5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

villagelife

1. Cleaned my old car and then took it away to sell it. It was sad but needed much money spent on it .

2. DS1 collected me to bring me home after selling the car. He came in for coffee and cake.

3. Spoke with a coup!e of neighbours.

4. Watching a squirrel sitting on the fence. It was eating a nut.

5. Quiet evening.

Admiral_Barbarossa

Looks lick Friffs enjoying the trip up Norff!
Has ticked all now and back inn port!

Full Steam Ahead!

Thinking that the RAF Luton twitter has stopped posting a while because of Vlad the Mad. Puts all back to some ...

Still we has to be open arms and arms?

Bin inn many port, including Baghdad in July 1990! I will leave it at that! The Chinese was excellent that Thursday night and the earthquake in Iran! They seemed surprised that we went with the Kings C130 and asked where had we been for ...

Keep Safe

Jen ticks on!  

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Had breakfast in the Baltic Art Gallery, then we looked at the art!

3) A long walk including twice across the Millennium Bridge, then up to the station.

4) Glad to be back (about 30 mins ago) after a 7 hour trip. All trains stopped at Derby so hundreds of us then had to get on buses to Birmingham and get on trains again there. 

5) Going to watch tv for a while now as smaller son decided (I did not know this) to unplug everything in the house before we left... the house phone etc are now all charging and the temperature is slowly climbing from the 9 degrees we found when we first opened the door.... I'm in bed with 2 hwb! 

mhagster

Bedtime! Was an early start to work. Up at 4ish. 

Yesterday was spent quietly. Nice doggy walks. It was a blooming freezing start ( same today and again tomorrow) but beautiful. Did a bit in the garden and have a sore backside today to show for it! Must have been all that crouching down 😆. Lots of new bits shooting through the soil. Washing dried. Went to bed early as I was home alone and alarm going off early this morning.

work was worked. Nipped home mid morning to see to doggy. Had a quick walk. Enjoyed the sunshine and birdsong. 

Not too busy. Managed to get some prep done for tomorrow which will make a difference to my start. 

Tips. Bit meh but hey more than I had first thing. 

Home sharpish . 

Picked up a freebie exercise bike  🚲 🤪 friend was giving away. 

Helped DD2 and her chap move some furniture they’d collected. Me the master of much furniture shifting over the years ( been moving my bedroom around since I was about 8) so a bit of to me to you and a couple of ‘pivots’ when we’d to turn and we got it in place.

Quick chat to friend on phone. 

ampersand

Loved your latest photo collage again, Paulie - just beautiful.  

1. Like several, in early byes right now, snug with hwb.  Came straight here from an afternoon village hall Lent service, v.g. again.

2. Wonderful new moon 🌙 seen on way out.

3. Still revelling in yesterday's results, fundraising and whole day's success and all the right sorts of good things that can happen between all sorts and ages and groups of people working to a common goal. 

4. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10166189370540577&id=237509975576
Amusing to me - and many who comment - is the verbal diarrhoea from the over-excited, non-kiwi filming an everyday occurrence at shearing time.  We all grew up with Godfrey Bowen.  We all know about slowly driving through big musters and round-ups of sheep and cattle:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Bowen
- and the excitement of the Annual Golden Shears, shifted down South this year from &'s second NZBC posting in Masterton:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1802223879975383&id=203324409865346

5. Made peanut butter cookies, using rtc pb - 29p, 'cos of cracked plastic lid.  Excellent new2& recipe - just make your way past all the yap which precedes it:
https://www.teawithmum.com/grandmas-peanut-butter-biscuits

Broomstick

Evening all 

To be honest, I have no idea where this weekend has vanished to but I'll give five pleasures a go. . .

1)  Tiger bread and apricot jam sandwiches. (Diet's gone out the window!)

2)  Hardly money saving, but decided, given the international situation, that I could no longer cope with only watching catch up etc without a telly licence.  So I bought 3 months' worth of licence and can watch news as it's happening.  I'll cancel the DD in June if I don't have the money to continue.  I can also now catch up on lots of the BBC programmes I've missed over the last four months.

3)  Good couple of hours this afternoon on the phone with DS2 who was designing me a website and business cards.  We got heaps done.

4)  Finished unravelling an old handknitted cardigan that I'm going to reknit into something else.

5)  Lovely being able to reach into the freezer for h/m ready meals.

Sweet dreams
B x

villagelife

1. Went to Wisley. A lovely walk round and very colourful. Relatively warm out of the wind but very cold in the wind.

2. Enjoyed looking round the shop. Did but a packet of seeds but nothing else.

3. Sowed the seeds once home.

4. Finished chipping more branches. The main bulk has been dine.

5. Pasta for tea with a glass of wine.

DundeeDoll

Another beautiful morning, have fed the dogs, made myself a cuppa and am now back in bed updating on a lovely weekend
Saturday
1) diocesan synod started 9:30 with coffee - very nervous about bus as several are cancelled with no warning due to driver illness - my bus arrived on time and I was early enough to enjoy a walk on the beach
2) was a good synod - our first in person for two years due to covid - new friends and old, some I've only met online - good discussion, I took the mic once to support the work on inclusive liturgy - something very important to me and had 2 women thank me
3) Dr M texted to say the Leicester Leeds match was good (I had to miss due to synod, very well behaved of me!)
4) home and walked the dogs - met DD2 as I walked back up our road - she had had a good time at her conference
5) then we had a lovely evening watching 2 old midsummer murders which neither of us had seen (or leastways remembered)
Sunday
1) xoh phoned - we had a good chat - then Young Church which I was leading - we talked about lent and giving up things or taking on things - I said my football team had given up winning for lent 😥
2) church is getting busier, provost said she's considering reintroducing the shared cup, i said i didn't feel ready for that so i'd bring a ladle - apparently that's not allowed 🤣 on a more serious note she explained how she will arrange it so people feel no pressure to take the wine, she's very good
3) dropped stuff off at the CS on the way to Mr T - I bought 2 very nice Shepherd Winnie the Pooh pictures at the CS, £10 each, that makes 4 now all from CSs
4) lunch with gbf and dd2 at the botanics then we walked the dogs - the woozle walk, must do another litter pick down there - beautiful walk though then they walked back and I walked on to Mennies for
5) Man C Man U match with Dr M and Mr G, joined after the match by Mr E and another friend - then Dr M and I decided we would get Chinese and be home just in time for the first episode of the Ipcress Files (he's not a Peaky Blinders fan but I noted he did watch Killing Eve when I said i was going to watch it, of course I then didn't get round to it...) He is going to arrange for him and me to go out for a meal with one of his best friends (who I also know) and his girlfriend who i've still to meet - things are going well  

LaineyT

Tasty looking biscuits Ampersand.

For yesterday,

Usual start, bacon butties and catching up on all things Ambridge.

Checked tyre pressure and hoovered out car after a split bag of chaff incident,

Sorted & tidied shed, now have potting bench back plus found indoor plant pot suitable for miniature rose.

Finally got round to sorting out new phone, paying same price.

Late lunch out at village pub, roast with all trimmings followed by salted caramel tart, very yummy. Snooze on sofa afterwards.

DundeeDoll

ampers, those cookies look lish!
1) a good night's sleep and a lovely walk in
2) very nice oak-smoked cheese sarnie for lunch
3) a lift home from a colleague which meant i got home in time to walk the boys up balgay in the light - such a beautiful walk, my legs and head really needed it as was in meetings pretty much all day
4) dd2 had stopped at the butchers and picked up a couple of rounds, so mince round for tea yum
5) and now watching palin's around the world in 80 days - he's nearing madras