5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Happycas

Good evening

Paulie - I'm glad your lovely garden visit made you feel better. One is nearer God's heart in a garden......

Frith - pleased younger son has made it back to school. Long may it continue

Bala -hope  you're still managing to cope with all the problems., And that people are being helpful.

Had my first foray into Primark in about 18 months. First time there have been no queues as I walked past. Topped up basics ( t-shirts and socks).

First trip out with bubble friend since her eye op. Just a local cafe but she enjoyed being out of the house. Will probably be about 12 weeks before she can drive so I foresee a few more trips.

And the best pleasure. Picked up DGC from school and went to McDonald's for tea. This used to be a regular outing but of course, has not been possible for a year.  It was such a treat to spend some time with them again.

Happy Thursday evening everyone

Suffolksue

PK precovid ( it might have changed ) an op had to be done within 6 weeks of the pre-op assessment,or the pre- op had to be repeated.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Thursday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Hens OK.

3) Couldn't meet my friend this morning as planned so took this last (pre half term!) opportunity and went to Croome National Trust. Had a cup of tea and a scone and the cat, who normally sleeps in a box in the shop, greeted me like a long lost friend and lay on my table! After she had gone, I was joined by a hornet, which was not as relaxing.

4) Went past son's college as I knew there was a nursery up that road somewhere and it is enormous! I shall definitely go there again on days when I pick him up.

5) Collected smaller son at 12 and he had had a good morning. Had a chat with his history teacher.

6) Cleared out the planter that my neighbour gave me and replanted it with 10 strawberry plants and some camomile and thyme in the top part. It's one of the planters that has scooped out bits on the sides. Split a few things up and moved them to the front strip of garden. 

7) Picked my niece up from school (my sister was on a training day) and we went to find a gecache then kicked all the molehills down in the field opposite their house.

VJsmum

Morning all - i seem to have not posted for a few days for some reason.
Pleasures recently
1. The builder has started.  It's going to take a while, but they've started. This disruption is not fun but hopefully the finished products will be worth it.
2. finally some sunshine
3. Started the marking - again, not a pleasure doing it but starting it means it's finished sooner
4. Seeing my sister and brother for the first time in forever.
5. Washing mostly dried on the line

Have a good day all.

Nargleblast

Good Morning everyone, pleasures yesterday.....

The weather has broken. Summer is here. About time too.

Switched my computer screen saver from Spring (daffodils) to Summer (roses).

Phone conversation with stepson, confirming arrangements for family visit. Stepson and wife and two boys arriving tonight and staying till Monday, I am on night shift Sunday so they will make breakfast for me Monday before they leave.

Food shopping and menu planning for the weekend.

Two loads of washing done and dried on the line.

Watched a fabulous video on dementia awareness which I have forwarded to someone at work, it will be useful in training sessions.

Baking done for the weekend - cherry flapjacks, fudgy choc brownies and salted caramel tart, the tart gluten free and dairy free but delicious. Actually not totally dairy free because I put real chocolate on the top but I could have used vegan chocolate. I made it not because of anyone's dietary needs but because it's a simple, delicious recipe. Base is cashew nuts, coconut oil and dates. Filling is dates, peanut butter, coconut oil and water. Melted chocolate on top, sprinkled with coarse sea salt. 

Seeing the fairy lights on the patio suddenly come on as it got dark. Still magical.

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Busy morning doing chores, we have wooden floors right through the house and all these were mopped so by bedtime the smell of linseed oil still lingered!

Out to see equine girlie, she was in a very affectionate mood so lots of kisses blown in my face. She had an apple for a treat and I love the look of intense concentration & joy as she slurps her way through it.

Visit to the nursery in village, I got several new plants but could have got so many more and this was so true.


Tasty tea of chicken and tomato traybake with a chunk of fresh bread to mop up juices,

Sitting outside until late and the bat flying around the cottage.

villagelife

1. Last day at work till Tuesday. Working at different site but manager still managed to annoy me by email. Pleasure that if I was at same site I may have said something I shouldnt.
2. Evening spent in the garden.
3. We seem to have 2 ducks. They keep appearing and I love the way they waddle about.
4. Enjoyed tea - it was easy and managed to freeze some in my new freezer.
5. Chat with DS1 on the phone.

ampersand

For some reason, & tapping 'Thanks' ups the number by 2. Has done for over a week now.  No idea how/if someone and & are reading simultaneously😁. Makes a change from &'s years of apologies for Thanks button failing to register, so maybe. ⚖?🙂

Catch-up osps:
1. Car tax done online yesterday and &squat connectivity obliged!👏👏👏.  So rare, so appreciated😁!  £££s out, nil £s in, but done is done, DG.  Still don't feel safe enough re:Spitalfields. 

2. Midweek r.l. Communion, with our great organist, also world authority on a certain plant genus. Restorative stuff🙂, ditto going outside to sing!🎶😀.  Good hymn ref'd present day homeless. 
'In the streets of every city
where the bruised and lonely live,....'
Lovely vicar asked if & was ok.....  Concerns exchanged.

3. Took transportless young carer for early a.m. 2nd jab.  Racecourse entry+layout all changed since 1st jab.  No signage.  Transpired that vicar's husband, seen en route, also there for 2nd jab and equally lost.  Vicar is night volunteering elsewhere - eel town, Lainey.  They did 338 in a 2hr-shift on Wednesday night!

4.  Afternoon>evening, mowed, dug, planted - courgettes, lettuce in large ½ barrel, tomatoes, clematis, begonias.  All emporium 99p rtc's or free.  Bought extras for old uni friend.  We're still awaiting our first 2021☕outside chez elle😀.  Cooked first h-g rhubarb and over-wintered rainbow chard for this year, both yum.  Still have pumpkins and a few potatoes to plant,  but where is wise, &?  Hmmm......
Early this a.m., removed 2 snails from lettuce tub, despite blue pellets.

5.  Rugby club laundry all dry at last. Will rtn tonight, watch the 345s' match.  Enjoy your match, vl.  AGM Agenda for 26 June=28 detailed pp.  Will re-read. Big decisions ahead. Ructions likely.
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Good tgifs, if applicable, and weekends ditto🙂👍.

mhagster

Hello. I had a day and a half yesterday so must have conked out and didn’t post. 

The day was going well...in at work early, walked to and from as it was very foggy and I had a manageable bag...sometimes I have a boot full of shopping so need to drive. 

Replanted strawberries and raspberries. Painted a palette to put strawberry pots in. ( up on its side) 

Round to mums and she needed to see a doctor. Did ask for a home visit but they asked if we could come down, explained her mobility is poor she can’t manage the walk from car park. Oh come to the front door and we’ll see you in a front consulting room. Four other cars were parked so badly that I got in but didn’t know how I was getting out, low walls, cars taking up half the other bay meant I couldn’t just reverse straight out and go out the out drive...no, I had to do a 27 point turn and somehow got out! Was ridiculous! A nice old chap helped ( he was more helpful than my mother who kept saying stop! He was more realistic with the available space! Had to somehow fully turn and go back out the in drive! 

Then had an age to wait to get in to pharmacy ( 20 minutes) and it would be another 20 minutes to get prescription...I’ll come back...had exactly the same at other end! Got locked in as it was closing! 

Opened washing machine and it was full of water. So that was soggy as were my feet! Whoooosh! 

Washing line snapped just after I’d hung washing out! 

But the sun was shining. Ate lunch in the garden ( before the afternoon went downhill) got garden all tidied up and looking neat. It’s been a pile of plastic flower pots and pulled up bulbs and compost bags last two days. 

I came down late last night and all the lights were on in the garden too nargleblast and it just looked so pretty. I’ve been in my bed before they go on! 

I am waiting on a very tardy daughter to get ready so we can get out! 
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1) Sorted out the fridge and made order out of chaos...much better!
2) Trip to the local garden centres to get a bigger pot to repot my Kumquat tree that lives outside in the warmer weather and in the garden room in the cold months.  It's covered in flowers which smell heavenly but really needs more room to grow on in.
3) One of the garden centres has a decent food hall and they've just started restocking what they used to keep in pre-covid lockdown...got a lemon drizzle sponge and we've just had a slice with our afternoon cuppa...worth the wait!
4) The garden is beginning to grow on nicely, the ornamental grape I put in two years ago has really taken off up and along it's wires on to the trellis at the top of the fence and is well covered with bright green clusters of flower buds and the thornless blackberry we moved from the allotment has really appreciated the move and looks healthy and covered with lots of new growth and flower buds.
5) Our eldest grandson now 7 is coming to stay next week and the weather looks promising enough to be able to do all we have planned with him, it's been too long since we had him here and it's the biggest pleasure I can possibly imagine for it to finally be happening.