5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

house_elf

Morning Chaps,

Yesterday

1. Gardening group worked really hard. Really like the people at the allotment.

2. Lovely comment from a colleague in another organisation. Made me cry. Good job it was email!

3. Lots of reduced stuff in Mr A on the way home.

4. Replacement microwave has arrived. So quiet, so stylish, so half price! Love Amazon Warehouse deals. Especially as it was paid for with the proceeds of the EBay Empire.

5. Hofesh Shecter Grand Finale with DD. One of her birthday treats.

No fox chasing this morning, so hopefully Mr Fox has changed his route home......

Have a lovely day

villagelife

1 Enjoyed my walk to the bus and had enough time to walk to next bus stop. It was another five minutes of walking.

2. Took lunch in with me to work. A salad using up bits of salad veg and the last crumbs of cheddar. It tasted good with a dressing on.

3. Flowers now looking good in a vase. I removed a couple that were spoiling the look of the rest.

4. Had to fix printer for DH. I never have problems with it. He was printing labels to return a bag to Amazon. He then didn't ask me to wrap the bag and attach the labels.

5. Toad in the hole cooked for tea.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Toad inn the Hole. Proper foods, hope it went with some onion gravy!

V Back at mill writing about the cloth supplier. I as gotten writing about words with too syllables! Should ease our coals in the boiler house.

4 We has got too FryDay and only one wants to leave the pit this week! All I can say is they cannot handle the heat in the furnace. Kettle is on brewing proper tea. In fact we has a gal here who drinks lemon tea stuff. My water is better in the morning than that. Avoid!

3 On that, we has BoPsie complaining about her lunch box this weak and the lack Bourneville. She’s had two clubs each day all weak, and what! Now today as we have two cakes of Jaffa, she has some Bourneville. Proper chocolate and good for you!

2 Nite BoP is having stove matured chicken curry, with egg fried hammed rice! And tomorrow we has no bitsers roulette as BoP has been rather fruity with it this week and used it all up. We are again out of food for Saturday night!

A chasm on the peninsula has been Trumped! Just in case anyone barks, it was Billy who lobbed stones when I was inn Riyadh!

DigForVictory

Flo61 - The Woodentops & spotty dog? <putters off to YouTube in search of old friends!> Thank you!
Mrs LW - one's Own Bed is absolutely an OSP! Baby socks have their own special enchantment. The peace when the storm has receded is blissful. You have the house sorted, Himself happily away & No Viewers? Life is most unfair some days.
DundeeDoll - bravo fundraising & how many candles now? "4 seasons in one day" - made our St.Georges Day Parade ticklish but it rained while we'd got them all herded into church! Congratulations on job! I thought 127.0.0.1 was ASCII but reconsidered & no - PHP/HTML - but indeed no place like it! "40 to over 100 dissertation students" - blimey well done! Fire alarm bonding is wonderful.
mhaster - eep, rattle, but hurrah for DD2. Who "got some jewels"?! And a clear line on tuna, Eating The Lot. Happy ANZAC day (o, Haggis.) Love the well done from Aunt! Best of luck with builders. "You need, I must" love it! Enjoy the baking & decorating?
Broomstick - the young have erratic digging techniques... First cuckoo?! Sunflowers in pots - more reliable? (Hurrah essay too) Giggling parents are wonderful & a herb-scented car a treat!
Frith - hurrah Barbara, & breadmaker-mending-gentleman. "rhubarb and banana cake" sounds wonderful - what did your chaps reckon? Atta boys! "son had tea ready" must not covet... You got bigger son to & from the dentists chair - hurrah! NCS is wonderful - my lad loved it, had a splendid week in the Highlands, and another in uni flats in Preston having his horizons broadened & seems thoroughly happy with it. Panna cotta & shortbread - that is top notch parenting!
erin_transport - looking forward to that no alarm bit myself!
LaineyT - a smooth floating trot?! Awe... Ah yes, thin parents feeding baby birds. Glad you are out of ex workplace. The perils of off the shelf cards - I collect postcards & interesting prints to get around these hallmark horrors. Suspect farrier reasonably accepting of horse resting head on his back given the many worse alternatives?
villagelife - DS2, fancy dress, rugby club - oh my imagination. Successful cutting transplantation - awed! Good spirits in patients helpful & often linked to a good outcome. Bluebells & hm ham pie wonderful! Nematodes sound like a sort of Science Fiction Alien - "attack of the nemotodes".... You are also the house tech? Or she whose fingers make touch-sensitive things work?
Mrs Salad Dodger - enjoying the brutal traditionalist DSis! Agreed sale - oh what a relief - house buying & selling can be So Fraught. A hot bath is a lovesome thing.
house elf - love "DH birthday, so he was allowed to buy stuff" Fox, chicken pen & doggie rightly pleased. DD birthday but no house taxi required - hurrah! Crusader shields are great fun - we've one edged in rawhide, which means we had to soak a dog chew to get the hide. Had to Google Hofesh Shecter but wow - what a birthday treat!
Purple kitten - So impressed at your care for ferret & delighted he's enjoying it. So right to leave bits of garden for the occupants other than the people.
BoP - Shuttleworth collection - must not covet. Agree Tolkein a bit hefty for novice, but the language/culture refs etc. King James Bible instead? A Tigger tie?! Milne or Disney? Gold Speedos are really only worn for Rocky Horror Shows or the sort of fundraising event BoPsie wouldn't put up with. Keep it classic. With onion gravy.
VJsmum - osprey eggs are a very special OSP. All luck applying cream to eye - targeting beastly difficult. Wigan & an interviewee wouldn't shut up - that was unexpected?!
ampersand - intriguing aristo & airfield maps. All strength getting a sensible signal at some stage!

OS Peasures recently
Offhand why would anyone carefully calligraph 1979, 1978 & 1980 on three panels of a rugby ball? Intrigued.

Finally remembered to get left foot orthosis into trainer - at last, not pounding the treadmill lopsided!

Chivvying sons *out* of the midday sun - Migod the novelty. Ordinarily I have to exhume them from frowsty heaps - today I'm putting the garden off limits between noon & one!

Howling with laughter at Natalie Haynes on Juvenal on the radio - superb show. A stand up example of why classics are absolutely worth studying!

Son's room has been invaded by a bumblebee. Son has opened every window, turned off his music & left, to give the poor animal a chance to depart unharmed. Returned later to declare himself "the bumble whisperer".

"Aw, that's my crispy!" Not sure singed son appreciated the fraternal appellation but glad to be excused washing up. [Young lout stopped a bonfire log barehanded - oops.]

Celebrated Earth Day by folding a heap of bags for life neatly & storing them in the car so the snarling as Still More Bags are bought can cease. Well, so I hope.

Planted a windowsill of nasturtiums. Makes me happy even if Himself was hoping for still more herbs - front room greenly furry with seedlings.

Another bumblebee heavily, drowsily, lumbering about - and having landed, the poor thing struggled to take off confined behind jars. We moved them, which seemed to improve air circulation, and the bumble revved off.

"You do love your fish." Son observing Himself resembling a distinctly cheerful Buddha, after ingesting an anniversary cod. (The big events? We celebrate in our small ways. The odd things? We go loco.)

Finally watching Electric Dreams! (Just the Buscemi episode so far.)

Paged a son to help unload shopping. "I'm not dressed yet" - at gone noon on a Sunday - I womanfully resisted the temptation to yell help anyway (& entertain the neighbours.) Sadly now bathrobed & shuffling vegetables.

The green tips have unfurled into bright green leaves, the cherry trees are a dancing cloud of bubbles - who'd have thought it was Monday?

We have a little prince - well done Kate! [Now please hide out & recover in comfort & peace well away from cameras. Or in as much peace as two curious siblings & an unlikely to sleep through yet child will allow.]

Caught up with my Comte de Clermont - the lovely bloke who sweeps up & keeps the square litter free - not seen him in ages & worried he'd retired on me but no, there & well & still patient & kindly & remarkable tolerant.

"Quite simply tunes. Nothing's wrong with a tune." - the conductor who reconstructed two early Elgar works on the composer's rising popularity internationally. Having heard some of Harrison Birtwhistle's stuff, I agree!

Recalling my gardening aunts' approach to flower arranging daffodils "clutch and dump".... The trick was always to have Lots, at which point the placement ceased to matter. I still jump on sundry chinaware just for it's flower arranging potential. The chaps have the eye roll down pat.

Discussing mothering techniques with manageress of emporium - blackmail, hugs & careful training from an early age were my top three commendations. Along with digital photography to remind you they used to be cute & that it is entirely permissible to yearn to sell a child for parts at least one day a year.

Squishing playmobil packs & abandoning the one that appears to have snorkers. (Sorry BoP but I like my toy figures to have weapons.)

Ordinarily I kick out against being a blimming damsel but the tall gent who reached the pot of yoghurt for me was so gratified to be hero of the hour it was almost worth it.

Amused at Mr.Kipling shamelessly cashing in on the royal wedding! Well, trying to.

Delighted at Royal baby, at last, called Louis. Welcome, young 'un.


Right - health, strength, love, courage, applied-science & robust footwear to all as have need

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1) Trip to the farm shop this morning and topping up on nice fresh fruit and veg and free range eggies.

2) Coffee at the garden centre on the way home, lovely.

3) YS bargains in One Stop including a huge iceberg lettuce and some half price lean steak mince.

4) Chat to DD1 this afternoon as she walked home from school.

5) I'm NOT outside in the horrid heavy stair rod rain that has been plummeting down since lunchtime and doesn't look like stopping any time soon!

6) The hot water bottle I've been cuddling for a couple of hours because I was cold, cold, cold!

mhagster

Hello, it's surprisingly been a very pleasant day. Not exactly warm but sunny and bright and it's a lovely evening.

Busy day. Was up early and made cakes...

Hung out two loads of washing.

Skinny club. Lost 4.5lbs. Hurrah! Gave another lady 3 tops that were still new that I'd got at my mums. She was delighted.

Builder chap came. Was showing him the boiler in the garage...meanwhile Haggis was perusing the cupcakes in the kitchen...the ones I'd just carefully covered with fondant icing and making unicorns with. He decided to have all six. Cake cases and all. Builder thought it was very funny. Me ...not so much.

Then round to mums. Did 2 hours there. It's quite mentally exhausting as well as physically. Organised another charity collection for Tuesday. Oh my slim self aged teenage! Oh those hairdos! Lots of photos to look at. Having tomorrow off!

Home and hurrah! Mobile library still there. I usually miss it. Or realise as it's driving away. Returned one and borrowed two.

Had a pair of size 3 wellies in my shoe cupboard that belonged to friends DD from when I first moved back. Incase she was staying here and it was muddy. Her feet have grown. Anyway, messaged another friend and popped down with wellies for her daughter Out my cupboard and a nice chat too.

Got ready for surprise birthday tea for friends daughter. She was suitablly surprised. Nice tea. Tasty cake even though it didn't look quite as I'd planned.

Just done a quick dog walk.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Friday).


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Smaller son had a good day at school (a good fortnight in all) so I received congratulations messages from his specialist teacher and TA!


3) Bigger son does not have college on Fridays so he helped me with lots of jobs.


4) Hens well.


5) Took the porch door off (step one in demolishing the porch) and took it to the skip, along with the old hoover.


6) Bigger son wanted to pop to various shops and B and Q. We had made egg sandwiches and ate them in a car park!


7) Tasty tea of broccoli cheese and rhubarb (from the allotment) and yoghurt for pudding.


8) Bigger son went to work.


9) I've been watching TV - Gogglebox plus HIGNFY, not forgetting Monty and Nigel.

house_elf

Morning Folks,

Grey and damp here. Hopefully, a weekend of DIY and house tidying.

Yesterday

1. Too wet to go gardening at the gardens, so stayed at school and planted seeds and potato bags. There will be a competition to see who gets the most potatoes from their bag. (Me obviously!). Anyway, did not have to drive the minibus, or do all the minibus checks, or fill in all the visit paperwork! :j

2. Someone had the bright idea to go to McD!!!8217;s and get food for our lunch. I ordered a Happy meal to cheer me up! (My Friday TA is hard work!).

3. Film after work......The Boy with the Top Knot. Part of the Birmingham Literary Festival. Very good. Will be on the BBC.

4. Drink in the bar afterwards with our friends. Had old fashioned Dandelion and Burdock, as we were all driving. :rotfl:

5. DH got chips on the way home, while I cooked the fish.

6. Watched an Escape to the Chateau DIY before bed.

Don!!!8217;t forget to get your Gardeners World Magazine with the free 2 for 1 garden entry ticket.......lasts for a year.

Have a lovely day

villagelife

DFV I'm the one in the house who has the most patience and I don't get cross/ give up if something doesn't work first time.

1. Managed to declutter more stuff. An area next to a dresser is now clear.

2. Got lots of little jobs done like phoning opticians for my free second pair of glasses and ordered some cards.

3. Made rhubarb crumble and had with custard.for tea. Also used up bananas by making a banana cake.I
Had cooked a gammon for tea which we had with chips.

4. We had a drink in the garden after we finished gardening. We started sitting but ended up walking round in the rain!

5. Watched the end of Leicester v Newcastle rugby match and pleased Newcastle won. It was exciting at the end. Whenever we've been to watch a match at Newcastle they have always been so friendly and it seems a lovely club. Slightly different from my experience at Leicester.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

PM2DD BoP is chewing his nails!