5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

villagelife

For yesterday.
1. Spoke with friend briefly. We were both fairly busy!
2.  Quick tidy of garden and made some salads as
3. DH cousin and husband and for a BBQ . Lovely time chatting, eating , drinking and relaxing.  They are people who are very easy to be with.
4. A spitfire flew over 4 times during the afternoon. Must be back to giving flights to people so that was over £10000. 
5. After DH cousin left stayed in the garden reading my book.
6. DS1 having a better day.

PaulieHerts

Recent pleasures:
sister & niece visited for first time yesterday and we had a lovely couple of hours chat in the garden watching all the antics of the birds including the blackbirds who have decided to build a nest in the garage after abandoning the one in the bay tree (with eggs in it!). It’s a bit worrying as the garage is locked at night and when I go out 😟
builder came back Wednesday and Thursday. Few more jobs done - oak window sills, skirting boards, blinds up but still more jobs to finish
I picked elderflowers on my walk the other day and bottled up 2 x 2 litres of elderflower champagne yesterday 🍾 hope it works!
Enjoyed the sunshine ☀️ yesterday and had a dip in the hot tub when the visitors had gone
Fakeaway curry last night in the garden   Luckily we were under the garden umbrella when it started to rain ! 
Happy Sunday everyone 😘

DigForVictory

What ho midears! I went On Leave & things got even more erratic. [3 of us convinced it was 3 different days.]

Purple kitten - the vax is a loyal pal. Music is a wonderful aid to most jobs. Hurrah soundbar & make your own mind up about Alexa (I go looking for the off switch with a lump hammer)

villagelife - hurrah back better & ooh, fingers crossed landlord duties soon. DS2 cooked, (covet) & now back at work. Oooh sweet peas. Will work for food - but there're fewer tax issues. It does seem odd when folk complain of inevitable country noise. Filled pots are heartwarming.

LaineyT - love the diagnostics & treatment of beloved! Woodpecker antics, aww. Gently with yon foot. Laundry And yeast! Serious rain can be a blessing. All this hairdressing incl feathers! Hoovering top of wardrobes? (Layer newspaper & remove one every once in a while?) Aw, that equine greeting.

BoP - I covet your open dump. Photos, pints & poppies - awed respects. Eyes watering at knurdlers... Proper Elevenses! Emporium wobbleades but elsewhere for whine? Keep motor filled up, avoid condensation. Snorkers! Have seen forecast for coming week - well done Raffles

DundeeDoll - accelerating towards a funeral - you have been much in mind. DD2 birthday & MrPiano returning. Did a workout before 8 then brain returned - awed! Gosh 1 John 4 has the good stuff, then MrPiano back! Bubblebath & DID - atta gal! Coconut milk - adds an extra zing other things can't quite manage.

Frith - hurrah our NHS and wow your lads. Museum  Very Fortunate to have such well researched guidebooks. Thank you for the reassurance that was damsons. Even large shepherds disappear when pied. You were an onboard spinner too? 5 sacks - how do you move them? Opening a new account can be an utter chore. Hurrah post office for banking.

Happycas - M + S Food! Chemists have upped their game amazingly. Garden centre in the rain best time as fewer folk. Hairdresser's appointment - lock away your scissors.

VJSmum - the wrong book into a chazzer bag is a pleasure, but yeay clean sheets! Nuts are nice but being able to find your waist is too. Microcamper plans & pretexts! Teams meetings are a two edged thing. Convenient but at least 4 Sept is fixed.

juliettet - "need to master quiche" - cor! It's fun to change suppliers & feel the virtue.

Mrs SD - squirty cream a specila pleasure.

PaulieHerts - builders back a pleasure?

Cranky - I can't say a word!

missychrissy - love the idea of a musical egg timer

ampersand - rats to the not-spottery & invisible magic pixies relocating.

PommeVerte - welcome! Hurrah mega cute baby clothes. Visitor pressure for tidying - sadly effective.

Suffolksue - with love so much is possible. Glad son popped in even if GP wrong.

mhagster - those pills take courage - but if they really are not helping, tell your GP.. Your lad 25? Where does time go?! Urge him to keep a list & send/drop off handwritten thank you notes - it's quite ridiculous how much these things are appreciated?

OS Pleasures (edited as I can't hog nearly a fortnight's worth)

Brothers! As one prepares to sit eat & watch a film, the other slides back the beanbag... classic slapstick manoeuvre, beautifully played.

Oooh, power cut - just as Middleson all soapy & very irate at the universe. Fixed seconds after he’d started warming a pan of water on the gas ring...

Parents needed a neural lawyer to witness a signature, so distanced drive-by observation scheduled with bonus observing three year old! [Done! Sold. Money in bank. Decades of family holidays now just memories but all weather reports, outbreaks of foot & mouth & anxieties about the jackdaw that keeps using the chimney as a nest site Are Not My Parents’ Problem!]

Saw rocket (or space station) feeling very small but glad of gravity & of shared things.

Middleson laying about him with the loppers, rightly tidying trees, just leaving very hard to compost lumps in his wake & dropping bits On My Cuttings! Ho hum, the tayberry is absolutely perfect for donating four cuttings which I have a sunny future location planned. First to escape, locate pots & mix the potting mix. Another day growing should not make a vast difference. [Turned out to be 3 - but you can’t hustle the weather.]

Booked Annual Leave mostly to manage colleagues expectations when I don’t answer calls or emails next week. Not going anywhere or doing anything but taking leave anyway. The Out of Office is ticklish as I won’t return to my Manchester office either but will be ‘back at my desk’.

“Row it like you stole it” - odd to hear Clive Andersen thus abjured, but if he’ll attempt history he has to take the rollocks with the Picts.

Whoops, late for online meditation - trying to ‘concentrate on the breath’ as menfolk peer around the door & comment, ahem! Mindfully giggling here & full of love for them... Thank gods the tech is one way & no one else can hear. Unlike a previous meeting, where son hammering was a bit too audible.

Ron Hutton in a secret museum - amazing as different floors belong to different centuries & the preDickensian was stunningly different to the lady’s music room. You enter, by appointment, to be handed a candle & utterly forbidden any mobile - I want to go! 

The sound effects of eavesdropping on shopping - the scrunch of packets, the bip of the self scan, the “yeargh!” as something slides off. Sat in the car, giggling helplessly....

Sister has bought a new to her car! Drove it 38 miles home too - So Proud of her!

Now officially On Annual Leave! Schemes of gardening & perhaps hunting a new (to me) car but above all improving fitness - spent too long sat & can feel it. [A lovely plan. Ho hum.]

“That was nearly catastrofus!” Not sure what Middleson achieved but we like his new word.

James May making 70s sandwiches & sensibly binning the knife block on grounds of dubious hygiene. 

The trad lads feed of chicken noodle wombat was debated this evening “it’s not chicken, there is no noodle & the wombat is lacking” - oh my sons.

Researching organic compost (comfrey still in seed packet, ahem) found product offering guarantee results "even in the most soil depraved conditions" Still giggling an hour [days!] later.

Son’s pride, his car, won’t start. Think they must have left a light on but whoops - array of red & amber lights not good. [Mate’s dad said “lights mean almost enough, just bump start it” - And I Did! Proud moment.]

Middleson not currently convinced touch is good for health (as I demand, & get, a hug.) “Google it” I suggest (& then check the ground underneath me - dear me, science really does back me!) Possibly the best reason for being in a bubble of more than one - hugs!

Not sure if I’m a heroine or the greatest blighter unhung, but guiding sis through applying for a credit-building credit card (as she bought a paddling pool for her dogs & it would hold two mice but not the Labrador pictured let alone her two Labs & has been utterly snookered by paying on a debit card) Worryingly, my parents regard my authority on credit card nuances & consumer protection law as rare & admirable, whereas I thought they knew this already, being grown ups....

Got sundry seeds set (at last) then was about to help with Belfast sink relocation but ricked knee. So sat entranced in classic teddybear sitting position with knee wrapped watching the modified Trooping of the Colour & getting thoroughly emotional at all that welsh military band music. (Before the Falklands, we had a unit in the valley and Sunday was both band & marching practice so I’d swing on a tyre, bundled in all my clothes & whatever windproof thing covered me, & listen entranced if the wind direction permitted) Currently a well respected 94 year old walks with more grace than I do.

Right, health strength love & courage to all as have need, huge congratulations on funerals & birthdays & expectations (quite a lot of breech presentations change their minds at could-you-not-have-done-this-Months-ago moments, admits she blushfully), and if you can take a day off or two I gather the weather is forecast to cooperate admirably. Well, I go back into my office - it makes sense...

Happycas

What can I say when following a DfV post except a proper thank you. Truly wonderful, as always !

Suffolksue

thank thank you DfV agree completely about the graceful 94 yr old 
DS commented on how badly I am walking .Must do better 

DundeeDoll

Lovely post as always DfV Just finished watching Goodbye Christopher Robin and now listening to ISIHAC with Tim Brooke Taylor and Jeremy Hardy. Sometimes it's good to have a good old weep! GCR is up on channel 4 for another week - heartily recommend if you haven't seen (which I hadn't). Right, time to walk the dogs. Having another lazy day as realising I am absolutely shattered! 200 emails came into my email account on my day off. shudder (had to go in to find the zoom link for church which came middle of GCR as hadn't allowed for extra time needed for ads - I'm far too mse to pay for the ad-free service ;-) 

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Down leg side and missing!

Just sealed it with this one. I kows peoples go to the Donna Nook because they are sheep, but aye when I was a lad, they were all over, and still are but not telling you where.

DfV Eyes watering at Knurdlers! Just thinks it can be a bulldog clip!
DD The Rakuten cinema has free films, BoP normally tops up his wobbleades during the adverts. I just ponder why they want me to wear pad things and face creams!
Mhags I has linked the beta blocker page if it helps! https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Beta-blockers/

Now with the BoPs forts of the day!

Had the biscuits of wheet this morning with ice cold milk and toast. Fresh concentrate of orange and tea was drinked!

Watched another binge of Das Boot last night. Only too to go now and will be finished. Very goo how they deal with the difficult subjects on the theme, although some artistic licence with events. Wobbleades and cheeses were wolfed down. We also had the sticky chickens wings. Very good and BoPsie's flavourites. Raffles had the bones. Our local lander pigeon also help himself. 

We is has the fake roast again tonite for dinner, with stuffing, pan gravy. With minted tatties, finely chopped carrots, and broccoli.

Watching the cricket, I think that Monty should be able to hold on for us this day against the Aussies. Will See! Mmm.

That is all for this SunDae! I has some decent cheery tarts to eaten!
Overall, the next this is a blockbuster with Charlton Heston! 2022!
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And I is outtas here!

mhagster

Pirate Pete they’re not beta blockers but thank you for your concern. I’m alright now. Just like last time I was on them the initial getting used to them is a bit blah. 

Early morning walk. 

Been rather productive and sorted out some things for selling...was triggered by the responses of memories when selling stuff in Melbourne. Is this still available? Yes. What’s your address  to see if I can  get there...er, you’re not getting my address till I know you’re coming. Meanwhile more messages coming in. Told her my locale. She saw message . No reply. Meanwhile even more messages coming in. Do you want it? Nah...don’t know when I could get there. Next person. I’ll come about 1pm. Still not arrived by 2pm. Will come tomorrow instead. Then other thing should have been picked up in last hour ( friend) so shall message them shortly. So I’ve been stuck in waiting when I could have been out a walk or something ( not that in these circumstances I would be very far but it’s the principle! )

Anyway . Grass was cut. Tidied up plant pots at front door and swept up.

Funny day with weather, very cloudy to start but dry and breezy. Washing out. Boiling and humid as I was cutting grass. Then blooming chilly and now smashing! 

So many purple flowers in bloom in the garden. Lavender, scabiosa, Veronica, lupins, pansies, asters, clematis, aubretia, senetti, iris, album, petunias and some others I don’t  know the names of! One of my favourite colours ( though not a colour I wear) 

Constant birdsong/chatter and my baby swallows peeking out the nest in the eaves. Hello! 
 

CRANKY40

Good evening all, pleasures for yesterday....

The cat has had tonsilitis but seems much better due mostly I think to the antibiotics that I've had to poke into the jaws of death at regular intervals. The pleasure is that she's better. There is a video on youtube of how to give tablets to a cat. Ours behaves nothing like the cat on that video! 

As the cat starts to feel better it gets harder and harder to put the medication in. This is a mixed pleasure for obvious reasons.

Watched a Netflix film with the HT

Picked a handful of ripe raspberries from the garden. The rhubarb is also growing very well. Some of the seeds that I planted are starting to come up. 

Had a chat with my sister. That was the pleasure. The outcome of the chat is that as my dad has diabetes, my sister and I are giving up sugar from Monday. Life is about to get interesting.....Extra bonus pleasure is that my sister is taking an interest in her health. 

VJsmum

Evening all

Epic as ever DforV - Catastrofus sounds perfectly reasonable to me.  My mum used to say Race Horsing which also sounds correct - and i guess technically it is!
Pleasures for yesterday

1. Went to visit the MiL - she was on reasonably good behaviour and only got maudlin at the end..
2. the weather was glorious, just as well as we had to stay distanced in the garden - she is in SiL's bubble not ours.
3. Nice lunch - picnic with smoked salmon and cream cheese yummy bread rolls, veg samosas and salad.
4. More salmon for tea, with jersey royals - my fave
5. Virtual pub - they are getting tedious.  People talking over each other - the pleasure was that it ended and i could go to bed.

And today
1. sat and read (skim read) a whole book - can't remember when i last did so.  the story line was good but the writing a bit pants, so glad i skimmed it
2. a nice hour or two weeding and dead heading until the heavens opened.
3. and goodness they did too - that was not a light shower BBC forecasters.. I likes a good storm
4. watched another episode of 'when they see us' - superb, harrowing stuff
5. OH is cooking chicken and chorizo traybake for tea...

Have a good evening all..