5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

I am missing DfV’s posts ☹️ Anyone have any info?

DigForVictory

She's being an idle so-&-so...  (The trousers Still aren't hemmed yet.)

Highdays

Hello (waving shyly)!!!

I have been lurking for a long time, trying to pluck up the courage to pitch in and join you. I've got a lot going on at the moment, not all of it positive, so I think I need to start looking for the pleasures and I hope joining you will make me a little bit more accountable for doing this. So, deep breath, and here are today's pleasures:

1) Shopping delivered this morning so a good chance for a clear out of the fridge and bendy fridge bottom veg are now ready to roast and make a pot of soup.

2) We are all stocked up and some nice meals planned for the weekend.

3) Had visitors last week so spent two days scrubbing and cleaning my house, the pleasure being it won't need 'bottoming' for a while now.

4) The visitors didn't look in the hall cupboard where I had thrown everything that was cluttering the place up - the not such a pleasure being I will have to sort it all out at some stage!

5) After lurking for years, I have plucked up the courage to join you.

Hope you all have a good day, looking forward to 'seeing you again' tomorrow.

Frith

Hello, @Highdays

Here's something silly to be going on with, in my nearest town...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-62319714

Happycas

Good afternoon

Hello Highdays - good to see you.

Yesterday we spotted wasps going in and out of a tiny hole near the eaves - definitely not a pleasure!

We rang a wasp man but realised if he needed to get into the loft we would have to move the desk underneath the loft hatch.  The desk that is chock a block full of paperwork/cards/children's art work ( children are 39/41 years old!)

So another not pleasure, we emptied the lot into boxes and stacked them in the spare bedroom.

Pleasures

The wasp man came promptly
He didn't need to get into the loft
He didn't charge much.
The wasps are mostly gone.

I refused to plonk everything back in the desk.  I shall go through it all in the next few days and cull where possible ( but most likely not the artwork!!)

Happy busy day everyone

DigForVictory

So sorry, Mrs SD, it took me a while to post! I do not do well in the heat...

Admiral - love the new toy - and awed that's how you dust. Right, shall stop hinting with damp cloth & challenge young Play It Loud. Covet your device for the plazza, but suspect Miss Kitty might disapprove of my technique [learned at scouts - if it might squeal, drench it.] When does a nice cup of tea switch to wobbleade o'clock? Yarmouth sandwich is fishfinger? (How am I to teach the young without the proper vocab?!] Pizza toast is good feeding. Aye, a world without Mr.Womble will be lacking.

mhagster - I echo decluttering thread view that you do more in a few weeks than some of them do over years. Healing hugs to Haggis & drat "caffeine free Coke" (?!) supplier out of stock. Hurrah unexpected DS & rightly cajoled put to tall work. Your customer service is superb. Up to admire sunrise - So glad you are getting some sleep in. Delighted to hear you have a parsnip mountain! Charity shop find of linen trousers? Brilliant! Haggis mending, hurrah

PaulieHerts - dear gods, a broken elbow - Yowch! " sling, ice, painkillers and exercise" sounds much better than my "tea, paracetamol & harsh language".

topsyturphy - Jools H? Ooh fun! What do you reckon to  Macdonald and Hobbs? I love a nice murder but might this be a bit too "modern" for a fan of Father Brown, Brokenwood & Midsomer? Lemon slices sound lovely. Puppy "white and fluffy" - enjoy it whilst it lasts! Mussel sauce? who got the mussels? "Expenses have been authorised" - definitely a pleasure!

Hotcocoa - welcome, & fellow forumite SiClist over on the Prepping thread has it neatly:" A positive attitude won't solve all your problems, but with luck it'll annoy enough people to make the effort worthwhile". Christmas gift scheming already?! Awed. Most of what I know of F1 is from a work colleague but its thrilling.

LaineyT - carrots, Books, fresh sheets - bliss. Brilliant cooking in advance of heat & yes, nights are drawing in. I'm being hauled off on walks after sunset! Hurrah dodging that migraine & staying quiet in the shade. Misread new haynets as hairnets - got it the second time! Ah excitable kids. Avoiding them definitely a pleasure. (My scouts I can tell to whisht & they [mostly] do.) Round & round the garden games are a bit repetitive but the much smaller people do so enjoy them.

Nargleblast - love a fat day, even if you lose a good colleague. Dog reminds me of walks with toddlers who also acquired pet sticks.

Frith - security alert hedgehog - wonderful! Bike box blind -  brilliant thinking but it is the weather for a lot of line drying. "had to run & kill a spider" - I'll bet Spock never mentioned that in his parenting manual. It amuses me when the tall try to stand tall for a change. Yikes software glitch at cinema - well deserved fishfinger sandwich! Delighted neighbours are getting garden transformed. It was your burgh where the painting got sold?!

Happycas - "ought to finish garden bunting" - why? Sounds like something hopeful to do in the winter months then enjoy & admire when summer comes around, or have I misunderstood?! Love the idea that 2 year old will pat almost every animal but baulks at a rabbit! Hang onto the artwork, get the very young to contribute & than hang a gallery & see how long before "oh!"?

SuffolkSue - nurse the runner beans as they are a family tradition. When they start putting a best-before date on paint, I'll tip poster paint into plaster...

ampersand - love the birdsong! Much amused by supervising hungry bluetit & best wishes for filled waterbutts. (Sorry I startled your system, post in wrong place <blush>)

VJsmum - welcome back from olidis, & lovely meals without the kids! "ooh the fridge fairy is back" - oh to have have heard your reply... Yes, own bed - absolutely nothing quite like it.

Highdays - welcome & as you can see daily posting is recommended but not required.

OS Pleasures recently

Despite not having a traditionally working sense of smell, I was concerned the heat had affected me as I thought I could smell toast. In the kitchen, Youngest was doing a good job of nonchalance having discovered that if you do not change the tinfoil under the grill it can go up in flames. Indeed, it had. Now several damp tea towels were cooling the area. We’re all fine, the smoke layer in the kitchen is dissipating & the young have learned Why they are told to change the tinfoil…

There is a white butterfly enjoying the thermals on the back garden. Like sentient blossom.

Email reminding us trees need watering - I really will have to sort a hose as 15 gallons of water twice a week is a lot of lugging. 

For years I have composed a Christmas Letter to all I have demonstrably not been in touch with over the previous year. Over the last few years I have tried to co-locate the remaining paper copies. Today Youngest is feeding them through his scanner that I may try have a single file of seasonal missives dating back to the 1990s. [Still several missing but the new hatched mum ones are a laugh.]

Middleson telling me the lemon seedlings need bigger pots “as they’re getting woody”. I think this is a virtue, & that bigger pots are trickier to keep the moisture levels right in (but I need to work harder on plant moisture levels anyway). [Plants spent chunks of the last few days sunbathing in back garden.]

There’s a cat sat in our back garden watching a currant bush closely. Pleasure is admiring the stillness & the colouring.

Walked & saw bats! Forgot phone camera, too enchanted by little jinking dark patches against twilight. Feels a privilege somehow. Youngest, doubting, peered until a bat flew at an angle for him to see the shape & agree not birds. From the chittering & the outline, pipistrelle but they didn’t hang about for an introduction.

Wake suddenly to a nasty feeling it’s bin day & they’re not out. [Are now.] Pleasure in peace of mind & coolth of early morning! Picked the jostaberry clear of all coloured berries, left the green to fatten & ripen. (Commercial hybrid of gooseberry & blackcurrant, tastes lovely & pectin rich.)

Shade side windows open, cool breeze invited in! “Light rain forecast” is suddenly a blessing, not an inconvenience!

Saw a Facebook ad “hot flushes clinical trial” [Just after the heatwave] & grinned…

Heard a sound I couldn’t place, got up & looked about, then out of the window. Two pigeons silent but hopping & flapping wing to wing.

Steered Youngest through change of mobile provider by reading Google one minute ahead of him. [Seems to be working so far] Then cheering him on as the new provider reaches out to catch him…

Did a survey on laundry, they asked for a photo & I found we had more than I’d thought. Excellent - two things stuck off the shopping list!

Laying on a cool stone slab, picked another plate of feral strawberries, some almost a ha’penny big! Tucked into the freezer… [Nearly a whole ziploc full - about a 1lb jar!]

Lightbulb audit missed one screw-fit was a “Small Edison” not the usual. Oops! Pleasure is Youngest’s cheerful character assassination as he climbs a ladder to swap a bulb & we realise the replacement is The Wrong Sort.

Middleson took one look & declared “it’s too bright” & is swapping old bulbs back in… [Yips of ’are my eyes going green?!’ - no, hay fever has made the whites pinker. I think he’s blue eyed, he thought he was grey eyed…]

The knitting continues. Seems as soon as a scarf gets to about 8” it start to curl up like a kitten! Still, knitting keeps hands busy & mind largely calm. Still dropping stitches, ahem.

The lads recognise I walk further & complain less if there’s a pony to share a carrot with. Shopping list includes wonky carrots…

Remind me that grandma can equally be a son on sucking eggs? I was fussing over suitable footwear for rain when I got teased he had intended to wear high heels…

Supermarket prices are rising. The pleasure is, thanks to meal planning, we’re not spending as much as we’re sticking to the list. We didn’t before as Himself liked “seeing what was there” & arguing with the house cook was rarely rewarding.

I bought a net of lemons to slice for freezing. Son diligently slung the lot into the freezer before I had a chance to take a knife to them. Come jam & jelly making season, I'm rather more prepared.

Can you over-cook an egg? Abstract query as I love a hard boiled egg. You can boil it dry & kill the pan but I don’t know if that further changes the egg. Scrambled egg definitely can burn (ahem) but while you are stood over it with a wooden spoon, this "overcooking" idea has me baffled. Wonderful stuff, scrambled egg on toast. A healthy hot meal in less than minutes.

Big band, swing, and a bloke I’ve never heard before doing "You Know How I Feel" with voom - not as over the top as Buble can be but plenty of exhilaration!

Laundry pegged & blowing. Enough blue in the sky to let me hope! And still more ‘wild’ strawberries. As in ignored feral weeds this year that are fruiting like crazy.

Read the newsletter, started an order then double-checked & actually the supermarket is cheaper. The other things were opportunist & once I’d figured the bulk wasn’t good value I could & did abandon the whole.

Sort of pleasure, have Himself's ashes home & are now playing "Hunt The Casserole". We could just dig a hole & upend the box but the right vessel is part of the process & the funeral directors didn't have anything by Pearsons of Chesterfield. (Reminds me, I need to sort something suitable by Denby for my ultimate repose.)

Right, health strength love & courage to all as have need, healing rain and flexible plans for the weekend & I may Finally get around to hemming those trousers. 

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Epic post DfV. Thank you. Hope the weather has cooled down a bit 🤞

mhagster

Busy day again. 

Woke early absolutely stunning sunrise. 

Quick doggy walk as that’s all we are allowed. 

Nice chat to DD1.

Work ( 9 to go) but out early again. 

Home. Hello doggy. 

Goodbye doggy. Off round to mums to fill car again for tip. Update on declutter thread. Mums neighbour came over and said his nephew did house clearances…really? You’re about 8 weeks of daily clearing too late! Thanks I said. It’s okay. I’m nearly there! 

Small shop at supermarket. Met an old work colleague so chat with her. 

Home. Hello doggy. 

Made dinner. Sausages, corn on cob, broccoli, sprouts ( real food) and peas. 

Walked round to mums. Did more garden clearing. Got absolutely filthy! 

Dropped in some lovely roses to NDN.
Home. Met 2 people I knew so 2 seperate chats with them. 

And bed!  

Frith

Pleasures for today (Thursday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) House tidy 

3) Went to town for birthday cards.

4) Sainsbury's was having a YS sale of all barbeque type things so another lady and I sorted through racks of meat and I took 2 x chicken with mango and coconut, kebabs plus 8 posh burgers. 

5) Cooked one pack of chicken and made a stir fry for tea and kept some for a sandwich tomorrow. Everything else in the freezer and we shall have the burgers during the football final on Sunday. 

6) Vaguely watched the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony. Nice to see Birmingham and a bit about the Jewellery Quarter where they made the medals (it's worth a visit). 

topsyturphy

Pleasures for today

1. Another day of work done.
2. Work was hectic so work passed quickly.
3. No bruising after someone ran into me and elbowed me in the face as I was leaving work yesterday and the glasses were not broken.
4. Watched another episode of Macdonald and Dodds, DFV I enjoyed watching them, each episode is a different crime so not a series as such - just the same characters investigating 
5. Pupster greeted me on my return home, ds2 just grunted at me.

mghaster - I don’t know how you manage to do so much
DFV - love the casserole & denby idea which means so much from reading your posts.
Paulineherts - ouch, hope you have a speedy recovery.