5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

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1) Blissful summers day again today, waking up to blue sky and sunshine makes such a difference to mood doesn't it?

2) Slept from 9 last night to 6 this morning with only one wake up for a loo trip, feel like me again.  

3) Normal routine...having the small ones to stay is the best fun and lived at full speed with much laughing and cuddling but there's a  lot to be said for a normal pace day doing normal things as a restorative.

4) Bread maker arrived yesterday, we had a job getting the mixing bowl out and an even bigger job getting it back in so had a consultation with DD2 who has the same model and who had the same problem to begin with! will be christening it today by making a wholemeal loaf.

5) The thornless blackberry we rescued as a self rooted seedling last year and moved to the back garden is covered in huge flowers and the bees are all over them so I have hopes of a decent harvest later on, they look pretty now so that's a bonus.

mhagster

Well! My day did not go quite to plan! 

Up early for work, had a nice stomp through the buttercups and over the fields at 5.30am, beautifully cool and just us and the birds. 

Into work ( for a few hours thought I) 
Home and went to our local castle for breakfast, sitting enjoying that when I got a call from work an issue had arisen that needed immediate attention ( the joy of promotion) so we had to leave straight away and go back in. Was not delighted! Anyway dealt with and eventually got away. 

Home and cut the grass. And planted some verbena and geraniums and more lavender ( never have enough) 

Hoovered and washed floors. Cleaned downstairs loo. Downstairs looks tidy at least. 

Went for a lie down as felt grotty. Don’t think I slept just drifted in and out of listening to something.
Has just lashed with rain...just left the already soaking wet washing out there! At least I won’t need to water the garden tonight. 

ampersand

Tippy-tapping this outside.  Listened to cricket, Rafa safely through in Paris, rugby club teatowels heaped beside me, ready to fold.  Tepid coffee is fine.
Sounds of birdy supper time. Refilled all the feeders this morning
1. A gorgeous night yesterday for that special last match of season. Big crowd for both teams - and we beat the Light Blues😃😇🤗. That's & you heard scream'n'shout 'ALLEZ PERVANCHES!!!  VAS Y MES GARS!!!  GO SHELSSSSSS!!!  À LA LIGNE!!!  AVANCE!!!!'
And they did😁. 25 - 17.

2.  Happy times afterward with so many.  Just lovely, lovely times and some sensible 1 to 1 discussion ahead of AGM in 3wks.  Replayed this by request.  & will listen to it any number of times.🙃💃🎶  So sing-y, so dance-y.  Back after midnight, fabuloso.
https://youtu.be/3E4ZeCIhJH8

3. They've survived their 1st night.  Any i.d. clues welcome.  Sorted and returned a binliner of 50-ish emptied plant pots to nice village lady.  Upended soil from 1 and look! Potatoes!  Where did they come from?




4.  Huge shop done for no transport couple in 3 Town of Horse locations.  5 unloading trips. Hot and bothered, on edge of feeling enough was more than enough.  It's been 5hrs of much heavy lugging, hence this welcome sit down.  

5.....and did all the watering first.  Back into the rhythm of morning and evening bucketfuls for fig, courgettes and tomatoes out front.  Hose, watering cans and rain butts out back.  More luggety-lug-lug.  It's just beautiful outside now.  And, ye gods, can hardly believe it,  but it's there, high atop the elderberry, now flowering.  Purple, all through the white elderflowers, the crazy thing which is a notifiable noxious weed in NZ! - a potato vine.  & bought it as a bit of a joke, school fête, years ago - scrawny little stem straggler, 10p.  25'-30' feet up now! Top right and bottom left corner - looks like lilac, but isn't. 

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Hope you can all can find some shared sense of similar pleasures today.  
Especially thinking of you, Sue, on such a day as this is. 
Bala, thoughts for you with your Dad.
Pk, tip from &'s dentist several years back - a wodge of Sensodyne on the offending tooth/area can work wonders - a holding measure until emergency appt.
Vl and mhags - relief from back pain to you both. 
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Posting words, then pics - takes quite a while....all done, just on an extra hour!

Purple_kitten

& Thank you for the tip I will give it a try.

Bala hope you are able to rest a bit

Vjsmum, Pembroke castle is lovely and there was a lovely fish and chip shop just on the corner opposite it, however that was about the sum of Pembroke and that was a few years ago now.

SSue, I think you are doing amazingly to find the pleasures.

1 The sort of chore list that can be a pleasure when done, washing loads hung out, oven set to clean, shelves in cleaning solution. Washing machine cleaner running through. Bird feeders re stocked. Ordered ferret meds, all done.

2 When all the above was done or underway I got on with both lunch and then starting to plant petunias out and really enjoyed it, ended up planting out about 30 plants from the greenhouse and room for a few more if I see any cheap. And started to plant up and out a few hanging baskets and also planted out the front of the house, safe to say I’ve over done it a tad and might be waiting for painkillers to kick in now.

3 A healthy but tastey dinner, chicken with various garlic, turmeric onion things with swede and various veg, it was very tastey. And reduced strawberries with elmlea to look forward to later.

4 Enjoying seeing the garden planted up and pondered around watering it.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Saturday)

1) Had an online chat with a friend from yesterday into today - I could say happy birthday to her after midnight! 

2) Not a bad sleep.

3) Hens OK and I cleaned out their sleeping quarters.

4) The Red Arrows flew over my house.

5) There was a classic car rally going past this afternoon but I think they had set out hours earlier as there would be one classic car, then a 10 minute wait, then 2 classic cars! 

6) Lots of quite decent cooking. Tuna melts for lunch, shepherds pie for tea (smaller son would have eaten the whole thing had  I not hidden some away to go in the freezer) plus milkshakes made with LO yoghurt and a cheap tin of peaches!

7) Double bill of Casualty. 

PaulieHerts

Recent pleasures:
Thursday - waiting in for delivery of hot tub which didn’t come ☹️
Friday - waiting in for delivery of hot tub which did come 😊 but it was raining 🌧 so didn’t get it set up ☹️
Saturday - beautiful day so hot tub set up, filled and heated up for a dip after dinner this evening 😊
Dinner of chicken fajitas, homemade spicy 🌶 wedges and a glass of red wine 🍷 in the garden 😊Night all 💤

LaineyT

Looking very comfortable there Paulie!
For yesterday,

Bit of a lie-in followed by long, lazy breakfast.

Over to the yard and hello pony, she was a tad dirty after being out in the rain the day before so got to grooming and she fell asleep whilst being pampered, it’s a hard life eh. 

Home and eldest DSS came for lunch, sat in garden and enjoyed hot dogs & HM coleslaw. Capt S then took him to airport to start a new adventure overseas, will miss him.

A walk around fields with small dog, everything so green and lush now.

Did spicy steak fajitas for tea and might have had a glass of something bubbly and cold ☺️

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1) A really nice late evening walk last night to the allotment and then along the lanes and footpaths, the verges full of white frothy 'Queen Anne's Lace' and glowing yellow buttercups and the smell of warmth and summer, very enjoyable.

2) Made my first loaf in our new bread maker and it turned out very well, very good flavour and texture,,, yum!

3) Second border in the garden now planted up with fine beans and the runner beans we put to go up over the old rose arch have started climbing.  Grape vine has many bunches of tiny rudimentary grapes set and the blackberry has popped out masses of side buds behind the big king buds on all the new growth stalks.

4) All looks well and growing on nicely on the allotments, plum tree is full of set plums growing on and more wild plums set and growing on along the footpaths we walk, I think we might have a 'mast year' this year and nature will give generously.

5) We're going out for coffee this morning, only to the garden of the coffee house/restaurant in the village but it's really nice to somewhere other than in the house and garden and feel relatively safe.  I think we might go for a drive out too as the weather is cloudy and grey here and cooler than it has been so not a day for sitting out in the garden perhaps.

DundeeDoll

Looks lovely Paulie and worth the wait. For yesterday
1) chopped and cooked the outside of the cauliflower to add to usual breakfast of beans, tomato, mushrooms and egg - very tasty
2) gloriously hot sunny day - walked boys up to mum's and sat in her garden enjoying the sun
3) garden centre with mum and dd2 as mum still had her birthday treat card (Jan!) - very tasty, bought a hose (mrpiano's jack russell chewed through the old one!)
4) then called in at sainsbury's to get a few more pots of herbs and spices - i like their jars cos  i) i keep mine in a draw and their have the name on the top as well as the front ii) the neck is wide enough to get a tea spoon in iii) i like them in alphabetical order all the same size - i now have 36 and very much enjoying cooking with them
5) dd1 video call - if all goes to plan house will be theirs 1st October - lovely to catch up

Happycas

Well, that's a change in the weather! Dull and drizzly today.

S Sue  - so glad you have friends rallying round. Hugs x

Frith - love the Red Arrows. We live very near an ex RAF aerodrome ( now a commercial airport) and used to watch the annual air displays from our back garden.

Yesterday

A glorious day, possibly best yet

Met DD for brunch. I had rosti with feta and walnuts. Most unusual for me. I usually pick something sweet but it was lovely. I even ate some of the salad.

Still wrestling with the cushion covers. If someone had given me the material and a pattern they'd be done by now but working out the sizes , which way up etc is driving me daft. I feel as if I need a slide rule or something. But I will not be defeated!

Today

Baking this morning. Was to be a cake until I realised we have no eggs. Turned into choc chip shortbread instead.

Going to visit DS and family this afternoon, taking shortbread with us. It's great to be able to see them again

Happy Sunday everyone