5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Admiral_Barbarossa

Doggy Walks!
Lasagna!
Moons!
Full English!

Life at Sea!

Just in from getting supplies at the Discount Surplus Store! Seems all the sugar and flour has gone! Though we got our supplies! More saved by not going to the W! Got some special chocolate with orange bubbles in it! The Albatross will be liking that! Also got some mince pies, they will not make the weekend!

Did Codpiece pie yesterday. Cod with prawns in homemade parsley sauce. Topped with sliced potatoes 
and cheese! Served with peas and carroty swede mash! Then chocolate sponge (homemade) and instant skin on custard!

The Albatross flew from the quarterdeck yesterday to get emergency supplies, we were out of marmite! She also got some fiery fizzy waters as well!

Did look at the amazon for 9 dangers but we watched Apocalypse Now Redux Cannot believe it was the first 18 I saw proper! The fiery fizzy waters and cheese were consumed!

The Albatross is how Ms Admiral read the name as! 

Jen gives a buzz!

Keep Safe!

villagelife

DD - a colleague also ran the 1/2 marathon for bowel cancer as a former colleagues of it last year.
For yesterday

1. Had my Covid swab. Well organised and quick.

2. Day at home as can't go out till tomorrow now. Started Christmas cake.

3. Some time in the garden. Cleared some of the veg patch - compost on the soil too.
 
4. DH made another flower bed. It means he has less grass to cut.

5. Flowers picked and in vases.

weenancyinAmerica

MandM90 - Have you checked to see if a bed sheet would work as a tablecloth? You can even stitch 2 different ones together to make a reversible one if the sheets aren't thick enough.

DigForVictory

Lurches back in. RL crazier than Christmas (fighting talk!) but then education does that to my schedule. This time, I'm a pupil...

PaulieHerts - thank you for beautiful photos! As a vicarious holiday goes, they're glorious. Then vacuum packing away summer clothes.

Admiral - squirty cheese? Your pedestal is rocking. Albatross? YeGodsSir! Dippy eggs & Marmite soldier, ah, that's the stuff!

Frith - wow that scan! And eep that long empty building that wasn't. The 'What Did I Do in a former life' that is gloss paint. Rat poison & paintbrushes, as you do. Escape from gloss for coffee & a chat, excellent.

DundeeDoll - does fresh air improve a student thesis? to meet Dad for the first time since - dear heavens DD! To be a pilgrim isn't easy. Congrats DD's DD on half marathon!

MandM90 - menfolk puttering in the garden a special pleasure. A passed MOT likewise. Hope you all get the the wedding & everyone has a wonderful time!

Happycas - love a happy DGD, just hope she & you all stay healthy!

LaineyT - good to see you resuming the vertical, carefully. Local baker enjoys hot cross buns but the pastry cross can 'wear him down a bit'! Washing on the line! I'd go look for a moon but there's cloud.

villagelife - I got the flu jab & am trying to hobbit birthday both sons. (Neither is keen.) Rugby is the business. Love the 'made another flowerbed' logic!

mhagster - fighting off germs while rehoming stuff via local estate Fb page. Just awed at how you keep on.

Purple_kitten - Vets Every Day - yikes but the reprieve!

VJsmum - the foundling museum tokens get me right in the feels, whereas the threads I can be more academic about. Just.

OS Pleasures recently

I do love hearing my parents bickering gently “she was born in 19**, you work it out!”

Himself wants to make a berry picker (think narrow dustpan with hairpin fangs) but is trying to source a bike wheel to use the spokes of… Quite how I (short) will use it in the hawthorn well above my head, I don’t yet know, but listening to the planning is fun. [Still at planning stage, alas]

At work, I am being trained in how to check the big players’ books & records. Now my usual wicket is the small business - usually one site, not over 20 employees, one bookkeeper (possibly called the FD), tea in a mug & everything on a human scale. The training is like moving from a canoe to an ocean liner. Possibly multiple sites, heavy accounting tech often integrated in production tech, accounting functions across time zones in teams & the FD someone with their own wiki page. Ulp! Pleasure is I’m learning, even if I feel bits of me stretching.

Some days you get a trout, who deliberately  eyes-wide takes pleasure in saying no. So I went to her colleague.

Home Bargains have little bottles of Fentimans tonic at 29 pence each - I’d pay that for each 125ml bottle with ‘botanically brewed’ embossed but this way I get a pleasant slosh of tonic too! [I don’t like gin, but adore tonic…] To my joy they had salt & vinegar pom bears too - we associate them with camping in Crieff…

Yesterday observed a lass carefully typing in my Iceland membership number & realised her fingers were thinner my little finger. Blinked & was happy that we’re all different. 

I love family tree climbing but the stacking names & locations has me thinking “ah the lesser chippingham super-awkward-chaps” & thinking Habergham Eaves (a local burgh) is surely some distant relative somehow… Whilst blinking gently at various Onesimes & curiously at women called Harrie, who appear to have been a bit of a handful & given to travel. I’ve tracked 3 generations & I think the menfolk May have put assorted feet down…

Oooh, Royal baby declared as Sienna Elizabeth! Lovely footprints as part of announcement.

Youngest has asked plaintively for “normal plasters” - the supplies are either a bit specialist, or have patterns (some Hello Kitty, some Star Wars depending on what the car boots had) so he has something of a point… [Ye gods the cost of a sticky plaster. When next carbooting, will seek out more affordable if lurid issue!]

I was worrying I’d put more weight on than I’d thought. Turns out I was wearing youngest’s fleece….

Family zoom included jab news (dad twitchy after National service where the same needle was used for all the regiment & he was near the end of the alphabet) & much affection for “recollections may vary” - a phrase we could hear Sir Humphrey using, & intend to invoke in the family… Masterpiece of grace & tact & difficult to take overt umbrage with. Not sure how much of my taxes support our Queen, but for that alone, she’s worth every ha’penny.

Another passed my MOT (ahem late but anyway) also serviced (& bought three years MOT & Service package, had saved up for.)

New icon for covid - Lady Macbeth, compulsive hand washer & utterer of that well known puppy command “out, Spot!” (Edited for any innocent young minds & to tease purists.)

So squaddies will be delivering fuel. Hope they get Yorkie bars in their ration packs!

“You done with meetings?” “With meetings, not with schooling.” “So I can hammer or not?” “Hammer away.” “Cheers” Middleson has leave & plans…

Spotted “what’s the dumbest way you’ve hurt yourself” on fb & (shame on me) chuckled through screens of lumps bumps cats doors & damage, so much of which I attribute to the human condition.

This autumn’s cough has mum by the throat & us daughters anxious. I may bubblewrap a flask of my ginger cordial & post it, but dad says the single malt is helping. 

Wee coz visiting from Edinburgh startled my parents by apologising & just breaking into a run along a grassed stretch beside a reservoir then doubling back to rejoin then walking! Joined in the family zoom admirably.

Accents can cause issues. I’m struggling to take seriously an archaeologist excitedly explaining about the possible find of a “high status worrier”…

My family tease me I listen to the Repair Shop like others listen to Bob Ross. Not sure it’s quite ASMR but most of the voices do leave me feeling rested & calm. 

Trying to listen to advice on demonstrating the efficacy of training while Himself trimmed hedge. Then all quiet & I’m hauled away to move car so new neighbours can “get fridge in” did so, awed to see fridge freezer monolith bring lugged up garden steps to go into garden room! (American Style fridge freezer left by previous occupants so new couple putting monolith in his home office.) Sweet colleague ran through PowerPoint again after, so I & a late arriving colleague could catch up.

Cherished colleague going into another silo, online banked a note into his wobbleade fund & hesitantly asked my trainers if I could have 15 minutes to see him away Thursday. To my amazement “of course!” In minutes! Hurrah - everyone who reviewed my application &/or interviewed me plus several other old friends will be there too, so for a few minutes it will be a massive party!

Mango chutney, strawberry jam, ginger cordial all made & bottled. Husband has supervised a tidy out of a cupboard - he now has 2 kilos of expensive sugar acquired on promotion & filed whereas I’ve donated three cafetières & ruthlessly filed the still tightly sealed coffee alongside the remaining pots. Then boiled up mango chutney attacking the metal kilner lids into ravenhead Kilners, with himself supervising happily. (One batch mango chutney good, two better! Mangoes for batch 3 ripening on table & speculation about tinned pulp on the wing!)

Right, health strength love & courage to all as have need (likewise Marmite!), hurrah the light while we have it & drying days likewise & if you haven't checked your HWB for soundness yet, might it be time?

MandM90

dig what a lovely post. You have been busy boiling and bottling haven't you?

My pleasures...
1. Finally booked holiday for next year. Did I mention it'll be our first trip since 2019??  We last holidayed as a family of three, and will be a family of five. We have been busy and must start watching some more of the telly! So far have booked three nights at a quaint B&B in Ribérac - près d'Allemans, where le mariage de nos amis will be held (just getting in some practice!). Two mutual friends are also attending and we will meet them for dinner the night before and I believe the whole wedding party are attending a pool party/BBQ the day after, then for ma famille it's onto a eurocamp elsewhere in Dordogne for 7 days and up to Vendée for a further 4 days before we make our merry way back to the emerald Isle. ONLY NINE MONTHS TO GO!!!! *Sounds holiday klaxon*. It is costing a fortune (not sure if prices have gone up or I'm doing it wrong) but I couldn't give a toss. I have figured out what we need to set aside each month and it will be manageable and worth it!
2. Leftover butternut squash curry for lunch and leftover lasagne for supper. And DH is washing up. Little domestic drudgery for me
3. Figured out I was over washing my nappies. I can get away with washing them for a while two hours less and they still come out very clean which will save me about 8 hours of washing machine electricity a week! Also I thought the dehumidifier was dying but it's decided to fight death and the utility room is proving to be a very effective drying area. 
4. We are all in good health, and get to choose what we eat, and are safe and warm
5. I'm married to the kindest, most handsome man I've ever met 

Nargleblast

Pleasures today- 

First day of annual leave week, always a pleasure.

Away over the weekend, a lovely break in leafy Bucks, but nice to be home. Cats pleased to see us.

Lots of domestic stuff done today, new lists made out and stuff crossed off. I do like a nice list.

Finished off the current song in choir, helped out with doing coffees and teas afterwards. Lovely to be back in the room rehearsing properly together.

Cooked a lovely steak lunch with chocolate mousse and raspberries for dessert.

Washing done and on the line, a load of bed linens etc in the machine on  the timer for tomorrow. I am determined to take advantage of the fine dry and sunny days left to us before we put the clocks back at the end of the month.

Dog curled up on the sofa next to me, spark out. I think she had a good weekend, having multiple walks and playing sessions - Bucks family got a puppy today so they used my dog for practice. Can't wait to see pictures of new pup, a black Sprocker called Izzy.

Changed bedlinen today so lovely clean cotton linen to snuggle into.

Son has got German radio station playing, Berliner Rundfunk. Excellent music for all tastes.

mhagster

Bedtime! We have guests and honestly I’d have been in bed two hours ago! 

Workety work is done for the week! Hu-blooming-rah! 

Had a nice doggy walk this morning. Had to wait until daylight was creeping in before I left which is a bit annoying time wise. Met a friend on the way home…my dog lay down…obviously thought oh here we go! But just a quick chat as I’d work to go to. 

Excellent tips! Most in absolute ages! 

Home. And a very quick shower and change and the niecelys came and helped to get ready for another Monday night surprise party! So all food ( which DD2 had kindly picked up today ) cooked in half an hour, plates, cutlery etc hidden! And the biggest surprise for my sister who has a big birthday soon as she’d no idea! So we’d a lovely meal. I made macaroni, Cajun chicken pasta, salad, garlic bread. And birthday cake for pudding. A lovely evening.

just been a quick doggy walk. Star filled sky. 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Monday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Smaller son went to college! The first time I have been able to get him to go on a Monday since June. I even texted his taxi driver in case he decided not to bother driving over! (I always text to cancel if he refuses to go).  I haven't dared ask him too much about it. 

3) Hens OK.

4) Gloss painted from 8.30am - lunchtime. That is all the skirting boards (apart from the landing) plus a couple of door frames done and enough painting for the time being. 

5) My brother has been trying to clear some of the junk from my parents' house so I said I would take it to the charity shop. Did that this afternoon.

6) Ran out of time with the painting etc so had a jacket potato with prawns in a cafe.

7) Went to Tesco. 

8) Watched 24 Hours in Police Custody which was rather harrowing this week. 

9) Popped out with smaller son just now to see the Northern Lights. Too cloudy! We have seen them from here twice before. 

procrastinator

Oct so far...
Looking back I think this is my first October posting, sorry for not keeping up, I have been away with OH for a few days visiting historical places and museums.  Much fun and walking.

1. Have had a down day today but not let it get me down.
2. Two loads of washing done and mostly dried outside. Rest is now on airer and should be dry by tomorrow.
3. Have been planning days out with bus pass so no expense.
4. Last weekend arranged some more volunteering sessions
5. Will get to bed once posted so I will be done before midnight (just)

Sorry I had to jump past many posts so unable to keep up, will try and go back in coming days.

Happycas

Good morning

I seem to have drifted off for a couple of days, and have missed lots here.
It's good to hear so many people are getting out and about again. Lots of interesting trips going on.

DfV - Thank you. Your new role / training sounds scary, yet you still find time and the mental capacity, to sort out chutney, jam and cordial!  Impressive! So many of the posters here make me feel so lazy........

But I have done some things

Met DD and partner for breakfast. Took DGD with us as she thought it was a better option than watching her little brother play football. A good family time.

DD brought DH some duck eggs from their friend's small holding and they have the sweetest little blue duck stamped on top. I'm very allergic to hen's eggs but wonder if  I will be to duck's too. Will Google.

Went to DH friend's house last night for pizza and chat. A very pleasant, laid back evening. Took him a cloth pumpkin as a ' hostess gift'.😀

Happy Tuesday everyone