5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

mhagster

Hello! Currently absolutely lashing with rain and very windy! And I’ve a doggy to walk! Eek! 

A doggy who’s 9 today! So he’s had his birthday breakfast! 

Well yesterday was a big bit mad and thank goodness it’s done! 

Not a good night sleep as DD2 was up vomiting several times ( post op) and I despite obviously being concerned for her I am so used ( as is the dog) to a quiet house now! Not used to footsteps in the hallway! 

Quick doggy walk. 

Then into work early for an hour. Home. Picked some flowers and herbs. Then off out for an 11 hour shift! We were catering for a wedding so it was a lot of work. There was a lot of weather. I did about 22000 steps back and forth! Everyone was delighted thankfully and it’s done. Long time in the planning and then it’s all over. And the wedding people all looked absolutely amazing! 

Finally home and hello doggy! 
Bed! 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Up early, bit of breakfast then off out to the stables.

Poor pony is being bitten to bits despite fly spray being liberally applied, bless her she was so itchy so long groom followed by a soothing tea tree wash down then all bites covered in Sudocrem, finally left her happily munching on hay net.
Dropped into feed store on way home and picked up a bag of garlic granules to go in her field, used to give them to my gelding and it helped deter the flies so will give it a go!

Afternoon spent in kitchen, baked loaves, one for now and one for the freezer plus two Yorkshire quarters which are sort of a cross between fruit scone and rock cake, Capt S came in from cutting hedge and enjoyed a piece still warm with butter.

Listening to and watching the cricket, good day for us but sadness of Mr S Broad retiring, everyone expecting Jimmy to go then he blindsided us with that announcement!

Evening walk, the harvest has started so fields next to the cottage busy with combine and tractors, very appropriate with Lammas looming next week.

ampersand

Happy birthday, Haggis - definitely no new socks present for you today. 
Frith - so good to read.

1.  Yesterday is done.  For sake of older friend, really glad to have been her taxi. 

2.  Agreed, re: cricket and Broad, Lainey.   Listened throughout and fingers are x'd for albion victory.  Meantime, ABs 38 - Australia 7, most excellent indeed, especially a lovely try from & fave, Caleb Clarke, who also happens to be a classical pianist.

3.  Late bedtime supper probably not healthy per se - included an rtc emporium scotch egg - but felt just right and & was quickly asleep.

4.  Being photographer several times for family groups at river and wedding yesterday.  Camera holder so often misses out.

5.  Stephen Mangan, brilliant with Aggers yesterday in View from the Boundary during lunch at the Test:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0g3p4fh
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Happy Sundays all.:-)

PaulieHerts

Morning all

Recent pleasures:
Making the most of any sunny bits:  walks in 2 local places, 1 park , 1 garden. The photos look the same place but they’re not.
couple of dips in the hot tub.
Yesterday, OH and I went to the Dacorum Steam Fair, as son was showing his 2 vintage tractors.  We had a lovely time. There were lots of tractors, steam engines, classic cars, motorbikes, military vehicles as well as stalls and horses.  We really enjoyed it and only had 2 very short showers.  Son was obviously enjoying showing his tractors 🚜 and driving in the parade and he bought me a Pimms!  He’s there again today on his 36th birthday! How did that happen?!
Have a great Sunday 😊

mhagster

And shift number 10 more to go is done! Hurrah! (9 left now…I am counting) 

Up early. It’s been a day of much weather. Rain torrential then oh hello sunshine! Repeat. Often.Very windy at 5am! 

Anyway into work and the pleasure is it’s done. 

Tips. Meh! Colleague said I’m going into supermarket do you need anything…me, have we got enough in tips I can have a pound and can you get me washing up liquid! All week I’ve been saying I must get WUL and keep forgetting. So I have a bottle and there was a bit extra tips left over but not much! Anyway in the jam jar they went ( whilst they still can!) 

Nipped home mid morning to see birthday boyo! Cooked sweet potato whilst I was home and he had that with some chicken. That seems to be keeping his tummy settled. The chap came up early afternoon to check in on him and gave him another little and often portion! 

Hot shower then cold shower and just going to make something to eat. 

VJsmum

hello all - another week, another absence.  This time Germany.

Just want to wish Frith a happy new home!  

Pleasures recently

1. At times it stopped raining.
2. Nice food and beer and wine was had (beer at 11.00 in the morning on a wet Monday saved me from just finding the airport and coming home, i fear..).  
3. Beautiful German towns - mainly Bad Doberan and Lubeck.  Lubeck was particularly lovely and very interesting.
4. Lovely people and were very accommodating to my German at the times i made them have some!
5. COming back to a takeaway curry and my own bed.

DigForVictory

Frith - hurrah, you are in! and your garden has been started - double hurrah! A stone boundary - that should make plying a strimmer safer? And now herbs, loving hearing how the garden is coming along. (No septic tank to worry about?!) No Phone?!

Happycas - successful crochet & recovering DH - excellent!

LaineyT - well done you checking your tyres & resetting the warning light! (Have just googled my oil light & ah, need to take steps.) You have bats you can watch? Awed. Garlic in feed to discourage fly bites? All hopes!

MandM90 - belated expenses & ooh, Barbie!

DundeeDoll - you know you're doing something more than average right when you get a wedding invite! Look forward to hearing about Lessons in Chemistry.

mhagster - hurrah & well earned Jaffa cake & someone else arranged tea - very civilised! Oh my, wedding & much weather & much walking - congratulations on all the planning paying off! Dead right to count down...

LemonadeBudget - lovely handle! right with you on tea.

Highdays - aw, little fella has excellent taste & if he's serious about castles I commend CADW membership & a holiday in South Wales, where testing the echo of the curtain wall is recognised as normal young male visitor activity.

ampersand - imagines pyjamas, happily! I think the fruit is heavy as we had a good spell with flowers & bees - mum & sister's trees both heavily laden & I must go see my little only-been-in-the-ground-a-year hopefuls aren't overloading their strength. To wield a camera is a special kindness. 

BoP - I do love a water-induced building closure. Youngest calling me astray from keyboard "Snorkers!"

PaulieHerts - your photographs generously remind so many happy memories. 

VJsmum - your own bed is one of the most special pleasures!

OS Pleasures recently

Supermarket clearing terracotta flowerpots so lugged 20 home at penny rates.

Reviewed all stamps for swap out capability. On Monday there will be a thick envelope.

Aw Middleson back from a kayaking & camping break (yes, in all that rain) happily chomping down bolognese on toast.

Last week I bought a box of mangoes - it had 3. (Really should have looked!) Still, I now have a bowl of honey mango chunks & three Chaunsa variant mango seeds in ziploc bags contemplating whether it’s warm & damp & encouraging enough to germinate.

Went to help out with the local weaving museum book sale - came back with 17 more books…. Dorothy L Sayers & Margery Allingham in paperback, I can now read should some digital disaster strike. 

Missed my footing & slid down a rabbit hole of what will I do and carefully arranged to have a godfather at my side when a father of the groom is looked for. Bless the man, he swiftly agreed & we shared a brief moment of it’s not we planned but it’s right, & then on we go…

Lady mother nearly paying upholstery expert for an Ikea chair tidyup - sister & I leapt, slipcover sourced online, strong red approved, & ordered… Even early dementia can be challenging but upholsterer very sweet. Youngest has exciting new-future-skill-learning to apply slipcover. (I am a demanding woman, for others!)

 Oh, Youngest! Forecast adequate for line drying so bed stripped & he’s promising “ I'll hang those bedsheets like Mussolini” - did El Duce ever do laundry? (Historian here & while ‘not my period’, I feel I should know?!)

Lovely colleague wishing me luck with honey mangoes muses fondly over Sindhri mangoes - bigger if not quite as sweet & just one leaving you stuffed with well-being. Should I encounter this wonder, I will try to persuade it to join the brethren on my windowsill!

There is a frog on the footpath. It cannot be well as it a hot footpath without shade or water or benevolent leaves. Youngest hesitated to mention it, but is a champion of the underfrog.

Baby mango rootling had a curved over shoot & today is sighted standing 2” tall with 6 leaves! Just high as a kite on the excitement - this is Lancashire, unheated & yet!

Colleague clearly in a meeting & ‘on mute’ - headset clamped & crisps being scrunched.

Hurrah the surgeon who has an arthroscopy slot open up & my colleague can at last be given some relief from the pain. Hurrah the team who are shuffling cases around with great good humour & hurrah my boss who is listening to me worrying about hot water & assuring me I’ll be fine. (Please gods let her be right.)

Fellow office worker, back down from a weekend in Scotland, brought real Lorne sausage for one of her team who wasn’t in, so she offered it round & I understood the offer & pounced. Supper will be glorious! [Was!]

The family Has Form for Things in the Bathtub. Today an Inflatable kayak out drying draped over an ironing board. As you do… 

There is a definite satisfaction in disassembling & scrubbing clean a Dualit toaster. It is designed to take abuse & to clean back up & it’s looking a load better. How Himself would chuckle approvingly & hand me better tools, solvents, a clearer idea of what screw came from where, research where to buy new feet sometime.. but it works!

I have an Osbourne Myrtle now growing in the back yard. If the mother of the groom is expected to be responsible for the bride’s bouquet, it can now include myrtle. (Presuming it survives the winter & either son takes up matrimony!)

Colleague did a brilliant presentation on M365 (I learned things, the newbies may have been a bit drowned) & at the “any questions?” bit, I came off mute to grin “my prayers may be a bit odd, but A is the answer to most of them” and I heard him blush! S’all truth though.

Seemingly white lavender is all about serenity & luxury. I’ll buy some seeds & have a go then! Oddly the herb garden reads all about love, strength, happiness, courage etc - seems in ensuring Spag bol was a treat we planted some heavy duty blessings!

Son has tidied old wardrobe rail off to scrap metal bin at work & it seems will thus contribute to the Christmas party fund. Savings take many forms!

I adore my mother. She finds the whole automated checkout thing fascinating to watch (& chuckles). Shortly I will collect a set of Allen keys & re-cover an IKEA armchair. All before elevenses.

And then back as I got the Wrong Keys - Screwfix staff very sweet. IKEA chair recovered & carefully repadded to be comfortable for mum. Aunt an unexpected guest & supportive observer.

Next time I have the mad urge to sell something on eBay, remind me of the hitchhikers phrase to stick one’s head in a pig? As ye gods, effort & now a follow-up survey but hey, some few coins I did not have before, which I am trying to turn unto plants.

Scouts marketing email “be rain ready”. Happily I can support the movement without opening my wallet & eye my roof affectionately.

Got home to find one of the three honey mangoes has a tiny rootling! Pakistan this is Not, little one, but please keep trying... Awed, delighted, stunned!

Health Strength Love & Courage to all as have need, patience & further multi weather garments likewise & should I make the effort to go see Barbie?!

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Went out for various house bits - B and Q, M and S, TKMaxx.

3) Removed one of the dozen BT phone extensions, stripped wallpaper off in the lounge.  

4) Bigger son popped round.

5) Pasta for tea. 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Had intended to have a small lie-in but small dog’s bladder decided otherwise so early cup of tea and reading my book.

Breakfast then out to the stables, worked girlie in lunge pen then generally cosseted and spent time with her, there is an old saying along the lines of once you have a mare’s heart you have all of her and how true that is of my girl, complete bond….but boy are there some intense negotiations at times!

Home, Capt S had kindly recorded Stuart Broad coming down the Oval steps for his final bat for England, very emotional and only right that he hit the final ball for six, if we can now just bowl them out!

Helped beloved tidy up next batch of hedge trimmings then lunch, then a little snoozette on the sofa.

Yet more rain came over in the evening but clouds parted long enough for a glimpse of a nearly full moon, we have two in August.

MandM90

dig - see Barbie, it is not what you'd expect!! I am not a classic Barbie girl, that's for sure, but it was very clever.

Unfortunately over the weekend my MIL had a stroke and surgery. So the pleasures are there but we are early 30s and this our first brush with parental mortality so it was an odd weekend.

My pleasures:

1) more renovation progress. On Saturday I ordered all the sanitary ware. Only need mirrors, a bath panel, a shower screen and tray now. That sounds like a lot but I have ordered for four bathrooms - two of which have both a bath and a shower...so that really is the bulk done. Now I just need to get the electrical quote and send the quantity surveyor the radiator requirements and we can go to tender. My husband is fiddling with the budget right now
2) lots of lovely home cooked food, most notably was lemon "Chicken" made with homemade seitan. A very cheap recipe that the kids loved! Also made some oat and raisin cookies (no golden syrup for twins hobnobs in the house)
3) a walk up our track and a wander in the woods, hunting out blackberries. A few already ripe. DS found many a good stick. Also the mushrooms are coming. Saw a handsome russula and many more.
4) the two little ones generally making us laugh with their joint effort naughtiness!
5) sitting up in bed last night reading the FT magazines and listening to radio 3 in the bedroom. A serene way to end the day