5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Pleasures for today (Monday).


1) A better sleep than of late.


2) Piano was tuned! First time in at least 10 years (12?) The man was amazed by it (as they all are) and it sounds so much better now.


3) Hens well. My brother has finished 3 sides of the greenhouse.


4) Messages from MrA.


5) Brother came up for games afternoon.


6) Bigger son made a proper chow mein for tea.


7) Watched 24 Hours in Police Custody.

LaineyT

Monday pleasures,

I could hardly get out of bed first thing but did improve as the day went on, downloaded some exercises to do and got some useful advice re sleeping positions etc.

Just pottered at home but made sure I kept moving.

Another sunny day, had a wasp queen in the bedroom, we had seen her around the back of the house obviously looking for nest sites. I gently ushered her out the window and asked her politely not to nest too close to our home!

Got over to see girlie, couldn’t do any riding but gave her a quick brush and lots of cuddles.

Caught up on Gardeners World, lovely to see Mr D plus Nigel & Nelly followed by Uni Challenge.

mhagster

Hello. Bedtime.

Been a busy-ish day. Started my day re-reading osp from about 2.5 years ago. When life was with five and juggling work/ hospital/ Uni/ school etc ...but got to the good bit where I'd handed in my notice!

Took a drive ( I really don't like driving anymore and have such odd anxiety ridden hang ups about it) to old work. Where I used to drive every day for years and never thought anything about it! I now hate pulling out from a slip road onto dual carriageway but hey! I did it. With DD2 saying you can do it and me saying I know I can I just don't like it!!

Had chat with old boss from when I worked there and then bizarrely met my even older boss from where I worked 27 years ago! So had a very pleasant chat with her. I really did used to work!!

A few chores to do on way back and home to take doggy out.

Planted my 50p plants in garden. My raised beds are filling up nicely mainly with RTC plants.

Made a creamy pasta using up bits and bobs from fridge.

Popped over to friends . Had a top another friend had dropped off for her to borrow.

Then a quick nip into T on way back for milk and 3 RTC cyclamens!


A bit of a sunshine and showers kind of day. Sat in garden for 10 minutes after planting and there was a bit of warmth ( in a thick jumper kind of way!) then came back a dog walk with a dog covered in hailstones! Snow forecast for morning.

And hurrah to fixing my sink plug. It had stuck and I couldn't get it to release . Today I'd bought a stick on shelf for shower and randomly wet suction pad in the tiny puddle of water at bottom of sink and voila the suction pulled the plug out!

Frith

A busy day, chez Frith.


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Bigger son designed an ingenious plan to get smaller son to go to school. Taxi cancelled and bigger son took him into town on the college bus, bought him a McDs, then walked him up to school!


3) I made chicken fajitas mix ready for tea plus broccoli, cauliflower and gammon cheese ready for tea tomorrow.


4) Finished the greenhouse!!!!!!!!!! and hens well.


5) Spoke to elections and the school where I used to work about upcoming very part time work.


6) Had a tidy up and changed the bunk beds.


7) Fajitas for tea then apple and blackberry crumble and MrA joined us. :-)


8) Went out for a walk to look for deer and saw a group of 5 then a "herd" of at least 10.


9) My brother popped in as he has been sorting his freezer out so had brought me some fruit and beef pieces plus some goose eggs.

villagelife

Not posted for a long time.

For yesterday.

1. Survived the day at work. A colleague helped me out when I needed it.

2. Enjoyed reading my book on the bus.

3. My mother's day present of hyacinth in a basket.

4. Light evenings even if there was hail.

5. Yea of Bobotie which everyone enjoyed and an not sure why I don't cook it more often.

LaineyT

Tuesday pleasures,

Bright, sunny day but boy the temperature had dropped, scarf and gloves dug back out!

Shopping for some fruit & veg, emporium was quiet but no bargains to be had.

Another day of keeping moving and doing back exercises, it’s easing a tad.

Finished Tombland, brilliant book and made me want to visit Norwich again soon.

A rare 3-0 away win for the U’s, edging towards safety.

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Many pleasures over the last couple of weeks so here are a few

DD1 continues to thrive with her pregnancy and the nausea is less than it was, she's making good progress.

DD2 also continues to thrive with her pregnancy and isn't quite as reduced with the nausea but is also making good progress.

He Who Knows is in the pipeline for a reasonably quickly achieved hernia repair which can't come too soon and has also managed to make contact with the elusive physiotherapy department to ask for adjusted exercises for his arthritic knee as the first set he couldn't do because of the hernia! progress of the right kind is being made.

I am cooking rhubarb from the allotment in the slow cooker harvested this morning and straight into the cooker.....delicious and healthy.

We have booked the builder to come and remove the 18 tiny inset lights in the lounge ceiling (looks like an airport runway when they're on) and repair and paint the ceiling and put up some conventional lighting instead.

HWK managed to paint some of the garden back fence, we have decided that the lighter the better will make a minute garden look more spacious and managed to find some white wood preservative, it looks super and makes the whole area much, much lighter. I am going to plant up the borders with culinary and medicinal herbs which will not only be most useful but ought to make the garden a fragrant and pleasant place to sit out in, specially in the evening when they are at their most perfumed.


Made rhubarb cordial for DD1 and made some for us, love it and it's such an easy thing to do, delicious with ice and cold sparkling water, most refreshing.


We are back on our low fat and low sugar eating plan, we have both put on a few kilos over the move last year, settling here and the colder months and these have to GO!!! before the warmer weather comes too, watch this space.....

mhagster

Mrs LW how do you make your rhubarb cordial? Glad your girls are feeling better, as someone who did 3 X 9 months of hyperemesis ( yes still went back for more twice after the first one!) feeling nauseous and vomiting is pants!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

There landed, and now back at the mill. The pond looks as still as it was when I left. Shovel has been picked up and the fires are lit. Good to come back to watch the goooners win as well! There! Now where was BoP! Oh, we did not has to look for Raffles. he was just inside the door! Well chilled!

It was a grand trip to San Francisco and well worth the time. Don’t knows what was the best bit, the sunset thing at the Golden Gate or the Cable Car being bumped on the Sunday! Still BoPsie is well chilled. Or the Trolley bus, especially last Friday night on Date Nite, the driver of one was retiring and his bus was going nowhere in particular. Oh, the cable car bumped, well it stopped and missed the rope thing and had to be pushed by the truck.

Where else did BoP venture. Oh, Ocean Bean and the Nautical Museum. Learned about the dog called Rags! Had excellent food and service, though it makes you wonder why the food in the UK is carp. Chips with everything and stewed veg! On Sunday we had grilled salmon and risotto. Freshly made and worth it. What do we get here? Carp!

Bin inn the senior millwrights office and the cloth we are making for up norff is being ironed out. Usual rules, BoP’s pension and tour fund! That’s wahts is like when yous do as BoP does! Kerching and mes thinks date nite on Friday again!

Please think of BoPsie today as Bop packed the lunch boxes this morning and she has no proper digestive biscuits for her tea! I have hers as well in my packed lunch box! Now whats inn the Lunch Box of BoP today. Strawbs and Toms, chocolate finger digestive and a croissant as well.

Now where else has bin happening since BoP was away! Watched a catch-up challenge of the uni and then half of the Tour of the Grand!

Not having one today! Well so called. Just looking as I does at the local house prices and the like as one of the neighbores houses is on the market! Just noticed some look rather cheap! Yes I cans buys me a five bed detatche done near the dog and fish for an incredibly cheap £280,000! Cheap! Hang on, they go for around £600,000 round me parts here me harties! Got inn with that! Now yous has to see the small print. Yous not buying the house, but a life time lease! AVOID! OK for the likes of sparra, ifs shes around, as yous has to be over sixty. And the discount varies according to your age! So its is not £280,000 but whatever they can fleece out of you! Please AVOID! And to thinks I has only bin backs two days!
AVOID These! https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-80362463.html

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Hi Mhags it's very easy

Rhubarb Cordial

I kg of rhubarb chopped small

400ml water


350grams of granulated sugar


Put the rhubarb and water in a heavy based saucepan, bring to the simmer on the hob, turn down as low as possible and simmer with a lid on (lift one side as it splutters) for 30 minutes. Remove from the heat and pour the contents of the pan into a sieve over a bowl and leave it to drip the juice through (I usually give it an hour or so). Pour the juice back into a clean pan, add the sugar and stirring until the sugar is completely dissolved and doesn't crunch on the bottom of the pan bring it up to a simmer and simmer for 10 minutes. Leave it to cool and bottle into a sterilized bottle with a screw lid. Keep it in the fridge to prevent fermentation. Use in 6 weeks.


This amount makes somewhere between 750mls and 1 litre of cordial.
Dilute to your taste with cold water , I like sparkling but it is also very nice in a Rhubarb Bellini!

Given that you can make this right through the rhubarb growing season from early spring to late autumn the flavour changes slightly and the yield of juice fluctuates but the cordial is always nice and refreshing. Hope you enjoy it if you try and make some xxx.