5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

DundeeDoll

hugs Frith sad times indeed 
I was having difficulty thinking of any today as work is all rather exhausting and time consuming and by Thursday I am really crawling to the finish line that is Friday. Then I thought of the 5 senses and...
1) The taste of my hm Scotch Broth. First time I've made Scotch Broth due to need to soak dried stuff for 8 hours but yesterday remembered it was yummy and i have another 3 big bowls
2) The sound of Professor Elemental - he always makes me laugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iRTB-FTMdk
3) The smell of lilac on my evening walk
4) The sight of the last of the sun over the River Tay
5) The feel of friendship I get from all your lovely posts
(and yes BOP though sadly don't have Sky - rely on the pub for that which is clearly currently out. However I am looking to see which team I should follow...)

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Recent OS pleasures

Sun has been shining even if not particularly warm out of the sun

Washing line dried 😁 

Hg lettuce - 😋 

Hm focaccia topped with hg rosemary

Birdsong

Bread flour in stock 🥳 

19 of 24 tomato seeds have germinated 😁 

Decent neighbour’s - ALL socially distancing 👏 

Reading other posters’ pleasures

ampersand

Silly clocks. Busy since 0336h :-)
Frith, responding to your post in the way of too many right now. I have several memorial services to attend so far, one over your way, when this becomes possible.   May I strongly suggest you speak of this for later too? - so more of their wishes can be observed and their lives fully celebrated?
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1. At last, & is WhatsApp'd.  :-)))  Delighted with it. No more blutty autoINcorrect for a start. Have been steadily, even constantly, urged by a lovely earliest and bestest of Spits buyers-become-friends.  Took multiple attempts, but was urged to try again when one of my video replies to a msg from him yesterday was 'too long'. This happens a lot and drains £s.  Now a thing of the past.  It's been lovely so far.  Feels more friendly, less intrusive.

2. Keir Starmer, along with Aotearoa's Jacinda Ardern, still :-)))))))

3. The rainbow crochet sleeping sack adaptation proceeds well. Should be ready to head to NZ next week.

4. Hopeful Hooray! in advance.  Should have hot water fix today, maybe even smoke alarm and bathroom light, both of which fell out of ceiling several lockdown months ago.  Don't ask.  Have been without hot water for several weeks now.  Have been managing with kettle and saucepans.  Non-existent Fault F27 keeps appearing in boiler display. Nothing in manual, wretched Vaillant Eco-techPro, stupid thing - loathe it.  State of art? - state of something rhyming else.
Previous system was fine, snarl.

5.  Watering all the sowings.  One of 10 fig sports has shoved out leafy sprigs only a week on:-)

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I'll let that be all for now, but to whisper .... shhhh! ...that it's McCulloch's birthday today:-)))
- wishes already sent via other means.
🎁🌹🌟🎂🇳🇿🌈🙏🎶🥂🍸🍾🍷🍺☕🇪🇺
- with all that you'd wish for and is possible in these times.
Well done vl's son too - and you, of course :-)
All blessings all round.
KIA KAHA AROHANUI! 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/reunions-eating-out-and-a-lot-of-haircuts-new-zealand-embraces-relaxation-of-lockdown

villagelife

Frith thinking of you

ampersand

I wanted to add this as a stand alone.
Benjamin Zephaniah :-)
Please hear him read his new poem for the NHS:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000j1k9
- still on its 'just finished' paper, as it happened:-) Wonderful and moving.
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LaineyT

Oh Frith that is so sad, sorry for your family’s loss.

For yesterday, another one feeling rough and decidedly meh but taking DD’s example looking for positives.

The sparrow squadron having a communal bath.

More sparrows, this time a nest in the rafters above girlie’s stable, tiny one peeping instructions at me as I was grooming the beautiful grey one.

We went for a walk under the trees, apart from when a rabbit run across her path my girlie was very well behaved, to be fair it made me jump too!

Heard via the village FB page that the reopened GC is well organised and it’s easy to distance when looking round, may go next week as need plants!

A new to me recipe, feta, basil and olive quiche, very tasty.

VJsmum

Morning all - oh Frith, that is so sad

Pleasures for yesterday

1. More marking, more prepping - the pleasure being that the more i do the less i have to do
2. A walk to the post office to post masks i've made off to friends - I also wore my own mask to try to get used to doing so.  it is hot!  Walked through the local cemetery, which is very calming and rather lovely.  We have a collection of commonwealth war graves and i saw one of someone in the same WW1 regiment as my great uncle - a Kentish regiment so was ruminating whether they might have known each other and the fact that Uncle Charlie is in Poperinghe and this guy ended up close to me in the Midlands.  I'll never know, of course whether they happened upon each other..
3. A bit of gardening - planted my tomatoes and the last of the carrots.  
4. Had a cup of tea and a piece of cake (we are currently eating soooo much cake) in the warm sunshine.  It's nice to have it back.
5. Family film night - Charlie Bartlett, DD's choice.  A film for teens but we all enjoyed it - though none of us are teens!
6. DS had a very good therapy session - it really is doing him good.

Have a lovely day all

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

The Magic Big Red Tomato ..

Well, what next! I'll post it!

There, a bit of a red letter!
Now on to the BoPiness for the day!
Stake Nite this day. BoP is doing the stake of fillet, with grumpy style mushrooms and gril;led toms of cherry! Wobbleades are inn the refrigerator chilling. Flix on the ogle box is being selected for later.

Yesterday we had too make up jobs as we has run out, so we defrosted the refrigerator. It is now back toogether cooling the wobbleades and the snorkers! More on the snorkers toomorrow. 

Getting ready to watch some football toomorrow! It's German but it will do for now. And the race of hoirses is back, but we give that a miss as it is foir taking money off people and BoP has deep pockets.

Today BoPsie has filled up the feeders for the birds. We has a big pigeon, that upsets Raffles. He dances inn the tree of cherry dropping the seeds on the ground, where the hawks of sparrow wallow inn their lunch! Raffles is fed by us.

Forgets to say yesterday, Raffles, who had not been fed at his usual time had bin to his restaurant and bought a takeaway! Why does he do it, but BoPsie blames me for getting him! He lives up to his name.

Rite offs to do lunch of sliced hams and some toms of cherry. Then some fruits, the usual fruits and some crumbly biscuits.

Enuff of your version of life with BoP!
Keep smiling!

balabooberlies

Frith so sorry to hear your news.  It's heartbreaking.  Sending genuine commiserations and hugs.

So, I will keep this short.  Tiggy's anal gland problems show e-coli.  Lumps on leg cancer.  Operation next week.

My sparrows are now coming nearer to the back door as if to remind me of their presence.  I gave in and found this massive tray/box in the garage with sides about 6 inches deep.  I just cannot do without them.  Silly I know.

Beautiful sunny day.

Made pasta with left behind sausages, limp bacon, sad mushrooms........and half a courgette !

was scrummy.

balabooberlies

Bl***dy H**l  (Sorry)

Just heard operation is cancelled due to staff shortages.  UNLESS I go with the vet that completely missed that Tiggy had eye ulcer and cyst and refused to give me painkillers for her !

Or book into another surgery in the group a long distance away.  She would be okay going although she is not a good traveller but coming back would be a nightmare.  She is awful after gen. aneasthetic.  I don't know what to do.