5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

villagelife

1. A colleague bought be lunch from Costa. We are in there. A lovely break from work.

2. Work was reasonable and busy and avoided all managers.

3. A dry evening after some heavy rain and tried to destress in garden.Went

4. Messages with both sons. It was about an abusive email an old neighbour had sent DH. The ex neighbour had also made negative comments on our planning application as to how it affects his privacy. We know it was him as he emailed the company applying for the planning permission on our behalf asking for his name and address to be removed.
He now lives about 6 miles away from us.

5. Watching Silent Witness.

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Trip into horsey town for provisions, got all that was on my list but as this is a list of pleasures will make no mention of prices! Saw a white egret by the banks of the small river.

Over to the stables, girlie had been moved after doing a Steve McQueen job out of her previous paddock 🙈 we suspect the behaviour is seasonal.

Out to the post office and had a mooch around the charity shops, nothing of interest.

Bit of research done and a supplement ordered for horse.

New series of Silent Witness.

Admiral_Barbarossa

Shuttle - No, that word wood get me a ...
P Dinner?
Pots! Lots of Pots!
Herring Strawberry!
DD Well Done, It is inn the blood!
Ignore the NIMBY!
Bank Budgies!!!

Get Inn!

Well that is the clean version of the words that raked Kitty up from her snooozes in the 96th minute last nite! Can't say I lessed my voice, butt Kitty was up like a shot, as she knows who she supports. Then another one thirty odd minutes later! By then Kitty had realised it was probably going to bee one off them days! Had mixes before KO, chicken nuggets and breaded prawns! Very tasty snack. Wobbleades were provided as well as cheeses. Extra mature cheddar! 

Kitty was well chilled this morning on her brakefest! She then went for a walk with me too her lawn for her rituals.

The Albatross is recovering!

Before KO we went two the discount surplus store to get wobbleade and provisions. Cheeses where purchased. I finded the angle grinder as well! The Albatross choiced the cakes, and we gets dainty autumn tarts this time! Will bee plaiced on the dainty cake stand we has.

Yesterday afters me ditty, got the new patio rake on too the plaza and it ripped through all the carp in beetween the slabs! Looks very good this morning, even thou it is reigning!

Now sat withs mes fingers crossed as I sip me mug of tee and wafer biscuit!

Jen was rite on edge four yous!

Two Excited now! Keep Good!

ampersand

Writing this by the river, in Ms Meriva, under roof-denting hail in a mighty storm of lightning flashes and VERY LOUD ROLLING thunder crashes.  Big, big rain as well.  This is climate change. 
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1.....but & has been out since 0530h, early food hub run .  8 pick-ups, all offloaded in Town of Gown community Café and welcomed.  Sunny throughout, DG.

2.  Huge success of Shelford's 7s Festival was 3 days of big involvement, helping and great games, great fun, great times.  2 Chinese national teams came, the Tigers and the Dragons - swept the board.  Their no.  1 was 6'7", extraordinary and magnificent.   &'s name for him was gbh.  Majestic player. Several of our Ukrainian arrivals witnessed and enjoyed their first experience of rugby and the rugby family.   Thinking especially of Jelena and her littlies, Jorge, 9 and Irina, 6, clearly traumatised, but eventually came smiles and &'s hand reached for, fingers held tight.🤲🙏😌 

3. Best fountain pen found!  Hooray!  After months!  'Twas in deep pocket of &'s worn-once long navy rain thing for home match days.  Found during last night's downpours, when last 7s car finally departed, after 4 days!  Still 2 unclaimed bikes.😁

4.  Town of Gown Aldi mgr remembered & this morning.  Asked about all the 9p jars of mincemeat & bought.  Staff weren't allowed to buy any.  & donated most back to main food hub centre, spread others around.   Used some in a use-up-fruit shortcake - yummy, 2 pieces left.

5.  Found a wonderful stoneware pot earlier.  The Edge Café, where & offloaded the bounty, is not far from several CSs.  Now to identify the potter -

&'s usual dreadful pics, but in car by river, even worse.😁

6. Hailing and hailing again+more thunder and lightning, so Big Hooray for free watering of all &'s growing things and refilled rainbutts. Potatoes have migrated everywhere, no idea how.   Both rtc 99p emporium baskets, were £24.99, have recovered well and garlic is reaching for the skies:



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I'll add another because this fabulous and life-affirming play - virtuoso rôle taken wonderfully by Pam Ferris - has been on while & tippy-tapped here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000gbj4

Brie

bought a purple osterperum whazzat to pop into the garden - you know - one of those plants that looks a bit like a daisy but isn't.  hoping that this one will take hold and continue to pop up.  haven't had much longevity with these but am always an optimist!!!

Frith

That's a nice vase (?), Ampersand. 

Pleasures for today (Tuesday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Smaller son went to college. College then phoned me (9 am) and the head sounded genuinely sad that stupid, stupid County had said he had not forwarded the correct paperwork back in October. Of course he had - and I found an email mentioning it from County to me last week and forwarded it back to the SAME WOMAN to show her. So I was at least able to tell the head that. Interestingly, he said that County's own deadline to sort college places was April. Therefore they have broken their own rules - again. 

3) I picked my mum and brother up and drove them to the station. They should be in Paris by now, ready for the Roland Garros. 

4) Sat in Waitrose for a bit and wrote the head the proper run down of what the County had done/said (in case he was worrying about it), then took a fair amount of time to email my MP. He was surprisingly helpful last time. I said about the lying, the stalling, the breaking of the deadline and the fact they are trying to shoehorn smaller son in to a mainstream college, thus wasting everyone's time. He hasn't replied yet but hopefully he will.

5) Went to college at 12 to collect smaller son and the man biology teacher was waiting with him with practice papers printed out and we had a quick chat. I asked if he could fit smaller son in a few extra lessons (as he does not do English lessons any more now he's sat the exam) and he's fitting him in another hour or so tomorrow. 

6) Smaller son and I went to town for his traditional look round PC World plus to look at trainers.

7) I made smaller son a pizza for tea. I had the rest of the meatballs. 

8) Looking forward to watching DIY SOS just now. 

Broomstick

Evening all.

Five recent pleasures:

1.  A lovely old cardigan had been got by moths.  Very fortunately, I discovered that I had the exact shade of grey darning wool so I did lots of invisible darns and now it doesn't look as if it's been damaged at all - best bit of mending in ages and am very pleased with myself.

2.  Finished one audiobook and started the next one.

3.  Happy phone call with best friend.

4.  Caught up with Chelsea Flower Show programmes on iplayer (in the background while doing other things).

5.  Sorted out my wool stash.  Won't be buying any more in a long time!

Sleep well,
Bx

mhagster

Just popping in to say my mum has died at some point through the night. And whilst we’ve kind of been anticipating it certainly didn’t expect it.
I woke up to a missed voicemail from her late last night and went straight round as soon as I heard it and found her. 

As you know from my writing here it’s never been a particularly easy relationship but she was my mum. 

Everyone from paramedic to undertakers to GP to Registrar has been so kind. 

Spent the day with DS, DD2 and Aunt and brother. Phone has not stopped ringing/ pinging. 

But we had such a proper laugh on Sunday evening ( she was not known for her sense of humour) and I’d chatted to her after work yesterday. And I have to reckon that even if I’d got her call last night I might have been too late by the time I got round. 

 

Suffolksue

so sorry to see this Mhags 
wishing you all strength and peace xx

Frith

I'm sorry to hear your news, Mhags. It's always such a shock, even if expected. I'm glad you both had that good time on Sunday evening.