5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

Can only echo what others have said Frith, having been party to such a small snippet of your struggles over the years it’s been apparent that the PTB & others have let you down badly and yet you soldier on, much admiration indeed.

For yesterday,

Another sunny spring day, washing dried on line and starting to wash heavy jumpers, scarves etc to be put away. Might be peaking too soon!

Out to feed store for chaff and chat with ladies that work there, another customer had a choc spaniel with them and we commiserated on general scattiness of our dogs.

Dropped chaff off at yard, walked out to field with a few carrots for my girl, she had obviously been rolling as patches of white hair all over.

Visit with elderly friend, much to catch up on as not seen for three weeks but cut short after early arrival of chiropodist.

Reading short stories by Daphne du Maurier and particularly struck by Monte Verita.

Suffolksue

1 Book group was good ,interesting discussion.
Most people felt like me ,some hated it ,on really liked it.
now reading’Birds without wings’its 619 pages long!

2 mowed front grass ,I know it’s early but at least it’s even ,had managed back and side last weekend .

3 All roses shooting nicely,hope my pruning last autumn was ok.

4 good phonecall with a friend .

5 more blanket squares knitted ,boring but can be done without thinking.

have a good day all !

Admiral_Barbarossa

Roses and Grass!
Chaff and Chat.
Wales and the coast!
Mince and Tatties Proper Food!
Washing on the line!
Oh DD I note the rusted ironworks team now have more red cards than goals at home!

The End of the Tunnel?

Jen sends her

Keep Safe

ampersand

Admiral - so nearly wrote a previous name when I read your comment.  It's the one my mind uttered when I saw those first 5 words 'Until Vlad the Mad is ... I cannot put up pleasures.'
Rare it is that & and Admiral are in such fierce agreement! 🤲🤝👊🤜🤛👏👍💙💛🙏
But & will post pleasures, small and os as they are.  They are important strikes back, too. 
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Paulie, your collages are just marvellous, every time.  That ruin reminded & of similar in BStE Cathedral gardens.  So long since I've been back there.  Used to use bus pass on Wednesdays for market day, wandering through, then CSs all the cobbled way down and into the gardens, with Thermos, small munch and book, rarely read.  Rain or shine, tree shelter and seating.  People theatre instead.😃👌👏  Return last bus, 1715h.  Happy times.
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1. On Raffle Harridan home match days at Peacock 🦚🏉HQ, & wears peacock feather earrings.  The lost one turned up in passenger footwell, caught under other paraphernalia.  &'s joy off scale😁

2. Paid ½-yearly storage, another outgoing not offset by any Spitalfields earnings for 2 years now.😖  & is fortunate indeed that this fixed cost is what it is(about 10% of alternatives), that it is where it remotely is.  Was glad to see person face to face, express ongoing thanks and chat.

3. Substantive help from a district Councillor re: Appeal & is helping with.

4. A gorgeous deep purple/black dusky hellebore from amazing village plant lady, £1.50

5.  Friend's son is building her a wonderful garden room from scrap everything, Inc 4 perfect big casement windows.  It is stunning.  Guided tour en rte back yesterday, when dropping off a couple of emporium rtcs.  &'s fab CS mug find for him was in use.😁  He loves it. it.https://images.app.goo.gl/dARU7ybDLWkfQE848
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Late call.  Carfix day postponed a week. The boys are having trouble getting the right tyres!....not just for &, but for a number of jobs in the yard.  Parts, even everyday things are being held up with no timeline.  Berxsh1t again 😖  Tyre nursing must continue, with big Food Hub runs tmrw and Fri. 🤞
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Onward with other🤐re: Appeal  Likely heading to Alconbury Weald for this and other, given tory sell-off🤬of Shire Hall....
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Copable days and osps to all.
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Yes, vl - as noted by others, hope you are OK. Back? Work? Thinking of you with🍷in garden at end of a good day.
Also Bala- another unaccustomed long absence.
Contagious blessings 🙏

mhagster

Hello. It’s been a pleasant enough day here. Started wet but dry by mid morning and a washing hung out by lunchtime. Just a bit damp when I brought it in.

A stay at home day apart from nice doggy walks. 

Pottered around and was searching for something that has been misplaced and cannot find it however I do now have a tidied porch/ under stair cupboard/ under sink cupboard/ tea towel drawer  😆

chat to niece ( just in case Great nephew had picked up missing item) 

Started an Ebook from library ( found my library card in amongst the searching ) 

Enjoyed watching the comings and going’s of the birds in the garden. 

Nice big doggy walk early afternoon.

Chicken for tea (RTC), potatoes (RTC) parsnips, peas and corn on cob.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Wednesday)

1) Another day at college for smaller son - 3 in a row! 

2) Tidied up, cooked some turnips that had been hanging around, changed my bed.

3) Sent some potentially useful emails - to smaller son's caseworker (don't get excited, I hadn't heard from her for 3 years). Interestingly, the email bounced back so she probably quit a while ago. Sent the same email on to the people employed to sort out the county council's disasters. Sent another email to social care, who replied. 

4) Less useful emails were to county about a nice, new footpath gate that I found ripped up and dumped yesterday! A proper kissing gate, so hopefully they will be able to pick it up and use it again. And another email to complain about the builder's fencing that is stopping anyone accessing the village car park safely, with a section broken and twisted and dangerous since Storm Franklin.

5) Made cauliflower cheese for tea.

6) In bed with 1hwb, watching the Detectorists. 

Purple_kitten

For yesterday

1 Took Nestle to the vets for his check up and he doted on the vet, aw. We didn’t mind being held up in the waiting room as we got to see all sorts and of course they got to see Nestle he’s a popular little soul, but no one likes albinos they were more interested in his poley friend.

2 A lot of cleaning and tidying, all upstairs, bathroom sorted, and towels washed, our bedding changed and washed, upstairs hoovered, ran out of steam so downstairs didn’t get done.

3 Things in the fridge grilled up for dinner, which leaves it quite empty.

4 Popped to aldi, around it in record time we just needed the milk, bread and fresh fruit and veg.

For today

1 Up early, I had washed the stairs last night in preparation for the final coat of paint today it’s on and done, I’ve created a bit of extra work as I may as well use up leftovers on the landing, but it means the stair treads can go down tomorrow.

2 Porridge brekkie, hot chicken fillet in roll for lunch feeling quite pleased with myself for coordinating cooking tea in the use of the lunch leccy, all precooked to pop into the risotto later. I feel a daft sense of achievement when I steam the rice and there is so much when it’s done, extra portions cooked on purpose.

3 Cooked up a big batch of millies cookies as I’ve been craving choc chip cookies for weeks now, 100 percent cocoa buttons crushed up in and a mix of sweetener and a small amount of coconut sugar, they are Moorish.

4 Sent of an enquiry to an animal sanctuary that has a static van to rent, sounds like a different break for us if they allow quirky animals.

LaineyT

For yesterday,

A tidy and a sort out, bag ready to go to CS.

Made a loaf and it was still slightly warm for our lunchtime butties.

Chat with my two pals B & M and arrangements made for a meet up, B is facing some nasty old treatment for a recurring BT.

Rain, lots of rain in the afternoon with a weird reddish tinge to the sky due to sand dragged up from Africa, very strange.

We missed Law & Order first time around so have started now, good stuff but strange seeing Bradley playing a straight part.

Admiral_Barbarossa

Ms & You nose that the Admiral is always correct!!!
Rain and sands!
CollieFlour cheese. Proper Food!
Read that as Nessie went to the vet!

Take inn up the challenge

Keep Safe

Jen does another

ampersand

Pausing en route back.
0430h start today with major bollox+50 wasted fuel miles when last Food Hub pick-up wasn't.....all went to Ukraine yesterday, but we weren't told.

1. Anyway, fab big face moon right now.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/cT1PagyrTPrkaQvL9

2....contrasting with this morning.


3. Emporium bargains, unbelievable.  Polyanthus and primulas, all rtc 10p.
Barquettes of 12, rtc 50p.
Lovely, fully-planted, woven willow hanging baskets, complete with chains et al, rtc 99p!
😲👍🙂. Needless to say, quantity bought and shared out en route back. Recipients very pleased.

4.  Good service today, understatement.🙏 Everyone rejoicing at UK touchdown for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori(held for 12 years and frequently tortured)   Now leave them be.  & can't have been the only one in tears at the news.
Was driving at the time.....

5.  Just a bit of yesterday's lovely weather for Mr H.  & just kept going with Preview biz for several hours.


......and nearing 2300h, the Light Blues were still out training!  Bonkers!  It was completely foul.  Earlier, had long exchanges with Spain re: all sorts, but we have their Sahara storm dust right enough. 
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Take care, everyone.