5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

Saturday pleasures,

Lie-in followed by boiled egg and marmite soldiers.

Horse girlie calling as she realised it was me walking through the paddocks.

Standing in the shade with her and giving her a groom as she dozed. Put some more fly spray on her and left her in peace.

Getting in the washing and saw the buzzards rise up from the field, watched them until they were tiny dots in the sky, riding the thermals.

My dog’s contented sigh as she settled on the rug, in front of the fan.

LaineyT

Cross-posted with VillageLife and didn’t want to read and run. Sorry to hear about DS, hopefully the gf will get the help she needs now but he can make the break, what a sad & worrying time for you x

mhagster

VL jings!

I know you've alluded to things the last few months that you haven't felt were 'right'

I'm hoping your son can see past any emotional blackmail and not go back.

My daughter in Australia and I have just been messaging . She was out wth her friend and friends new boyfriend...oh what happened to old one ( who I'd met a few times and just didn't like) so it seems he's been a horror to her , with emotional / psychological bullying. I'm glad that's she's out of that relationship.

I wish your boy well. It's good that he called you and you were able to be there with him/ for him. We only ever wish our children to be happy and it hurts when they're not.

Take care...of him & you x

Hopeless_Case

I always love reading everyone's pleasures but don't always comment, but i also didn't want to read and run today - so sorry to hear about your DS Villagelife, hopefully as LaineyT says he'll feel able to make the break, and she can get the help she needs. What a worry for you

Lovely day yesterday - nice afternoon walk with the dogs managing to find lots of shady bits to walk in for the pug,We walked alongside a stream so he could get drinks.
Had to stop water-loving cocker from splashing and generally cavorting in the stream, as the pug backs off when he does this, and won't go near the water, and he can only get to it in the really accessible bits, whereas the cocker is half mountain goat and can access the whole length of it :rotfl:, and puggy probably needs the drink the most. I always worry about heat stroke with him

Then a nice evening sat in the pub garden with the cricket team, had a real laugh

Off to sister's today to watch world cup final and birthday meal for niece

Got a nice new jigsaw at charity shop

Started seriously cutting my little basils back to stock up the freezer for the winter, and they're putting on some quick new growth. I was beginning to think they were a wash out (sowed the seeds in March but the plants are still very small - very strong flavour though to be fair so you don't need to cut much, but thought I'd make the most of them and lay stocks in )

My lilac coloured pelargonium is amazing, definitely going to take loads of cuttings and overwinter them :heart2:

DigForVictory

What ho midears! RL has been amazing, unspeakable & utterly sundrenched. Leaving me far too close to dehydration from time to time but oh my word the plants!

OS Pleasures in the last week-and-a-bit
Went to the gym again. Darn but Saturday morning punters were thin on the ground - I had exclusive use!

Loving mother moment - gave son a lift home from his garden centre job, via the supermarket to get icecream... Everyone chilled & happier!

Aw. The cave children's notes home. Those read just so like things my scouts would say! (The teaching I've been doing has kept me from my scouts and I miss them rotten!)

Rousing cheers for St Martin & the SAD FART mantra which has been working. Son #2 has bought 2 mountain bikes in a month, one dud, one hammered on arrival, and I've used SAD FART to get them returned & am getting his money back. Grr, but pleased as it works.

Richard E Grant & Usain Bolt in a bond/superhero pastiche for virgin broadband - lads like his style as a Q type!

Program on vintage railways carriages & the "dedicated & meticulous" team of restorers at Llangollen. We translate that politely to mean somewhat-deranged-but-in-a-good-way. While carefully not looking at the evidence around our hobbies and interests ahem.

Finding myself explaining the difference between photoshop that you get on disc & photoshop that you operate in the cloud. Youngest may well have the talent that needs the cloud toolkit but his personal style will also dictate how much he needs that cloud kit. Child reassured & happy, me amused to be of such use!

The Thai Cave Rescue has me "by the feels". They're young (my scouts age), crazy about football (so totally cut off from all World Cup info), went in for fun (who did the risk assessment?!) and have been trapped in a falling oxygen increasing risk situation. As trained grownups string grab lines. Teach the lads & coach to swim. Teach them to scuba & that there are places where they'll be on long lines as the tanks won't fit. Try not to mention that a bloke bringing bottles died (on the way out, though). Brief the lads that they'll have two adults each to get them through the about fourteen hour effort. Manage their expectations as they prepare & wait - and there are well over a thousand volunteers working let alone the rest of the country watching - so no pressure on the children at all then. No matter what you believe in, ask for help?! [I know, see below!]

Son can mimic Kermit! I am such a proud mother to hear this unexpected talent declare itself, oddly relating to the apparent lack of biscuits on this floor...

Dashit. The emporium is closing its door this Autumn, leaving the site to the Coop. We'll not get the Advent bargains (I may have to go to Oxford to get 50% off boxed chocolates) nor the seasonal Bags for Life - and we loose the people, their lovely staff! Not a pleasure but the sharing of the lamentation helps. One shouldn't grieve alone.

ISIHAC superb.....

Litter picked another bean towards a free coffee as I bounced back from the gym - these unlovely trouvees are good for morale & cleaner streets.

An overcast morning with the district possibility of rain here in Manchester - so long as it waters plants & evaporates off people, I see the feral blackberries darkening but suspect the diesel taint may be a bit much. [Hah. Clouds faded and solid blue sky. Raffles, could we discuss the Yellow Stuff?]

Hooyah! Thai cave rescue complete, all the young including their coach out safe and all their divers and medics, bar hero Saman Kunan. While I like free speech I recognise the virtues of the Thai restraint in reporting, even though I'd probably trample a medic trying to stop me hugging a restored son. Different cultures... [There is a very specific happydance still ongoing. Along with ongoing tears of relief. Caves are wonderful but ye gods add water & they can get a lot more complicated.]

A bored toddler is telling himself a story - just oddley-oddley-oddley with a dab of urgle seems to cover his vocabulary. Mind, this evening with the World Cup match playing, he may seem the height of poetic literacy. [He did.]

Either my tinnitus has taken up a distinct rhythm or there are crickets (noisy insects, not chaps in whites here this evening) in Birmingham.

"Tea is for gossip, brandy for shock" - oh I do love Father Brown!

Eldest has been sharing his candy sticks/sugar cigarettes - with the still-in-Primary little brother of a schoolfriend. Corrupting the young already, we sigh... However, sharing a virtue, and the water-slide transfer will scrub off if necessary. [Potential interview season, after all.]

Listening to himself rant about "decimation". An odd pleasure but he does enjoy letting off steam that people think a decimated environment is a handful of stumps - no, it's ten percent dead. Just one in ten. That's all - a severe pruning maybe, but not the end of all life.

Right. After solid researches, we have a mower, a strimmer, and an A3 colour printer [due shortly] Let noone say research is unrewarding - when you recognise a Which? approved thing, you can lunge gracefully and just shorten the whole hunting trip by about four hours & I shudder to think how much money. For some reason I am now expected to go & supervise the usage of the first two articles, when really all I know about is the third. Shall pull a switcheroo and take a lad off to lug the shopping.

All health, strength, courage, appropriate medication, aftersun-from-the-fridge & sunhats as needed to such as care, may your priests holes be properly ventilated and unoccupied (other than by fellow students of history), and when it all gets far too hot, a single cotton layer can be cooling and covering - just delegate answering the door until you know how many other garments are indicated...

villagelife

Thank you for your kind words.
DS1 is back to have stupid arguments with DS2 so managing. About to go back to his house but we will follow and help sort her clothes out.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

DfV. Raffles has been bathed today, no scratches. BoPsie is recovering. As for Yellow Thing rain is on the plain in Spain!

V Watching World Cup Final. It was not to be ours. Good to bee neutral.

4 No cooking today, see above! Just had ham salad with pork pie. Proper foods. Tum rubbed. Got BoPsie some R juice from emporium this morning. Nice.

3 Sore Ted bedding out and we is inn the beds at last. Took a while with Jenny and things.

2 Last night in flux net was ‘As Good as it gets!’ Jack was in it as well.

All over now bar the ...

mhagster

Dull and drizzly here all day. But still very warm.

Went to church. Lovely service. Then a friend told me an enormous secret that I Feel slightly weighed down by. And I suppose I'm happy that she felt she could trust me & I won't share it but aaaaargh why tell me?

Went to lidl. It was very busy. Got a lot for what I spent & they gave me a £5 off voucher too. Thank you.

Home . Phone call from mother. So went round . Son sorted out her problem...thank you so much. I ironed, cleaned kitchen floor, hoovered , cleaned front door & brasso-d the name plate...

Chat with friend on phone. Chat with DD2 who is house sitting for the niecelys.

Had gammon steaks, roasted potatoes from sisters garden & peas for tea with a wee drop cheese sauce on mine. Made a sausage pasta for sons lunch for next couple of days.

Friend came round & had a chatter & mch laughter. Haggis & I walked her half way home.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday).


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Went to the hen place with my sister and niece.


3) Had part baked rolls for lunch (smaller son's favourite lunch).


4) Went to look round PCWorld this afternoon. Chanced upon bigger son in town with one of his young lady friends.


5) Did another load of washing, tidied ready for tomorrow.


6) Went to the allotment and spent well over an hour cutting nettles and thistles down and cutting back about 15metres of the holly hedge. Hens well and I cleaned out their sleeping quarters too and threw some diatomaceous earth around in case of red mites.


7) Watched the last 2 episodes of the Last Leg.

house_elf

Good Morning,

VL Poor DS1....... When our DS1 split with his gf, he didn!!!8217;t say much, or show much, but it was a very worrying time and he was hard to help. I glad you are there for him.

Yesterday

1. Grand Day Out to Blenheim Palace. Wandered the grounds and had picnic lunch by the lake. Quick trip around the house and the Churchill Exhibition. Wondered if Trump had a tour, and handled all the things which said !!!8216;Do not Touch!!!8217;, as he is !!!8216;Special!!!8217;.

2. Bought a few things in the gift shop.

3. Met some Electric car drivers at the Services who are driving up to the Arctic Circle and stopping off to do beach cleans on the way. DH is following them on Instagram.

4. Made spaghetti Bolognaise for tea.

5. The Italian Job Live. The remastered film, accompanied by CBSO playing the music live. Comps for The Symphony Hall. Brilliant evening.

Prom tonight. Have to remember to take everything!

Have a lovely day