5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

PaulieHerts

Yes Lainey, Walton on the Naze.  The Naze end is lovely, away from the crowds 😊

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1) Another sunny day

2) Not having to cook today as we're using up leftovers for both lunch and supper.

3) Washing out on the line to dry, most satisfying.

4) The coffee maker and the bread maker...both make life a little sweeter.

5) Garden growing on nicely beans have adult leaves, grapes set and swelling, blackberry covered in flowers and bees, herbs visibly grown every day again, most satisfying.

mhagster

Another day in quietsville. Woke up with full blown labyrinthitis ( kind of felt it coming on yesterday) so have just had a quiet and gentle day.

watched a schmaltzy movie with a happy ending
just waiting on sausages cooking then I’m having them in a sandwich.
company of my doggy. He’s such a good nurse.
just re-sowed some more grass seed. Lawn looking better than it did a few weeks ago. It’s a work in progress.
After a very rainy start ( which is very welcomed by the garden) the sun has came out and it’s slightly warm here. I still have a jumper on though! 

DundeeDoll

mhags after all your days working, so unfair  hope you feel better soon
5 since last post
1) enjoyed the germany france game - a random young chap gave me a red rose, very sweet
2) walked home with dr no, nothing notable except enjoying the peace of empty roads
3) first meeting didn't start till 9:30 so, although tons to do, had a bit of a lie-in. bliss
4) after work walked boys up to mum's to watch 2nd half of Wales game - had to explain to her why the red team were turkey not wales. At which point she said 'so who's the chap in blue'. The ref mum the ref 🤣
5) made a lish fish stew for tea. There is plenty left over for tomorrow. DD2 doesn't like fish so good to cook fishy things while she's away. 

Frith

I'm afraid the new style forum is pretty much unusable for me, on my ancient phone and laptop. I seem to be typing in a little box on the far right hand side and the line and letter spacing is totally weird.

Anyway, pleasures for today (Wednesday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Hens OK.

3) Managed to clean all the upstairs, particularly after a middle of the night nosebleed for smaller son. 3 loads of washing done and the pillow is still on the line.

4) Downhill neighbour is moving out this week; new neighbour is moving in on my birthday! She took me on a very quick tour of her house to see if I wanted anything she was going to recycle so I had some cushions and some shelving things plus a few bags of firewood. 

5) Smaller son had a lovely day at college. He made sweet and sour chicken Cantonese style and ate some there for his lunch but managed to bring some home for me! He also had a game of badminton.

6) Wales won 2-0. I watched it on S4C for the full effect but my Welsh is so bad I understand it like this: "Goal - - - score 1-0 - - - - - getting tired - - - June - - - this evening - - - Saturday - - - Wales - - - Turkey - - - and then - - - but - - - and - - - match - - - 5 minutes left - - - 4 minutes left - - -  GARETH BALE!!!!! "

7) Made a sort of cassoulet for tea. Have had strange meals for a week as no money until tomorrow. Sainsburys order will arrive tomorrow night! 

8) Watched Great British Sewing Bee.

balabooberlies

Hello All



Have been here in Kent since the beginning of May.  My Dad will be coming home in the next few days with no real diagnosis as he is too weak for biopsies etc.  But words like cancer and advanced have been thrown about.  And then rescinded due to no definitive tests.  Absolute nightmare, too full to say more.

Would like to report on Hooman Watch......

I have been comforted by the most wonderful sightings (10 feet away) of Starlings (I have never seen any before).  They are the only ones I have seen drink from my hastily fashioned large bird bath and they walk and run with such gusto.  And so pretty.

Collared Doves, dusky grey/pink delight, but as a special treat.  Not daily.

Parakeets,  Pigeons (can't help but love them, they are so daft), Sparrows, Sea Gulls, Magpies.....

And my favourite, the Jackdaw.  I watched in amazement for a few days as they barely land on the food table but manage to whisk away food.  I had already likened them to helicopters or hornets when I saw one complete a right angle.  South to center, center to west, in 2 quickfire movements.  Stunned and awed.  I am also partial to the way they look.

Vegetation here is the lushest I have seen in my very urban life.  Banks of Clematis ten feet long on 2 occasions on the outside of someones fence.  Heaven knows the delight on the inside of their gardens.

My Mum has Peonies.  Full pink, tinged with maroon.  I asked her about them last night and she informed me that she had not planted them but a previous owner.  I want to become a Peony grower !  

Tiggy is okay, daily reports indicate.  

Hugs to all

bala

x

Suffolksue

Keep strong Bala xx

villagelife

Bala hugs and love to you and your family.

1. A free ice cream at work. Improved the afternoon as did one lovely patient. She was also the one with the best reason to moan and complain but didnt.

2. Curtains have arrived. It has taken about a month for UPS to deliver them. They are what I wanted which is good and fit well with the room.

3. Walked round the garden as the sky slowly darkened. No need to water and the water butts needed filling up again.

4.  Next door chickens freaked out over something and escaped out of their coop. All safely out back in but they were very unsettled for no apparent reason.

5. Watched great British sewing bee. I wanted someone  else to win.

LaineyT

Good to hear from you Bala and that you are finding pleausures during such trying times.
For yesterday,

Ooh, what a scorcher but up early and bread made before it become too hot, always grateful for my North facing kitchen on such days.

Over the yard, in shorts as too hot to ride / work for either of us but I gave her a good pamper in relative cool of barn which included taking some of the weight out of her mane.

She makes me smile & laugh every day, even when she has done something naughty, such a character and the old adage that says a mares heart is harder to win but once won is yours for life is completely true for my girl.

Light lunch of open prawn sandwich then just pottered around the house, washing was dried in two hours outside.

Watched and enjoyed the Wales match but, like DD’s Mum, the fact that Wales were playing in what looked like the Australian kit was a tad confusing.

VJsmum

Hugs Bala - and Mhags.  Hope you are better today, Mhags.

Congratumalations DD

Pleasures for yesterday

1. Went walkies with Caspar the airedale and his humans.  He was naughty but funny - at one point had DS's pony tail in his mouth. 
2. One of Caspar's human's is a fabulous cook - sausage rolls and almond cookies were supplied.
3. OH and I then went sofa hunting.  It's for the conservatory so we wanted one from a chazzer as the heat rather does for them in there.  Did the rounds of many chazzers in the area and ended up going back to the first one we went in on Tuesday = a cream fabric DFS sofa has been purchased.  It looks absolutely spotless, virtually unused and was £120 including delivery!  Will be delivered this afternoon.  You can't say better than that. Can't see us buying a new sofa ever again when you can get such good quality second hand.
4. Watched the Wales game (the red threw me too DD). As Wales supporters (even above the English team) it was a great game and a fab result.
5. Had an indian takeaway.

Have a great day all.