5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

PM2PK. RULE OF BoP. See dump run yesterday. Go early. Got it?

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday).


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Sorted out the old woodburning stove. It sold on Ebay for £90! A man is coming tomorrow morning at 9am - from Derby. We've disconnected it and will sell it with its length of chimney and a piece of board that you can cut firebricks from.


3) Had a massive tidy up and floor steam.


4) Hens OK.


5) Bigger son went to Go Ape with his friend. He is making plans to see one of the girls he met at the VSO training last week. She lives in Brighton, which is a right pain to get to from here...


6) MrA here from the afternoon onwards and for tea. :-)


7) Did an Easter treasure hunt, like I did for sons a lot when they were small.

mhagster

Good morning. It's Easter Monday and just watching a beautiful sunrise as I type. To be a hot one by Scottish standards today. Nice and cool at the moment. Shall probably go down to allotment early this morning I think when it's pleasant.

My Sunday pleasures. Was an odd Easter. In that it was just DD2 and I and Easter has always been more than just 2. And it was just 2. But we had a nice day.

Drove halfway to allotment . Met 2 friends of my sisters ( they were a big part of our lives when I was young) on walk downhill.

Pit chicken wire fencing round my third bed. Pea seedlings starting to pop through. Watered seedlings. We don't have a running water supply. Everything we have is just rainwater ( which will be replenished this week going by forecast) but seeds still need a drink!

Walked round countryside. Saw lots of lambs . Picked up rubbish as I went along.


Had a picnic lunch at the castle. Decorated our eggs. Mine was an egg husband. DD2 did her sister on one side and her brother on the other.

Meandered back through woods then drove home.

Lay on garden sofa and read ( may have snored whilst reading)

Walked down to chip shop for tea as that's just what we fancied!

Finished library book. Walked dog . Then Line of Duty! Waaaaah!

Just going to watch Victoria on catch up then start the day and get choresy things out the way before it gets too hot!

Have a great day

villagelife

1. Walk along the beach.

2. Visited a garden.

3. Lovely food.

4. Map in the afternoon.

5. Relaxing time.

Suffolksue

For yesterday
1 no falls
2 Accounts finished,meeting advisor this morning,she will look them over ,then take them to the Auditors for me
3 Local DGD and DGS visited ,their father and partner came too.collected eggs !
4 DH didn't object to me studding lamb leg with Rosemary and garlic ,I love it that way , he's not so keen.
5 loads left ,I know we didn't need a whole leg but it was an Aldi bargain and delicious.
Laughter - DGS face when my iPad declared itself too old to be compatible with the App he was trying to install 'Grandma we live in a digital age ,you've got to buy a new one 'Me 'But J it suits me ,it's old and I'm an old lady too '!

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FRITH there's a direct train from Great Malvern to Brighton it's a hellish long journey via Bristol Temple Meads and right across Salisbury plain and along the coast but he'd not need to change anywhere. Does he have a Student rail card? might save you quite a lot of the ticket price.

LaineyT

Sunday pleasures,

Bacon butties and catching up on all things Ambridge!

A warm sunny day so time spent in the garden, plans made to move herb garden nearer to kitchen door.

Decided against a large roast due to the weather and instead had the joint with various salads.

My latest book, Secrets of the Sea House, makes me want to visit the Scottish Isles again, haven’t been since I was a child and on holiday with M&D.

Late evening walk with little dog and Capt S, stars just starting to appear.

DigForVictory

Happy Easter midears! Forgive me for just not being in touch - RL been mostly-happily loco

Special sort of Easter bonus - trying to do a headcount & failing as one is still in school today. D’oh!

Had a scout round the new “Jacks” supermarket, nominally competing with Aldi & Lidl. Had to smile at carefully installed cheap shop furniture and chipboard surfaces, replacing the Tesco furniture. In all honesty I don’t think this experiment will last here as far as Christmas.

Found belated Christmas gift from cousin (met her at last weekend’s birthday party) to be waxed cloths for wrapping sandwiches etc just as I had been researching, but home made. Unquestionably environmentally virtuous, now all I need to do is use them!

Scorching good weekend doing training in teaching air rifle. The law, the litany & miword the stomping emphasis on safety. I look forward to range time & sharing the fun with scouts - how else will we get junior commonwealth & Olympic teams?!

There is something particularly individual &, to me, delightful about son’s toes...

Cherry blossom inflating - some bubbling, some need a little more sunlight to inflate!

Waved to the tailor! [Three in a fortnight!]

Soaked up cherry blossom bubbles & sunlight as brief pleasures to cherish.

Grinning at McDonald’s coffee ad “could have called grandiosino but we didn’t”. (Still not *quite* as nice as the Emporium brew!)

Why is it shopping with youngest triggers Vetinari references?!

Found another Mah Jongg player in the office but she plays 16 tiles & I learned 13. Very happy discussion over tiles & games! (She thinks in ropes barrels & numbers where I think of bamboos plates & characters - great fun!) Beginning to try to put a team game session into place... (Got myself my own Bone set as an Easter Egg.)

Sweetie at Virgin Money Lounge apologised for being on the point of closing & offered me a bottle of water instead of the coffee I’d been dreaming of - a generous thought & I really must get out of the office earlier....

Can’t fault Belstaff for aspirational window dressing - a really handsome Triumph just paused there suggesting you join it on a wild ride to anywhere. Rather than the dutiful commute that awaits.

Watching a blackbird trying to chose building materials & clearly an FTB. All the enthusiasm and all the “oooh that too, um”... followed by three finches all looking for a quick snack - putting me strongly in mind of middleson & his pot noodle.

Beamed at a young bloke who stopped & took a phone snap of the cherry tees bubbling.

Nattering with the chap who keeps Clermont square tidy & having set the world to rights, we were in happy agreement that as the wind was picking up a bit, time for a cup of tea!

Charming bloke explained a scrum of chaps “it’s either the Barcelona or the Manchester United team” - oh good - I wouldn’t have had a clue otherwise.

Saw a father diligently photographing wife & daughter by cherry blossom & asked if I might take a family picture - wife delighted & tugged us all into the right positions!

Borrowing son’s folding table to work at home in relative ergonomic comfort & so forth. Rigging it for Skype may take a lot more doing, but since it’s just data analysis today, I need not check a tidy background etc!

Email about remedial works mentions ‘loss of hot water’. Shall plan to work from home that my tea intake remains acceptable.

A Full English for lunch. Not the everyday way of celebrating a wedding anniversary but it works for us. (There's no Traditional 21st anniversary & indeed survival of the young is good enough.)

Argh technology. Not only does it do a posture assessment, it’s telling me “the Trust relationship has failed”! [Trust, fortunately, restored but a change of password has locked me out of my work emails All Bank Holiday Weekend - tragedy!]

Right proud of sons who assisted with car & flattening tyre. Calm, pragmatic & downright useful switching wheels.

“Any markings on the tongue?” He’s looking at boots, I’m peering down my cheek!

Cherry blossom all a-bubble! S’glorious! Towed a colleague out to look at it too, & get out of the building & away from desks & machines, and just delight in the light & colour. (I know, I go on about it, but just the crazy generous beautiful bubbles of spring lift my spirits even though I know there are only here for such a short time.)

Reaching up with the phone to take more still more cherry blossom photos, I look up & think also of Notre Dame & how forest owners are offering trees for use in the restoration. A very special gift to God.

The only pleasure in hospital visiting is knowing the dear lady has the best tech I can sort for her & that she's sounding much more alert.

Son spotted curled up with a book - good. Then I twigged it’s a Pratchett “eh?!” “I’m digesting!” Truly the young one has an answer for everything, & my worries about his exam revision are unjustified.

A film chuntering in the background & I'm beginning to think the scriptwriter lacked imagination - the women are unendingly hung up on "prophecies".

Oh midears hang onto the wonderful things here, even the short lasting things like cherry blossom, so we can share the delights & remember them later. Health strength love & courage to all who can feel supplies dipping a bit & thank you Raffles for this Yellow Stuff at Easter!

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Out for a drive this afternoon we stopped at red light temporary traffic lights out in the lanes and heard and saw a beautiful Skylark singing his little heart out as he slowly and melodically descended to the field beneath and disappeared with a 'plop' into the crop being grown, magical/


A little further on we saw a red kite just gliding along a hedgerow on effortless wings.


Crab apples on the road margins absolutely awash with pink blossom

Wisteria on the Cotswold stone cottages in the villages just beginning to show purple as their buds open in the sun.

The amazing 'cloth of gold' of the fields of oilseed rape which are in full and magnificent bloom at the moment, breathtaking.

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Proper country drive off the beaten track.

Dappled grey horse finding shade under a tree.

Tower of hay bales in barn.

Tiny postbox in stone wall.

Visiting somewhere you knew as a young adult and seeing it through much older eyes. Happy memories. Why does everything remembered from that time seem so intense?