5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Frith, how lucky are you - too overcast to see any meteorites in my neck of the woods & also missed the lunar eclipse last week :(

Sunday pleasures

Not having to go out in the rain & then turned into a pleasant dry evening before becoming overcast again

Watching the grass becoming green

Fry up for dinner - yummy

DH happily watching the motorcycle GPs

Reading your posts

Monday pleasures

Stripping bed, washing & drying bed linen in td due to heavy rain, remaking bed & looking forward to sleeping on freshly laundered sheets

Rain stopped long enough to deliver two full bags to cs

Couple of drinks in the pub - watching the world go by including a man wearing a top hat

Walked home by the dock & saw the grebes & Canada geese

Seeing a sparrow hawk in next door's garden - keeping the pigeons away:T

DSis cooked dinner :T:T

Finally being notified that fibre optic broadband is available :T:T - supposed to have been available summer 2011 :eek: DH has booked an engineerfor two weeks time

Reading your posts

MrsSD

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1) Our buyer came with her daughter and her builder to walk the bounds and talk through changes she wants to make. Very amicable and her daughter walked into my store room took one look and said 'I can see why Mum gets on with you!'

2) Managed to give a huge bag of blackberries to their new owner too!

3) He Who Knows and my brother took the huge old desk from the study to the tip as I was adamant that it was NOT moving with us.

4) A picking of green beans from the polytunnel when I thought they'd finished and 4 more courgettes on the plant in there too which I'll use for supper tonight in some form.

5) I woke in the early hours hot and couldn't get back to sleep again so I got up to open the window and the sky was clear and full of the most beautiful stars, fabulous sight!

LaineyT

Sending positive vibes across ether for Frith’s BIL.

Monday pleasures,

Fast day so over the yard to take mind off how hungry I was princess pony had been rolling, a lot, so hours work to get her clean. Worked her and then put her back in the field to no doubt roll again!

A new to me book arrived in the post.

Went over to see DSIL and she managed a little walk around town. Also saw my two DN’s which is always the biggest pleasure.

Drove home through heavy rain, scary as huge puddles but my trusty mini made it safely.

Uni Challenge followed by penultimate episode of The Unforgotten.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

It is racing around out here at the mill!

V Luvverly prawn roulette last night and Jimmy the Cook cannot make it either! With black bean sauce and boiled rice, The long grain stuff that is a third of the price of your bascarpi variety, of which your basmati variety is baulked up with! Benny was not involved!

4 All is well in the BoP palace this week, though need to be out with the weed killer for the first time in a few years.

3 Tonight will be inn the gym trimming ready for the apple of big and Washington. Extra viewing this Saturday at the theatre of fish!

2 Raffles is in his adopted house today, we only pay his vet bills!

Not having one today!

Colourise your life and …

house_elf

Good afternoon Chaps,

Just dropped DS1 at airport. He is off to visit DD for a week. I hope he has a good time, as all he seems to do is work and sleep.

Lainey It’s bad enough having a dog who likes to roll, never mind a horse!

Frith You might be interested in the hole they have dug for the footings of the extension. We have found bits of pottery, a bit of a clay pipe, ink bottle, bottle, and an old fashioned jam pot from the Hartley factory in Liverpool, down the road from where I used to live! I shall have a curiosity shelf when we are done.

Yesterday

1. Proper Bacon sandwiches and mugs of tea for breakfast. (None of your American dishwater and over crispy bacon :rotfl:). I have missed cups of tea.

2. Managed to rig up a washing line between two trees, and dried some washing.

3. Afternoon snooze.

4. Chicken fajitas and trimmings.

5. Caught up on Mark Kermode and a couple of Handmaids Tale. One more left. :j

Have a lovely day

VJsmum

Artnoon... from my desk (makes a change )

Ooh would love to see the meteors... good wishes winging over to your BiL

Pleasures for yesterday..

1. Getting on with the marking. The marking is not a pleasure, getting on with it is.
2. A walk followed by coffee and cake with GBF. So lovely to spend time with him - especially as he paid
3. Watched penultimate Unforgotten whilst number wrangling
4. Veggie curry from the freezer for tea - i thought it was homemade but it was nicer than that, it was leftover takeaway
5. Who do you think you are? Strange to call it a pleasure when it focussed on the Holocaust, but it was a superb programme.

Have a good afternoon and evening, folks.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Tuesday pleasures

Didn’t rain :rotfl: in fact it was a pleasant day - generally overcast but warm with occasional glimpses of the sun & a pleasant breeze

The shed arrived :T:T:T and the lads put it up & had tea/coffee after finishing - were gone within 35 minutes. It is a beautiful shed :rotfl: & was put straight on the base which had been lovingly crafted by DH with DSis’s assistance :T DH grinned like a Cheshire Cat :rotfl:as he had visions of no shed erection :eek: You gets what you pays for - sturdy construction, handle with lock and a glass window that opens

Watching DH & DSis putting 2 coats of grey paint on the shed as the weather was kind :T Will be painting the trim sky blue tomorrow - weather permitting

Locking stuff in the shed :rotfl:

Listing contents of our two freezers & then actually sorting them properly :rotfl: Now I know what I’ve got I can get back to weekly menu planning :rotfl: I have been soooo stressed going from day to day

Being entertained by one of our squirrels who is in the ‘pudding club’ again :rotfl:

Reading your posts

Have a lovely evening

MrsSD

mhagster

house elfdoes your extension look as big as you'd thought? Mine seems tiny ! I'm assured once it's more than a hole in the ground it will look bigger!
Mrs SD think we had your rain! Halted the bricklayers this morning.

An odd day.

First thing out with dog. No more quick wee in back garden so have to get dressed enough to go out in main road...for dog not me as I read that back!

Then had a lovely walk with him. Then met someone who I don't know but do know! We have a mutual friend and were introduced over Internet by her years ago for some info on Australia. So we've actually never met in person but know all about each other! Anyway did another 2 laps of field with her and her dogs.

Said hello to the builders then went out. Dropped DD off for her registration at college. walked into town . Went looking for new to me curtains for my living room. Something with a bit more substance to what I have . Got a pair which are fine , were £6.99 , heavy and lined but may be a bit too neutral for me. Hmmm.

Home to a letter from the horrid pension company. A small amount of compensation offered , which whilst I would love to tell them to stuff it , I can't afford to! It's a token gesture , they've said that in future they will take it into consideration if someone lives overseas the time scale for mail to come. They insist on mail. I would have had a different financial outlook if they'd used email like all the other companies did.

Phoned my sister who was being insistent I should use the financial ombudsman. I'm all rather tired of it now. My husband has died, that won't change. They are paying out the widows pension that I'm entitled to and it was his first pension when he was 18-20 years old so it didn't have a lot in it. The critical illness part was what was financially better. These forms didn't get back in time. I'm not sure what the ombudsman can do? It's all very well for her to tell me ' I need to do it' , I actually don't really want to right now! Sigh! So that all made for a rather upsetting afternoon. I've emailed pension company back and made my feelings clear and concise!

So we had pizza for tea. As I couldn't face cooking.

Meant to say that yesterday I changed my utility plan and my phone plan so hopefully a bit extra saved each month.

And I may have booked a trip to NYC in December...go and see what pirate Pete gets up to!

DundeeDoll

1) remembered to get a day bus ticket as 3 bus trips
2) yummy lunch, hm of course
3) supper at friend!!!8217;s
4) then vestry. Lots done and now
5) home to find left over pizza for tomorrow!!!8217;s lunch. Nom nom

Purple_kitten

1 Another day travelled to DFs to pack. 2 free bulky items off to their respective home’s, I’m impressed. Another car load and I took leftovers and a roll for lunch with us. We also took a few cuttings from the garden. I’ve already potted up so here’s hoping.
2 Travelled back home, cooked up per healthy meal plan, turkey mince veg packed base becomes stuffed courgette for 2 meals and lasagne for 4 meals.
3 More unpacking this end, nice to clear 2 boxes from the hallway.
4 Washing loads done and, on the line,
5 Lawns mowed, cars hoovered out.