5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

ampersand

1. Awake since half an hour ago, reading light - and glasses - still on, after a hot and hefty non-stop day, ending as 'Miss' serving up post-training munch.  The vegan veggies had the best of it, rice-stuffed butternut squash halves.

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Still very much with Spookymen's Chorale concert in Dorchester Abbey the night before.  Absolute knock-out and loved by everyone.  Over 5hrs drive from Hell to reach venue, the expected 2½ going back.  Hope aller-retour for Canon Frome Court Herefordshire performance is less arduous on Saturday.

3.  Had company of Milo at training hier soir, a most mannerly little 4-foot gent of the fox terrier persuasion, keen to hoover anything dropped.

4.  During birds with broken wings shopping en route, scooped up ridiculously rtc doughnut extras,  84p per dozen, x7!.....enough to undo all that training ahead of tomorrow's pre-season match away at Bishops Stortford.😁

5.  Negotiating yet more molehills on way to clothesline, also see several more walnuts springing up through grass, ready to pot up.  Speak up if you'd like one!   Tomatoes and everything else continue to behave in this year's bonkers way.   Tied and nipped out more tomato tops, several now over 8' high!  Others barely a foot tall and some as yet not flowering.  Picked another tub of figs, given to 1st XV manager last night, learning last week that he loves them.
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More big snow and an extended, extreme winter back in &'s province in Aotearoa.
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LaineyT

((Hugs)) PK
Hoping Frith is ok.

For yesterday,

Tackled Mount Ironmore, I know linen is best ironed when it’s still a little damp but knowing and doing are two different things,

Chores done skipped off happily to stables, helped my pal exercise his 10hh Shetland, much hilarity as large horses are seemingly much easier to control than tiny ponies but we got there in the end. My girlie was fast asleep in her stable so sat in with her and listened to a podcast while she snored the morning away.

Warm by the time I got home so changed into shorts to potter around the garden, another one whose tomatoes are still just tiny green dots.

Took small dog into horsey town for her monthly injection and pick up of pills, poignant moment when another chocolate spaniel, but this one was just a puppy, bounced into the waiting room and I remembered when my girl had all that energy.

Walk around the garden at dusk and saw the hummingbird moth on the buddleia, hadn’t seen it for a couple of weeks.

mhagster

Good morning! I went up to bed last night and had left my iPad downstairs and couldn’t be jiggered going back down for it! So for Tuesday.

Well was momentarily up early to feed dog then holy moly woke up at 10.30am…that’s like 5 hours of my normal day gone! I just dozed and dozed! On Monday night someone knocked my door very loudly at 10.20pm, I’d just dropped off to sleep. There was no one there. We had a search round the garden ( the dog and I ) admired the stars and the twinkling solar lights, rechecked that we were all locked up which of course we were and went back upstairs but I struggled to get back to sleep again. Hence the lie in! 

Anyway had to pop out and post something. Then nipped into T supermarket and spent more money! But some of it was loo roll and dog food and Diet Coke which is getting too expensive…I need to cut down! And fruit and veg. I don’t like Lidl F &V so fruit bowl is all topped up. 

Home and hello doggy, who lay on my knee, saying you’re not getting up anytime soon, which suited us both. 

Friends for tea and I’d made a steak pie ( shocked at price of beef so a small pack and chopped sausages up too) slow cooked all afternoon, veggies. Had meringue nests with fruit and a lemon posset. First time I’d made it but had at a friends a couple of months ago. Was very yum. An evening of laughter and chatter as always. 

Candles on, glow from faux flames from new fire, in newly built fireplace. Getting less light at 8.30pm. 

Doggy delighted to get gravy on his dinner last night…and a still sleepy dog mum forgot to put some on his breakfast so he’ll get that again for tea. 

A better night sleep ( still having the weirdest dreams) 

Currently raining but forecast suggests dry so have just put a washing on. Catching up with a friend this morning. And would really like to get grass cut if it dries up enough. 

Have a lovely day. PK keeping you in my thoughts x

Admiral_Barbarossa

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oh Jen is sending her two the needy!

Down at the Docks

Wells I has bin busy as usual, getting the peenies inn. Soon be on tour, hence this night I shall bee inn the jim getting beech reddy!

Maid a mess of getting all my good foods out yesterday so I has two get to the wobbleade emporium instead. I hads the sea bass with dolphin nose spuds. Very good as it was grilled, not like some poor plaices that nuke food inn the microwave! I had too jars of wobbleade as well! BoPsie was fed as well inn her glad rags!

Now as yous knows I WfH so our Kitty gets fooded on demand, she is starting to be a bet like the Queen of Sheba. She is venturing out inn two the caught yard and bee inn all so ... We pay her ...

Oh well that is a quack catch up!

Jen sends her

Highdays

Hello.

The lovely weather is still holding, making the most of it - love these late summer  'bonus' days when there is a definite back-endish, slowing down sort of feeling in the air.

I've been thinking about Frith too, wondered if she is on holiday, hoping all is ok.

Recent pleasures:

1) The settling back into 'normal life' after our jaunt, bit of washing, bit of this, bit of that, nothing too taxing, just easing back into reality.

2) Much needed walk with my bairn to get back into the healthy eating and exercise routine, feel better for it afterwards but it was very warm to be climbing up them there hills and he makes no allowance for my advanced age, just takes over the conversation on the very steep bits so I can just grunt along til I get my breath back!

3) Hairdresser, and a much needed chop, going for a bit of a change of style, not looking too bad so far.

4) An afternoon of reading in my summerhouse, just over half way through my big, thick library book which needs to be back to the library on Saturday as there is a waiting list for it. Made good headway so will be doing the same again today, prefer to pick my book up as and when the mood takes me but really enjoying this one and want to get it finished.  

5) Caught up on Monday quiz progs, UC definitely has a more literary slant these days which suits me better as I can answer a question or two, still pretty rubbish at Only Connect though!

Right, off to crack on. Been having a laugh at eldest grandson who is just about to set off on his first camping trip with some pals at a pop festival which doesnt actually start til Friday (?!), he's been popping in and out all morning for sun cream, plasters, bite cream and the like. I feel a bit like the village shop but have managed to supply all last-minute requirements and some emergency ££ transferred into his account has put my mind at rest a bit. Hope he lasts till the festival starts!

Have a good day, hope you have the lovely, mellow sunshine where you are.

DigForVictory

Highdays - so glad the historic houses escape was what you hoped & even a few pressies stashed. Bairn has your wellbeing in another 12 months at heart not in another 12 minutes!

mhagster - your new rug is not having a gentle introduction... Love how pup and Haggis play chase. "doggy, who lay on my knee, saying you’re not getting up anytime soon" - he's right!

LaineyT - "Family, lots of laughter, sunshine and playing games in the garden, perfick" yep! Awed at leftovers - yum! You iron linen?! Awed (I just line dry & fold.) Ah, Shetlands...

DundeeDoll - "a potential colleague - he researches obesity" you're braver than I!

PaulieHerts - if you must be isolated with covid absolutely celebrate your wedding anniversary as thoroughly as oomph allows!

happycas - delighted Chinese banquet worked & that caravan can still bring calm, icecream, sea!

Purple kitten - to make a nurse laugh is a blessing & hopefully clarity will arrive soon. 

ampersand - the emporium must be delighted to see you, secure thinking all those goodies going to the deeply appreciative! Yes please to a walnut!

BoP - grilled sea bass, mmmn, you make me peckish just thinking about it.

OS pleasures recently

I do love text messages. I can shamelessly ask Middleson things which he can’t sputter at me for. Although why there are bottles of beer sealed in the recycling remains baffling (”old”, seemingly but he hasn’t uncapped drained & recycled them, just dumped.) [All tidier, now]

Dear me. The “I survived the S Korean Jamboree” badges are for sale. Very good mick-take, but no funds to Scouts to help pay the difference between site & safety, so I’ll not be buying.

I really need to edit the quick links on one PC as it drew me easily back onto a site Himself pretty much lived on. Aye well. Good to see old friends still happy & active.

Ye gods the Lioness goalkeeper is doing a lot of good work. Alas the Spanish just a bit better.

Well, gosh. Today I looked and of the three, two Chaunsa (honey) mango seeds have sprouted! They’re now near the window in the full blast of what sunlight we have presently & I hope will decide to take up photosynthesis. I’m torn between stunned amazement & hope. This is Lancashire. They grow from fruit grown in Pakistan. 

Am using the cardboard trays that hold tinned tomato to hold earth in which I hope to persuade white lavender to germinate. It’s fussy & likes heat… (I’d not realised lavender is essentially a desert plant - demanding light, casual about water!)

Coz wants Hunza apricots. Here’s hoping both the Etsy vendor is legit & that my have-a-go gardening style can get a few seedlings to emerge. His thick-with-memories voice suggests they are delicious, but as of 4 years ago even the Americans weren’t reliably getting fruit. All I can do is try!

Yikes, sudden panic, ring I take off gardening - not in its usual place nor by plants nor by sinks - amidst tears and hassle, Youngest opens washing machine & there it is. Clean. Found. Truly my chaps watch over me.

A shower can be underestimated. Sure, a bath is glorious, but a shower can deliver that sense of purification too.

Mildly pondering the cost benefit analysis of becoming an adequate drone pilot. Could be fun with scouts, might add some new angles for family parties (& weddings) & would help me worry less about the roof if I could go up & have a look without needing several thousand pounds worth of scaffolding! Also I have been seizure free long enough to apply for a pilots license but they’re Very expensive, whereas the drone test is free (& registration £10.33 a year.)

Ah the heady joy of watching a till print out several yards of useful information, while it’s owner blinks, unaware it knew that much! It’s one of the easiest witness statements to obtain, but a complete beast to explain.

Got my first aid course through! 3 full days & as you go examination, not 5 full days & an external on the Friday afternoon of my youth. Bet they don’t require 3 full minutes CPR either. Still, always good for unexpected quotes (seem to recall “after lunch we’ll have head injuries”…) and of course winning ways with triangular bandages… (Decades ago we boggled & learned as one trainer patiently, deftly, wholly immobilised an unwary volunteer. So memorable! We did all pile in to undo the knots Before we skittered off for the brew break)

Ooooh the relief when you loosen your belt. Youngest made enchiladas, glorious flavour filled (& then me filled!) & oops that belt. Then aaaah. 

Colleague said I gave her courage. I thought I’d pointed out the blinking obvious - if you are enthusiastic about something, others tend to pick it up. So she’s doing the trainer course & I can hardly wait for her enthusiasm to bubble through our new colleagues. (Several months time, we don’t onboard as much as waterboard…)

Oh Bob Ross! “Happy little trees” & after a stint in the air force moved to anything where he never had to raise his voice again. We liked the ASMR aspect too.

Health, Strength Love & Courage to all as have need! 

mhagster

Quick hello, as not much battery charge left! 

Dark o’clock already…this will be my cry for the next 6 months! 

Anyway lovely catch up with friend this morning. We could chat all day but only managed 3.5 hours together. Laughter and tears! 

Home and was ever so glad I’d chanced hanging out my washing as it was nice after early morning rain. 

Cut the grass. Just out the back…thunk it’s started growing as soon as it was cut last week! It’s quite ridiculous! 

Made spag bol for tea.

Picked up pup at doggy day care. Walked back to mine. 

DD2 and pup staying overnight…my lounge is full of stuff! Just tonight though! 

Twinkling solar lights make me happy. 

Purple_kitten

Thank you for the support on here

1 remembered to send a new baby card to someone, glad Moonpig exists as when I looked in the shops today and they were naff.

2 Walked up to the hospital today for bloods.

3 Spent the afternoon the next town over, possibly the last time we choose to, as the ULEZ will impact it. We couldn’t get what we wanted, but we stopped at a new to us café which was nice. Picked up some litter pads what were on offer, the first time we have ever seen that. Wandered around the sad looking Wilko but didn’t buy as prices had gone very high to be reduced.

4 I got a couple of hours sleep last night, which is an improvement on literally none.

5 Cleaned the ferret bedding.

6 We popped to Lidl to use a voucher, and ended up buying more, picked up some 60 percent off things to pop in the freezer pizzas, curries and pies.

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Coffee with a friend first thing, good to catch up.

With my pony, some work on the lunge and then some lateral work in-hand, with her mahoosive shoulders she can get a bit tight upfront so exercises to keep them loose & supple.

Muggy and warm day so just a big salad for lunch.

Out in the garden, weeded the veg planters and stripped as many leaves off the tomato plants as possible to get the sun on them. Not out there very long as too hot!

Evening walk with small dog, veggie burgers with yet more salad for tea followed with a chunky k*t-k*t out of the fridge because we all need a balanced diet right.

Happycas

Good morning.  Bit grey but we've had three great days in a row so can't be greedy.

Poorly Paulie H - I hope you soon feel better.  You're the first person I 'know' who's caught it this time round. A distinction I'm sure you'd rather not have!

Purple Kitten -  the uncertainty is so difficult.  But then you don't really want the certainty either.  Try proving Bob Ross wrong.  Might be therapeutic! X

DfV - I love your horticultural tales. You manage to grow the maddest things!

Highdays - your mini break sounds great. It's what I'm aiming for now we've sold the caravan.  After DH treatment is over, fingers crossed

Back home after another round of sorting out the caravan

Our 'caravan'  friends popped round whilst we were there and we had ice cream and a natter.  Although we didn't see them often, I will miss them.  But they don't live a million miles away, and now we've got our railcard....

DD had done a beautiful hand-tied bouquet for our anniversary and it still looks great. We did the floristry taster course together, but she's much better than I am.  She could be 'a lydy in a flower shop'!

Oh, look.  The sky is brightening.  Might be four good days in a row!

Happy nearly 🌞 day everyone