5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

villagelife

For the last couple of days.
1. Met a friend for coffee and then met two more who happened to be there. Had a very quick chat with them and then back to talk to my other friend.
We both realised that we had stormed out of our respective January meetings.

2. Trains all worked out and none too busy. Aye some fruit on the train so didn't need to buy food later.

3. Rugby was entertaining and good that some players returned from long term injury. A bonus point win.

4. Saw cirque de soleil which was excellent. A Christmas present.

5. Yesterday spent time in the garden and planted some hedging plants that had been grown from seed.

6. Sitting out with a coffee in the sun.

7. Had a bonfire helped by DS2. Most of the stuff is gone.

8. Light bulbs changed. I can't do them as too awkward where there are and I need to move furniture even with a ladder. As a result they virtually all have to go before anyone else will change them. I change the rest of the house light bulbs.

9. DS2 cooked tea. A beef and ale pie which was good and we even had veg with it.

10. Watched You've got mail which DS2 wanted to do.

LaineyT

That certainly sounds a trip of a lifetime MrsSD,

Sunday pleasures,

Early morning cuddles with little dog and enjoying a much needed cuppa.

Hoovered out my car ( how much mud :eek:) and then helped Capt S to trim the apple tree, am hoping that, together with our own version of wassailing, will result in a better harvest, last years was pretty poor.

Over the yard, met a couple of the other livery owners and chuckled over the fact that all our ponies are grey.

Beef brisket, slow cooked, with mash and veg, every bit eaten and enjoyed.

Last episode of Vera.

VJsmum

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1) lunch with children plus ds’s gf who has just got a job in Manchester. We went to Nando’s who do a mean vegan

Do They? I thought it was just chicken?

Pleasures for the weekend

1. Hedgelaying on Saturday - it was very wet but once you're wet, you're wet. I tried to look on the funny side
2. i'd made flapjack - LOADS of flapjack. There were only 8 of us, but it all went :eek:
3. So when I got back i made more flapjack, jam tarts, a flapjack filled tart thing... and a mincemeat tart to take to
4. friends' for dinner. they are doing dry January (which meant they taxi'd me - we don't have a car in ICT, except on rare occasions), so i didn't drink but took them a bottle of wine for when they begin again. We drank 0.5% alcohol wine - i think I prefer water :rotfl:
5. They cooked sea bass in a bag which was blimmin delish.
6. Sunday was drier but misty - only 4 of us for hedgelaying but we got a surprising amount done. that's it until next winter as 'the sap is rising'.
7. Snowdrops and some hardy daffs poking their noses up.
8. A soak in the bath with an episode of The Feud - Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. i only have a week to get through it before it disappears
9. A circuit by the sea - no sun but was still a calming walk
10. A last minute decision to go see The Greatest Showman again. ICT cinema is an independent so we like to support it, and SIL had bought us vouchers for christmas so it was free :T

A morning of tidying and cleaning before the lunchtime train home. it's raining again, so i am not too upset... Next door have a leak that we think is coming from our side so the roofer is due...:eek:

Have a good day all

ampersand

& is in Dunkerque, finally, after much mistral in southern parts and hundreds of km of inondations from below Lyon, through Dijon, Vienne, dans l'Aube, Champagne-Ardennes et tout autour.
Has to be experienced and seen to be believed. No TV rapportage can come close to conveying what's happening here.
It's blowing gales Oop Nord ici aussi as I write.
Was seriously offered salary+maison+work in/around Rosières/Troyes, when helping out with translation/young refugees/battered family, all via Croix Rouge links to auberge+Emmāus.

1. & is aware of, and loving, knowledge of over 3wks away, longer than expected, in her sacred hexagon:-). Not just memory bank fodder. Meriva is stuffed, so best be back at Spits asap:-)

2. Not this week though, as & will be seeing+hearing Grayson Perry, which & gave to self as sortakinda b'day pressie some while back. Such anticipation is very much an osp for &, Capricorn aussi and ici. Glad to see you are another, he. Happy Birthday: belated means Extra!:-)))...with add-on p.s., realising you may not be another Capricorn after all, which alters best wishes not one iota -)))

3. Accorded permanent Hon. Mem.shp of rugby club last week, back down in la Seyne-sur-Mer, where &'s presence was declared to have made all the 34-10 difference face à Dijon, unbeaten in last 7 matches....all as featured in lost post, over a week ago.

3. Good nights, interesting people, lovely sleeps/showers, shared food, in Rosières-près-Troyes, also Reims (2 in each, auberge de jeunesse. & is Life Member)and various trouvailles somehow worked into non-existent Meriva space. Note dernière phrase, no. 1:-)

4. Good vide-grenier+brocante/!change collectionneurs en route y'day: Suippes and Neuville-St-R!my. Again, happily meeting and chatting and learning and buying a few bits and pieces. So good to meet more good people. Much more about Sillery, en route to Suippes, and the First World War Memorial and Les Deux Ossuaires......was so struck by this sudden glancing right sight in distance, that turnaround was done. Happens often on & journeys. Spent 2hrs then, walking between immaculate rows of many sorts of stone, crosses and tablets. Found self saying names aloud, to momentarily, at least, give another's breath to long lost, crassly taken, mostly young lives. There are dozens more of these sudden fields on and around all the Routes Nationales towards Verdun. There's excellent French government work and co-operation with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission everywhere here.

5. Door opened and grand welcome hier soir from Northern 'family'. Catch-up hours, 'bien mang!, bien bu', bien sûr, comme on dit. &'s offerings, y compris, the bio marmalade made during vacances, tasted then and there, declared Mmm-mmmm!!! :-) & has more lovely butter on board.
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Loads more, including lost post osps, but let's see if this one can be made to stick.
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Final p.s >Mrs SD. & has a book about similar Enzed trip on bike. Think I found it when back last time for beloved uncle's 92nd bday, 18mths ago.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

5 Upstairs off done and moved. Dining room de carpeted and everything out, bar the table! Paint sourced. Updates coming up. Snorkers could be in a roll this week!

4 Talking of snorkers, last day we has proper foods again! Roast tatties infused with rosemary, cauliflower, carrot-swede mash, and toad in the hole. Served with pan gravy and onions! No pudding was presented. BoPsie is uptight as the xmas cake that normally sees Easter has not seen February this year! No more later, CRUMBS!

3 Off to cotton supplier tomorrow. Strange on, as I was sure in a past life of BoP, and we are talking pre TILAMS, a while or so back as well! So will be good. Negotiations are …

PM2DD We is doomed! Mind though it takes a couple of season to build a team. We could well be on out third! Larf tho as Klippedy Klopp is out!

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1) It's that Zebra's 4th Birthday today where on earth has 4 years gone?

2) Lovely skype with him this morning, mummy has the whole day off and the Oreo child is at nursery. Zebra's very excited because he got lots of lego, is going to meet daddy for lunch and have pizza and then mummy is taking him to the cinema to see Stone Age Man the latest Ardman animation offering, how better to spend the day?

3) A trip to the city found me some black leather gloves at half price in the John Lewis sale and I now have warm hands, hoorah!

4) Don't have to cook anything other than jacket potatoes for supper as we're having gammon I cooked yesterday and salad with them.

5) Found a lovely 'lift the flap' book for the Oreo child in a charity shop which he'll love. A hen has lost her eggs.....

Frith

Where have the thanks buttons gone to?!


Quick pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Bagels for breakfast with avocado and smoked salmon.


3) Took smaller son to school and he stopped on the way to get a present for his TA to apologise for being rude last Friday.


4) Popped to Sainsburys as my jeans no longer fit so I got the next size down.


5) Did various jobs round the house.


6) Hens OK and another egg!


7) Dropped a bag of at the charity shop.


8) Had a look round Ludlow.


9) Tasty beef casserole from the freezer for tea.


10) Watched First Dates Hotel with bigger son.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

5 OS Pleasures for Monday 29th:

1. Baking coconut cookies for my DH - he really does love them!:rotfl:

2. Starting to declutter the very large box stacked by the sofa but putting the ‘difficult’ stuff in a small crate until I can be a lot more brutal or even less sentimental:o

3. Have generated 100 plus bits of shredding which I am looking forward to doing today. Very satisfying even if rather noisy

4. Put 21 old Magazines in recycling.

5. Ha..y Bi..rs Sausage Casserole for dinner with fried lo potatoes from Saturday.:drool::drool::drool:

6. Enough Sausage Casserole for tonight’s dinner & some in the freezer:)

villagelife

1. Remembered to take lunch of leftover shepherd's pie that I had frozen.

2. Wasn't too late as traffic was awful. Luckily coming home it was fine.

3. Had roast chicken and DS2 happy as I cooked chestnut stuffing.

4. Watched Only Connect.

5. Lovely sky this morning with stars and a couple of small clouds.

LaineyT

Monday pleasures,

Dolly dingbat that I am had forgotten when cleaning car out on Sunday that I would need to pick up some hay ahead of a delivery at the weekend. Despite putting cover down car now looks like farmyard. Mind, am impressed that managed to squeeze one small bale of hay plus two of haylage in the back of a mini!

Popped down to girlie's paddock so cuddles whilst being frisked for treats.

Might have picked up some Mr Sparks hotxbuns when putting petrol in car......

Couple of blissful hours spent reading on the sofa, rain had come over so my excuse for not being out in garden as planned.

University Challenge followed by Silent Witness.