5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

house_elf

Good Morning,

Dear & I agree, we are lucky

Saturday

1. Up early, as headache threatened to come back. Used opportunity to tidy kitchen and start on washing pile.

2. Trip to Homebase. Empty of people, as there was a match on, and now empty of reduced plants :cool:

3. Defrosted the freezer. Fan no longer makes a grinding noise.

4. Made a Jamie Oliver 15 min meal from a couple of duck breasts which defrosted. Yummy, and quick to do!

5. Met friend for coffee and trawl of the Charity shops. I managed to find something in every shop . Friend had no luck, but was very pleased with the jacket I gave her. We are now caught up on each other’s news.

6. Invited for tea at young friends house. Drank too much wine. Now awake early with different type of headache :rotfl:

DH wants to visit NT property for his Fathers Day treat. No children will be joining us :rotfl: Will aim to go for a meal tonight.

Have a lovely day

LaineyT

Saturday pleasures,

Another hay fever victims here, even with medication, so first pleasure is balm enriched tissues otherwise I would resemble a certain reindeer!

Boiled egg and marmite soldiers for breakfast, continuing to experiment with different flours in my bread and am loving a touch of rye.

Finished and enjoyed detective novel set in Cambridge, secondhand copies of two more books in series now winging their way to Lainey.

Leading horse girlie in from field and other livery owner was in awe over the size of her shoulders, her true parentage is know only to the universe but despite relative lack of height at just 15hh there must be a draft of some kind somewhere in there. Yard owner commented that if ever tractor breaks down she knows where to come :rotfl:

Home and Capt S had cut grass in my absence due to #1, took a picture of spaniel standing up at gate for no other reason than she just looked damm cute.

Hopeless_Case

Morning

- 2nd Father's Day meal today, roast today. I think the place he's chosen only does roasts, no veggie alternatives, but I'll put my meat in a doggy bag = very happy doggies :j:D

- No need to water the pants as more rain overnight

- Enjoyed a lazy Saturday watching a bit of World Cup

- Realised the lower branch of my Victoria Plum wasn't so laden down to the ground, I was puzzled then I caught my little cocker eating the plums which explained it - very naughty, but very cute as he has to jump a bit to reach now the branch isn't so laden and made me laugh :rotfl:

- The blackbird which sits on the TV aerial sings really beautifully, gives me a lift :heart2:

villagelife

1. Looked round a garden that had a hen show. Went to a couple of talks about keeping chickens.

2. Had a chat with my neighbour.

3. House is still looking tidy. It's obviously DH that is the messy one!

4. Not a pleasure but did watch the rugby. DS2 came home from playing cricket and wanted to watch it again.

5. Enjoyed reading my book.

DigForVictory

house elf - Cosford.... Trip in a Tesla? Wow! Polystyrene planes are to learn with but fun is not forbidden! Hurrah Gardeners World Live, the disapproving will eventually be compost & the memories will be green & gold for Ages! The Occasional pizza is a delight. Bless you for revealing the upside of this football - near empty big stores.
LaineyT - alpines & possible pup! Ah, Blackadder... Catharsis - heavens yes. Good to know where to go to get eased over the choked throat into unburdened tears. Suggest ironing board owes you a vote of thanks for reupholstering! Intrigued by tumbling tom baskets - won't watering be a challenge? Your garden hosts woodpeckers... Food is a vital pleasure - how else would we learn what to try next?! (In my case, now hunting Black Cherry tarte tatin with hazelnut ice-cream!) Intrigued at idea of horsegirlie dragging anything, but why not?!
Frith - Four? well done! Ah yes young employee communications. They do learn, but a few walks home help. Awed at total of sacks to tip but admiring strategic use of sons! One joy of loosing weight is more clothing without having to shop. Hurrah garden & roses - if one is Jekyll might the other one be Hyde? (sorry) Well done the new hens figuring correct behaviour! Hurrah pub raffle win for elder son!
mhagster - Belfast sinks are So Useful! May mattress migrate back upstairs soon. All your offspring sound wonderful, so yet more love, courage & patience recommended? New pup visit & own bed - excellent. Why ever not Christmas shop when you see The Right Thing? Kitchen choices - but made & you're happy - excellent! Happy (belated) birthday, son of Mhags! Haggis boots, niece & pup - good times. Two boxes *not* a challenge?! Hm honeycomb icecream - awe...
Hopeless Case - I love those poppies! & Sissy was quite a gal. Poldark indeed back & the scenery right up to standard. Love the sound of your garden! Pastrami is wonderful stuff. Real teapot tea is a pleasure in itself, but cannily made to last longer whilst tasting as good even better. If you'd shock the cricketers, serve anchovy toast. Not healthy but ye gods the taste! ( I think it glorious, but am biaised.) Chortling at spaniel snaffling plums off the tree!
villagelife - much intrigued by a fight bag but anything which saves money & cooking must be useful! Roses are yet sweeter for being schemed for. Wish MIL could learn from friend awaiting heart surgery! Hurrah appraio done - my boss too busy polishing her cv to bother with ours. It's a very good feeling to realise hill not as steep! "People were very frank and nothing will happen" - right with you there. House tidy & DH away - no, could not possibly be connected! Love a garden with a hen show.
MrsLW - it's amazing how good a good night's sleep feels. Recycled pharmacy boxes? Wow! (Er, your new neighbours won't be too shocked? I used spirits boxes for the books & unloaded enough to entertain a sub-load of thirsty sailors.) Bucket list? Tush - enjoy the duck trace for its own charm! Blackberry compote - I must nip out & eyeball the edible hedge hopefully... [compote futures!] Satisfying when things find their own homes! Tea is wonderful stuff.
BoP - are you in the emporium catchment that has actually done away with its cups? Snag a personal portable & keep the flag flying? (I depend on their brew to get me home safe through bonkers traffic!) Pneumonia at the wrong time a right fiend. Iced bath - yikes! Anything targeted for this coming Invasion of America? Hear hear re Soldiers off the streets & tell on of special BoPsie breakfasts! "cannot organise a pole dance in a nunnery" - next I am frantically arranging alternative means of travel, I shall remember this & bemuse everyone else on the platform with unseemly chortling!
Flo61 - I envy you freckles! They are wonderful, don't let anyone tell you otherwise!
Mrs Salad Dodger - if I thought I had venison sausages, I'd defrost the freezer more often! Still charmed by nesting grebe. The egg sandwich is a much underestimated pleasure. Bike fixed so had a fried breakfast - I gurgle with laughter while recognising the logic.... Ah, fox spotting! 6 goldfinches - wow!
ampersand - migod yes, Difficult funeral. Hurrah the Alma & it's vehement grasp of enjoying life (sans tea towels) Me, I cheat the emporium disgracefully - with their full coopertaion - I purchase a bag for life & am handed my cup. So long as staff carry on smiling, I shall carry on my shameful ways but have personal portable prepared. Delighted to hear A powering & inspiring & hub of assorted intriguing networks. <off to pursue Wimsey link> Not tempted by boxes - teenagers eat far more than the algorithm suggests. All best with Spits! A real American Patchwork - yes they didn't skimp on size. All strength with tour of Sthn Hemi and canny ticketbooking! Plus happy Eid to all.
klew356 - finding paces even at far end of scary roads definitely a pleasure.
purple kitten - it is so much easier to let some things go when you feel the home is the right one. All joy with spare room revealed carpet! May the viewings be punctual... If you are feeling looked out for, enjoy it. Hurrah for bay panels as yes wood is fiendish expensive "new".
VJsmum - very good to feel more competent sometimes! Wedding parties - one way of avoiding certain members of family, & an even thicker photo album of delighted celebrations. Abstract may need a deadline to get the creative adrenaline flowing?

OS Pleasures recently
An email starting "Mein Fadder"...

Nice bloke with freelance ladder & chainsaw has turned unlovely leylandii into more civilised weed. Bonus pleasure getting out of office early, to hit cashpoint to pay him!

Sons reading memories of fondly recalled dire adverts like the remixed moonwalking horse into the Findus factory.

Aww. Lovely gold backsided bumblebee cooperatively buzzing from one chive blossom to another - and with phone on silent & macro enabled photo app, I have several lovely photos of sunlit industry.

The elderflower is in great clumps of flower at Scouts. I love the colour, the delicacy & above all the champagne my mother makes using it!

Two little old ladies giggling over exercises to prepare for your mammogram - one could hardly read aloud she was giggling so hard, & both were much enjoying it. I grinned too...

T shirt slogan seen & enjoyed: "many things are possible with the right attitude and a hammer"

Gym footwear bought & fettled with bright laces & deep footbeds. I don't know if I'll be allowed to run but these mean the rest of the gym is manageable.

Iplayer not cooperating (not enough bandwidth) so watching the last half hour of trooping of the colour & still hugely enjoying all the glorious horses! (Even if I yearn to see a palomino or skewbald, I respect the Tradition...) Cor those heavy beautiful historic uniforms, too. I wonder if HM enjoys brass & pipes & drums? Or if it's an occupational duty? Or after 66 years it's just familiar background?!

Aw charming sight! Young horse skittish so the two chaps on push bikes pulled over and gave horse & rider plenty of space. Horse "not been out on the road before" seemingly.

Unsuccessful cuttings chucked, goosegogs in fruit, tayberry cuttings mk2 tried along with raspberry cuttings from stems not with flowers. Fed, watered, hoped for!

Aww - part of our candidate preparation includes ritual bathing (whether they need or want it) so I removed a substantial spider from the tub, and bade the candidate get scrubbed.

We have strawberries! - tiny green pellets but ready to grow & feral, so minimal fuss. Minimal crop unless we beat the birds to it though....

Saw a squirrel! Grey & skippering around the pavement by the car park. Shudder to think what it lives on - abandoned takeaway? City verge greens? Was it a lost tourist?

Lovely fellow parent of epileptic - "it's a marathon not a sprint". A startlingly reassuring perspective when our young get downhearted at times.

"No bayoneting people! Specially not when we have proper bayonets." Some days I do wonder about our parenting techniques, but it seems to work...

I'm sure 'pit beans' have a fine longstanding culinary American history but for some reason they are not leaping into my shopping.

Local pharmacy recognised me (and my heap of prescription repeats), and I lugged out a full gusseted bag of prescription meds for three of us...

Himself found a genuine French stellarscope new in box & it's wonderful - all the fun of stargazing without the stress of Lancashire cloud!

A really good sleep - 7 hours so solid I woke with the carpal splints still on & my hair still pinned up (oops!) then fell back under for another 2 hours - dear gods how I do love flexi leave!

Son picked out birthday earrings (for gf) online, then decided to look elsewhere when postage was 30% on top...


Right, mother duties call. Health strength love courage & waterproofs as needed to all!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Mrs_Salad_Dodger wrote: »

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

That's more like it. As for crisp bedding, I was minded by my CT when we was at Cosford a few years back, how the first time he actually had a sheet was when he joined as a boy! Snorkers. Good for you, proper foods!

Loves coning heres after DfV. Shes gives such a thorough read through.

5 Just had Sundays lot. Tom soup with hand torn garlic croutons. Poached salmon, second half from last week. Minted new tates, cauliflowerr and peas, proper peas not that petis pois muck! Home made parsley sauce. Then strawberries and ice cream. Tum is being rubbed.

4 FryDay night was inn town on bus! Wobbelades we secured. Big Train of Warster home, but off three styops before the end. Usual numpkin at the station wanting 20 pence? No I had to wave at the young ones expressing don't. They were lucky, nornally people like that run through after the wallet or phone! Just I was eyeballing him.

3 Usual snorker fest was had yesterday with the usual trimmings. It was so good, BoP had seconds again this morning! Tum well fed! The we had BBQ for tea. Home chicken tikkas, snorker, burger. Served with shrimped rice. Nice. Tum rubbed and wobbleades sunk. Flim, Identity theft watched! A must for yous lot!

2 We boooooked next years trip! Details later but yous all be jealous so I will tells you now! San Fransico! BoPsie is recovering!

Having one today. Watching Warster Cricket. It is close!

It is all to pay for

Purple_kitten

1 Things are tight just now maintaining 2 houses, I am grateful for our freezer stock, so the full roast and it’s supporting act is completely from the freezer, roast pork joint with crackling, apple, carrot, courgette, sprouts, with herbs from the garden.
2 We picked up the four local fence panels on the roof rack, they are great quality, DH has been experimenting taking 1 apart since, there will be 2 new fence parts, and a new back gate out of it, for the price of 1 panel.
3 Taking a bit of time to read, a paper book shock horror.
4 Cleaned the caravan floor.
5 Checked on online banking to keep track.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

DfV, thanks for the comment - reminds me I should visit the grebes tomorrow

Sunday pleasures

Overcast but no rain

Watching the birdies feeding

DH tidied up the garden - trimmed hedge & used the two big bags of partially composted garden waste to cover some exposed roots

Two loads of laundry washed, dried, folded & put away

One crate emptied - have 52 children’s books for cs

DSis went out for an explore - came back happy as she visited Mudchute Farm & it didn’t rain

Cottage pie & green beans for dinner - delicious :drool::drool:

Washed up as I cooked so only a small amount of washing up to do :T

Reading your pleasures

MrsSD

mhagster

A day quite pleasant ...weather not so much . Chats with both girls.

Slept until 7.50am , so that put paid to my plans of walking to church.

Enjoyed service.

Went to mothers. Hmmmmm. Did a huge ironing.

Friend had said she'd visit. She didn't. Her loss no meringue & ice cream for her.

Lifted the flooring from Dd1 floor to replace. It's in son's car to go to tip tomorrow. 'Stuff ' is in my room. The plan is to do all 3 rooms whilst DD2 is away so we can move things out of each room. Hopefully get them all painted properly once floors are done. I hadn't done skirtings or ceilings when I moved back.

Went to visit other friends this evening. Always funny.

Plumber called. Can we do your new boiler this week (known it would be soonish) yes, when? Tomorrow? Gulp! Okay! Have set alarm to empty airing cupboard which I'm glad I cleared out last week. Less stuff to find a new home for!

Friend called. Quick chat as Poldark was starting.

Poldark.:)

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday).


1) A lie in.


2) Hens well. They have started to eat other things apart from the mash they grew up with. So they are having mash but also layers pellets, mixed corn, bits from the kitchen and raspberries!


3) Went to see my dad for father's day. Bought him some condensed milk (a treat for him!), a pepper plant and a chilli pepper plant.


4) Bigger son reappeared for a shower and is (presumably) still back at the local festival.


5) I kept quiet about father's day as smaller son has not been contacted by his father yet this year. We went to a local NGS scheme where 15 gardens were open in the same village.


6) Weeded and swept the garden and watered all the pots.


7) Almost organised for tomorrow with washing done, washing up mountain cleared, uniform out etc. I will be working all the time next week, apart from Tuesday morning when I have an SEN review meeting for smaller son.