5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

We like Karen Pirie too HappyCas, yay to the new hearing aids.

For yesterday,

Such a lovely, autumnal day, quite mild and didn’t need a coat when I went out, first food shopping, followed by a trip to the feed store as needed a large tub for soaking hay nets. Cuddles with the resident spaniel.

Long chat with my bf.

Capt S came home for lunch, catch up over chicken wraps.

As always, time spent with my horse, she was very sleepy in the afternoon sunshine.

Baked ravioli for tea, with chard from the garden.

PaulieHerts

Good morning from beautiful Cornwall 
We had lovely weather on Sunday and again yesterday morning, although it changed on our ferry crossing from Falmouth to St Mawes, very blustery and cloudy.  We had a nice wander round Lizard on Sunday and roast dinner at the pub. We’ve watched the fishing  boats go out of Cadgwith Cove at 6,30 the last 2 mornings, the sea was an amazing lilac colour yesterday morning.  We have enjoyed a cream tea on the patio 😊
We visited Pendennis Castle at Falmouth before getting the ferry to St Mawes, amazing views.  Back in bed for a while after our 6.30 start this morning, it’s very windy today so not sure yet what we’ll do, OH is snoring away next to me 🤣. Have a good day everyone 😊

Highdays

Good morning.

Looks like another lovely day is on the cards, the sun is just breaking through here.

Wonderful photos of Cornwall, PaulieHerts, bringing back memories of lovely holidays there. We went every year for family holidays as a child - eventhough all I wanted to do at the time was go to Butlins on a bus like my friend down the road!

Recent pleasures:

1) My leg is slowly getting better although the bruising goes from above my knee nearly to my ankle. The side of my knee is still swollen and hard and very painful, I am hoping that the fact I can walk and bend it means it just needs time.

2) I'm determined to 'feel the fear and do it anyway' today by going for a short walk with my son. I need to get my confidence back after my fall as we enjoy our walks so much. I am very apprehensive but need to power through that or I will lose a lovely pleasure of walking and talking with my boy and I don't want to do that. He's not a 'boy' at 42 but will always be my bairn.

3) A day at my mum's yesterday with one of my brothers and my sister, cleaning and sorting. Scrubbing out the kitchen wasn't exactly a pleasure but it looks really good now and we will soon be able to get it on the market and start facing forwards.

4) Started making plans for the next stage of the work on the house. Lots of major stuff to be done but we can get on with a lot  of the smaller jobs ourselves through the autumn/winter. We've been talking round in circles a bit as so many jobs are dependent on others but we need to jump in and make a start and stop procrastinating. Making a plan and making a list is always a pleasure!

5) Flu jab booked for this afternoon, then I will be all jabbed up and hopefully won't succumb to anything nasty through the winter.

Hope you all enjoy another lovely autumn day, the trees changing colour look magnificent in the sunshine.

MrsFarmer19

Morning all!

Grey, wet & windy here today - think it's going to get worse overnight though.

Been to Lidl, B&M &local butchers this morning.  Now have some beef in SC, going to bake as there's no treats for baits and I'm back at work tomorrow (dreading it as the manager will not be very pleasant about me leaving early yesterday).

Hair appointment booked for Monday....NO MORE GREY hahaha

Have a good day everybody!

Jx

DigForVictory

Er, RL has been a bit crazy, sorry!
Happycas - the right hearing aids made a heck of a difference (from observation!) Your winter fare has my stomach rumbling hopefully! DS & biscuits, DD & sewing - then hearing aids - they do pack a wallop!

mhagster - back on 'normal' time, for Australia. Good! You garden even at DD1's! 32 lengths?! "kangaroos in fields" - oooh... 40 lengths? picnic & reading - pleasures indeed. Clocks forward - did you sleep that extra hour? All that swimming on sourdough toast? Googled Koorie art centre - wow!

DundeeDoll - ah, Lebanese food - you really need to eat with at least 3 others to do it justice. Signed spurtles - this is going to be a baffling treasure for decades for the enthusiastic 3! Getting home to mum - there's a treat. Then shunting stuff to the tip, & hurrah postponing decoration briefly. Mum officially moved, really wanted job at uni, choosing paint & eating birthday lunch (belated congratulations & by all means keep days This Busy spaced at least a year apart?)

Frith - hurrah new boots that fit! Oops fiend hornet. Belated happy birthday Bigger son. Looked up Fitchet pie to read Soyer (of the Stove) on the subject & it reads delicious. Hurrah useful reference books & isn't time a beast in English?! Being able to discuss the weather a vital social skill. Hope Auschwitz packs its wallop but leaves Bigger son more connected.

villagelife - Wisley, oh glorious! Access to work tends to be quite hard to say "no" to, so fingers crossed for you. Mist on cobwebs & a well loaded kindle are special pleasures! Being there for marathon runners is a special gift to them.

LaineyT - schooling in the rain in an unfamiliar school - you will both settle! Ah, Northern Soul... a rammed takeaway is a good one. Car jack on pallets, eh? My "potting bench" may yet happen. Colours definitely turning on the hazel trees. Canny feed store to have cuddlesome spaniel!

VJsmum - awed at old primary school mums meetup! "BLT wrap for lunch, minus the T" - yum!

topsyturphy - bother at covid test but jar curry sauces aren't bad at all. Dog walks without other people - excellent. We love the repair shop just wish they'd explain the solutions & tools a bit more & go a bit lighter on the emotion.

MrsFarmer19 - welcome to the thread! Bee hives, oooh... Sorry to hear HR contemplated but love "a good twine"... Ah, baits. A shrewd bake & your manager may come to heel sharpish?

Highdays - tumble then dancing - may the fun outweigh the bruises! Definitely keep walking with your bairn.

Admiral - RAF Museum Cosford is one of our favourite 'break up the journey' places & we croon at the Wimperis sight, giggle at Pilot Prune & envy the scouts happily powering through their Air Activities badges.

PaulieHerts - stunning pictures, but you catch the Cornish light so beautifully! And that amazing purple sea - just wow.

OS Pleasures recently

Someone said “you’re so strong” - I realised I muscled up when I had sons. They’re wonderful, but you learn to live with chaos & risk because that’s what they seem to thrive on, as well as 5 meals a day.

Youngest, having proposed lunch, reappeared with a cup of tea. Gracelessly I asked if this meant lunch would be a bit later than planned? No, he replied, “onions take time”… When I count my blessings I have to take my boots off.

Hurrah - I found new-to-me curtains big enough for the front room windows, they’re clean & mostly line dried & now they are draped over a ladder to think about relative humidity. Only hitch, they’re a bit “sunnier” in colour than I thought, rather citrus lemon & lime with blue & youngest is urging me to hang them but fasten the insulating blankets on the side we see. (Then sort Real Curtains & donate these pronto! I do see his point, but he can help brother get curtain rods etc sorted Anyway.) {Sorted. There will shortly be hanging.}

Walked to say hullo to horses with a carrot. Got there to find recent issue of hay & that carrot, removed from fridge, had thawed to loose its crisp rigidity. Youngest deposited it out of harm & horse way & chided me for taking up bizarre “Southern” ideas. (Haven’t thought of canny ways with tinned cheese in Years, bless his soul, but that’s a different, Deep South!)

“Going to bed or crawling on the ceiling like a gekko?” I’m shivering hard enough to shed a tail - me for my duvet & letting the shivers settle to warm drowse. I may swap in the heavier duvet tomorrow. Pleasure is the warmth of Youngest as I hug him & anticipating the snug bed!

Ah, Youngest cooking real rice! Not packets & making the traditional novice mistake of too much water. I should have thought about the absorption ratio etc but am too used to letting hindbrain do it. Now we have rice mush & the pan is being scrubbed for him to observe me. Ulp. Still, cooking rice shouldn’t be a Dark Art!

Found an Amazon gift card & blew it on rechargeable batteries. Been scheming for that & now can enjoy! Should arrive before the prices go up so extra satisfying. [Did.Is.]

I downed my tea & cheered youngest to down his juice “I sip like the maidens of yore” “which is where, exactly?” “Down in Kent.” Oh, bless the lad, his wit is so like his father’s & leaves me helpless, whooping with laughter.

Middleson is back (early) from a walk round Loch Lomond - he & pal managed to blister severely & so I have two strapping healthy husky blokes tottering around carefully with aching backs, shoulders, & legs & barely skin on their feet. His gran with covid has more mobility & oomph right now. Youngest finds them hilarious & I just envy the youth that’ll see them back upright in 24 hours… [Or maybe not entirely - he cut the dead skin off the popped blisters & is trying not to walk at all…]{And then ate All the shortbread I had intended to gift to a smashing colleague.}

Love is when son takes out recycling after they spot the bin lugged down the first flight of stairs. He brought the laundry in off the line without any prompting!

If anyone has a brief warm moment, it may be the pebble I threw into the sea for you at Cleveleys. (In sight of Blackpool tower but a nicer beach.)

Family zoom with one sis in a café & one back from the vet… All cheerful, sociable, delighted mum’s out from covid purdah.

Oh my Scouts! Meal planning, one patrol opened with "medium rare rib-eye" - and then specified biscuits with Thoroughness (well, I asked one to make two biscuits & then another & three scouts named six biscuits so clearly clarity was important!) Bless them, they were startled to hear deliveroo Doesn’t Deliver to a hillside. (I took the young leader’s word for it.)

Blood donor recruitment team onsite today at work, so I took the (hidden) big colourful kilo box of shortbread down to aid recruitment. Lass organising delighted, me feeling I’d taken a small step towards topping up the units used to give us time to say goodbye. The nearly A3 box was a bonus eye-catcher as I took it along the floor!

Decided not to go for 6 month secondment to training as the return back to my current role wasn’t guaranteed. Pleasure in knowing my skills are valued & that my boss is pleased I love the work enough to stay.

Colleague greeted me cheerfully “I’ve got your !!!!!! in” “nine-ing armour?! Brilliant!” - the clear desk policy can be enforced savagely.

Meal planning for sons when only the cook knows exactly what & when & the engineer “gets peckish” can be a bit fraught, but the shortbread misunderstanding is blowing over. (I had forgotten How Much he loves the stuff. Tin empty. Oops.) With hindsight, very funny…

Meters read & figures submitted. From me under my duvet & contemplating make your own microwave hot bags. That sack of barley we never brewed Anglo Saxon beer with, suddenly has a purpose above bird food… [Stitched a couple, see how they do.]. {May have overstuffed them slightly, but cosy.}

Read of the National Trust queue for free tickets, on impulse joined it (argh the Englishness is overtaking me!) & now have handed over name address & email for a free day out. [Bonus, the ‘exotic’ to us site may mean I get current photos of my camera-shy chaps.]

Eyeing heated propagators & thinking I don’t do enough to make it worthwhile. [Vaguely pondering a side hustle of African Violets.] Pleasure is in the dream (& in the simple water rooting methods that have my herb garden full - dream now two mugs of cuttings contemplating water rooting on the bedroom windowsill)!

I wandered, taking herb cuttings, to take photos (local holly tree in berry - beautiful!) and got several “where are you?!” phone calls from son who clearly thinks mother-plus-secateurs-unescorted is unwise. I am now corralled with the promise of bacon butties if I stay still! I am so lucky in my sons.

Honestly, I only bought a cookbook because of the V&A - they’d a Christmas card of Huntley & Palmer cakes & I couldn’t read the script from the email (low resolution cunning) and, well, I was smitten. Alas only I adore the heavy fruitcake in the household, but seemingly there is a “Sandringham cake” which is fruited spiced and Much Lighter. Schemes are afoot, anticipation is bubbling & the idea there might be a cake all three of us remaining agree on is a heady hope.

Just got under the duvet to find there’s a warm wheat bag there waiting for me. Awww my sons can be wonderful!

Ancestry has touching tale of reunited father & son thanks to DNA test & I’m thinking they must have edited out several Jeremy Kyle type surprises for that happy story. Still, with my glorious maddening adorable family around me like a quilt, I take huge pleasure in my family!

Health strength love & courage to all as have need, along with HWBs & solidly considered financial planning as Autumn takes a grip.

LaineyT

Bless you for the wonderful post DFV, entertaining and emotional in equal parts x

Frith

Pleasures for today (Tuesday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) We got through an appointment with the JobCentre. Waiting for a health assessment for smaller son. He is so stressed by the thought of this that he has talked about it all day. 

3) Had a late breakfast at McDonalds to recover from the appointment.

4) Had a look round a few charity shops and found a top.

5) Pulled pork for tea.

6) Watching GBBO now. 

topsyturphy

Pleasures for Tuesday

1. Testing Negative 
2. Dog walk managed 3 miles
3. Feeling better
4. Comfort food - cottage pie
5. FaceTime with dd

Happycas

Good morning.  Very windy here today

Oh Paulie!  Those photos!  Especially the one of the lilac sea.  You could sell them to the Cornish tourist board.

DfV - heart warming epic post.  Thank you.  And I'm glad we're not the only ones with a son who can magically make biscuits disappear!

Went to visit a friend yesterday who has recently gone into a care home.  She's very frail and knows she needs the support but is still struggling a little to accept she won't be going back to her bungalow.  It's a nice home though.  Her room has French doors into the garden, and the handyman has signed her up to help with planting the pots next year😃 .

Got a text from the surgery yesterday offering the flu jab so I'm going today.  Also got a phone call asking us to move covid jabs from Sunday to Saturday so then I'll be jabbed up!

Happy blustery day everyone

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Tidy through of airing cupboard, it had become a bit of a mess.

Small dog’s winter coat is coming through, darker than her summer so she’s now a Bournville rather than a Galaxy and so soft.

Prepped some bolognaise sauce and popped in SC.

With pony, it was v windy so we went in the school, apart from the odd giraffe impersonation she was a good girl.

Home, Capt S at meeting so walked small dog and just about to have tea when he texted to say on way home so held off, baked spuds topped with bolly then watched GBBO.