5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

So sorry to hear about your little ones PK.
For yesterday,

Up at 6am and made a Lammas loaf and oat biscuits before the predicted heat of the day. My kitchen is North facing and usually quite cool so I mostly using the airing cupboard to prove my bread but it did fine where it was today.

Changed the bed, sheets dried on line in well under an hour, what with the sun and southerly wind it was like a giant tumble dryer out there.

Listened to a couple of podcasts but on the whole just read my book in the relative cool of the house.

Food was mostly salad and fruit so 5 a day easily hit but also followed the 2 portions of ice cream guidelines as well 😉

We took small dog out at just gone 9, just for a wander under the beech trees, said hello to my favourite as always. 

VJsmum

Morning all - last day in ICT for about, ooh, a week probably (other things remaining equal).  Heading home this pm

PK - so sorry about your furries.
Pleasures for yesterday

1. Finished my corrections and sent to London - 2 out of 3 supervisors already approve so it's nearly there.
2. Went to the beach - it was glorious, sunny, warm and bright.  At least in the morning.  It felt like abroad.  Was with SiL and her cohort
3. In the afternoon we went for a walk.  Niece and her friend took a boat out on the broadwater.  We had two doggies with us (neither mine) - Oscar the 5 year old labrador and Nellie the 5 month old cockapoo.  I do love a cockapoo and she was so funny -- like an annoying little sister to the very tolerant Oscar .
4. Went for Sundowners at the cinema bar (called Sundowners) - it had started to drizzle but we coped
5. then i went home to eat the last bits of freezer - more sausages!  Only a few prawns left now that i will have for lunch before heading home.  Watched some tv and crocheted some blanket.

Have a great day all - I usually don't want to leave (though i don't exactly want to leave) but i am looking forward to going home and seeing the family.

Nargleblast

Pleasures for yesterday ......
Knowing it would be the hottest day of the year, went out for early walk with dog. It was deserted in the park, so peaceful.

Back home, all windows, back door and patio door opened and flykiller switched on. That kept the house cool all day.

Pottering around in the garden, picking mangetouts, watering plants. Why did nobody tell me there would be a mahoosive thunderstorm last night?

Lunch outside on  the patio - cod baked in the oven, garlicky tomato sauce on the side, new potatoes, broccoli, homegrown mangetouts. Crisp dry Spanish rose. Fresh raspberries, yoghurt, chocolate biscuits. Coffee. Alexa playing soft jazz in the background.

Hearing the welcome news that a friend had come through surgery and was starving, always a good sign!

Reading a library book in a shady part of the garden with mug of herbal tea.

Sweetpeas coming into flower, smelling gorgeous.

Phone call from Dad - stepmum, who was in hospital a few weeks ago with shingles, is getting better each day and was sitting doing the crossword. She has just turned 90.

The company of my son, my animals, and online friends - not exactly OS, but we take modern technology and make the best of it.

CRANKY40

Good morning all, pleasures for yesterday.....

I used my Costa points (mostly obtained when travelling to see best friend - there's a particular one that we like to stop at) for a free coffee and snack for the HT and I. We sat and drank them in the car while watching all the people that were headed to the beach then we drove home again.

I made cheese scones and mocha squares. The mocha squares were a recipe from Snoozer who posts on the daily. The HT really likes them. 

I measured both of us for the first time since the beginning of June. We've both lost inches from places that we wanted to so we'll carry on with the daily exercises.

Easy dinner which was good because it was hot. Not very sunny after about 4pm but lovely and warm. There were thunderstorms the other side of the Pennines apparently.

Online gaming with best friend which meant a couple of hours chat about the weeks happenings for both of us. It does us both good to sit and have a natter. 

Bala, my interest in Elvis is a fairly recent thing. I've always liked "I can't help falling in love" but mostly the UB40 version. I seem to be going back in time though. I've watched some youtube stuff, read some books and I'd like to see Graceland.

Take care all of you 

DigForVictory

I've been away too long. A week's leave is wonderful, lounging at home reading, with a bit of gardening. Then some blighter dropped an iron curtain around us again and now the anger & fear have calmed down a bit, I just smile that at least I'd got the shopping in. 

bala - emergency tins for drivers. eh? Curious as a squirrel here! The penalties for sleeping in, eh?! Aw, Murphy with "the attitude of a sloth" but teehee Being Watched by birds Cranky nailed it with "hoomanwatch"" love your priorities, Tiggy's supplements over food delivery. Right with you San Fran is wonderful (my memories 45 years+ later) & absolutely yes the fun of choosing!

mhagster - a good breezy day is preferable to all this sunshine (in my book) New Specs are special pleasure! Eyes crossing at ill granny so son loads lawnmower, but then spuds, soft feet & chilli nachos. More moving furniture? It makes you happy - no further questions.

Frith - hurrah smaller son out & socialising! Oooh glorious pup & lovely to see has the menfolk trained already. HAPPYDANCE at college place! You are a Star & miword what a vast supporting cast it has required but yes! Hens eating from your hand, dead right to give the plank an educational update.

villagelife - parents' wedding anniversaries are special days. Yum, cherries & best of luck DS1 & house. Fish and chips in the garden sounds utterly glorious. DS2 offer accepted on house - yippee!

LaineyT - I'm still bemused by how you pronounce Lughnasadh (Lugg-nass-uh-duh-huh can't be right. Loo-NASA seems iffy & Loo-nass-ie (following the celidh ending) seems discourteous? "who rescued who" - yes, a godfather is more devoted to his rescue than his now-live-in girlfriend, but all 3 seem content. Sequoia National Park is a treasured memory. Someone was operating a combine in that heat?! "2 portions of ice cream guidelines" - well it doesn't do to skip the essential vitamins & minerals.

DundeeDoll - going to work on a two egg cheese omelette sounds Wonderful.

VJsmum - circuits, marking, correction & mackerel salad.- I have to say only one of those sounds a real pleasure but I can see how the whole is a sum of parts. Defrosting freexers does trigger "tasty but unusual- ish meals" - I thought that was a perk! To join family on a beach sounds blissful. Dog walks with borrowed dogs sound uproarious (I'm presuming you're au fait with Olive & Mabel?)

BoP - penny is finally dropping you've gone semi-retired - hurrah! I continue to covet your elevenses. Drooling at that photo.

PaulieHerts - picked blackberries? Ours still green ammo at present.. 

Happycas - yoga better in small groups anyway, surely? Cherry tomatoes are little flavour bombs!

Cranky - "Burgers from the butcher" - they trump the supermarket things every time. Memphis? Oooh, fun! Congratulations on "something different every night" - when is it HT's turn to cook for you?! Excellent to enjoy a Costa treat but keen on with the exercises.

Jazee - I'm just a distant cousin but they're Wonderful news - glad the glee triggered a grin!

Purple kitten - strange animal dynamics sound just painful but awed at the love & joy you can find even on the last path. Lucifer is just stomping good fun!

mrs motivated - right with you on shopping just "a few extras" for the next wave/lockdown

Nargleblast - as an example of how to enjoy a blasting hot day, yours sounds pretty much perfect! So pleased all you love in hospital are hungry/doing crossword - excellent signs both!

OS Pleasures

I should perhaps point these wonderful babies are first cousins twice removed but I am just so pleased for the whole tree to have two new cheerful bright green leaves!

Listening to Alison Krauss & Union Station (if you saw o Brother where art thou, you’ve heard them) - very smooth voice, very very good musicians. You can be ‘meh’ about country & still find something to listen happily to in their bluegrass/mountain sound.

Colleague needs a file coaxing out if one format into another. The tool that does the first crude pass is almost wheezing but the numbers are beautifully clear.

Accustomed to stabbing tube seals with lid spikes, was much amused by Voltarol security daisy. Which had me foxed for several seconds longer than it ought.

Just found “There she goes” a TV series about a family with a disabled daughter. I completely got Jessica Hynes as the trying-to-keep-on mum, was appalled (as intended) by the coping-in-his-own-way father David Tennant (heroic here he is not) but I couldn’t stick more than 10 minutes as for all it’s a scripted comedy, too much was too close to the bone. Brilliant acting...

Military “used initiative” “did his duty” &/or “was just bored” - 3 perspectives on naval bombardment of Bormarsund fort - which released a lot of building material for the Upenski cathedral in Helsinki... Military history in the wrong hands is uproarious.

Princess Beatrice has married her Count! Bless the girl, after all the fuss & botheration, I do hope they can be very happy. Delighted she managed time & place to accommodate Granny & Prince Phillip, in turn making Captain Tom’s day. (Love how he braked as HM lifted the sword!) Hurrah the young couple & their admirable elders.

Lords science & technology committee struggling with who’s live on the BBC - oh good, not just our family who babble over each other at the drop of a hat.

Little princess has now released two photos & looking stunning in gran’s frock. May the wedding dress industry quake that brides will decide to repurpose existing stunning family frocks rather than buy new. (Although my balldress of green/blue shot silk happily not appropriate as well as mid knee on most girls.)

Ever get a bad feeling about something? Aye, off to see Mother-in-law at her command & lad’s car’s battery flat (again, but battery new & car out of warranty) Ah well, just have to take it one step at a time. [All back, scrubbed, happy to see her. Over 9 days later, she’s still fine. Much twitch though.]

Our family zoom chats are wonderful, reassuring, oh good I can see they’re-still-breathing chats. 

Found a Stargate online webcomic - always good to putter around that universe, but heart lurches that the lad would have enjoyed it so much more.

Having collected some heavy racking in the car, youngest lugged it up to target area while I re-parked the car & himself sloped off to reappear with 99s all round! Good family in the sunshine times!

Saw a kilo box of cherries ys in supermarket - pretty sure you aren’t supposed to eat them all at once so having a lull before finishing the other pound.... british grown, penny variety - I must research if I can try to persuade the stones to germinate!

Vintage QI - not mixing booze & antibiotics is a tradition from when they were first used to cure syphillis &, by keeping the patient sober for 7 days, the patient got better & didn’t create more patients. David Mitchell’s response was that as a Tradition, he was More willing to abide by it, lest these things die out. Some days I think Victoria made a very shrewd choice.

As we enter the twenty first century, Himself is rearranging furniture & I fall in love with the seventeenth century house a bit more, when I realise that it’s essential floor plan barely knows what a right angle is. (I may be doing the gable end a howling injustice, but the floorboards at the top of the stairs are a masterpiece in pragmatism with more angled slices than a novice-cut loaf.)

The ringing “Yess!!!” of satisfaction as a single packet of finishing plaster is found from amidst the tools. It has rarity - you can’t get the stuff at any builders merchants etc in there countries (I’ve tried.)

Oh, my! Chocolate digestive escaped the tea mug & left a wonderful chocolate smudge down the side of the mug. Promptly licked up!

Taped a video comment on my phone which may get played to the great & the good (or not) but it’s done (I got nudged by my manager) & I’m on leave! A whole week off with a cool damp forecast - just how I prefer it!

Aww, the Scottish Piranha (aka Brownus Troutus) as discovered by Susan Calman! That her “cave dwellers” were just ambiguous enough to refer to the ancients & the archaeologists had us gurgling happily too. Husband, watching amazing view of high location, mutters he’d put a shell casing there suggesting sniper activity. As for a royal pew, a copy of something unlikely but credible like “guns & ammo swimsuit edition” stuffed down the side of the D of E’s.... some day, I’m almost glad he’s not getting out much.

OhGods. Sis wild camping in the parents back garden as a holiday. They’re doing an overnight dash into Wales to meet the family who’ve bought the holiday cottage so sis agreed to leave the zoom call, wipe down the laptop & all connecting doorknobs & return to her tent to liaise with the friend who is (accidentally) her holiday mobile phone concierge. Before the parents return. It’s all slightly farcical but the virus packs a punchline we’re all putting quite a lot of effort into protecting them from. Pleasure is that despite all, we all agreed in parents safety as above all else.

I have a flower on my courgette! So pleased & chuffed... (when all I did was plant it & leave it where sun & rain could get at it.) The three blackcurrant plants I bought last year at a car boot appear to be two blackcurrants & a redcurrant but I should pluck the (very few) fruit now to encourage the plants into industrious growth. Even the black kale, wickedly slugged, has partly recovered - maybe that plant was too feeble to present a toothsome opportunity?!

May any deity you acknowledge welcome forumite Unrecordings, who has gone to the ultimate recording studio. He was not a well man but had a smashing sense of humour & I hope his wife, the courageous Mrs Un, can find most if not all she needs to carry on. At least the paperwork should be in good order, prepping for the inevitable (let alone just-in-time or political glitches).

Chirpy advert for foreign holidays. Made us chuckle as it came shortly after news with outraged holiday makers, who hadn’t heeded the cautions.

Ah, the musical tinkle of the recycling being filled - the neighbours have filled two lugging vessels with glass as there was a pause between the melodious recycling clatter....

Oh I do love our local hardware store. Refreshingly untrusting. They will sell me caustic soda, and soda crystals, but I may not pay (let alone leave) until I have heard, & repeated back, the admonition “you put the water in the bucket first”... [Recalling my father, dead right to reinforce the basics of safe handling of chemicals!]

BoP, I rather covet a mere slat. It’s been a day for heavy domesticity - spent about hour with himself disassembling & reassembling our bed. (I had fallen asleep in a bed which was at an angle, totally unwitting. I was woken & told, but himself propped it flat with the fire safe briefcase & I was asleep again in seconds.) He’s still baffled how hours later, but several after broken drill bits, we have reassembled the oak bed. (Must hoover it more often!) Tonight’s kip Deserved.

One of our scouts is taking courageous steps along the path to gender reassignment. My absolute delight is that I do not have to understand (at all) to support them & their family & wish them safe travel through. No idea if there is a destination or just a feeling but ignorance again not a barrier to absolute good wishes.

Blimey family zoom calls can divert down unexpected routes - taught sis basic finger spelling & she reminded me about thankyou! Both of us have forgotten the gestures for where & loo [sicne revised on YouTube], but chuckled over the tea & coffee signs. How you offer juice remains a mystery but between 2 who wish to communicate, something will get across!

After 3 days leave, am now at 6 masks needing ties/elastic & still need to agree any fabric with the lads as they dislike my taste in fabrics. [Miffy was never going to "sell" but I'd hoped they might tolerate William Morris. Nope.]

“Need a week planner, or standing stones?”  Sheesh, some people get snippy as you struggle to remember what day it is.

Watched American Mars rocket etc takeoff & hoping Perseverance & Ingenuity bring as much scientific data & human glee as Curiosity did. (Grinch muttering at cost in covid, but so much already committed.)

Salt & vinegar Pom Bears! We love these crisps, but the local supermarkets just have plain or cheese-&-onion. We last had these on holiday in Scotland, in Crieff, so I went a little wild in Asda & bought three bags & exulted with at least 3 staff.... chomping them little bear by little bear with husband, very affectionate bonding!

You certainly can smile wearing a mask. The poor lady fenced into the cigarette booth had amazing nails, in pink & yellow - least I could do was admire them, & we shared a grin. 

Booked an appointment with the eyeball bod - in a month’s time! He’s got a cancellation list too & we’re on that as well though. Fingers crossed...

And this morning I gather we were once again locked down last night. Poor son who was going to drop in on ChocNan though & all who looked forward to Eid as a community after Ramadan.

I've been fielding phone calls from family members who've heard my place namechecked on National TV and are calling to ask "what this means". If I Knew, I'd say so! Aye well, still got flour & garden centres this time round. Health, strength, love & courage to all who have need, and masks, hand sanitizer & a robust sense of the ridiculous to all in lockdown 2 (where the virus can get you in your back garden but not down the pub...) Onwards!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Only one place to go! End Of!

Rite, that is the holidays advice from BoP. Bay Bridge from heaven. They say if yous bin to San Francisco, you have found paradise. When you get the cable car up California St., you are on the stairway to heaven. Because there is nothing like it! Got it, and cut the Alvis carp. Johnny Cash! Got it! End of! Mind you when you watch The Wild One, you see the 78's predate both Cosh and Alvids!
DfV Cherries. Raffles watchings the birds as they strip BoP's tree! and new bournes!
Friths Chips! and Vans! again! Good luck with then educationalists!
LT We has the BBQ inn the yard last nite!
Jenny sends a to thems in need and otehrs!

And another dollops!

Was at the Docks yesterday, running me rig and things! Pays for mes wobbleades and bits! Cants believe as I was only at the docks for FryDay, and all and SunDray has reported on the parish! So many, that BoP only had time to putts up a pix of his BBQ last nite. Well, I has nows court up and all seems good!

Had mes BBQ last nite. Was chilli stcky chicken and too snorkers too boot. Now I is oftens asked about cooking chickens on the BBQ. Yous should never cook drumsticks. Chicken wings are ok, and putt them on the griddle. Turn after one minute and turn every twelve minute. They take 36 minutes too cook. And not long to eat! Will be doings me tikkas buzzard soon, so watch out for the recipes! Tum was rubbed.

Thens we watched another flix on the Amazonian box. My Bakery in Brooklyn. Bit of a romp, has a bit of a dark twist and things! Was a bin there movie, as we see all the things we has bin too inn the Apple of Big. Cheeses and wobbleades were consumed. We gots a big wedge of wood of apple other weak, for £3! We still has some for tonite as well! Rite proper food!

Rite, no elevenses this day, it is saturday and I has had a double snorker and best back brakefest! Mushrooms, poached egg, toms and spagYetti  were plated. tea was drinked! Raffles is still chomping the buzzard bits! Nows offs to get the wwood slats to repair the bed of BoP!

That is all for now!
Take it down the line!

balabooberlies

D4V..........of course Tiggy comes first !  ;-)

Well done on courgette.  Everything I plant gets stolen by the squirrels/rats.....who knows.  However I have been blessed with blackberries everywhere.................

Right !  Dad got stuck on motorway.  He is diabetic and it was the kindness of the young man in the car behind that my Dad managed to finish the journey comfortably.  He gave him a packet of crisps.  Hence the idea to create emergency tins containing:

Water
Paracetamol (with instructions)
Nuts/fruit mixture
Boiled sweets
Telephone numbers for AA and RAC
Money pouch with £5.00 worth of change

I have at least 6 people to create these tins for so if anyone has any more ideas for contents it would be most appreciated.

We are enjoying the cooler weather.  Yesterday was too much..........our home retains the heat in the summer.  It really was like an oven.  Cooler outside than in.

A visit last night as it was getting dark.  About 9pm went to make a cup of tea, turned light on, soon saw movement.............yes it was Flo & Co.  Don't know what to say except am always pleased to see them.  Fed them again...............

Am so bored with TV, need to start doing something different.

Anyway, have the kind of day you really want...........

x

Happycas

Good afternoon

Yesterday was a day of meeting friends. I met my friend for coffee in the old market hall which is now a mixture of crafty, artisany stalls and street food.  Was lovely to sit for a while and natter.

In the evening DH's friend came round, after a noisy thunderstorm, and they sat in the garden and nattered.  I stayed for a while, but the thunderstorm headache got the better of me and I went in and left them to it.

And now it feels stormy again!  Was going to put weedkiller on the drive but fear it will all be washed off again so will leave that for another day.

Dfv - yes, small yoga classes are good, except there's no hiding place!

Vj'smum - I am knitting a blanket ( don't know yet who the lucky recipient will be), but as it gets bigger, it's getting to be hot work. Did think of leaving it for cooler weather, but fear if I put it away, I might not get it out again!

Happy stormy Saturday everyone

CRANKY40

Thanks for the info and the photos BoP. 

Bala....you need a bottle of water too. No point in having painkillers if there's nothing to take them with. Also, if stranded on a hot day water is probably more essential than most things. 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Saturday)

1) A lie in.
2) House clean and tidy.
3) Hens very well and they enjoyed their first taste of porridge. They are getting more friendly now.
4) Sausage casserole for tea.
5) Smaller son and I went to fly the drone over the river Severn.
6) Bigger son came back from climbing in the Peak District and he had a good time.
7) In bed now and will watch Casualty presently.