5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Monday pleasures

Lovely sunny day, clear blue sky if a tad chilly

Baby blanket coming along nicely - I do enjoy knitting

DH’s eye improving daily :T so able to do a project :T

Somerset Chicken for dinner - yummy & enough for Tuesday night

Two Foxes visited

Clear sky so saw at least two dozen stars


Tuesday pleasures

Another beautiful day - clear blue skies, sunshine - slightly warmer than Monday

DSis went out to meet her friend :T & thoroughly enjoyed herself

Gave me the opportunity to do lots of housework without interference :rotfl:

Baked Rock Cakes - yummy

DH finished his ‘coopering’ - I now have a fully restored wooden tub, stained & weatherproofed :T

Finished the Somerset Chicken - a firm favourite

Just the single fox tonight

Clear sky again & getting chillier but can see stars:T

MrsSD

LaineyT

Sorry Frith but had to chuckle at the tea comment, priceless

Tuesday pleasures,

Avocado on HM spelt toast, good stuff.

Weather good so spare bed stripped and bedding washed, also little dogs bedding.

Over to see P pony, always a pleasure to see her and she was very affectionate with lots of grassy kisses.

Trip into horsey town to pick up hoover bags, hit golden time of just after lunch and before the schools empty so lovely & quiet.

Made a plum & apple crumble to eat whilst watching GBBO as it usually induces mouth hunger! Hmm chickpea meringue not so much

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

V Yea, last day I murmured you can spot the gullible of BuckFarce easily, well I never. I put up said post about ripping my cards up, cancelling the direct debits. Now Buckfarce is saying that evil night is not for everyone and I should keep my cat in. hang on a minute! Some idiot can go around frightening cats and dogs, an I have to take a responsible attitude?
No, please clear the evil shelves of cheap tack!

4 Raffles who has been on a self imposed hunger strike as we clearly had bought him the wrong food, today has broken his strike and wolfed down his breakfast! He is now at neighbores pleading …

3 Oh, had Nasta Pasta last night, almost the same as roulette, except it come with pasta. Good food and good for you!

PM2DD That’s the tin pot done with.

Having one today. Extra club in Lunch Box. This is good for BoP!

Take it to the water.

Olliebeak1951

My five for yesterday -

1. Decent night's sleep - but I don't know what on earth I'd done during the night to tangle the duvet how it was when I got up :eek:.

2. Had a well-earned 'lazy start to the day' and suddenly realised it was 11.30am and I wasn't even dressed ..................... quick wash/dressed as OT was due 'at some time during the afternoon'.

3. OT arrived at 12.10 - so only just ready by the skin of my teeth :rotfl:. She was hopeful for what needs doing in my rear garden - steps with handrail and level path to be constructed - showed her (out of upstairs windows) what had been done for two of my neighbours and she took photos as an example of 'precedent having been set'. It all depends on how it's to be funded - may have to be a 'joint effort' between Council and Housing Association. Housing have already added an extra handrail on my staircase for me, so they're aware of my mobility issues .

4. Had another go at my family tree yesterday - I'd come to a full-stop for a while, but some more records have been added to Ancestry, so I've got more stuff to work with :j. Also working with my cousins on 'Mum's side' at the same time as I'm working on 'Dad's side' :T. DCuz is new to all this and she's absolutely loving it all :dance:!

5. Delicious Liver 'n' Onions for evening meal - followed by my soaps ................... :T. Early night as I needed a really early start this morning .

ampersand

Posting rarely works for & these days, but will try:

1. Great Fistful of Spookies concert 2 Fridays back. Already working out need to be back in UK for next fullsize Spookies' tour next year. So, &'s 1st week spent Yorkshire-ish is done. Arriviste Brontë[Brunty, as was]-ing and Hockney-ing and walking and meandering and moor-hiking, Howarth YH-based. & has always preferred Ann - Villette and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. All good stuff. Great, in fact. YH Haworth absolutely recommended, Frith :-)
A number of ladies were there for this:
https://yarndale.co.uk/whats-on/
During one night's chat, it came out that one lady had spent over 4years nursing in Napier, NZ - &'s old hometown. She'd gone to visit for 3 days....

2. 'back in UK' means an enzed return at expensive time of year[ [different significant reason], unbooked yet, but will incorporate a fair bit of Southern summer. Nice playing around with it all, until Fenny notspot connectivity blah-bleugghhh kicks in again, 'kicks' being the operative word.

3. Hurrchhhrrrrs theme tune just now. Many new voices, it seems and since when it was last 'an everyday story of farming folk', goodness knows:-) & hasn't a clue who's talking right now. Some male. Mobile milking parlours.

4. Excellent Town of Gown mtg hier soir - worrying topic, brilliantly conveyed:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brexit-and-uk-science-whats-the-problem-and-what-can-we-do-about-it-tickets-50686191764#

5. 30+ jars more marmalade finished this morning to put in various points of our benefice. The hideous fgm 'cutting season' begins soon. Tomorrow night's talk is to raise funds for awareness, support and re-education. Specifically, extension of a place of safety boarding school/dormitory is desperately required. Need and demand for places is overwhelming. Just keep trying.

6. Many rugby variables. Special Club lunch was terrific [result again not] and a particularly silly Paul Rees article in today's grauniad, ludicrously declaring ABs 'fearful'. We'll just scoop up successive World Cup no. 3 in Japan, shall we? :-)))))

7. Enzed friends just moved off this morning on next stage of their 5 years' travel. Already >18months since & collected them from Drummer Street! Returning this way in Feb., before brief rtn>NZ for a son's wedding. Goodness, we may well cross paths there again.

8. Beautiful peacock butterfly alit on my left knee earlier today, flew off after some long seconds, as I tried to take pic. Fact remains, though.

9. Have really enjoyed some old Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh titles [and CDs while driving] of late. Just hearing Marion Keyes speak of same MA reading, as recovery during a bad 2009 breakdown, on this day of MH awareness.

10. Pleasure in harvest meals and services shared lately, ditto astonishment re: someone's comment re: &presence at League of Gentlemen performance recently. They have apparently seen a pic! GKH.
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With luck, will be able to catch up read osps here.
In the meantime, all blessings and safe/satisfying/happy/healthy/thrifty/lucky times to all.
Big funeral tmrw, hence no Spits [ and last week was 2 big thefts coupled with low sales] - with cruel irony a factor.
Okay, off I now go - with one ear already listening to the excellent 'What Maisie Knew'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000qfs
Henry James is as torment-y in his self-behind-author Golden Bowl wannabe persona as any self-testing writer. He's never been quite &'s choice, and yet.....
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Delighted to see Raffles is doing all his usual excellent yellow stuff work, bop. Extended season of same - of course a chap needs extra special perfectly sourced exceptional tuck.

mhagster

Good evening. What a beautiful day it has been. Just been out for quick doggy walk and still mild.

Beautiful Autumn walk this morning...me in my sandals!

Went to carpet shop, chose carpet. Chap will come out tomorrow to measure and then fitting next Friday ( first available ) but means all painting should be done.

Painter chap here today. Should be finished up tomorrow .if only builderly people were. Brickies were here but need another half day to finish.

Popped into Moriisons and met an old colleague and had a lovely chat with her for about 20 minutes! Got some RTC plants. (And some pumpkins!)

Just home and a poorly DD2 called and asked if I could pick her up from college...college is 5 minute walk away from morrisons ! Anyway, she went straight to bed.

We've just had a late tea of mince and dumplings.

3 loads of washing out and dry.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Wednesday).


1) Not a bad sleep. Reflux has eased by perhaps 20%.


2) Lovely weather so did 3 loads of washing including all the bedding. 2.5 loads were dried on the line.


3) Hens well and 3 eggs.


4) Did various jobs during the morning and felt a bit more organised.


5) Went to the library to type up a job application. Weeks until the closing date but glad to get it done. Also emailed my 2 referees and they said yes.


6) Went to Sainsburys after the library to have a cup of tea and use the loo before the big meeting at bigger son's school and bumped into my mum, sister and niece. Niece (umprompted) said the picture she had been drawing was for me. :-)


7) Went to the big meeting at school and took some eggs (as my car was accumulating them) which seemed to throw all the staff completely. Not like my school back in the day when pupils used to take in a brace of pheasants for the bus drivers!


Meeting went OK with things being put in place for the transfer to college.


Picked a few sweet chestnuts up in the grounds on my walk back to the car!


8) Spent some time outside (27 degrees earlier!!) counting the number of ladybirds swarming everywhere.


9) Enjoyed watching Grand Designs just now though the husband of the couple was a right miserable so and so.


Man is coming to do the survey for my front door tomorrow so I'm looking forward to that.

DundeeDoll

all the best for tomorrow &
we both played dons bop
1) gloriously warm day
2) lunch with colleague at chaplaincy. used to go there on Fridays with DS1 when he was at nursery. he always had pepperoni pizza which we called 'red nose pizza'. same lady serving there today - she asked how he was. 6'4" I said. that's all that red nose pizza she replied. nice to be remembered :-)
3) then supper with ex-colleague who retired last year. time flies! she'd got a groupon so £12 each for lovely 2 course meal and glass of wine
4) her husband picked us up - unexpected lift home
5) and now catching up on upstart crow

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Wednesday pleasures

Another beautiful day - blue cloudless skies, bright sunshine & quite warm

DH’s eye is getting better every day

Hm Spaghetti bolognese for dinner :drool:

One portion of sauce for freezer :T

Made soup for freezer

Baby blanket nearly finished

DH making a small garden table :T so expensive shop bought table can be oiled, dismantled & put away for the winter

Reading your posts

MrsSD

villagelife

A quiet couple of days

1. Work very busy yesterday. I somehow was volunteered to attend a meeting today but it means I will spend some time travelling and will avoid some people for linger.

2. Went food shopping and it was quiet which is good as I managed to shop quickly.

3. Warm weather and spent some time in the garden.

4. Finishing a book which I was determined to finish even though I didn't enjoy too much.

5. Chat with a random doctor at work while I was looking for another doctor.