5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

Hoping Haggis is ok and sending get better vibes 🐕

weenancyinAmerica

@mhagster - hope puppy is better soon and you can rest easy and get some sleep. Sending you both hugs.

mhagster

Good morning. Happy Easter.

Well we stormed overnight and was a smidge pleasant first thing but rain on and wind picking up again.

For Saturday. A better night as I slept right through! As did a doggy. We are just to have a quiet few days. So that’s just wha5 we are doing.

Was catching up on housework when a lesser spotted brother turned up as he very occasionally does.

DD2 and SIL came over later and we had our egg hunt. She won! And then we had dinner together which was nice.

And so far today Gammon joints went in slow cooker and pavlova is a-cooling down in the oven. And I boiled some eggs to decorate afterwards…there’s a prize for best egg! Having an early Easter lunch at 1.30pm. So table is all set. Need to peel some spuds and prep veg and that’s it!

Have a good day.

mhagster

Gosh it’s quiet round here! Me again with my Sunday pleasures as iPad had ran out of charge last night.

Anyway up early on Easter Sunday. Thought the wind hadn’t done too much damage in the garden but have just seen a potting station has been blown over up my side path and the sofas were a tad askew yesterday morning. Easily sorted though.

We had a day of all the blooming weathers again! We even had snow! Lots of hail. Lots of wind and rain. Occasionally blue sky and sunshine peeked through…and another just all on repeat day!

Set up for Easter lunch. I do love setting my table all nicely. I had bought a £1 bunch of daffs in the supermarket the day before and they delighted me by opening up to be the most gorgeous colour of buttery yellow narcissi with an orange middle. Beautiful.

We had slow cooked gammon, mash and roast potatoes, carrot and turnip mash, broccoli, yorkies and corn on the cob. And then for pudding I surpassed any pavlova I have ever made before and I’ve made loads! This was deliciously perfect! I did three layers ( drew a circle round a bowl on the baking paper) bottom was the leftovers from a jar of RTC caramel. Then cream. Then topped with cream. And put out bowls of strawberries, raspberries and mini eggs to decorate yourself.

But we had laughter and chatter which is just as important as the food I think! We decorated our eggs and DD2 won the prize ( best decorated egg)

They all left. Dishwasher was put on…I only really use it when I do a big dinner for everyone. And the dog and I said sigh…let’s sit quietly!

Friend went home with a big piece of pavlova and I have a dinners worth of leftovers for later.

So far this morning it’s dry and I’ve optimistically hung out a washing! My Monday morning working self is grateful to her Friday being prepared self as all I have to do is grab my bag later on!

Yesterday marked 14 years since the day my husband was first diagnosed with cancer. Because Easter is a moveable date each year it obviously isn’t always on Easter. I am such an elephant for dates and remembering and memories ( and I truly hope I will be for a long time) so there’s quite a few moments of oooft…but Easter is one of my favourite times of year…and even that year we still decorated our eggs and had our picnic at the beach.

Frith

Pleasures for yesterday (Sunday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) House fairly clean and tidy.

3) Fed bigger son's cats.

4) Went to the museum cafe for a pot of tea

5) Saw my sister and her children at 3.

6) Went the pub at 5 to see my school friend.

7) Left the pub at 10 and got an Indian takeaway on the way home.

Highdays

Hello everyone, hope you all had a good Easter.

A bittersweet anniversary, mhags, and hope your doggy has recovered. Your Easter lunch sounds delicious!

Some pleasures:

No storm damage this time though it was pretty ferocious overnight on Saturday.

Some sunny Easter weather, today has been been glorious.

Just back from a great couple of days away with brother and SIL, lots of chats, lots of laughs, lots of wine - ouch!

Went to The Mystery of Banksy - A Genius Mind exhibition in Manchester. Wow, pretty amazing and very thought provoking. My brain still hurts!

They bought us Easter eggs as a thank you for us providing the picnics. Awww! A long time since anyone bought me one. Also a couple of dozen real eggs fresh from the farm. Omelettes and chocolate for tea tonight!

A couple of days to get sorted and then we go away again for a few days, just us this time, to The Potteries, a couple of NTs and a second night of Sunny Afternoon as we enjoyed it so much last time.

Missing some internet pals on here, hope everyone is well x

Broomstick

Evening all 😊

(((((mhags))))), I can't believe it's 14 years.

Anyway, five recent pleasures:

1. On day 4 of no spend. I’ve stayed at home for the long weekend – I've not seen a soul, and I’ve enjoyed it.
2. Tonight’s haybox heated stew worked out well and I have lots of portions for the freezer.
3. Beautiful sunny day.
4. I was sent some lovely photos of DGD being smiley, wearing bunny ears and clutching a very large foil covered chocolate egg. Not sure who ate the egg but I know it wasn’t her – weaning is a while off yet and I'm not sure chocolate will be on the menu as a first food!
5. Got some significant paperwork sorted.

Sweet dreams

Bx

LaineyT

For the last few days,

Due to weather conditions it wasn't quite the gardening marathon we had planned but we did get the grass cut and a fair bit of weeding done, also cleared and prepared two of my raised veg planters ahead of various bits going in. I’m planning on growing more food this year as, like keeping a decent pantry, it’s a wise move considering all things.

Did see my DN and DGN, he’s growing up quickly and like all small boys somewhat fixated on shall we say some bodily functions!

Also received a lovely photo of DB and DSIL enjoying the afternoon tea we gifted them for Christmas.

Did put my crystals out to recharge under the full moon but it clouded over and by the morning they had been washed in rainwater instead!

There was a dark chocolate gold bunny waiting for me on Sunday morning ❤️

A good sort out of girlie’s rugs, two put out for cleaning and lighter ones put on the rack by her stable.

Breakfast out and we all enjoyed the farm shop snorkers. An elderly stopped us on the way out of the cafe and made such a fuss of C dog. Apparently she had had Labradors all her life but could no longer cope with looking after a dog. Our girl lapped up all the attention as we told her story and dropped her head in the lady’s lap. Did make me wonder about putting her forward as a visiting therapy dog 🤔

mehefin

@LaineyT You story about C dog and the elderly lady fair brought a lump to my throat and I think I may have got a little dust in my eye 😪 Miss my labs too. Therapy dogs are brilliant - the reactions of the visited people are priceless. Please check it out.

Hope the grey one is behaving herself- my lot are in lurve with the 2 alapacas that are now residing next door. Not sure who has the most 'hair' at the moment. It's quite sweet really.

Mehefin

ampersand

Happy catch-up read outside a distant co-op WITH SIGNAL!😃so on y va, as they come.

1. Big Tommy Dann Memorial match fundraising day was Good Friday. Fine sums raised including &'s raffle coshing, auction etc., excellent rugby men charity speakers, Tom Wood and Paul Pook. All made for another good mindful day for 2 vital charities dealing with young men's mental health and suicide prevention. TD's parents, wife and young sons are always present.🫶🙏🤲

2. Huge Easter Sunday service turnout and it was so good to give the 2nd reading.

3. 'See a penny, pick it up and all the day you'll have good luck', said &'s Nana, long before decimal currency came to NZ. Picked one up the other day outside emporium and happy enough to call no bad luck good. Ikwim.😁

4. Bits of CUBG and ducky bread fed, then The Alma for rugby-watching with patron. Lent over, so merlot and onion rings appeared.🍷😃

5. Splendid chance mtg in a MrT yesterday. Long animated chat including lovely young checkout lass with super name, Honey🫶, who moments later caught up with us, as we paused near the charity bookshelf, another 'Lent over' plus for &👏. She apologised for interrupting, but blushed to say & hadn't actually paid for her small shop!😱.....and it was so! Still had bank card in hand on trolley throughout, but we'd moved off chatting to not hold up queue. DG, much laughter all round. Had never happened before, but J said 'Oh, 4 or 5 times for me!'. She's over 15 years younger than &.🙃

#...still, all's well that ends well - and lovely garage has not long sorted &'s sudden new 'sidelights failures' msg, plus much happy rugby catch-up chat

&, what a yabber yabber account of much yabber yabber! closing with last night's striking sunset up on The Gallops.