5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Bit of a lie-in followed by dippy egg and soldiers for breakfast.

Pottered around doing bits and pieces, filing paperwork, sorting cupboards and, much to small dog’s disgust, changed her bedding, she looks at me as much as if to say “ just as I got the smell back too “

Over to my DB’s for a garden catch up, lovely to see everyone after months apart and we were blessed by the sunny weather. My SIL did cream scones for a treat, with our own individual pots of jam & cream.

Home and sunny evening dog walk, first time we had both been out of the house together for ages and she greeted us as if we had been away for months!

Easy tea of chicken kebabs and salad.

ampersand

Another for the sun and warm club here, vl and happycas.  I know vjm's another.

1. Anzac Day in NZ and Australia.  Autumn. Memories, from the early 50s onward. As primary school pupils in uniform, we had to line our small city streets for the 5-6a.m. Dawn Service marchpast of RSA men and women, including my father, grandfather and beloved uncle. 
https://images.app.goo.gl/EujEAW8R5E5NbhVy6

2. Current oranges are yum, especially juicy and sweet. & eats 1qtrd every morning, + plain yogurt.

3. Up on The Gallops & phone works - meant long catch-up chat with previous charity colleague. In her 80s now and good news re:successful eye op for her lovely OH.

4.  So surprised to see -
Bronze fennel survival😃.  Up and running again.

5.  Lovely exchanges with Spain, much work on. Pent-up soft furnishing+upholstery demand, ahead of 7 May national re-opening. They are warm, safe, happy, busy, doing so well.  Already 5 years since & helped them move? Seems impossible, but it's true. 
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&'s Northern hemisphere Anzac day sunset 
'At the going down of the sun.....'

Happycas

Hello

Lovely and bright again but noticeably cooler. Back to jeans and jumper!


Jamaican curry last night, from a kit, was almost too hot to eat. And we like hot curry. Note to self, check the number of little chillies on the front of the pack next time!

DD came round for coffee. It wasn't too bad in the sun but we couldn't sit out for long.

Have made a chocolate cake to take round to DS and family as a housewarming present. They moved on Friday so looking forward to seeing their new house, from the garden at least!

Only one episode of Keeping Faith to go. I know it's on i-player but we have been rationing ourselves to one episode a week! There's only really that and LoD we're bothered about at the moment.

Our friends in Spain, both age 70+, have received their first vaccination today! But their second ones are already booked for 3 weeks time, so perhaps they'll start to catch up now.

Happy Sunday everyone

VJsmum

Art'noon all.

pleasures for yesterday

1. Out and about in the sunshine doing chores.
2. smoked salmon for lunch with scrambled eggs
3. friends came round for drinkies in the garden - gets chilly later on though.
4. Quick and easy tea due to 3. So lots of microwaving of stuff from the freezer.
5. Friend who came round was talking about his ancestry and his father's fammily lived in the same place as OH's family back in the day - it's only a tiny village too, they are likely to have knnown each other.  So i have more ancestry to look up - exciting, even though it isn't mine!

Have a good evening all.

mhagster

Workety work then some more workety work .

watched the dawn service live from Sydney last night. And watched the sun rise this morning with thoughts of my Australian life and what Anzac Day means to me. 

Out to work. Was busy. Tips in the jar.

Looked lovely outside. 

Quick home. Quick shower ( first cool one of the season!) then back to work to get ready for reopening for dine in tomorrow. DD1 came down and helped for an hour. 

Home in time for Call the midwife. 

Line of duty will have to wait! 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday)


1) Not a bad sleep.

2) My piano was collected by its ebay buyer. This was not a pleasure as such but, after a quick clean of the floor tiles, it is lovely to have more room in the living room. The whole of the floorplan of the house is 18 feet x 10 feet so this means we can have the table in use all the time, not just pulled out at mealtimes. 

3) Hens OK.

4) Smaller son sold his drone and a chatty man came to pick it up. He now has enough money for some new parts for his PC. A lady also called by as I gave a lamp away on Freecycle.

5) Phoned my school friend. 

6) In bed now and about to catch up on Line of Duty.

villagelife

1. Went for a walk at Wisley. Warm in the sun but a cold wind. Good to go.

2. Home for lunch of Welsh Rarebit made with Stilton - very tasty.

3. In the garden and DH finished his hot compost hard standing. So started it off.

4. Reading my book.

5. Line of duty.was watched.

VJsmum

morning all

Pleasures for yesterday

1. House clean again and the garden has been mowed and a little weeded.
2. 2 loads of washing hung out and mostly dried
3, Clean sheets
4. a yoga session - i didn't really want to do it but made myself and enjoyed it.  It helps because the teacher of the (recorded) session i used is mad as a box of frogs.
5. Call the Midwife and LoD - though i fell asleep during LoD and may have to rewatch it.

Have a great day all - we're going away for a few days as it is our 30th wedding anniversary tomorrow.  how did that happen?

LaineyT

For yesterday,

A slight green tinge on the beech trees as the leaves are finally starting to appear, always behind the other trees.

Popped a chicken in the oven and left it to roast while we had breakfast and listened to the Hurchers.

Went to the yard, day of rest for girlie but gave her a long groom, definite drop in temperature and I was glad to be working.

Eldest DSS came round for garden catch up, found a sheltered spot but jumpers & coats still needed, I had a hot choc!

Easy tea of cold meat, jacket pot and pickles then settled down to watch Line of Duty.

ampersand

Agreed, vl and Lainey, re: VERY chilly breezes, despite sun.
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1. Long-booked NGS visit to Ulting Wick, 11am-4pm.  Set off early, meandering ways.💚
http://www.ultingwickgarden.co.uk/
LOVELY DAY OUT.
More on offer. Recommend-

The cold has hit/delayed things, but still there is beauty, including huge ginger girl, among these 5. Broody others elsewhere😃





2.Parked off down end, sign across track from &.  Tubular bandage did Achilles tendon job👍.


3.  Fantastic, sculptural quality to this marvellous bark>trunk>tree. 🤎🤍💚❤
Ran my hands over it, much.


4.  After closing, found Heybridge Basin, for nearest something like sea.

Icy wind walk along cut to those pics revealed this, Marie's back garden! Don't know its story, but there must be one.


5. Soddit decision, ignored home-made munch. Treated self to fantastic f+c, Copsey's - kind and lovely people, OAP rate apparently❤. Huge, freshly battered cod was gorgeous+super-yum😋. That's &'s once-a-decade done.
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Understand your piano feelings, Frith.
Well done, younger son.
Happy Anniversary, vjm, with many 'Where have 30 years gone?'s😁👍
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Thinking of you, Sue, with Mhags' strong words for you always just right.  Hearing Maureen Lipman's choice of Dame Cicely Saunders as her Great Life made me think of you both again.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07syv25#:~:text=Dame Cicely Saunders was known,with dignity and without pain.
Dfv and dd, hoping all is well - also Miss Kitty Hot Paws' slaveys🐾🐈