5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Olliebeak1951

My [STRIKE]five[/STRIKE] six for yesterday:

1. Another good sleep and woke up feeling good :j!

2. Actually remembered to write out birthday card for DGD2, put Euros inside, and post through DD's friend's front door - to make sure that it was received this morning. DGD2's birthday isn't until tomorrow, but they're travelling to EuroDisney today (friend is taking them to Airport), so needed to make sure it was received in advance ............................. oh the complications of life ! DGD2 is 'bouncing' with excitement this morning - she really thought they were going to Blackpool :rotfl:.

3. Charity Shop shift in the afternoon - quite good, but not too busy. Working alongside our 'founder' for a while - a lovely lady with fantastic motivation. Decorating the shop for 'One World Week Event'.

4. Visit to A$da to check whoopsies. Found a GF Loaf and pack of GF Seeded Rolls - both reduced to less than half-price. Had a lovely chat with member of staff who was reducing the price of bread and asked me why it was so expensive. Spent a few minutes explaining about different flours, bakery processes and avoiding cross-contamination - she had no idea how difficult it is to keep Gluten Free completely free from contamination.

5. Back home to Actifry Chips with Omelets - Tomato for OH and Mushroom for me :drool:.

6. Feet up - Emmerdale, Coronation Street, New Tricks, Hetty Wainthropp - happy girl come bedtime !

VJsmum

Morning all

Pleasures for yesterday

1. Yoga - first time for three weeks but was a gentle session (OH thought i said i was going to "genital yoga" - no love, that's something different entirely :rotfl:)
2. sourdough pancake, peanut butter and banana for lunch - a fave. Freezer food for tea - with enough leftovers for me to have again tonight (as I will be dining alone :T)
3. OH and i watched a film 'mississippi burning' - an old one, but we hadn't seen it. T'was excellent, but harrowing
4. DD did the hoovering :T
5. Had a walk down to the garage to collect the car - was nice in the warm sunshine. Car passed it's MOT.

Have a good day all - i am working, cleaning and oiling garden furniture (as you do - all that beautiful weather in the summer and i didn't do it. now i'm having to juggle it round and keep it inside to dry...)

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Ah the go for gluten free and then we have the tripled cooked battered chips and …

V Just read the reports yesterday that butter is good for you and yous no need for me to hark on again about it, so I will. Emulsions should be on the walls of houses not your arteries! Now today it is organic veg. Tomorrow is another day.

4 Well I did in jest yesterday about Old McDonald and his Tourette’s. Well I understand that something on unsocial media was expressing something that was a highlight. Have we become such intolerant that we only see the edited highlights, miss all the actors and bay for blood like taking people to the stocks. I am glad that when I stood in the jury box, we took time to come to a reasoned decision, not rely on hearsay and others!

3 Alas, the lunch box full of goodness today has another penguin and club! Theres is on offer at w8rs and partners! Usual cheese, cucumber and toms. Also snorker roll, slime jelly and oranges with strawbs and berries. Good for you, see above about butter!

2 Last night inn the gym BoP was getting into his SF mode. Not long either for the Tea Party. Tonight BoP has found a decent film, and it is not a Marilyn either!

Having one later. Wes having Dog Mix Roulette for tea. As BoP had hot dog last night with toms for tea, good for you, we has a couple of dogs left over. Will be in roulette tonight with nasta pasta. The cake will also be fed some bourbon tonight as well. Cannot think, but I will need to ice the cake next week. Currently she is a good six pounder! The pud is resting in the fridge next to the wobbleades!

Is yous are worried too much about the fact that BoP is enjoying slime jelly, it is actually lime jelly! Usual rules!

There, that’s your BoP news today! And Happy Mole day to you all!

[Deleted User]

Sorry for being MIA life takes over sometimes and this has been one of them. Am summoned to look after poorly grandpickle for the next two days too so will be MIA again!

1) The smell of wood and coal being burned all over the village now it's cooler.

2) Lovely large trailer full of fire wood delivered this morning is all stacked and packed in various places ready for the woodstove in early November.

3) Good drying weather for the last few days and all has been line dried, biggest pleasure is the smell of dry washing being folder into the basket.

4) The little greengrocer I've found close to DD1s house, it's lovely produce and they sell it in £1 bags, very good for the housekeeping.

5) May have found a replacement doggie friend for our Cookie doggie. Met Ruby and her mum this morning and she is half cairn terrier and the other half is Jack Russel x Norfolk Terrier, she's a poppet Mum was saying they couldn't find anyone to do the odd day's doggie sit when they wanted a day out so I said we'd do it. We'll see but I hope she takes me up on the offer, Ruby is gorgeous!

Olliebeak1951

VJsmum wrote: »

VJsmum - ...........OH thought i said i was going to "genital yoga" - no love, that's something different entirely :rotfl: ...........

............. will somebody please pass the screenwipes :eek: :rotfl: - just wasted half a cup of coffee !

BoP - sounds as though your cake will be wobbling far more than the 'wobbleades' - hic :rotfl: !

MrsLurcherwalker - lovely to see that not only have YOU made new friends quickly, but also your little Cookie :T.

My [STRIKE]five[/STRIKE] six for today -

1. Took my time getting ready to go out this morning - I'm so much better when I don't have a frantic start to the day !

2. Even managed to get to the pharmacy to collect my monthly prescription and 'got collared' by the pharmacist for a Medication Review ................... she now knows that I'm completely 'au fait' with what everything is for, that I'm taking it correctly, that I don't miss any doses and I make healthy lifestyle/dietary choices - well 'reasonably healthy' ones ! Put in a 'Prescription Request' for my usual Coeliac items from the GP's surgery, but not sure if our local Health Authority is still filling these requests - so many changes to what can be supplied and what can't. I don't order every month - the last one I placed was back in July, so I'm definitely not 'milking the system'.

3. Did an extra shift in Charity Shop and took lovely healthy salad with me for lunch before I started work (oh drat - I should have shown it to the pharmacist as dietary proof :rotfl:!)

4. Working with another lovely group of people today - including a boy from one of our local senior schools who is normally a regular customer. Such a blessing to have him with us, as he was up/down the stairs with bags full of donations .............. oh how lovely it would be to have young, fit legs and knees again !

5. The folding walking stick that I spotted yesterday was still sitting there - must have been 'meant for me' ! Bargain at £3 :j. Also found a beautiful Damart skirt - my size - that will be lovely for party season. Longer length, lined, black with 'beaded godets'. - also £3 :T.

6. Arrived home just as beginning to feel some rain starting - so dark/dreary on the bus this evening, quite depressing. Blinds closed now, curtains drawn and about to put the Gas Fire on - still sitting here in my fleece jacket ! Going to warm up some L&P Soup in a minute and make some sandwiches.

Enjoy your evening, everybody and hunker down for the night - luv Ollie xx

ampersand

From desktop - and several more annoying little powercuts today
Have to miss town of gown important thing tonight. Can't be helped.
Right now, should be out chopping and barrowing and composting all of yesterday's wine'n'vine clearance, but -

1. Today has just been more and more grape jellymaking, with easily +15kg still to do something with. & foresees mighty compost calling. All known aviaries and hens have done their best. Desktop on to do another 40 labels. Will be minutely inspecting what's compost-bound, as that missing earring is in it all somewhere.

2. It's been a lovely day, which really helps.

3. Radio 4 and r4X delights through the mind-numbingness of so much current activity....especially when the Borrowers have done silent things with stealth. Sneakily they put back the lemon squeezer after & had pared+squeezed 8 more for this arvo's batch of jelly.
Current pleasures are Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes and, twice today, loving The Antiquary, and my beloved, brilliant, Gloomsbury.
All here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bnv4wn [Sherlock, although Jeremy Brett on't'box was the defining divine SH}
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b064xbpk [The Anitquary] - superbly done, see cast list.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0bnv4wq - again, cast list delectation -
VERA SACKCLOTH-VEST..............................MIRIAM MARGOLYES
HENRY MICKLETON.......................................JONATHAN COY
RICH WOMAN ..................................................MORWENNA BANKS
GINNY FOX.......................................................ALISON STEADMAN
LIONEL FOX......................................................NIGEL PLANER
MRS GOSLING..................................................ALISON STEADMAN GOSLING............................................................NIGEL PLANER
AL PADRONE....................................................JOHN SESSIONS
DOROTHY BARKER.........................................MORWENNA BANKS
ROBERT BLETCHLEY......................................JOHN SESSIONS
TAXI DRIVER ...................................................JOHN SESSIONS
ROOM SERVICE .......................................JONATHAN COY

4. ....and Miles Jupp back with extended News Quiz. It's all helped & plough on.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bnv2s5

5. Even managed another few rows of endless chevron bands of baby blanket at silly early clox, to now be on final ball of each colour. Rough calc. another 100,000 chevron stitches, then darning in, then border, then done.
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Haven't done post-Adbkes thing yet. Will try and squeeze it in tmrw, tho' Spits prep. must be main aim.
Some nice auction news.
Is & any nearer booking NZ trip? Left in someone's hands yday. Had no idea visa was needed for India week-ish. Looks like more change-y plannies to accommodate. Oz bit is prob better as separate mid-week enzed-Ditch rtn. It's all adding up and up:-))) [n.b. 3xrictus grins there]
Have to catch up with bop on cimbo cakes and puddings too. It will all happen. Sometime/somehow.
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dfv - pm check?
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Right, steak+endive[& fave] salad methinks, then finish rhubarb+ginger crumble with pomegranate seeds and cream. All h-g or rtc.
Then another look at Lainey's moon, seen on long haul back last night. Indeed, so nearly full then, should be on the button tonight.
Step out and see. Blessings all round.

ampersand

Ollie - our posts x'd
Must tell you that L&P, extremely famed chez moi, is not soup materal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_%26_Paeroa
I do like 'the comically pretentious slogan World Famous in New Zealand...'
Read on, it gets better yet.

Olliebeak1951

ampersand wrote: »

Ollie - our posts x'd
Must tell you that L&P, extremely famed chez moi, is not soup materal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_%26_Paeroa
I do like 'the comically pretentious slogan World Famous in New Zealand...'
Read on, it gets better yet.

:rotfl: ampersand - I've never heard of that before ! My Leek & Potato Soup doesn't look anywhere near as interesting !

ampersand

Ollie - set off now and you'll be in time for:
https://www.paeroa.org.nz/
and a bit more here -
''It's all right here, in the best little town in the middle of everywhere.''
http://www.paeroa.org.nz/#

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Come now & and Ollie. Potato and leek should be served on a plate with a couple of snorkers and pan gravy. None of this soup nonsense!