5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Happycas

Good morning.  Anyone with any spare rain, please send it this way.  Every day for the last few days it has felt as if a storm is brewing at teatime.  Just as my head is about to explode we get three drops of rain and it all settles again.

Matty Bram - welcome.  Here is a good place to be.

Topsy T - really hope that yr son's operation is successful.  Grumpy is understandable, but how precious is a hug from a big son!

Highdays - an upcoming wedding is great motivation for power walking up mountains!  I don't have a wedding to attend until next September, and it's flat as a pancake round here anyway so I don't feel guilty not copying you.

S Sue - that sounds so difficult.  My heart goes out to you.  Please keep popping in though.  We miss you.

DfV - I love your horticultural tales.  And they sound as if you're very successful.  Looking forward to the first fruits.

Ampersand - fingers crossed all is well at the MRI.

It's still life in the slow lane here but that's ok.  No news from hospital yet but I'm telling myself that means there's nothing dreadful to report.  Will chase next week sometime.  Sufficient unto the day......

Back into cooking proper meals again, but only if they can be done in the air fryer or slow cooker.  Actually nearly everything except Victoria sandwich can!

Have finished my crochet daisy chain bunting.  It's very pretty but I don't know where to put it!  Perhaps should have thought about that before I did it!

Virtually run out of anything we want to watch on tv so don't bother!  Nice to just sit and chat on the warm light nights.

I read somewhere last Sunday was halfway to Christmas!! That went quickly!

Happy Thursday everyone

LaineyT

Yes, gentle but steady rain here too, most welcome.
Hey to SSue and TTurvey, welcome to MBram

For yesterday,

Walking through the garden gate and hearing the gentle hum of all the pollinators enjoying the hedge blossom.

With my equine pal, no work today just a good groom along with a tail wash, with her being such a light grey it’s silver when clean and perfectly glorious for a few hours at least.

Lunch then into Uni city for a much needed haircut, good chat with hairdresser who had been at Ascot the week before.

Had TMS on my phone for most of the day, some reasons to cheer but the Aussie’s day in reality.

Missing Uni Challenge and Only Connect but have found some consolation in House of Games, at least the little grey cells are getting a workout.

DigForVictory

Its stopped raining enough for us to use the washing line again. (Happily untrusting, there's a bedding wash Waiting.)

SuffolkSue - yowch a sore hip really cramps your style.
Topsyturphy - just so glad you are still getting son hugs, and that he is in the right hands (even if he's grumpy). 
Happycas - daisy chain bunting sounds beautiful & should be strung along where short/small people can enjoy too...
Ampersand - when I finally coax this lot of citrus into fruiting (I may need a few years) I'll be asking how you make marmalade! (lemon seedlings between 8" & 18" tall, limes still seeds on wet tissue...) The feral strawberries are beginning to flower & we're trying not to step on them with laundry...
PaulieHerts - just wow the Greek food! Must try to lead sons away from Dad's staple classics (delicious tho' they are)
LaineyT - my Scouts were full of cricket - very gratifying
MBram - welcome! 

OS Pleasures recently

Oh my wonderful scouts! We made chicken curry & rice over campfires & played cricket with cardboard & enthusiasm. Now tired filthy smelly & happy (& that’s just the leaders who stayed to clean up - we overran a bit). BP was right.

My jungle windowsill brings huge joy as the different shapes & colours of leaves (oak, lemon, mango, quince & a weed we think may be a sycamore!) keep growing.

One supermarket has made all its trolleys coin or token operated. At its competitor today, a cancer research stall was doing a roaring trade in trolley tokens! My car key ring has been ‘updated’.

There are two tattered layers of cloud, one thick grey but propelled briskly in the breeze, & above it horsetails of sunset pink & above that the stunning blue. (Happily wet enough to do outdoor watering.)

I have lost the ‘plug’ to my piggy bank. Contemplating how to fasten a cummerbund is amusing me, whilst the engineer is fulminating….

Heard the BSL translator for BBC Glasto was a class act herself, alongside Guns & Roses etc - as ever, late to the party, can’t find her on YouTube….

I remember Youngest turning out to need glasses (a shock to us all, parents, brothers, optometrist, all) & then the further shock when he chose the most authoritative horn rimmed frames - which became his formal self admirably, just not quite the scamp we were used to.

My boss has asked me to check in every couple of hours just so she’s reassured this (minor) head injury is just that, minor.

Family zoom and two tangerine seedlings nicknamed Bartholomew & Cinderella (to be known as Bert & Ella). There’s an enthusiasm for ‘Vince the quince’ but I love my Shakespeare too much & prefer Peter Quince…

Family tree climbing & careful respect paid to the shortest lived infants. Some records only mention children who survived to puberty & I hope I respect the work of carrying a child to term a bit more than these bloodstock records.

Health Strength Love & Courage to all as have need, and accurate weather forecasts!

Frith

Pleasures for today (Thursday)

1) Not a bad sleep, though I did seem to wake up every hour, bright and alert and sure it was time to get up...

2) A lovely day out! 5 chaps and a few others. First was an explore of a Norman church locally, including a trip up the tower and putting up the Ukrainian flag. 

3) Then a 4 mile walk along footpaths with a stream, walking along the boundary of an incredibly posh garden and a picnic lunch.

4) M and S afterwards to cool down with a pot of tea and some Arabic practise. 

5) Smaller son wanted to go to Sainsburys, so we did.

6) I am procrastinating now as I need to clean the upstairs of the house tonight leaving the downstairs and the garden until tomorrow. My pretend deadline was to complete it before Who Do You Think You Are? started...

mhagster

Hello. Having an early ish night!

Up early with dog then dozed off again. 

Went to local castle for some toast and sliced sausage. Had a nice walk with doggy there. It started raining whilst we were sat outside. But that was just a short shower.

The heavier shower was waiting till I was home and had hung out my washing ! Waah! 

Stripped bed and got that all dried and then had a deep sigh just now as I realised I had to make my bed again. But it’s all done. 

Did quite a bit in the garden. Chopped back  one of my willow trees which has been so fast and thick growing but it was hiding the cornflowers and the light bulbs and the tubs that were below it. So it’s had a good haircut. Trimmed back the overflowing lavender. Filled two jugs inside. Will let it dry out. And picked three bunches of sweet peas today. Dropped some in at work and then one in at a friends this evening. It’s self seeded from last year and has gone ever so slightly crazy! 

Four strawberries for the dog this evening, 

Nice chat to friends when I popped down with flowers. Walked there and back. 

Had an early tea of tuna pasta. 

Daughter arrived safely home. She’s glad she’s back. Me too. 

Chatter with niece on phone this afternoon. 

Catching up with sewing bee…hopefully I’ll see it all the way through…usually fall asleep! And it takes me about three attempts to watch each episode! 

Highdays

Hello.

Short and sweet for me tonight:

1) Hairdresser, last cut before the wedding so took my hat to make sure hair suits it - it does, phew!

2) Hubby is painting my summerhouse, it's looking fab.

3) Another walk with my boy, I will get this weight off by fair means or foul.

4) Moroccan Chicken for tea, yummy!

5) The roofers who put us 'on hold' in June have confirmed they will start next Tuesday. 

That's me done for today, early night with my book. Night all!

Purple_kitten

1 Took DH for a hospital apt, at a place we’ve never been to.

2 On the way back called in at the vets with a bundle of papers and surplus blankets and towels, they are crying out for at the moment, then stopped in at lidl for fresh bread.

3 Which also made lunch.

4 Did some more work bringing up the woodwork.

5 Cooked up a chop and veg parcel for dinner with a slice of apple pie also cooking in with it, using the heat.

topsyturphy

Pleasures for today

1. Doggy walk avoided the rain
2. free coffee at hospital via loyalty points
3. Nice chat with the wonderful gentleman aged 93 on the ward.
4. Ds2 was told he could go home this morning then later told he couldn’t- although very grumpy the pleasure is he is in the right place.
5. Quick food on arrival home - filled pasta & sauce - took 4 mins

thank you DFV- I got another hug tonight 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Waking to rain and a cool, fresh day.

Food shop, no coffee today as chores to do but did grab a few rtc bargains.

Lunch with my beloved, we are usually like ships that pass in the night during the day so lovely to sit down and catch up.

Back into horsey town, this time for an eye check-up, all ok although slight improvement in my short-sightedness means an adjustment in varifocals is needed. Independent opticians that have been going to for years, good chat with ladies on reception.

Tea was green bean and feta pesto gnocchi, most of which was rtc earlier.

Highdays

Hello again.

Pretty cold and damp here today, must know we are trying to get on with painting the summerhouse!

Today's pleasures:

1) Painting is continuing in spite of the off and on drizzle. Summerhouse will soon be ready, just waiting for the table/desk on order since beginning of April and then I can move in officially. I have such plans....!

2) We have season tickets for our favourite garden and once a year we can have a guided tour of the house. Did that today for the first time, really interesting and a beautiful house. Still lived in by the family and had a lovely warm feeling. Didn't linger afterwards though as it was very mizzly.

3) So we got back in time to take my boy to pick up his mended car instead of him having to take a taxi. He says it's now running noticeably better - needs to for a bill of nearly £500. Eeek! But at least it's done and I get my little car back again.

4) Another steep and fast walk today with lots of discussing of the next stages of work on the house. All at the moment hinges around the roofers coming this week so fingers crossed they turn up and we will no longer just have plastic sheets between us and the elements, with buckets and bowls on the floor - or rather, in between the floor joists as the new room has no floor yet. Once the roof is done the doors can come and there will again be a view out to the garden instead of a wooden barricade across the hole in the wall and a general feeling of gloom with no daylight.

5) A weekend at home for a change so will make the most of it as next weekend is 'the wedding', three days and nights of celebration. Feel exhausted just thinking about it but will no doubt enjoy it when it comes. Poor sister who is the mother of the bride is sounding more and more tattered and stressed as the days go by, typically the young couple are just relaxing and chilling and she is dealing with a million things at once - I remember it well and am looking forward very much to just being a guest for a change.

Hoping the weather picks up and we all have a nice, sunny weekend. Hope you have a good one.