5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

VJsmum

Evening all 

Pleasures for yesterday
1. remodelling DD's bedroom curtains to make 2 pairs for the new house - they're not brilliant but will more than do for a while
2. Did this while watching 5 or 6 episodes of 'Mad Men'
3. DD moved more stuff (but there is soooo much still here)
4. cooked a roast beef dinner  - my roasties were fan blimmin tastic
5. watched 'The Responder' with OH and DS

And today

1. went shopping early - was v. quiet
2. hung curtains at DD's and bought her a pink fluffy rug for house at ALdi
3. went walking with friend.
4. OH cooked chicken chorizo bake for tea
5. Having the house to myself this evening. 

night night all x

Frith

Pleasures for today (Monday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Sleep extended slightly when college phoned to say they are shut for a week because so many people have coronavirus.

3) Spent much of the day trying to get smaller son to work from home. He was set Maths and Biology and has done a tiny bit on Bitesize.

4) Tasty tea of salmon, sprouts, carrots and spinach. 

5) Happened upon an old Fred Dibnah programme on BBC4 which included Stokesay Castle and Harvington Hall. 

Purple_kitten

Frith, we've been enjoying those Fred Dibnah programmes also.

1 I just finished a book, I’m pleased I have is the best way to put it, it wasn’t a book received from anyone on here, I won’t name author names but wow talk about using a gazillion descriptive words when one good one would have done. Now to move on to the to be read pile some great books there.

2 I didn’t meal plan, so dinner was straight from the freezer to oven rather than pizza we did haddock with baked beans and pots, I think we have waited too long to shop as now we have a lot to get, also meal planned again from the freezer.

3 We went to Aldi late tonight to avoid crowds, we needed so much it doesn’t even notice that we’ve been shopping, there were still a few people wearing masks but not many, we still did.

4 Doing some research on the no dig idea of gardening and wondering about it.

DundeeDoll

another looooooong day at work, so again need to think of 5 mse things
1) finished reading an old Simple Things - mum has decluttered them to my house - cooked the sausage soup and put the magazine in for recycle
2) lunch time had a bowl of sausage soup - very yummy (made with finest sausage meat made into meat balls, leeks, celery, carrots, tomato and orzo)
3) tea time was the last bowl of thick haddock chowder, also lish
4) dd2 got back to Dundee at 10pm - there's a train manager who introduces each station with the name a fact and a bad pun, she had tweeted a couple of months ago she's never had him as manager, tonight she did, she tweeted how pleased she was (Kirkcaldy was once the world centre for linoleum, a fact that floored him) and she got a shout on the Tannoy
5) walked the dogs down to meet her half way then home with the fire on, mugs of tea and Taskmaster

villagelife

1. A good start to the week as it was my non working Monday. A lazy day.

2. Messages with a friend.

3. Some pottering in the garden. Only with the sun out as very quickly got very cold.

4. Cooked a roast chicken and enjoyed eating it. Had roast potatoes and parsnips. Also with sprouts.

5. Spoke with DS1 and he had managed to get a refund on his PCR. He had ordered one for tomorrow as going to a stag do skiing in Bulgaria. Bulgaria have announced that it is no longer needed.

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Sunny but bbrr cold and breezy day, was glad of warm coats, gloves etc.

Made a loaf, spelt & rye plus houmous.

David Gray in the live lounge on R2, he did a fantastic version of please forgive me which is ‘our’ song, made me quite tearful in a happy, thankful way.

Over to see pony, just cosseted and loved.

The lamps didn’t go on until 5pm, slowly the days are drawing out.

ampersand

Howling wind and gloom right now, chilly with it.  Taking 2 of &'s birds with broken wings to view possible housing early arvo.  On verra.

1. First use of my special new olive🫒oil - post passim.  It is lovely stuff.

2. Another Russell Fuller mangle of English re: Rafa's Oz Open triumph.  'This tournament, which never fails to disappoint.....'

3. Another, this time innumeracy horror on R4 earlier, re: sale of Wordle to the NYT 'for a 6-figure sum, so at least $10 million'....😱 NO!!! - that's 8 figures.😖😠😤
Co-presenter's intervention/bungled 'correction' made it worse -'I think you meant low millions, maybe 1 or 2, not billions.'
Even wronger than first wrongetty-wrong-wrong!  What wonkery is this? Basic numeracy, please!

4. Welcome back little Robin👍, after several days unseen.  Said so to him, while pegging laundry out.  He stayed close, listening and feeding.🙂

5. Scotsdales voucher used on last valid day.  2 cheaper hellebores and this glory, from their 50p charity bookshelf.  Toni Vianello 'Le Risotto' -  writing, pics, illustration and recettes, all superb. Quite some auteur/restaurateur b/g too.  Former Beaux Arts man and scholar, some London time. 
https://images.app.goo.gl/DiqvoD9MkXEP4L32A

Happycas

Good afternoon.  Bright and breezy here.( The weather, not me!)

Where is the admiral? Has he been naughty again?!

Good fun yesterday afternoon!  How many IT challenged, elderly neighbours does it take to install a BT hub? It took four of us to do our neighbour's, but we got there!

Supermarket this morning( more price rises!) And then a walk, despite the wind. Keeping DH active ahead of next week's operation.

Still rewatching Lewis and still enjoying it.  Wish that Only Connect hadn't finished.  That was my Monday night treat.

DD coming for tea so will make some gf cookies to use up the gf flour. Last gf attempt was scones but I wasn't keen.  They were very dry but I'm hoping if I put lots of chocolate chips in the cookies they'll be ok.

Happy blowy day everyone

Admiral_Barbarossa

Happycas said:

Where is the admiral? Has he been naughty again?!

Zzzzzzz Snoozing inn my hammock!

Happycas

Phew, Admiral.  That's a relief!