5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

VJsmum

Pleasures for yesterday

1. opening the curtains in the morning having not been at home for a week - our big beautiful beech tree is now in full leaf
2. more marking - i'm getting ahead of it.
3. a doggy walk with friend and a coffee
4. dinner with my boy - i cooked him a steak
5. not needing the heating on

Have a great day all.

Admiral_Barbarossa

Full leaf open curtains, Blind inn!
Fish Curry!
Dough Balls!
LT to GnT!
DD Its finger nail time! Mes fort you were sulk inn after playing Fulham!
Shots on the terrace!
Wet Peas!

And now!

Blind lucks good. Kitty a tad miffed as it is on her afternoon winda! Think she'll get over it!

Had another barbecue last nite. The sticky chicken, with burger and a snorker. The Admiral does cook raw chicken on the barbecue! Wobbleade was served!

Watched another Bon on the stream On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Was he a better Bond that Sean? Moor wobbelade and cheese was taken!

Dippy eggs this morning with toasted marmite soldiers. Tee was mugged and all is good!

Jen smacks a

Keep Safe

mrs_motivated

Just caught up with the thread, some lovely pleasures been shared.

Frith, I was mooching around the charity shops in Ludlow this weekend but didn’t buy anything. Although I did get the purse out at the liquorice stall at the market.  I was working there and we had some free time on the Saturday afternoon, hotel was very nice too.

so some pleasures from me.

1. Back home and no more working weekends until the end of June ……yippee.

2. Mr M had painted the shed and fence panels while I was away….earned some brownie points.

3.  Lovely Sunday roast with all the trimmings, made an apple crumble for pud, but to full to eat it. (Yet)! 

4.  Rob the robin (I know, not very original) followed me around the garden and was given some treats….almost tame enough, but not quite to eat from my hand.

5.  Bottle of wine on the go, day off tomorrow, so why not.

mhagster

Hello. A very , very rare Sunday off . 

Lovely early doggy walk. 

Went to B &Q for paint ( tiny pot as just needed it for touching up where I’m taking old blinds down. ) but may also have bought some RTC plants. Marguerites x 7  and foxgloves x 2. Found some coins on ground next to car, second time that has happened this week! 

Chat to friend on phone. 

I wrote a list of all the things I wanted to get done so ticked them all off. 

Peas and sweet peas planted. Grass cut. Washing out and back in ( rain forecast for most of the coming week) Hoovered and floors washed. Downstairs loo cleaned. 

Made a kind of rice and veggies creation for late lunch. 

Purple_kitten

Yesterday was supposed to be our first day camping in a few years, but due to many, many reasons ironically, we have had to postpone, they were very understanding, and we are still hoping to get there soon, but it does mean I will have to make a cake for DH’s birthday tomorrow.

1 Something just came up on the bay for DH’s birthday, it won’t arrive in time but hopefully he won’t mind, I have a few small bits for him to open. I also need to get some bits together to make him a cake, i.e. defrost some butter.

2 Mowed the garden.

3 Build your own dinner, chicken, rice, salad, salsa, wraps etc.

4 I tried to get on with de cluttering but the weather was so nice I ended up sitting in the garden, I read for half and hour and then just sun bathed for a half hour before getting off my bum and making cranberry scones instead of anything on the mental to do list.

For today

1 As we aren’t away as planned got on and made Nigellas chocolate cake which I swear just adds calories for fun, I mean who adds treacle to butter cream? But I did I followed all of the recipe to the book, is it food science or just calories, but hopefully tastey.

2 Wrote tomorrows to do list, the pleasure being it’s tomorrow.

3 Filled the bird feeders and saw the woodpecker. Watered the garden.

4 Offered DH the options of two fab places to eat at, but he wants to order in and watch the da Vinci code so that’s what we are doing.

5 Enjoying watering the garden and watching the new flowers start up, also noting I have a fair bit of gardening to do tomorrow.

mehefin

1 spotting newborn minature shetland in the field behind the house  (chorus of Aw's)
2.Sparrows busy nest  building again!
3Tomatoplants in greenhouse not dead yet...a long story.
4 farrier booked for Scoobymare tomorrow
5 Clematis bursting into bloom with the warmer weather

Frith

Excellent cake, PK.
I hope you gave me a wave, MrsM!

Pleasures for today (Sunday)

1) A lie in.

2) Got most jobs done, The washing is still out on the line, waiting for me!

3) Stuck to the BSD and had a tasty curry for tea. Smaller son made his signature linguine dish.

4) Went out in the afternoon to local garden centre/cafe and planned the tasks I have to do this week (many and varied). Had a cup of tea then looked at the plants.

5) Phoned my school friend.

6) Bigger son messaged to say one of the groups he had taken zip wiring at work this afternoon included one of my old school friends! 

ampersand

1.  Over 200 present for a 2-years delayed Memorial service yesterday for one of our centenarians.  Widow still with us.🤲  Brilliant and thoroughly likeable K stayed busy all his life, a great gardener too, same initial and talents as our current centenarian.  The whole occasion really was an osp, with so much pleasure and laughter as we all remembered K, his long, busy, active life, his daily tincture enjoyed.....😇🥃  Was still delivering village mag. at 98!

2.  Have now potted up 20 sprouting walnuts.  8 more found all over the place today - 😃👏👍 Figs have not long had their bedtime bucketful.  They're fattening up.  Need more big size pots to plant fig leftovers next. 

3.  Good Church, with another great playlet from the young peeps.  Noah's Ark today.  'I spy with my little eye, something beginning with W... '😁🌊🏞  

4.  In birthdays and things to be thankful for, 'Well, mine was last week.....but I'm only 98'.  She's another cracker - and another K!  Was busy washing up after teas and coffees today.

5.  Lots of garden-y work generally and planting this arvo.  Late sowing of Black Crimea cherry toms, more sprouty pommes de terre and trying cucamelons, apparently a bit of a James Wong fave.  & does like James Wong.🙂💚. 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melothria_scabra
Had never heard of them before and have no idea where these seeds sprang from, found in &'s cutlery odds drawer.😁  &'s massive seed stocks are all kept in a fridge dairy drawer. 
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Listening to Miami F1 and & fave Lewis is having more of his ghastly season.

Is anyone else struggling to keep to 'No Mow May'?  & will fail this week.😁

Why is & not in France?  New CS Michel Busselle/Frédéric Raphael 10p find is another gorgeous thing.....
https://www.wob.com/en-gb/books/frederic-raphael/france-the-four-seasons/9781851456567?gclid=Cj0KCQjw1N2TBhCOARIsAGVHQc5ufPFwH3ikDQwAv5D_BvMGrq4tCWyPb7wn9tA8TKyVWS71ETaHi6gaAsGgEALw_wcB

Bonne nuit.
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A Sunday night smile:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/WildGreenMemesForEcologicalFiends/permalink/3268770523352175/

DundeeDoll

mes fort we were sunk inn too after Fulham admiral! i has bin grinning like the cheshire cat ever since saturday's result. sadly leicester lost
1) up early, got the final section of the revision drafted and listened to the Sunday service - beautiful singing, including some fine RVW settings
2) huge christening at the cathedral - one of the guests was an ex colleague who moved to Aberdeen so that was a lovely surprise
3) chicken and roasties for lunch - yum then dd2 and i walked the boys - very sunny
4) went to colleague's 65th with gbf - first time some of us had met f2f since the pandemic! lovely evening
5) and lots of food left over so that's me fixed up with lunch tomorrow 

villagelife

1. Had a coffee first thing in the garden. Lie read some of my book. It was so peaceful.

2. Spent most of the day in the garden. I cleared a small area and dug up brambles where they had become entwined with a rose. I did get some scratches but it's done now and looks much better.

3. My tomato plants are growing well and so are cucumbers which generally I'm not good at growing.

4. A glass of wine in the garden with DH at the end of the day. 

5. Arranging an evening when we can see both sons. Proving difficult may need to see them separately.