5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

DigForVictory

Dear gods RL has been slightly bonkers.
I would greet you all, properly, but if I just wish all with new jobs, all needing healing & all with offspring away special blessings & rousing cheeses for all the OS pleasures!

OS pleasures in the last er? [eon suggests child helpfully...]
Let’s not rush to judgement - son (who has utterly ragged last season of Thrones) opines Good Omens will be bad, as “it can’t be as good as the book”. I agree (with the theory) but want to see what Gaiman has spent two years on.

I’m bidding on a Mah Jongg set missing a wind & a dragon (important pieces) just because it has glorious gardens (frankly, not). I think I’m a bit deranged, but the gardens are really lovely. [won it]

Car park guys & I giggling over the gruesome restrictive practice that is coloured bumpers & how the simple switch in, swap out sort were more driver friendly!

Night shift car park guy has a baby daughter - a good lap & a good story - essentials for young children!

Colleague bringing in a Mah Jongg set - long lunch & happy learning as we’ll play but also learn some of the differences between sets. I hadn’t realised gardens could be wise men & those could be local heroes & icons like Merlin, or Robin Hood !

Well that’s unexpected - a double decker doing a three point turn out if a bus stop. The driver must be having one of those mornings...

Chuckled as a lad wished his colleagues a happy Eid & was taught to try “Eid Mubarak!”, in a broad Scouse accent... I so admire my colleagues for reaching out!

Tim Hortons were doing free coffees til the 10th - well, it would have been discourteous not to try & no wonder the Canadians are a laid back, courteous lot - the latte is smooth & potent!

I love Planet Rock news - no politics just music & musicians & Iggy Pop returning to tour... Excellent.

Manchester young man carrying designers shopping bags with neatly folded underpants by Calvin Kline not terribly subtly on top. I’m not sure who his target audience was intended to be but I was giggling.

Jerrycan of fuel, mouthwash & red bull. (One scout’s essentials for camp....) Another wants to take an axe, machete & an AK 47 but also clothes, a tent & food. The most eccentric so far is taking two bunches of bananas & his lynx deodorant. As our leader observed, “we don’t need clothes, bananas will do!...” [and a really tolerant launderette - it was a Muddy Camp]

Bought a gooseberry fool as a treat & squashed it coming home (oops) so Himself chuckled “I pity the fool....” What left still tasty!

Interested to hear just how Boko Haram are being successfully tackled. Very near retirement South African mercenaries with some of the old prejudices but still active & useful skills, seemingly. With grandchildren they want to see properly educated.

Queue of sons brushing teeth! Proud mum moment (as scouts largely hazy on planned camp hygiene!)

Someone’s sending a letter to 10 Downing St? Addressed to whom? “To Whom It May Concern”? There are days my country’s politics leaves me utterly bemused. (Sadly they’ve been extending into months recently.)

Husband bought a sewing box mostly for the excellent needles in it, but my eye was caught by the little packet of name tapes with the label “in case of complaint please return this ticket together with the names to the Draper from whom they were purchased”. Some days I want a time machine so I can visit a Draper.

Even a fake strawberry Cornetto can be a treat after an anxious rehearsal!

Oh my. The ongoing running joke with the glitter (it's a family thing) just played out in the presence of best friend. Who’s admirably restrained response was “he‘s weird”.

Rory Stewart is a more intriguing person than his face gives him credit for. [I really *have* left this file a while...]

There’s a thing called knitting-in elastic. My imagination is not merely doing laps, or headed into the next county several counties over, but prowling round this idea poking at it & leaping back. My husband opines it is for socks.

Seen a “With courage nothing is impossible” T shirt. I rather think various scientific advances will be required before we can stroll to Mars, courageous or terrified.

Made rhubarb cordial for the first time - definitely root ginger & white caster sugar another time as my bottles look alluring mostly to vampires. Still, a splash of soda & I’m sure it’ll be drinkable!

Catching up with Trooping The Colour on YouTube. Who’d have thought you Miss Huw Scully when you want a spotters guide?! [since found!] Love how police & army intersperse & cooperate along the route.

Aw, Forged in Fire (TV show) competitor who came second - “I feel like I’m in a round room & I’m looking for a corner to cry in” - the metal looked fine but his *handle* cracked in testing.

Son cooked enchiladas as a revision aid & I got the leftovers! Fellow student not used to our portion sizes. Rest of us have stew - my work week better just thinking of hm lunches!

Greeted by whimpering teenagers - “the WiFi’s down” - shall stay loyal to plusnet for the customer service, as all back up again.

Fellow scout shooting tutor called me - he’d forgotten the security codes needed to get through two doors. Which he had coached me in less than a week ago. Hurrah for text messages!

I do love the Warburton adverts. Robert de Niro, the Muppets, Peter Kay & Emma Connell - for a bread company they are getting some serious quality fun.

I have a lovely little wood carving knife that my husband is minded to covet, just as it is “buried in your heap of Stuff” he will not excavate to take possession. In a similar (moral) way I leave youngest’s room as it takes two to doff biohazard PPE safely.

Scout leader’s true or false game is, ah, Educational. Highest slot on a roulette wheel, at what age you can legally buy beer in Germany, what was a Viking martial art... so, challenged to provide a scoutly true/false, provided: the natives of Ashanti called B.-P. Kantankye: “He of the big hat.” (Entirely true & part of what makes Scout history cheerfully bonkers.)

Reminded of the Ingoldsby Legends, not least the Kackdaw of Rheims & the Hand of Glory. Glorious stuff to read aloud.

Three lots of Scouts, and their leaders, introduced to air rifle. Wonderful how even the rowdiest settled at the reminder their leaders were now armed & dangerous (& many dashed good shots!)

As they hustle back my sister grouches the welsh cottage is no place for a holiday. Having been there for decades for just that I disagree - no tv, no phone, no internet, plenty of face to face time, home cooking, hand washing, board games, getting lost in good books - clearly our ideas of holiday have grown apart!

Just “found” Diana Rigg in Victoria - recognised her tones of measured disapproval & joined husband cawing in delight. Truly she gets some glorious lines!

Grinning at felafel Google doodle. The animation is cute & ooops, I’m hungry....

Waved to the tailor! He’s been doing the shirts for Peaky Blinders, seemingly.

Breakfast of mothers everywhere I suspect - whatever their children have left before hurtling off to the next thing. This morning half a bacon grill sandwich. If I only liked tea the way he does, there’d have been a brew to go with!

Blimey. Apparently I was talking in my sleep, about a dragon & a woman - not to feed but more “there’s a dragon to your left & Mrs Jenkins wants the Full English”. I repeated this coherently twice before himself realised I was still asleep. Once I’ve had more tea I shall enjoy wondering what I might have been on about, but the next network password appears to have declared itself.

Did a good job off-site if I do say so myself! Good for morale as well as colleagues. Is this how police dogs feel?

Listening to the post A level candidates relaxing, giggling & singing together - a refreshing range of pitch & tone, by no means all in harmony but utterly harmonious. My lad, once a cute treble, has matured into a mellifluous bass & is restful.
“Can you sleep through this?” He asks? Yes.

It’s a beautiful day - sight test sorted & new frames chosen without fuss, reward meal enjoyed, & father happily annoying son....

Hustling home to see middleson off to Cornwall. Hope it keeps fine for him, plan to have washing machine & drawn bath ready for him. The later he returns, the higher % of bleach.... [All well & happy so far, may other travelling offspring share these traits]


And after all that cheerful nonsense, may the rest of this month unfurl gracefully & please dear Raffles, more of the Yellow Stuff? It does wonderful things to bedding, to healing, & to just feeling better so more would be appreciated...

Broomstick

Evening all

Five recent pleasures:

1. Parents are now no longer safe to leave alone so am staying there at nights as well as in the day - full-time caring really in the face of a miscellany of challenging problems but I am coping fine. I'm actually enjoying living (and problem solving) in the moment.

2. Am also enjoying sleeping on a camping futon on the floor of a study and realising that my body is coping fine and my back is not playing up. :T

3. Emailed the allotment committee to explain that the jungles that are my plots are only temporarily disaster zones but might be for a while because there are good reasons. Got a friendly 'thanks for telling us' 'no problem' sort of email back so the pressure is now off there.

4. Some really lovely medics who have been incredibly kind and generous with their time and so sweet with my parents.

5. Chocolate - DS1 brought me a secret stash to keep me going.

Sweet dreams
Bx

Frith

That sounds like a big change, Broomstick, but glad you are finding it OK.


Pleasures for today (Saturday).


1) A lie in!


2) A bit warmer at last.


3) Hens OK though had to wrap the redcurrants up better in their netting as they quite liked those!


4) Had a good go at the garden, weeded, swept, watered the pots.


5) Lots of paperwork came for bigger son's new college course for September (same college, different course). He'll be doing at BTEC in Outdoor Adventure. He can't sign any of it but I've filled it in and sent it back. He kicks off with a week in France, getting his windsurfing and yachting certificates!


6) Vaguely tidied up and changed the beds after lunch.


7) Meatballs for tea then a sort of claufoutis for pudding. Sadly, I don't rate Jack Monroe's new book so far... I've tried 3 recipes (fudge, sticky toffee pudding and now today's pudding) and the timings are miles out, fudge didn't set, sticky toffee pudding just tasted of steam. :-(


8) Watched Casualty.


9) Managed to do long awaited repair job on a toenail. Was waiting for it to grow out a bit following an argument with a polling booth (I was trying to fold it up) after the first election in May.

villagelife

Broomstick pleased your back is holding up. A big change to your life.

1. Met a friend for coffee at the local garden centre. I had a free coffee with my loyalty card. A good chat.

2. Time spent in the garden both relaxing with a coffee and listening to the birds and doing some weeding.

3. Picked redcurrants and gooseberries. The redcurrants are such a lovely colour.

4. Went shopping. I managed to get a discount on some shirts in the sale.
DH asked whether DS1 could get a discount on a suit he was buying and got 20% off.

5. Tested coffee in Nespresso.

LaineyT

Glad that you are coping ok Broomstick

Saturday pleasures,

Having some ready to bake granary baguettes in the freezer so able to have some breakfast.

The welcome home from my equine girlie, she spotted me from several fields away and started whinny calling straight away, by the time I got to her paddock she was marching up and down by her gate in excitement, it’s nice to be missed and choked me up a tad tbh.

Spent ages giving her a groom which included a cool bath with tea-tree oil as she has had an allergic reaction to something and has a few hives type bumps.

An afternoon at home, pottered around the garden, continued tackling the holiday washing and just generally enjoyed being back in my own nest.

Watched the WI versus NZ in the cricket, oooh that was close Ampersand! followed by the last episode of Mum,

Finished the evening off with a cold glass of Port and a Bendick Bittermint, other minty choccie things are available

mhagster

Morning! Just heading workwards (day 17 in a blooming row)

Saturday: work was busy. Finished at 1pm but met friends and chatted then was just leaving and my lovely friend(old boss) popped in so I would just sit for 5 minutes...one hour later! Then DD said can you hang on and take me home...finally home at 3pm!

Went to our woods to pay and collect our certificate for OH tree. Then we went on an adventure to find it, niece and kids were with DD1 and I. We had a very pleasant later afternoon.

Home and had fajitas for tea. Pack of 5p wraps from freezer, a bag of RTC fajita veg and chicken.

Friend popped in but just for half an hour as we were going out. Nice to see her.

Then DD1 and I went to a friends 50th birthday. Lovely evening. Much laughter. Home for 10 though as I had work! They're probably still partying now!

Heard DD2 come in at some unearthly hour! But she starts work at 9am!

Have a good day

VJsmum

Broomstick, you are a better man than I.
Epic again DforV

Pleasures for last few days


1. another chapter written (I keep thinking I'm on the last one and then another appears to have to be written...) and another edited
2. nice food - no meat this week as ds and oh are still away. OH has taken on the catering detail but hasn't twigged that I have gone off meat (she says, who has just taken a fillet steak out of the freezer for dinner)
3. washing dried on the line
4. walk into town with wally trolley, stocked up on toiletries and Glastonbury snacks
5. gin - different kinds and lots of it. I am sure my acknowledgements section will have to include "thanks to gin for helping me get through it" :rotfl:

T minus 2 days....

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Just bin to gym to keep my beach readied looks. Then to the w8rs emporium as we had some vouchers. Sweated! Cakes of Jaffa were on offer!

Banged the snorkers under the grill with some best back, poached egg and some mushrooms. Tasty with poached egg. Seeing as BoP did not has a kitchen disaster this weak, BoPsie also gots herself a poached egg.

BoPsie has diarised the date for the Scoooonts. Trip away before chrimbo organised. BAH HUMBUG.

Talking of trips away, just booked DC for March. Had offer on a kite service I use. So I gets me pennies out for the desposit, and expect it too be around £350. No, suggested thirst at £920! What Eeeeek. Got to final screen and miscounts added to price and despotic is at £1850. I has the £900 in me piggy bank. Ah I forts! Fortunately when I gets nudged by Raffles for his feeding, I remember I has pennies in me other account. Transferred and cleaned us out, well nots quiet as we were paint inn town red FryDay. But expectant from bank tomorrow for texts say inns we has not gots enuff to pay for BoPsie's bits and pieces and could we somehow get monetary items to them. I has raided the society of building to sore this out. So you can guess when the bank is going to text! More tomorrow about this, but inn the meantime, think of BoPsie unable to get herself cash for her bus ticket inn the morning! That is what it is like in BoPLand. She has a Bank of Engerland note worth £5, and no more at all!

That's all the BoPiness for now!

After lunch we will ...

ampersand

It's 1728h up on The Gallops. Connectivity!!!
Off to chop, mow, prune, letter-write after this.
Sucking high-power emporium strepsils. Throat and ears v.unfriendly today.
Mad car disease, red, screaming downhill, at least 80mph.

1. Still not real summer, but bright via Children's Church and happy this morning.

2. Driving fixed car.

3. Book foisting and finishing, In the Days of Rain, The Salt Path and Prison Doctor all featuring..

4. Yes indeedy, Lainey. Kane will be setting fielding homework - unlike us to spill and drop so many, so poorly. Happened way too often. What about that Trent Boult catch though? Cruel match-winner against Braithwaite.

5. Wasn't jumble sale yesterday. Was a village fête today. Popped along.
Time to go, methinks. Laundry to save+iron, more to suspend.
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Broomstick - thinking of you and this adjustment which inevitably comes.

Mhags, ditto - not written lightly.

DundeeDoll

PM2BOP Vide oculis meis, ut non nimium dico dilatamini et vos videtis?
Big change broomstick
love your description of the flowers mrsLW
For yesterday
1) a long lie in - goodness i needed that!
2) long walk with the dogs - ditto
3) then the jungle bbq. super duper
4) neighbour had invited the couple they bought the house from 20 years ago. i met them once - he wrote minnie the minx stories and she worked on various magazines including Jackie. They were surprised i remembered them!
5) then met someone who currently writes the story lines for minnie the minx!!! so introduced them to each other
6) we ended the evening having some Karaoke and good laughs round the fire pit
7) then i brought in the left over food (which would have got wasted) so lots of chicken drumsticks, cheese and rolls yum