5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

villagelife

1. Rugby season has started. Went to the double header. The results weren't what I was hoping for. First game was a bit of a whitewash. Unfortunately the one Sarries player i wanted to score a try didn't. He played with DS2 at school and I had seen him score a few tries.

2. The quins match. Not result i wanted but the delight of the Irish fans behind us at a win partly made up for it. We did manage a bonus point and continued not being able to win away!
Interesting reaction of players when Smith ( who is 18) was involved in an incident. It was very much of you touch him you have to deal with all of us!

3. The journey to Twickenham was ok even if Charing Cross/ Waterloo East was closed. Only problem was someone was trapped in the door at Clapham junction and we had to wait there for 10 minutes while it was sorted. Not quite sure how someone can not know that they are stuck in the door.

4. DS1 and DS2 both came to the rugby which was good. Chatted with DS1 for a while. He is happier since he moved as has some more money and works shorter hours at work.

5. When we arrived home DH happy with an omelette. A low spend day as took some water and fruit into the games with me and didn't spend anything in Twickenham. Parked the car for free at station slip road and free train travel.

mhagster

Shall post now as I will crash early I think tonight.

Tidying/ sorting/ clearing/ stuff for salvos/ stuff for local kindergarten.

Met our neighbour with Dusty dog so can use their bins this week as they will be away for a few days.

Took shelf unit down to other neighbour and left that on their front porch.i will miss porches/ verandas when I leave.

It's been Father's Day here today. I had a lovely dad and my children had a fabulous dad.

Spending time reading old love letters with tears and smiles and a swelling heart. Lovely man, we corresponded through much of our lives together.

My rooms ready! Just a bit more to do in the garage and I think we are good to go. Packers do your packing.

Much weather today, rain, wind, hail, heaviest rain, wind, sun, cold wind, rain ...I had much washing on line ...I now have much washing on clothes horses!

Person picked up our old dining table. Many a party / family meal eaten on it / around it. They were delighted to get it free. Now if only the person who wants the bed would actually come! Sigh!

I suppose I have to cook tonight but I really can't be bothered, I'm quite tired with constantly sorting stuff ...maybe get my cooking mojo back once it's all away on container.

Have a good day

LaineyT

Thinking of you Mhags.

Saturday pleasures,

The usual boiled egg with marmite soldiers.

Footie with my brother, smashing sitting in the sunshine and watching us win, saw nephew in his scholars kit, his auntie was day dreaming that maybe one day....

Stopped off at emporium on way home and pleased with YS haul.

Home and lovely Capt S had prepared an eye watering chilli, good excuse for a cold glass of cider

Watched the T20 final, loud and rowdy so can understand that purists might dislike, personally think it's good fun although the Notts Captain could have done without a smack in the eye when being presented the trophy ( Mila, the T20 is a cricket competition for the county teams in England)

house_elf

Morning!

I have to confess rugby and cricket pass me by, but I would like to go to a T20 match sometime at Edgbaston. Sounds fun!

&....How upsetting about the paperweight. Someone knew their stuff:mad: No T vouchers, just a 40% code and gift card bought at discount.

Mhags......everything happening quickly now. Don't know how you will manage without stuff for 7 weeks! :eek:

Yesterday

1. Waitrose shopping with 2x £6 off £30 plus PYO plus Mocs .....made shopping less than half price! :j

2. Washing dried on the line. Can see the bottom of the washing baskets. Happy.

3. Text conversations with DD and DF. Lift the spirits.

4. Gardening. DH has borrowed Gtech cordless while friends are on hols. WANT ONE NOW!

5. DS2 went to a party. Real people......not just online friends!!!!!!!

Last day of freedom today......back to school tomorrow. Usually really excited to be back, see the kids, colleagues etc. But all gone a bit wrong this year, and dreading it. sigh.

ampersand

Post just disappeared - major SNARL.
May be back later.

mhagster

house elf will have plenty stuff as DD1 is keeping a lot for her new house next year. We live in a huge house here, that I've filled over the years so plenty to go round.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

5 Now that BoP has battered down the door of mse and beaten the softies and is back in. This means that pictures of proper food are back. Eat this!



Can you guess what is for dinner?

4 After the events of Saturday when someone broke into my wobbleade store and went off with some bottles, BoP managed to again do some chicken roulette for tea. Tasty. Pictures coming soon.

3 Just done the nips, that is diced carrot and diced swede. This will be chunked together with a dab of wilted spinach and some peppers. Nice and you know you want to try as well! has yous guessed what is for Dinner yet?

2 PM2DD #UTM and about time. Good weekend and a good job Arsenal were not playing!

You cannot set them off!

DigForVictory

mhagster - can only read & gulp in awe at your industry & pragmatism.
Ampersand - o to distribute some Old Testament smitings - to those who absond with glass & the powers that make the Fens a not-spot...
BoP - sons now demanding dumplings for supper. A stew is traditionally served with, but the opinion locally is they'll settle for a plate of dumplings. Can I send them round?!
LaineyT - hoping you get yard & equine pal soon! Strongly commend wind-up radio, no batteries needed unless you have a DAB station passion.
mila - chutney is just one of those pleasures you have to bite into to understand, but it's also a godsend when you suddenly have more produce than you can sensibly use, save, freeze, gift away or otherwise put to use - "Glutney" is wonderful!
Mrs LW - delighted to hear HWK is mending swiftly, so much better to have him all repaired before the ground gets unreliable underfoot.
kittikins - all the best with the new term for you & DD & forgive me, what does Chap's KW unpack to as White Knight seems not quite right?
Purple kitten - sorry to hear the tubes are playing up but hurrah for not sharing it, for making jams etc & cheering on DH's canny ways instead.
VJsmum - you almost persuade me there is a point to Kondo if it filters the rammel of the young. (I folded socks, but ran out of momentum.)
M&M 90 - Audible is corking good fun - splendid pick!
Skint yet again - welcome to puppy walking!
House elf - yes, mine returned from NCS a bit more opinionated, but husband assured me that this is a combination of necessary skill and judgement to learn, & better he cheeks us & is scolded than cheeks a stranger & gets thumped. Apparently boxing ears is passee (and he's several inches taller than me anyway).
Frith - hurrah for sons & chickens & family!

OS Pleasures recently, as the summer holidays come scrunching to a close
Son has scythed back garden (so we can pitch tent to dry) & is now punching pillow of oats to thresh for their seed for next year. "Kill!" Encourages his father....

Given two new colours of soup mugs! A very dark navy & a dark burgundy - will the green veg look any tastier therein, I wonder?! Still, at least tomato soup won't show as staining...

Got a link to boro - "Japanese word meaning “tattered rags” and it’s the term frequently used to describe lovingly patched and repaired cotton bedding and clothing", and many of the images are glorious - denim and other glorious blue & whites. The more modern stuff I can leave but the antique pieces have an age & dignity & love that resonates. (Also detailed precision that had escaped me - further respect!)

The sole upside of our supermarket closing its photo section is that I got the holiday prints done first & was laden with freebies "for disposal" - coffee mugs in three sizes & two cushions!

"I looked out of the window & all I could see was fish fingers - it was a Birds Eye view..." Youngest Punning again, argh.

Turns out son is hosting a Poker Night - triggering thorough inquisition as to number & gender of guests, proposed entertainment, refreshments & revealing flights of speculation hitherto unsuspected (albeit more suited to a Carry On script). On the night I'll be in Another county delivering a car. Bonus points that son! [All passed with benign amusement - I just have to figure how to get intoxicated footage from newphone to harddisk...]

Bagged two neurologists & local mother-in-law, tomorrow has dentist, Thursday results. Pleasure in crossing off three appointments! [All past, & passed.]

Son has decided to learn to swim, arranged a friend to teach him & bought appropriate trunks. I look forward to hearing more, but expect only to find out how all has gone in the event of needing to swim.

Retrieved stash of round pounds, bought goods & converted rest to 'new' pounds for stash.

Re-reading George McDonald Fraser. Oh bless the man, rest the man. Gurgling happily at tales so well written, he makes me feel part of his family.

Why is it that on days with near nothing to do, my family manage to foment civil war on four fronts & the fifth just wants to take a (dashed strategically timed) bath?!

"I've lost a whole steel helmet." In this house? With camping detritus scattered on every floor in every room? [I'll not even start in the books.] On top of a pre-holiday humus layer of family living? He's surprised?! I think we should rent the place to archaeology students as an exercise in stratigraphy.

Survived dentist as family - I got to sign paperwork til they had over 16 examples of my signature, but at least I've arranged Valentine's Day to be Memorable....

Son has deftly repaired a small rip along a seam of a loved T shirt. Feel very slightly smug that he chose to, found the kit, did the job & put the kit away all without prompting or fanfare.

Heh! Lovely change in inflection-of-crooning from son behind me as I explain he can pick his portion once his brothers are also in the room... Suddenly getting siblings upright & ready to eat takes on an importance it previously lacked.

Jumble sale! Lots of fun things, an excellent cause & staffed by my kind of Christian godly matrons - who croon supportively & keep dropping the prices. I may make that scrap-work dressing gown yet!

Listening to highlights from The Cruel Sea Retold, which combines with McDonald Fraser all too easily - when human error gets a grip & ships are signalling by lamp, I can almost hear the recriminations in broadest Perthshire...

We got one if those self inking stamp thingummies, thinking useful for eBay etc. Himself having set up name address phone numbers etc then seeing me nose down in a packing list, stamped me! At least it doesn't start "if found please return to"...

Bank holiday train bedlam, unbooked seats & suitcases galore & on train #2, one passenger (having assured herself as best she could that she was settled), opened & started in in the prosecco. Never has a sigg bottle of tap tasted so serenely innocent!

Saw a fishing lake with tiny huts dotted tastefully about & easy car parking - struck me as both charming & quite ridiculous. Son goes fishing on foot, with a bit of tarp in case of severe weather, and enjoys it.

Rousing cheeses for colleague who sorted me a phone number & web address so I could resolve a ticket issue before heading back up into Scotland.

"Is this film trippy?" "No, it's a documentary about the concentration camps" - youngest has jet black humour, even watching a Guardians of the Galaxy film...

What demon brought fishnet garments for women back into the marketplace? The proper use for fishnet is for fish, then string bags for groceries. On the female? Even on the young & exercised, it's impractical let alone immodest. The rest of us? Mind bleach!

Spectacle of small person industriously trying to gnaw handrail of train seat. Huge eyed & rather charming, despite these endeavours.

Strange world - building site now lit & will be a shop in a fortnight, panels being delivered on a truck like playing cards - this return to work has the real world looking like toys, models assembled by giants.

Ah, a charming sight. Lad & lass throwing knives in the back garden. Good to see wholesome outdoor activities being enjoyed.

One of my nasturtiums has emerged! Vivid orange petals, and looking robustly healthy which is delightful after I had supposed the seed to have been too old, or my planting too erratic. Such a pleasure to think that despite my neglect it has thrived to brighten the darkening nights.

Debating fitness options and not wanting to step on slugs in the night in the dark - my big brave heroic son!

Gradually catching up on Thrones. (I'm a full month behind, now, & just in awe! Just such a riveting story!)

Love, strength, health, courage to all.

house_elf

Wow! Epic post DfV........will read it again, as may have missed some due to being v tired reading it last night!

Yesterday,

1. Good shopping in Mr A with big APG's. Got DF birthday present and found a big womble. Then cheap champagne from Lidl.

2. Cooked breakfast.

3. Lucky Logan at the cinema with Sweet Sunday tickets. All enjoyed it. Deserves its high rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

4. Roast dinner. Haven't had one for months!

5. Watched Victoria.

First day back today. No kids. I wish you all nothing but good things

villagelife

1. Saw MIL for about an hour and then it was time for her lunch so we had to leave. She is ok. She wants us to take her out for lunch. DH says we will if she arranged and pays for the taxi that will take her wheelchair. It costs £25 one way regardless of distance. She can't get into a car and needs two people to move her from chair to wheelchair as she can't walk.
It will be a week or more before I need to see her again.

2. Saw DS1 and girlfriend as we went to their new house. It looks better than when MIL had it. They haven't decorated apart from painting (or started) the kitchen cupboards.. It seems so much larger. The front room looks bigger and brighter with a change of furniture.

3. Took some cutting from shrubs and rises from the garden. They may take may not but have had first try at it.

4. Sat in garden with DH with a glass of wine in the rain! It was warm enough and made plans for the garden over the next year. We may achieve about half of them.

5. DS2 cooked beef stew with dumplings. It was lovely and needed. It's getting to that time of year when stews are apprecuated.

6. Managed to dehusk some cobnuts. DH is taking them to work and asking for donations to charity. See how it goes.