5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Just an update on the nice chip cookies of chocolate. They are crumbling as I ate them! They will not see the weakened out!

balabooberlies

Panic Over.

My pet taxi man is still working.  And able to help.

Found protogee of my favourite ever vet (sadly retired).  This still working vet (only in his 40's) opened a practice of his own after his mentor retired.  He also treated my Murphy a few times eons ago.  His surgery is willing to do pre-op and operation the same day.  June 1st.

My taxi man has great respect for him.  That goes a long way for me but I also remember this vet and remember how gentle he was with my Murphy.  And how he took time to explain things.  That for me, is paramount.

So my thanks and pleasures today go to all the kind people that helped.

To the absolute marvel of how much you can get done with a telephone. THANK YOU Alexander Graham Bell.

The courage of my many sparrows quite happy to dive into the box for food and not drop it all over the place.  The bigger birds not so happy.

Feeling flipping blessed again !

X

Nargleblast

Pleasures today.....

Knowing today is day 1 of 12 days off and feeling stress levels fall.

Dog and I having the whole park almost to ourselves, and it was like a summer's day out there.

Beds stripped and two lots of washing on the line. Clean linen on the beds for tonight.

Fish and chips  from the chippy, delivered to the door.

Good natter with stepson on the phone, the family are happy and doing fine confined to quarters.

Getting some odds and ends from local shops (local shops for local people, remember that Royston Vasey fans?) One even had flour so I got plain and SR.

Finding wood and charcoal for the firepit I bought which is now in situ on the patio. We're gonna have a burning this weekend!

Choir practice with a video tutorial, we get it on a Friday so we can prep for next week's session. We are starting to learn We Are The Champions, a powerful anthem that requires good breath control.

Anticipating trying out my new batch of orange, lemon and white currant vodka tonight. It looks just like urine but smells and tastes gorgeous.

Suffolksue

Lovely day ,will water shortly.
DH pain free calm and peaceful 
new carers all v good 
my lovely gardener ,have runner beans in ( DH used to grow them every year ) 
joined in Children’s book discussion on the Daily thread and haven’t been put down .

DigForVictory

Returns feeling the most horrendous fraud - despite the training & tackling & twithering We Were Never Called on. So I am Much more lighthearted.

Jazee - hurrah lovely garden! A break from paid stuff. An enclosed dog field - safe and happy, good times.

mhagster - must not covet compost... The inevitability of cleaning is disgruntling for the young. Almost restful with wisdom (I'm told). Love the pilot through these strange waters. "until I saw the dishes" - yes the young can feed themselves, hurrah, But. At least you're recycling the cans & wouldn't life be harder if they were all full sugar, full caffeine?! Scanning New Amsterdam, I gather it's been re-edited/pulled as covid? But Hard Viewing, surely? Share your thinking NS more reliable than AbdePJ. M&S treats! Muffins & a little posy - aww - lovely to think of. If you have to shuttle in & out of Tesco, happy to think peonies came back with you. Hope tum settled.

Purple kitten - belated happy anniversary & cake! How did wrapping the drill go, in the end?! Scroll saws are fun weapons of mischief - can you go play again nearer Christmas? Plant trough liner of remnant carpet seems wholly reasonable. Love ditch News, get Minions! Office paperwork - best tackled while you can shut the door?

Frith - welcome baby coz Shun. Eeeh, Woolton Pie. (Man was a dude.) DIY haircut? Awed! What happened to the seriously misplaced peacock? Last leg across three locations & 2 time zones good fun! Brilliant escape room exercise for family - as ingenious & thoughtful as Sinter Klass! Your manor house walk sound glorious. All this coveting is terribly poor form, but I do love the idea of scrambled egg & smoked salmon for breakfast. Photo book of Nepal a lovely thing to contemplate. Re-jigging the garden sounds effortful but clearly carefully planned. Love distanced kayaking. Awed at funeral music plans, a beautiful way to say goodbye.

ampersand - dash the machine but hear hear the wonderful Jacinda! Dear Gods hot water, please! Hurrah cuttings coming along, but hot water...

villagelife - a son who can cook is a very special pleasure. Glad donated scrubs have a special charm. Text conversations are important. Boss has listened to me and is acting on it. Fingers crossed for you! In search of llamas... My imagination is happily three counties over & heading onwards. A happy family zoom session? Excellent! Home schooling is hard work. Sending things by post will deliver a special pleasure for the recipient. Some colleagues are wonderful.

Nargleblast - proper coffee... Lebanese takeaway?! <Will.Not.Turn.Kermit.Green.with.Envy.> Outdoor armchairs? love how plans & dreams steadily assembled into reality. Isn't it wonderful to spank greedy insurance companies? You have me roaring with laughter at your selected fruit vodka "looks just like urine but smells and tastes gorgeous"!

LaineyT - an unexpected comfort package is wonderful. Clearly those few who hack round here are not British Horse Soc members. Can almost see azalea thriving on ericaceous compost (I can't get hold of any yet!) We're torn over the Repair Shop - so many fascinating items & techniques but not enough on the details & too long on emotional reunification. Amused by too much chocolate for a cake topping so dipping strawberries. "first cuppa of the day" is a magical brew. How'd the juvenile sparrows do? A pub lunch.  Watercolour pencils - lovely! Hurrah shorn & washed dog! Yum, Toad in the Hole. Then feta, basil and olive quiche - cor!

Happycas - how are the orphan lids/kids?! Sending husband to play in the garden sounds a splendid idea. Liberty fabric mask - lovely! Saturday night curry, yum! I must see if I can coax my chaps into cooperating. Frustrating when technology wrong & line drying doesn't. Dreams sound very familiar - I was told absolutely normal response to pandemic information overload.

BoP - strangely my chaps would politely disagree on strawberries, but are right alongside you on Snorkers as Proper Food. I think they'd block the door trying to get at a Mixed Gorilla. Love "BoE Form 20"! Groomed, & ready for the Bakewell. You remind me I must defrost our refrigerator sometime soon.

mrs_motivated - dead right to stock up for a long cold winter, as even if you're slightly wrong you can leave the heating down. Rousing hurrahs all holiday refunded. Imagination off & running at the idea of sorting out "the freezers that live in the garage". Bet you've shed the stabilisers already! Glad you've been busy helping "hibernating" business awaken safely

VJsmum - must research this chickpea & Peach curry as have sack of chickpeas & dubious menfolk! What pattern are you using for facemasks? Hugely impressed you can channel online row into creative rage. OK, how do you bath a conservatory? (Sorry.) How did the IKEA thing go? Lego for grownups? Which Minette Walters - love her multiformat writing! How Do you prep for a viva? (I thought it was an interview under mental live fire.) Cake cannot be a bad thing so long as there is also some exercise?

PaulieHerts - settling into the kitchen - bliss! We learned of Woolton Pie when lads at Primary as they recited “Those who have the will to win, Cook potatoes in their skin, Knowing that the sight of peelings Deeply hurts Lord Woolton's feelings.”... Have to say my handle is beginning to feel prophetic First cuckoo? Aww! That 90th birthday party sounds a wonderful happy event - well done! Cherry trees - any blossom left?

juliettet - a new Lidl? keep an eye here  So much of H&S is mostly common sense.

bala - Just So Glad your dad's OK! Online banking is a wonderful thing. You have a nearly pet crow with a Mallen streak?! I confess, I could presently cope pretty well with a lockdown til autumn, but I do understand those with young children & confined space rather strongly thinking differently, but I'd bet none of them would pack the little dears into risk. It is a rough time & Tiggy is precious - tears are absolutely allowed. Brother has been waiting for a laptop for how long? Your lovely elderly neighbour sounds a treasure. Did pigeon recover? Loose tea has a special magic. Absolutely right to care for the sparrows as you do for Tiggy. The right vet will be found - has been. Will think of you on June 1.

Suffolksue - the extra care is coming [has arrived], and he's still eating & enjoying your cooking. May brie bacon & cranberry sandwiches still be part of this month! Mist across the water meadows sounds enchanting, especially if warmer after. He can still enjoy the garden & the peace of mind that your future has runner beans. Go easy on yourself - water cans are heavy!

DundeeDoll - "sausage, leek and rice made up thing" sounds absolutely delicious! You have routed a French horn onto a novice & the street is still speaking to you?! Gurgling at "haddock pond in the back"! Somewhat baffled as to why Prosecco failure doesn't mean virtuous Episcopalian. Absolutely cheering you on with heavy curtains becoming functional decorative etc again. Much amused at the idea of leaving a fox with his personal hospital a dog toy. A pancake breakfast, yum! The return of MrPiano - into quarantine but hurrah! Real Scotch Broth? Awe...

AntoMac - truly a very special Uncle is a very special pleasure.

MrsSD - 19 of 24 tomato seeds have germinated? Congratulations!

McCulloch - Happy Birthday!  🎂

OS pleasures recently

Hermes gnome a complete honeybunch, distancing punctiliously & very tolerant of my inability to count...

After a near dawn start, the Full English for lunch may mean I cannot think straight in the early afternoon. Must try not to nap!

Son crooning over ration pack sachet of “Beverage Powder” - we’re altogether more dubious but he’s pleased....

Seen advert for extended return dates on trousers & suits advertised online - after all, weddings are being postponed. Just charmed the tailors are still advertising!

Proud moment - Middleson has installed his Black Box & now meets all requirements of his car insurance. [Confirms my view I will submit to telematics only In Extremis, but I’m Old.]

Glorious sunny day!

There is something very satisfying about sitting with a nice book, listening to a chicken carcass  becoming stock. Added gratification of sons asking how soon before soup?

Middle son mixed up "red salt" - 50/50 paprika & salt - tasty!

Swapped old for new phone & such is technology that the text messages all migrated over too. Tears & exultation, all my lads’ messages, all the texts of support & comfort, all I feared I’d lose - still in my pocket. 

Ongoing family tree climbing with ancestry. While being carefully tolerant of civil partnerships as a whole, as a novice genealogist I will be dancing in the streets from a maiden-name-properly-recorded perspective!

Youngest has a sore throat - and is grumbling about gargling with TCP. Stock hauled from freezer to make healing soup with.

Oh gods - boychicks. One hewing at a lump of wood with a saw “have you not got a vice?” (rhetorical) “he has many vices, not heeding your wisdom being but one” cheerfully suggests the other...

Youngest, on being admonished to wash, claims to be doing whatever it is a radioactive mineral does (‘degrades’ or ‘decays’, I looked it up & got a Superbly wounded look.)

Still grinning at that 'aquarium' soap tank. Level falling but turtle still waggling. 

Son, hearing me grumble at boring bookcases, offered me an array of BBC set downloads for backgrounds for conference calls! Already my office have sent out a ruling saying default only in Teams but under review after the next update. 

The packsaddle is reassembled! Bar some leather straps which I carefully cut off through the stitching. Now all it needs is a mule, and a couple of panels, but the buyer can figure that.

Middleson has his first P60! Stunned when I advised both tenderly filing the original Until He Retires, And keeping electronic copies in at least 3 locations.

Health, strength, love & courage to all as have need - there are a lot of challenges but fatigue & loneliness were called out by the desiderata, rightly, long before this virus came. May the weekend be full of good things, all the gardens leaping up green, and may your wellies not leak...

mhagster

Jings! How does one follow a DFV post? 

Early morning walk over the fields...went the diagonal worn and walked over path instead of the round the hedges and lumpy bumpy way as I usually do. Bit drizzly. 

Then we were at Morrison’s for the back of seven o’clock. Wanted in and out and to get some clothing for baby’s birthday. Oh and a candle and a cushion and a toastie maker...oops! And a lovely ( wearing now) black polo neck RTC to what I thought was £4 but went through till at £2.00! And it’s actually been cold enough to need a polo neck! Alarm sounded as we left and I assumed it was the toastie maker and there was no one on security desk so kept walking...that would be the birthday jeans for GN that were RTC...so had to return to store later to get the tag removed. 

Potter. Potter. Watched the end of New Amsterdam. I’ve really enjoyed it and always feel a sense of loss at the end of series. But never fear I’ve found a new one to binge on called Fireflies...vintage Aussie! 

Washing hung out and surprisingly dried between showers...that would be the cold wind blowing.

Fire went on this afternoon.

Picked up a mirror of the type I’ve been keeping an eye out for. Bargain for a tenner. Nice chat with random stranger at her doorstep. 

DD2 ordered chips and they were surprisingly yummy however I asked som to take photos of me with my phone as I’ve piled weight on and it needs to stop. Currently at my heaviest ever and it’s not good! ( even though all the food was) 

peonies I bought last week have finally bloomed beautifully and stunningly like saucers! 

DundeeDoll

Again wonderful post dfv all my piscie friends are expert Prosecco openers hence my feelings of failure!
1) a very busy day but I think we are progressing on several fronts (but very glad it's Friday!)
2) as hadn't really moved much during the day had a lovely long walk with the boys - took them up to the hospital cos I wanted to walk round the arboretum - the covid-testing ward looked blissfully empty and the arboretum was beautiful
3) lots of painted stones, some painted like insects, some with lovely messages on
4) like many of you here tonight was fish and chips night - delivered by our local (fish supper for me, sausage supper for DD2)
5) in true mse style the 'empty' nutella jar gave a little more by adding a couple of spoons of natural yoghurt
Now listening to the news quiz. And only 10 days till we can back to Ambridge &

Frith

Pleasures for today (Friday)

1) A lie in.
2) Brother in law went for a bike ride with bigger son (2m apart) but was broken by the sheer effort of trying to keep up with him. He went all faint and had to have a cup of tea in the garden.
3) More sacks of muck from the farm.
4) Changed my bed.
5) The legs arrived for my new garden bench so that is finished now.
6) More work in the garden. I replaced another edging strip of bricks, planted some new plants and 2 courgettes.
7) Cleaned the windows downstairs.
 8) Fish and chips from the van for tea.
9) Phoned my school friend and was on the phone for 3 hours and 2 minutes!

The funeral went OK. My brother saw the procession. Thank you to everyone for thinking about them. We all found out today that our Bet was actually named Violet. :-)

villagelife

1. Met a friend and had a walk along the river which looked beautiful and exchanged birthday presents. It felt so strange seeing someone and not giving them a hug. She is wellbeing her husband has been ill with salmonella and is recovered but still gets very tired if he does very much.
2. Time spent in the garden. Planted up a couple of pots for summer. Had to fix a fence to stop a dog coming in and chasing my chickens. It's happened twice now and the owner not bothered.
3. Text conversation with friend who is shielding. I seem to have this daily or certainly could. It is a good friendship which has improved since lockdown.
4. A photo from DS1 he had walked into the local town along the river it's about 8 miles away. It was a beautiful photo of a town which isn't particularly attractive.
5. Started watching money heist which I'm enjoying.
6. Watched Gardeners World.

Jazee

Morning all.  DfV, red salt is called chip spice up here in part of the north east and is actually sold in shops and automatically put on chips at the chippy unless you say stop!

Some pleasures 

Good online customer service from mands 
Prosecco
Busy at work
Rescuing baby bird that came into the house
Little treats from DH