5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Ooooooooooooh DfV. Yous set me alight to tickle my heart.

Problem with taxman. I probably earn too much but should I charge him for collecting his money?

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1) The smell of newly mown hay, the field the horses grazed last year was cut this morning and the whole village smells scrumptious.

2) Honeysuckle climbing all over the hedgerows, adding to the lovely smell wafting on the breeze.

3) Podding more peas from the polytunnel, this lot is the last of the current batch and got another 12oz from what I picked, I'm little again and sitting in the back yard on Sunday morning podding peas for lunch!!!

4) Tiny little lad in the pub having lunch when I got back with Cookie wanted to stroke her and got down on his little knees and hugged her then looked at her face and said' she's got brown eyes just like me, I've got brown eyes just like her!' so sweet.

5) The stairs, hall and landing are painted and look so much better for being slightly lighter, certainly smarter than they did yesterday. New carpet comes a week on Wednesday along with the one for our bedroom, better get painting in there pronto!!!

DundeeDoll

1) launched our toilet twinning collection at church. I spoke briefly at the start of the service saying how we hoped to twin all 6 cathedral toilets in the coming 4 weeks - by the end of coffee time we already had £178 (£2 short of 3 toilets)
2) then chaired eco group - so much enthusiasm. Cal is going to do a flower arrangement in a loo (loo being donated by mg's cousin who is having bathroom redone), mg is going to design sticky labels for jam jars so people can collect 'as they go' lol. D very keen to lead harvest festival, focussing on wateraid (a good follow up to toilet twinning)
3) lunch with cathedral buddies. The bank bar so not too expensive
4) came home and got out my 120 bass piano accordion for a practice. We are now officially best buddies :-)
5) back for evensong at which money for 2 more loos pledged. I am very very happy.

Purple_kitten

• Enjoyed a very loungy Sunday, making the most of it as a busy week next week, now choc a block with various appointments and visits why do we always do this before we head away on a break?!?
• Had some leftover Chinese, the best way to have it with all the fat drained off. I have also made a couple of lasagnes today, one was tea.
• Enjoyed quality time playing with the animals.
• I know a long break is coming up when I can start packing the van with things like a sarong and good old paper books.
• Feeling vaguely organised it won’t last long.

villagelife

1. Saw MIL yesterday. She seemed the same but became tearful when we told her about the nursing home. I hope she doesn't refuse to go. Impressed again by her carers who do seem to care.

2. Walked round the gardens of Polsedon Lacey. Enjoyed it and somewhere I hadn't visited before. We had driven that way home to avoid the traffic jams around the M25/ M3.

3. Watching a pied wagtail (I think) in the garden.

4. Relaxing in the garden.

5. Planted out some sweetcorn and courgette plants.

VJsmum

Hello peeps - another day, another train. London then dad's this time.

Pleasures for the weekend

1. Watched election results till 4.30 when it was really clear how it was going. Was having a facebook party with like-minded people and drinking "inferior whisky from a spiderman glass". Snatched a couple of hours sleep, saw DS off to his first A level exam and then snatched a couple more
2. Had coffee and catch up with friend Friday afternoon
3. Out at friends on saturday evening. Did Glastonbury planning - she is a glasto virgin, who got me the ticket
4. SOuthend AGAIN yesterday. The first of two graduations - this one was the more informal one and it was fab.
5. Stopped for a curry just outside Euston - https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g186338-d720396-Reviews-Ravishankar_Bhel_Poori-London_England.html
Not sure why it's only got 3.5 - it was fab and cost £33 for 3 of us, with drinks.

Have a great day all

mhagster

Well done to Miss V Vjsmumon her graduation ! What's next?

It's the Queens Birthday so we have a public holiday over here! Hurrah and bless you ma'am, unfortunately I forgot to switch off my alarm and was woken up at early o'clock, the pleasure was in the not having to get up right then and there as I usually do!

RTC croissant and jam for breakfast.

Dog walk...had to take an about turn from where we normally walk as I didn't fancy an encounter with 3 Rottweilers ...they're maybe perfectly nice dogs but felt rather outnumbered. So we went a diiferent way than normal and saw some loveky flowers and some lovely birds.

It's my number one sons birthday tomorrow so sent him and his middle sister off to the rock climbing centre as my treat...his poor little sister had to go to work but she's on double time as it's a public holiday.

I cut the grass ( after said number one son started it for me) did the back garden, the veggie patch area and the 2 lots of grass verges all round the side and front of house. Must have walked a kilometre back and forth!

Was inspired to organise a morning tea to raise funds for cancer hospital in OHs memory for his birthday next month. So went to see Tupperware lady who always has a Tupperware sale in her garage on a public holiday. Came away with some freebies and brochures and she will come to morning tea and donate the commission I would normally get. Not just any old morning tea but a Christmas in July morning tea.

Have hoovered all downstairs, cleaned downstairs bathrooms and washed all the floors. ( upstairs is another matter!)

As its the Queens birthday we are celebrating with takeway curry! Sounds good to me.

Yesterday I baked and baked , shared some with neighbour across the road.
Made a huge banana bread, 2 lemon drizzle loaves, chocolate cookies made from a jar of rich chocolate pate I found in the cupboard which was from a hamper we had received last year. Why anyone would want to eat rich chocolate pate is beyond me but its fine in a cookie!

We had tasty lentil soup for lunch and tasty cottage pie for tea, I didn't have enough potatoes to mash and cover so I thinly sliced them and layered them on top. Those were the last of my bargain $1 bag from weeks ago!

I'm now going to call my estate agent back home...see what exactly is (not) going on!

Have a good day

LaineyT

Some pleasures for the weekend,

The warm, windy weather meant that my garden was like a huge tumble dryer, much drying done.
Did a tidy up of the fridge and found some xmas mincemeat , mm buns made and house smelt lovely.
I shoplifted! went into petrol station and fancied a crunchie, when I got to the till the lady said that the nozzle hadn't been put back correctly, looking around no-one else to do it so run back out, clutching my crunchie. Paid for both my petrol and my chocolate & joked to cashier had been caught.
Capt S at the cricket so had house to myself, pottered in garden and binge watched The Handmaids Tale.
As above, walked girls alone and bizarrely my old lady's protective tendencies kicked in when man passed by, perhaps she could sense something? Her lip curl was impressive and left no doubt as stood in front of me.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

BoP does not like paying tax and the taxman has cleaned him out! Blooming direct debits. Arrg. Wobbleade chits by pm into my pal of pay account please!
5 Again the proletariat are brutal. Don’t you just love it! I’m heading for the roundabouts, I’ll leave the swings alone for the moment! Bet the stewards of Bass will be knocking non our doors again come October.

4 Was inn town on day of sat to pick up my prescriptions. Too many, but last of the Cloppy Dog Roll as they call it. No more from 28th June. Stuff that cardiologist! Got it? While paying far too much for them, our new MP was inn as well. Good to see him re-elected to swing the mace and give them some carp. He’d lost his voice and as he does not touch the firewater, he will have to do with just honey and lemon.


If you could vote for the person, he is.

3 Down at mill, the bails of cotton we are churning into cloth, has a slight problem. The lease on the mill pond is up and I think we can … but we have a ..

2 Day for lunch as well as more than my five a day, which if you only see the cheese on toast delivery service, you don’t get on a weekday, BoPsie has provided more proper food. Mousse! Chocolate version. Full of goodnees and good for you! Lunch is proper cheese of wood of apple, salad with pie of pork, cakes of Jaffa. And the mousse. Spoon is well licked I can tell you. Mind you at elevenses, bicuit of club was taken! Now for the oranges. Also good for you. Mind you yesterday I nearly had kitchen disaster. I made the kedgeree, and then the egg whisk So carried away on doing egg fried rice, I had added milk and that is a no no for kedgeree. Still managed to pull it off! On delivery service, BoPsie was watching the box of ogle and there was an advert for the fat burgers. They deliver. But not in our area thank goodness.

Raffles managed to pull the birds again

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1) Swallows obviously feeding young swooping along the road and over the fields before disappearing into the old derelict corrugated barn by the lane.

2) We have a very old oak tree in the village, he'd need about 4 long armed people to span him and a few years ago he got a fungus and the council wanted to take him down BUT the people in the road he lives in clubbed together to get him treated and this year when I walked past today he's sprouted a whole new canopy and looks fabulous!

3) Long dog heaven today, Cookie and I met a beautiful and venerable old greyhound lady coming out of the riverside park, we met a velveteen coated whippet having a mad 5 minutes dash about in the park and I was chatting to a friend and her dog when a tiny fairy like Italian Greyhound came scampering up to say hello, wow!

4) He Who Knows bless him is working like a Trojan and has finished 3 walls of our bedroom with painting and has started the gloss on the skirting boards, looks fantastic.

5) My doggie walking pal Sue has found her new home in Cornwall, made an offer and been accepted, I'm so pleased for them but I'll miss her and Charlie retriever like mad when they go.