5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

mhagster

Bedtime.

Just off phone to friend. Last spoke on Friday but we still had an hours worth of chatter.

Up extra early. Painty clothes on and continued to paint over the re-plastered stuff. Vaulted ceiling just too high for me to feel safe at top of ladders so the boyo can do that for me.

Floors washed. Bathrooms cleaned. Windows cleaned downstairs.

Mini snoozette mid afternoon.

Finished book. Bit rubbish really.

Made a kind of bread and butter pudding with panettone. As in what on earth am I going to do with a panettone ?

Our Australian arrived. Lovely to see her. Much chatter.

Friend called so even more chatter.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Sunday pleasures

A very happy DH as he got to go out on his motorbike

Another dry day & slightly warmer

Pleasant walk by the docks - fed the waterfowl & then on to sm - quite busy, no ys deals but didn’t have to queue at checkout.

Only had to wait 5 mins for the bus

Finished my yummy hm soup & started to make a new one using up all my ys veg from a previous sm visit

Dinner was scrumptious - pork loin steaks, boiled potatoes, carrots & green beans from freezer.

DSis put the gloss coat on bathroom skirting & door frame

7th night of no street light but still cloudy so no stars

Reading other people’s pleasures:)

MrsSD

Frith

Thank you, Carolbee. We're not in English Heritage any more but we are in the National Trust. I've found a nice property in Ramsgate but I haven't made my mind up yet whether to drive or go on the train... I don't know if the supposed new ferry terminal will make a difference!


We (I!) also want to go to Greenwich as there is so much to do there.


Pleasures for today (Sunday)


1) A lie in.


2) Spent well over an hour on the allotment digging and tidying. The hens helped with the digging by checking every spadeful I turned over for worms. Went on the disused bit of ground behind the hen pen (the "far end" of the allotment as there is only 1 allotment so each side ends in a fence, if that makes sense) and caught my foot in a rat run so spent some time digging all those out. (The runs, not actual rats). Then I cleared some nettles and roots and found 2 crowns of rhubarb just peeping through. I know there are 2 more rhubarbs at the other end but they're not visible yet.


3) A tasty tea of HM wedges then rather nice burgers with tomato, cheese and gherkin.


4) My brother came round and I made some brownies.


5) My school friend phoned.


Back to school tomorrow for smaller son! Bigger son is going to work in the morning then we are going to Birmingham in the afternoon where he has a university interview........

villagelife

1. A lie in for me. I got up at 8.

2. Spent most of the day in the garden. I p!antes some bulbs we had brought for very little money in the sale and did some weeding, tidied up the branches DH cut down.

3. DH happy with his chainsaw.

4. Warm enough, with lots of layers on, to sit and have lunch and coffee in the garden.

5. Easy tea if bangers and mash. Persuaded DH not to have a take away.

6. DS2 and girlfriend came back with panettone bread and butter pudding which her Dad had made. Very nice it was too.

LaineyT

Sunday pleasures,

Up first so early morning snuggles with little dog.

After the Archers omnibus I reluctantly started to take down the decs, hate how bare it looks as, even though we don’t put loads up, get used to the twinkly lights and felt mice The tree is now sitting in the garden, staring reproachfully into the dining room window!

Lunch was liver and bacon, top up those iron reserves.

Mid afternoon snooze whilst watching an old Poirot.

The lovely Martin Clunes in Manhunt and the welcome return of Vera next week.

MandM90

Weekend pleasures:

1. Food
- I made DH maple and smoked paprika fried tofu on toast for Sat brekkie, which he adored. Tasted bacon-y.
- My dad dropped off an Algerian food called mhadjeb, which is a divine semolina pastry/pancake thing with tomato, onions and chilli inside. Just delicious. We demolished them then realised we should probably leave it there for lunch because calories!
- More yummy home cooked stuff incl.: bread, carrot and lentil soup, white bean and sweet potato chilli

2. Books/entertainment
- Finished Susan Hill's Jacob's Room is Full of Books, and Nancy Mitford's Highland Fling. That brings my 2019 total to 3. I'm aiming for 52 so am ahead by 2!
- Watched 'You' on Netflix, which I really enjoyed. Have added the book to my wishlist.

3. Wine.

4. Garden
- Made headway with garden. Loads of weeding, used up the last of the bark to cover what we could. Have budgeted £100 to buy some more bark to cover the gaps in our small garden.
- Snowdrops and sweet william are returning! And so the beautifully relentless march towards, well, March begins!
- Enjoyed being outside in the relatively mild weather, working together.

5. Home
- DH helped a lot and the house was near enough perfect for Saturday night. He went to the pub and I sat in bed with a glass of wine, reading, enjoying the calm of a clean and tidy home

ampersand

Good morning all -
DD, DG first of all. Next, I'm sure bop will be advising you well, but I'm shouting for dear grauniad's Miles Brignall.
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Please write to him.
I know you are skilled and disciplined from academic writing and teaching, but sometimes the 'one more time' can make one freeze.

If this is happening, just CCP what you have related here for starters. I am glad Mr piano is in your household right now, too.

carolbee

Frith wrote: »

Thank you, Carolbee. We're not in English Heritage any more but we are in the National Trust. I've found a nice property in Ramsgate but I haven't made my mind up yet whether to drive or go on the train... I don't know if the supposed new ferry terminal will make a difference!


We (I!) also want to go to Greenwich as there is so much to do there.


Pleasures for today (Sunday)


1) A lie in.


2) Spent well over an hour on the allotment digging and tidying. The hens helped with the digging by checking every spadeful I turned over for worms. Went on the disused bit of ground behind the hen pen (the "far end" of the allotment as there is only 1 allotment so each side ends in a fence, if that makes sense) and caught my foot in a rat run so spent some time digging all those out. (The runs, not actual rats). Then I cleared some nettles and roots and found 2 crowns of rhubarb just peeping through. I know there are 2 more rhubarbs at the other end but they're not visible yet.


3) A tasty tea of HM wedges then rather nice burgers with tomato, cheese and gherkin.


4) My brother came round and I made some brownies.


5) My school friend phoned.


Back to school tomorrow for smaller son! Bigger son is going to work in the morning then we are going to Birmingham in the afternoon where he has a university interview........

Car would be useful as for instance, thecastles wouldnt t be easily accessible by train, as long way from stations.

Might be worth looking for deal on EH if you want to visit them. Dover in particular is amazing, Walmer very much like someone lives in it and Deal quite ‘empty’

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

ampersand wrote: »

Good morning all -
DD, DG first of all. Next, I'm sure bop will be advising you well, but I'm shouting for dear grauniad's Miles Brignall.

Oh yes &, yous probably already knew this would ‘appen eh?
Buy a Ford! Bog standard one, three years old and never buy some souped up carp! Not want you want to hear, but expected the BoP to say! Note, passed the nice electric milk float this morning. Not been used for a couple of weaks and on the side of the road. So there, buy a Ford.
MnM Syrup toffee on toast like bacon. Not proper food. Is I wants best back, I gets me a smoked back and grill it. That’s proper food and not nonsense! Be more like LT, liver and bacon. Full of iron and good for you. Proper food.
VL Chainsaws. Proper tools and good for the woods!
SD Yummy soup. That looks rite tasty proper food.

Todays missive is bought to you despite ITs downgrade over the weakened. Nothing is working this day. Shovels are on the rack inn the boiler room and they can jolly well …

V It is another day of media induced hype and tripe. According to some it is Lawyers Day today. Yes, it is the day the lawyers take you for a ride! As posted on the parish the week before xmas, them trinkets that apparently a quarter of have already been returned for cash, sorry a refund, have not been knocked off that card bill, up from £5,800,000,000 five tears ago, to a whopping £7,800,000,000 today. I’m peeping into the relational area of the boreds to see if the agro hits! Trust your BoP shall report back!
Yes, it is divorce day, falls thirst Monday in January when everyone is back at work!
This year be like BoP. Mr Micawber rule of cash. ‘Income Twenty Pounds, expenditure Nineteen, Nineteen and six, result happiness, income twenty pounds, expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, misery!’

4 Just shuffled pennies to pay for the Napa Valley. If yous like BoP, yous has the pennies ready and you go. No trinkets have been sold to fund this excursion. Still, we have to wait to see the colour of BoPsie’s money this month now to pay the mortgage! BoP Tour soon. Details will be released shortly. Oh and paying the mortgage. Still did this when BoP was off with Jenny, and when I was at uni. So there!

3 Glad wes outta of the Tin Pot trophy. Typical BBC to bias itself up its own jack and not show the absurdity of the VAR. I hear that in another match a penalty was given, then not taken. Carp, Avoid.

2 Last night for dinner we had proper smoked haddock kedgeree, with proper smoked haddock from Grimsby. Raffles was well over excited with decent food, and the skins have been demolished. The local birds took the rest. Then we had strawbs, mini meringues and vienetta. Other foods are available. And as I did the shop inn emporium partner and w8rs for £31, for decent meals, you could had gone to the cheese on toast place, delivered for one meal, or use the boxed service for three! Please avoid cheese on toast and the box meal services.

Having one today, yous needs to know about mes packed Lunch Box! Smoked wood of apple cheese, four cakes of Jaffa, toms and cucumber, with boiled egg. Strawbs, blackcurrant jelly with oranges. Tangerine. Filling and good for you! All from that £31 shop at partner and w8rs. Mind you, I see on the smash and grab stand, I could had saved me self ten minutes and got a boiled egg already unshelled! But then again it was probably in a cloud of nitrogen and at least 5 days old before it reached the shelf! Avoid. Unfortunately over the years I has finded that cakes of Jaffa do not travel well and are usually disposed off by elevenses. Other biscuits can be used at elevenses!

I has had enuff today, so on with the …

ampersand

Bop, ease up, please.
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Someone spoke of DD contacting a broadsheet newspaper and I know Miles Brignall has a decent track record.