5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

weenancyinAmerica

Wow Admiral - looking good all dressed up.
Looking for places around here to go for tea - that don't cost an arm and a leg. Many of my favorite places to eat have closed in the last couple of years. Running out of places that do simple, uncomplicated foods - don't like the fancy stuff. I can travel around the world eating here - but trying to find a place that does a good chicken sandwich is almost impossible. We don't even have pubs for lunch. I wish my garden centers had cafes. Wish we had as many options as some of you do. Don't even have churches and cathedrals with cafes in them.

ampersand

A nonstop day, Quiz night in The Alma as we speak.  Have birthday token bits for patron's boys.🙂
1. Heard ths wonderfully  onomatopoeic lump of Robert Southey's Ladore poem on Michael Rosen's 'Word of Mouth', with Dr Catherine Laing, on R4.  Just fabulous:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002j753
Circa 27mins in.👏😃
2. Dropped off birthday bits to young rugby friends.  Late add-on was emporium's last 3 bottles of special ale with  Women's🏉 World Cup Final tickets as prize.  🤞🤞🤞, however unlikely we thought.😁
3. Intriguing talk and fascinating: "Lemurs of the Lost World -Three zoological expeditions to Madagascar in 1981, 1986 and 2024".
Would never have had the slightest idea how remarkably accomplished she is, not of her life's path, sparked by David Attenborough,  by her talk tonight, simple, understated:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Wilson-Howarth 
4. One of &'s in-house emporium vouchers was for 😋pains aux raisins, happily sitting in the rtc's, so treat at 45p, not £2.65!
5. Well, amazingly, almost-7-son-of-patron has just descended, wide awake, post-quiz, meaning we've had a totally unexpected happy handover of both birthday pillowcases and  suitable conversation.👏🙂
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Midweek Communion this morning hit the spot....