5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Thursday pleasures

Dry day again but not so sunny as it has been

Sm not crowded :T & didn’t have to queue at the check out :T

York*hire Tea bags on offer - reduced from £6.99 to £4.00 :T bought 2 boxes :T

DH’s eye check up went well. Final appointment in 5 weeks time

Sausages, mash, fried onions & baked beans for dinner - scrumptious

MrsSD

Hopeless_Case

Morning - I can hear the rain pattering against the window and it's making me very happy as the garden is parched - although I'm going to get wet walking the dogs! Almost forgotten what that feels like this year :rotfl:

The lambs lettuce I planted in the front garden had been seriously messed up by the newly-dug soil becoming a cat toilet - but I managed to replant most of it and only lost a couple

Visited parents yesterday, lovely visit and came home with some apples from their tree

Managed to 'roll back' the last 20 years and get back to washing up instead of dishwasher and not using much water, only having the tap running a bit to rinse at the end . Actually looking forward to water meter being read in a few weeks to see how we're doing :rotfl:

Found a nice posh Jamie Oliver Cauliflower cheese for when DS and GF come for veggie Sunday lunch

villagelife

1. Attended an interesting meeting at work. Happens so rarely that meetings are worthwhile.

2. Had to move across sites by bus. I finished my book on the bus. Not sure why I had to move sites as I had nothing booked for me to do at either site.

3. In way home I got of the bus a stop early and enjoyed the extra walk. I'm managing to do 10000 steps the majority days and also doing my physio exercises. I think that it's doing some good.

4. Washing had dried in the line and I was home before it started to rain.

5. Went to the pub for a drink with DH and we met some friends there.

LaineyT

Thursday pleasures,

The sun coming up through the beech trees, golden doesn’t come close.

Another quiet SM, apart from the odd trolley dumper ( you know the ones, they dump trolley right in the middle of the aisle and wander off :mad: ) but apart from that good and home again quickly.

Had a little sit on princess pony, she was such a good girl.

Also enjoyed the last episode of Press and hoping another series is in the pipeline.

Reading in bed, listening to wind howling around the house, but all cosy inside.

Olliebeak1951

My Five for yesterday:

1. Forgot to actually 'cook' the Leek & Potato Soup on Wed evening . 'Threw' it into the pressure cooker around 6.00am - let it cool down - and 'whizzied' it before leaving the flat . Had a quick taste and it was :drool:.

2. Ooops, almost forgot DD's b/f's birthday is today - so quick trip to Mr T's for card/pressie - phew! Had been so focussed on it being DGS2's birthday, that I'd forgotten it was his as well :doh:.

3. Spent the day with DGS1 again. Didn't want to go out anywhere as he had been told to 'sort out YOUR MESS in the rear garden .................. or else'. Not sure he'd 'sorted it out' before DD arrived home, but I scarpered pdq before the 'fallout landed' :eek:! I heard lots of banging/drilling/thigs being thrown during the day and I THINK some items landed in boxes .

4. Offered to do something for DGS1's lunch, but he informed me that he'd done himself a Pizza for b/fast, so wasn't hungry :undecided.

5. DD arrived home absolutely shattered - the college minibus had been stuck in traffic for over half an hour in a town 8mls away. Made her a hot coffee and she checked her 'bus app' to see that my bus was due in a few minutes. So pleased :j as the weather had turned vile, only had to wait a couple of minutes in the rain. LVE the 'bus app' :T.

6. Rain stopped while I was on the bus, so didn't get any wetter walking back from bus stop :j. OH had L&P Soup with Granary Bread for his evening meal - I had Salad with hard-boiled egg, last bit of 'fancy cheese' and coleslaw .

7. Settled down with soaps and managed to miss the first 20mins of Vera due to an ill-timed snooze .

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

V Went to the quack this morning to give them what for and some proper blood! It hurt her more than it hurt me!

4 Starving, so thought I wold pop into the coop for something to eat. Mistake carp. Keep out!

3 So relying on lunch box and good job we has the proper digestives with chocolate in this weak. Sore Ted with a tea, proper foods and good for you.

2 Night would have bin town, but it is wet and there is Engerland on the box.

Having one today. Scotland. I hear they were beaten again!

Now that is it for your BoP news until Sunday!

ampersand

All the rubber bands tweaking well, so & is on[desktop]-line.
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1. &'s late maman's birthday, which is also birthday of friend & helped move to Spain [as said during summer visit - 'Can't be 4/5 years already?' but it is]. Delighted to say HB words over phone, which also worked. Rare from here. 'Parcel heading off today', was part of excellent long chat. Their life continues well, with much upholstery and similar work incoming, Still shorts and t-shirt weather, I'm told, 'but occasional cardie, some nights.'

...an 'Oooh, goody!' & interjection, as Series 5 Gloomsbury episode begins on t'wireless 4, with the glories of Victoria Sackcloth-Vest, D.H. Lollipop et al.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000pdd

2. Thankyou dd, funeral will have been someone professionally known to you, I suspect. Much of his work and medical terminology stands testimony to a remarkable, caring, focussed career. Yesterday was all dashabout. Seemed right that the FGM talk in one linked bit of benefice took place after this particular funeral. Managed to label 10 jars of new marmalade[20 still waiting] 'Hope and Healing. Stirred and Blessed' People were generous and I want this money to help Mugumu Safe House directly. Milena and Arthur are wise, extraordinary, lovely, impressive people working to a wide campaign against fgm, forced early marriage and gender based violence. The cutting season horrors are happening right now, in a vast area surrounding the Serengeti National Park, internationally known for its protected, free-roaming willdlife. Such is not the experience of local women.

3. More phone thrashing to resolve car insurance !!!!-up. Now discover Saga policy WAS renewed[so 2 running in parallel, unbeknownst to &], although & told otherwise when ringing many times before expiry as part of the annual exercise, as set out by Martin. No replies, ever. Complete ignores. Demands for money now come, including latest, dated 31 August 2017 , at same time as Recorded Letter saying Cancelled, but still demanding nearly £400 with menaces!
& paid for much cheaper, better policy via mse on 22 Sept.

4. Rang Town of Gown LP, with Big Thank You for monthly draw 1st prize, banked with gratitude.

5. Will set 3 indoor hyacinths up along kitchen window sill shortly. Nearly all sold out at a new2& Scotsdales, but - fingers x'd - not too late for crimbo scent.
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HCase- re: composting. All my stuff goes down in back corner. Old carpet tops 4 'walls' of 2 pallets+1 hedge+1 neighbour's fence fronted with chicken wire - all freebies. I freecycled one of those useless tumbler things years ago. Shredded p/w, newspaper[buy only 1 hard copy grauniad wkly, Saturday's], Waitrose Weekend copies etc.grass, eggshells, peelings...the lot. It all rots down fabulously. Pallet sides allow the mix to breathe.
Your lambs' lettuce=&'s mâche Nantaise. Yum, along with endive [English chicory], = & fave.
https://unecuillereepourpapa.net/la-mache-nantaise-la-petite-salade-qui-a-tout-dune-grande/
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Frith - all best wishes with job application and door work/quote. I know how 'irregular' is used to excuse cost ramp-ups, but you will see through anything like that.
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Mrs LW - all reads very well on home/allotment/garden/family front.
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Happy weekends all.

-taff

Hopeless_Case wrote: »

Sorry for the compoting war and peace

With the grass clippings, I know what you mean. I have a large [neighbours] fir tree at the bottom of the garden that sheds bits constantly. I got a builders bag and started putting them in there and left it for about a year. Hey presto, usable compost.
This year, I've made compost in the normal pallet enclosed heap, which will go on the front garden imminently.
After that's gone, I'll start layering this years tree droppings with ash from the fire and the usual kitchen waste, so hopefully that will counteract the acidity levels of the fir tree.
My father cuts the grass and then piles it up in a kind of boarded up piece of waste ground, say about 3ft by 2 ft. He's been doing that with all the grass cuttings. I went about half a foot down last year and found some fantastic compost, so it can be done, it just needs leaving alone for longer than normal compost.
I like watching how they used to do compost, amazing how much stuff there is [helps if you have an allotment I suppose ]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce7IVl-glaQ
Love how neat his edges are...



You could use the grass cuttings to mulch any beds you have, they soon disappear, or try a builders bag/spearate area just for those. They will take longer, but it avoids the slimy compost heap...


Sorry for second W&P compost

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1) A flustery, blustery autumn morning, all gusty wind, spattering rain and mad flocks of leaves whirling through the air and across the roads as we drove.

2) We got to the shop to find the coffee table we'd seen online had sadly been sold this morning BUT they had another lovely solid oak one with a shelf underneath and the lady said you could get some wicker baskets for storage.....OH yes we can and it will look lovely. Coffee table now in the lounge and looks splendid as I've given it a liberal coating of beeswax polish and a good buff up!

3) Reduced fresh pineapple in the Co-Op 89p and perfectly ripe.

4) Watched Bridge of Spies last night, enjoyed it very much a good film.

5) We were cold and hungry as we drove home so we stopped off at the carvery where they do lunch for £6.99 each and they had a table so we are now warm, comfortable and very well fed.

plumduff55

My five for today are

1) Really good sleep last night.

2) Good half hour exercising to a Rosemary Connolly dvd.

3) Decluttered and organised the messiest cupboard in my home.

4) Lovely dinner at mums - why is it that no matter what Mum makes it always tastes better than my cooking ?

5) looking forward to watching a film on Netflix and knitting

Good evening all xx