5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3 18 July 2017 at 11:34AM edited 18 July 2017 at 11:40AM in Old Style MoneySaving 11.8K replies 798.2K views

Frith

Pleasures for today (Friday).

1) A lie in.
2) Further cleaning and tidying.
3) Cleaned the car out! Can't say how rarely this happens. Suffice to say, it filled a wheelie bin and took £4 at the garage just to hoover the worst of it up. It now looks just slightly worse than most people's cars normally.
4) Watered the pots in the garden.
5) Spoke to bigger son who is camping in a different bit of woodland after a day climbing.

Bad news earlier today in that bigger son and all his colleagues have been made redundant. We hoped they might be kept on until the very end of furlough, but no. 

villagelife

Frith'- it's hard when they are made redundant.
1. Coffee with a friend. Long chat and a catch up.
2. Went to a supermarket for the third time since lockdown - I quite enjoyed it.
3. Housework done - house looks so much better.
4. Virtually finished accounts - Sat in the garden doing them. Only had to chase after papers once.
5. BBQ with chicken wings and burgers and courgettes which were home grown.

LaineyT

Sorry to hear that Frith.
For yesterday,

Waking up to sunshine and an early morning walk around the garden with my cuppa.

Got some household chores done, the last thing I do is change the bedding and oh that lovely feeling when everything is finished.

The view between my ponies ears, just a gentle walk today as it was very warm but oh so enjoyable. She has a naturally high head carriage and that combined with her big shoulders makes you feel like there is plenty of horse in front of you, that’s a very secure feeling for any rider.

A very prawn’y day food wise with a salad for lunch and then prawn burgers with sp fries for tea, ice-cream was also involved ☺️

Started a new book, one of the Isabel Dalhousie series, very good and I’m now watching the first three on eBay!

DundeeDoll

sorry to hear DS's news frith it's a very tough time for especially that generation 
I on the other hand have had more work than i can cope with over the last week - another depressing fact of today's drive for 'efficiency' and i'm not entirely sure those of us working all hours are now being as efficient as we could be. but i took yesterday off (apart from one work meeting but did ignore all emails hooray though was working till 12:30 the evening before boo)
1) still thrilled at wednesday's hair cut - short it takes 5 years off me 
2) painters have now painted back gate and red bit of porch floor - so smart (and £1500 less than cowboys' quote lol)
3) made nice pasta quark thing with ys quark and ys bag of prepared veg
4) then garden centre with dm. the cafe is open (was open previously for takeaway but only just open for sit down) - we sat outside on the balcony, removed our masks and it almost felt like normal again
5) bought bedding plants - rather later than normal but then this year has been anything but normal! 
dd2 has found that 'late submission' 2 days (which come without penalty this year due to uni lab closure) doesn't include weekends so she has another 2 days to get her last submission done. She has had all her results back for year 3 apart from the last 3 (including this one) - she reckons the first 2 are good pieces of work and if she can get a pass for the 3rd piece she will have got her ordinary degree (she's going onto year 4 which is how they do honours in Scotland). 10 years after she started her 1st degree (she dropped out twice). she burst into tears (good tears) when she realised. a great act of perseverance!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Let the Kittens Fall!

PM2DD Raffles is is on it! #UTH Kittens are domed!
Quickie before elevenses!

No cricket! Manchester whether! Poor. Can then not get a roof for the ground up there! Oh well!

Had the usual snorkers and things this morning. Tea was drinked. Raffles was wanting his share of good food, but settled later. he knows his food cupbored. This morn BoPsie was cleaning her nin when he was patiently waiting for her to get a top up. He saw BoP and thought better! He had his chunks inn steed!

Watched an old flix last nite on the box. We had too rejects before! The Fighting Kentuckian. Dastardly dealing and I think it was Oliver Hardy's last film! John Wayne. BoPsie is getting desperate for a Burt! We tried Desperados Not Recommended! Too much here I am talking to a brick, instead of just give me a thrill! AVOID

Got the reversion supper for tonite. With BoP's smoke house selsa! Recipe not available from Jimmy the Cook!

Off now to fill me wheels as we is has a corner house visit tomorrow, so no report!

My Faceblock has exploded about !!!! Still I put this up on Tuesday. I understand the press has caught up!

There is a lot of controversy at the moment, probably too much woke without thought. But you cannot rewrite history, you can learn from it. In the years since An Appointment in London was released and later The Dambusters, these films were not about the names of some four legged black Labrador, but the emptiness of the mess tables at the end of the film. Though you would think that the current way the film is broadcast, the dog was the star!

The problem is Scampton is to be closed in the near future, and while it was always a trophy for others to gather or be photographed at when I served at RAF Waddington in the 80's, it would become some loonies target in today's woke society. Rather than let this tribute become tainted further, it has been respectfully replaced. This will shut the idiots up, who would had sought to damage the history of 617 Squadron further.

I will stand Guy and all my AFVBC comrades a toast with their pint, just as he was portrayed in the film.

As my service number is significant with the Squadron, all I say is Après Moi le Deluge.

DigForVictory

We watched the Dambusters before the politically correct got to it & Still yell the original line over the dubbed silence.My sons may get thumped some day but they can blame us wicked old examples. Joins you in toast to Guy et al, (and Barnes Wallis. without whom it might have happened, much later & was a cracking good engineer.)

VJsmum

Last few times I've seen it, the dog's name has been left in..  sometimes with a warning which, i personally think is fair enough.  The name is unfortunate as it does detract from the film.  I don't have a problem with it, but then it isn't for me to be offended - leaving it in demonstrates the difference between the eras, i guess and can be a conversation starter.  As for the memorial / grave - it doesn't really matter if its taken down, does it?  Again it probably serves as more of a distraction - the dog wasn't the key feature of the operation, after all...

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

PM2DD #UTH  Kittens are doomed!

mhagster

See how fast I can type before I run out of charge! 

Cloudy start but turned out a bright but breezy afternoon/ evening and all washing ( which was lots of washing) dried. 

Out and about (safely) with DD2 this morning, hurrah TK Max was open and very safely organised. Got a couple of nice candles , a gift for a friends birthday this week and a black tee shirt for work. 

Round to mums, did her meds, DD2 did dishes and hoovered. 

Home to a doggy...we left him looking mournfully at us out the new porch window! 

Pottered around house rest of day 

DundeeDoll

What a glorious day
1) dyed my now cropped hair back to purple (ultra violet live, £6 a box)
2) went to the botanic gardens with a flask of coffee and sat on a bench in the sunshine - so peaceful
3) after an early lunch mum and i drove up to Aberdeen to see ds and his 11 week old kitten. i bought him a scratch post and harness and a crinkly toy. he loves the first and last and was getting used to the harness
4) we went for a lovely walk along the beach towards the old fishing village which i haven't visited before. we saw 2 boats going out of the harbour and mum bought us all an icecram
5) then back to ds's and i bought fish and chips for tea
oh yes and the hatters won. but is it enough? all depends on the last day of the season - nail biting!