5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

mhagster

My day didn’t quite go as planned but hey Ho!

Up early.

Wrote a list of chores and oh maybe got 2 of them done when I needed to take DD2 to hospital…and when we thank heavens for our small mercies and say hurrah for a Friday as apparently the car park is not as busy on a Friday…so we got a space without having to drive round and round! And out in time to have lunch at the canteen!

And by the time we got home it was raining and I still had a tip run booked in at the recycling centre. So got a wee bit wet. And decided I wasn’t going to go to CP as planned as pool would be shut as it was raining and it was blooming freezing which is ridiculous after days of heat!

So home it was…had some work stuff to do ( even though I’m not actively working at the moment…I have stuff on the back burner)

Chat to sister.

Took the dog a run in the car when I was dropping something off…couldn’t bear his sad face of oh…you’re going out without me! So he came for a 10 minute drive!

And then the sun came out and dried up all the rain! And turned into a pleasant ( cool) evening.

Lovely work call with a new family.

Bought some sweet Williams in the supermarket…how is almost June already…I think of the flowers in stages ( next will probably be sunflowers)

ampersand

• Amazing storm pics, Frith. & loves big weather.

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• 1.Another shilling found on the ground.🙂

• 2.Busy squirrel's work mean many oak and walnut seedlings chez & ready to pass on. Note will go out tonight via benefice and any money raised will go to the Mara diocese.

• Listening to🇨🇵 💓French 🎾Open💓🇨🇵 and the glory of Fonseca seeing djokovic off👍👏🫶with 3 incredible aces to close the match out - and that from break point down! And on his Mum's birthday, he excitedly added. A terrific young fella.

• 3. During osp.2, finished crocheting hwb cover for daughter in India. A cancer charity there is her life's work. Hmm🤔 on how to ship it and the crochet Afghan blanket to her, but something will sort itself out.

• 4. After yesterday's midweek Communion, was up on The Gallops - quelle surprise!😁 - crocheting osp 3, when 4 young teen lads emerged from the woody part with a huge metal drum barbecue, a bike and bag of bits. They'd clearly been careful, English not their first language. En bref, they worried that the taxi they'd ordered to take them home wouldn't accept them+barbecue and bag of bits. 2 lads set off downhill on the bike to get home before dark. Big Doblo reorganise meant barbecue, equipment and other 2 lads squeezed in and & drove them home. They were insistent about giving & the taxi money, but & said a time will come when someone else needs their help and they will remember.......🫶

• Shades of your car pushing help, Frith.😀

• 5. Another big drops sun shower after 3 yesterday. Must water fig tree tonight. Beautiful sky as I close here.

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PaulieHerts

Back in Lesvos for our first ever 3 week holiday! (Joys of being retired). The weather has been lovely (22 -25) and most of our time has been spent on the beach and eating/drinking! We thankfully missed the heatwave at home. Had a steroid injection in my knee before we came away which means I have been able to walk around a little better.

We’re taking the little land train to beautiful Molyvos and may try walking down the little cobble streets from the castle to our usual spot for lunch at the harbour. We’re going today as due to be the coolest day and then weather due to rise a degree or two.

Have a lovely day everyone 😊

LaineyT

Sorry to hear about your cat Frith,

Hoping that your poorly ones are improving Highdays

For the week just gone,

Last Sunday morning and catching up on all things Ambridge, gosh the Brian storyline is like something out of a Shakespearean play!

Finding two of my missing Miss Read books in a CS.

It’s been a hot one so windows opened wide first thing to catch cool breezes and then shut plus curtains drawn when the sun comes round.

At least it’s putting the paint onto the strawberries, remembered to bring some straw from the yard to protect from them from sitting in the earth.

First picking of broad beans, blanched and eaten cold in salad, yum.

Our Italian rescue dog relishes the heat and was often found sleeping outside in the full sun, guess our temperatures are quite tepid compare to Calabria!

Homegrown flowers, roses, lavender and nepeta in a jam jar.

Gentle tv of Canal Boat Diaries.

Sitting outside into the evening, glass of something cold and watching the bats flying around the cottage.

And the Swifts are back, screeching in the sky as they catch tea on the wing.

The beautiful grey one has been going out early and then in at midday to enjoy the coolness of the barn during the heat of the day.

Sadness to finish the week, heard that my cousin had succumbed to cancer and we are heading up North next Tuesday for her funeral. She was two years younger than me and horse mad too so childhood summers were spent together. Larger than life she threw herself into everything she did and fought hard. Another reminder if we needed it to make the most of every day.

mhagster

Another day of not quite what was planned.

Up early and set off to CP . Had a nice dry and bright walk…about an hour later it started to rain. Which had not been forecast in my home area but as it turned out it was at CP. so the pool wouldn’t be getting opened so we just headed home. ( was just down for a walk and a swim)

So then DD2 picked me up and we went up to city shopping centre…not my favourite place as the noise and biz kind of overwhelms me. But she got what she was after ( a gift for this evening) and we had some lunch. And I got some eye serum.

Then home…snoozette.

Got ready to go over to a friend’s house for a get together which was nice. Much chatter with lots of different people!

Had some positive work news so that was encouraging.

Pulled some blooming weeds! Sun and rain has encouraged them to grow!

Frith

Pleasures for yesterday (Saturday)

1)Not a bad sleep.

2) Still too hot for me so I did very little during the morning.

3) Dusted during the afternoon, tidied up, put washing out on the line.

4) Watched Arsenal vs PSG with smaller son.

5) Phoned my school friend.

ampersand

• 1. Oh, oh, oh the glory of these 4 young athletes, ensuring a wonderful decade of Grand Slam tennis ahead - surely! Alcaraz, back before long,🙏, Fonseca, Mensik, Jodar.

2. Reasonable weather today, before this: https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/met-office-issues-heavy-rain-34041437. Might be like yours, Frith!

3. Already 2 walnut and 6 oak seedlings taken. Any funds raised will go to Mara diocese.🤞

4. More gripping fightback stuff, 🏉ballon ovale, yesterday. Listened to Newcastle somehow haul themselves back into the match against runaway Sale.......and eventually win!!! https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/cj0pn50mmeno

There's a lot of this happening this season.

5. Sent this grauniad piece to daughter, whose life's work is there, with her response. Very, very telling -https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/30/delhi-homeless-family-endures-extreme-heat?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other"

"This flyover is just up the road from me. There are many street-sleeping Muslim families there as it's near a very old and revered tomb, Nizamuddin Dargah, surrounded by a bustling 800 year-old village. Because it's highly revered and a thriving Muslim community, it makes sense for homeless families to camp out on the road there, as pilgrims and visitors to the shrine are more likely to bestow alms as part of their religious observances.

The government do raise large tents on the opposite corner during the Monsoon and summer to shelter families from the rain and heat, but yes, this May has been extra intense and I don’t think the govt was prepared. The mental and physical exhaustion saps all one’s energy and I can relate to this article and the women in it. The extra anxiety of having to keep constant eyes on the little ones whilst enduring the heat, must be overwhelming..

I know the encampment this family were in formerly, across the road from the Dargah. It was demolished about 7-8 years ago.

Another basti (slum) that my close friends lived in, just across the road to that encampment, was also unconstitutionally demolished 2.5 years ago with only 48 hrs' notice, having existed there since Partition in 1947.

My friends were homeless, living in the rubble of their home all through the cold of the winter. I’d try to get breakfast and chai to them every morning until they got on their feet. The trauma and loss of it is still with them. They did find another place to live, a flat, but we all miss the basti, the earth, the cows, fresh milk, the trees, the village community.
Actually, Sitara, Mustaqeem and I went back the other day to sit under a tree and have a picnic at the Muslim saint graves Mustaqeem cares for. Surrounded by construction screens of the developers building on their old home, we felt so happy to be there in the remaining trees and vegetation, under that cool tree. We even found a rogue tomato plant with fruit, which I then planted in a pot there. Fingers crossed!

Hope you'll forgive lengthy osp.5, but we are fortunate, despite much that is adverse, on so many levels.

Happycas

Ampersand Thank you. What a wonderful caring daughter you have. And indeed, we have much to be thankful for xx

mhagster

A day of much rain and not very warm!

For Sunday I was up and at ‘em early. Loads of chores to be done and once they were all done off we went to the CP.

Quick walk…and we met an old retriever we’ve not seen for a while so after a big bark from H he settled down and off they went.

And chatters to my caravan neighbours.

From a wet start it turned into a lovely afternoon and I had the most lovely swim in the sunshine. Lovely chatters with my fellow swimmers.
SIL called whilst I was swimming and one of the ladies had just got out so she grabbed my phone for me…just to see if I wanted pizza as they were coming down with The Pup so we had a lovely tea and then a very lovely walk.

They left and H was left with a bit of a limp…did a bit too much running pretending he’s still a young lad!
Niece called for a chat and then it was bedtime.

Absolutely poured through the night and was wet when we had our walk at 5am. Saw Mr and Mrs Pheasant at the bottom of the driveway scuttling across when they saw us…saying tuk tuk to each other!

No pool open today as it’s lashed so came home at 11am. Had had a nice chat with DD1.

And then DD2 popped in.

Had some work stuff to do. So nice chatters and helpful people.

Chat to sister in law.

Chat to sister.

Chat to friend!
( me I’m going to read my book…instead hasn’t stopped talking all afternoon)

And I truly can’t quite believe it’s June already! But my garden is looking lush ( that’ll be the rain!) saw the swallows for the first time at CP as I was having our quick final walk before coming home.

And I’m just going to have last nights planned tea now…which is just a toastie as they had brought the pizza down last night.

And probably fill my HWB and have an early night ( not quite yet obviously!)

ampersand

• 1. Just hearing on R4 Front Row that Marilyn Monroe was born 100 years ago today! Really? Yes.

• 2. Sorted, potted and delivered 5 more oak seedlings and 1 walnut this morning.🙂. Donations will go to Mara.

• 3. All ends of daughter's infinity crochet hwb cover darned in while listening to French Open up on The Gallops.

• Osaka vs Sabalenka next. Swiatek's post-loss interview was almost a philosophical treatise, not the 25th birthday present she would have wanted. This is already the most open Grand Slam at this stage for years.

• 4. Toulon won yesterday, beating UBB 26-22!!! ❤️ et 🖤, 🏉💓. Next week away vs Castres. Hmmm, k-o 20h. Might reach The Alma in time,🤞

• 5. Emporium reusable bags half-price to clear, 15p! All 32 taken as otherwise being thrown out tonight!!😮. Loads of sharing and uses in mind. Ideal for all sorts of things.

• New phone and & are getting on better and better👏. Signal range is greater too. Even phone calls work quite often, though not chez &. It's still progress.🙂