5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

For yesterday,

A lovely sunny Sunday at home, plenty of sunshine but not too hot.

The farmer turned up with combine and the crop harvest started, took most of the day to do the big two fields near the cottage.

Time in the kitchen, roasted a load of veg for week ahead and easy meals, boiled pots for salad and baked some biscuits for the tin.

Tidied up the veg patch and tied in the toms, our own potatoes will be ready soon.

Enjoyed the cricket, nice to see Woods get the results his efforts deserve.

VJsmum

Thanks for the good wishes.  Not posting much as not doing much.  

Pleasures recently

1.Foot pain improving and able to get around better.  Few painkillers now
2. watched Clarkson's farm.  Had little time for him in the past but the programme is good and he does seem to care
3. went out yesterday - breakfast on a train with minimal walking.  Made a change
4. OH is being a star - and realising just how much i do in the house
5. Watching Olympics

Frith

Pleasures for today (Monday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Cup of tea and magazine reading in M and S.

3) Popped to Sainsburys and got a few bits for smaller son's forthcoming birthday (21!)

4) Ordered a printed icing photo thing for his cake.

5) Went to the football club to get a little present. 

6) Ordered lots of photos so I can hang them all up on a string as decoration. 

7) Watched the Olympics with the cat. 

8) Cooked pork chops for tea with cheesy mash, leeks and apple. 

9) Will watch the Turkish Detective later. 

mhagster

Hello
A day most quiet and feeling very lethargic. Horribly so.

Up early.

Really didn’t do very much this morning. 

Pup dropped off at lunchtime. 

Went to supermarket, got quite a few RTC things. 

Mobile library. New books and some extra as chap will be on holiday so no library for 4 weeks. 

The sun decided to come out about 5pm after a day most dull ( though dry) 

Just watered garden as all looking a bit dry too. 

Teeny tiny bit of work. 

LaineyT

For yesterday, hard to find after the awful events in Southport.

Caught up on Sunday’s DID with Sarah Raven, nice to know I’m not the only person to wander around garden in PJ’s.

Into horsey town for a food shop and a coffee with friend.

Hot, hot day, my equine girlie had laid down in a poo 🙈 so a cool bath before turning out as don’t want to give the flies anymore of an excuse.

Seeing my old dog lying in the shadow of the cottage, fast asleep in the cool grass as we both tried to find some breeze.

Made salmon burgers and a Waldorf salad, easy tea.

ampersand

1.Tom and Noah's silver medals, Tom Pidcock's incredible repeat gold, despite puncture.  Great Eventers' gold.  Tom, silver, in his canoe slalom. Loving all R5 Olympic coverage.  No tv, doesn't matter remotely to &.  More listening today.

2.Truly delicious cake baked with use-up sultanas, ditto kiwifruit jam+dark rum marmalade, various fresh berries, lemon balm leaves, several essences.

3.Polo watching+fundraising after HC on Sunday, in aid of CRUK.     
   

4.Planted all the black climbing beans - clumsily tied but no matter - peppers, finding seed potatoes for bags today.  Extreme slug pelletry and screwdriver dispatch has dealt with them for now, but & is not around for a few days.... so,🤞.

5.Town of Horse and very happy chance catch-up with 'young' WA, former auctioneer and friend for 25 years - yes, &, it is that long!  Then visited to compliment other young friend, recently ex-emporium, who has 'magicked' an already popular kitchen ware shop with a marvellous website and frequent quirky updates.  She's a gifted artist. Being praised, appreciated, encouraged and given  opportunities is transforming her. She looks so well and happier than ever before.

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Some rtcs gathered, ideal for 'on the road', but did remember the literal bread and butter, of which & ran out hier soir.
Blessings to all, especially if you love heat, as & does.  I think you do, vjm - hope it heals, too.
Can younger son really be 21, Frith?
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Has anyone else come across Chris Atkins' 'A Bit of a Stretch-The Diaries of a Prisoner'?  Lucky find.

Also heard an astonishing programme about the remarkable 
artist, Willard Wigan, on World Service, with long undiagnosed dyslexia and Asperger's Syndrome.  Please do listen:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5tkx
He and his micro-art are beyond incredible:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Wigan

Frith

Pleasures for today (Tuesday)

1) Not a bad sleep but slow to fall asleep as it was so hot. Heard a muntjac barking for half an hour in the middle of the night.

2) Went to get my eyebrows threaded then pootled around the shopping centre. Had a cup of tea in a cafe I had never tried before and was amazed that it went back about 25 metres! There were all sorts of handicrafts and nice second hand things for sale within. 

3) Read Lemn Sissay's book in its entirety. 

4) Repotted the basil in the kitchen. 

5) Did 3 loads of washing (normal, bedding then the big sofa throw). All will be dried on the line before I go to bed. 

6) Sorted the outside lanterns out ready for smaller son's birthday. 

mhagster

Hello
Set an alarm to be up and out early for beach. Not a far out tide so had to be down early to get the best we could get without others being about, but a lovely walk. And far enough out to throw ball. If it’s too far in I  wouldn’t let him off lead. So it was a bit blustery but in a good cobweb blowing kind of way..,many cobwebs in my head at the moment. The beach walks help.

Home and quick FaceTime to DD2 before she went to work. It’s doggy’s birthday today! So she could sing to him! 

Made bacon on toast which was very nice. Had bacon to use up. Salad for lunch. 

Wrote a list and ticked it off all except wash floors…but big pup coming tomorrow so I’ll do it after he’s been as he’s a slobber chops with water! 

But good to be productive! 

FaceTimed Melbourne for his other sister to wish him a happy birthday. DD1 hates the HB song…but I said H loves it. 

Went as far as supermarket. 

And home and out into the garden for an hour.

Had a bit of work stuff to do.

Then cooked a proper meal! With my one pan! Had to cook pasta first then a bolognese type meat/sauce which I put over the  pasta and topped with cheese. Put tin foil on my one and only baking tray to make it like an oven dish and cooked it for about 15 minutes. It was very nice. Then we had meringues with strawberries and melon and banana and grapes. Which was also very nice. 

Chatter and laughter in the garden between courses. 

Big chat to DD2. 

And bed and I’m just going to take a photo of the beautiful sunset! 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Phew, what a scorcher! Over to the stables first thing to get stuff done. Girlie worked in school, followed by a cool wash down and back to her hay.

A young leveret raced past us at one point, bit panicky as it was around humans, girlie stood still and just snorted.

Home and Capt S came back for lunch so an unexpected catch up.

Confess to not doing much in the heat of the afternoon, bit of a doze and lots of reading.

Sitting in the garden in the relative cool of the evening and watching the bats circling the cottage.

mhagster

Set alarm again and down to the beach. We had a nice walk but think doggy has gone too hard on his legs as he’s limping. See how he is in the morning.

Pup dropped off. 

Quiet morning. 

Then just as I was trying to get ready for work this afternoon…brother texted to say his ( mum’s) cat had died, DD1 messaging me for some urgent advice in Melbourne, DD2 trying to call me, pup getting dropped off from his walk! Literally all at the same time.

Out to work. Took them some sweet peas and lavender from my garden. 

Sat for an hour or so in the garden. It’s been another nice day.