5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

house_elf

Happy Saturday,

Friday

1. Chat with DS1 when he came in from work.

2. Early to work as DS2 had training day and the roads were quiet coz it is Eid.

3. Training day was OK. I like the person who I was working with, and we had take away pizza for lunch.

4. DS2 gone to Cadet camp, so DH and I had Pizza Express ......I had salad :rotfl: (See 3).

5. Cheap tickets to student play. Very good kitchen sink drama.

Migraine still threatening to come back

Have a lovely weekend

Hopeless_Case

Morning

Enjoyed seeing the rain this morning, OH and DS will be pleased it's stopped and cricket won't be cancelled! Going to have to start greasing up the kitchen cooking the sausages and sausage rolls and other - ahem - healthy food the team insist on for the teas :rotfl:


Lovely meal last night with whole family for first Fathers' Day meal of the weekend

My courgettes have got the first huge flowers fully opened - the courgette glut won't be long now

The self- seeded nasturtiums are out, a lovely orange shade

Going to see Mum today with DS2 who's home for the weekend

LaineyT

Friday pleasures,

Little dog isn’t allowed upstairs but has been known to sneak up at times, came out of bedroom first thing to see small head resting on top of stair, cute.

Cleaned out millstone type water feature and filled it up, in reality it’s just a large bird bath but the sound of running water in the garden is very soothing.

Into Uni City to meet a pal for lunch, it was heaving with tourists and who can blame them as the colleges looked gorgeous in the summer sun.

Lunch at Brown’s, restaurant housed in what was part of the old Addenbrookes building, haven’t been there for years and it didn’t disappoint, food was very tasty, highlight of which was a Black Cherry tarte tatin with hazelnut ice-cream, oh my.

Country mouse home after trip into city and enjoyed the peace & quiet of her garden for an evening glass of something cold.

villagelife

1. A clean house. Painting stuff all moved to one place and electric chargers back to where they belong. Still looking tidy- whether it's to do with DH being away i don't know. DS2 is home as is his girlfriend.

2. Met a friend for lunch. She is much happier at the moment. It was a lovely lunch and somewhere neither of us had been to before. We had a good chat and ended up talking about our grandparents and our parents as grandparents.

3. Had a look round a craft centre. It will be worth a visit prior to Christmas.

4. Enjoyed watching some of the football.

5. Took DS2 and girlfriend to the local town. They got a taxi back. The trip wasn't bad considering a road was closed on route.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

BoPimess is unavailbe at the moment due to Duvet Testing

ampersand

Course it's rainng, big splop drops,soaking into the huge old Amercian patchwork quilt which & had to wash in town of horse laundromat yesterday. Wouldn't fit in &'s machine.
Ah well, it'll dry somehow and & must remember to keep turning it. 4-folded at present and still takes up entire length of biggest line.
Raffles? Whassagoin'on?
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1. Spits Thursday and 2 very nice 3-£ig sales+others. Interesting peeps. Over and over again - this is an upside on the 22-26hr days, plus prep. day preceding, that Spits means. Grateful for opportunity, not for owners' shenanigans. Lovely to chat with various regulars.

2. Great DID yesterday - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b5s44q
Another remarkable person of whom & had never heard. &ignorance grows and grows the older & becomes, speaking of which, travel plans to sort, if t'internet obliges. Not just next month's big drive+trailer>France/Spain/France etc. Sthn Hemi for a signficant anniversaire but summer fares will be high, compared with &'s usual trips back.

3. No tutoring last night, because of Eid, meant free for mthly LP mtg in town of gown. Not &'s constitiuency, but matters not. Have helped there for last 3 elections. V.v.v. glad to have gone. Lovely welcomes. Terrific parliamentary and council reports from MP and Leader, despite, despite.... Just needed this uplift, with strong, lively debate and questions and sound answers.

4. & is neither Fen-gal fatsy nor vanity queen, but weight-loss/trim-shape compliments are always welcome. 2 to bank, thank'ee kindly :-).

5. Back to Scotsdales hier, picked up loyalty card and ACTUALLY BOUGHT NIL NO MORE PLANTS - this never happens. Scheme is new, online only, so also sorted out several for peeps who aren't online.
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OK, must leave matters there. Am showered, team-talked and ready for The Alma and Rugby watching. & is, bien sûr, in her ABs' gear, but, in deference to Les Bleus daring to oppose francophile &, have today pinned on both Je Suis Charlie pencil brooches.
& does not know the result and that's the way it must stay. OK? :-)))
Hope to be back beaming later, before changing for local-ish G&S in hay barn later. Always great fun and accomplished musically, given many cast members attachments to town of gown colleges.
Have great w-e's all. Reading pleasures here is a pleasure. We are lucky generally, aren't we?

Purple_kitten

1 Slowly cleaned the house up, with a couple of tea breaks, but most stuff is either dusted, hoovered and/or mopped.
2 Washing loads resulting from that, rugs, animal bedding and towels all done, it’s a bit harder to keep clean with an ill animal around but he is still enjoying life.
3 Creating fake away with whatever was in the freezer, it was a couple of oven pizzas and leftover spring rolls and goats cheese things from a party mix and chilli dip.
4 I have just made sugar free cupcakes that taste fine I’m a bit surprised, but ops did top them in a bit of butter icing.
5 Really chuffed, I was ready to buy one good quality fence panel for the same price that 4 very good quality ones very local to us came up on the bay, purchased and pick them up tomorrow. DH plans to use one to replace an animal proof part of the garden that one of the animals has taken to scaling, then another to make a new back gate which leaves 2 and wood is always useful for his various projects.

mhagster

A day of not very much doing which was actually quite nice.

Up early with dog then went back to bed, watched a movie on Netflix then had a bath ( as hot water had been left on) then watched a movie and snoozed on and off and then it was gone 1pm and my neighbour was texting me to see if I was okay as blinds were still shut...yeah! I'm just being lazy!

Washed fridge out.

Made gammon steaks and roast veg for tea. Very yummy.

Made ice cream with honeycomb. Very delicious. Leftover egg whites so made meringues ....also very delicious.

No need to water the garden. The sky did a much better job than I could.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Saturday). Grumpy because hayfever is bursting through despite maximum usual tablets.


1) A lie in.


2) Cooked breakfast.


3) Hens well and the new ones have learned to eat food other than the fine mash they were fed when in cages.


4) Went to local tea party this afternoon. Bigger son won a £20 voucher for a meal at the local pub in the raffle!


5) Bigger son went to work 12-4 and smaller son went to play football with his friends. Bigger son now at local festival.


6) Managed to get smaller son a nice shirt from TKMaxx as he needs one for his look around sixth form at school.


7) Watched Casualty.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Saturday pleasures

It didn’t rain & there was some sunshine

Fresh crisp bedding

Watching the birdies on the feeders - 6 goldfinches

House looking less like a warehouse

Snorkers, mash, petit pois, Yorkshire Puds & gravy for dinner - yummy

Reading your posts

MrsSD