5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Much cooler overnight and even pulled up the blanket, far better for sleeping.

Few chores in horsey town then over to the stables to see mine, she was another one who was enjoying the cooler temperature and was a bit woohoo!

Made a loaf after lunch - light rye with added pumpkin seeds - and while it was proving went out to get petrol. Totally failed on the stroll past chocolate display task and picked up a couple of the new mint flavoured Tw*rl bars for our dessert, they were yum.

Bit of tidying in garden, cut back a couple of hardy geraniums 🤞will mean another burst of flowers, all of the lavenders are in full bloom now so will cut some for drying.

I am re-reading the summer section of The Magic Apple Tree, same as every year for every season, it’s a toss up between that and the Pop Larkin Chronicles for my desert island book.

DigForVictory

Putters back in now its cooled down enough to think!

Youngest intended to use the line to dry laundry. I yipped as rain fell, Middleson assured me line empty & Youngest timed “just cooking!” Superbly… 

Have found an enchanting thesis on love tokens & am reading the leaving home tokens with a distinct pang. Sons may be issued with carefully abused coinage as they go…

Checking my receipt I found I was awarded an Over 60s 10% discount. I’ve been giggling rather a lot for several hours. 

Youngest blackly amused that rich folk on an expensive boat went to see rich folk on an expensive boat which sunk & they died - irony anyone? [Ah. Hope transferred for all seeking, researching, & otherwise in peril on the sea.]

Local Dominoes has delivered to the wrong address - a big pizza & a whopping tub of Ben & Jerrys, all arrived at the scout hut. After a flurry of phone calls, the scouts on site ate dealing with the unfortunate waste. The joke that the skilled map readers are reaping the benefits of human error is not being lost by anyone happily chomping… bless ‘em!

My two lemon seedlings are a simple example of introversion & extroversion. One is leaping up into the light reaching, stretching. The other is curled up & almost certainly has a book tucked under those leaves. They’re both healthy & happy, so I’m not going to try to change them!

Youngest’s drawing tablet has died on him, but the exact replacement is discounted on Amazon & will be in his twitching fingers tomorrow. All the existing gear (case, styli, screen protection) will fit the replacement.

Scouts played a lively variant on winking murder & the young leaders nobly died in impressive numbers & positions (and in the last round were formidable assassins). From a leadership perspective, it was bliss - and no paperwork! 

The Moon, an exhausted sliver of a crescent, dim in the sky but still there.

Heat or no heat, the thunder has brought rain and that has brought out the municipal lawnmowers. (The excitement over Britain in bloom has driven everyone out to tidy their paths & visible flowerbeds, doubtless the municipal mowers are driven by similar imperatives!)

Walking around the house, topping up seedlings & rootlings & muttering encouragement. 

A colleague wants to take me to a nail bar. This is so not my natural environment, with chemicals I can’t smell & tools that are edged powered (or both) but it may yet be a hilarious story. Besides I trust them to escort me to a “proper” bar & ply me with restoratives by the pint should it be needful. 

“Mum is now sorted for E's and whizz and we have a colossal sainsburys delivery tonight” - whilst escorting mum to plural medical appointments & then the pharmacy has clearly been demanding, I accept this sisterly status report in the spirit in which it is intended! 

I have scheduled work, I have taken leave & now Youngest says that while I am correct that there is an open day tomorrow (& not next week), it’s at a “meh” place & he doesn’t want to go look. Mindful of my considerable investment to date in his health well-being & education I will not bean him with a frying pan but I will think about it. Then chuckle & review my plans for the weekend. [Slump and survive the heat….]

In the excited rush to look ‘sort of prepared’ for the man to measure up for a replacement bathroom window, a lot of stuff got heaved out of the way (into the bathtub) & I can see the slopes & peak of Mount Soap Stash. Darn, it looks good. 

The little myrtle plant has grown taller & wider & with more leaves. My daydreams of homegrown bridal flowers are quietly leafing. (My sons have absolutely no idea & this is probably just as well.) 

The attempts at “layering” tayberry & Loganberry appear to be working - one pot had discernible rootlings! I love this “have a go & see if” gardening.

There’s a Coz at glasto & the WhatsApp included “Just a highlight.. I duxnf notice a pink wig.. Just you.. Looking Happy..”

Middleson looking all freshly-minted, young, unfurling into sunlight - then I realise ruthlessly washing, repeatedly trying to keep pollen off him. The hay fever is hard on him this year.

I was a bit dubious about “summer citrus feed” but both lemon seedlings are responding amazingly to the extra nitrogen. (Plus all the heat & light, but I’m thinking the chemistry is helping.) Watching all new growth, all the colours of green, is a major pleasure.

 

Bickering - Middleson opines I should eat breakfast & is refusing me a refill of tea. Youngest emerges to observe this sounds like a very poor carehome. I’m laughing so hard as the technology for working from home is going into its third hour of being uncooperative.

The office has its own brand of charm & its own unique hazards. Like a wall panel falling off & beaning me just after I had finished the minutes. So first aider circus, estates appalled & apologetic, paperwork & then "are you OK to drive" and I did get home & I did get to the medics! I am OK but tomorrow will be a day of ouch & grouch & this is Absolutely Normal for head injuries smiled the sweet nurse. Oh my poor lads! (quite a lot of what to watch for is Absolutely Normal for me!)

Health strength love & courage to all as have need, plus a handy shawl or similar as temperatures fluctuate.

ampersand

DFV - is the waving tailor no longer in situ on your official Present at Orifice days?

1. Lainey, so pleased you're Gamache-ing with pleasure.  Snaffled these on Saturday's fête stall - can relocate them later if you wish.


2.  Quickly finished lime and lemon marmalade first thing.  5 jars is very few for an & batch, but want to hand supplies on to friends before they head up to Dunvegan until September. 

3.  Was all-day transport for someone who had a difficult occasion to attend.  Went as well as can ever be expected in such circumstances.  Many parallels popped up in Alexander McCall Smith's 'Blue Shoes and Happiness', which will be finished out here in a fenny nowhere before returning. 

4.  Any day now!  Just took pic, with skylarks still singing and dull skies @2035h.

Most rye and wheat looks ready, too. 

5.  From NZ schoolfriend, knowing &'s major ranty tooth-gnashing over this 
Said I'd be stealing it

VJsmum

Hello all - have been away a while.  Some pleasures

1. went to Italy with sister in law and her sisters - their family home just outside Rome, Rome, Herculaneum and Sorrento / Amalfi coast
2. Back to my bed
3. Glastonbury - all of it, always
4. My bed
5. Did i mention my bed?

hope all are well.

Purple_kitten

Wow a busy time VJsmum.

1 Meal planning means a pasta bake using up bits and bobs tonight.

2 The main coat of paint went on today, sadly it will need a second coat, and I’ve found 2 more things to paint, oh whoppee not.

3 Washing is still hanging out.

4 Time sat in the garden, enjoying a tea and the animals.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Tuesday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Have vaguely attempted to tidy up today, but not getting into it. I did do a mountain of washing up, the washing is still on the line and I cleaned the kitchen sink.

3) Went into Floody City for brunch, a pot of tea and did some Arabic.

4) Worked invigilating this afternoon. I think this is week 6 and it is nearly over!

5) Made smaller son a sausage, bacon and egg sandwich for his late lunch. Then I thought I would use up bits from the cupboards and the fridge. I made a stew with aubergine and baked some carrots with maple syrup. Ate this with tinned lentils and a shared naan bread from the freezer. Also made a cake with bananas from the freezer, some old sultanas and walnuts. 

6) Spoke to my school friend. 

topsyturphy

Pleasures for today 

1. Amazing surgeon & staff at Addenbrookes for looking after ds2 following his further surgery 
2. People that I have met since moving that offer help.
3. Doggy cuddles 
4. washing line dried
5. Chatting to a 93 yr old man in hospital and the way he spoke about his late wife and how they met, made my heart melt.

mhagster

Morning! I was just too tired last night to write my pleasures.

Anyway for the first time in ages I slept right through to 5am ( and similar this morning but woke a touch earlier ) 

However woke to lashing rain and a memory of washing hung out! Oh no!

Was on puppy duty down at theirs.

Went to B and q and bought some RTC plants. Currently out the front but need to move to back garden today. It was just absolutely pouring!

Friends over for tea. Had a RTC gammon joint from freezer with veggies. Strawberries for pudding .

Then I’d made a banana bread loaf in the slow cooker so had a bit of that too. Was delicious! Friend had brought me the biggest strawberries I’ve ever seen! 

They helped me with some measuring I needed to do . 

And a bit of after dinner pottering, washing up and cleaning kitchen and table which I oddly like doing! 

LaineyT

Thanks & very kind to think of me but all those have been read 🙈

For yesterday,

Much cooler and able to get stuff done.

At the stables, equine girlie decided today wasn’t the day to do anything but her Mum had other ideas, intense negotiations for a bit! Compromise made and enough achieved to satisfy both parties, never had any of this with my gelding!

Swept and tidied up stairs plus cleaned en-suite, then out to local recycling centre to get another bag or two of free compost, spread some on my beds as mulch.

Strawberries for dessert, some homegrown, some shop brought. We have plenty of runners to increase our bed for next year.

Small dog has decided to sleep in our bedroom every night now, however she still likes to be settled onto her downstairs bed first, waits 5 minutes then sneaks upstairs. Had tried asking her up first but no, we have to go through the settle / sneak routine, funny little thing.

VJsmum

Morning all

Pleasures for yesterday

1. 8 hours sleep meant i felt a little more human - still more is needed.
2. cleaning up my van and doing all the washing that dried on the line despite a small shower
3. rewatching the end of Elton John at Glastonbury - such a privilege to have been there.
4. Proper food, on proper plates sat at a table and not in a field
5. Long Lost Family

Have a great day all.