5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

ampersand

1.Passive onlooker at Alma Quiz Night😁, after another hot watch of super sweaty Senior Men at rugby training.  Great turnout, encouraging. Lovely greetings from 'The Men'.😁 But medium merlot and big water are lovely here now and long catch-up with Patron DM on all matters world, rugby, family, schooling, faith,  politics etc.....what else is there?😁

2. Early 5 bells start with hair wash+tepid shower, then laundry out(still doing by hand, over half a year on from kaput washing machine).  It does work well, despite everything.

3. Midweek Communion so good, with THOSE rtc avocadoes on the offerings table afterwards.😄  Vicar delighted, as he'd already planned avocado salad, for a special family lunch. Couldn't have been better.👌

4. It's forever a faffy mess, but finally managed to renew rugby Club membership.  Done ahead of forthcoming 'trouble expected' AGM....hoping certain l😡 are removed.🙏

5. Compliments during day on summer dress, another 10p bargain from Nexus.👏 Had one of those halter strap necklines, which & has removed, snipped in half and sewn back as shoestring shoulder straps.  Does that make sense?  It's worked well. Ancient OAP lady nonsense for glorious hot days.😁

Extra, so unexpected:

Happy chat with chap parked opposite at emporium.  

&: J'aime bien votre G7 orange.  C'est suuuperrrr!
Lui: I love it too.

&  Where's it from?

Lui: Loir-et-Cher.

&: Oh, wonderful chanson of Michel Sardou!

Lui: Je l'adore, moi aussi! It helps me be there when I'm not.  I've never met anyone else who even knows it, let alone in this country!

....and so we sang to our mutual pleasure!  No-one known to either of us around to be embarrassed.😁

'On dirait que ça gêne marcher dans la boue....' etc.

https://youtu.be/i56UQf-p3QY?si=OSUG2E6IbifxSZDF

& knows she has referenced Michel's 'Le Chasseur' here before.💓 https://g.co/kgs/CzDbh5t

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Comfy nights to all, with heatwave peak of 34⁰ forecast, before it breaks on Tuesday, according to R4 this morning, as much as that means, prob. v.little.😁
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Good grief! Suddenly noticed the grapes coming on rather well....

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Early morning pot watering, very pleasant ahead of a hot day.

Over to see the beautiful grey one, she was already in after having a couple of hours out in the cool of the early morning. The barn was very comfortable temperature wise and, after the required care & attention, I sat in her stable to listen to the start of the Test while she had a doze. I blame Mark Wood for the loss of two wickets in an over!

Home, light lunch followed by an iced latte, my new favourite thing.

Lazy afternoon, reading, watching the cricket and a nap may have been involved.

The full moon rising in the evening sky.

Frith

Pleasures and bits from the last fortnight...

1) Went to floody city on both Tuesdays to see my school friend. Cups of tea drunk. 

2) Popped to Waitrose after seeing my friend (definitely this week, probably last) to get the free paper to complete the prize crossword. 

3) Little charity shop on the way home and got smaller son a stein (he's obsessed with them) plus a shirt for me. 

4) Pre season matches are approaching so we've been buying tickets. All local, with Shrewsbury being the furthest. 

5) Walked to the most local cafe twice, run by children from the nearest special school. 

6) Bumped into the new manager of our team and said hello, while smaller son got too excited so watched from a distance. 

7) Went to the scrapyard for a replacement back light mounting and managed to prise the car door open, lift a gear box off the back seat, climb through and dismantle the light before the patronising man could get there. £5 including the bulb. 

8) 2 art classes completed. I was quite pleased with the first and have been doing some drawing at home. 

9) Party of a friend (birthday) last weekend and a flat warming party tomorrow. 

10) My brother came round to watch England v Netherlands in the women's Euros and to play darts and eat curry. 

Not a pleasure but an unfortunate episode the week before last with a gentleman I had been seeing for a few weeks who I discovered has a wife and child. He got rather annoyed when I tried to leave and wouldn't accept his apology (!) so I had to do a bit of shouting, which is a once a decade event for me. Never mind. 

mhagster

Hello…reclined on my literally newly made bed being wafted by the fan😆🫠


Up early.
Watered plants.
And down at CP for 7.30am…lovely walk. Then in pool by 9am when it opens. Lots of chatters this morning and another blooming cleg bite ( think cleg is a Scottish word for horsefly) but blooming sore and itchy and unreachable on my bare back! Grrr.
Back to van after an hour and half and then hot shower ! 

Then home and languished most of afternoon. Had a wee snooze and started a new book. 

Bedding washed dried and back on in a few hours and at least it’s done before bedtime!

Frith

Pleasures for today (Friday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Went to the coffee morning and we did a crossword together. 

3) Survived another shift at work. 36⁰ in the car. 33⁰ outside. 

4) Made toad in the hols for tea. 

5) Saw 2 bats and a fox in the garden. 

6) Sainsbury's order arrived. 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Phew, what a scorcher! It hit 32 in our garden mid afternoon.

Went to see my girl who was cool & happy in the barn, filled up her hay net and generally cosseted.

The greenfinch juveniles go everywhere as a quartet and fly from hedge to hedge together so flashes of airborne green.

Oh that first wicket of Jofra’s!

Sitting outside in relative cool of the the evening and watching the bats fly around the cottage.

Happycas

Hello, I hope!

I've given the site a week to think about the error of its ways and am here to try again.  I've not had any 'human'  or 'gateway'  messages for a couple of days so let's see if this works

Happy 🌞day everyone

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Sticky old night so pleasure to get up and shower.

Veg and plant pots watered, breakfast was boiled egg with marmite soldiers.

Off to see my girl, she was dozing in her stable after a night out. Quick walk in the sunshine then we settled down to listen to the start of the test match together, there was a nice cool breeze blowing through the barn. Had a chat with fellow owner and we both said how nice it is to have a warm summer after last year.

Sat outside in the shade and read, TMS on of course! The juvenile kestrels were out and about, screeching to the parents and perched on top of the old barn.

Capt S had changed the bed while I was at the yard so the never taken for granted pleasure of getting into fresh sheets.

mhagster

Hello…just waiting on my toast toasting! 

Saturday down even earlier at CP. walk/swim then started to bake and came home. 

Languished which is not a pleasure! 

Over to DD2 where the chap cooked a very nice barbecue. Home with a bag of their home grown potatoes.

This morning, I decided not to go down to CP as it was warm first thing! So I wrote a list of chores and have ticked them all! So downstairs hoovered and all the bathrooms are clean. Watered the garden whilst it was still cool and picked a bunch of sweet peas although it was absolutely teaming with bees! 

DD2 called and she managed to get a bargain in supermarket as bistro sets were RTC but she got one even cheaper as it was ex display ( already made and no box she was delighted) 

Frith

Pleasures for yesterday (Saturday)

1) A lie in, after waking up a million times due to the heat.

2) Did very little during the day. 

3) Cooked some vegetarian sausage rolls ready for a party. 

4) Went to my friend's flat warming party! 30 degrees inside. Thought I might keel over just waiting on the step for him to open the door. Another friend of mine jogged up, wearing a thin jacket !!!! One of the guests had bumped into one of my best friends at primary school who I have not seen for 35 years. He owns a soft play place now so I can't exactly pop in unless I take one of my enormous adult sons! 

5) Talked to my school friend on the phone. 

6) Oh yes, watched the women's Wimbledon final but that was a bit sad. 

Smaller son is ill, which is always worrying, as he is either in 100% good health or in resus. He didn't even see a GP until he was 12 (was born on my bedroom floor) so I now on tenterhooks. You can't exactly offer hot honey and lemon or another blanket at the moment.