5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

ampersand

Gave up after 2½hrs of non-connectivity her soir.  A mere 80 minutes this morning until now, avec string+tin can success.......😖.

1. Massed drifts of snowdrops and daffodils by walk into church yesterday.  They are lovely.  Still can't sing or speak, but being there was good.

2.  Emporium shop after, for more citrus.  Usual morning ¼'d orange and lemon has upped since lurgy bomb.  £2 organic peaches, rtc 37p, also demanded attention - 5 taken for sousing.

3. Poached an egg in Day 3 thick soup - perfect.  

4. The unceasing, unfailing help and comfort osp of hwbs. 😃👏

5. Exciting 6 Nations listening and our 1st XV won 45-12 in Regents Park. 🏉🦚
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villagelife

Ampersand - hope you continue to recover .

1. DH had been wanting to create a rose bed in the middle of the garden for a while. He has been advised that it needs to be done now or moving the roses does.
He dug out the flower bed - where the bonfire  used to be.  I put manure and topsoil on and raked it over.

2. Moved an arch so we can have roses growing over it. 

3.  Cut down the roses before DH dug them up and moved them. We ended up doing it all in the rain.in the end. 

4. Warming up after being out side most of the day. A hot water bottle on my back helped relived the discomfort.

5. Watched the rugby which had been recorded with a glass of wine.

Happycas

Good morning

VJ'S mum - I used to reach a stage,when marking,  when hedgelaying in the rain would have seemed preferable

D Doll - that leaf idea is brilliant.  Made me feel a bit teary😥

Ampersand - hope your voice returns soon.  Honey is good!

Well, the pleasure today is that hospital visiting is back on and I'm booked in at 12 for TWO hours!  I'm going by bus because it's on our bus route, almost door to door, and parking at the hospital is dire. 

Another pleasure is DDiL sent DS over yesterday with some fish pie and some millionaire's shortbread.  So that's my tea sorted.

Didn't do much yesterday except read my book and do my puffin embroidery ( not at the same time - I'm not that good!) And receive so many phone calls my battery went flat!  People are so kind.

So, off to get ready for my Valentine's treat visit.

Happy Monday everyone

LaineyT

💙 DD

For yesterday,

Quiet day at home as Capt S wasn’t feeling so good, early start for me so he could have a decent lie-in but lovely cuddles with small dog.

Reading, lots of reading.

Lunch was beef brisket and cauliflower cheese, beloved fancied Yorkshire puds so we had those too.

The weather was foul with heavy rain and strong winds, small dog didn’t fancy going far and turned for home on our afternoon walk, she will be 11 this year and knows her own mind!

Caught up on the Archers and DID.

Admiral_Barbarossa

Suffolksue said:

Which port are you aiming for now Admiral!

Only just putt the hutch on the market. Kitty is on the webb!

Oh bovver whats yous lot bin up too? Jen will do her best to the needy!
  

Whitewash!

Well has bin busy on bored the hutch as she sails to ... We will has two sea?

So was has 'appened on the ship these last days! Saturday the mariners won, butt I thinks, sorry sinks, the rusty ironworks are domed! Cannot use me usual term for them here as I would get gaoled for it! Butt too say that their bee down the Swanny! He tuck Gainsburgh! Trinity to oblivion! Not that I wish it though! Cheek inn tongue?

SatDay nite we has the chicken tikka as usual with mushroom bitser as well, than watched The Hangover on the ultra thing. Wobbleades and cheese were taken!

Up at the sparras on SunDae to hand rub the pastry for the chicken and mushroom pie. as usual I has enuff pastry left over for some decent tarts filled with raspberry jam! Than maid the usual weakened brakefest of snorkers and best back too boot! Tee was also taken!

Dinner was hot crusted chicken and mushroom pie with swede carrot mash and some cabbage topped up with pan gravy! Then we has the butterscotch delite of angel! Proper stuff as well, whipped up by the cat of eight tales at home! 



Then watched The Hangover II on the box with some cheeses and things! All was good!

Now up with the patchworks and mes mug of tea as well!

Jen gives another burst!

Is hard work for Jen on this day!

Keep Safe!

DigForVictory

Happycas - fingers crossed for youy & OH & delighted your family is ensuring regular eating! Safe & happy visit.

DundeeDoll - that's a very lovely tree, when many people don't know or don't speak, to have a location that says most of it is wonderful.

Ampersand - please do not souse All the peaches but allow yourself at least one topically applied to sore throat?

VJsmum - awed at hedgelaying (love the edged tools used, but also the collapse by a fire with a restorative after!)

LaineyT - I'm all for quiet days & I love a dog old enough to know her own mind! 

Admiral - hand rubbed pastry: If I crate & freight the young(ish), could you teach them better ways than packets & jars? Or is patience acquired, like a patina, over time & cannot be taught?!

Recent pleasures

Found several new branches on family tree, some of whom have a ludicrous relaxed approach to Facebook, so I have names, faces, locations & even some dates of birth (the big birthdays keep on giving...)

Dragged my shopping tote of biscuit tins of seeds to a well lit corner & extracted various herb seeds. (Coir, vermiculite etc in sacks at one end of kitchen table but all germination trays in shed, locked & jammed with wet & wind, so planning improved: actual seeds starting not yet!)

Hugely enjoyed Poirot. I do love a nicely done murder. (Brokenwood mysteries also; it's less elegant but more relaxing, somehow.)

Son has suggested repotting the lemon seedlings - amused he noticed, identified & suggested, while noting he didn't actually offer to source new pots or any practical help.

Youngest has developed fun new quirk - before we settle to catch up on something streamed, "cornettos?" - while venturing to the big cinema remains something we intend to get around to, he's making the 'enjoy at home' experience still more fun.

As saints days go, this is looking very cold & wet & windy. Health strength love & courage to all as have need, may there be warmth about you & inside you & may your HWBs stay watertight.

Admiral_Barbarossa

DigForVictory said:

Admiral - hand rubbed pastry: If I crate & freight the young(ish), could you teach them better ways than packets & jars? Or is patience acquired, like a patina, over time & cannot be taught?!

The only thing that should be inn jars is Jam. Raspberry Jam!

VJsmum

Hugs DD - but a lovely idea.  We planted a magnolia for our (much earlier) lost baby.  When we moved the tree couldn't come with us, so we planted another. 

Pleasures for yesterday

1. Didn't go hedgelaying !!🤣 The weather was shocking all day - some did though, mad fools.
2. cracked on with marking batch 2 - a much better use of my time
3. watching the Sinner on Netflix.
4. Call the midwife
5. Did my first yoga session for months.

And today
1. Slept in till 7.30 - in all i reckon i had 9.5 hours of sleep.  unheard of!
2. Cleaned the house ready for OH's sister and husband to visit next week 
3. train journeys were good
4. DS started his new job.  Said it was difficult socially at first (he has social anxiety) but got better
5. caught up with all the marking i'm able to 

have a good evening folks.

Purple_kitten

Vjsmum, glad ds's first day went well.

1 I cleaned up the oven I wasn’t planning up but it needed doing.

2 I have started looking into a basic cake decorating course maybe online, maybe real, all I know is I am useless at it. The valentines brownie bake it tastes great heated a little but the decoration is well best intentions.

3 Valentines meal here, rtc beef brisket turned out really well, roasties, stuffing, cabbage, yorkie.

4 Nice to catch up with a neighbour today.

5 Whole house dragged up to clean today ahead of friends visit.

DundeeDoll

another Monday done, phew
1) up early, very nice breakfast, and a gorgeous walk in - met my old tutor from my masters in applied computing which i started back in 2001 - he's now retired and was off for his morning walk
2) made far too much lunch (rest of the veggie chilli, ssshhh not a word to the admiral, and pasta) so had half and other half in the fridge for tomorrow
3) lift home with colleague - good catch-up as always
4) butcher's mince round for tea with mash, broccoli, carrots, beans and gravy, yum yum
5) then dd2 needed chocolate so nice walk down to the local shops with her and the boys. be an early night for me, i am tired beyond tired!