5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

mhagster

Hello. Just been out a last of the day doggy walk and it was decidedly cooler than I’d thought! 

Early morning walk through the fields this morning.
Then down to allotment for a few hours. Got very hot and was a very hot walk home. With every footstep felt! Bunnies have been in at my raspberries. GRRRRR
Some new folk getting the tour and they had the most gorgeous puppy with them. 

Met colleague on way down so had a nice chat with her. 

Huge snooze on sofa in afternoon. Not intended but obviously needed. 

Went to Lidl. In evening. Not terribly busy and so much cheaper but bah to it being way at the other  side of town . Longer queue to get into the ice cream shop. But a good safe system. 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Thursday)

1) A lie in.
2) Bigger son carried on cycling, pausing at the SS Great Britain, and had chips in Weston before setting his tent up within sight of the sea. He wants to cycle through Cheddar Gorge and go back through Bristol to see the statue plinth.
3) Charity emailed me again to say it's all go and their worker (G) will make contact with younger son through email.
4) The call promised by County on Tuesday has not happened (of course!) so it'll be back to appointing a solicitor on Monday. I do not believe a word they say at this point. 
5) Overpaid the mortgage.
6) Did a Sainsburys Click and Collect.
7) Rained all day, which will be marvelous for the garden and allotment. 
8) Did the online pub quiz with bigger son listening to the questions on the phone!
9) Watched Ambulance.

Sad news about Vera Lynn. It would have been my grandma's birthday today and she would have been 103 also. 

villagelife

1. Had a blood test at work for vivid antibodies - pleasure is arm isn't bruised and only too 19 minutes. This is quick for me but she wasn't sure she had taken enough blood as I don't bleed well. I'm hoping I don't need to do it again.
2. Work happened. A colleague texted me in the evening asking me about someone who had a meltdown at work and did I know what happened. My reply was of course I don't. No doubt we will all be told next week to be more considerate to her. I am professional when at work and definitely show more consideration to others than they show me.
3. Had a long chat with neighbours - DS1 was chatting with them when I got home. I arrived home to the sound of him laughing which was lovely.
4. DS1 has been to post office to post a letter to France. He arrived at lunchtime 2 minutes after they closed so had a long walk round the village before sending the letter.
5. DS1 has an interview. He was sent a link and the questions were asked and he had to record his answers and then submit it . He said it was strange and hard to figure out how it went.
6. DS2 played golf with a friend after work.

LaineyT

For yesterday,

The garden looking so much greener after a few days of rain.

Drove out to the farm shop, picked up a few bits and had an interesting chat with the butcher, good to hear about close proximity of suppliers as would rather not eat meat than suffer chlorinated chicken!

Listened to a couple of woo-tube videos from this lady,
https://m.youtube.com/user/BealtaineCottage 

My pony had turned into a mud monster, oh well keeps me busy!

Tea was a mushroom and lentil bake, followed my mint choc chip ice-cream.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Again

Was not coloured, but very sepia! SE5, or a flying crate!
Mint Choc Chip ice cream. Proper Ice Cream!
No good saying brakefest was cooked, we need to now if eggs were scrambled as well!
The box remains ticked, job done! Say no more, broom, lift, carpet. There no muck here, apart from some more raspberries!

Now with your life in BoPshere!

Not really! Gone early, far too early for elevenses this time, but we has the cakes of Jaffa inn for the tea, though tea is being drinked at the moment! Got set up for cricket.

Well, after the victory yesterday against the Aussies, who cares about todays replay? Who cared then! I is ready! Again! Tomorrow I become a Hatter! And I remember going up to Deepdale in January 73 to see the mariners thrash them in the FA Cup! Bovveril was supped! Only good for you! Will be on another mug of tea shortly!

Watched another flix last nite. Jexi! Very good, but has words and things that would keep your mums at bay, so & and DfV, please no watch for you delicate things! For others, it is a pee take on a talking app that befriends its owner, in more weigh than one! Cheeses and wobbleades were consumed.

Raffles. Who on Tuesday bought inn a live shrew that has run rings around BoPsie, has been working hard on his Yellow thing. I can at the moment confirm that the snorkers are inn and the chicken wings are brewing ion BoP's homemade mix for SunDae! Conformation shortly. The shrew, finally was rescued by BoP and placed into the safe keeping of the grass court. Raffles was not amused! In fact, in catching the shrew, BoPsie was within seconds of letting Raffles do a natural! Oh, and he was rather wet as well! Cat Shower!

Only Snap, crackle and pop this morning. With ice cold milk and some tea. Buttered toast and jam. Has got some spagYetti inn for the weakened. In fact we is has the fish fingers and spagYetti tonite for dinner!

Rite, cricket has started and it is going to be a long session with the Aussies!

Had letter from the blank, and they are at a loss in working out mes mortgage payment this month, so can I pay what we did last month and they will try again. I has responded that it should be £0 and they can go flying around with the pink eared elephant and sing for it!

That is all this day!
No celebration over that then!

Happycas

For the last couple of days

DS and family appeared for an evening garden visit.  A real unexpected treat.  So good to see DGC running about in the garden.

Made a chocolate cake but had forgotten I had very little icing sugar.  Used what I had to make enough buttercream to fill half a cake and froze the unfilled half.

Have had a headache for the last three days.  Definitely related to the weather so the pleasure is it will go.  Need a thunderstorm to clear it.

Big clean up this morning including the cooker.  Can now justify an afternoon reading.  My protestant upbringing has a lot to answer for!!

Happy muggy afternoon everyone

mhagster

Hello. 

Up early. 

Mostly pottering around tidying .
Friend and daughter came for a socially distant tea. Made a grazing platter which was yummy and a RTC cake for pud. 

Nice to see them . Much chatter and laughing. 

Mostly dry with a few drizzly showers.

ampersand

Bop-no fears. Films are just no big interest of &'s.  That said, heard good noises about 'The Luminaries' on R4's Front Row earlier - much admiring talk of Hokitika! Dunedin! Strong wimmin characters!  Might dip a toe.....
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1.  Collected current R4 BOTW from another rural PO for young Alma rugby friends who love Japan and went to World Cup.  Wrapped it in car, delivered along with ½ dozen tom seedlings, marjoram, lemon balm.  Recipients delighted on arrival home - both scientists, still lab. working. No toms at all so far! & feels everyone must have similar surfeits.  They're springing up everywhere here.

2. En route there, passed another plant stall.  Reversed, of course:-)  2 tired and droopy aubergines, £1,  mightily perked up after 2hrs of good soak -

3. Leaving Town of Gown....discovery! Lainey, there's an Aldi where Ryman's used to be! 
Oh alright, just a little swing in left. Just a little look....better than hearing Kate having a peri-menopause wallow (If you're not a Hurrchrrs person you won't know.) 
Guess what, bop? Near as perfect interchangeable Aldi-version biccies of a certain orange+choc topping kind are VG and a mere 27 of your Earth pfennigs für zwölf!.  Didn't  buy any, but 40l compost bags@£2 78 look good too.

4.  Hearing much pseuds' corner raving re: first Bob Dylan release for 12 years....what & heard instead was a thin and lesser version of the infinitely truer divine Nick Cave being plagiarised in  'sincerest form of flattery' not! Not a fan of BD, not least for his treatment of, and indebtedness to, Joan Baez.

5. Overnight Bank mess sorted - dated back to 21 April last year and & CUBG Friends Membership.  Some - & being one - whose renewal fell during lockdown somehow had Membership annulled instead!...as discovered when wanting to book a re-opened Hooray visit slot, as per new covid requirements.  It will be so good to go again:-)
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Yet again, well done that son, Frith! Wow!   More saying it again - it's ALL credit to you and your upbringing of your young men!  Yes. It. Is! :-)
....on which note, bonne nuit.
Closing note: rang some powers that be re: Monday's tree surgery, to preclude trouble from toxic.

Frith

Ampersand - sister of Frith likes Bob Dylan and I wind her up by singing using his drawling, mumbling voice! Enunciate, man!

Pleasures for today (Friday)

1) A lie in.
2) Seemed to be a ridiculously enormous amount of washing. All done now.
3) Tidied up a bit.
4) Part baked rolls for lunch (a smaller son favourite, and unavailable for months). 
5) Went looking for muck (none today), picked raspberries and redcurrants on the allotment. 
6) Have been successful in Family Fund application so smaller son has a travel voucher. I think it will be used for a second Man Utd trip.
7) Nearly completed my energy swap so gave the new company up to date meter readings today. I am £400 in credit with Bulb so hoping they give me that back swiftly and it can be a mortgage overpayment.
8) Listed 7 clothing items on Ebay and they have many watchers. All charity shop tops of mine! 
9) Pasta sauce with 2 tins of tomatoes, lots of herbs from the garden and a bit of chorizo. Had that for tea then smaller son made flapjacks.
10) Watched Gardener's World.
11) Bigger son is camping outside Tewksbury, in a deserted field that is "creepy", which is not what I wanted to hear!

Thank you for your kind words, Ampersand - here is the view from his tent yesterday (it rained all day).

ampersand

Hope an early morning  ' Here I am! Me having/making breakfast'-type pic comes along in a few hours, Frith :-)
Looks a seal-y sort of little inlet.. .any chance?
I don't know that area at all.