5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Tasty breakfast, dippy egg with marmite toast soldiers.

Over to see the beautiful grey one, except she wasn’t.....kinda mud coloured after embracing her inner hippo the day before so a long groom needed, keeps the old bingo wings at bay I guess!

Stood in her paddock with her for quite a while, listening to the birds and the wind through the trees. There is a resident muntjac deer and it came out of the hedges into the next field, quite unbothered about my presence.

Went with Capt S and he got his second jab, both done now,

Binged watched three episodes of the first series of Innocent, gripping stuff.

Suffolksue

That Hank you every one for all your support yesterday .
I could feel it 
now must find pleasures every day 
for yesterday 
1 The day went well and I think DH would have approved.
2 The wake went well ,we had doors and windows open a nd people spread out over 3 rooms.
3 Met DS and family’s new puppy,she had to come as couldn’t be left for that long ,she got quire excited appt seeing more people than she’s ever seen ,but was a great distraction 
4 Watched most of Eurovision after everyone had gone .DH watched it every year ,thought it one of the funniest things on tv ,not the same without Wogan but still funny 
5 she’d a tear for him whilst watching ,but it was ok 

Suffolksue

Please excuse terrible spelling and punctuation,should read back before posting!

VJsmum

Sue - glad the day went well and you ended it with doing something DH loved.  i agree, it's hysterical.
Frith, read part of your post as "Hens OK and i cooked them" 😲😂

Pleasures for yesterday
1. A walk with OH. Including a swift half in a pub garden between rain showers
2. Washing was drier when it came in than when it went out, despite the showers
3. Reading my book - The Salt Path. 
4. OH cooked roast beef.  We are very much missing eating at the table (we've builders coming in tomorrow (unless they cancel, again 🙄) and the dining table has been dismantled.  But we coped.
5. Another Eurovision watcher.  I was rooting for Malta and France and can't understand the Italian love.  But it was all a hoot...

Have a great day all.

DigForVictory

Rolls back in, shamefully late Again, but RL got a bit out of hand.

Sue - darlin girl, I remember "I must get it right" & I am absolutely certain you did. I just hope your family were able to tell you that, or will be soon. Eurovision - absolutely. 

Bala - dear gods lass, what a time! When the going gets tough, banoffee pie for breakfast is wholly reasonable. Hoping hospital & sister are milestones to recovery. Mono? A diagnosis is good, trying to live a stress- & infection- free life is trickier. Awed at niece's clip - a test, or a talent to find the right clip for the right person? Not just GWS for but yikes welcome to the blood sugar circus - it starts highwire but as you apply experience & intelligence the wire lowers. You still don't want to make a mistake but it is more manageable. Why a hypo in hospital? As they are human & noone has the specialist knowledge in his management yet? Still shouldn't have happened, but he has a lot to learn, not only you Bala!

Purple kitten - a smallholding is one of those special opportunities & they are not always good. Doesn't stop the pain of hopes dashed. Decorating can be a Forth Bridge sort of job. Hurrah sorting curtains! Aw Boost taking on a squirrel - all a bit hazardous. "that bath and clean sheet feeling" a special pleasure! Hurrah second jab, & freezer loading & being known to the vet as "there aren’t many ferrets named Humbug."

Frith - dad's cracked heels - a thick layer of Sudocrem with sock to prevent it escaping overnight? (Things I learn from one of the very-glamorous-having-put-the-effort-in colleagues...) Family dynamics are astounding, offspring & sibling. "lots of running in and out" - but line drying is worth it! After all that progress, smaller son was due a day off, but clay pipe researches as schoolbag dries out sound splendid. It had never occurred to me hens would eat corn on the cob, but thinking about it yes of course they would. Perhaps not with butter.

DundeeDoll - devoutly hoping bombshell email went to wrong address or has been hugely misunderstood but also that applications see you swiftly into happier waters.You, extrovert? Aren't these labels so informative... A Pint Indoors! Love how hair matches Converse & litter pick tool. A legal hug - will not turn bottle green with unlovely envy but scheme... Hurrah work issue solved, plus all the rest in one day, yes I hope the early night helped! Ergll Principal Fellow paperwork but then yes flump! Sunshine so laundry til weather - aye.

villagelife - repotting can be so rewarding! New computers - ooh the future screams, snag one of the "for Dummies" series, read up & help lower blood pressure? Your manager sounds a bit overloaded by simple realities. Happy belated birthday! Hope electrics back working now but hurrah champagne & happy phone calls. Remedial back massage oooch but double rainbow & more movement.

LaineyT - love 'improvised' pud! "walking carpet ... smart spaniel ... ready for the heatwave" Aww! Just remain tickled at the idea of a net of carrots, and of course the greetings. Fingers crossed for July meeting! Cricket a washout, dashit. "embracing her inner hippo" oh my. 

VJsmum - it is wonderful not to have to make allowances for 3 other sets of prejudices when it comes to food. I'm sure there's less washing up as well. Lovely to hear even Dr.VJsmum wrestles with structure occasionally. (Colleague essay technique was to spend parents-in-Church time with single cigarette wrestling structure, quotes etc then unleash the writing Sunday night in time for Monday deadline. Mine different again, but once it starts to flow you really resent interruptions!) Share your frustration at no ongoing online only option & all best on precipice walk. What a splendid "day with my boy" rarebit galore, steam train, Villa win - you rock! Definitely hunker down weather,. Upside is no watering needed, downside is good waterproofs advisable... Builders due so furniture everywhere - may this turn out to be a pleasure. Roast beef cooked by OH yum, eaten on knees?

Happycas - yoga & caravan - there's a combination to ponder. Back to a favourite cafe - that has a special whammy! Hurrah market stall pie, all-set-up TV & I don't think you can have too many favourite places - recharging points for the soul are important.

mhagster - lanched DD1 & heard safe landing & "welcome home", the beach - with flask & thick blankets, "I shall encourage them to grow" oh but you do - how many other parents would cheer on their offspring fledging across timezones in a pandemic? Just awed. As well as thinking the lavender & pumpkins got lucky. Ergh jet lag! Chunks of family time, live & via tech & oops cold shower watering! Clearly your obelisk for peas is not the sort found in Utah, but my imagination is off & running Anyway. Promoted?! Excellent and may the extra burdens be appropriately balanced with extra income. Enough for weekly back massage And a cleaner? Wedding invite - awed - they do not mess about - now the tape is up they're running & want you as part of it. Absolutely happy tears & cheers around the world!

ampersand - love this reword to abide with me. Unbecoming to covet hair but awed at the length & lustre! Rollox to "if little else" - you are vital, as every blueberry recipient will agree!  Irises amazing flowers (local supermarket has 'yellow flag' around carpark - beautiful!) Colleague has Art Pass & is evangelical it helps - another of those recharge the soul things, I think.

Nargleblast - love you thrashing computer at crib!

PaulieHerts - stunning photos! Geese, ducks, coots, Muntjac?! Glorious! More smashing photos & what a cracking brunch! 

OK who has kidnapped our Pirate Pete, who is looking after BoPsie & what has KHP been up to what with this hail?! Eaten a bad newt? (BoP showing as "Banned", & been too long since I was here to recall other but concerns for wellbeing remain. Last seen online 19 April)

OS Pleasures recently

There is a grim satisfaction in these lateral flow tests. Fun they are not, all that single use plastic good for the planet not, but to be able to log in & report a negative test is _just_ rewarding enough.

Family tree climbing -  I was adrift in a horde of Americans, but already I’ve pushed back to the leaving from Liverpool. Also amused to find a clump of relatives near where we lived just 60 years before. [Yes having a drop of blue blood saves thinking for a bit, but the Americans keep stud books too. A fertile woman might outlive several husbands.]

I must get the wet rooted cuttings into pots of soil & hope they survive! [So far....]

Antiques roadshow, kicking off the domestic observation of our habit of going to “invade trouser wearing countries”?!  [Quick scan of trad Commonwealth attires does not Wholly support this analysis but <shrug> offspring.]

Yeay American servicefolk doing forged in fire! (4 smiths compete, in this case from airforce) We Love this show - it’s so much fun & mildly educational. Slightly marking the diary for the Marines....

“Review photos” offers Google & the back garden is tagged “jungle”. Not sure if to laugh or flounce… Blinking algorithm!

Argh next kitchen sink, I will personally supervise the installation - almost exactly 6 mm too deep for me. My back is snarling... Husband points out wrong for him too. (Fine, have it tuned it for him.)

A CHIS is a covert human intelligence source & they’re a right lot of fuss & botheration to use safely/correctly. Give me the access to the wrongdoers cloud accounting every time.  Al Capone fell to a bookkeeper.

Middleson apparently “messes with” Youngest’s phone, so he hides it. Then this morning, couldn’t find it. So I had to phone it ... Happy cries of reunification.

Not-that-early-but-wildly-unexpected phone call triggered Himself asking if we could get Sunday spoons? Boggled at him (not yet half a cup of tea in the system) “the ones for ice creams” - Sundae spoons! A 4 candles moment and within a minute, my Amazon account & his grasp on his mother’s aesthetics combine, & there is a little package of metalwork heading over. Fiend pandemic - other times we’d contemplate a field trip to Sheffield hunting the really good stuff.

The under warranty washing machine engineer called & will be with us around noon - I’m so excited & said so & as he hung up I heard “odd woman”.... So long as I can wash stuff, being thought odd is amongst the very least of my worries!

“We’re low on tins” he said. I looked - actually we’re fine just the number of glass jars (curry sauce, & various jams) give a misleading impression!

Youngest joined me on a walk & found himself hauled into a polling station! Which had a box of masks at the door so his “didn’t bring one” didn’t excuse him. I pointed out he now has the moral high ground over brother who doesn’t think voting makes any difference - huge grin!

Middleson planting cherry stones as they’ve been in the freezer for months. My gardening ancestors are beaming through me.

Had to go into Manchester office as laptop glitching - very quiet, clean, careful & Security remembered me & welcomed me back after over a year away! I missed them first - you don’t appreciate someone else answering the door til you need to concentrate... Cleared my locker & desk & now have lots of Playmobil figures (that were on monitors) stashed in Pringles tubes. Plus old photo calendars & mugs, nominally all safe in ‘the cloud’ but good to have back in hand, seeing All my lads smiling...

Got a container load of data, need to figure who & what I need to plead for to get it lined up & a preliminary analysis. One of the interesting bits - actually doing the job will be like digging a 40 acre field with a teaspoon. Unless I’ve persuaded the client to get better raw data.

Chatting with my boss &, on her noticing the sun was out, urging her to end the call & grab some natural vitamin D. Overheard by Middleson who (seeing me reach for the next file) commented “hypocrite”. [This pleasure brought to you from the front garden where the birds in the hedge make PMQs sound tactful & decorous.]

Mum sent a care package of home made brownies north - I will be able to report they have been fallen on with glee by the chaps & may even imply that all left (hours later) are crumbs amidst the packaging. [Within the day, fact!]

Keep up the saying “thank you” to people, especially shop staff & delivery folk. The look of delighted shock is Absolutely worth it!

Oh dear. The length of Tomasz Schafernaker‘s hair has become a Thing. We were enjoying it as a family in-joke through lockdown. 

Somehow, taking & submitting meter reads gives a voom of satisfaction other chores do not. (I have to stand on a shelf on one foot with the phone outstretched to get the elec meter... Never have a meter fitted by One Of The Tall!)

Nina Conti is just superb at ventriloquism. Monkey has a glorious perception that’s unique to him. Even eavesdropping on YouTube she’s wonderful. When her pet cat joins in, it’s crazy!

Aw Repair Shop metalworker to clock smith “you got a potion?” (for cleaning brass) - love the idea that this amazing craftsman uses “potions”!

Whoo-hoo American navy 'forged in fire' (TV show) - the chain chop just chewed through knives! Riveting viewing! Traditionally, the newly made knives survive the tests - these ones? Didn't, but as the forging process had been [typically] monitored, extra safety was in place.

Triple klaxon with flashing lights, I’m called to interview! Over teams, so I need to tidy my office & sort some coaching - some of which I expect to include “& you can’t wear a Tshirt”.... [Oh, yes, my crystal marble spot on.]

It is wholly possible we have some odd conversations in our house. Excited chirp “Oooh! I like these!” & I lumber over to looksee. Absolutely wow-worthy - a new form of skin closure, fast, clean, minimises scarring & looks fairly easy to apply (like Steristrip but ‘closer’ - not ideal for squeamish)  but held not First Aid Kit gear "FAK items are steri-strips and duct tape" - must add duct tape to throwing kit.

Just discovered our granny studied medicine (& physics & chemistry) at the university of London but missed a year aged 19 with typhoid - got her fees refunded & the college secretary wrote hoping she’d be well enough to return in September. Her mother pulled her from returning to college because of the war. Our Granny!  Just ye gods. We only knew the little old lady. For this alone I will pay Ancestry for another year.

It is not good to realise you cannot fit into M&S (at present). Bless my poor husband for annoying me enough to hunt, pick & purchase online so we do not have to do the humiliating hike around “fat chick shops” with me limping & snarling every step of the way.

I shouldn’t be reading up on how to bake Fat Rascals, but we tried Skipton’s rapscallions & they were delicious, and are eyeing the cupboards & contents thoughtfully. Himself shocked I have glacé cherries & flaked almonds (I was daydreaming of florentines.) [No wonder I’m wearing dumpling garb.]

Sunlight on disco ball & the ceiling is brightly freckled. So I lie on my back & beam up at the speckling.

Found an article on "thank you letters for non-profits" & thought must copy to sons, since they do not see thank you letters to family as I do.

Someone replaced the headphone jack & it’s in stereo again!

All health, strength, love & courage to all who have need, robust wind & waterproofing likewise (gently pressure test your HWB?) and please let us go right on being careful but especially Kind as this variant may throw a right spanner. Or it may not, but being kind is rarely wasted.

Happycas

Good afternoon

S Sue - I'm so pleased all went well yesterday. Sounds as if bringing a puppy to a wake is a good move!

DfV - another epic post. Will read later with a cup, or two, of tea. Thank you.

Back from the caravan after a week of two halves. First half mostly fine with some really sunny bits, second half mostly dull with lots of rain. And so cold!
However, it was good to be away. We've had lots of coffee and cake and done lots of walking, in the hope that the latter will cancel out the former ( but I know it won't)!

At least the week ahead is shaping up to be something like the old normal with yoga, tea out with DGC, and a shopping trip with friend to look forward to. And a mountain of washing we brought back with us!

Happy Sunday everyone

mhagster

Worky day done. One more to go. Oooft it was a shocker! In at 6am and out at 5pm and a whole load of bad language in between! 

Quick doggy walk first thing. Was quite nice. I’ll not need a jacket said I. Just as well I took a car ( even though it has A warning light...that’s a Tuesday job) as it is ghastly outside. Absolutely lashing with rain and cold. Heating has gone on.
Tips are in the jar. Not the most I’ve ever had but better than we were getting a few weeks ago.
Fabulous welcome home from the dog. A wee, a meal and then time for cuddles...sounds about right to me! 

 

Nargleblast

Suffolk Sue, you got it spot on. And the thing about watching Eurovision, I totally get that. Coming up to two years ago, the day my husband died unexpectedly in hospital, my son and I made our way home, obviously in sombre mood, trying to process the afternoon's events. That evening my son suggested we watch the film Mamma Mia, Here We Go Again. I had never seen it, he had. I have to say, that film with the music was just the right thing at the right time. Don't know why, my husband wouldn't have watched it, so it wasn't significant in any way, but it suited me that particular evening. Music is so healing.

Nargleblast

Just one pleasure today - visiting my Dad and Stepmum for the first  time since December 2019. There was hard work involved in the form of a 400 mile round trip, and I ache after all the driving, but it was worth it. 

Frith

SuffolkSue - I'm glad the funeral and wake went smoothly. 
Good news re the visit, Nargleblast. (My brother and I went to my sons' primary school PTA quiz after my grandma's funeral, which was surreal). 

Pleasures for today (Sunday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Hens OK.

3) Still raining! I took some potted seeds out of the shed as I had waited 3 weeks for the rain and storms to end and it just looks like they aren't going to. They had sprouted! Also put another string up across the shed as the honeysuckle (birthday present last summer) is growing so fast. Everything is lush and green but there hasn't even been an hour of sun so literally nothing is in flower. Compared to photos of last May, it looks a bit bleak. 

4) Some cooking today. Brownies with chocolate orange (very good) then toad in the hole for tea. Smaller son appreciative of both.

5) We had a game of chess.

6) Dodged the showers to cut some lilac from across the road (waste land soon to be building site).

7) Just off the phone to my school friend. 

8) Brother in law's dad, in ITU and thought that he might not survive, still here and sitting up and talking. A very long way to go, though.