5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

mhagster

Cranky  hope all is well with you and your boy?

balabooberlies

Another beautiful day.

A fan to keep us cool.

Washed and dried winter coats to be put away.  Love my washing machine.  It's a hard worker.  Also washed duvets.

Good TV.

Tea and biscuits.

Tiggy lying next to me quiet and peaceful.

Sweet dreams to all

x

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Drove out to feed store but despite having checked opening times on website it was shut, not a pleasure but driving a different way to the yard was.

Saw a pal in the field with her horse so stopped and had socially distanced chat over fence.

The beautiful grey one was a treasure on her third day of lunging with lots of transitions to voice commands, she has a day off today 😊

An Ice-cream cone in the garden.

Watched Springwatch and particularly taken by the footage of a lady helping a coot build its nest.

VJsmum

Morning all

Mhags - i drove for the first time in 2 months anywhere on sunday...  Only to the garden centre but it felt like an adventure!

Pleasures for yesterday

1. planted the final seedlings - some will have to take their chances
2. Watched a Dyfi osprey chick hatch live on the webcam
3. a walk up the lane alone - not often i walk alone these days
4. caught up with all my outstanding magazines - Big Issue and my professional one (most of the latter were flicked through and recycled as rather out of date)
5. Two episodes of The stranger - two more to go.

Have a lovely day all and enjoy this glorious weather

DundeeDoll

What glorious weather - having a slow start and considering how t o'play' the day - have already put 40+ hours in this week so if i was on flexy i could take the day off - however my contract says 'until the job is done' - with 172 unread emails facing me at 5pm last night that's never going to be. Still, not all bad, i have a job and i love the job. Thank you those sharing your lovely pictures
1) day started with xoh phoning me in tears - very sad about her mum and she still turns to me for emotional support.  i still find the break up of the marriage sad, but the mse is good being there for others in need
2) then my first online conference. Was really really good. quite a small affair, via zoom, complete with break-out rooms. All very well organised, and very good with timings - 10 minutes in between each talk meant 10 minutes in the sun
3) lunch time the chair shared a video of her ducks in a paddling pool - hoping the dogs' paddling pool arrives today
4) managing to get 150 of those darned 172 opened to check for any urgents
5) watching last available killing eve episode while dancing in my sitting room to get my steps up must look into strangers.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Midgets ...

Just needs mes driving gloves. We put petrol inn BoP's wheels this weak for the thirst time since March! And I cleaned her as well!
Hops alls well inn the parish and Jenny sends a 
PM2DD Prepare too watch football like some gaggle of school kids in an empty swimming pool! And the cardbored cut-out fans!
Now on with the happenings in BoPsphere!

Just dun the Tom Plants inn the yard. BoPsie, who goes to a different optician than BoP, Eyesite is fading. She comes inn and says she has the barrow out ready to gets the compost. I had bought it inn yesterday when I cleaned the car! Never mind, but her bloods came back ok again! Raffles is recovering! Tom plants were watered.

Had a laze inn this morning and BoPsie gets up to food Raffles. He rewarded her some seconds later with another Terminator present. Poor BoPsie struggled to get Raffles back in control! We pay his veterinary bills. He has bin working on the yellow thing this weak and I can confirm that again, Saturday is BBQ day. Please be aware that we cleaned the local emporium out of trays for BBQ sometime recently. Buzzard is maturing inn the marinade I maid on SunDae! Details in BoP happynings passim!

Again I has reviewed the flix for you. We had some Colin Quinn on Wednesday and then last nite we had Lady's in Black. Aussie tale of some girl getting a plaice at university. Quiet cultured is BoP. Cheese and wobbleades were consumed. Inn A1D! BoP finds some decent Aus whine for BoPsie and it was far too tasty for her delicate delights! Please do not follow BoP's advice at home unless you are professional about it!

For tea last nite we had tortoise pasta parcels of bacon and cheese in tom sauce with chilli. We has that many tortoise parcels that we has the same this evening as well. I wills select another flix and review.

Had the last of the golden flakes of corn this morn in ice cold full milk! Got the snorkers and the best back ready for the sat brakefest. On SunDae we is having some dippy eggs, with buttered marmite soldiers. Tea was also drinked.

That is all for the version of BoP according to the MSE site!
I is fed up of only being able to wash me hands, but as we ease out, I can now take a shower!

CRANKY40

Thanks Mhags, we're ok. It's just that things have been a bit hectic. we've been playing catch up with the HT's school work as it looks like there's no chance of proper school yet. I also had a funeral to go to this week and I've been helping the HT's best friend get some help via the doctor for anxiety and depression as her mother and grandmother wouldn't do anything (long story). 

I can do some pleasures for yesterday....

Long gab with my cousin on opposite sofas. We'd been to the funeral and it's a good time to talk family stuff and get some of the emotion out.

I went to Sainsburys after and amongst boring grocery shopping I treated the HT and myself to a chocolate eclair each. Sainsbury's still does social distancing properly and as it's not the cheapest it's fairly empty by 4pm. 

My sister sent me some gorgeous photos of my great-nephew at an animal park. He's just turned one year old and he saw a peacock for the first time. He really wanted to touch it ha ha!

My garden has less bedding plants than usual but still looks good. 

I have finished most of my craft projects but still have two blankets on the go so I did a bit of crochet last night whilst listening to Elvis on youtube. 

Take care all of you and thanks for missing me Mhags. I love the sound of your doggy snuggles but I like to borrow labradors for a quick hug these days rather than be owned by one 

DigForVictory

Gosh, good to get back!

Purple Kitten - lovely photos! Hadn't heard of Keen before but much impressed by website. The really nice cholcolate is worth the extra money.

Dundee Doll - dark chocolate is the smart treat, as is ISIHAC with TBT. Hurrah beating down the emails!

Frith - eldest needs antibiotics? Blast roundtrip just to charge battery. Stunning flowers! Was that the night attire Sewing Bee or the recycled garments? Good to hear smaller son in a good, chatty mood. 

bala - painkillers are a bit like blood sugar, aim to keep a steady level? Washed duvets - awed!

village life - my first thought re air ambulance was 'but what happened to the horse'?! Glad the funeral was a comfort. I think interviews are best approached when not particularly serious, but that can be difficult.

LaineyT - the first cup of tea of the day is very special. I love Apollo 13 - Must View watching for anyone either into impromptu engineering or grousing about vaccinations. Ah, lunge work. It does! Strawberries then hoped for space sightings saturday. Orderly transitions - well done!

PaulieHerts - home made scones - yum!

mrs motivated - keep at the barbecue and hot tub negotiations!

mhagster - blast the plantar playing up again. I had an old squash bottle in the freezer to roll, which distracted a bit. Tagliatelle is the favourite new pasta since Himself watched a TV cook shown how to get the sauce to stick to the pasta & the genuine Italian momma verison looks & tastes so much better than the English lumped! Open peonies - ahh. How is your back?  All this heat seems very UnBritish somehow & certainly UnScottish. A well-trained son is a joy.

VJsmum - absolutely right to enjoy a castle! When is the viva~? You do know you & Himself & microcamper car could have a bash at the Great Indoors scout badge? Open to Not-Scouts as the virus... Seedlings taking their chances - not vulnerable to slugs?

jimali - a jigsaw-sharing group sounds wonderful. How do you achieve "leftover smoked salmon"? Trek is good moral stuff, for morale too. We loved Picard.

BoP - truly some human beans seem not to understand cause & effect. Ah, tortoise pasta - yum! Buzzard in marinade - I can sort of see a bird's head sticking out of a bowl, soothed but bemused....

Happycas - call & collect fish & chips? wonderful!

Nargleblast - how many verses of Halllelujah?! Should not covet strawberries, but... (um, you do know choral singing has been identified with various hotspot outbreaks? Please be careful.)

Cranky - dear lord your plate has been a bit full! Dead right to steer to GP & to hit the eclairs (Sains do do some Very Nice ones - not cheap but potent.)

OS pleasures recently

While shopping, I snaffled two new-to-me flavours of dark chocolate bar.

Ooh, Denby bank holiday sale plus Tesco clubcard vouchers - surely a heaven sent opportunity? Dear me, the prices! Even with vouchers. I shocked the chaps & resisted.

My first walk (other than shopping) of over 5 minutes. Youngest guided me on a single lap of the park, a whole 17 minutes & I’m well aired but puffed. Oh dear. Back into antisocial trousers!

To watch the Count Of Caligostro, youngest lines up beanbag, cup of tea & box of Jaffa cakes... Then continues the running argument that that films should be watched in silence & no one should eat noisily - with his brother, scrunching toast & brewing with the Breville (which is admirably quick, but unarguably loud).

Yippee! Not so much tidying up but having a vaguely targeted forage has revealed the rooting powder, sand, vermiculite & even bone meal that were on my shopping list! This bank holiday weekend I shall oversee the under gardener taking cuttings... [Er.] Should see us with a hopeful array of dead sticks within a month. The self seeded little hazels will be replanted up on the back garden possibly within reach of the farm above’s goats.

Oh gods thank you! Dillie Keane’s perspective with her alas inimitable style She has an entire individual show and I've found a Kit & the Widow show neither of which I knew existed - hurrah YouTube!

The swings & roundabouts of family zoom calls - everyone agrees I should be allowed to preview & possibly edit their Christmas letters for January this year. A relief I’d rather not need, but the upside is everyone’s agreed, in front of each other.

I’m happily watching Finding Dory & at the ‘apocalypse now’ visual reference my husband chuckles (at last) and we agreed this is the magic of Pixar - I just enjoy & he watches for the adult-pleasing flickers....  [Later “you crying yet?” “not yet” - hurrah Pixar doesn’t reduce me to dripping.]

Another new sport to me - pro bull riding. Have to say it strikes me as hilariously insane - no saddle just bring your own rope & glove & hope to stay on for 8 seconds (as the judges score either you, Or The Bull!) Think the high speed axe & chainsaw wielders keep my attention as I can put those lads to use - riding roast not such a transferable skill.

I have rather neglected my religious observances, (whilst maintaining private prayer) but today the full Bank Holiday Thou Shalt do something constructive in the garden (all the more so as it was cold & threatening wet round my way) has been observed. Just hoping three pints of tea fend off the pneumonia, & that just one of the cuttings (in my first-time-ever blended it potting mix) survives. The under gardener mixed a second batch of cutting mix to my recipe, declaring this was beneath him, he knew this already from his garden centre job a couple of years ago!

Amused by cleric of Salford who has veiled his bookcases with Wisdens! Which opens & closes sundry doors of speculation.

Husband has taken action on his hair & made a hat that fits over all the hair & enables him to see etc. After a haircut his usual headgear will fit & function but the current article is based on 6th century dutch homage to Roman headgear (think pillbox but with the edge folded up & engulfing rather than jauntily perching) & is looking very handsome! [Strangely reminding me of Langley china, but that’s a colour & spacing quirk] Thinking next years reenactors clothing will be stunning as they’ll have had plenty of time to plan, research, source then hand sew.

Quality time in the garden, some bank holiday oversleeping & it seems my skin is glowing healthy not feeling recently exhumed. The sun? The exercise? The sleep? Or just ability to give a hoot burnout?! 

“Tea is for gossip, brandy for shock” - the ladies in Father Brown do get some excellent lines! Says she, who rather enjoyed one channel facilitating a binge watch...

The birthday exchange happened! On our back garden so we got to see the remote controlled car hurtling through the grass & to see a demure damsel rightly delight in her own BB pistol. Heaven help our neighbours (knife & axe throwing suddenly seeming tame) but her brother [who came to give her a lift home] was smitten - I just hope her parents don’t think the lads are leading her astray. A girl should be able to shoot accurately, & encouraged to practise.

Dear gods - after a ‘minister goes walkabout’, half our grouch boards are muzzled. Truly the after bank holiday blues can be challenging. Makes my gardening aches mild as my imagination reads moderated phrases that warm (down from yearn-to-spill) the blood.

Sudden panic as due at dentist in 15 minutes warning - only on a pre-virus timeline. Lovely receptionist reassured me all fine, emergencies still seen & checkup call up letters will be sent, once they’re ready. Called down blessings upon her & all her colleagues & relaxed!

I say, if ever I succumb to a Protestant work ethic [woke at 6, at laptop 15 minutes later], I shall blame it all on an impressively distant branch of the family who fled France for America after the Edict of Nantes. Then made themselves notorious for believing the Deaf could be taught to communicate & indeed educated. O Gallaudets, I salute you! (And your wives, who diligently produced numerous progeny.)

If [OK, as] I go on a bit about the garden, some of it is just sharing the joy of sloshing a bit of water onto cuttings in their pots, in the amazing early morning dawn chorus. I’m moving gently to avoid waking the family & am amply rewarded by birdsong within feet. [Not having to deal with sleepy stressed menfolk also a pleasure] Then into the office but the chorus helps.

Golly colleague at team meeting has it sorted - deck chair, Panama hat & laptop on side table, out in the garden!

Middleson’s carrot seedlings at a jaunty angle so I rotated them & got scolded “don’t mess with a man’s carrots!”....

I observed Middleson washing his hands (ah, Virtue!), croond “the lovely lovely toes” as I note his bare feet & he flounced off like a Victorian damsel. I love his feet, but he thinks it’s strange...

Another morning watering of cuttings & then sitting for a minute listening to birdsong. Glorious!

[Not-Pleasure our MrsLurcherwalker appears to have left MSE. I'm bemused, distressed, bewildered. The prepping boards had appeared relatively businesslike, but posts have been deleted.]

Right. Health, strength, love & courage to all as have need, hugs likewise (dashed distancing, but needful) and point all those who might listen towards the Great Indoors scout badges, as they've been rather well thought out & are fun to do & to cheer... Onwards!

Frith

That's bad news about MrsLW - perhaps you can catch up with those of us on FB?

Pleasures for today (Friday)

1) A lie in.
2) Bigger son is just short of his 1250km target for cycling this month. He'll finish it tomorrow. The "closure" of Wales is annoying as it means he can't turn left! 
3) Stood watching the bumblebees come in and out of their nest in next door's shed. Deadheaded the roses.
4) Got on with jobs - emailed an invoice, rejigged BT contract (no one else will have us as we're too rural), cleaned the bathroom. Attempted to sort out other finances and left messages. Changed one bed. Did 2 loads of washing. 
 5) Fajitas for tea filled with Jamie Oliver's veg chilli.
6) Watched Springwatch and Gardeners World.
7) Did an online quiz with bigger son, but it was all 80s films so impossible!

Meant to say that yesterday (or the day before) we saw a hare within half a mile of the village - I haven't seen one for years.

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Another warm sunny day, we are being so spoilt with this weather.

Out early to garden centre in village, hmm not entirely comfortable as trolleys didn’t look like they were being anti-bac’d and not many people wearing gloves etc. Got a few bits and then out, will try the nursery next.

A ploughman’s lunch in the garden, it was nice with a cool breeze but found out later the tops of my shoulders had caught.

Out to feed store and it was open, again it all seemed a bit hit & miss but guess businesses are trying to adapt.

The Jay was back in the garden, picking up bits of seed, such a beautiful bird.