5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Admiral_Barbarossa

I did leaf the big yellow thing on so you can dry your lot on the line!
Botanics and a cheesy sandwich! Bet it did not has the onion and marmite to taste!
Garden Assault Curse!
Clearings!
Lime and Chilli kebabs!

Bowled!

Was out as the wobbleade emporium last nite as it was stake day! Has a glass of the wobbleade as well! Managed to giggle a lot, especially as Ukraine scored in the final minute! Maybe next time!

Was ups early and off to keep beach ready, Toned and trimmed again! 

Then home for a special snoker and best back fest! Done proper and not inn Jimmy the Cook's Book either!

Note the marmite and the knife used to spread the brown stuff on the buttered crumpet! Noite the crossed toms topped with a dash of garlic, sage and pepper!

As I mentioned the other day, the home still Ming Wing Chickens are brewed and ready for the barbecue today! Usual rules, turn every nine minutes and cook for 35! Will be joined with a couple of snorkers and some bitser relish!

Now watch inn the cricket. Get Inn!

Jen sends her

The oath I took in January 1980 has no expiry date!

mhagster

I am in my bed and looking forward to sleeping. ( hopefully) 

up early and in at work at 4.30am which was ridiculously early but wanted in and then back out again, 

home and walked doggy. was a lovely walk. Just us and the birds. 

Had a wee snoozette! ( a restorative 30 minutes);

Then up and at ‘em. Had to go back to work to collect and deliver catering. Had a nice walk round the parkland with DD1 . 

Then joined DD2 at mums . She’d made a head start on clearing. There is so much. Mum was a hoarder. It’s honestly like where do I begin. 

Then I walked home . It took me an hour as I’d met a couple of mums neighbours so had chatted with them then popped in to see my work friend as it’s on the way.  She’s been messaging me every day.
Finally home and hello doggy. 

Then back round for another couple of hours then we drove down to our woodlands where there were supposed to be jubilee celebrations but we weren’t overly impressed so walked back to car.

Dropped another bag of books into supermarket charity shelf and then got chips for tea. Ate them in the garden.

Then (sighing by this time) back round to mums to bring in washing and manhandled a huge lavender pot into car. Smelled lovely.

Cuddles with my doggy.

And bed!

ampersand

Quick catch up after way more non-stop days, while listening and 🙏for Rafa to win through, though very worried for him despite 1 set and 3-2, with a chance to level.....  &'s lot love Rafa, loathe djok. 
Another early start Red Hen project pick-up tmrw, then whole day on community centre holiday lunch programme, plus Ukrainian biz in evening. 
Oh RAFA......Wow!!!  YESSS!!!  Holds off more break points.❤👍👏👌but it's a worry.....
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Dfv - with you all, with care and hoping for best possible outcome.  If rethinking is involved for the future, I am confident you will again adapt as a family.  Take care of YOUR good self, too.
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5 random osps -
1. Crazy weather is saving on some watering, but usually only after & has just done so.😁.

2.  Some very special services lately.

3.  4 new tyres were definitely just as well for this morning's uplifts>the community Café.  &'s biggest collection load ever, even included 3 beautiful blue potted orchids.  Everyone was so generous today - inc. everything visible beyond on tables and floor.

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Well, extraordinary!
& is au lit after many mhags-type 25/8 days again all week. 
Above is the post that disappeared the other day!  No idea how it is suddenly here again, but I'll finish off now with a couple more osps.

4. Yesterday, another huge ambient load uplift early for the Red Hen Project, then all day on the Holiday Lunches programme. 32 needy families catered for.  All went well, with smiles and happiness, including - or despite?😀 -  & asking 'What's the magic word?' at times....   Some leftover brown bread and butter is now a delicious pudding of same name.  Better than going into landfill🤬.  Added sultanas and ancient store cupboard cranberry sauce - truly luscious.


5. A truly wonderful Thanksgiving Service, struck all the right notes.  & has worn bleu/blanc/rouge all day, then finished off with some urgent catch-up 'birds with broken wings' calls and gardening.  More potates and tomatoes in and staked.  Watering done.  It's the wild potato vine/elderflower/rose rampant climbing tangle time of year, so for 2022 and over 20' up -

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Jubilee blessings, if wanted, celebrations and happiness generally where possible.
'Kindness to self' could be a good starting point for many here.   & is bossy.  All care and 🤲💞.
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And beloved Rafa did it!
Was messaging with friends through to 2 bells and we carried him safely through.😇😁❤  We were ecstatic, but tomorrow is another huge test.  Rafa's ankle is a broken beast......

Frith

Pleasures for today (Thursday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Did manage to get smaller son to come with me on the railway. And what a disappointing day it was... I mean, it was sunny and no one was terribly injured, to be positive about it. Got to the station - train absolutely packed. Couldn't get on. Had to wait an hour for the next train. Smaller son said, "Too busy" with increasing volume about 15,000 times over the course of the day. He wasn't wrong. 

Next train was quite busy. The tension was rising. The train then stopped, with no explanation ever given, for about half an hour. It was just slightly too hot. Smaller son then started bargaining that he wasn't going to go the full length of the line (which isn't far!) but that we would stop at the next station. Righty ho...

Stopped at the next station. Too busy. By this point, "too busy" was sometimes swapped with "piece of !!!!!!" for making him go. So that was nice. After waiting an hour for a train, then half an hour randomly on the train, the cafe was totally and utterly disorganised so we had to queue another 30 minutes. All the food had gone. Smaller son had a chocolate bar. 

Whilst queuing for the chocolate bar, we missed the flypast (Lancaster?) and our next train.

Smaller son then completely disappeared, which is unknown for someone who cannot communicate with strangers so remains bolted permanently to my leg. I don't think either of us put much effort into finding each other. I sat down and watched 2 people fighting off a hornet. 

I found him and we walked back to the station. Someone had ignored the sign not to use the toilet in the station. Crossing the lines was a new form of pooh sticks for families who now had to carry their children and jump over the "solid matter".

Finally, a corridor train arrived with every seat and inch of corridor already jammed with people. 15 or so of us were put in the guards van which was unbearably hot, with windows so high that only smaller son could see out. The two guards were absolutely fed up and were talking about the chaos. When we stopped at a station (there was some sort of hold up that I didn't understand) they got us all out of the guards van so we could at least sit on the platform for a while. And people paid £34 a ticket for that. 

We saw a Ukranian car when we got back to the car park. We had a chat about what a drive that would have been and how they were probably happy to have their car with them. 

3) Popped into Sainsburys.

4) Smaller son had only had a chocolate bar all day and I had had nothing so we ordered an Indian takeaway for tea!

5) Spent a good hour hacking things back in the garden to let light through the borders to the smaller plants.

6) Thought I could see the lit beacon on the Malverns but it turned out to be a car! 

topsyturphy

Pleasures for today

Good journey back from DM avoiding the M1 & M25

Pup behaved perfectly in her travel crate.

Reduced strawberry plant has grown and has lots of strawberries on it, not yet ripe.

Fish, chips and mushy peas for tea.

Washing up was all done when I got back.

ds2 had got some milk so i didn’t have to go out to get some - very unusual that he would do this.

DigForVictory

Mhagster - so glad it went well.
ampersand - there will indeed be changes.

OS pleasures recently 

Not a pleasure. Despite the medics best efforts, they didn’t have a miracle on prescription & my husband died. Pleasure it was so painless & unobtrusive the staff had to tell us (admittedly sobbing & speechifying) he’d gone. We’re a bit stunned, as it was so quick, but have had some reasonable conversations about what we want to do & when.

I have the book of common prayer on my phone’s kindle app. Remarkable how reading the familiar words is comforting.

“Are you relatives?” (Someone hadn’t read the board.) No, we’re laboratory guineapigs who escaped…

The vending machine works, a son has change, (the food tastes all texture no flavour) but we’ve all eaten & drunk a bit.

The vending machine in the holding room “soup - press for flavour” and I’m intrigued: how is this different from boiling water? 

One of the corridors has old school windows, costs of arms in stained glass beautifully done & preserved for the heart-lifting craftsmanship across decades. A bee is my work Teams ‘logo’ and now I have a beautiful heraldic bee for a while. It looks a bit squashed compared to my usual photos but beautiful & I think that’ll do nicely for a year or so.

Fellow scout leader has cracked my sartorial panic with a few canny suggestions from Amazon. The bare skin can be covered with a pashmina pinned ruthlessly with the amber mouse brooches he gave me.

Aw chaps & I curled up together watch Obi Wan together. Then Great British Sewing Bee & sons gawking in bewilderment!

We’ve finally gone public on Facebook & it’s as strange as I remember it being. Some lovely photos though! <plans to update locket>

Trooping of the colour - wonderful to see it all going so beautifully & then Herself In Chief early on the balcony, doing the inspection.

Skyfall, one of the Bond movies I’ll watch the second half of again & again. Craig & Dench make compelling viewing. Son shakes his head “it’s on Amazon, mum” - yes, but ‘staying up’ is part of the thrill…. The young Q is cute, too.

Health strength love & courage to all as have need, prayers for the departed & the bereft if you have the puff & the jubilee is helping, buying us leave & a few more days to try to adjust. Work is being brilliant, again, but the raw speed is making everything harder. 

mhagster

DFV oh my goodness. Words as always insignificant but know that we all send our love to you and your boys. Hold close to your heart a marriage full of memories and love and of laughter and the sharing of your sons. Take care x

weenancyinAmerica

DfV - Hugs and prayers for you.

carolbee

DfV, I am so sorry to hear your news about your husband, my condolences to you. You sound an amazing family who have already their share of sadness and loss.

Suffolksue

hugs hugs DfV  and strength to all of you xxxx