5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

mhagster

Aaawh, that's you for good now skint all your daily pleasures will be puppified! Enjoy her. What's her name?

Monday morning here, shocked when my alarm went off as I was trying to put the brake on my mother's next door neighbours car that was oddly parked 3 doors down ...I was of course dreaming after a night without much sleep.

Sunday was busy.

It was Mr Haggis' birthday ...three already.

Tumble drier and freezer picked up, both have been sitting in shed for years. More cash to go in my pretty glass jar.

A bit of gardening , as in emptying pots, transferring plants to other pots that I don't want to bring back. There were far too many spider incidents! Most of which I dealt with , with a bit of spray and some bad language.
Then we saw the biggest thing of unknown origin ...just big and black but not a huntsman. Are you scared son, I asked ....No! Yes! Came the reply! It looked nasty for sure! I will not miss spiders . I know we get them in Scotland but at least they won't kill you!

Made the most lovely lentil soup for lunch. I love lentil soup.

Back in the garden for a bit then friends came over. They won our first prize hamper last week so the kids had fun opening that! They are going to take our coffee machine, our 2 leather chairs and possibly a corner unit I painted. I just don't have room for them. Only OH drank coffee and they both do. Pleased to pass on to them. They kept us fed when OH was ill and after he died.

Then went a lovely birthday dog walk with son.

Then macaroni for tea which was rather nice and very cheesy and made with the frozen bag of cheese cubes I'd bought for 99c the other week. Will do DD1 ( it's her favourite meal) for lunches too.

Oh and an apple crumble too, which was very nice and I think that combined with the fresh air meant I yet again fell asleep on the sofa at 7pm.

Right , I'd better get a wriggle on, work starts in 20 minutes!

Have a great week ahead.

DundeeDoll

Happy birthdday mrhaggis how exciting you'll be travelling back to scottieland
Puppies skint and so my 5 will be canine-themed
1) no sign of mrpiano this morning so headed off to church on my own having attended to the 3 dogs.
2) just crossing road and friend of mine who lives there was just pulling out so gave me a lift. Canine link? She's just been on holiday for a week so jock (springer spaniel) in kennel. Phone call to France - Jock had been rushed to vets for emergency abdominal surgery - one whole corn on the cob removed!
3) jock fine, lovely kennel owner put his own dog in kennel and had jock in the house to keep a close eye! (This is jock's 4th abdominal surgery in as many years!)
4) have now, thanks to YouTube, learnt how to remove ticks safely. Bilbo now tick-free
5) ok non canine pleasure - ds2 and I went to base of home to buy last shelving for office. Dd2 put it up while I was emptying bins. Next door away so have commandeered their black bin yay

Frith

Thinking of you, PK.

Pleasures for today (Sunday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) More cleaning and the whole house now done!

3) Hens OK.

4) Went to parents' for lunch - goulash, to celebrate the Hungarian Grand Prix.

5) Sons came home - hoorah!

6) Smaller son and I watched Harry Potter (Order of the Phoenix).

Some tooth problems now. :-( Fear I have left it too late to be extracted (doubt they could squeeze me in tomorrow) as we go to Cornwall the week after this one and I couldn't be sure it would be healed by then.

[Deleted User]

Oh HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. HAGGIS!!!

1) Fairly decent sleep last night (I don't normally when he's away).

2) All jobs on the list for yesterday were done including the ironing and all put away.

3) Remembered to put out neighbours bin.

4) Going into the city on the bus today for last minute odds and ends for our trip.

5) First picking (and eating) of runner beans for supper last night, very nice too!

LaineyT

Happy 3rd Birthday to Haggis dog.

Some pleasures for yesterday ( Sunday )

Up early to rain but quickly cleared.

Caught up on all things Ambridge, Jill's weapon of choice a flapjack :rotfl:

Weather was good so read in the garden with half ear on TMS.

Bit of cba day food wise so we just grazed on leftovers from fridge.

Afternoon snooze on sofa and woke up to Capt S putting kettle on, good man.

Frith

Wisdom tooth coming out 9.30 tomorrow. Thought they wouldn't have any appointments until I came back from holiday - 2 weeks...

More than slightly petrified now.

VJsmum

Frith - better out than in. Easy for me to say, I know.
PK - all good thoughts with you.

Pleasures for whenever

1. Walked 4 miles of coast path - takes us over the 100 mile point
2. nice tapas tea in barmouth
3. Did a 'boscage' run with friends on Saturday morning
4. Watched DD singing on a paid gig yesterday afternoon - one lady was very attentive, told her she had a lovely voice.
5. Night in alone with Harry Potter last night as DD and OH went to the cinema
6. It's not raining - DD and I may go for an ice cream.

Have a lovely day all

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Woof Woof!

5 Back down the river to the pond on top of the race this morning. The mill is fine as the yellow thing glistens atop the still water! Seems we still don’t have the shirt buttons anywhere. Still, invoices inn!

4 Had full on tea yesterday of smoked Grimsby haddock kedgeree, served in a mix of long grain rice, spinach, and chopped onions. Toe nail onions are so last month. Mind you with Sunday roll of ham as well tum was well rubbed so vigorously, I feel no need for the pack of six thing that is a complete waste of moneys.

3 My beach ready body is again being shown tonight at the gym. Viewing is recommended. More later. And as you are aware that BoP had reversion foods on Saturday evening, this inn moderation has not affected the look. So you can do what you like with the advert on the tv at the moment that’s says you can potato on the sofa and somehow end up looking like BoP. No to keep proper timed, I clipped my claws, groomed my fur as well this weekend. As for the reversion foods. Tasty, but not an everyday thing. Mind you on food of the muppets, I wander ifs wes sees the Cheese on Toast delivery agent later!

2 Night for tea is the left over kedgeree. Proper food. If only we had a nuclear over, we could blast our food into dismembered muck in seconds, instead of pies ending up being tasty and crusty! BoPsie could buy the ready prepared mashed spuds, instead of peeling them! We could have salty fatty ready meals in minutes, instead of the twenty minutes it takes BoP to do a chilli! We could have 8 week old stake rice instead of the fresh egg fried. But this nuclear oven cannot ever come close to steaming an xmas pud, or do proper lumpy custard with a skin! Avoid! Rant over! As for the mashed spuds, I hear that they are called pureed these days! How common!

In the corner of some foreign land, Tommy sleeps tonight.

Victory was only to come after the second Prussian liberation of Paris when the Americans broke the deadlock in May 1918! Our only victory in the twentieth century after the Boer wars was the Battle of Britain! All the others were with their support, including El Alamain. The Americans had landed in the east and had taken some pressure off.

In the meantime, Verdun, the slaughter, mutiny and defeat for France was ever close. The same it had been since July 1st 1916. Oh, the February before that!

ampersand

A somewhat faffing day - so listen to Le Moreau sing Le Tourbillon and look at that v. decent translation ( except 'arms' for 'poignets'). Sharp, sweet, acute.

1. https://youtu.be/zqwLx0DG7qQ
- and a wonderful performance in Nathalie Granger, with Depardieu no slouch, either.

2. Lovely scrapyard man may have sorted &'s tyre with magic expandy squirty stuff. Fingers crossed.

3. Town of horse purple bank S. He has been wonderful to & from Day 1. New haircut suits him well, but he has fab. hair always and & told him so:-). Pourquoi pas?

4. Expensive week with car insurance, NZ heritage renewal( by phone at 3 bells, but gives entry worldwide to much else e.g NT and EH here and is cheaper than either if bought in Enzed) , imminent debadgering, new lunettes, and some soddit book£s chez Fitzwilliam museum y'day. Timings all worked after 2x Church( private reasons) but, as usual, & could not drag herself from certain ancient ceramic areas. Took pics of &'s bowl, stolen by & every visit:-). Iranian, 12th century, miraculous, stunning. Managed to happen into the adjacent new Sampler Exhibition....oh my goodness! Will buy THAT book too, when surplus is reduced eventually :-)

5. If true (we can hope it's a precursor>trump) the filthy scaramouche appointee has 'left' his toilet-untrained post in the oval office.
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& is up on The Gallops, monitoring sundown.

Just as well that appointment's made, Frith, otherwise & would have been arriving with towbar, crowbar, Raffles and a well trained hen to drag you there pre-Cornwall. Let it be done. You and sons can't all be in best fettle until that family tooth's removed, just like rhe plaster:-)). Promise.
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Bop - totally agree. Is this a 1st? & lived in Ypres Road once upon a long ago Enzed time. Alamein? / Alamain?

VJsmum

Back with today's pleasures

1. Slept till 7.30 - I am very well slept again
2. had a bath with Ross Poldark
3. Had a honey ice cream with DD - we walked back via the weekly market which we haven't been to in years. it was very good and i bought OH a nice looking pork pie and some cheese for his tea
4. Managed to catch the train I was aiming for - amazingly - and did lots of work
5. Got home and had nice freezer tea with DS.

Good luck tomorrow Frith....

Seems Scaramucci didn't do the fandango, & :rotfl: