5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Pleasures for today (Tuesday)


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Scrambled eggs and smoked salmon for breakfast.


3) Sold 1kg of lego on Ebay.


4) Hens well.


5) Half of the porch is now flat to the ground! Still very pleased with it (and the new view from the windows/front door).


6) Went to see my school friend for a cup of tea.


7) Watched The Island with bigger son.

villagelife

1. A strange day at work. People who worked started annoyed as others were off on carers leave. Others had been off on Monday. Some people seem to take their 5 days of it every year. Someone working wasn't entitled to a day when her child was in hospital.
It was one of those days when everything seemed to take twice as long as it should.

2. Pleased when I arrived home and Enjoyed a cup of coffee.

3. Did some weeding in the garden. Another area looks good and quickly weeded another area i had already dine.

4. Made a gammon bake for tea with enough left for lunch and a couple of portions in the freezer for DH.

5. Watched Him by City and then Cunk in Britain.

6. Took more books to League of Friends shop. I'm getting there with reducing my books.

LaineyT

Monday/Tuesday pleasures,

Another sunny day on the beach, this time it was Black Rock beach, more rock pooling and watching the surfers followed by hot chocolate at the beach cafe, complete with whipped cream and marshmallows.

Walk along the cliff path, so many wildflowers in bloom including tiny white, pale pink ones which we indentified as stonecrop.

Driving down tiny country lane and small weasel was running ahead of us, well hopping really, lovely to see.

Explored the tiny church hidden in our valley, reached by small bridge and the graveyard was a sea of bluebells.

Up very early and walked to top of hill to watch sunrise on Beltane day.

To Wadebridge and walked part of the Camel trail along old disused rail line.

Got chatting to stylish old gent who admired little dog, he had had working spaniels all his life but never a chocolate one.

Rain came in so back to cottage, little nap after such early start.

Despite above, in bed by 10pm, bit of squally rainstorm but cosy in bed reading.

VJsmum

Morning all - been AWOL again.... Sooooo busy

Oh dear, Mhags, I shouldn't :rotfl: but it is quite funny if it isn't happening to you....
Glad you are having a nice holiday, Lainey

Pleasures recently

1. Cherry blossom, looks so beautiful against a blue sky. And our big tree is out in full leaf now
2. Nice weekend with friends who came to stay. Went to the national memorial arboretum for the day on saturday. we've been a few times, but it was their first time. Fascinating, ever changing and contemplative. I love that there is something so alive that commemorates the dead
3. Some good interviews done - on my way to one of the last now. Another tomorrow and probably two more TBA but then that's that part done.
4. My boy is pretty much back from uni - he has two exams but will probably travel from home for them. Just glad to get him out of his toxic (as in environment) flat
5. Rigorous supervision meeting yesterday. I was very much on the defensive but, after all, i do have to defend it. And the supervisors said I did defend it and am doing well (which was the pleasure). Some good tips and onwards i go
6. Lost 4lb and many inches in first diet week :T Made it worth abstaining from alcohol four days out in a row - haven't really missed it. Am missing dairy the most.. 6lb and a few more inches to go.
7. Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds on Monday night. Love a bit of Noel, I do. Shame we got stuck on the motorway on the way home and delayed by 2 hours but you can't have everything
8. Despite dietary restrictions some nice food has been had - lamb shanks cooked 'sous vide' (cos it's easy) on sunday, some steak last night.
9. Lunch out with GBF on Monday - nice to catch up with him and allow him to offload his woes
10. Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society on Sunday after friends had gone - what a lovely film.:T

Have a nice day all

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

V Millwrights gaffer was round with is cloth merchant yesterday. So collared are they with our cloth, that we had to slap each other’s back because not only are we putting icing on the cake, we are splashing the cherry on top as well! Curry night has been arranged too …
Oh, and the a330neo has first full up for TAP today, how things has changed in the thirty six years! You needed to know that!

4 Last night I could not make up my mind about whether the do roulette or sardines on toast for dinner! In the end we had pizza from the chilled cabinet topped with proper foods. Actually it was quite nice.

3 As mentioned passim, that two shovels are laid up against the wall in the boiler room, and head hunter from recruitment has been trawling again to get stokers in. Bio Histories has landed on BoP’s table. I cannot find any stokers, but we have a previous one I hope! On abouts the mill, last eve me and BoPsie purchased some new biscuits, thins chocolate digestive. They were on offer. As mentioned in these writtings, they are not proper foods, and having been tested at the mill this morning in the tea area, I can confirm that they are carp. Avoid! Note to readers who need not to know, they taste like that thirst communion biscuit you got at 16 because …

PM2DD So down the road in the rusting town that cannot be named in this parish, the scooonthorpe seem to be in some play-off. Yet last eve they could not bring themselves fill a bus shelter compared with the mariners at The Theatre of Fish! Scoonts, ooo it should had be u!

Based on these happenings in your version of the Life of BoP, you can be asserted that tomorrow will bring more BoPiness!

Broomstick

Evening all

Belated jolly Beltane.

Thanks MrsLW and VJsmum for the recommendations about The Guernsey Lit/Potato Peel film. For the first time in years I think I might take myself to the cinema. If the DVD is out in time, it might do for my mum's birthday this summer as well.

Five pleasures for the last two days:

1. Lots more things done at the allotment yesterday which was very positive, including a very happy conversation with a neighbour who has just retired due to ill health - I'd never seen him so cheery.

2. Another visit to my parents late morning, bit of a chat and left with a box of eggs (they'd ordered too many), a pot of apricot jam, and a load more recycling for various CSs so I dealt with the latter on my way home.

3. DM was also getting rid of a quantity of good quality ticking fabric which I also took. I've just measured it against DS2's two bedroom windows and there's enough to make him matching curtains. I need to find some good blackout fabric to line them with.

4. Tremendous hail storm :eek: as I was driving back. Was the smallest bit worried that the little plants I'd put out in the garden to start hardening off would be completely flattened when I got home but they all survived. Must have been tougher than I thought!

5. Beautiful sunsets last night and tonight despite today's bizarre weather.

Sweet dreams
B x

Frith

Pleasures for today (Wednesday).


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) A whirl of activity this morning. Bunk beds changed, washing up done, washing machine on, bathroom cleaned and a tagine in the oven - by 9.30!


3) Picked bigger son up from college at 10.30. He has passed all the exams taken so far (1 left) so now only has to go in 4.5 hours per week. He is looking for part time work.


4) Hens well today.


5) The porch has gone! Just hundreds of bricks in the garden now. 2 people from freecycle want some and another man is coming tomorrow to take the roof tiles.


6) Bigger son swapped what had been an "indoor" socket in the porch for an outdoor one (with a little door).


7) We watched a massive hail storm through the window which left 2cm of hail on the ground.


8) Tasty tea of Spanish chicken and cauliflower rice. I am following the blood sugar diet and the recipes from it are pretty good - and a change.


9) Bigger son is at a party so I need to set off to pick him up in a few minutes.


10) Smaller son went to McDonalds then the play offs (I have no idea what that is) of his football team. High excitement that they were selling off this season's shirts at £10, rather than £40, and I managed to get into the packed shop and buy the last one!


11) Phoned my school friend (not the one I see weekly) and she is coming round on Saturday night. Hope to have all traces of the porch cleared away by then so she can have a surprise when she comes round the corner into the garden. :-D

house_elf

Good Morning,

Another vote for the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society We really enjoyed the film too.

Recent Pleasures

1. Saw a Monk Jack Deer on the way home from McD’s after collecting DS2 from Cadets.

2. The Avengers Infinity War :cool:

3. Some sunshine.

4. The beautiful pink blossom tree,we pass very slowly, in the traffic queue on the way to school.

5. Hens having a stretch of the legs while DH cut the grass. As rescue hens, they were very reluctant to explore the world outside their hen pen. :rotfl: I bet next time they will be a bit more difficult to entice back into the cage. :rotfl:

Have a lovely day

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Pleasures since Wednesday 25th

1. Paperwork for the French property has been signed but we have until the end of May to vacate :):)

2. Even with all the rain I have managed to stay dry :rotfl:

3. The wisteria still looks beautiful

4. My DSis’s two cats are being very loving they must know all the upheaval is not a good thing for them they are going to a cat shelter to be adopted as we have no space in our London home & they are used to wide open spaces & few cars - the polar opposite of where we live

5. The new owners have bought a large amount of the gite furniture & nearly all the white goods so ONLY have the house furniture & all the contents to sell :eek: - have made a good start on the furniture only 3 or 4 large pieces left

6. Being MSE & using food from freezer & cupboards

7. Croissants & pain au raisin for breakfast EVERY morning :T

8. The antibiotics worked - I no longer look like I have gone 10 rounds with Henry Cooper :rotfl:

9. Dozens & dozens of large bin bags, boxes & crates have been taken to Tip, Bottle Bank & Clothing Bank as well as broken up furniture not fit for sale :j

10. Reading your posts:)

MrsSD

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Got to say it, but I think Friths - Bricked it!
V Currently on the pod thing music player for BoP is Sham 69! Now here’s a question. Name one of their singles that actually is three minutes long, and don’t mention ‘If the Kids Are United’! Now only they could have a track like. No I wont say it here, but it is where milk comes from!

4 Trying to sort the weakened and foods, proper foods at that. Thinking snorkers, burger and chicken tikkas kebabs on the BBQ! Note Raffles has been doing the yellow thing all weak! On about Raffles, this morning he had his head butts all over because his food was not in his dish while I sat, shaved and showered. So I got his salmon flavoured dish, and his head was right into it, so I had no time to chop it up. Halfway across the floor later, managed to re bowl it and BoPsie kindly chopped it up for him! Cats! Don’t Avoid! Recipes coming up now! Oh, thirst is roulette this evening!

3 All set then for chicken roulette tonight and then the Arsenal game! That will be roulette as well!

2 Only one more trip to the mill this week and its …

You’re eating the chocolate orange because you like it, yet you still get the pips!