5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

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1) Nice walk in the evening yesterday, very few people about again so much easier on the anxiety side of things.
2) Easy supper from the freezer as it was very hot, sticky and airless so just too hot to hover over the cooker.
3) DD1 and family came and sat in the garden for an hour in the afternoon, baby is turning into a 'real' little person and burbles away chatting to everyone so it was lovely to see her even if at the appropriate distance, felt sad when they had to leave.
4) Joined in the clapping at 8 in the evening, slightly less people doing it and for a shorter time but a lovely community act.
5) Supermarket delivery was almost complete and nothing left out that is crucial.

Nargleblast

Ah, so many pleasures this week........

Tuesday - 24 hour fundraising marathon by Rock Choir on their FB page. Full of both live and prerecorded content, music, vocal and exercises, interviews, messages from celebrities, video clips from members, chat shows, quizzes, cocktail-making class, 80s party, 90s singalong, Motown section, all sorts. Over £40,000 raised for the Mental Health Foundation. I dipped in and out over the day, it was all great fun.

Wednesday, the hottest day. Walk with son and dog over the fields in the next village. Birds shouting their heads off, dog diving in and out of the river. Good  exercise, fresh air, sunshine.

Lunch in the garden, Italian chicken with pasta, washed down with Montepulciano d'Abrozzo, followed by strawberries and blueberries.

Afternoon spent tackling the two Sheds of Doom. Emptied, one shed found to have a rotting floor and panels missing from one wall so it has to go. Regular gardening friend can do that for me.

Yesterday, a busy day. Collected a Tesco order, very nice man brought my order out for me. Only thing missing was bread flour. No matter, I have learnt to make an acceptable loaf in the breadmaker using ordinary plain flour.

Home, and gardening friend's lads came to mow my lawn. They also had first dibs on the Sheds of Doom contents (generator, lawn scarifier, decorators ladder). 
Skip arrived (ordered yesterday) and parked on drive. After lunch (sausages, new potatoes, peas, gravy followed by orange sponge pud and cream) the rest of the day was spent transferring Sheds of Doom contents. The second shed has a small hole or two in a wall which can be patched. The stuff I am keeping will all fit in that one shed.

After an afternoon and early evening of hot and tiring work filling the skip (and passing some useful bits on to neighbour, i.e, rowing machine, plinth heater, dehumidifier aircon machine) we called it a night. Don't know what I am going to do with three  knackered old bikes or the brand new toilet and washbasin, but I 'll think of something. A lovely session topping up my hair colour, long shower, giving my hair a trim. Son prepared crackers and cheese with a lovely lager shandy, also crisps and chocolate. A couple of episodes of Dr Who followed by bed and the sleep of exhaustion.

Today, sunny but with strong winds (40 mph plus). More of a pottering day, once I have cleared the lawn of remaining carp.

DundeeDoll

For yesterday
1) survived standing pilates - sound so gentle, ache so much!
2) made a very tasty dahl for lunch - haven't cooked with fresh ginger before lockdown - what a difference! 
3) sunny weather arrived - washing line-dried again hooray
4) finished work at 2:30 and we bathed the dogs so they're now all fluffy
5) watched an old Morse. 
For this morning - the University is closed for the day so still in bed when xoh phoned at 9. mil died peacefully last night, with a carer at her side. This was expected and care home had let the three children visit. Sad I didn't get to say goodbye - as mils go she was one of the best - but very pleased a carer was able to sit with her. My thoughts go out to all who work in care homes.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Who gives a Flying Duck ...

I know, on the edge as always! The manager of the Grosvenor House named this plane back in 1934. It won the MacRobertson Air race to Australia that year! It is on show at the Shuttleworth collection. Big Toys!

Jenny sends out a to Ms DD over ex OH MiL! Yous right about care homes.
Now onto the Life accordingly of BoP!
No snorkers tooday as we had biscuits of wheat and lashing of blue cap ice cold milk. Tea and a crumpet with raspberry jam! Raffles was all over the plaice this morning, so I refrained and fed him early. He is upping his sun thing for Sunday! Got it. We has BBQ inn, snorkers, chicken and burger! Watch this space.

Last nite we watched another flix on the net thing. The Clapper. Bit of a tale, but I suppose unintentionally it does highlight the media of these times in a way. BoP stopped using the BBC media at 21:33Z 1982-V-03. It was a Monday. Wobbleades were consumed. Again BoP will be reviewing another flix this evening!

Just watchjing bits on the amazon thing about the Aussie cricket. I did not realise they were so upset! Worth a view than other shows I could mention.

More nonsense. Went to the emporium last evening, no queue and loads of bum paper. Got all our shop, snorkers! Loads of them, and some whine for BoPsie! Raffles got his food as well. Don't know why we get him any, he grabs enough on his own. We use the A1D! now, as we has had one open, after all the objections from the non locals over recent years. I do ponder if people will change their shopping habits when this blows over? I know two emporiums that will see no cash from BoP! We did a comparison with W8R$ and our shop came out at £57 angst £105! Better the spare lines BoP's pocket and not ...

Taking of the shop, we has the usual items for luncheon, not on the plaza, see Raffles yellow project for Sunday! And a special treat of Apple Tarts as well. Tum is going to be rubbed!

BoPsie is on Job Creation at the moment, after cleaning a shelf every other day, we has decided that we can take all next weak to do the windows. Strange thing is I cleaned the orangery the other weak, and again some bird has obviously upset raffles and ...

Ok, that is all from BoP this day!
Be a big part in this sucess!

 

balabooberlies

DD..............sorry for your loss.  Big hug.

x

DigForVictory

Hello midears! It really has been this long? [Yes. Ahem. Sorry. MustTryHarder.]

Bala - a Smart device is only as fun as your internet connection. Says she with a new-as-we-spent-campsite-fees-on-TV, & then found the internet barely makes it over to that corner of the room. D'oh... My plastic broom has an unlovely but functional lump of aradite holding it together. Took about 4 layers to get it fixed, but it has Very Few excuses now. A pomegranate is a glorious fruit! Love the care of the Mallen streaked crow & the fox & the high-flutter-rate birds.

Purple kitten - awed at canny basket loading ready in case. Ah, line drying! Hm turkey & cous cous burgers, yum!

DundeeDoll - be gentle with yourself on all these online meetings - plan to take leave sometime soon? Just to recharge a bit? Oh midear - so sorry about MIL. Not the restful recharging I was hoping for you. I have figured how to light a candle online & will do so for you & yours, whilst holding you in my thoughts.

Villagelife - belated Happy Birthday! Clearing a room is best done as a group so long as you can all get in & out. Holiday hurrah!

Frith - awed at your family's skills! At the sheer energy of you all - canoeing, river swimming, tennis.

Mhagster - love your description of your mum's duvet! (Youngest was once found trying to get his duvet flat using a skipping rope knotted around one corner.) Alas the Govt gateway tech really does take a gnaw on the soul of the user, but Done now. Wrap well against the winds?!

LaineyT - good to hear of small one & beautiful ones, and I am charmed by the sheer character of a magpie that will leap to knock feed loose! You have what I think of as Edinburgh sashes? (Where I learned sashes could not just slide up & down but [correctly conjured] swing right open!)

MrsLW - to see little one a joy, to be denied cuddles near purgatory but congratulations all round & will not covet half kilo of yeast as do have at least one tin. [The thanks button is a Known Issue that MSE Towers have been working to fix - presume trickier remotely but three cheers, as they have it working again so long as you are logged in!] Love baby turning into 'real' person.

Happycas - seedlings at risk from blackbirds? Will warn middleson when his carrot seedlings migrate from windowsill to somewhere in garden to edge with gog & bramble prunings from last year. Sticky & thorny...

BoP - you can tame curtains, too? <Awed> Reloaded on snorkers of three different sorts & thought happily "Proper Food!" Cheers Raffles - look forward to a Sunday of Yellow Stuff  (but may have platter of Yellow Food in case)

VJsmum - Stardust is a smashing film (even my chaps who like their set pieces & high body counts enjoy it) How soon before viva & how do you socially distantly vive, anyway? A sort of zoom meeting with extra teeth?

Nargleblast - awed at you vs Sheds Of Doom [& contents - Generator?!] & absolutely certain You'll Think Of Something for bikes & bathroom plumbing [not at all Heath Robinson but pragmatic]

OS Pleasures recently

It is good to lie on the floor after tagliatelle Bolognese. Husband totally convinced of the superiority of Tagliatelle over mere spaghetti & thinking we should cook & serve the Bolognese slightly differently. Italian style with the sauce clinging to the pasta Italian style. 

Another Inner Toddler is chirping happily over copies of Aeromodeller older than me. For that much pleasure, very reasonably priced! [Arrived, chirping ongoing & I guffaw over a 1958 mathematics exam paper, not least as I flinch recollecting bits & decide to post it on to my high-maths-speaking parent] 

Husband recalls me acquiring a lot of weird military leatherwork from “some lecherous dealer” - since we had at least two small lads with us & possibly a 3rd in pack or pushchair, I don’t think it was lechery unless he had a thing for cheerful maniacs who were hoping to spend money on a treat. 

Go on, create your own Penguin Classic  No idea about copyright for cards mugs etc but fun!

You know a film has not gripped you when you start noticing every scene where the horse & it’s tack are not in synch. “Underneath the planet of the apes” gets a resounding No from my inner pony club.

Oh gods, Singapore is using Boston Dynamics’ Big Dog robot to check social distancing in parks & I am such a geek I recognised it from news coverage before seeing it confirmed. I’m such a happy geek....

'I am trying to remember the wonderful person I lost, not remember that I lost a wonderful person.' Martin Lewis on his mum - still wonderful, still painful.

Torn between proud & peeved - son will accompany me to garden centre & lug compost, vermiculite etc but not at the weekend “as it’s too risky”! Husband wants to join in but he’s the one we’re trying to protect... 

As a family, the baby Wilfred is known as “little Willie” to us, distinguishing him from his father.

I keep forgetting the beautiful tailoring in the Addams Family....

There’s something very period military about a ball cheek snaffle with keepers. Apart from it being one of the mildest bits (before vulcanised rubber) whilst looking gallantly heroic.

Ancestry is suggesting relatives today like picking currants off a vine, long strings of fruit!

Big jostaberry showing baby berries! Little Josta, also! Cane fruits thinking, even the hazel showing little tufts (gifts, says autocorrect, & maybe rightly) of green. Downhill, always wetter, always more fertile, there are strings of tiny currants. I came outside near tears, but am reassured, restored, reminded that to everything there is a season. Also that I should prune some of this, so I can get at the harvest. Cuttings, possibly, also.

My carpet protection mat has arrived & I think I left it too late - the table has embedded. Fun to swiggle on the mat in leggings though!

Oh gods, ribs aching at the Space Force memes. A lot of detailed nerdy geekery suddenly allied to politics!

Heck of a crash bang wallop - neighbour disrupted birdsong with recycling fumble!

Listening to Tom Lehrer - apparently when touring Australia he was asked not to lead audiences astray with Be Prepared. (Later, he’d finish with the Vatican Rag & a getaway vehicle on standby - or so he advised someone asking permission to perform it....)

I’m awaiting an online mindfulness session to start & trying Not to snicker at various avatars which have been tweaked just one small step past human... The mindful exercise on eating a bar of chocolate is so diligent, it's absolutely ridiculous. "I want to eat it, not date it" was the team consensus.

“Ah, that’s it, it’s what’s-is-name” - the noun once again has escaped and returned to the wild. (Grammar purists, my apologies, but I hope you share my bewildered amusement.)

Ah, team meetings. Ours ended with “homework” - research the 'veet for men' review on Amazon... Anyone management checking our browser usage is going to be blinking somewhat - as All of us were giggling along together.

Right. Health, strength, love & courage to all who need them, likewise hugs for all who yearn for the real thing & instead are having to make do with the virtual version & as the Bank Holiday Weekend leers at us, defying us to fill it with acts of virtue &/or necessity, may I remind you sleep is also a necessity to restore the oomph? Onwards!

balabooberlies

D4V.  Thanks for advice.  It never occured to me to think about internet connection.  Sadly, ours is not great.........drops out at least once a day........sometimes more.  Oh well...........you gets what you pay for...............

Crow is daily visitor..........he/she has had her lunch 'cos s/he was late for breakfast !

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And she's back............... came for Tea..............had a little chat with her.  Have decided she is a girl so need a name.

Any ideas ?

balabooberlies

Okay, found it.

In the spirit of the moment I shall call her  Florence.  She can be my nightingale...........

I know, I know..........  ;-)

Pyxis

DigForVictory said:

As a family, the baby Wilfred is known as “little Willie” to us, distinguishing him from his father.

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Thank you for that good guffaw! Hilarious!
Do, do please post that in The Arms! 

DundeeDoll

Thank you all for your thoughts, Jenny for your  and DfV for alerting me to the light a candle. I have now lit one for my MiL, her 3 children, their partners and children. It's been a long day, but fortunately for me the University was shut so I had no meetings
1) not being in a meeting when xoh phoned me with the news and being able to chat for over an hour
2) going for a blustery walk with the boys having broken the news to DD2 and checked she'd be OK while I walked the boys
3) walking into town with DD2 - we'd already planned that as i had a £10 voucher at Christmas for an organic no plastic shop next to the cathedral
4) they do take away drinks so here's me and DD2 enjoying a drink not in the house. hooray. the first for 9 weeks!!!
5) and Friday is fish supper night delivered by our local chippy. Then a lovely evening reminiscing.