Five OS Pleasures in your day today

bellaquidsin

ambyence and onetruevoice welcome. Think you'll like it here, one always feels better for looking on the bright side.

My pleasures for today were:-

1. Making gooseberry pies, one for tomorrow's lunch and one for when DD and family come on Monday.

2. Making chocolate muffins using a bar of Mr. S basics plain chocolate - they're good.

3. Making wholemeal date scones for the days when in an ideal world we would have gone out for a coffee and a scone but in retirement we 'scone at home'.

4. Taking and serving the ice cream at a Sunday School outing, lifted my popularity stakes for as long as it took.

5. Seeing my grandchildren enjoying themselves with their friends.

Bella.

bellaquidsin

Does anyone know where Olliebeak is?

SunnyGirl

Bella I've been wondering about Olliebeak too. I hope that everything is okay with her & the family.

frugalswan

Here's me attempting to find five good things about today

1) It hasn't rained and isn't as hot as it has been. Don't get me wrong; I like the sunny weather, but working in it is a bit warm!
2) Making a big bowl of pasta salad for tea, and having loads left over.
3) Catching up with my friend
4) Doing a spot of cross-stitching
5) Finding a pair of office trousers for £4 in a sale

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Hi everyone
Back again after a few days with family in our beautiful capital.
My five
1. Listening to OH cut firewood. After his illness I really notice when he is able to do some of the things he used to, he's definitely recovering well.
2. Spent time at DGS 4th birthday party. The family hired the local town hall and all his friends bought their bikes and rode round and round the hall. No mess, no fuss, and lots of happy tired kids at the end of the party.
3. Watching eldest DGD (5) giving her littlest cousin (18m) rides in her trike. I am blessed that our children, spouses and their children all get on so well.
4. Anticipating visit from DS1 and family later today, they are on their way to the lake and mountains for a mid winter holiday, might just join them later in the week.
5. Planning next Spring and Summer gardens, i sometimes think the planning is more fun than the doing!

Blessings be
Jennie

JillStephens7

1. Just back from a blissful walk - only round the block but it's so nice and cool and fresh after the rains and the moon is stunning tonight.
2. Made my first lot of yoghurt using a starter rather than sachet.
3. Picking yummy spinach, lettuce and parsley from the garden in the lovely rain for dinner.
4. Listening to some Neil Young (not done for ages but always sorts me out :j)
5. cleaning the sink with bicarb. & shining the taps with vinegar & newspaper (am bicarb mad but have to moderate vinegar use as OH can't stand smell)

Best wishes to all for another fruitful day tomorrow

ampersand

I've just had an excellent couple of hours catching up here.
please count that as OS Pleasure, The First.
Welcome, welcome onetruevoice and the other newbies who seem suddenly to have found their way here.
Sparrer - well done on the tat and I hope you've enjoyed Al M.
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Although I am now having lengthy and frustrating daily putah probs and suspect/know - like someone else earlier- that a new machine will be necessary[it'll have to be a Caterina-style freebie]my last fortnight or so has continued with heavy garden/outdoor doings and I am, happy coincidence/by-product?, freed from the dark overhang of these last few months.
I have continued reading all your posts, but only now find that my pressed 'Thanks' of the last week or so had not registered. They have now.
Plucking at random -
Monday - @ OD Charity, all day seemed to have an extra 'light' about it and this affected everybody in a good way. Good Skype.
Tuesday - attended Barley Roscoe's wonderful talk on Leach, K P-B et al AND handled a number of pieces BR had brought with her. A wonderful few hours. Picked up some honesty seeds as I left, now sown. They'll be a lovely reminder of Kettle's Yard, should they germinate. Bottled second batch of elderflower champagne.
Wednesday - huge outdoor works day. First little matchstick of a borlotti bean spotted. A few raspberries eaten. Found the rose I thought dead has bloomed. More planting, transplanting and having workable ideas coming into shape with ingenuity instead of spending, which would not be possible. The perfect colour of washed-out Mediterranean shutter lavender/blue - yes, you know which colour I mean - in a Dulux 'wrongly mixed' tin, from our Charity for 50p and now on my ex-tip table and chairs. Love it.
Thursday - despite being up early and late atm, must be sleeping soundly and therefore unaware of blissy rain falling onto my thirsty, grateful plants/bushes/trees. The warmth of the earth when my hands are in it is palpable and everything is taking off. Hearing from mumoftwins re i-t's state of health. I am having so much difficulty all the time now with phones and computer that our speaking felt like a triumph. Hair done at College - last time before move to new building and 'there will be a slight rise in prices'. Oh. On verra. All new plantings have their heads up. Think over and again of Bob Flowerdew's simple Truth:'Seeds want to germinate; plants want to grow.' It is true.
Friday - picked first sweet peas and took them to neighbour whose husband had major stroke many years ago, but whose health is now, quite suddenly and markedly, declining. They loved the elderflower cordial from the previous fortnight. Took another few pix of them for putting on sth @ Mr T. Good Skype. I have never been lucky with sweet peas before. One in particular is amazing - purple/blue upper hood with magenta chin. Another is white with crimson 'powder-puffed' over it. Rang and booked 2 brocantes in France - still haven't told A I'm coming. I tend not to. All these days are riven with 'last year' comparisons and memories, when he was newly post-stroke, as he will always now be.....
Yesterday[it wasn't when I started:D:rolleyes:] - BIIIIIIG works all day long and contentedly, productively, without any more concrete blocks landing on feet. You cannot see/know[no-one else has yet]but I closed the day around 22.30h, feeling 'that's it'...until saving allows one or two more tweaks I fancy. Solar lights were on as I dug out the last nettles etc, which many years of inaccessibility had given free rein to. Last 2 bits of broken concrete down, laying a twiddly patchwork path to the newly-hung old gate....I turn back and can't believe I have done all of this and I am able to let myself acknowledge that I like what I have done. Suddenly thought I remembered an excellent annual village carboot is on in morning, so would need money/petrol. Yes, set off to Mr T and confirmed en route, keeping parallel with barn owl for 1/2 mile or so. I look left across the sweep of Fens. It is a beautiful night. Then, right in Newmarket, a badger ran across the road in front of me just before I turned a corner. He was fabulous, unmistakable, total Brock. I still can't believe having seen him, even as I write this. Too late to feed my Clubcard Plus for double points on petrol, I find 2 very helpful 'insteads', discarded '5p per litre off' till spits. Back again, 2 lovely village girl eggs on warm wilted salad leaves[home-grown, another first]and 2 slices of h-m bread.
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I'm feeling very blessed these several hours on now[sparrer's up sans doute:j:D]because:
I don't feel remotely tired.
I have done all that I can for now.
My computer is working atm and I am writing here.
I spotted the amazing Tesco Wine post and have been able to take advantage of it. Next qtr's points will be v.g.[for me!:D]
Mega-reduced clementines are waiting to be turned into marmalade using Poundland's cheapie sugar, obtained via Bus Pass ride.
Chance spot of the printable MOC's Thread and its associated advice, which I will act/survive/thrive upon.
Hearing 'Singing the Fishing' on DAB as I came in and now, as I close, Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse is just starting....:T
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ALL week and glorious weather.
ALL week and Wimbledon commentary all day long...and longer.
Humility before a wry recognition of Someone Moving in Mysterious Ways, in that the problematic arrival of Mr Dementia next door has been the catalyst for all my activity....which is NOT to deny a difficult and untenable situation.

I'm saying Good Morning, not Good Night all and thankyou to those :A,who mentionned my absence. We need Ollie back.....please.
Abounding Pleasures to Everyone.
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Yes, js7 - the moon's stunning tonight and I just had to look out on my solar lights again, knowing I'll see all done when I look out in daylight shortly.

SunnyGirl

Ampersand What a perfectly fabulous couple of days you've had & how busy have you been in the garden?!! Puts me to shame really as I've found it too hot to do more than potter for most of the week. I have never had much success with sweet peas either but have very fond memories of my Dad growing them when I was younger, their smell is truly beautiful.

Sparrer Congratulations on the tattoo and I think the meaning of it is fabulous. I have a close relative who is a recovered alcoholic so understand the significance of the date :A Well Done!!

sparrer

SunnyGirl wrote: »

Bella I've been wondering about Olliebeak too. I hope that everything is okay with her & the family.

Have just sent Ollie a PM on our behalf asking her to just drop by if she has a mo, and to let her know we're all thinking of her...hope that's okay with everyone .

S x

sunflower76

1. Having spent an hour at the allotment - some of it in the rain.
2. It's raining - my veggies need a really good water
3. HM tandoori chicken for tea - been marinading all night so should be lovely
4. Planning some cross stitch later which will be nice and relaxing
5. All chores done barr the ironing which will onylt ake half an hour as I've been keeping on top of it recently