5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

VJsmum

Best wishes to MiL MandM
DforV - epic post as always.  I love mango

pleasures for yesterday

1. a soak in the bath with Who DO you think you are?  always interesting
2. More s0dding rhubarb picked.  What to do with it all?  This lot became an apple and rhubarb crumble.  Enjoyed the making of though and the left over juices from stewing the fruit became jam / coulis.  Only half a jar but tasty.
3. Watched some episodes of WOrld on Fire
4. Washing managed a few hours on the line before the rain came.  Fingers crossed today's can do the same.  When will the rain ease a bit?  Am heartily sick of it.
5. Gammon for tea - not my favourite but was quite tasty.  We are running out of roast options as we don't like pork, I can't eat lamb since seeing all the baby lambs in the fields in Wales, I got food poisoning from chicken and DS got it from beef which has put us off those.  Veggie roasts it is then..

Have a great day all - I am back to earth with a bump as i have a pile of marking (procrastinating?  me?  🤣)  

mhagster

Shift number nine done. Eight to go! 

Up early. It has absolutely lashed with rain all day. Don’t think it’s stopped. Or not for long if it has. 

Home mid morning to see doggy. 

Good tips. 

Just nipped up to a friends to drop something off. 

And home! Hello doggy! 

Bought some lovely asters so need to go and pop them in a vase. 

Have a lovely evening 😊

DigForVictory

VJsmum - can I suggest rhubarb cordial?  Added to something potent & sparkling for an alternative to kir & or to soda for a long cool exotic but driver-friendly drink? It does also make disconcerting ice cubes, if they last long enough for Hallowe'en....

The thought of my sisters & mum enjoying a pint of fresh cherries. They were bought as a treat for me but I refused to share, stashed them in the fridge to cool & then clean forgot. So the pleasure is mum & sisters will enjoy them, all the more for my chagrin!

Cousin introduced me to “ubi caritas et amor”, and I’m translocated by it's beauty. Sis wants it sung at her funeral & while it’s a lot more suited to a church than a lot of the rest of her “in the event” playlist, I wholly see why.

Spotted a warning message & persuaded colleague to get lunch while the computer lugs files around. He’s supposed to have already migrated to his new laptop & has been very cautious - another colleague came a cropper at Just this stage. (Says she, cheerfully untrusting of cloud storage anyway.)

Chatting with new colleague, reminding him to “take time to play” as the sheer amount of new starter training is not onboarding but waterboarding. Reassured him the “face to face” training (over teams) is much more humane!

I think I have the start of a cold. Happily I gave a lot of clean handkerchieves & can get an early night. Therels fresh ginger if sleep doesn't help.

Health strength love & courage to all as have need, & all how to halt a runny nose suggestions warmly welcomed

DundeeDoll

epic post as always dfv lessons in chemisty was fab, we all enjoyed it.
following your countdown mhags so escited for you frith
1) book club was lovely, very relaxed and a good number turned out
2) found some christmas bathbombs i'd forgotten about - lovely long soak to start my saturday
3) then bbq with dr m, mr g and his wife - mr g was the designated driver as bbq friend 7 miles out of dundee, then 
4) sunday morning joined the barbie queue - really enjoyed it, as said already very clever, lots of laugh out loud. The sunday morning club is £11 for the film, a hot drink and a bacon or veggie equivalent roll
5) then gbf picked me up and we had lunch at the botanics.
And for today
1) tipped with rain so grateful mum still has her car
2) had a visit from a yale intercalated phd student looking at the history of medical education 
3) the students from palestine gave us some very nice date biscuits
4) listened to the end of the cricket before going home which meant home was a bit late but worth it
5) then caught up with the highlights. the hundred starts tomorrow. 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Monday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Had breakfast at the little cafe then popped to Aldi for supplies for the workers.

3) Picked up our football season tickets. 

4) My sister and brother in law came round and now 95% of the wallpaper has been scraped off the lounge walls. We also took down a strange cupboard over the door in my room. Lovely 1960s paper behind it. Pulled up the carpet on the landing (all threadbare and ripped) and the underlay had broken down into crumbs and was horrible! 

5) My sister took stuff to the skips. 

6) Lots of wildlife today. A buzzard circled the garden and I just heard a muntjac. More small toads spotted when I was weeding. 

6) Smaller son wanted to go to IKEA, so we did. Had tea there. 

7) Came home and changed 2 lampshades and smaller son has a new duvet cover on his bed.

8) Weeded and put garden waste in bags until it got dark.

Also! 9) My car was broken into last night. (I never lock it, so no damage). Whoever it was sat in the passenger seat, emptied all the cubby holes of sundry rubbish then pulled out all my CDs. When I got in this morning, the CDs were stacked neatly in the passenger footwell! They had also emptied out a carrier bag on the back seat - full of old net curtains for the charity shop - and put them down again, still folded. 

ampersand

1. Npd + nsd.

2. More h-g garlic lifted and tiny leeks planted in their place.  Various bits of jardin, within constant hearing of 3.....

3.....being all-day cricket listening and Wow!  So many multi-sparkling moments, both on the pitch and after, e.g. Broad insisting Ali and he walk off together.  If it all gets youngsters active and off screens, tant mieux.

4.  Great Sunday services bookending Town of Horse carboot wander.  Star buys, 20 fabulous vintage soaps £3 and delightful acquaintance struck, then aubergine plants from already acquaintances, 50p each.  All taken and sharing begun en route to Evensong. Excellent.  Then everything drenched - &, towel on line, garden, rain butts.

5. ISIHACs+repeats from Ipswich on R4 and R4X splendidly hilarious and outrageously borderline in several areas.  & will lay odds there'll be complaints, but never from &.  
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnwb

Happycas

Good morning.  Bit grey though.

Frith - so busy. I'm so glad you're happily settling in.

Lainey - I've always lived in Yorkshire and never heard of a Yorkshire quarter.  But when my mum didn't have time to roll and cut out, she would make a big scone ( pronounced like 'gone') like that.  

Had a lovely weekend seeing all my favourite people.  We took some euros round for DGC who go to Greece on Wednesday.  Fortunately to an area not affected by the dreadful wildfires.

Spent a lot of time with DD trying to rebook the holiday we cancelled when DH got his diagnosis.  He has the permission, nay encouragement, from the consultant to go so we started on phone and internet on Saturday.  Finally managed at 9 pm last night. It was tricky because we were trying to get on the same cruise we booked previously to be with DD and fiance as originally planned.  So something great to look forward to. 

Meeting my friend for coffee later.  Life is gradually getting back to normal.

Happy Yorkshire Day everyone

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Bit of a rough night with an upset tum and a quick trip into horsey town for provisions completely wiped me out so decided on a little self care and just have a quiet day at home.

Did pick up the latest Galbraith/Strike book, quite a treat as rarely buy new books.

Long chat with my bf.

Slept a fair amount and woke up just as the cricket restarted at 4pm, bit of a fairytale ending for S Broad and classy behaviour to share the limelight with M Ali who came out of retirement to answer the skippers call, hopefully this will reignite interest in test matches despite the ECB’s best attempts to push them aside for more fashionable and fast paced formats of the game.

Watched and enjoyed Uni Challenge, faster paced nowadays and a tight contest.

VJsmum

Happy Yorkshire Day to those who celebrate (why does Yorkshire get a day, I wonder?  🤔 - is there a Kent day for us proud Maids of Kent and Kentish Maids?).  I for one won't be drinking the tea - it's far too tea-y for me 🤣

Pleasures for yesterday

1. I started the marking - long time readers of my drivel will know that, while the marking itself is never a pleasure, just managing to start it is a huuuuge step forwards.
2. Begg for lunch with fried tomatoes - using stuff up really
3. followed by leftover crumble - yum.  And yet a further portion for today.  (DforV - i will give rhubarb cordial a go - thanks for the suggestion).
4. Chimney got swept and all is well.  Also cleaned the fire itself properly - I can never get it that clean.
5. watched Sunshine On Leith - a real feel good film.

Have a great day all.

Suffolksue

For the last few days ,
Cant remember if I said on here ,but The Winters Tale in t Sutton Hoo woods was fantastic ,if anyone is in the area ,I can recommend it

Nice visit from son and family on Sunday.I took a mortgage out on a leg of lamb and did a roast ,good to find I can still do a roast for 6 ,but shattered 
played Game of Life ,Rummikub and something new to me called Exploding Kittens which I still don’t fully understand 
spent yesterday recovering,then in awful pain from hip all night .Finally succumbed to a strong painkiller at 4 am ,so now feeling slow .

Trying to walk more today to see if that helps 

so pleased you’re settling in well Frith ,you sound really happy ,you deserve

kept up to date with the cricket yesterday ,edge of seat job ,sad Broad has called it a day