5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Pleasures for today (Friday)

1) Not a bad sleep. 

2) Went to the coffee morning and nearly won a game of chess. Took well over an hour. 

3) Tidied the kitchen. 

4) Work came and went. 

5) Hoovered and steam mopped all the floors downstairs.  

6) Just watching television this evening. 

DundeeDoll

Purple_kitten said: I put a lot of work into some job applications, a pleasure to have got them done, I was rather miffed when one application didn't pass their "ai" keywords and got the bog standard reject. So reboot over the weekend.

goodness what are the ai keywords? i guess if we knew...
will look out for 'the cat who knew Shakespeare' - currently reading 'The Prince Albert for the homeless' an amazing account of a hotel in Shrewsbury during covid
For yesterday
1) bags fell off my shoulder when i stooped to pick up dog poo - one dropped right in splat - so the mse pleasure? it was the free tote bag from a conference not the lovely bag from my phd student's mum - easy to take my lunch bag out of it and throw bag along with poo bag into nearby bin!
2) doggie dropped off at groomer, decided to walk onto vet rather than go straight to work as they hadn't returned my call re when his meds would be ready - 5 mins later they texted me that they were ready, 10 mins later I was picking them up :-) 
3) went to lovely concert at the Cathedral - a very talented quartet playing Abba. very well attended.
4) observatory season opening with special opening at 9 - was all very dark walking up the hill then saw a line of people with torch lights (why didn't i think of that?!) lost so was not only able to guide them the right way but fell in line and chatted to a lovely family
5) long queue and had a lovely long chat with a fresher - mature student reading English and film - he'd also got lost coming up and we were both glad of the company back down - he was going to get the bus back but i'd sensibly asked what street he was headed for on our way down and was able to walk us to the exit very close to his street. A lovely end to a very very long 6 weeks. 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

A warm, sunny day so washing done and dried outside.

Morning visit to my big girl, lovely out in the paddocks with a cool breeze and horses all with their heads down eating.

Into cathedral city to meet my bf for a catch up, we sat in the sun, ate lunch and nattered away for a few hours.

Home and Capt S had finished work so was sitting in the garden, very warm in the sun so changed into the shorts that I’d packed away for the year!

A glass of something cold and haddock kedgeree for tea.

Happycas

Good afternoon . Raining!  But we're glad really

Managed yesterday to wash and dry the bedding on the one fine day as forecast.  I'd stripped the bed Wednesday But It rained and rained!  Yorkshire Water now say the reservoirs are beginning to fill again.  But still a long way from full.  And still a hosepipe ban.

More baking here now it's cooler.  Choc chip shortbread last week and flapjack today.  Not much flapjack because not much butter! But did a half quantity.
Also made the first soup of the winter.  A chicken and veg soup.  So good it turned into jelly in the fridge.  That'll cure all that ails you!

Hair cut and nails done this week.  All dolled up and nowhere to go!

Listening to Tenant of Wildfell Hall on R 4 ( pretty sure I've never read it) interspersed with  Intercontinental Hotel Kabul by Lyse Doucet.  Both excellent.

Strictly starts again tonight but I'll give it a couple of weeks to settle down.  Far too giddy for me at first.

Happy weekend everyone

Purple_kitten

HappyCas Your cooking sounds lovely..

Dreadful night’s sleep, but did just lay in this morning.

Refilled the bird feeders, washing loads in and out.

Seemed to be using up the ends of lots of things today, deciding to run out.

Resisted ordering in, and cooked up fake kfc chicken bits for dinner instead

Changed the ferret fleeces, as Fuse is doing really well on the antibiotics.

Did a bit of garden tidying, strimmed and mowed the back garden as it seemed to go from long enough to too long rather rapidly in this weather. Noticed ladybirds over one of the roses and bugs, and so far, I’ve have read up that hopefully the ladybirds are helping kill off the aphids?? I’m not sure I’ll wait and see.

I found The Muppets haunted house film on Disney and tagged it to watch also.

DundeeDoll

1) finally I have watched the Godfather :-) (spurred on by realising it'll be disappearing off iPlayer very soon) - reminded me of a holiday in Sicily (the scenary, not the mafia!)
2)  Leicester game with DrM - we had toasties (followed Luton on BBC text, oh dear)
3) off the MrT with my trusty rucksack stuffed full of soft plastic plus a couple of carrier bags - shopping successfully done and soft plastic into the recyle
4) litter pick with doggie - 126 items plus 37p
5) watched Godfather II

mhagster

Good morning ! With my Saturday pleasures. 

Was up early. But had had an alright sleep by my poor standards. 

We had had weather warnings of heavy rain and there was no rain! Hurrah! 

DD2 picked us up and off we went to the CP. Had a good walk with the dogs. 

Stopped at garden centre on way and I got a big bag of kindling. I’d been there the other day for a work meeting and it wasn’t till afterwards I thought aaargh should have got kindling ( it’s good quality and a good price) 
Hoovered and washed floors at caravan. I’d spilled a reed diffuser on my jute rug the other day. Had brought it home to try and save it but nah! Anyway it’s back at caravan where it can just have a huge big oily stain on it as it’s just me that will see it. 

Home and log burner on. 

Doggy was out in garden and I have shot by shot of him on my phone camera…nonchalantly walking past the raspberries…a sniff, a full head in the bush and then a pulling the bush back with his teeth till he got what he was after! Most of the berries are out of reach! Cheeky boy! 

And Strictly is back! Log burner, a beautiful sunset and a bit of pizazz for a Saturday night! 

It’s a bit chilly here this morning…the first morning I’ve properly thought brrrr! 4o…but a nice day is hopefully ahead! Think I’ll strip my bed. 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Busy morning, made a loaf and did some gardening. The rudbeckia that I got the other week really wasn’t happy where I’d planted it so dug it up and moved to another border. Popped a few bulbs in and planted up a Mum that I’d picked up the other day.

In for a much needed lunch, listened to United and we came back from one nil down to win 2-1.

Spent the afternoon at the yard, warm afternoon and nice to be outside.

Steak burgers for tea.

Watched an old Arena programme on BBC4 about AgathaC and then The Mirror Crack’d with Joan Hickson, my favourite Marple. 

Admiral_Barbarossa

Now for a Sundae Toast

AI Is when you realise your comment is removed because you mentioned meatballs in onion gravy by the name similar to maggots gets you a gaol on the unsocial media!

PM2DD oh ‘eck!

Now for them BoP things!

Checked the plain site for next tor! Can’t beet Times Square. 4 nites wedding anniversary. £1,700. Oh yeah. Chess on Broadway! When you book online and flex the dates you get the best deal. Same hotel four me birthday was £3,000! Better them pennies in BoPs pocket, ready to be liquidated into wobbleades.

Just had stu and dumplings home made, with rosemary roast tatters, onion gravy. Spotted Richard with custard. Nice spongy one this time. 

Garden chess this weakened and next. 

Watched The Sting again. Excellent film. Still on the Murders in the Building. Wobbleades and cheeses were taken. 

Oh and I has bucked a BoP tor for my birthday as well. 

Buzby sends a

ampersand

Yes, yes - still haven't sorted recipe for so many grapes, but will....soon, very.
Meantime, just for pretties, in an old half-tun found near friend's after flooding a few years ago in Collobrières. Brought it back to &squat 🙂:
1.Again, from up on The Gallops, after a marvellous Harvest Festival service, with Wayne Marshall's incredible musicianship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Marshall_(classical_musician) and:

https://www.theguardian.com/friday_review/story/0,3605,478708,00.html

2.& on service duty, counted 71 heads, inc. 11 children - big for & benefice.  

3.Canada's Maples fully deserved their victory over &'s Black Ferns.  Must hope for a 'bronze' win vs France, in Saturday's 1230h curtain raiser ahead of the final.

3.Crazy weather continues, so managing laundry and drying as best can be.  All still being done by hand.
4.Anyone else read/heard of Ann Swinfen? 'The Bookseller's Tale' is brilliantly written, mystery+intrigue set in C14th Oxford and already & is feeding on new words e.g. wastel, maslin, bejant - all in first 3 chapters!🫶🙂 Her own life was remarkable enough:Ann Swinfen https://share.google/WbNEKBcMPAF88Zd6t
5.Unusual Sunday chaos in Town of Horse.  Open Day at Henry Cecil's stables and high hundreds of vehicles are lined up on The Severals. Lainey, were you there?