Five OS Pleasures in your day today

kittyscarlett

1) Bargains at the local Co op - bag of new pots reduced to 40p & fair trade trade bananas reduced ditto, 7 narners for 40p can't be bad !

2) The rain ! it hasn't kept up long enough for me to get fed up with it yet and I don't have to water the garden tonight, Nature's doing it for me - woot !

3) Lovely leftover sausages for lunch - I think I like them even more cold than I do hot - along with potato salad made with leftover pots and 2 different kind of mint from the garden. And making a good chicken soup for dinner with a rather sad looking chicken breast ( hauled out of the freezer earlier as part of my " run the freezer down prior to tenant's birthday party " campaign ) a bendy carrot and The Onion That Time Forgot, again with plentiful garden herbs - very yummy and enough for the day or two.

4) being a right slovenly moo on my day off and happily ignoring the washing up and the laundry, lounging around reading, eating and playing games on the computer instead.

5) about to finish the day watching The Girl With The Pearl Earring, I love period dramas and haven't seen this before, studied Vermeer's paintings though back in me art student days so very much looking forward to the lush cinematography !

Good night all x

Patchwork_Quilt

1) Cold, left over risotto for lunch, with cold rhubarb crumble (our rhubarb!)
2) Went down to the allotment and harvested potatoes, lettuce, raspberries and onions. Still not one strawberry, though. It's those nasty rabbits!
3) The journey to work is so easy these days. I can set off quarter of an hour later and still scrape in on time.

Can't think of any more but that doesn't mean it hasn't been a good day. Just an ordinary one. Have a pleasant evening

SunnyGirl

My five for today are:

1. Up early again

2. A lovely meet up with my friend. We pottered about town, had some lunch (from a sandwich shop nothing too extravagant) and had a good natter.

3. The smell in the house when I got home due to a bolognese sauce in the slow cooker :T

4. Arranging with my parents for various ones of us to go up & do some heavy jobs for them. I'm pleased they've finally listened & asked for help.

5. Going to bed in a short while to read with the radio on quietly next to me.

Pleasant dreams everyone.

BlimusOreilly

1. DS1 (aged 10) making tomato and mozarella pasta for our tea and serving it to us nicely at the table.
2. We made some butter today and it was the creamiest, tastiest butter I've ever had
3) With the leftover buttermilk I made some buttermilk scones and we had hm scones with hm butter and hm strawberry jam.
4) Downloading some new and also some old favourite songs to my mp3 player and just chilling out for a while listening to the music.
5) Speaking to my sister before her operation tomorrow. I'm sending her all my positive vibes so that her op goes well.

sparrer

Reading about Caterina collecting the keys for her holiday started me reminiscing about my childhood holidays on the IoW, where my Grandmother, Uncle and Great Aunt had a lovely old home in Ventnor. Their garden was on a hill (as are most things on the island) and from the top terrace we could often see France. My Uncle had a little seafood cafe by the water's edge in Bembridge, it was there that I had my first taste of cream soda...yummy, and I still like it today. Thanks for the memories (there's a song there somewhere!) and have a super break, I'm sure you'll love it as parts of it are still very much in the 50's, just as real seaside places should be.

Tuesday blessings...

1. A lovely chat with DS this morning, nothing special and no particular reason. It's so good to know my DC want to phone just to chat about inconsequentials. I'm very blessed.:)

2. A bottom of the fridge salad for lunch with a lone meat slice which was languishing in the freezer, all very tasty and not too calorific. Unfortunately the doughnut which followed was, but I did enjoy it :rolleyes:

3. On my knees for 2 hours this afternoon, scrubbing the dining room carpet. It's the main walkway from the back door to both the kitchen and sitting room so it gets an enormous amount of paw traffic. Hard work but it looks much better now - and hopefully I burned off a little of the aforementioned doughnut

4. A holiday brochure in the post with all reduced price holidays. There are a couple cruising at Christmas which I know DM would like, I'll (try to remember to) take the brochure when I visit her on Sunday.

5. Watching the final episode of Ladette to Lady and fully agreeing with the result. Mind you all 3 finalists were excellent and I'm pleased I didn't have to make the choice between them. Wonder what next Tuesday will bring in its place...


Night night all, blessings and hugs to everyone
S x

ampersand

Good dampy, well-soaked, plant-happy morning all, starting with right now's first pleasure[as soon as I mention the beautiful RAINBOWs we are having every day]:

1. Mouse now working, so I can use computer.:j This was yesterday's new hitch. It's been the unlit keyboard these last weeks, or only half-booting start-ups, sudden die syndrome, and more, far too much more:mad:.
2. Hearing my own 'DAB radio's Birdsong' loop, which I loved, now defunct,for very real in garden and from indoors, all day long. It's the wood pigeon sound which really brings it back.
3. Small 'beauty spot':rolleyes:mole on back, which felt altered, is not a melanoma and, on rtn journey, drop off several appliances and garden tools to s/o making a big new start. Will take more raspberries which I dug out from 'lawn':rotfl:. We all saw the exraordinary, almost flat, spread rainbow I'd seen earlier.
4. Taking heel slips and little plantlets from the masses of gorgeously scented 'smelly box' at Surgery - with permission. Happily potted them up in the rain. I hope they'll do as well as the same source purple sage. This sort of gardening is new to me and I love it, especially the feeling of making up my own little recipes for potting mix for things, using own compost as a special extra and telling them so. I have no knowledge at all. They'd better grow or I'll have Chuck Windsor along to lecture them.
5. Attended another wonderful talk, focus on Lucy Rie and Hans Coper this time. Took a Bernard L. piece not publicly known, to share. Sat outside after, in soft rain, loving all that Kettle's Yard is and suddenly recognising that small elements of these sensations are what I am sometimes catching as I work outdoors. Argued with self over this arrogance, but know it is so. Seeing a beautiful plant, bushy and flowering, recognising it as one just bought in village, split into 3 and now planted here, too. Something to anticipate with pleasure. Saving a felled purple honesty stem as I left[the weather has flattened as much as it's fed] and wondering if the still 'green' seeds will grow. I've put it in water for now. 2 French women sat alongside and we soon talked about studio pottery and I asked about similar places I might find in France. There is a potter's village not far away which they didn't know. I am always in a different happy realm when I can prattle away in French. I have revisited a sentence quoted in yesterday's talk when Robin Tanner met Bernard Leach and Lucy Rie[who did not meet well together themselves]'Neither warmed quickly to me but they let me walk with them.' I like this very much.

Many quiet recognition moments highlight my reading here. I won't be around for any OS meet[think I'd feel intrusive turning up anyway]but please all know I gain much from so many of you here.

Blimus - I was about to make butter yesterday, but attended to the box potting instead, then started clementine marmalade[they've been waiting a couple of days] Butter this morning, though. I'm wondering, blimus, if I could freeze the buttermilk for later use and will search Threads for b/m scone recipe, unless you'd care to share here?....
Sunny Girl - Your no's 1 and 5 are mine every day and I like feeling others' pleasure in same.
Patchwork Quilt- nod agreement re:strawbs. Not bunnies ici, but just next to no flowers, so ditto fruit. Lush massy leaves suggest effort in wrong direction. Any suggestions? - it's their first year, bought as leftovers from Church plant stall. I picked another 1lb of rhubarb, too - in rain again, but so like it.
Primrose - reminding me I want to grow sorrel, much used when down in France. Your soup made me smile, as I'd earlier seen, at last, 3 little pea flowers on plants only recently rescued from near-death. Don't know if anything more will happen. Gazebo-like area/experience has more or less evolved under elder tree and I loved sitting under it last night, as rain fell.
Appreciating Caterina's DD's anxiety - I think the world is a harder place for youngsters now, despite/because of all that is said/tabloided. You'll let us know how she gets on post-i/v? Teenage gentleness is another unfêted quality I often find in both sexes and surprising ways, not least - bella - during bus pass journeys. I am surprised and pleased that I often seem to be engaged in talk they instigate, asked for advice, arbitration, told I'm cool/wise/great and thanked. Think that 'The world is too much with us' quote has a harder, more cutting edge for them now. It's not easy for them, or anyone, to just 'be' - this Thread is an exception. Your giving of that extra hour was such a good thing, too.
Kitty's voicing of what we're all appreciating with the rain.
Happy to have joined the mse salad leaf family.
Think of sparrer's little frisson of pleasure/excitement when she catches sight of/remembers/ consciously looks at her tat...it really is an excellent ever-present gift to celebrate your life, your self, which you have truly made and achieved.
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Suddenly a couple of hours have gone and I must join them.
Make moments and seize them, all day long. Toodlepip - hope the headache has rolled away with the storms, mineallmine.

tudorfan22

Good morning all, here are my 5:

• spending time with my cat last night – shes getting on a bit now so im making sure I spend plenty of quality time with her, she had eaten a mosquito last night and must have been still alive in her cos it gave her ‘tickle mouth’ and she was acting like a lunatic for 5 minutes so I calmed her down and soon she was purring away on my lap
• just seen my wedding photos again as a friend wanted to see them, 3 months tomorrow ill have been married, its nice to remember the day and how amazing it was, it all went so quickly!
• sunny day after some great thunder last night, lots of rain as well which my garden sorely needed
• my new chickens are gradually getting settled, although I wish the original chickens would be a bit nicer to them, they keep bullying them and pecking them! Does anyone know how long it’ll take before all my chickens are living in harmony? Its been 2 weeks since they were integrated and progress is slow!
• watched ‘my breasts could kill me’ and it made me appreciate my health big time

hope everyone is having a good day, getting closer to the weekend all the time!

Patchwork_Quilt

1) Some unexpected time off work - I'd finished and no-one wanted any help so the boss said I could sneak off
2) Quick browse around the charity shops in my free time but managed not to buy anything
3) Found a portion of apple crumble in the fridge when I got home. Had to eat it, or it would have gone off
4) Compliment on the skirt I dyed black a few days ago
5) Friend from church coming to give DS and his best friend their weekly guitar lesson - just because they all enjoy it.

Have a lovely day everyone

SunnyGirl

1. Making a huge pan of stewed apples & turning half of them into a crumble & the other half into a pie to go in the freezer - if it isn't attacked by the 'starving' children when they all arrive home.

2. Went grocery shopping this morning & was delighted to get some marked down granary seed bread. I keep it in the freezer anyway so it doesn't matter to me if it's only got a days date on it

3. Appreciating my health & family having seen someone who is very poorly.

4. An anticipated pleasure that I'm looking after a 4 month old baby girl tomorrow. I am going to take her to DS3's last Sports Day before he leaves his primary school in 2 weeks.

5. I have had an hours peace & quiet this afternoon on my own.

I hope that everyone has an enjoyable evening.

mineallmine

Evening all,

Feeling much better today (thanks ampersand).

1. An afternoon sleep. A veil of exhaustion hit me and the PC suddenly switched off so I saw it as a sign to take a rest.
2. Seeing the cats were ok with the changing around of furniture --- they can be such fusspots. Furniture in different places were immediately sat on.
3. Giving some food bits to a friend in need who'd helped me out. Toad in the hole is now planned for the food I gave her.
4. Brushing and fussing the cats.
5. Finding this funny video with a meercat being tickled - not sure if I can post you tube links but it you google - meercat tickle you tube - you'll find it.

:A