5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Smaller son has recommended Afterlife for me. He says it is quite sad - and he never gets upset by programmes!
Thank you for the kind comments re hens. Unfortunately they are bred for maximum egg production so they tend to live for 2 years out of the battery cages then coming into lay again is too much. You can get a hormone implant for them but it is hit and miss and expensive.
Pleasures for today (Monday)

1) A lie in.
2) Herb seeds arrived - borage and long flower thyme.
 3) Courgette plants have suddenly grown.
 4) On the allotment, hollyhocks also growing.
 5) Bigger son and I did another footpath walk. About half way round, I realised I had walked it before - but possibly before he was born! I rather like putting these walks on Strava and adding photos. Bigger son was on his bike and had a puncture coming back a mile from home but did not make a fuss. He had already cycled 40 miles before he came out with me!!
 6) Sat in the garden on our return and downhill neighbour came round with a box of chocolates for us, to apologise for having a bonfire that has lasted for 2 days (she's clearing the garden - a big task after how the previous troublesome neighbours left it). I said it didn't matter at all and that we love a bonfire here, but we still enjoyed the chocolates!
7) Fajitas for tea with brownies later.
 8) I note that our nearest Indian takeaway (which is marvellous) has extended its delivery to our area during lockdown. I have never lived anywhere that gets takeaway deliveries before! I shall bear this in mind if lockdown goes on until my birthday.
9) After 5 weeks of buying bits of pieces from our tiny shop and the farm shop, and two forays to Lidl, I have managed to get a Sainsburys Click and Collect slot! I am beyond excited waiting for rice, rooibos tea bags, tinned toms etc!

villagelife

For yesterday
1. Quick walk before work - it was good hearing bird song.
2. Hearing a colleague practice her flugle (?) at lunchtime.  It was lovely.
3. Watered my plants and wandered round the garden. 
4. Cooked a very simple curry - butternut squash and also sag aloo as AN not keen on rice. No complaints that it was vegetarian either.
5. Finished my book. I've started to enjoy reading more again in the past few days.

LaineyT

Sorry to hear about your chooks Frith, do you think that you will get some more?

For yesterday,

My beloved’s birthday so his request for breakfast, we had eggy bread!

Trip into horsey town for some fresh bits, it seemed busier on the road and slightly in the shop.

As we are unable to go out anywhere I decided to give Capt S a treat of an afternoon tea so happy morning spent baking a Victoria Sponge, Fruit Scones and Tiffin which are all his favourites. He finished work at 4pm and came down to the above. There were egg & cress and prawn sandwiches too.

We needed the early evening walk after that lot, noticed a fair bit of the hawthorn is now in blossom.

Finished off the fizz and played Yahtzee.

Nargleblast

Lovely looking spread there, Lainey! 

Yesterday....

Dog had lovely run in the park.
Online Choir practice.
Sausages, Yorkshire pud and veg for lunch followed by strawberries with a bit of Greek yoghurt.
An hour of dozing in the sunshine in the garden.
Quick walk to post a letter, I used an app I purchased for my phone recently, you take a photo of a plant and it identifies it for you.
Watching old episodes of Dr Who, the ones from 2005 when Christopher Eccleston reincarnated the Doctor. Those were the days.

Nargleblast

I forgot - I made a batch of dandelion salve from a few dandelions collected last week. This batch is scented with rosemary and mint.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Recent OS pleasures

Many dry, warm & sunny days

Washing line dried

Newly washed bedding

Getting into town to bank Premium Bond winning cheques from February 😱 on the last dry day

Today is pouring with rain but the silver lining is no watering required 😉

Plenty of wildlife - foxes, squirrels, robins, parakeets, goldfinches, starlings, tits, sparrows, magpies & even a blackbird has made a reappearance.

Successful cooking of dinners - appreciated so much that DSis has done the washing up TWICE in the last four days 🥳 

Reading everyone’s pleasures

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

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

On our weigh back now!

mhagster said:

pirate Pete I don’t ‘do’bones. It was chicken breasts that had rather too long in a different oven than usual. Dog had it for breakfast...after all he’s used to eating dry socks! 

Nows how many times do I has to tolds yous lot. I am, by choice a GoodYear cook.I cud not afford the rubber man Michalain thing. Breast, or as it is in BoP Palace, fake roast, can easily be cooked in the stove. Pop breast into a pie dish. Ifs yous want to see what a pie dish looks like, see BoP notes passim. Add a table spoon of water, it keeps it moist, and cover pie dish with foil. Put inn stove at 180C and cook for 25 to 30 minutes. Got it? Yous only has to ask BoP for recipes and leave that Jimmy the Cook to what he is. Too safe any fuss, BoP is a breast man!
LT Crumbs that looks too nice! Wes did the same for BoPsie when we had home fillet stakes and mushrooms done proper.
And Jenny gis a buzz for Friths ex rooster|
Nows on with your version of life like BoP!

Take the High Line. From The Big Apple in 2017. A good walk through the big city!

Nows as yous knows BoP looks after himsen, well last day BoP flew off his seat and crashed! His chair collapsed and BoP bounced. Only pride was hurt for a millisecond. Raffles was unaffected. BoPsie is recovering!

I am in ned of witnesses who can say I was pushed. Rewards are on offer.

Watched Ricky last eve in Humanity! Very good and there be good talk about his flix that I recommend to you on this parish about the Invention of Lying seems to be getting reviews. Wobleades had to be consumed after crashing. BoPsie gots her Jack with honey inn as well! 

Had the snorker fest this very morning as well, with poached egg! Mushrooms. Lashing of tea and orange. Usual lunch but not on the plaza. Wes knows Raffles has done his yellow thing well recently, but tooday he has taken to being asleep!

Curry is outta the freezer for dinner, should be good. Oh last nite, we has the home made chili and I had bonus meatballs. So plenty l;eft for the morrow as well.

Now doing mes video from NYC. More soon.

That is what it is like in BoPsphere.
Take it easy and keep sage!

ampersand

Oh no! 
Just refreshed completed post and whole blutty lot disappeared.
Burger nation :-(((, with added snarl.
Thankyou for enquiring Lainey,
So, still stroppily here and I spy a very like vintage embroidered cloth in that lovely birthday table pic - scrummy tuck+ vg fizz:-)

1.  De-sludged hidden 2-part drain of vileness extreme in coralux corner yesterday.  Death of neighbour last week has meant certain matters arising.  Ever more careful now, being necessarily attentive, with no let up.  Drain still clear today, despite rain, for which.....

2. .....grateful.  Water butts can refill.  One task fewer mixed with start on no.1 shed deep excavation was interesting.....  Attempt to resume bay of eek! Is probably sensible if only notspot plays nicely.  Used to work here until a dozen or so years ago.  

3. Sowed more old saved/now re-found runner and borlottti beans, pre-dating 2009, so they're a definite 'On verra' miracle in waiting.  In went the parthenocissus too, WHICH WILL BE SUITABLY CURBED AS AND WHEN:-)  More butterflies: orange tips, brimstones and the first Common Blues - lovely things.

4. This all came after successful 7am emporium foray, &'s 1st OAP one.  Mannerly, friendly and haul! - last 2 baking powders, plain + s/r flour, pasta varieties, tom. paste concentrate (no tins needed, always have loads).  & is shopping for some not mobile, supplementing them somewhat too.

5.  Successful salvage.  Pruned metres of dead grape vine, but suddenly spotted 1 tiny bud.  Cross with self, but poked it into pot, where it now has a lovely full leaf cluster, just 5 days on.  Someone's keen, so that'll be next week's jaunt.  Fuel gauge still shows half, six weeks on.  Did oil, coolant, water and screenwash at same time. 


6. Forgot to add I have finally started my sourdough starter - day 3.
That is another major 'On Verra!' - it's not liking tbe temperature plunge and associated gloom, that's for sure. 
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Looking forward to binmen.  Deliberately set ancient/mangled/redundant banana boxes out last night to become soggy+bendable for black bags later in week. It's working.  
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Have sent NZ knitted slipper feet pattern to several peeps on request. Easy peasy yarn user-upper, make great floor buffers too :-)
Right, time to listen to more of G F. Newman's outstanding 'The Corrupted '.
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KIA KAHA AROHANUI!
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We'll be here again:

ampersand

Gosh, bop - are you okay, just shaken, not stirred?

LaineyT

Good to hear from you & and bless you for noticing tablecloth, stitched by my DM when she was just a teen and one of my most beloved possessions.