5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

mhagster

Hello. Another lovely day here. 

Rubbish sleep so actually didn’t need the alarm clock ! Was up before dawn, lit my candle and listened to the birdsong. Made Anzac biscuits.
The dog a bit surprised to be fed so early but went with the flow! 

Had hoped to be at supermarket earlier than I was...certainly didn’t want to be stood in a queue with thirty folk in front in the midday sun! I’d said I would get mums shopping. Just send me the list. No list forthcoming. Called her and ‘oh your brother is going’ sigh! So I had to go and get my own shopping and oh if  you could just get me these things too. Sigh! Anyway got what I could.

went home and sat ( in a reclined position) in garden. May have snoozed for a short while.

dog convinced he should get his dinner an hour earlier too...managed to hold out till normal time despite the big brown eyes! 

Round to mums , dropped of bits she’d asked for and made up her tablet packs. And if you could just...
I’ll do it tomorrow!
then dropped off stuff at friends back door for her. Chatted from a suitable distance.
home and son made the dinner. Very yummy tacos. He’s getting very good. 

Early Casualty! Yaaas! 

Purple_kitten

1 Both DH and I gardening, and caved to the hose pipe before it’s banned no doubt, nice to see our dwarf purple magnolia is springing to life, after it was badly attacked last year.

2 Used up some fruit in a smoothie.

3 Made some cranberry cupcakes, er fruit in cake probably doesn’t count.

4 Made a turkey bolognaise base packed full of good things, and mash topping sort of a cottage pie ish

5 Wonderful news for me anyrate that the local wonderful garden centre is trying to save stock and offering free delivery, so I have started with one order and expect to do another.

DundeeDoll

Enjoy your plant buying pk
hugs frith your mother's behaviour must be very worrying for you
Data from Pakistan is hitherto unpublished dfv so couldn't possible say
32 years since Luton beat Arsenal 3:2 at Wembley bop I was there  
For yesterday
1) standing pilates 2. i survived
2) salad for lunch in the garden in the sunshine
3) supervision with one masters student in Oz, one PhD student in Perth (Scotland) and one masters student in Luton (1 skype, 2 Teams). The joys of online
4) Family chat via Teams at 7. Lovely to see everyone - we got a tour of xoh's houseboat
5) then facetime with mrpiano and messenger chat with pub friend. Aw I miss Friday evenings in the pub. And for today
1) 'Finale' which was cardio then resistance then more cardio. That's the first two weeks done
2) lovely soak in the bath while watching Wolf Hall
3) then sorting of the room of doom while watching Wolf Hall. Binge watched the lot last night and today. Fabulous series. Now i need to read The mirror and the light by 8th May (bookclub eek) - may listen to the radio adaptation and get some more house sorting
4) then piano practice and piano accordion. I have decided i need to be more structured, so looked up advice on the web - good advice, warming up of course with scales, but cannot find my scales book after some ceilidh tunes I tried Mendelssohn's songs without words #4 (right hand only which i already know from the piano). lovely! tomorrow i'll have a go at writing a simple bass
5) Now listening to RSNO Friday Club https://www.rsno.org.uk/friday/ - Mahler's 1st. The lead violinist is a friend of a friend and I had the pleasure of attending a dinner party with her and her cellist husband last year. Wonder when we'll get back to attending concerts!

Frith

Pleasures for today (Saturday)

1) A lie in.
2) Quick watering session on the allotment.
3) Bigger son made lemon chicken for tea.
4) I used Strava for the first time and tried out a new footpath.
5) The cat has become much more friendly since we've been at home and in the garden all the time! She has never been aggressive, but has never voluntarily had a fuss either.
6) Sons played tennis a bit and I kept score.
7) Finally tackled a job that's been on my list all year (!) Have sent photos off to be printed out - first time in years. These include bigger son's from Nepal. A very laborious process - even more so was setting up the free postcard with photos to go direct to my aunty. Using the free introductory offers listed on MSE, of course.
8) In bed and will watch Casualty just now.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Saturday pleasures

Paid the milkman - I know it is an odd pleasure but I dislike owing money 😉

Started overcast but then turned into a gloriously sunny afternoon.

Lovely socially distanced chat with 7 of my neighbours - about an hour 😱 

Finished knitting scarf no.40 

Dinner was chicken fried in butter, garden peas & lo risotto made into risotto cakes (dipped in flour, beaten egg & breadcrumbs) & shallow fried.

Reading your pleasures

BE KIND. STAY SAFE. BREAK THE CHAIN. SAVE LIVES.

LaineyT

Oh I remember those choccie lab eyes well Mhags always said that Rosie dog never loved me as much as she did just before being fed!

For yesterday,

We had a Jay under the apple tree picking up bits from the bird feeders, haven’t seen one in our garden for years.

Boiled egg and marmite soldiers for breakfast.

The beautiful grey one and her friends had been moved to the summer paddocks and by the time I got there early afternoon she was already stuffed to the gills, gave her a groom in the field then upended the bucket to sit on.

She dozed in the sun which was warm on my back too, heard my first cuckoo of the year.

Comedy evening at home, two episodes of The Thick of It followed by some Peter Kay.

PaulieHerts

Recent pleasures:
reading all your pleasures 
beautiful sunny days which have resulted in us getting out the inflatable hot tub and enjoying the bliss of our own private jacuzzi in the sun ☀️!
Enjoying the garden and watching Mrs Blackbird flying in and out of her nest in the bay tree
Watching little bluetits feed and play in the same tree
Lovely walk in our local country park and seeing my first ducklings 🐥 of the year
Have a lovely sunny 🌞 Sunday, looks like it might be the last sunny day for a while 🙃

Nargleblast

Pleasures yesterday....

Dog racing around the football field in the park, we had it all to ourselves and the sun was starting to show its face.

Choir practice in preparation for Monday's Zoom rehearsal.

Lunch out on the patio, burgers in rolls with salad, strawberries and cream, crackers, cheese and pears, Italian white wine.

A couple of hours dozing in the sunshine in the garden. Thankful that I have a garden, many people don't.

Mr Blackbird on the roof singing his head off.

Poached eggs on wholemeal toast in the evening whilst watching The Vicar of Dibley on Netflix.

Continuing to be thankful that lockdown is happening in a beautiful Spring and not in the cold, dark, rainy, windy Winter.

Suffolksue

 new carers working well and DH happy .
finally starting to feel better ,
garden looking good and remembering to water pots ,decided hanging baskets a step too far this year !
shops calming down tho did queue for 3/4 hr to get into W as DH prefers their grapes ( can still manage them)
washing machines and good drying weather .

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

I am going to rub it inn ...

Well I has rubbed the pastry, hand rubbed!

To makes our mince onions and carrot pie for dinner. Proper food, done proper as well!

And I has hand fork crimped the edges as well!
And had enuff pastry left to make six decent tarts as well!

Note the proper Raspberry Jam and the fry inn pan BoP uses. We don't has the non stick here, they are carp. All this food not available inn the emporiums and better than that Jimmy the Cook!

Nargleblast said:

Mr Blackbird on the roof singing his head off.

I nearlies miss red that as Blackbeard. I does sings inn the shower!
PM2DD And me an goooner as well! Maybe it was the 78 final! Could never be a manure fan!
Now on with your version for the Lifes of BoP!

Watched the river net last nite, Love Birds Was filmed in &sphere of Auckland NZ. Wobbeladers were consumed! Very good for you lot. Of curse BoP shall be check inn another flix for you this evening.

I has no need to tells yous what is for Dinner in BoP's Pad this day! The pan gravy and Tatties will add to the pie. Just had the usual BoP lunch of the plaza. Raffles is inn his restaurant of the protected newt pond! Don't ask!

Wes is ready to paint the bed room inn the morning! News on this will be flowed inn to the parish.

Well I has me pastry covered hands to wash and then I thinks mes feet are going up! More on me tattie patch tomorrow!
There is a tunnel, that has the light. Be Safe!