5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Pleasures for today (Saturday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Up fairly early for Park Run. A sunny day and quite a big group of us. We got 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th out of 180. (And much lower down the field!)

3) Went to watch our football team. A nil-nil draw.

4) Popped in to see bigger son and to drop off some work trousers he had left here.

5) A tasty tea of flatbreads with crab and salad.

6) Spoke to my school friend on the phone. 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

A welcome lie-in followed by boiled egg and marmite soldiers.

Bit of pottering around the garden, tidying and clearing, Capt S is now making me a cold frame. Popped out in the car to fill it up and also visited the tack shop for a water bucket, hay net and saddle soap.

Spent most of the afternoon with the beautiful grey one, after mostly being a blustery, wet day around 4pm the wind just dropped and the sun come out so we had a little meander around the fields.

Home and hungry, the treat of a takeaway.

The new moon shining bright in the sky with a planet nearby, looked it up in my almanac and apparently it’s Venus.

PaulieHerts

Morning all

Very wet here. Missing the extra hour as it’s time to get up and I haven’t had my wander round the boards yet!
Nice lunch out on Wednesday with friend’s Friends 😊
First visit to physio on Thursday, she identified the 3 main problems, scoliosis causing my back pain, osteoarthritis in my left knee (my badly injured leg) and in my right hip.  Gave me a few muscle strengthening exercises to do and will see her in a few weeks.  Don’t hold out much hope for any miracles but will do exercises and also try to do the suggested 10 minutes daily walk using my walking poles.
Shopping done at Lidl’s using my £2 off voucher. Cooking bacon used to make some tasty meals, cooked some with honey and mustard, some in a chicken, bacon and mushroom pie and some in bacon and lentil soup 😋
Off to  see Gordon Buchanan at local theatre tonight, with a meal at Wetherspoons first , an early birthday treat for OH .
have a great Sunday everyone 😊

Admiral_Barbarossa

And we is back! Again!

Putt Kettle on and ...

All good. Clock was right this morning and offs to the jim to keep beech ready. Trimmed as usual as well!

Home to a new SunDae brakefest, tywo snorkers, with mushrooms, tom bomb and fried egg! Tasty, Washed down with tee as well.

Out to emporium as we has the lite card that gest 10% off and got the iron tablets and bits. Cheese was also purchased.

No reports until Fursday as I is on a trip with the Tower!

Jen sends her

mhagster

Hello! 

Hello British Summer Time! You’ve been missed! 

Annual leave but still up at silly time. So me and my doggy were in the beach for 7am. We had the whole beach to ourselves. Sun was just coming up and reflecting on the hills. 

Lovely drive. Molehills, sheep, daffodils, a grouse in a field. And quiet roads! 

Had a lovely quiet day with just me and my doggy. 

Spent quite a bit of time in garden. Dug over the herb garden. Potted up the willow trees I’d bought recently. Used pots from my mums. 

Washing all dried. Hurrah! 

It’s been a bright day but blooming cold. 

Had nice things to eat today! Cheese toastie on sourdough done in the airfryer. Veggie pakora done in the airfryer and some leftover quiche done in the airfryer 😆 vegetables were also consumed! 

And I’ve just put the fire on for a wee while. Instead of the heating. 

DigForVictory

Highlights from one of my crazier week & a bits.

topsyturphy - Addenbrookes are the best;l I just wish it was less hard work for you.

Frith - hurrah! A buyer at last, spring really is blossoming & hoping all the best with finding your next home.

ampersand - new wheels! May they ferry you reliably!

Happycas - I buy nutella & then try to stay out of the room where its stabled.The lads do clear it up quickly...

LaineyT - there a Bonne Maman version? How do Frenchwomen fit into their couture?

mhagster - aye, there's been a Lot of Weather.  Owch yes, a mans tools.

BoP - love wfh so 'cat can be fed on demand!'

OS Pleasures recently

Not quite clear, apologies: seeds are prepped & lain on wet kitchen towel, folded & fastened in a ziploc & that is then tucked in the warmth. Tends to start cold, but not itchy!

Son back from Gran Canaria still sunburnt & I didn’t know when I hugged him.  He had a good time (apartment with pool!) & is in a mostly fit state for work.

I had hoped to do enough surveys to pay for the propagation units I want but the thrill of anticipation (and mild weather) meant I jumped early.

Enjoying looking through the things I plan to plant, nurture, hassle over this weekend. Seeds, things in pots (indoors & out), scheming propagation etc. Wild reckless “give it a bash” gardening at its least considered!

Son tells me he did buy a lemon and an orange “but there were no seeds in them” - he’s learned my weaknesses! What a lovely souvenir that would have been, but a happy thought.

Washed up, dried up, put away & did a cutlery audit. That we have any teaspoons is a pleasant surprise, that the every day use spoons are down to 4 is a bit stressful. Amused at the assortments that have topped up supplies, touched by the spoons with holes drilled, camping for the use of...

My to do list did not include several hours sprawled with a nice murder but I did then get on with sorting the knitting wool! And revisit the nålbinding needles & watched a YouTube that Didn’t presume wool round fingers & made the whole thing reasonable to start! (Himself, who made my needles, would be delighted, which adds buzz.)

Youngest has an open day to attend today [last week], clean forgot & has bumped diary for the June date. Pleasure is he’s not just shrugged it off (apparently).

Eying the plums I potted in pique last autumn - no signs of growth so shall repot into better soil & see if they feel like responding to spring. May bring a couple in for personal nagging! [Every one of 20 snaffled by birds. Another year, they go straight into the fridge!]

Watched a nålbinding video on YouTube that didn’t involve loops around fingers & it suddenly makes more sense. Something to try tomorrow, that would please Himself so much (who made me the bone needles). 

Middleson came home having demanded we sluice out the bath. (The sunburn is still being inconvenient, but he’s declining all help, even though it’s his back.)

Mother’s Day so far celebrated by me snoozing & lounging with a book. (One son at work, one making me a cup of tea - me trying to put the wedding album down before I pitch myself into memories.)

Reading up on processing nettles for fibre & thinking it would be fun - but also shed loads of hassle & my chief support & encouragement has moved onto other fields. Himself is at my shoulder a lot as spring starts to power up. I don’t get to Wales, to wool left tangled in barbed wire, to have a go at field drop spinning. (I’m dreadful indoors, but wondered if being around the sheep might help.)

A Mother’s Day special offer is selling walnut trees (in their infancy) for penny rates & I’m reminded the walnut is a fibre dye that needs no fixing (indeed ‘dye’ is slightly misleading, I know it best as ‘staining’!) Just the trees take years & space. I may get in touch with a gardening uncle & see if he could give a home to a little walnut.

When we next change broadband provider, I may ask for an Explorer Scout to come & help me set it up, as curled up at the wrong end of one floor, my phone picks up the washing machine (so smart we don’t know how to operate it remotely & so do the usual prod & pray in person) but not the router. It’s frustrating, it’s ridiculous & it’s hilarious…

Len Phillips swing orchestra - lovely brass (etc) getting up to very well rehearsed mischief, bless ‘em.

More family tree climbing & one lady who appears tougher than boot leather. Awed & from photo I wouldn’t want her as anything other than ally…

Re-reading email exchanges between m’father & myself. Including the novice guide to legal employment as m’father seemed to be about to try to manage staff without a civil service support structure around both parties - ye gods I was Clear..

“Journal the good moments” - fascinating as of course we analyse failure, but by no means always the successes. Yet with hindsight, it makes sense. 

Saw “more social, less media” & thought it interesting. Nice challenge to set Scouts, see if they recognise flow state & enjoy it…

Ah. Post. Someone else who I need to apologetically ask to modify their database. With an “I could have sworn I’d” but actually no, it was his hospital optical appointment I cancelled. Pleasure is in having the number to hand.

Interesting. You can’t baptise with tears. Emergency baptism is thankfully not common but the quick muttering of the words must be accompanied by water.

Well, my, but the weather is laying the good word on the faithful. And, one supposes, on the just (as the unjust hath the just’s umbrella).

Rainbows, though! 

Family tree climbing with Van Wormers. Much intrigued by Zarilda ‘armoured battle maiden’ - alas the name may have been bestowed in hopeful protection for the hereafter.

Tomorrow I’m in Yorkshire with a native steering me through the thickets of unknown tech. I’m looking forward to it! [with hindsight o wot a lovely war & Leeds rush hour traffic, but hey, lessons learned]

Middleson fell into my trap! I left an open tin of shortbread & it is now All empty & his “keep slim & muscular” plans are slightly derailed. He should not get dumpling shaped as I am but neither should he forgo life’s little pleasures in order to look taut toned & skinny, mostly as that stops us enjoying them too.

Bless him, he’s now making me a nålbinding needle, thinner than my others, from a scrap of oak. True son of his father, and I hope once one is right, he’ll make me its twin so I can have two socks on the go (easiest way to make them match)… [bless him, his work soaking in linseed oil overnight & then whee!]

Youngest is cross with me for buying a lump of gammon with no idea what to do with it (or at least very little). He’s now hauled it off to roast & is muttering that I shouldn’t be allowed out alone…

One of the godfathers is inviting us all over for Easter & youngest hasn’t sent a thankyou letter yet for his 21st present (a really well considered cookbook)! Oops & on you go. 

Mischief in hand. Those oak nalbinding needles now both have sock toes & a bone needle had me trying to figure how you set up a length along which you can the crochet or do other fibrous mischief. An old uni friend, godmother & formidable creative has invited me to show her Glasgow knitting group & with all my single-digit hours of expertise I feel an utter fraud but it’s her idea & I can always scuttle back across the border. Clutching my needles - I’ll not be leaving the chaps’ researches other than as vivid memories.

The things you learn from your children. That there is a thing called Dracularism & it is measured in “bleurgh”s. (Maybe it’s just mine.) I think the Bleurgh deserves to become an SI unit, possibly of horror movies. (The new John Wick film has high BC body count, but shrug bleurghs)

Health, strength, love & courage to all as have need, & may (amidst all this weather) the things we want to grow thrive! As well as reliable waterproofs...

Frith

Talking of sunburn, DfV, I went to see bigger son yesterday and he is already in his summer plumage. I only need 10 minutes to go brown too but I don't think the sun has been strong enough yet. 

Pleasures for today (Sunday)

1) Not a bad sleep. I haven't been too affected by the clocks going forward.

2) Did some tidying up round the house.

3) Went to M and S cafe and did an hour of Arabic. Sometimes I get on a roll and can write complete sentences but sometimes lots of words escape me. 

4) I parked outside the house I might want to buy. I looked round it twice in January, once with smaller son then again with bigger son and his girlfriend. What a decision! It is on the edge of a town but backs onto a large lake (SSSI) with countryside beyond that. It is a 1960s house, so is boring architecturally compared with my cottage but much bigger with normal height ceilings, storage, parking, a garage, a proper garden with a holly tree and an apple tree.

5) Dropped off a book for my niece on my journey home. Had a cup of tea with her and my brother in law.

6) Had 5 chicken fillets in the fridge so made a tagine with apricots, prunes and some butternut squash from the freezer and also made Spanish chicken. Had the tagine this evening with some naan bread as neither I nor the village shop had any cous cous. 

7) Am in bed with 1 hwb and a cup of tea but need to get out of bed to do some photocopying for English tomorrow. 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

My self imposed 8.30pm ban on blue light screens appears to be working and sleep is much better, it was my turn to get up with small dog and was at least light.

Bacon butties and catching up on all things Ambridge.

Out in the garden, bit of work done but the cold wind drove us back in after an hour. Quick roast chicken dinner with thighs rather than whole bird and then some lounging around, reading our books.

Afternoon walk around the fields, several hares out in the middle of the biggest field.

Watched the football, not so exciting as the Italian match but lovely to see 4000+ Ukrainian fans bouncing up & down and singing their songs.

Admiral_Barbarossa

DigForVictory said:

BoP - love wfh so 'cat can be fed on demand'

I work hard so my cat has a better life!
Frith Bronzed or Beech Ready? Others need to know!

And we is off

The clocks on the microwave are again at the correct time, yet the water in the shower was cold because you forgets to reset the boiler clock!

Had a reversion food mistake yesterday! it was absolute carp! Please avoid Had a processed over hyped food item, a marks sausage roll. Said the best ever, yet it was ...

Watched a repeat of Mr. Eastwood, Every Which Way but Loose. Cheeses and wobbleade was taken!

Rite, vpn to the Tower!

Jen sends her

ampersand

Right, 3rd time lucky? With large, hopeful snarl 🤬😤😬 up on The Gallops -
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" 2nd go at this, from up on The Gallops...
Just lost a large post, inc. pics.

1. Scoreboard tippy-taps on Friday night at Peacock HQ, for happy 23-3 home result.  Then we started prep. for next day, not exactly an osp and yet it was....

2.  As the Peacock family, we gave ourselves and our facilities over on Saturday to the Tommy Dann Memorial match, its 2nd year:

https://online.fliphtml5.com/jqhbt/mlgk/#p=1

& on scoreboard again, a victory for Old Perseans over Old Leysians, but & especially felt for T's parents, who felt able to attend this year.  That they made a point of coming in to &'s working room to chat, even more so.  We are as one on all the fundraising going to Jonny Wilkinson's Foundation for Mental Health and Well-being, both of us losing beloved lives similarly.

Away at 4am, after as much cleaning up as possible in darkness was done.  & later did the pitch circumference - 5 bin liners.....😬.

Less over-entitled behaviour and fewer asb incidents this year, more vomit, but we'd prepared ahead - as far as possible - none of which should be necessary.   

2.  A lovely friend/professional person has been diagnosed with early onset dementia. Cruel.  Gifted this lovely find to & on Saturday, '...while I can.  In 18 months, I probably won't know who you are! - according to my Doctors', said with a smile and loving hugs.

3.  A week now - and still the slim crescent moon and Venus are visible.  Remember everyone, stars twinkle, planets don't. 

4.  What a few days of many types of feelings mixed....  No question for & that Richard Coles' departure brought true sorrow and anger.  If the filth that Johnson insinuated to wreck Auntie Beeb, crony donors/former candidates/loan fixers/nil programme-making or broadcasting experience Richard Sharp and Tim Davie were removed, there would be big immediate economies.

5. At some point late on Friday, another call from &'s birds with broken wings...
OK, with a bit of a fuel sigh, so not super good-natured, diverted to a MrT en route back, some time after 1a.m.  Pouring with rain slicing sideways, so parked close-ish, right next door to.... 

So that was a surprise!😁 "
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Right &, post NOOOOOOOW!