5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

Stand by your beds, the peril of Perranporth is back in the parish!

For yesterday,

An early start with small dog, stayed up with a cuppa and my book.

Bacon butties and catching up on all things Ambridge, had picked up from various bits on R4 that it had been a momentous week but oh my!

A very warm, sunny day, bit of pottering in the garden, checking on seedlings and keeping the weeds at bay.

Watched the footie and then went for a gentle meander down the field, sticking to the shade of the hedge for small dog.

Sitting in the garden with cheese and wine until the bats came out, first time we’ve done that this year and it always feels like the start of summer.

PaulieHerts

Morning all 😊
Welcome back Admiral 😊

I agree the Archers has been momentous!

I’ve had a nice week: walk by the canal and lunch on the terrace at the white water rafting centre, visit to garden centre (more plants and another strawberry 🍓 plant), local theatre to see Sister Act, which starred an ex colleague, ice cream on the terrace there, pub lunch beforehand, 2 sessions of a couple of hours in the garden on a a recliner (in the shade) listening to my audio book.
In between these pleasures I had an emergency dental appointment (unsalvageable broken crown  so another gap ☹️) and a blood test.  I also missed the aurora which was a shame.

Another busy social week but starting with food shopping today and really should do some housework (if it’s not too hot 🤣).

Happy Monday all, have a good week.

Highdays

Hello.

Oh, Paulie, your week sounded blissful right up to the dentist!!!

Some weekend pleasures:

1) Glorious weather - and the start of anther lovely day today, think we start getting cooler tomorrow so doors and windows thrown open and will make the most of it. There is cleaning and sorting waiting for a cool, cloudy day.

2) A trip on Saturday to our nearet RHS garden whcih was looking delightful. Very MSE and diet conscious as my summer clothes appear to have shrunk again, we took a picnic and with difficulty resisted the delights of Betty's Fat Rascals. 

3) Electrician has done most of the wiring for the new kitchen, son has done nearly all the plasterbording, plasterers start next week - 3 of them for 3 days. eeek!!

4) Been having fun times in my summerhouse, reading, painting, writing, napping. Bliss.

5) The joy of full freezers in lovely weather means meals have been very delicious but very quick and easy, just add salads and go. 

Happy Monday, hope you still have the sunshine in your neck of the woods.

Admiral_Barbarossa

LaineyT said:

Stand by your beds, the peril of Perranporth is back in the parish!

A more gracious welcome would never be afforded!!!! I nows I is bin absent! Doing things!

So what has the Admiral bin uptwo?

Playing Scrabble!
Seen Colin Hay again in the City Winery in New York. At Easter again as well!
Saw the Mariners survive again, and noted that the Hatters had a sojourn in the ...
Had the usual snorkers and poached eggs.
Watched some films.
Pored some wobbleades.
Corrected the nonsense on the web.

And has a chuckle or to at ...

Jenny is on her 3 month check this weak as well!

mhagster

I’ll just list just now as not anticipating anything else much to happen! 

Up early.

At tip for 8am nice chap helped lift the box of stuff over into the high skip for me. 

Bit of packing. Did an ironing of linen stuff. 

Into town at 10am. Parked at supermarket ( as it’s free) and walked down the steep hill with 2 bags for charity shop. One was very heavy. Very quick glance around shop but then told myself off as I do NOT need anything! 

Had appointment at solicitor. Just in for half an hour. Update on conveyancing situation and the signing of the will and POA. Told my daughter I was leaving everything to a chocolate labrador charity. 

Chat to DD1 as I walked back up the steep hill 

Are you okay she asked …yes I’m just walking up the steep hill !

Out to B&Q for a blooming lawnmower! My third lawnmower in 6 summers which I think is a tad excessive! Had a measly £3 off voucher but better than nothing and counted out a load of coins for the checkout chap! Managed to pay most of it in selling money ( that was to go towards a new to me sofa) and the change I found last week) 

Home! Hello doggy time for your lunch! 

And almost time for his tea. 

Phone call with a job offer. Accepted. So work this week and next. 

Cut the grass! Wow at the new lawnmower ( once I’d managed to build the blooming thing! I hate instruction manuals!) 

Hoovered the car ( which I was going to anyway ) but like to be in a not so hairy/ sandy car when I’m working. 

And then thought why not wash the car! Yesterday when we had thunder there was like a sandy/dusty  residue left on the cars. So it had a wash ( think I ended up wetter!) and I topped up the water tank too! Wee car I’m spoiling you!

Nice message of thanks from a friend. I’d posted her a wee parcel on Friday. Something that belonged to my granny that I wouldn’t use but she will. 

Emptied two big tubs in the garden. One which was badly cracked and wouldn’t have survived the move without splitting everywhere and the other a big half barrel sized one that held the most minuscule Rhubarb you ever did see! Need to start gathering together what’s coming with me. 

DD2 called me. We had a fall out yesterday. Which I don’t like ( and she absolutely did not like!) I apologised…she felt justified in what she said…anyway it’s done. Move on. 

Currently raining lightly. Birds singing. M&S munchy stuff for tea. 

Need to hoover upstairs. Emptied a set of drawers today ( ooft at the memory boxes) and packed a husband ( his remaining ashes) and memorial stuff. We wrote to each other so much over the years and I was reading / crying/ laughing / smiling this morning going through some of the letters. 

A rather full day! 

Purple_kitten

mhags. they are great pleasures to read.

1 In a bit of a meh mood, so had a soak in the bath.

2 I did a bit of gardening and planning where to pop my little sunflowers to make way for planting the big ones in.

3 It was a freezer to oven tea, and I’m afraid Birdseye tempura chicken tasted just like haddock, looked like haddock and quite frankly I would have thought it was a lie calling it chicken, but that said it was a hot meal, that won’t be bought again.

4 I’m trying to meal plan for our first weekend away, really looking forward to it.

5 Hoovered upstairs and the stairs, with the obligatory tidying up.

ampersand

1. Skylarks singing everywhere, with much recent time happily spent in CUBG and at river, with heaps of rtc bread.  & has been several times attacked by boss swan, whose own alpha male status is threatened by 5 2nd-year cygnets.  Major stroppery.

2. At last, new fence is up and not at &'s expense, as it has been for decades.  

3. Connectivity woes are permanent, apparently, so it's another 6-8 mile haul forever and a day.  This is in a MrT carpark.

4. 7s Festival next Saturday.  & has gathered 7 v.g. prizes over time, with cake to finish icing tonight and tomorrow.  Then it's another full-on HRH day.

5. Latest MRI biz done and back up to BROH to the wonderful young Michael Parry and team soon.🤞 
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Kia Kaha Arohanui, all blessings everyone.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Monday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Walked 4 miles. Spoke to my neighbour as I got back to the house.

3) Used Tesco vouchers to get some basics.

4) Macaroni cheese for tea.

5) Watched so many episodes of the Traitors that I can only go through the double doors from the dining room into the living room with a SWOOSH and open both at the same time, like Claudia Winklemann! 

DundeeDoll

skylarks and job offers and macaroni cheese and of course admiral's snorkers - always love reading others' pleasures. for me. Thanks for reminding me i need to put my Mr T vouchers in my purse before they expire frith
1) another day in a dress (though considerably cooler than Saturday)
2) a very tasty watercress and bean salad for lunch
3) catch-up with my programme lead - i was away for a week then she was away for a week - we had a lot to catch up on, both work and non-work and i am very lucky in my colleagues
4) mum bought a pineapple and peeled and sliced it - i had a large slice
5) first 2 episodes of The Abbey with Alan Bennett - my first post-graduation job was just across from Westminster Abbey and it brought back many memories
and now to bed with the archers. 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Awake very early so a bit of my head plan journal and a bit of reading.

Into horsey town for food shop, home and shopping away then back out, this time on bike to cycle down to village GC for some bird food. The local jackdaws have discovered the fat balls and hang precariously from the feeder, stabbing hard with their big beaks with a mate underneath hoovering up the spoils.

Early lunch out with friend for her birthday, we went to the local farm shop which is always lovely.

Then we reconvened at the yard, girlie worked well in sunshine before being turned out for the night.

Tea was teriyaki salmon kebabs with roasted veg and chick peas, nothing inspiring on tv so listened to an episode of its a Fair Cop followed by a Weird Tale which probably wasn’t the best thing to hear before bed!