5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

house_elf

Good Morning Peeps,

Raining again....sigh. Won’t be doing stuff in the garden yet again!

Frith Our hens had hen mash and Chinese yesterday. :rotfl: We also had to spray them all with Peck Stop, as they will all be bald by the end of the week! This is not a pleasure, as I could ‘taste’ it for ages afterwards, and it tastes like the stuff you put on your nails to stop biting them.

1. DH and I had avocado and bacon on nice toasted bread for breakfast. Very hipster. DD2 had eggs......chocolate ones

2. More EBay sales. listed a few more items.

3. Had a mass try on of clothes that DS1 gf left behind. I now have a pile to wash and another pile to EBay. (In lieu of living rent and board free for more than 2 years. Then dumping my boy. :mad:).

4. Grouted half the shower. Tiles look like new. (Takes longer than you think, and my arms hurt this morning!).

5. Escape to the Chateau.

6. Sewed DS2 new badges onto his uniform. Looks very smart. He is very proud. (It is infectious, but it also makes me anxious).

7. BoP Hope you enjoyed your trip to London. We have booked our tickets for Cosford Air Show :j

Have a lovely day

LaineyT

Sunday pleasures,

Visit from Easter bunny, two baby rabbits happily chomping on the grass in front of our shed, completely oblivious of spaniel watching them.

Roast pork for lunch and the crackling was spot on.

TV off and several games of Yahtzee.

Lovely warm bath and into PJ’s

Made the mistake of trying to watch Generation Game, absolute rubbish so watched another early episode of Vera instead.

VJsmum

Lainey - another who wasted time on the Gen game. it was bliddy terrible...

Morning from a very wet, very dark ICT - i think the street market will be a wash out. I have cried off the 'tidy the railway' day as I have lots to do, and it's raining

BoP - ICT railway has decorated an engine in commemoration of the RAF anniversary. Engine is the same age (though there is an element of 'Trigger's broom' about it). Here's a pic..

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/No._6_Douglas_in_RAF_blue_-_2018-02-21.jpg/1200px-No._6_Douglas_in_RAF_blue_-_2018-02-21.jpg

Pleasures for the last few days

1. Lots of interviews lined up for PhD work. Now have more than target and will turn any more down. What a lovely position to be in, even if it does mean that I will spend the next month on lots of trains.
2. Walking with OH on Friday on a lovely sunny, if chilly, day. My muscles need to recover from going up. Except I did the same yesterday with friends. Muscles really need to recover today. There was snow on the hilltops yesterday
3. Dinner with friends - Friday and Saturday. Female of friends couple was made redundant last summer - she now has a part time job but is struggling to make the adjustment. Made lots of suggestions, all were shot down. I think she's going to have to find her own way
4. Did 'tidy the railway' - cleaning bird poo off various parts of buildings. Lovely..
5. Have a new 'Welsh drama' to watch, "keeping Faith". These Welsh dramas are excellent and don't get the coverage they deserve. Saw the end of "Shetland" - i had seen the "poor Thomas" comments but.... poor Thomas, SPOILER I hadn't expected that. Couldn't he have just lived happily and quietly ever after?
6. Exchanging text messages with DD - giving easter egg hunt clues from afar.. :rotfl: for a clever girl she can be quite dim :rotfl:
7. After the Gen game was 'ordeal by innocence' which was really quite excellent.
8. OH has taken his mother away for the weekend and, by all accounts, they are having a lovely time.


Have a lovely bank hol, folks, I am working...

ampersand

Rubber band desktop spring-loaded as we're back in Fenny failure-land again.
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1. Pleasures catch-up, as previous trick of driving out for connectivity is kaput since last week. & tries mse sign in on mob., only to be told 'Invalid. 1 out of 5 attempts used up' until locked out. Tried to join as new user, only to be told & is already on mse...
No 'Help, please' msgs to mse Towers are acknowledged.
Will call mini-rant along with catch-up read osp no.1:-)

2. Banking done, having [as often] 'acquired' a somewhat lost young man en route. Good rugby build:-)but the ballon ovale was a mystery to him, although he spoke of haka. & gave assurance that SRUFC would happily have him. He gallantly kept to little old &lady speed/stride as we crossed Grafton Centre to main town of gown Natwest, where & introduced him to staff for a/c opening. All went well.

3. Barn owls by day - 3 times since last post, pacing with &+Meriva. Pheasant-y goings on out back this morning. Many wives.

4. All sorts of excellent Church over last few days, esp. lighting of outside fire and throwing in paper writings of things to let go. Found self thinking too, at this point, of Julian Lloyd Webber's playing of 'Sparks Fly Upwards'. Heard only once, over 30 years ago, composition of his turbulent father. Have never been able to find it since, but there's doubtless another 'letting go' lesson in there.

5. Crikey. no.5 already! OK, with a nod to bop, checked yday on the 1942 RNZAF grave near church, which & undertook to look after last November. Saw it at once from afar, daffodils various and hyacinths all blooming around the base. Pics taken. So pleased:-)

Oh well, 6 - and it's another Thankyou mcc, for your Erma Bombeck siggie:-) & had not known of her, but this came via book of face, so Easter Monday sharing. I see her husband died, aged 90, near & birthday a few months back.
WOMAN. . . . . . . . .

When God created woman he was working late on the 6th day.......
An angel came by and asked, "Why spend so much time on her?"
The Lord answered "Have you seen all the specifications I have to meet to shape her? She must function on all kinds of situations, She must be able to embrace several kids at the same time, Have a hug that can heal anything from a bruised knee to a broken heart, She must do all this with only two hands,
She cures herself when sick and can work 18 hours a day"
The Angel was impressed "Just two hands.....impossible! And this is the standard model?"
The Angel came closer and touched the woman. "But you have made her so soft, Lord".
"She is soft", said the Lord,"But I have made her strong. You can't imagine what she can endure and overcome"
"Can she think?" the Angel asked...
The Lord answered, "Not only can she think, she can reason and negotiate"
The Angel touched her cheeks...."Lord, it seems this creation is leaking! You have put too many burdens on her"
"She is not leaking...it is a tear" The Lord corrected the Angel.
"What's it for?" Asked the Angel.....
The Lord said, "Tears are her way of expressing her grief, her doubts, her love, her loneliness, her suffering and her pride."...
This made a big impression on the Angel,
"Lord, you are a genius. You thought of everything. A woman is indeed marvellous"
Lord said "Indeed she is. She has strength that amazes a man. She can handle trouble and carry heavy burdens. She holds happiness, love and opinions. She smiles when she feels like screaming. She sings when she feels like crying, cries when happy and laughs when afraid. She fights for what she believes in.
Her love is unconditional. Her heart is broken when a next-of-kin or a friend dies but she finds strength to get on with life"
The Angel asked: So she is a perfect being?
The Lord replied: No. She has just one drawback...She often forgets what she is worth
- Erma Bombeck
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... relating to her
''MOTHERS"

When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said. "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one."
And God said, "Have you read the specs on this order? She has to be completely washable, but not plastic. Have 180 moveable parts...all replaceable. Run on black coffee and leftovers. Have a lap that disappears when she stands up. A kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a disappointed love affair. And six pairs of hands."
The angel shook her head slowly and said. "Six pairs of hands.... no way."
"It's not the hands that are causing me problems," God remarked, "it's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have."
That's on the standard model?" asked the angel. God nodded.
"One pair that sees through closed doors when she asks, 'What are you kids doing in there?' when she already knows.
Another here in the back of her head that sees what she shouldn't but what she has to know, and of course the ones here in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and say. 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word."
"God," said the angel, touching his sleeve gently, "Get some rest tomorrow...."
"I can't," said God, "I'm so close to creating something so close to myself. Already I have one who heals herself when she is sick...can feed a family of six on one pound of hamburger...and can get a nine year old to stand under a shower."
The angel circled the model of a mother very slowly. "It's too soft," she sighed.
"But tough!" said God excitedly. "You can't imagine what this mother can do or endure."
"Can it think?"
"Not only can it think, but it can reason and compromise," said the Creator.
Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek, "There's a leak," she pronounced. "I told You that You were trying to put too much into this model."
"It's not a leak," said the Lord, "It's a tear."
"What's it for?"
"It's for joy, sadness, disappointment, pain, loneliness, and pride."
"You are a genius, " said the angel.
Sombrely, God said, "I didn't put it there.'
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Not everyone's cuppa, not totally &'s, but as much a part of thinking about others. vjm, your friend will find her way, too.
& has always cared for all Marge Piercy's writing, novels and poetry.
Love 'Putting the Good Things Away', which mcc's Bombeck quote always calls up.
There's a real anger burn here, title of first M.P. book & spotted by chance, years ago in town of gown Oxfam:
https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/my-mothers-body

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Elf. Was a bit rushed. Banged out early due to the trains being carp! Yous must go round the museum at Cosford, back in 1982 I was there when the Vulcan was delivered! Then days, was an ad hoc private collection, now is part of the RAF Museum!

5 Don't forget to listen to some wireless thing Friday night. You will clearly hear BoP, I'm the one singing!

4 Had usual Sat fest this morning! Best back and snorker, straight cut spagYETTI, fried bread, mushrooms, toms and poached egg! Tum was rubbed and tea was drunk Did shopping inn town earlier, got to do a stonker buzzard curry soon. You know it will make three dishes. Tum shall be rubbed!

3 Had to repair gate latch today with new latch. BoPsie helped. On helping, Raffles who is fed up with the cheap treats we get him, has been out on the prowl and removed a shrew from the pool. Treats are required! Why does he flop down anywhere!

PM2DD Nails are being bitten at the now!

Stay in touch all weak with BoPiness at lunch times. Daily updates and other things bought to you whether you want it or not!

DundeeDoll

PM2BOP half time and 1 down already for us. will be delighted if you hold onto your lead over wycombe who are nipping at our ankles! COYH!!!
1) glorious easter service. provost announced egg hunt for the young, prosecco for the adults (fear not there was an alcohol free alternative). one particularly keen child had busily been spotting the eggs during the service, and rushed to collect as many as she could hold. another didn't get any, so i asked the first if i could have an egg, thinking to pass it on. 'eggs are for the children' she replied 'there's prosecco for the grown ups'. i hasten to add when i explained she gave me two!
2) a very nice glass or two of prosecco while i discussed my latest plan for fund-raising for disabled access.
3) then bus to lunch at mum's before dd1 went off to play dnd and dd2 drove down to manchester to spend the week with her dad
4) then walked sister's dog with dn2. he is considering dundee for uni and tea
5) then home with leftovers for lunch today.
to all any fund raising ideas for church, however sensible or bonkers, gladly received. we have a large amount to raise!

Gintotmelinda

Delurking to say VJs mum where is ICT? I've been racking my brains.....OH can't recognise the railway and it's driving him mad!


Gintot

DundeeDoll

I am in the kitchen mrs salad dodger and i remembered. it's spiced lentils from Cranks
2tbsp oil, 1 large onion chopped, 2 garlic cloves crushed, 1 tbsp curry powder, 2 tsp ground cumin, 1 tsp ground coriander, 12 oz green lentils, 1.5 pints water, 1 stock cue, 3 tbsp tomato puree, 1 sliced leek, 3 sliced celery sticks (i used carrot instead), 3 chopped tomatoes. i just bunged it all in the slow cooker, brought to the boil then simmered for an hour or so. yummy.

Purple_kitten

1 Used the T and M Easter offer for free delivery on some petunia night sky.
2 Enjoying being able to eat from the freezer this morning.
3 RTC pork joint cooking away to be dinner with safe to say all yellow stickered but greens, sprouts, carrots and wedges, and the obligatory hm apple sauce.
4 Spent a lovely day with the in-laws yesterday, I gave them hm jam for Easter, for the first time in many years we have an Easter egg each, believe it or not still untouched may snaffle them away for holidays.
5 We took it easy today, but still managed to gather a big bag of duvet and pillow covers together for CS, clearing out our cupboard as we have investing in quality bedding over time and never thrown out our starter covers.

house_elf

Monday OS Pleasures....

1. Woken early by OH alarm. (Forgot to switch it off:mad:). Got up anyway, and spent a couple of hours in a nest on the sofa, reading your pleasures and surfing the web.

2. More EBay listing and sold enough stuff to buy vouchers for birthday meal for DH and DD when she returns in 2 weeks.

3. Sunday lunch on Monday at friends house. Celebrating birthday and anniversary. Lovely afternoon.

4. Watching DS2 snowboarding. Giant cappuccinos and comfy chairs have been acquired.

5. Contemplating unhealthy supper of Maccy D!!!8217;s on the way home

Thanks for the Emma Bombeck & Made me feel quite emotional!

Have a lovely day tomorrow.