5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

DigForVictory

DundeeDoll, love that colorful salad & delighted your bracelet found you again.

Frith - Imbecile driver! Ulp, wishing you & yours the very best with this virus.

Ampersand - good to see you & oh, so hoping for rain.

LaineyT - love the grazing in hand of a horse confined to barracks on box rest. 

Happycas - hurrah medics & hoping DGD makes a full recovery soon!

mhagster - everyone should sleep in their spare bed to check it is OK to offer guests. Alas, St. Paul Street, Blackburn, has been massively redeveloped since there was a bottlemaker there.

VJSmum - may seem odd to be relieved that the PCR tests exist, but to confirm it's 'only' manflu is a bonus!

OS Pleasures recently

3 more cuttings of the lad’s rosemary (Miss Jessops Upright) potted on, surrounded by 7 thyme cuttings. Back into the hands of whatever benevolent deity let them get this far. The hawthorn cuttings are apparently still alive, but having been targeted for leafy vigour, so I would hope. Double pleasure really, both the hope, & the satisfaction of cleaning under the fingernails!

Yesterday shopping spotted miso soup packets - work bag updated as I had to chuck the last lot (exp 2017) & miso is a wonderful pick-me-up after a cold wet wintery hike into the office. I do it a monstrous injustice - it’s good at any time of day, but I appreciate it so much more on the colder wetter mornings!

I bought (off a market stall) some Denby pieces made post-1997, so I have no reference book. Puzzling out what they are is an amusing challenge. With occasional outbreaks of language unbecoming.

Not sure if I thanked LaineyT sufficiently for the Bendicks Bittermints from the fridge tip - just delicious, & so much easier to stop at one.

Hurrah, sister has convinced parents to come to see her tonight, having got back-from-Devon PCR tests. The closing show was short two soloists self isolating so there is cause for concern, but they were unwilling to go through the hoops - she lives half a mile away from a mobile testing site, Phew. [Had to herd dad through Using His Mobile but he’s clear, mum called GP for the same answer.]

All too often there aren’t good or right words, and to retreat to ‘indescribable’, while correct, often lacks warmth. Yet Susan Calman on the battle of Culloden gets it right. She keeps it short and when the emotion wells, admits to indescribable.

Middleson back from fishing in Inverness & had a jaunt up to Isle of Skye where caught fish, saw a seal & several deer & generally had a good time. Complains it’s a long way north but the photos are glorious - full sun all Saturday - had local colleague blasphemous “it’s not usually like this”. Now he’s got to get clean & fed then early night as he’s on earlies tomorrow!

Husband thought I was reaching for a tea towel to do washing up, and my hand came back with the Tilley. “Hat practice!” Well, it’s not going to stretch without a bit of wearing & tugging. ['Just wearing it' leaves my forehead just enough bruised for me to prefer tugging!]

This switching SIM on the mobile phone malarkey is probably quite straightforward the second time. The first time’s a doozy... Still, I managed & can at last check my bank account while our shopping!

The rip-stop fabric Himself wanted has arrived & Ye gods it is every lumen as hi-visibility as he hoped. Even still in it’s opened pack, it’s radiating..

Oh gods, dad bought fish & chips & asked how you reheated this, oven or microwave? Staff sweetly gulped & explained it was to be eaten At Once… shocked daughters echoed this over several minutes.

Plaintive query from Middleson about his car - he didn’t tell me so I have no diary entry to help. Cake & eat it, somewhat. I ask a lot of questions but then people get to garage, dentist etc.

In class as a pupil today (very strange & dear gods, it really is decades since I studied bookkeeping last) so youngest asked to watch for post: “I shall don my toga”. 

Middleson takes foolish risks. Having claimed to be afraid of me with a spork in hand, he baited his little brother (who had cooked) and shrieked on the discovery that it wasn’t his mother he needed to watch out for. An annoyed cook is not to be trifled with.

Big husky Himself is contemplating learning to use a sewing machine - on a Singer Featherweight, but has got distracted researching it, so we’ve found it’s serial number & bookmarked a website on its care & feeding. 1968 or 1969 made! (He won’t listen that a Walking Foot has Teeth.)

Himself has just had his first very tentative lick of ‘patum peperium’ “fish oxo!” I see where he’s coming from… A hearty blast of anchovy is good stuff.

I bought a pack of 3 thin flexible plastic cutting boards & next I looked, they’ve been reshaped & sized to work with four different camping cook kits. All smoothly tidy & filed round the edges - he’s done a neat job!

Son brought me a glass of something long, iced & fizzy - “ dad wanted the can”… seems his fuel gel escapes the flat floor of his cooker, tin cans lack resilience & he’s doing better with mince pie foil cases. The enquiring mind is not always easy to live with. The drink was lemonade, & delightful.

Health (or prompt return to), strength love & courage to all as have need & may the weekend weather cooperate with plans & hopes.

Purple_kitten

1 Today I thought I will just clean up the window and door sills I can get to, so I did and they look great as far as window and door sills do, but then I decided to do the run door and of course both sides, and the kitchen windows and then while I was at it I might as well clean the windows of them all as well, and I over did it a tad, but it’s nice its done.

2 Stuck to the meal planning, today is gammon, pineapple and egg with veg.

3 An unexpected visit from a local friend and her son, we spent time in the garden playing with the animals.

4 A lovely day.

About to grab a cuppa and read DfV's post.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Friday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Bigger son's cough slightly better today but his sense of taste and smell have gone completely. His girlfriend has also tested positive (as has he) with the PCR test; they got the results this morning. I don't have to isolate (2 vaccinations) but we have decided we will all stay in for 10 days. We've had enough practise, after all!

3) Hens OK.

4) Did a reasonable amount of housework.

5) A phone call with the museum lady and I can apply for a museum accreditation mentor place when I am ready and she will put me down for their group/any useful training. This is quite a big step.

6) Paid off a bit more mortgage. I can't wait until it is in the hundreds!

7) Bigger son made one of his curries for tea.

8) Phoned my school friend.

9) Did an "emergency" Sainsburys order as we won't be able to go out and that arrived this evening. I had to shout out of the window to just leave it all on the step. 

mhagster

Hello. Bedtime and alarm set for silly o’clock. 

Up early for work. 

It’s my wedding anniversary today. Found it a hard day. Woulda coulda shoulda and all that. 

Nice doggy walk in big park. 

Went to mums. Sigh. 

Went to supermarket. Sigh! 

Went to lie down as I was  tired. Sigh! 

A peruse of the garden. Bit of deadheading.
Nice tea.

Then went in to work to do some display stuff as new stock in. 

Home and a quick doggy walk in the dark and rain! 

Quick message to and from friend in Melbourne. 

DundeeDoll

Hope all well soon frith
1) did colleague’s annual review at the botanics over lunch- have given her food for thought
2) after work met 3 friends in the Phoenix for a jar or two and a good catch up
3) back home for 7 as hosting book club - we held it outside in the communal garden and I lit a fire in the fire pit
4) hm fennel and tomato soup for supper
5) then walked dogs down to station to meet dd2 off train and walked back hearing all about her holiday
and now it’s saturday. Night all

Happycas

Good morning - grey one again

Frith- hoping your son continues to improve. And that your isolation flies by.

V Life - ouch. Bad backs are so painful and so easily triggered. Take it steady for a few days if you can

Thank you all for your kind thoughts and hugs. DGD has been moved to HDU, and is gently mending. She is cross though but as this is her third major surgery and second pacemaker  and she's only 12 , I think cross is justifiable. No visitors allowed, of course, but one named person allowed to stay. DDiL is doing that so it's been very intense for her too. 

Yesterday we  had a lovely day with DGS. We went 10 pin bowling which I haven't done for about 20 years. I haven't improved in the interim, but it was good fun.  I have achy shoulders today though.

Picked 3 more tomatoes but one had been completely eaten away from underneath. I suspect snails!

My slow cooker has decided to take its job description very seriously. It's now an extremely slow cooker! As it cost about £15 about 5 years ago and is used very regularly, I don't think it owes me anything. Time to invest in a new one.

Happy Saturday everyone

LaineyT

Crikey HappyCas, your poor DGD has really been through it hasn’t she, bless her heart.

For yesterday,

Changing the bed and the anticipation of getting in later.

Hello pony, oh you’ve had such a good roll in the dust and dirt haven’t you, knew I should’ve got a Bay!

Dropped Capt S at the train station as he was off to the cricket, popped into the Marks on the way home for a few bits for the weekend.

Just me for tea so a slice of quiche with some leftover roasted veg over salad.

The big old harvest moon guiding me back to the station at nearly midnight to pick up me fella who was tad wobbly after a couple of beers ( two pint screamer my man ) but happy after his time at the Oval. We had tea and toast when we got home.

villagelife

1. Back is improving.

2. A cat, one of the ones I was looking after, came into the house to say hello to me.

3. Say in the garden for a while. It was warm - not sunny though.

4. Dried some herbs. It is something I had been meaning to do for a while. 

5. Easy tea of jacket potatoes.

VJsmum

Art'noon all

pleasures for yesterday

1. cast is off - tho is still incredibly painful.  more so actually
2. wonderful service from the NHS, i really cannot fault them
3. down to one final assignment ti mark
4. takeaway curry
5. family film night, my choice - the Mauritanian. was good

have a great artnoon all

mhagster

Up and out early for work but just a wee quick shift and then been in the rest of the day, 

Not done very much , felt quite lethargic most of day. 

It’s been raining all day. 

Made nachos using up veggies.

Nice chat with friend on phone.