5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

weenancyinAmerica

Congratulations @DundeeDoll on the Award for Excellence!

Am having the same problem with a cat - they are expensive aren't they?

LaineyT

Waves to DD, many congratulations on the Award for Excellence and equal commiserations on vet bills, I feel your pain!

For yesterday,

Quick trip into horsey town for a food shop and to drop one of my horse rugs off for a wash & reproof.

Over to see pony, cooler today with a decent breeze so we did a bit of work before turning her out.

Tied up my tomatoes which now have tiny green fruit on them and picked some salad leaves for tea.

Had the cricket on, expected result as the Indian bowling attack is 🫣

So much clover coming up in the grass, baby rabbits are sneaking through the hedge to indulge and small dog is too old & visually impaired to notice.

mhagster

Hello. Rubbish sleep. Up early.
Went to beach mid morning for low tide. Was wild! So windy. Watched the kitesurfing.
Drove past my new house…
Pup dropped off.
Out to work. Up and down country lanes to a woodland burial ground. Beautiful setting and service. And thankfully stayed dry though I had to shout to be heard over the wind. 

Stopped at the hotel we held our wedding reception in. All changed all these years later! Had a late lunch/ early tea. 

And home and hello doggies! 

DD 2 picked up the pup and took a couple of lavender plants away with her. 

Waiting on friend calling me to collect her from a boozy afternoon/evening. 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Friday)

1) Slightly better sleep.

2) Went to the local theatre for a game of chess.

3) To floody town afterwards. I have had a good week in the charity shops. Today I found a Seasalt dress, a brand new t shirt for bigger son and a frame that was the right size for the art work I bought at a different charity shop yesterday! 

4) Put 3 paintings up on the landing wall. Good old charity shops. 

5) Smaller son and I delivered leaflets this afternoon. It was interesting to go to the front door of every house in our road and see how many had original 1960s doors! Everyone was polite and I only got one paper cut. 

6) Spent an hour or so in the garden. One of the flower beds is under a beech tree so nothing grows and it is dry as dust. I want to take the concrete edging out and use it round my new raspberry bed then put 4 concrete slabs down so I can sit in the shade. Today I moved a rose from that area and cut the blackberries back where they are growing across the lawn. Picked some more blackcurrants. 

7) Made a large batch of tomato sauce. Had some for tea with ravioli. 

8) Watching Glastonbury now, VJsmum. 

ampersand

Félicitatons DD - that is very telling, but no surprise to us, I'd say.🧑‍🎓😊
Frith - good birthday finds in your birthday week, VG.👏 Shade plan sounds good.
Mhags - K--------k Removals truck and & passed each other 10 mins ago on a fenny road.  Finding his way back in time to move you, j'espère.👌🫶
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1. Young electrician was super-kind, supplying and fitting new kitchen light gratis and with tall boy ease, in addition to replacing 5 special fuses.  Non-drinker, so accepted special emporium 00 elderflower fizz.  & has em'd praise for both young tradesmen this week.

2. Much-needed slug pellets finally tracked down at 9th store of asking.  Sold out everywhere, first 5 in Town of Horse; eventual success in Town of Gown.  Any sort of gardener knows it's a major topic this year.

3. Replacement tomato plants are hanging on.  &, remember to strip pick the white currants tonight, before they disappear.

4.  So, one of &'s Cambridge strawberries has finally decided to flower, 2 days before July.....
That's taken 10 mins to appear, but at least it has.

5. &'s 3 regular raptors on differing fenny roads have all been hovering today.  Last one just now, not hovering, just hurtling home West, over wheat ready for harvest.
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Burwell Carnival today and tomorrow, Lainey.🙂
& has huge admiration for Mark Cavendish and wouldn't bet against him doing this - and clean!
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jun/28/mark-cavendish-relishing-one-final-tilt-at-new-tour-de-france-stage-win-record

LaineyT

👍 Amps

For yesterday,

Much cooler and even needed a cardi at one point, love our mercurial weather as endless hot sunshine wouldn’t suit at all.

Chores in the morning which included a trip out to farm shop for some local bacon and other bits, hand hovered over bowl of cherries but didn’t in the end and am now regretting that decision as have hankering to make clafoutis.

Our privet hedge is now out in full blossom and, apart from the havoc it plays with my hay fever, the smell is amazing. Also love the gentle shower of blossom that falls each time one of the birds dive inside.

Spent the afternoon at the yard, girlie had a nasty bite that had obviously been bothering her as had rubbed it sore so cleaned that up, applied aloe gel and then Sudocrem as barrier. Cup of tea and chat with friends.

Caught Paul Heaton at Glastonbury, v good and lots of memories. Also thought of VJSMUM and wondered if she was stewarding this year.

Highdays

Hello.

Mercurial weather indeed in our neck of the woods and now nearly July. Not a massive fan of the boiling hot days, warm with a bit of breeze suits me just fine but doesn't happen often as we veer from baking hot to downright chilly!

DDoll - many congratulations on your well-deserved award. You must be very proud.

Some pleasures:

1) Feeling much, much better. Just feeling normal is a take-for-granted pleasure when you haven't felt right for a while.

2) Some good books, new releases from the library, eventhough I've read them in the sun, in the shade, in the summerhouse, in the house, due to the ever-changing temperatures.

3) Back into our walking routine with my bairn after a few gentle walks to get back into it, We are now up hill and down dale again and I'm huffing and puffing a bit less than I was and can sometimes talk. I'll take that as progress!

4) Busy sorting our trip to Sussex the week after next. So many lovely things to do and places we want to visit that I fear a week won't be long enough. Lovely to have somewhere new-to-us to explore.

5) Not too much on this weekend, nice to have one at home after our weekend away last week. A big pleasure just pootling and pottering and enjoying my space.

Have a good weekend whatever you are up to.

Suffolksue

Highdays I know just what you mean by the wonderful feeling of normal !

1 Down to 1 crutch out doors and increasingly nothing indoors 

2 Easily making our local Mill Pond and back on my half hour walk , will soon take in a bit of Riverside too .
It probably isn’t that far but has been way beyond me for well over a year .

3 No pain 

4 Still getting lots of visits from friends especially now DGD gone home( she’s popping in and getting shopping but we both needed normality
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5 Taken out to meetings and the monthly quiz which my team won .!

mhagster

A quiet day. Up early.
Pottered around ( as much as I can when there’s not much to potter with!) 
watched a few episodes of the hotel inspector.
washing out, dried, put away. 

Sister phoned.
Been dry but cool.
Had sausages with potato croquettes and veggies. 

ampersand

Useful weather day, hooray!

1. Strip-picked the white currants first thing.

2. Many competing events today, so fewer than usual at another Church fête.  & was good: No More Books has actually meant No More Books!  That's a first!😁

3. Village cricket en route to osp 4.  Arrived at 124 runs up, left at 200, knowing there would be a......

4. .....long walk to Rec. ground+Carnival Day 2/2.  Big band, big noise, big turnout, happy families, skateboard contests.  Grandson of oldest NH Uni friend worked hard to fund and build this.  Became v.young councillor on the strength of it, 2 elections ago. Over a dozen wonderful steam and vintage vehicles, all different from last lot at Longmeadow Fair.

5. Long chat with friend, mid-80s, in emporium, doing monthly shop. He's modest, kindly, brilliant, a retired Town of Gown Physics professor, has had a rough 2 years, with equally brilliant wife now disabled and his own knee and hip pain misdiagnosed. Other hip has borne the extra load and will be replaced soon.  We left the emporium chiller aisles - cold there yesterday!

Dare & tempt Fate and say that her rtc emporium carrot seedlings have survived their first week in a big half-barrel, surrounded by slug pellets old and new?

Sodding giant slugs are everywhere, munching thuggery.

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Wishing everyone happy rest of weekend.