5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

VJsmum

ampersand wrote: »

1. As usual, in accord with vjm re: weather. Sun, warmth, light. Will your Botswana trip tie in with sewing machines and other aid you were keen to assist last year?

Regrettably not, not this time. My investigations into aiding the community out there have shown that it is very difficult to do anything from here. Parcels are too expensive to send, the only way is if someone is going and even then customs often open the cases and charge import duty if they think the stuff is not for personal use. Money is VERY expensive to send. All i can do is encourage people to go, and i have contacted groups who are wavering to allay their fears (on request of Rustlers Valley themselves) so that they can get more trade in.

So to that end, If anyone is thinking of going to SA then this is worth a look

http://www.earthrisemountainlodge.co.za/

Amazing place - i hope to go next year..

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

I know I forgot to spill the beans about all the good things yesterday, but that just adds to the weight!
Frith the Elder on the bike, now entering the big world!
Puzzles, VJs It is called wobbleade around here! Report rightings. Old boss had it to a T. Two sides A4. Introduction, Guts, Conclusion, Salutation. Got it. No need for BoP to go on a course either!
Too hot to sleep. Remember, the winders are used in with to stop heat escaping. Dark Curtains and winders in summer stop heat getting in! Or get the flannel! Don’t gets me started again!

5 Washed round the downstairs John and whited the walls. The crapper was removed the other Saturday. Woodwork needs a touch up before glossing over it, and there is a small mark on the ceiling that will be no more by this time tomorrow! Raffles has not inspected it yet. More all this week!

4 Had haddock and parsley sauce, homemade, with peas and new tatties yesterday. Was hot and the fire alarm went off as well! Too hot for Raffles who hid in the bush. Strawberries and Raspberries and ice cream was also wolfed down! Tum was rubbed.

BoP’s Parsley sauciness recipe.
Milk, ¾ pint, boil most
In residue milk.
Sprinkle Garlic chopped, (Not too much)
Mustard
Pepper
Parsley, chopped
2 tbsp of cornflour
Salt to taste
Far better that the packet carp!

3 Still watching the cup of the America’s. Them kiwis are getting above their folk in beating the yanks. Think their boat, which was rightly up ended the other week, has some magic trick whih others had not got. Still, if I was racing them, I would see about getting a torpedo and.

2 Day BoP is back at the mill stone and the loom is spinning again. Making cloth and getting the hay in while the thing of yellow burns brightly in the sky above. Hopefully not too much more later!

Now come on, I am thinking our Sparra is missing. Shes not bin around heres for an age, so we need to tweet her and get her back into the nest.

Rule 24 applies!

Kittikins

Getting the pleasures in early today

1. Sunshine! and eating lunch in the shade

2. The course I was on finished over an hour early, yippee!!

3. A cool shower when I got home.

4. £3 received for a survey + £2 change going into marmite jar.

5. Looking into getting tickets for an outdoor theatre trip for DD and I (and possibly Chap and/or my parents)

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1) Fab weekend away visiting both the girls DD1 came with us to the Great Malvern Show yesterday and we've spent the day with DD2 and little Oreo today.

2) Air Con in this car we'd have melted on the way home without it I think.

3) Washing done as we came back is now dry on the line outside, what a day!

4) Massive pickings from the garden and polytunnel, courgettes, French beans and loganberries and He Who Knows is on the allotment for gooseberries and new potatoes.

5) Have been cooler than normal this weekend because I've worn shorts for the first time in 50 years and not felt silly in them, oh the wonders of liberated knees in the heat of summer!

Frith

I hope you gave me a wave, MrsLW! (Can see the Malverns on the horizon through my bedroom window).


Pleasures for today (Monday).


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Smaller son to school without fuss - I did wonder how he would be, now bigger son has finished until September.


3) Hens OK. Picked another bowl of raspberries.


4) Bigger son and I took the plaster off 99% of the stairs and landing outside wall. 170+ year old, horsehair and lime plaster. Damp and slightly smelly. :-/ My small chisel injury has healed amazingly well - progress visible every hour!


5) Had lots of raspberries and some ground almonds I didn't use at Christmas so made a raspberry and almond cake - very nice.


6) Bigger son met his friends for a couple of hours this afternoon and has gone out again now and says he might not be back until the morning. He spent Saturday and Sunday nights away from home and is nearly falling over with tiredness but he insisted on going.


7) Got everything dusted, hoovered, steam cleaned etc after plaster removal and a load of washing done and is out on the line. Going to take the plaster off under the stairs tomorrow.

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It's such a beautiful area isn't it Frith? I love the drive in to the show ground out through Hartpury and across Castlemorton Common, the hills are glorious!

MandM90

1. Washing drying outside in under an hour
2. Managing to get another blog post written (but not published)
3. Home cooked lentil burgers, homemade bread and salad for dinner
4. Snuggling up with a library book (book three of The Last Kingdom)
5. Going to sleep with a squeaky clean kitchen

Frith

MrsLW - Castlemorton Common.... I was desperate to go to the festival there (1993?) but had to be content travelling past the stragglers who continued camping in Worcs afterwards, as I went past on the bus on my way to Sixth Form College! I don't know that bit well as it isn't "our" end of Malvern.

milasavesmoney

Hmm, freed knees and horsehair and lime plaster....my goodness
Fish in my house is paired with pico de gallo.

* Condo on the market up north that looks great and is cheap! I've been looking for three years. DD1 is viewing it tonight and will say sold for us, if it looks good after she's seen it. This will be a small (well tiny actually) place for us to stay when in Albuquerque. We have three children plus our darling babygirl who live there so it makes a lot of sense to us. We have always stayed with DD1 but her marriage is tenuous (to put it mildly) so we find ourselves going less that we would if we had a place to retreat to when the bullets start flying. Did I mention her husband can be a jerk? So, if this works out, we can be a help to her without being under his feet.

* As for fish, this is NOT a fave of DH unless he catches it himself. It was on the menu but I had mercy and served chili cheese dawgs instead. He's grinning between bites. He won't be so lucky tomorrow night!

* Watching Quoy! in her little pool on FT. At some point she decided swimsuits were not necessary. Being three is fun! (Tall fence encloses their patio)

* Thinking of how a little condo will help me declutter my house. Happy dance! Let's see we get to buy it. DD1 and the realtor called during viewing and we are putting an offer in....it's wait and see now.

DundeeDoll

Thinking of you vl and your mil
1) sunny weather over the weekend - went to garden centre with mum. We had our 'free' cups of tea (i.e. Comes with our membership, but very good value if we make use of our free tea) on the balcony
2) home and got pots planted. Better late than ever (and plants were half price)
3) then ceilidh. Good fun. Due to cold shined offer of free alcohol, but got given bottle of red wine to take home
4) lovely Sunday school, not least cos the rubbish has joe been removed. Decluttering is very therapeutic
5) then lunch with friends in beer garden. Scrummy chicken salad
6) then off to free knitting workshop - botanics Mathematica. I knitted a binary tree - first thing I have finished on 4 needles yay
7) home via town where I bought some little treats for friend whose big c has made an unwelcome return
8) and today celebrated gbf's birthday. Got him a peacock notebook, bottle of white wine, box of green and blacks, book by Scarlett somebody-or-other, plum chutney and French mustard. Guessed the connection? Mr piano cooked nice tea and I bought a gruffslo cake (half price). We out an outrageous little candelabra on it (from tiger) with 9 candles and mr piano camped up happy birthday Liberace eat your heart out
Off to Exeter tomorrow for a conference. Night all x