5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

house_elf

Good Morning,

DH has been up early this morning, off to the airport, so I have taken my Tea back to bed for a few minutes......

1. Don”t like the clocks going forward, but DH had changed all the clocks the night before, so it helped make the adjustment!

2. Run out in the car to Kennilworth to collect Vax steamer bought on EBay. (Hand held steamer Mrs SD). Doggie came too, and we went for a walk around the outside of the castle. (It was £10 to have a walk inside the castle!). Also sold some stuff on EBay, which off set cost of steamer and decluttered a few bits and pieces. :j

3. Quick trip to Mr A for stuff for my lesson today. Paid in wombled APG, so very MSE. Also found half price Pimms. :j

4. DS1 back from his weekend away. Seems to have had a nice time.

5. Nando’s for tea to celebrate DS2 being made Lance Corporal at Cadets. (Wish he was as committed to his studies at school......sigh).

Have a lovely day.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

V At least the cricket is over, but as for the cheating Ausies, was good to see the South Africans give Smith the welcome he deserves! I say let them into the next 25 test series three nil down, and void their last wins! We won the Ashes!

4 BoP had his home made sauce of parsley yesterday, topped onto North Atlantic Cod, peas and minted new tatties! Tom soup with hand torn croutons was also enjoyed. No pudding was had as we have finished not only the chrimbo pud, but the chocolate one as well before easter, and easter is early this season! Just a point, that it is also bang on the 62nd wed anni of mum and dad BoP!

3 That brings mes around to mum BoP and the things that are bad for you! Mum BoP used to do the boiled bacon, with packet parsley sauce, tatties and broad beans. Now you know why BoP learnt to cook properly! Broad bean, no matter what youdo with them, they’re not proper food. Mum BoP used to get alls upset because BoP never ate them. She always refused her treacle sponge! That was no hardship for BoP, as treacle sponge belongs in the bin! She was a deputy headmistress. No further comment, but BoP got a proper job! Note BoPsie says that her

PM2DD 18 games without a cause!

Now with all that, you know how hard it is to be the BoP!

VJsmum

Morning all - a day at home. just packed off the MiL with DS who is being paid to drive her home (shh don't tell her we pay him to do it. He is also gaining lots of 'grandson' points. Although he is no. 1 grandson anyway. No. 1 grandchild goes to a niece - and always has done. DD says she is no. 6 on the list - of 6:p)

Pleasures since?? Probably thursday? Ah yes I remember, last time I checked in i was on the platform at bristol.

Friday's pleasures

1. An excellent interview with a trainee at case study organisation. I wasn't sure what someone new to the industry could contribute but realised it was a box that needed ticking. But she was fab and had real insight
2. Got work done going to and from Bristol - pleasant journeys all told.
3. a particular email went out to case study organisation and now I have more volunteers for interview than i thought possible... :T
4. Cooked beef casserole, it were yummy. Drank wine...
5. DS came home

Saturday

1. Took MiL to the flicks to see Peter Rabbit. Wasn't expecting much but it was an easy thing to do with her. She is really not so good on her legs anymore But it was excellent - really funny at different levels, adult and child.
2. Had HM soup for lunch. I don't think MiL cooks decent food for herself anymore so I like to give her nourishing stuff if i can.
3. SHe and OH went out in the evening to OH's concert. I can't stand choral music so I don't go (I do offer but OH doens't want to buy me a ticket when he knows i hate it. I said I'd go but listen to my ipod , it makes me want to rip out my fingernails I hate it so much...). Anyway, DS was out for the night (back in Liverpool, he came home to go out drinking) so DD and I did 'earth hour' - in fact it was "earth hour and 10 mins" as DD came into it late. So i made up some of your time Frith
4. Had a sweet potato and feta pie from Aldi - it was lish
5. Watched an episode of Shetland - 2 more to go.

And yesterday

1. What a gorgeous day, the hour 'lost' was inconsequential and it was gloriously springy
2. SPent most of the day in the garden, mending a gate, OH did mowing, i did some weeding.
3. 2 loads of laundry hung on the line
4. Went to candlelit yoga - even though it was still light outside.
5. OH cooked roast beef dinner while I was out. It was yummy.

Have a good day all

ampersand

& is aware bop is not fully apprised/kowtowing, re: rhubarb stix and pinnies and little pinkie round thing and 9 down for 27....etcetera etcetera.
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By BOP demand, therefore, & modestly admits & WON:-))))))))))
and THAT after clean sweeping the Thames with longer stix [didn't we, Lainey?]
and THOSE, ALL 4,[that's we Light Blues for those watching in black and white]were very pretty to see while & performed yet another quick colour/uniform-change for Les Rouges et Noirs, walloping Clermont, 49-0.
https://www.rugbypass.com/news/kiwis-europe-fekitoa-bags-toulon-double/
-and it couldn't happen to a nicer Malakai Fekitoa.
He's a gorgeous boy, rugbyman. Suspect Mrs LW will agree.
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Right. That's bop happy until Hagley Park and Limerick[Munster], when & will be sufficiently restored to try/do both again....
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1. Just took back farmland walk to collect prescription, a few thousand steps:-). Forgot to check other hospital stuff, but never mind. No news is good news.

2. The winter lonicera scent, big and heavenly from insignificant little waxy flowers.

3. Sun, sun, sun.

4. Reading extreme 5* and 1* reviews for likely new shredder, but need one[after nearly 20 years, old'un has completely expired] so will head for town of horse shortly, with some trial p/w and ensure my choice is a good'un, not a duffer.

5. Barn owl floating ghostily en route to stunning Palm Sunday service and woodpeckers calling every day now. Massed violets up everywhere, so mustn't mow[world-class excuse]. At last[ignore Easter bunny gloom forecast]sounds, scents, colours are all heart-lifters.
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Happy Mondays to all.
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Oh, just in case bop hasn't heard who won the 1st Cricket Test in &land, after that 27-9 splendiferousness...it was &[gloat-o-meter on Insufferable]

-but new job congrats to Lady Bopsie.

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1) Lunch on the garden bench in the sun for the first time this year, properly and blissfully warm!

2) Spent this morning looking after my neighbours 10 week old Jack Russell puppy who only came home to them yesterday evening as today was her darling mum's funeral. Little dog is called Mo and is a delight in every way.

3) Magnolia trees with buds all over that will be open by tomorrow, so beautiful.

4) Bumping into many friends and my brother while I walked with Cookie just now, much chatting done and everyone out enjoying this first properly warm day.

5) Making the decision yesterday to go ahead and plant the garden and allotment anyway as we're not seeing any movement in the local market and unless we sell the house will likely still be here in the summer for the things we grow. If we do move then whoever buys the house gets a garden full of produce for free.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

4 Woke up and saw we had NZ!!!8217;d at 92 for 2. Brilliant! Well done our boys! Hang on it was just gone six! BoP will not be updating this! Disaster! And you can keep quite as well &

ampersand wrote: »

Oh, just in case bop hasn't heard who won the 1st Cricket Test in &land, after that 27-9 splendiferousness...it was &[gloat-o-meter on Insufferable]

-but new job congrats to Lady Bopsie.

Took you all weekend &

ampersand

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

Took you all weekend &

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Quite so, bop.
It's that high modesty quotient kicking in instinctively:A
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And here's Michael Vaughan on 5L saying, 'New Zealand is the bench mark for all that cricket should be - playing, behaving, spirit,...' and much more of this ilk, plus rugby ditto. Tuffers and all guests agreeing.
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Reckon there's easily another 5 to roll out for this day -

1. Picked up a big emporium pot of unusual smoky pink rtc primroses - £1.25 down from £7.

2. More birdy seedy bread rtc 10p. They all flew down as soon as & put some out earlier.

3. Emporium Easter egg display also messy and prices all mixed up. Tried to sort the '3 for £12' offer. Ended up with 3x£7 ones reduced to offer price as most in wrong place, filling a shelf of £5 price-tags.

4. 3 CS pick-ups: 2 '30s bits of Hofbauer cranberry crystal, Byrdes pattern, decanter and jug. They're very, very hefty, as is the sgd Stuart fuchsia Cascade bowl - all top quality lead crystal and all horribly dated.
Could be bees' knees for Spits;)





and a genuine 1930s vintage crombie -
https://www.crombie.co.uk/heritage/

5. Mmmm, ready for a little rtc fillet steak which has finished its slow o/n defrost. If only & had some broad beans....love them:D. Real food:T.
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Bonne nuit.

Frith

An interesting day, chez Frith.... in fact, a day to remember on inferior days!


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Back to some semblance of healthy eating - scrambled eggs for breakfast, salad for lunch then hm chicken pie and peas for tea.


3) Hens well.


4) Tidied and dusted the living room, did washing etc.


5) Picked bigger son up from college but was early. Went round the charity shops first and got a perfect White Stuff top.


6) Bigger son's college report arrived in the post and was not bad at all.


7) Simple Things magazine came in the post also.


8) After 8 years of not being able to open the back windows and having our peace and sleep interrupted each and every day by parties, shouting, screaming and the dog barking for up to 7 hours at a stretch - next door's house is UP FOR SALE!!!!!! I still can't quite believe it!


9) I decided to help next door's on their way by doing a massive tidy up of my garden, front and back :-D Even moved the pallet that had had the log pile on it and cleared lots of leaves from that corner, swept, cleaned the patio. Will buy some soil improver from the tip to top up the pots.


10) Smaller son had a good day at school.


11) Smaller son's TA and the receptionist at school had a less good day as the former Mr Frith decided to throw his weight around. He had noticed (at last!) that smaller son has not seen him since December and decided the best way to remedy this would be to make a massive fuss at school... He phoned demanding that smaller son's taxi would take smaller son direct from school to HIS house (rather than here) and was so obnoxious that the receptionist refused to give out any information, including which taxi firm smaller son uses. (Of course she technically should have told him that, but good for her). Receptionist then ran to speak to smaller son's TA who phoned me and I phoned the taxi company to say he is always to come straight home. TA pounced on the taxi at home time to say the same. Smaller son got wind of what his father was trying to do (once in the taxi) and is not best pleased with him.


12) Just watched 24 Hours in Police Custody with bigger son and will listen to Just a Minute in just a minute.

ampersand

Gosh &, trois posts today:-), but have to comment again on the excellence and forbearance of Frith as Mum.

I also step right into nomb-land, feeling certain that Mum of bop would be saying same in her inimitable way.

As for having 2 young gent voices in the house now, that's another stage you've passed. Today's latest bio-father shenanigans are no match for people who know otherwise - and Son the Younger can now make that very plain in his man voice.

Just take a bow, Frith - as well as yet another lucky CS White Stuff find - another area of your excellence:-)

Well done elder son on that report.

We part company only on matters of JAM, which & cannot stand[many posts passim]

Hope better neighbours arrive soon.
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p.s. New shredder tested and passed muster at Mr T in town of horse, plus £10 off.
https://www.tesco.com/direct/fellowes-powershred-h6-c-a4-cross-cut-shredder/710-8055.prd?skuId=710-8055#reviews

DundeeDoll

18 games bop that!!!8217;s tuff :-(
1) sunshine again. Nice walk into work
2) green lentil stew for lunchmade from odds and ends. Was lish
3) friend in town. Had a drink with her after work
4) then home for band practice at mine
5) so in between 3 and 4 had a bag of chips
We are ceilidhing Thursday.