5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

DundeeDoll

What a gorgeous day
1) woke early, pottered around, started Mis Benson's Beetle when soaking in my Saturday morning bubbly bath
2) made a very nice chick pea and potato curry (#15 from my student cookbook)
3) friend and I took the boys over to Tentsmuir Forest - super walk (but so many trees down)
4) Luton won and are now 3rd
5) beautiful night sky (though cold) and now the boys and I are in bed. night all x

Frith

Pleasures for today (Saturday)

1) A lie in.

2) Bigger son appeared! We went out for breakfast then found a geocache in the gardens of floody town.

3) Hens OK.

4) Smaller son and I went for a walk along the Severn.

5) Made a big batch of tomato sauce to go with meatballs for tea and also for the freezer. Also made a pumpkin pie (using butternut squash). All cooking done whilst listening to the football on the radio (lost again).

6) Watched Casualty. 

Bigger son, having a light breakfast...

weenancyinAmerica

Admiral - An American Poet, Ogden Nash, wrote a poem about celery: "Celery raw is good for the jaw, but celery stewed is more quietly chewed." That is the complete poem - he liked to write short ones.

mehefin

1 Special flash mob in Budapest, Zoltán Kodály Evening song / Kodály Zoltán: Esti dal flash mob - YouTube
sublime and brings tears to my eyes everytime I listen to it (which is quite often)
2 a beautiful sunny day to dry out the field
3 Scoobymare's abscess clearing up at last
4.Seeds geminating in the windowsill propagator
5 tecco delivery organised for tomorrow

mhagster

Morning! Just watching the sunrise. 

Busy day yesterday. 

Went to local castle for breakfast. It was such a stunning drive up the long driveway. Filled with daffodils. Sun shining and blue sky. I’d a ‘roll’ and sausage…took the sausage out and gave DD2 the roll! ( given up for lent ) nice catch up as although we live in same house we can be a bit like passing ships! 

Home and started the task of power washing the patio. It was grim. Now it’s not so much! ‘I’ll do it’ said DD2…aye for a wee while until she got fed up! So I’d to finish that. Took it in stages . Read and finished the book I was reading in between. 

Started to paint some garden furniture I’d been given last year. A very heavy companion seat set. It will need a couple of coats but does look better already. I love how paint can absolutely transform something but actually painting bores me! ( and I’ve a whole fence to do) but as I’ve just said to a friend in Australia it’s not something I would pay someone to do ( unless I became a sudden millionaire then I absolutely would😆) as I can paint a garden fence myself! Anyway it will look good when it’s done! 

Sat on the cushion-less garden sofa and surveyed my work. Alongside a doggy! It was pleasantly warm. 

Had a leftover lasagna I found in freezer with some parsnips and cabbage and peas and a corn on the cob. 

villagelife

We have been away on a rearranged holiday to New York. I wasn't letting myself tho I we would go as I was convinced that I would catch Covid before I left.

1. Enjoyed being in New York. Saw loads of sights. Walked loads. Saw all of Central Park for the first time.

2. We choose the day to go I no 1 World trade centre and the views were magnificent. Probably worth the money I spent on hypnotherapy years ago to help with my fear of heights. It was also relatively quiet and we didn't have to queue.

3. Went in to New York library to see the building really and there was an exhibition in there. I felt I should have been more interested in a handwritten copy of the declaration of independence but the original Winnie the Pooh and friends toys came a close second to a hand written page of the Secret Garden.

4. Did some clothes shopping on the first day as it was cold and snowed!

5. Home and 30 hours later one of the suitcases arrived home.

6. Saw my parents for breakfast and came away with a handbag and painkillers!

LaineyT

Ha, love the way he is reaching for more toast Frith!
New York sounds fab Villagelife 

For yesterday,

A lie-in and in clean sheets.

Spent most of the morning in the garden, dug over some beds and brushed down back porch, Capt S cut back the elderflower that is invading our hedge.

Had just sat down for well earned cuppa when the sparrow hawk landed on the green bin that had been left by the gate.

Over to the yard to see my girlie, I was reading a study the other day that explained the way a horse’s heart and it’s electromagnetic field can directly influence our own heart rhythm, why they can have such a relaxing influence on humans, I just know that she makes me happy.

Evening dog walk then snorkers & chips for tea.

Admiral_Barbarossa

Snorkels and chips. 

Big Apple!
Brakefests!
Nan. You can’t improve celery! At least with gooseberries you can’t crumble them!
DD. The fat lady is leading the encore at Glumford Park as the audience disperses. 

Visible …

Jen buzzes.

Keep Safe. 

mhagster

VL we went to the library with the sole intent of seeing WTP and his original pals. A very favourite of DD1’s since she was tiny. 

Well day one of workety work is done and just one more big day to do. I could quite easily have seen it all far enough this morning but the day went past as it always does. 

Chat to DD1…me : wait a minute I’m just checking the scones. Her: wait a minute I’m just weighing my veggies. She was supermarket shopping. And familiar sounds of Melbourne like the pedestrian crossing beepbeepbeepbeep. And then like it was switched on the high pitch of evening crickets. Nice to chatter away. 

Tips ( much better than yesterdays apparently 😩) more than I started the day with. 

Lunch was macaroni and salad! I made so much blooming macaroni today! 

Then home and apparently DD2 had been waiting ages for a food delivery , then it’s said it was delivered. So she tried to phone the shop / comment on the page/ contact the deliveroo type people! Muuuuuum can you drive me down. Really? Why can’t you go? Awh please. So down we went and long story cut short, meal was replaced. Extra cakes were added and she was refunded half. Bit farcical as the delivery girl came in with our order as there was nobody in! Sigh! 

Beautiful sunrise and sunset. Both very gentle. Passed about 6 gritter lorries when we were out…my car has been well gritted! To be cold overnight. 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday)

1) A lie in.

2) Hens OK and they had a tasty mixture of LO pumpkin pie plus spaghetti and tomato sauce.

3) Cooked some chicken so smaller son could have a pitta for lunch. 

4) Tidied up, did a load of washing, cleaned the fridge. 

5) Went to Sainsburys for a cup of tea. 

6) Did 8 geocaches on the way home. 

7) HM beef casserole from the freezer for tea with PSB from my brother.

8) Phoned my school friend.

9) Pondering when to start negotiations over going to college tomorrow for the best chance... 

10) Spoke to downhill neighbours for a minute or two in the garden. They are starting work on theirs which was left in a terrible mess by the previous owner last year.