Lovely dog walk.
Star filed sky and bright, shiny half moon.
Chicken pie ( from freezer) , boils spuds, sprouts, cauliflower and carrots.
Made tiny jam/ lemon curd tarts with left over pastry.
Tawny frogmouths on a low branch in the back garden tree....glowering at Haggis. Nice to see them.

Have a good Sunday

Purple_kitten

MH: Those tawny frogmouths look very different..

1 A nice lazy up, I’m acutely aware it will be the last for a while as back to ‘ot mill tomorrow.

2 2 loads of washing line dried, nice that it’s a little cooler today.

3 All the bird food feeders re stocked.

4 Mowed both the front and back gardens and did a little weed
tidying and plant tying up.

5 It will be leftovers for dinner, had a lovely prawn salad for lunch.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Skint_yet_Again wrote: »

1. snorkers and fried eggs for breakfast

Proper foods!

5 To think that I have cleaned our account out today by buy expensive prawns! All went like a codpiece into the fish pie. Tatties were pre apple of big and best before 11 May! Cod, with king prawns, in homemade parsley sauce, topped with tatties, mashed. Tum was well rubbed. Near disaster as we were out of custard for the next pud of xmas, matured now. Made homemade sauce of white. Whisky was added. Tasty!

4 On that cleaning out of the piggy bank, as you know. BoP has tax bill to pay and is never happy when it is time to pay them too much. Still, we has got the lot inn and a night at the wobbleade dispensary for less that £190. And BoPsie noted that the cheese on toast delivery service can give me four meals for only £24. Who actually buys this waste?

3 Trying to watch the cricket but it keeps going off because of rain. No money on today, account at £7. No good bet yet!

2 Got the bits for the trap downstairs to be painted and new shelves to put up. More next weekend!

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1) Being British and proud at the response of the nation to yesterdays atrocity!!!

2) Maisie doggie stayed last night (first time) took herself to bed at 10 and woke up with start this morning at 6 when I opened the lounge door! she's a good girl!

3) My little brother who has just taken one of the 4 large bags of broad beans that He Who Knows brought back from the allotment .....I've found that a girl CAN have too many broad beans!

4) Maisies mum brought us a lovely piece of the 18th birthday cake when she came to reclaim her hound and Izzy her daughter put in 2 beautiful cup cakes she'd made to say thank you, how nice is that?

5) My mini wildflower meadow growing round the Zebra childs green wigwam which is currently covered in ox eye daisies and cranesbill geraniums, it's only little but the bees LOVE it!

DigForVictory

So sorry about Charlotte, Frith, but hurrah ring!
Blimey well done, PK!
Hurrah Orley recovering, Mrs LW - phew...
Very happy so see live scrabble again, BoP!
Rousing congratulations kittikins & hat will be sought.
Welcome back & hurrah not killing the ipad, Dundeedoll!
Dear mhagster, so proud of you & very glad Haggis there with you.

OS Pleasures recently

The joyful cries of scouts sending a pyramid of poles flying. Tripod football is not for the faint of heart!

Ah, Versailles - the lads thoroughly enjoyed the orgy (Very BBC) & I was mildly stunned by how hazardous the Spanish Fly can be. Toxic doesn't quite begin to do it credit...

"Oooh! A pet shop!" "Yes, let's return little brother"....

"It's so warm I'll have to take my cardie off!" - the perils of charity shopping for seniors?

Ground barley to flour - it's a hand mill so child labour is effective but it's very satisfying to convert a 50 pence bag of pearl barley into a £2 sack of freshly milled flour.

"Argh! Spam spicy!" "Eaten through his sock already!" (Foot disappears from view. As I suspect so will sock, permanently.)

Found an unfinished knitting project, finished it & watched in horror as husband felted it to fit exactly as he wanted. Now all perfect but I was on tenterhooks!

Lord help me. "We need to dust the rifles - look at that!" - the teenager sounds like a disapproving Matriarch with white gloves. Still, he'll be reliable with the duster & the oil can tomorrow.

"Don't you know I've got eagle eyesight? Yowch - I just poked myself in the eye!" Boychicks....

Introduced to Georgina potatoes - *bred* to 'taste sweet & buttery' - frankly not convinced.

"Never cared for conservatories." "I couldn't eat a whole one." The lads do not appear to gain wisdom with age....

Did paperwork for DEFRA to receive cow horn for research historical purposes. Ye Gods... Huge pleasure on getting it completed, and modest pride at figuring Government Form Speak. Plus bonus perspective on paperwork involved in running a pet cemetery should I ever need a change of direction.

Iggy Pop got ‘Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters’! Roughly the French version of a knighthood for those who have made a “significant contribution to the enrichment of the French cultural inheritance.” (Along with David Bowie and Bob Dylan.) So love how he manages to look delighted & rumpled simultaneously.

Youngest knows how to get spewed breakfast crumbs across the table. Told us of a suspected multiple homicide, different states then different countries linked by DNA. Turned out to be the DNA of a lad making cotton swabs in Germany.

Sad child cheered up by news I'm exchanging a collection of vouchers & a couple of treasury notes for a new kindle. As his is near-comatose & I won't get to examine it unless he has an alternative. [He now has backache from sitting foolishly for too long at the PC & apparently It is My Fault.]

It seems the currency for strange ladies on the Internet when you want a particularly specific breed of cow horn is a blanket. I knew it wouldn't be cash, but I'm amused at the exchange negotiations.

Oh cobblers - human friendly slug pellets no longer stocked by local supermarket. Slightly shudder to think what alternatives might be but nematodes appear to be on the agenda. [Phew, other organic slug pellets are available, sourced & applied.]

My honeysuckle, thanks to a spot of benign neglect, has started rooting at one touchdown point! Splendid - a home grown birthday present for mum next year, all growing well. Holiday gardening religious observances now up to date & still more seeds may yet be planted once their toxicity has been checked. (Several dyers plants can be a bit unforgiving.)

Turned the lads loose for a bit of grazing in the sunlight - returned to an excited tale of bloke immobile against a wall & ambulanceman "poking him with a stick or other medical device" before taking him away. They need First Aid training, but half term in the middle of GCSEs is probably the wrong time.

Ah, the tip! Splendid destination for space-hog articles beyond repair &/or needing specialist care, like the old microwave.

A long time ago I began chucking coppers into a tin dish - today, I bagged up twenty pounds worth of change! The collection plate has the enamelled Estonian design visible once again, only slightly obscured by the leftover coppers.

Sons pratting with grass blades, trying to whistle. Another son, embarrassed, sternly admonished them to hush - startling a complete stranger who'd joined in the fun & produced a splendid whistle. "Hush!" has become something of a catchphrase...

Irony is seeing "stop in the name of love" as a bus advert travelling behind someone talking about the London attack on the news, before cutting to live feed of the prep for the Manchester shindig tonight.

Ramadan mubarak to all invovled therewith.

Hugs or handshakes, line dried delights and reliable umbrellas all round, as RL prepares to take another bite. GCSE season is pretty unyeilding.

DundeeDoll

oo thanks dfv I missed it. And so...
1) Iggy getting Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters http://www.nme.com/news/music/iggy-pop-awarded-frances-highest-cultural-honour-2060573.
2) wore my posh red dress for pentecost. relieved to get zip up (have put on over a stone since damaging my knee, oops).
3) very nice shared lunch - i selected carefully with need to get into dress next week for friend's wedding ;-)
4) caught up on last 3 episodes of dr who while doing crosswords - sometimes one just needs a bit of a lazy afternoon
5) sorted freezer. unidentified frozen object turned out to be very tasty spicy turkey stew. banana for pudding. that stone will be history!

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday)


1) Not a bad sleep - hoorah!


2) Hens OK.


3) Went to see my brother who is trying to fix the front driver's window of my car (neither window on my side has worked for over a year).


4) Went to see my Aunty and had lunch there. Watched the news about London. Discussed Trump's ridiculous tweets. Of course, we'd LOVE everyone to be armed - then the terrorists could have stayed in their van and mown dozens of people down using machine guns and the public could have accidentally shot each other in their panic. :-/ Bloody idiot.


5) Went to the allotment with bigger son and planted out next year's spring cabbages.


6) Did some history revision with bigger son for his GCSE tomorrow. He does modern history (I did Ind Revolution for GCSE then Tudors/Stuarts for A level, which isn't entirely helpful when you need to know about the Potsdam Conference and the Bay of Pigs).


7) My school friend phoned.


8) Watched the end of the concert in Manchester. Was OK until Liam sang Live Forever :-(