5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

topsyturphy

My pleasures for last few days

1. Worked with a colleague who I hadn't worked with before, even though it was a difficult day, felt like we worked well together.
2. Nice drive to work & lovely weather.
3. Managed to do some tidying in garden
4. Email received inviting me for another interview/assessment, that's now 2 to do.
5. Day off today.
6. Receiving messages and texts from lots of good friends.

DundeeDoll

Many happy returns mhags I love hm lemon curd and hm lemonade
1) meeting on city campus organising workshop. Took a flask then heated hm stew up for lunch in library cafe microwave.
2) 2nd meeting of the day free tea and biscuits
3) bus back to office for 3rd meeting - arrived 5 mins to spare so managed to make a cup of tea
4) 4th meeting was with marker of one of my masters disertations. Solid pass yay
5) 5th meeting got urgent documentation done then onto bus round to friends and light supper. Haven't seen them for yonks
6) 6th meeting was vestry. Well onto 6th toilet. Oo just noticed 666
7) lift home to empty house. Mr piano and mr student out walking dogs. Finalised workshop for tomorrow and now in bed with the archers. And not a broad bean in sight bop

villagelife

1. Seeing poppies in the garden. Lovely shade of red.

2. Watching my chickens in the garden running about.

3. Long chat with DS1 who seems happier at the moment.

4. Vase of flowers looking cheerful still.

5. Bus to work and read more of my book.

DH talked to nursing home manager and there may be a problem with the nursing home. The manager, who has been away since it was decided, thought MIL could walk. Hopefully she can still go but not sure how they thought she could walk. Will find out later.

mhagster

Hello from land of the chilly!

Work.
Home
Snooze
Nice dog walk
Shared the love of the lemons...handed some in to the girls at the salon. I have more than I can possibly use ( though will be making lemon curd tomorrow for DD1s friend for a baby shower ) and I have a customer who is bringing me more tomorrow .
Washing almost dried on the line, just ironed it and sigh...need to go and remake my bedding!
Number one son had his first exam , two more to go and DD2 had a big exam too , this one is used as a kind of standby if there are problems at end of year when exams take place.


Have a good day

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Good to see that the message about broad beans has got through to some of yous gals! Mind you flask stew warmed up in the nuclear oven. One hopes it had a decent dumpling

5 Down at the mill, we have some from the foreign legion here. Seems they were quite ecstatic about the football last night. Don’t worry, they have been sent to the heads and will be slopping them out for a while.

4 Raffles has been out this morning and managed to bag himself another bird. This time a lesser spotted woodpecker. We did feed him his breakfast, but to no avail. He prefers fresh food and not the packed up wheat puffed flavoured carp we try and feed him on. Perhaps he gets it from BoP!

3 Had the warmed through curry last night with plain rice for a change. Nicely better when brewed for a few days. Proper food and tum was rubbed. Note BoP using the finest ingredients such as long grain rice, which is a damn site cheaper than that bascrappy sough at more than double. In fact, the Basmati rice is mostly long grain anyway! Better!

2 Treaders are ready for the bike run this evening. Tyres will be pumped up and ready to roll. Feel the breeze!

Take that back and get another one!

ampersand

Have just re-glued all the &thanks back to page - 3rd time - but it's perished rubber bands time here. Can't spin the balsa propellors for any sort of love, much less money. Just managed to make a landline call work, so we'll see if this works, to the sound of today-tech leather on willow.
50hr days still screaming here. osps will just be what springs to what was once &mind
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Oh, rebuke that bop. He knows darned well he had his beautiful jkt back from gay paree mois of crimbo 2016. It was disinterred by & at time of AB's fantastic victory sur La France, ma belle, DESPITE bop having hidden it up dans le march! de Vanves and then trying to lay the blame on Raffles..... Is there no end to etc.etc?
Raffles, kindly receive due and humbles for yellow thing.
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As they come then -

1. & has a splendid new hand-carved wooden spoon, rcvd in post hier:-))))))) and KNEW at once what first use would be. 2kg of last year's h-g frozen framboises dived into preserving pan. Enzed hometown friends had spoken with strong sweet smiles, of having finished their earlier jar. New batch urgently needed. Now done - 8 jars. Spoon Top of Class, starred 1st in fact, on grounds of extraordinary performance in equivalent of driving test emergency stop.
All will be revealed if someone can decipher &'s handwriting:-)
If not, go to France and join &'s oldest Nthn hemi friend who has a legendary bundle of not entirely legible correspondence over 47years...says she:-)

Dear readers, drop your phone in a preserving pan of boiling jam and see how you get on.

2. & does not have tv. Apparently, & was widely seen on tv - election result. It's causing some odd things and lots of stops and greetings and conversation from unknown others. Peculiar reworking of Andy Warhol's '15 minutes of fame', esp. when going back to earliest & continuity broadcasting days. 'Nother side of world, that was.

3. New rose, Lavender Ice, still unplanted, but in fullest 5 cabbage head bloom. Amazing stem. Stunning.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=lavender+ice+rose&client=firefox-b-ab&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi38aSUlr3UAhVHGsAKHbZaDnoQsAQIOw&biw=939&bih=536

4. Mr T's 49p apricots [What, &? You've bought sth full price?] are terrific. 2 lots poached in h-m elderflower cordial with hint of ginger. DI-VINE!!! Cream, h-m genoese are extremely friendly avec.

5. Alma Patron just back hier soir, after marriage!:-), with The One new wife. Oh Yes, & sensed this some while back. Very much liked this young woman from the interesting off. Absolutely delighted and shared in some wonderful 1st sight pics of them in Mme Alma's homeland.
Fabulous, as was 23-22, Mrs L-w. Oh wow, how tight was that? At least the Highlanders had their head around this Oz referee, unlike Crusaders with Monsieur Raynal last match, to which end I link this piece. Discussion with patron post-match and we agree.
Well, have ploughed through grauniad comments and can't find it.

6. Suspect Vicar asked if & would read 1st Lesson, Isaiah 40, knowingly. & did and has since. Was still in full red mode and ready on HT Sunday for not only that, but garden trail teas in vicarage garden all afternoon subsequently. With vic. now Ruralled and Curate now Prof'd. it's more and more go-go-go and sad, but big RM shortly, followed by Ely Cathedral. Curate's secular life means big science talk tonight.
& must fly, change, fly again.
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Strongest blessings to all and congrats to dd vjm.
Intermittent hearing of this on woman's hour made me think of her:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08tbf1h#playt=0h08m26s
-ref. Katie Mitchell's new production.

Was also held fast by the 'women leaving prison' focus.

Prisonbag.com latest here:
http://prisonbag.com/
BURBS is Josie's latest piece. Please keep with this family.
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7. Didn't even hear until Monday, have seen none, BUT RAFA WON his 10th French Open. YeSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!

8. And another wicket has fallen. Jonathan's take on wickets tumbled thus far seems akin to 'saders failing to wrap heads around ref. Raynal.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Ooooh & Last night took it all back to the football match At Parc de Princs in late February 84!

ampersand

Yes...well there was the OCCASIONAL deignful glance left to another screen where some little round ball was going on.

Oh, did France, LA France Ma Belle, win little round ball game?

Seems so.

3 round balls in the fishnet stocking to 2 round balls in the betty boopery.

Good-o.
:-)

[Deleted User]

23-22 was a cliff hanger of a game to watch and didn't they both play well, one of the most attention grabbing games I've watched for ages! bring it on!!!

1) The computer broke this morning and He Who Knows was fishing for the day so I turned the little devil off and did all the jobs I've been noticing needed doing in the house including washing the pair of sheepskins we have on the floor by our chairs and they've dried in a day! I've groomed them with Docky dogs old metal brush and they've come up a treat!

2) Finally sorted out the worn bedding from the airing cupboard, it will go to the sea scouts jumble same early in July so now I have some room on the shelf. Going to sort out older towels tomorrow and then buy in some fluffier new ones, these are beginning to look bald!

3) Peace and quiet to read a book this afternoon, had the windows wide so a cooler room and slight breeze and 3 cups of tea, magic.

4) Steam mopped all the floors in the house, cleaned bathrooms and utility room, 4 wash loads dried outside, did the ironing, walked Cookie, feels good.

5) Sorted out some more books from the book case to also go to the sea scouts jumble, the house is beginning to look far less cluttered and it's beginning to feel good doing it.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

To the heads &