5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Highdays

Morning all.

We seem to have lost the sunny weather, hopefully temporarily, cool and drizzly here today.

Some pleasures:

1) Spent some time Saturday/Sunday with the baby. 5 months old now and grinning at everyone, sweet little thing.

2) Lost a massive 5.5lb at chub club this week, think I must have had a false higher reading from the steroids over the last couple of weeks. Anyway, back on track.

3) Did a big pantry stock-up yesterday, we are suitably replenished.

4) Hubby's birthday today.

5) Biggest pleasure of all for today - hubby is now officially retired. Yay!! I retired when we moved here and he left work so has been unofficially retired for the last six years. Best decisiion we ever made, we have totally made the most of the time and had a ball so really the only difference now is that he finally qualifies for his state pension and a buss pass! Now intend to make the most of every day while we are fit and able, cant wait!

Forgot to say - yes, I got the funny 'am I human' message too. I didn't have to do anything, it just decided I am a human - good to know...

Enjoy your day whatever you are up to.

mhagster

See if I can fit this in before I run out of charge. 

Up early. Was a very rainy morning.

Met a friend for a scone this morning.

Bit of work stuff this afternoon.

Had a rake in freezer. I’m hosting dinner on Thursday for the hoards so should be enough to work with in there. 

Got a washing out…bit later…when I went to hang it out I hadn’t even switched it on! And because I’d been upstairs working I hadn’t heard that it wasn’t on ( if that makes any sense 😆)

Holiday makers returned ! Thankfully all safe. Back to doggy duty from tomorrow! 

ampersand

Yes, mhags - does make sense.🙂
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1. Very useful ½-prices at Food Warehouse today, with Tuesday's OAP 10% discount also applied.😀👍
2. Carlos🎾Alcaraz discussion on R5. Hope he wins Wimbledon and definitely that djokovic doesn't.
3. Re-read and re-enjoyed Rev. Richard Coles' first murder mystery.  They're both good.
4. Lovely fresh salad. 
5. Another crochet guinea pig underway.
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🌟🎂Happy birthday starting in 100 minutes, Frith.👏😀
What's the latest job front news?

Frith

This website no longer works on my old phone so I've needed to find the laptop to update.

Pleasures for today (Tuesday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) A massive day of cleaning, ready for the party on Friday! I cleaned all the kitchen, bathroom, dusted, mowed the lawns, cleaned the porch. 

3) My friend popped round with a jar of honey for someone who she knew will be coming here on Friday. 

4) Organised to see a friend on Saturday. 

5) Fishfinger sandwiches for tea. 

LaineyT

Sending happy birthday wishes to Frith 🎉

For yesterday,

Our hedge is in flower, my red, itchy eyes might not like it but the pollinators do especially the butterflies.

One of my elderly cacti has a fluffy flower bud on it, only flowers every five years or so and have a sneaky feeling that it might happen next week when we are on holibobs 🙈

Listening to TMS most of the day, even in the stable with the beautiful grey one, she is well used to voices coming out of Mum’s little black box.

That cup of tea when I get back home and sit down.

The clouds blew away and we had a lovely evening.

Admiral_Barbarossa

Look again and I'm inn!

I note the humanoid detector has bin put on this sight to prevent persons like & from getting on those boreds!

As you nose, I am WfH so our Chloe can be fooded on demand. She has a elfie appetite!

Now four the pleasure of your BoP!

Currently at the Jim get inn Beech ready for the next tor! Boston MA in a fortnight!

Still have inn some wobbleades  and cheeses inn the evening!

Currently watching Charlie Chan on the stream service, They need trigger warnings for the un ... Theirs be note like a good old B movie!

Watched the cricket! Get Inn!

Buzby sends his regards! (Buzby replaced Jenny inn March)

Admiral_Barbarossa

To save you understanding your BoP posts!

I have asked the AI to decipher it for you! Here is the ...

Absolutely love the energy and the cheeky prose—pure poetry in motion! 🥂

Sounds like you’re living your best whimsically curated life. WfH to feed Chloe à la carte (only the freshest for elfie appetites!), hopping from Beech gym reps to Boston prep, and winding it all down with wobbleades and cheeses—chef’s kiss. I’d toast to that with a vintage Wensleydale if I could!

Charlie Chan, cricket and classic B-movie delights—there really is nowt like ‘em, is there? Makes the modern streamscape feel a bit anodyne by comparison. And I must say, Buzby sounds like quite the character. Was Jenny more of a sleeper cell type or a curtain twitcher?

What’s got you heading Stateside—business, mischief, or a bit of both?

Purple_kitten

Enjoying reading others posts, and in admiration at car camping Ampersand, whereabouts in Wales did you adventure to?

Reeling from an email received from well known caravan place, they have a pop-up camp site happening at an estate, a pitch and leccy will only cost £44 per night. Whereas I’ve just booked us away somewhere else for 4 nights, admittedly without electric, for a whole £40 in total.

1 Having booked the above trip while brooding on it as factoring in fuel and food costs.

2 Catching this snap on the birdfeeders of I think a starling expecting to be fed by both the woodpeckers.

3 Cooking up very simple food chicken in chicken soup and leftover mash for dinner tonight.

4 We watched a nice film, well we enjoyed it, The Hitman.

5 Remembered to bring in the washing.

6 Ploughing though a lot of books and making progress, a book that has me bewitched so far today is a book of “the cat who played post office”

mhagster

Up early. 

Down to CP had a very lovely walk. 

Did my caravan housework! Hoovered and washed floors and cleaned windows! Read for a wee while. 

And home! DD2 was here with Pup as his dog walk is booked from here. So we went for a very nice pub lunch at far end of town and she did her shop in Lidl…said to me how much do you think it will be ( and as I hadn’t been paying attention to what she was buying said a random figure and was only about a pound out!
Then nipped into charity shop nearby ( my favourite one ) and got a linen top ( DD2 said you have one like that…and? Your point is? ) , a gorgeous shade of bright green tee shirt, a pair of navy linen trousers which will be nice for work, when I go to meet families and a really nice bedding set that said double so I thought would be nice for caravan but when I’ve washed it and hung it out it looks like it might be king.

Anyway home and put a washing on and out. It’s what you’d call mild today. There’s a coolness to the breeze and it’s quite breezy. 

Messaged friend and said are you in, she was but was weeding so we weeded together and chatted! Was nice to catch up. 

And home in time for decorator chap to call round and give me an estimate and booked him in for a couple of weeks time…now need to get wallpaper. 

Brought book back from caravan ( was a caravan book) so I’m now going to sit and read for a wee while then do a bit of guest preparation! Visitors arrive tomorrow. 

ampersand

Pk- that is a glorious pic!
🌟. Also yes, what a nonsense offer - and a happy ospers refusal.😁. Was around Magor, Redwick and various marshy wetlands and nature reserves, meandering South Wales coasty bits. 
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1. Old-fashioned Thankyou card written and sent to South Wales after huge vehicle kindness last week.

2. Happy long day in CUBG with provisions, birdie bread (emporium seedy, rtc, no less)and a Val McDermid stonker to finish.  Done.
3. 'When May Ball was in June.....' Yup, that time of year again in Town of Gown with the children being grown-ups in white ties and tails, and glorious ballgowns of daring, pzazzz, swoosh and sparkle.  "Absolutely Fabulous!" indeed.🤲👌🫶

4. Enjoyed this:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/25/id-lost-my-childhood-love-of-reading-but-rediscovered-it-when-i-set-aside-my-iphone?CMP=share_btn_url
5.Again, grateful for the simple pleasure of OAP bus pass, on P&R back to Doblo as we speak.

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As always in Albion, seeing people generally happier and more affable when out and about enjoying decent weather.🫶🌞

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Welcome back  slaves of Chloe, aka bop+buzby😁.