5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Bit of a lie-in followed by a leisurely breakfast.

Pottered around the house and garden doing various jobs, early cloud had disappeared and it was a warm, sunny day.

Off to see my girlie after lunch, she had obviously been rolling as dust and dirt well ground into coat so that was my first job followed by a gentle stroll around the paddocks.

Watched the Wales game 😢 then walked small dog, saw two ears peaking out from field crop and realised that a deer had obviously heard us coming and hidden, popped dog on lead and walked on.

HM cheeseburger for tea with fries and salad, too full for dessert so had a square of chocolate instead.

villagelife

A great day.

A trip to Twickenham to watch Premiership final and we won.

VJsmum

Morning all.  

Frith - you have my sympathies re the hollow legged one. Joe would come in from school, walk straight past me with no acknowledgement and stick his head in the fridge

Pleasures for yesterday

1. Cleaned the bathrooms and hoovered.  We have the builder in but i need to keep the mess down as much as possible.
2. Went for a 4 mile walk in the sunshine
3. Washed the towels and they mostly dried in the sunshine
4. Left over curries for tea - no fuss and no washing up to speak of
5. watched the footie.  Not really a pleasure as the Welsh lost - and then so did the Austrians who i found myself rooting for also.
6. Read my book in the sunshine.

Have a lovely sunday all.

DundeeDoll

DundeeDoll said:

5) enjoyed the Italy game and that means at least one of my sweeties is still in

Sweepies not sweeties 🤣

LaineyT

DundeeDoll said:

DundeeDoll said:

5) enjoyed the Italy game and that means at least one of my sweeties is still in

Sweepies not sweeties 🤣

Did wonder if you have your eye on one of the Italian players DD 😂

DigForVictory

Er pt 1 I'm fine, just Real Life has coshed me. So I am presently on a week's leave, and I am expected to clear the storage room into one skip despite the fact the even using the chaps' "Skip Everything" approach, that is 8 skips-full. Marie Kondo in steel toecaps...

I never mean to write an epic, it just happens and a month means I have a Lot of Pleasures to catch up on, bless you!

PaulieHerts - stunning view! The hardest bit of bathroom decoration is the choosing - we were advised "stop at the first tiles you like" & it helped. We then sat with a thick volume of sanitary ware selecting sinks & loo & taps & thank god we don't have to do that again! Maldon looks amazing - and elderflower champagne to enjoy! Wow, watersports & hurrah strapping youth available to lug.

boazu - absolutely yes watching herbs grow is wonderful! Being in the right place - a special pleasure!

mhagster - yikes labyrinthitis & love "slightly warm". Blimey children industrious - one at work, one househunting & one in the Cairngorms - awed! Downside is you can't delegate the watering, eep. As family scattered, doing all the furnishing laundry! Lad may have fainted getting jab? Oh my. (Mine grouched there was no TLC! So we crooned & derided & handed him the last of a packet of biscuits.) There's a day! Dog walk, work, garden chat And old Melbourne photos... Bidens? - ah "Spanish needles" - yes, vivid colour! And not related to present president AFAIK. Wet grass walks after mother, then letting DD2 unload - ooh, peonies, all joy! Only you could be given an obelisk, and find a wedding-worthy pashmina & embroidered top in the lashing rain in sandals in a charity shop. Hugely impressed! Cuttings & prunings of mother's garden after doing her shopping - absolutely right. DD2 having a social life, in the house - well done! 

DundeeDoll - a lie-in?! Plus fishy pleasures without disagreements. Always nice to have your style admired even if its familiar to you! Not wholly certain of the rules (then or now) but can't see why you can't have a cicisbeo? 31:14 - blimey well done! Welcoming the Provost with intelligent social media examination - and why not? Why are long meetings OK over tech when we'd never put up with them in person? "considered run ... went back to sleep"- the honesty! Deadheading roses, 200 heads! The the 30 minute barrier looking downright fragile - cheering you on from my swivel chair! Frozen lemon slices? Elegant! You will need to run uphill? (And when chased by a tiger so will I, just I back you surviving the experience.) All these walks, vital for wellbeing. Sweepies - ooh.

Frith - this new style is a bit of a facer - I don't think we were consulted at all this time? Gosh yes nosebleed laundry. Fingers crossed sunlight & line drying can help bleach away the evidence. Absolutely right to mend the chess pieces box & very satisfying. Oh gods buyers & septic tanks. Some people can cope & others come over all unnecessary. Resizing the Kingsize down - excellent, an old friend can carry on! Smaller son must find monitoring baking progress a chore when you have to fold down like an accordion to squat & peer?! Says she who would need a litterpick tool to reach down the Brasso. Chortling at that psalm. Dentist for the 10th time, and then new fun game from the children. Who tipped them off he was new?! Oh cobbers the dentist, hurrah the bee rescue & ulp smaller son. Both of you? Phew lipoma. Former neighbour no loss & hope new downhill neighbour less feeble over septic tank, and nettles! Belated happy birthday! 3 generation lunch - well done all! Ah/argh, the appetite of the young male & oooh, solar fairy lights!

Bala - oh lamb, it's all heavy going. Hurrah Hoomanwatch & peonies! Miword jackdaw manners. Dad home & you outwitting the seagulls -  excellent. At some stage some lovely paramedics will scoop you up & haul you off, but we just wish you all ongoing strength.

Villagelife - a free ice cream at work - sometimes the unexpected pleasures are sweetest! Sticking to shopping list?! Awed! Gardens are good for you. Succulents repay the investment as they often propagate easily & tolerate a certain amount of benign neglect. Your own rose in a vase is a very special pleasure. Toad in the hole is a special pleasure (we had it too!) An evening in the garden sounds wonderful. A bottle of prosecco to be part of a wedding - lovely! Yeay Twickenham doing rugby again rather than vaccinations!

LaineyT - open prawn sandwich - whenever I try that, they 'escape'! Well done cleaning in the coolth. Bendicks bittermint straight out of the fridge, eh? (Careful mental notes taken.) I plan to learn to drive a small cart as part of my Petrol-is-How-Much?! planning, just I may need help grooming... Blimey, a 3 hour Sunday lunch (but including the washing up)! Excellent. Awww baby rabbits nibbling on clover, and Hurrah staying on board! Awed at extra blanket ration when forecast chilly. When the lovely one is barefoot, who holds her shoes? Or, when she needs them, are new ones fitted? I've been keeping the power tool enthusiast away from the hedge with the It Might Be Occupied argument. DB keeping everyone waiting?! Love deer not quite so good at hide & seek. 

VJsmum - hurrah the sofa! Airedales are characters... As a 'day off' goes, that sounds industrious anyway. A good sing is a real pleasure, given how its so frowned on in the virus. "OH didn't fall off the ladder" - yes, a solid pleasure! "rather chuffed that someone sent him flowers" bless the male of the species. I say a rail replacement bus takes some of the fun out. In the heights "Rather Busby Berkely-esque" well, Wikipedia speaks of just the synchro swimming & 500 extras so my imagination has reached for the graphics expansion card... Love your easy meals! Your "first yoga session in a while" reminds me I should return to yoga after ahem decades. Love the judgement that a book is too good to read in the bath! Covid jab marshalling like the school run - oh yes, I sat in the car like a good mother as I delivered offspring to sundry locations! Hear hear Welsh loss Not a pleasure.

Purple kitten - eep, teeth. Betrayal from within. 3D printers are fun (so son tells me) but check the high pitched noise is OK with the animals? A tonne of litter - ye gods there's an exercise workout. Jaw infection - dashit. Hurrah treatment is working & tip trip & defrost freezer! Awed. "3 ferrets to coordinate twice daily life meds for" must indeed be entertaining - it is easier for humans (less hide & seek) but the pharmacist knows me a lot better than I might wish! Blasted litter company - any credit card cover? Stay positive, DH is not doing Death Cleaning but a bit of agreed tidying. 

Happycas - love the idea of date stones and your own oasis! Hurrah DD restored to her proper self. Aw DGD coming for "help with French prep" what a splendid pretext! Judo - yoga - yes you can see how it could be confused, says she giggling too. The solstice was dashed chilly & Stonehenge was spoiled too.  Have you a distraction pack sorted should self isolation be required? Getting stuff accepted by charity shops is a huge pleasure - they're pleased but swamped & our lot have turned picky! Teatime with DGC at McDonalds - I do wish my grandmothers had that option, but I adored them in their ways anyway. Butcher has had no takers for apprenticeship? Startled & shocked.

ampersand - owch! Blasted notspot.

WinterGirl87 - welcome! Since we regard felafel as more a taste than a shape, I can't see them eluding you! Red lentil & mung bean curry sounds gorgeous - and me omnivorous. As for the mess, well an immaculate kitchen is worrying - is it a film set or does noone eat?!

Suffolksue - great big hugs, and there is nothing at all wrong with not being fast but persistent. Doing things when they feel right - yes. 

Nargleblast - absolutely spot on.

So, um, OS Pleasures in the last (oh cripes) month

Someone is burning through his birthday money so he’s less tempted to buy a kebab. The couriers will be lugging power tools, & bits for same, to us For Days!

Got clubcard chits so contemplated spree of Denby but nothing in stock I coveted, so spent it on RAC cover for self & son... [pleasure is peace of mind]

My sister has been gainfully employed (hurrah) working in an industrial kitchen chopping meat (she’s vegetarian) & on her second day slipped, fell & gashed her chin open. The cabbie to A& E cheered her up with tales of the lass the week before with a broken arm, & the heroes of A&E considered glue, her dogs & went for classic needlepoint. She’s looking for another job. The pleasure is her up & at ‘em attitude.

Family zooms now include a 20 second wobble with parents - all good fun & helping keep dad’s ability to stand on one leg repeatedly practiced. Our webcams were not set up for this! Funny & silly & healthy all at once.

Sometimes I resist temptation. I’ve been holding out on “The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly“ for Months. Until I succumbed & now await a package for Me!

Himself made traditional American biscuits (the sort that make scones look butch) & hours later there are still a heap left (he made Lots) & we’re all considering snaffling one extra. Or maybe half a dozen...

Flipped the TV on to see Michelangelo's Pietas, which walked straight past my brain to my heart & wrung it like so much laundry. Oops.

Big flower pots! Youngest looking resigned, but fastens seatbelts round them on the backseat carefully anyway. Each the size of a bucket but in terracotta, & Tesco of all places. (Local garden centre does same size At A Tenner a time - Youngest understands my ways!)

Oooh! Poor old postie staggered under a loaf of books but yes! A second century of humour & Prince pointed face is restored to me. One of my favourite characters (whose behaviour lost nothing in the telling as dad read it aloud) & several phrases are solidly embedded in family language! And a pilot officer prune book.... bliss, as “to pull your finger out” has a long & actually fairly respectable history! Alexander Armstrong who wrote for Punch in the 1930s.

Crashing noise, no prompt reply so I bashed off my headset & just roared upstairs (me who doesn’t do stairs at pace given a choice, but my hindbrain was taking no backchat from my knees), to find Himself peacefully making sawdust & Youngest restacking books bumped over. All a completely false alarm, 98% flashback, but oh my, I demanded Youngest put those books down so I could hug him & just Braille the difference between frantic memory & slightly embarrassed reality. He’s got broader shoulders than his lanky brother. It’s days off 18 months & part of me is still waiting to go fetch.

Two days gardening potting things & plunking them in sunlight! Youngest getting very good at heaving filled planters & full watering cans, bless him. My finger nails are a state (quality potting compost!) & it seems the weather will be roasting not just all bank holiday weekend (!) but also through the first few days of class & my interview. Grilled from two angles, oh Cripes.

The Prime Minister has married. In Westminster Abbey. Congratulations to the couple & wishing them all strength. (Imagines last dress fitting to the Cummings soundtrack - nightmare!) Offspring, uninterested, enquire after “Little Willie” (their offspring). Not seen. [Til G7]

Reminded of rhubarb & ginger jam - I think I have the doings, motive & opportunity! [Just not the voom, ahem]

One if my currant bushes is shaking - a blue tit is chomping at the emerging currants! So much for jam futures... Himself says get it into the garden & I’m thinking I at least get a better view of the happy thieves with the pots. 

Youngest is teething! Again. A wisdom tooth seemingly, & so eyeing a future of soup (I give that 24 hours, tops) somewhat glumly. I suppose offering to share the dog biscuits I enjoy (plain Bonios) would be taken wrongly. He’s consulted Dr.Google & struggling with the longer terms while convinced he has them… [God bless the NHS! Dentist fitted him in, prescribed antibiotics & another appointment sorted in 5 weeks.]

Interview went very fast, & as soon as done, I stripped out of the magpie garb & back into a comfortable cool T shirt. Better than taking off a rucksack - the pressure is off Me, now. 

DigForVictory

Pt 2/2 <blush>

Aw youngest having a short lesson in OTC painkillers, where we store them & how to use them safely. Um, probably should have spelled this out when he was younger but he hasn’t needed them for ages! The serious stuff hasn’t been unveiled, mostly as the prescription stuff is quite a lot more need to know. If he can’t sleep, I’ll move him up a gear.

Shock & awe. I got promotion! Now, how to tell teammates, colleagues who tried & didn’t get it upon whose wisdom I draw regularly & well wishers?[A bit of absolute honesty seems to have my came-2nd colleague planning to come to Me for coaching - ye gods I’ll do my darnedest! He taught me when I joined the techie fray.]

Middleson hugging me “god you’re tiny”. If only that were true! Short, absolutely. Tiny, alas not. No claims to deity, either.

Thing about teaching is it clashes with the dawn raid weekly shop, but it was nice to see (& be recognised by!) some staff whom I’ve not seen in months when I did a late shop. Himself is saying we need to shop more often & as I watch the numbers climb around our valley, that has absolutely no appeal. Yes I take his point he’s vaccinated but why take extra risks?

Dragged off to garden centre as “it’ll be quieter” on a sunny Friday than a hot Saturday. Still heaving... Came back with loads of herbs which we will plant & watch the slugs eat. One garlic has grown through a pebble with a hole in it - the lad loved such stones & would have laughed delightedly to see the green flourishing through the grey, so this is being smiled over. Then drizzled quietly elsewhere, so’s not to startle folks.

Front garden has been ruthlessly weeded by the chaps, the stubborn surviving healthy herbs given space & water, garden centre pots of slugs delight (in assorted herb variants) chosen & planted by me. On a hot Saturday, but at least our postie now knows just how big a standard bay can grown (taller than me!) & will be more careful with it.

Pondering returning to face to face scouting. In theory straight back! In practice  we’re surrounded by climbing number areas & the young are in school - there is only so much a mask & handwashing can protect you from if the entire mob comes back into the hut.

“He’s not fat. She doesn’t love him enough” Some days my husband’s perspective has me reduced to a giggling heap. Then near tears as I remember our lad’s ability to review a situation similarly.

Working on opting out of NHS patient data “anonymised” sell-off - GP receptionist identified me then read off the lads’ numbers, bless her. Think her view is better informed & more sulphurous than mine. [Turned out I had one number wrong & she trotted me through security questions & had me read back what I thought was the right number & she corrected me. Wonderful woman!]

Smashing seminar on carers at work - and even as problems were held up, support & suggestions were bubbling in the chat bar. Still nothing on miscarriages (yet), & ongoing problems with the new terms & conditions, but the caring condition very rarely stays the same for 5 years at a stretch. Although a bad boss can make 5 minutes feel like 5 hours.

“I’m trying to have a fart in peace & you keep following me” - a gal can’t win some days.

Cries of “less of the back-seat rock pile” from the under gardener as he tries to get a slab to stay flat. Husband excavated a young tree & found a best before 2005 monster munch packet underneath it. Before our time fortunately! Now replanted where he wants it...

Family tree climbing & a branch stops. War, again. Probate shows his savings left to his mum & I’m thinking I’ll bet that consoled her not at all.

Oh cripes - Dad had a fall (makes a change) & clobbered his nose - frantic whatsapp & Facebook posts & he’s home, patched, lovely black eye, almost back. [Still trying to claim he doesn’t need balance exercises. Heh - heckled In quadrophonics by females, diligently balancing on one foot! A full week later you have to look carefully to see anything, but crikey the photos...]

We bought the selection of breakfast cereals. To indulge a son. In full & certain recollection of our rows with our siblings & past rows with his - as the cereal always tasted better with the blood circulating.

Himself has been gardening vigorously this last week & is a stunning honey biscuit brown, whereas I am deep water loch pale. (He's been doing Far More than I have.)

Youngest jabbed! Platelet donor Middleson previously refusing beginning to come around... [Yes!! 7 full days between jab & platelet donation, so he agreed. Not sure who convinced him (as sure not us) but hurrah!]

Miword, change in MSE layout again. Pleasure in seeing the familiar names & hoping some of the lost may return. [Anyone seen that Pirate?!]

The Repair Shop & the saddler unstuffing the rhino and just in near tears of laughter with one of the teddy bear ladies. I do wonder how many takes were cut. Absolutely see why the lady loves her rhino though!

Two water rooted sage plants have made the journey from cutting-in-a-cup to rooted plant in the ground! One of last year’s sage cuttings & a Rosemary cutting also have gone into a stretch previously hogged by wild strawberries. Husband says there’s enough light - we’ll see! I love sage, and Christmas sage & onion stuffing with home grown sage has a special zing...

Oh my, you know when you bump one thing & there’s a cascade? Well the bin lid hit the box pile knocked the bottle of lemonade over & it turns out to have a hole & was spurting lemonade under pressure & having mopped up, I could do with some mopping up myself!

One of the fennels has surfaced - we knew it had a root system but hadn’t seen evidence of life - the week’s light & heat has produced a little bronze fuzz! (Can you make fennel pesto? What do you do with a kilo of fennel that leaves the bulb to bring more fronded fun next year?!)

Potted on more herbs, the woodier stemmed ones slower to root in water, so moved the generously water rooted sages into pots & moved up a rosemary so it had more space.

Some days you realise that treating yourself ‘cascades’. My handsome mechanical pencil drew “you don’t need that!” comments & now 2 chaps have 3 similar themselves…

Dear gods. The last afternoon before I go on leave is the day I get more admin done in 5 hours than I have in the previous month. And a skip booked - the clearing of the storage room is Happening. Ulp. 

Someone left a tap running (not me, not been that far down today) & the kitchen floor is getting any unexpected wash. One son sarcastically thanked me for helping but there’s not much floor space, so why complicate matters? We will have to test the overflow as it shouldn’t have happened…

I stepped on a bolt of some sort & yipped & there is now an engineering conclave as to what sort of bolt, as it didn’t just happen to be like that, it was designed & machined. That it was also blinking knobbly & disconcerting is not considered relevant to the conclave!

Right. I will try to be back more promptly. 5OSPs a day yes, thumping great post once a month not so much. Health strength love & courage to all as have need & may all growing things thrive!   

Purple_kitten

I tried to add emojis but it ruined the post! About to make a cuppa and catch up on the epic DfV posts.

We have been told we are now isolating, 1 week prior and 2 weeks after the op.

1 I bought in our emergency pet litter from the caravan, while I was in the van, I tidied and cleaned the oven.

2 Ordered in on a half price offer it really was delicious.

3 Wash loads hanging out on the line.

4 I have about 30 books I am trying to scan in to music magpie or ziffit etc to move on which are boxed up now or else I will keep them..

For today

1 Minted chops and veg and mint steamed in foil in the oven is dinner.

2 Watching a daft film

3 Our little Nestle who turned up via a vet a long while ago now who is also currently on antibiotics, came up on the sofa and curled up on my lap today, all sorts of happies.

4 I think I may have a maxi dress addiction, and you know what I am fine with it.

5 Cut DH’s hair again, which has now broken us even on the clippers we purchased, compared to hair cut costs….

mhagster

Hello. Bedtime for me. Shocking lack of sleep last night.

and oooft when the alarm went off this morning. In at work early and for the next 10 hours. 

60p in tips…hardly worth getting out of bed for! Think that’s one of the lowest in a long time. Don’t spend it all at once! However it’s in the jar.

An alright day. 

Home and straight in the shower and then out for dinner. With GN , DD2 and a mother! 

GN having a sleepover. First time since before lockdown #1

Been a stunning day ( apparently!) 

Frith

DfV - smaller son is very huggy so I get, "You're so SMALL?!" about 10 times a day...

Pleasures for today (Sunday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Uphill neighbours still working hard. They probably do a good 10 hours a day, with workbenches and tools set up on the patio. Now the automatic lights are working (replaced) in the alleyway between the houses (no street lights for 5 miles so they're very useful). They probably haven't worked for 7 years. 

3) Did a bit of work on the allotment. Had a bonfire, did a bit of digging and cleaned the hens out. Something is going in the hen pen and breaking all the eggs (and sometimes dragging them out down the ramp). My brother is taking a Larson trap down. Don't google if you're squeamish. 

4) The eating continues. He obviously wants to equal grandad and be 6 feet 4. Today I have cooked and served: tinned spaghetti on toast with 2 sausage rolls, crisps and fruit for lunch. Cheese and biscuits to keep him going. 3 portions of toad in the hole plus broccoli and carrots and gravy for tea. Rice pudding with a big bowl of raspberries and alpine strawberries off the allotment. Brownies to eat watching the football. We've just had an argument about whether he should eat the last bit of toad in the hole (I can't be bothered to make any fresh gravy). 

5) Tidied up vaguely with washing dried and back inside and washing up mountain done.

6) Watched the Belgium v Portugal match.