5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

Good decision Mhags, you spend too long at work to be so unhappy.

Saturday pleasures,

Bad sinus headache when woke up so guess pleasure was suitable medication in stock.

Feeling better so braved the bbrr cold and went to local butchers for freezer top up.

Then over to see horse girlie, she was snug as a bug in her rug so just cuddles. Blessed the fact that am now on livery so no poo picking in the sleet!

The CUFC groundsman fashioned a Christmas tree in the abbey turf.

Another one who enjoyed the Strictly final and my favourite won.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

V Was inn emporium W8rs and Partner this morning and got top slot in car park. Got juice, wobbleades, biscuits and all inn for the season. Just fruits and toms next week. We has a new emporium opened inn town, from Aladdin type! Not visited yet, but local rag says sheoples were queueing to get in t'other day!

4 Testing this aft'noon on axemas sauce. Creamy mushroom. Served on thighs of chicken, topped with toms and kale. More later!

3 Tree up, and bauble removed by Raffles. No more later!

2 BoP has tested some films for you this week. A million ways to die in the west. Don't watch with your mother, bit … And Last Vegas. Far better than some minor non entity show on box of ogles. :beer: was consumed.

Having one later. Juts one dinner to test new creamy mushroom sauce. When tested correctly, recipe shall be available inn the parish.

No need to ...

Sauce Tested. Recipe available tomorrow

ampersand

2 more lost osp posts in last week (snarl). Another yday/today: lost bkg for London/Tuesday. Just re-did. Coach cheaper/easier for these non-Spits jaunts. Timings are becoming so tight for many and various thingies. Will hopefully meet D/D+J before the Anni Albers exhbn.
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Osps are random pluckings, with fingers x'd. 3rd time lucky?

1. Crazily vicious swirling iced rain at rugby y'day. Felt support turnout was least that could be done. 1st win still awaited. Cruel, tough, when our rebuilding team play so well, but are pulverised by professional tanks, inc. ringers. We need some heavyweight forwards.
Offers?:-))). Raffles?

2. Today's Christingle Service.

3. Latest pan of Crimbo marmalade prepped, now in 3rd of 36hr mulch, pre-fast boil, another o/n sit+cool, then sugar+rolling boil to setting point. Preserved ginger in this one.

4. Lots of enjoyed radio lately. Sneaked in another 'sound of own voice' moment, singing fave carol Adam Lay A-Bounden in empty Church.
Love it so.

5. Spitalfields - somehow managed again, enhanced, made bearable when paths cross with new-met special peeps. So it was last Thursday, with K+R. So, somehow had moderate banking to deposit, for which & is grateful. So much tougher nowadays, since Tribeca's takeover/market wreckage and brex- _hit.
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More to post, but had best try and chalk this one up on blackboard before it vanishes into &'s Bermuda T'internet Triangle.
Hwb is feeling very lovely at & feet right now.
Bop - unsurprised by Raffles' bauble protest. Too many gallivants - but much enjoyed by we ospers, thank you:-)
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Warmth, wellness, and copable Crimbos to all in the rundown nonsense of the next 9 days

Frith

Hope no phones were lost during the marmalade manufacturing process, Ampersand.


Pleasures for today (Sunday).


1) A lie in!


2) Bigger son's bike bearing does not need replacing at all (as Halfords said). He took it to an independent bike shop and they said it is just seized as it's previous owner hadn't used it for months and it will improve.


3) Suzy hen OK in the shed. Less of a horror film scene than yesterday but it'll take a good while for the feathers to grow. The three peckies stayed in their pen and Suzy had the run of the allotment and went to talk to them through the fence for a while. She was not overjoyed to be put back in the shed.


4) Made soup and cheese on toast for lunch then a reasonable chicken chow mein for tea. There is almost no food left until Tuesday, which is a bore. No petrol since Thursday - flashy light and beeping warning. So we had Christmas pudding for afters.


5) Enjoyed watched the 4 Year Olds/Old People's Home very much - the Christmas special.


6) In bed now with 1hwb.


Oh and 7) Applied for smaller son's college place. The same college and course as that attended by one Nigel Slater... (he also went to the same high school as I did, though earlier).

ampersand

Mob. was hooked from boiling raspberry jam, Frith:-)
No heat applied to this batch yet.
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Thought of you last Monday, when hearing one Ophelia Gordon, playing Michael Parekowhai's amazing grand piano on the last day of the RA's Oceania Exhibition, &'s 2nd visit.
She is a teacher of piano and other stringed instruments.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/eMA5krxHgZAR6rjY7
Another youngish chap loved playing it, too. He is Steinway's 'tester'! Was modest.
Trying to paste link but not succeeding.....yet.

mhagster

Bedtime. Been a fairly busy day.

Up the earliest in a week. ( even earlier tomorrow, alarm is set.)

Chat with sister. Who passed on the complaints about me from my mother! Really mother? I've enough going on!

Friends who'd kindly dog walked Haggis when I was away popped in.

Hoovered, dusted, laundried, cleaned bathrooms.

Went to T and took two trollies. In DD2 we bought for food bank. A mix of nice and basic. In mine stuff for us.

Made mince pies with DD1. This is 'our thing' Christmas music on, kitchen cosy and an ever hopeful doggy...sorry Hag. No mince pies for you. Her friend from forever just popped in as they were coming out the oven. They sat and chatted and chatted over a cup of tea and a mince pie.

Made sausage rolls whilst oven was on so had beans on top .

Went to evening service at church for carols & 9 lessons. It was good.

Home and watched Apprentice with DD1...I haven't seen a single episode but she's been watching from Australia !

house_elf

Good morning People,

Ampersand Hello!

Sunday

1. Did not leave the house all day.

2. Managed to assemble meals from the odd food supplies we have left......we have tins and freezer stuff, but fresh is limited, and I couldn't get to the freezer while the builders took up the old floor in the utility. Sunday dinner was meatballs and chips :rotfl:

3. DD had a text from one of her work colleagues apologising for upsetting her. Made ne cry. So relieved it is resolved.

4. DH went to visit DMiL in the afternoon. I sorted the dining room table, still covered with craft stuff to sort from before I was ill.......I have a couple of fabric lengths to make Christmas waistcoats......not going to happen. Decided to make one into an apron using crazy patchwork technique. Just enough fabric :j Just need to find some material for straps. :rotfl: Not urgent, but made me happy

5. Watched a bit of lifestyle tv with tea and mince pies, and the log burner using up the timbers from the utility.

I am off to break the good news to work, that I am not back until Thursday :rotfl: (Doc was right......still feeling weak ).

Have a lovely day

ampersand

https://photos.app.goo.gl/BYQhBFAZXVaRwZjg7

ampersand

'Heads-up, sons of Frith' was caption for that one :-)

MandM90

The weekend:

1. :j Moving my body. CrossFit session on Saturday...was ouch! Lots of burpees and barbells. Then Sunday was my fifth exercise sesh of the week so took it easy and did a 40 minute yoga practice in my living room. Yummy to stretch out all those sore muscles.

2. :A Fueling my body with delicious foods. Saturday: smoked tofu scramble after working out. Big hit with OH. He made us dahl for dinner. Sunday: Made celery soup from an online recipe, surprisingly delish, and served in mugs alongside a 'picky' lunch of assorted salads, hummus, falafel, pitta bread etc. DD and her friend enjoyed it a lot. Dinner was Budget Bytes spicy coconut stir fry made with heaps of veggies and low fat coconut milk. 10/10 would recommend!

3. :www: House brought up to good standard with help from obliging husband and begrudging 10 year old. :rotfl:

4. :T Finished a glorious book - The Rosie Project...wait...not the Rosie project at all but The Alice Network - and started Bird Box (which is giving me horrendous nightmares but will be stuck with until the bitter end)

5. :xmastree: Last week of work until festivities begin! DH is taking me for dinner on Saturday in Covent Garden, then onto the ROH to see Carmen. Usually we just go smart casual at the opera but I'm going to go for it and wear my backless green velvet dress...just because!