5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

DigForVictory

villagelife - with Teams and zoom I get my fix of faces! Dead right to exchange time for money. DS1 walked 20k? Awed. You nurture bees too? Love the bumbles gently buzzing. Wild garlic & cheese scones sounds seriously nom!

LaineyT - how does the emporium do it? Civilised And stock... You cut your own hair? <applause> Stunning farm shop you have! A wonderful Uncle can do an amazing job navigating gaps.

VJsmum - that light at the end of the tunnel! Hoping that meeting went well. Raises mug of tea to brother now finally done. Fun fabric for masks is I think vital. We need things to smile at & I agree with your lockdown logic.

BoP - now that's a blossom I can enjoy regardless of the day of year or weather! The lads are thriving on Proper Food of snorkers & cakes of Jaffa. Raffles working so well on Yellow Stuff, I hesitate to chide him!

Cranky - intrigued by a Great Wardrobe Tidy - do you use a safety rope so you can get back from Narnia? Situps are a Pleasure?! Thick hair is a complicated blessing, but Way more fun than thin hair.

MrsM - I got that £25 news too! Beauty Kubes, eh? Must try the bar shampoo, just as a longhair twitchy... You may find homes for unloved bedding as there is a major push to make scrubs bags (and even scrubs) from fabrics that can take washing at 60. I'm able to work from home & so am still chipping away at a heap of data (escaping the tidying, the plans to paint but also the some of the chaps-together-fest - can't win, but can stay safe.)

DundeeDoll - hurrah for Pakistani student - just what data have they found?! Stunning dress to see the medical students away in! Miword your department has grasped the digital nettle - sending virtual butler with full Afternoon Tea tackle. Love the bodhran idea, and as you rightly say whyever not?!

Purple kitten - sitting stargazing makes sense to me, but I can see ferrets might be bemused. Seems a shame to fettle the van for storage - fingers crossed you might get a run out in late autumn?

mhagster - Haggis dog is now scrubbed & happy therewith?! Absolutely with you on what day is it anyway (online but live training this morning had 17 "definitely Friday" & 34 "probably Friday but not putting money on it"!) There are lambs on your hills? I would covet but son says "there Are lambs in Lancashire, mum". Well, yes, just the ones I see are mostly in hotpot. Clapping seemed a bit quieter, but I wondered how many of our scouts were subdued by someone trying to film them! (Our St Georges Kneesup was repurposed.)

Frith - yeay trigpoints & torches - this is civilised family comms! Belfast sinks are wonderful for herbs & bless you sharing self seeded trees as well.

Mrs SD - intrigued how come sis gets bacon on her scrambled egg? Send 15 yo out grocery shopping for the novelty?

juliettet - your essentials didn't already include chocolate?

Nargleblast - hear hear it would be so much worse in winter, hurrah choir & well done introducing son to music you can agree to share!

Happycas - have you enough spuds to put some in now & some in another week? (MSE techniques re:currency may also apply to spuds)

MrsLW may be engrossed in her new additional allotment, SuffolkSue is I hope still functional, likewise Ampersand, Broomstick, Sparrer, PaulieHerts, Jazee, thechubbyunicorn, balabooberlies et alia - just hoping you are All OK. 

OS Pleasures recently

T’was on a Sunday morning-oh,

My son did kill the router-No!

Now all our internet delights

Are done for as you see...

[New router awaits my tender ministrations. Still justabout upright]

Three times! The young idiot. Of all hobbies to stick at when you really shouldn’t risk a run to A&E, he’s still woodcarving, & still missing, & slicing himself.

Not sure what the chaps are watching, but ‘way over my preferred body count. Together, happy, comments like “idiosyncratic weapon” & “ooh, Estwing!” (a schoolgirl is holding an axe Even I recognise) - but we’re together & content.

Husband plying old garden fork with TLC - seems it’s an Elwell! How we came by it I have no idea but inherited/ decluttered our way seems likely.

The windup radio has a working headphone jack but flattens fast. Have stopped using headphones & have the little solar panel carefully angled to charge.

Glorious birdsong! 

Cherry trees near me both coming into full bubbling blossom. OK, last best photo of lad was on the bench between them but he was happy, relaxed, laughing. Stern injunction to self to love the blossom & enjoy the socks off that memory.

Sis has made herself a mask - wimped out of using the machine but seems to have hand sewn something sensible.

Lovely butcher back to opening at 7.30 - glorious snorkers happily stocked up on! (Middleson waiting in queue rolled eyes at my happydance... lovely bloke lent him a token for the trolley, scrupulously returned)

Awww rainbow handed little prince! His mum is very good at child photography.

A fellow forumite has steered me towards an amazing website on old singer machines. If I fail to post for another week, I'm reading. (Two weeks, send help as I may be trapped under a landslip of rammel trying to excavate sewing machines!) 

We had a visitor - one of next-door’s white chickens. Who was watched fascinated not just by us. T’other neighbours cat was also watching but very carefully. The chicken’s Baleful Stare worked!

Am playing Eartha Kitt as I work. Stunning voice, stunning life.

Colleague introduced us semi-illiterates to Dicken's Circumlocution Office. Team Meetings now include suggestions as to who has clearly spent time there. 

Son bought squirt soap with a "turtle swimming in it" theme. Still functional as soap but cherished as amusing. The naming of the turtle is contentious "Arthur" declined as turtle "hasn't a beard"... Boychicks. Baffling.

One which doting but bemused thought, Onwards! Health, strength, love & courage to all as have need, may everything you want to grow thrive & may we resist some temptations over the weekend.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

We gets some Flour!

Todays picture is from Bay Street in San Francisco. BoP was inn the car of cable!
It pulled BoP along!
PM2DD The item was on the manure evening news website, but has disappeared into the ether! 
Now with more on your version of the Life of BoP!

Just bins on the plaza in BoP's yard for brunch. Toms, cucumber, toasted pizza bit properly topped with onion, ham, cheese, toms and mushroom. Not available at the emporium. Then fruits berry and jelly! Nice and good.

BoPsie has bin to A1D! to get the shop. We got flour! Obviously we has wobbleades as well. Refrigerator is packed to the gunnels. BoPsie has agreed she made an error of judgement in getting the pie and Raffles is now being force fed the item! Buts shes nots gettings mes meat balls though! BoP reversion food of nectar.

Council has written and they try to explain why the dump is closed! The track down to it now looks like a scrapyard! Maybe theys'd be better keeping it open? Filed under kindling paper, ready to burn.

Room now ready to paint as I fixed BoPsie dieson cordless vacoom cleaner. It sucks!

Raffles has had too much to do and is collapsed inn front of the shed! Bless him, catching ducklings is too mush for him! Mind you on our community farcebuck page, it appears it is noted that one has goes awry. Not guilty!

Flix set up for tonite of Vertigo as muted earlyr, wobbleades are cooling! Time to party!

As it is FryDay, wes has the finger of fish and crinkle cut has bins for dinner. Note, the has bins will also make an appearance on mes snorker fest tomorrow!

That's it then for this day!
Cape Sale!

Frith

DfV - Elwell are the best. They started in the West Midlands (Wednesbury) and spread to the north east. If you search online, you’ll find one was a spy during and after WW2. He wrote a book “The Iron Elwells”. I know this because my mum is one of the North’s East branch and was interviewed for the book!!

Keep going, VJsmum.

mhagster

Hello. Watching the dawn service live from Canberra at the moment, it’s Anzac Day there. Still dark there as our sun sets (beautifully) here.

another sunny day ( may have considered it too warm at points this afternoon and did wonder how in earth I managed in such a hot  country and of how I’ll  manage in future plans in a hot country...just moaned for 6 months at a time! 

The niecelys popped by and sat at one end of the garden . They’d been dropping nephew in law off at work. Was nice to see them but I’d actually rather they’d stayed in the car! 

DD2 went and picked up shopping for her friends dad. ( who is shielding and everyone else at work) 
yesterday she’d dropped off some seeds for a neighbour who are also shielding so they can grow flowers in their garden. 

Got a lovely letter from DD1. Shall reply! 

Watched Unorthodox . Enjoyed it. Thanks for the recommendations. 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Friday)

1) A lie in.
2) Bigger son went for a bike ride.
3) Planted some thyme on the allotment (split up in the garden yesterday).
4) Lovely and warm again. Cleaned the downstairs windows then sat in the garden.
5) After 5 weeks of 9 meals a day cooked from scratch - had fish and chips from the van!
6) Everyone very chatty today. Went to post an Ebay sale to find out the village shop isn't doing them (I've only been in twice in 5 weeks, and not for the post office part) but they did it for me anyway. Then another neighbour came in and said she knew of someone with hens for sale, as she knew I was getting low on hens.Stepped outside and the butcher appeared from her shop to ask if I could keep an eye out for a dog that had got off its lead by the allotment!
 7) Lots of games of tennis/badminton and smaller son enthusiastic.
 8) Have spent the evening watching TV.

Purple_kitten

1 More gardening, weeding mainly and wondering what I’m going to do for petunias I need to find a trusted online place. Pepper plants seem to be trying. Watered around the front garden and used flower food in the water.

2 I wanted to buy DH some quality chocolate as part of his birthday, but the hotel choc has very bad reviews recently, so I’ve bitten the bullet and supported a local chocolatier who has been local for 40 years so they must be doing something right.

3 Tonight’s non takeaway is grilled chicken, served with cawli cheese and tomatoes. And I remembered to meal plan from the freezer for tomorrow.

4 Tried to satellite watch in the garden again but ended up just chilling in the chairs really.

5  Gave up on tidying and ended up just watching Dukes of Hazzard.

LaineyT

For yesterday,

My mixer arrived and I spent a happy hour reading through instructions and then making a loaf, lots of joy as the dough hook did all the work.

Changed bedding from winter to summer, including blankets and eiderdown but left fleece cover at bottom of bed for justin.

We have a pair of geese that seem to be living in the field next to cottage and do a fly pass several times a day, small dog is fascinated.

Made a Paella for tea as found a half opened packet of rice, very tasty.

The bats circling the house at twilight catching their tea.

VJsmum

Epic post DforV..
Lainey - done the same re quilt but an additional cover for justin

Pleasures for yesterday
1. online yoga - a tough one but really good.  An advantage of online is no-one sees you wobble (in more ways than one! )
2. Working through my pre-submission corrections.  One chapter done the other needs a bit more but is not too daunting.  I am remarkably chilled (but worried about the 'all comes crashing down' part.
3. Left over kedgeree for my tea - the others had lasagne. 
4. watching the birds on my bird feeder.  i am just rubbish at knowing what they are.  May be i will invest in a basic bird book.
5. Family film night.  DS's choice "Space Jam" it was dreadful... the pleasure is i slept through most of it..
Have a good day - we have a good old walk planned for later in the last sunny day for a while.

Jazee

Purple kitten, my local coop is selling petunias in hanging baskets for about a fiver.

Some recent pleasures 

DH has been on holiday this week so I haven't had to worry about the thousands of strangers he comes into contact with

Lovely weather

great food made by DH

Payrise and commission 

Dogs as alway

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Not Messing Today ...

PM2DfV. Chide. Raffles does not need chiding, he needs his … Inn our locval group of farcebuck, they're are posts about the local duck and her ducklings. One is missing and guess who got it? Still he is on form with the yellow things!
Yoga, was not that bear inn Jellystone named after that!
Mhags. ANZAC Day Lest we forget.

Shud has bin at the Vets Brakefest this morning, but it is off. like everything! So just to shows yous lot what decent food and snorkers look like, gets yoursens a butchers at this! And yes, as I said yestday, them has bin haricots inn tom sauce are also there!

Rites Tasty was it! Tum was rubbed and teas weres drinked.
Nows on with others things in the Life of BoP!
As is said yestDay, BoPsie ahs gettens the flour inn, so tomorrows BoP is doning mince and onion pie, and also a Victoria sponge thing which wills be filled with proper raspberry ham. Rite nice.

Just watching the cricket. I knows the score and Root has just gone and Morgan is about to join him. No worries, we won!

Finished the flix last nite,  Vertigo BoPsie saids she wants to see Niagra. She's good my BoPsie as that is a Mazza! Problem is that it is on the pay things and they don't need BoP's money. Wes can wait, t5houghs I does has a Mazza on the tape thing! So we are going to watch a Kiwi flix tonight, details tomorrow! Wobbelades are inn the refrigerator!

Flip inn heck. For dinner tonight BoP is tossing the pancakes, will be served with some oranges. Wes had ham sandwich, toms and cucumber. Oranges, strawbs, berries for luncheon this day! Raffles was doing his not going too far walk!

Just tidied up our phots and sore ted out the carp!

That be its for this day!
Be kind, keep safe!