5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

villagelife

Not posted for a few days.

1. Went to see Joseph with my parents and sisters. A great evening and loved the show. I knew all the songs. Sheridan Smith was fantastic in it.

2. Applied for flexible working at work. I'm fairly sure it will be rejected but it's been done. Had such a frustrating week at work with people not pulling their weight.

3. Went to Hampton Court flower show. It was enjoyable. Lovely warm day.

4. Met a friend for coffee. Long chat .

5. Loving the weather.

VJsmum

Morning all - still typing....

Pleasures for yesterday

1. I think my rearranged chapters are working better. Till I don't think that, anyway.. :rotfl:
2. Nice to have OH back, he did the garden
3. A bit of rain, cooled things off
4. Exchanged messages with DS that had me :rotfl: I was spying on him via the railway's webcam, was nice to see him interacting with people
5. Jersey royals with my tea - TBH, I could just have had a portion of them....

Have a nice day all - hopefully we will get a walk later.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Jersey's. Hope theres were minted! Proper Food!

Just bin to w8rs for the shop and managed to get some chocolate biscuits inn as well. There will make the lunch box next weak! Pork pie salad for tea as BoP not cooking this day!

Watched the aussies getting inn to the losing mode. Long may it continue. Now watching paint dry on the cricket!

Was inn town yesterday to get haircut. Picked up me prescriptions and had me eyes tested again. I failed! New gogs on order!

Now getting mes model out to see if I can get the strut on mes tiger moth!

That is yous BoPibits today!

Die dulci freure

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Cooler today but still nicely sunny and blue skied so much more enjoyable.

Finding a new Garden Centre for coffee and sitting outside with some lovely folk with whom we chatted laughed as though we'd known each other all our lives, it was lovely.


Buying a tray of asters and 3 bush fuchsias in their sale for £1 each, amazing!


Buzzards wheeling on thermals, wings spread making it look the easiest thing in the world, majestic.

Two green woodpeckers on the roadside verge excavating (presumably) an ants nest, bright and cheerful with their green and red plumage.


Our sunflower in the garden has opened today and the bees are all over the central flowers in the sun, lovely.

DundeeDoll

A friend posted 'we're called human beings not human doings' so spent yesterday concentrating on being
1) phd student who stopped for 3 nights drove up with boyfriend to buy mrpiano's electric piano. happiness all round
2) went to mr l with minnie (shopping trolley). friend was in town, did i want a coffee. she came picked me up and we had a lovely cuppa sitting in my front garden
3) then trotted down to charity shop to see if lovely venice picture still there (£15). yes it was, and reduced over night to £7.50
4) went to charity prize Bingo for first time. won the 2-line on game 4 - a very sweet teddy. little girl on next table upset cos she wanted the teddy. gran had won full house game 1 (litre of vodka). would i consider a swap? swap done, gran, mum, little girl happy
5) sleep over at friend's. we had 'woo woo's and discussed politics - she is rather right of myself so an interesting night
and for today
1) donated rest of litre of vodka to friends so they are happy
2) bus from her church to my church - i sat on the front top seat
3) lunch with mrpiano and herrtrumpet who was calling through on his way back home for the summer break
4) decluttered the west vestry of stuff to cs with 2 other members of vestry. we have set a target of beginning of september to have it all beautiful and usable
5) a catch up with you all before i head back to the cathedral for a concert by the Palmusic UK Ensemble

ampersand

1. On sunlounger out back, with stitchery(poor pic+&'s was carboot find, not bay of eek)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tapestry-kit-Florence-Cushion-front-The-Craft-Collection-/173947356699 Will make it as bag, not cushion.
About to put cardi back on. Listening to round ball, ladies', would prefer Nederlands, were I to care particularly.
It's cloudy, not summer warm, but better than being in.

2. Much kerfuffle as Church locked, usually open by 8. & there at 9 for 11, sidesperson/service team today. Lots to do, set up, not least of which is urn on for refreshments :-) No keys=no vestry=no hymn no's, no anything, so & wrote all 4 on 30+ service sheets and made 2 ad-hoc signs, telling peeps to please bend double through tiny front door, then belltower passage, then kitchen. 7 did, then keys arrived 10 mins before kickoff. All's well etcetera. Did NT reading, super apt today.

3. Glad to do washing up, thumbs and fingers still mightily stained from pricking green walnuts stripped from pruned branches for pickling yesterday. Brine day 2, change tmrw. Old colonial recipe. On verra. Has anyone ever had them? Done them? Lots of ongoing faff yet.

3. Small Trumpy carboot sortie, v. early, 'cos of 1. 2 prev. faves rtnd, after several months:
- lovely young Polish honey couple. Bought intriguing propolis one, crammed with walnuts and pumpkin seeds - sumptuous and special.
- young precious stones college lad, who earns/saves to go to China, has learnt Mandarin exprès, chooses knowledgeably+buys rough lumps, cuts and polishes and mounts them. Learns as he goes 'and by my mistakes', said with smile. Mum's there too, quietly proud of him. Fabulous, intriguing and saleable onwards for &.

4. Ooh, mustn't forget to turn off hose, trailed out and round under fig a while ago.

5. Road kill owl, stunned, in forest not far from Kilmarnock en route back. Backed up, couldn't leave him to be run over, mangled. Last did similar several years ago, for similar pheasant.
Know what to do and am doing it. He's currently suspended across &'s washing line, will be respectfully treated and given to someone & knows.
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Brrrr!!! Chilly, wind rising. Thick miserable grey overhead. Blast! Suppose it means going indoors...:-(
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Oh, Mark Steel's In Town from Lynton/Lynmouth is a cracker:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07wtd76
Busy fortnight ahead. Bastille Day in Lille this time next Sunday)))

mhagster

Hello. Day not quite over as get to have a walk on the beach soon. Just waiting on the two tiny travelers returning from the big city and will drop GN off home.

Work. Pah! 9-12.30pm. Other coworkers not in the best of moods. Affected everyone. Glad to leave.

Niece and baby came here for a couple of hours , tried sitting in garden but bit too blowy and cloudy at that point.

Went to lidl when they left.

Went to b and q they didn't have the wallpaper I was after so shall have to order online. But did get a stove and 3 RTC lavenders for £1 each. I've never not been able to bring back to health! ( though these are shockers! )

Picked up a lamp set off FB. Down to other end of town. Stopped at McD and had an ice cream.

Spent last hour in back garden. Dead heading. Training nasturtiums downwards instead of everywhere but down. Made obelisk structures from canes . Couldn't find them in b and q so made my own!

Right just had text to go pick up the tired peoples!

Have a good night

Broomstick

Evening all

Five pleasures for recently:

1. Reading your pleasures - a snapshot of 'normal'(ish) life and happiness and things that make me smile. They are helping me stay grounded.

2. DM when she tries so hard to get things right - day before yesterday she woke me at 6am to ask if I'd slept well. Yesterday, she shone a torch at me at 5.20am checking if I was ok. Fortunately, I am still retaining my sense of humour.

3. A much needed (!) nap mid-afternoon while DS1 kept his granny entertained.

4. Keeping cool in the heat - my parents' flat has very good fans.

5. Managed a supermarket shop yesterday while DS2 granny-sat. I made a bit of time for a cappuccino, a piece of gluten-free cake and a newspaper - absolute bliss.

Sweet dreams,
Bx

fuddle

I've not checked in over the weekend so just binge read all your pleasures since Friday evening. Magic.

1) clubcard meal paid for. Meant no cooking for me on Saturday evening.

2) more strawbs pocked from the plot.

3) bought a wooden toothbrush and will continue to do so when it needs replacing. Slowly but surely waging my own war on my own plastic usage.

4) carrying on with DIY being really quite successful for being unskilled in that area.

5) knit on winter sweater for DH.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday).


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Weeded the allotment (a bit), watered it and cleaned the hens' sleeping quarters out.


3) Pruned bits of the garden, including the honeysuckle so we can see out of the back living room window. Swept and tidied. Watered the pots. We left the wasps nest on the slabs because it was a work of art but something has been at it, eaten all the grubs and ripped it to bits!


4) Tidied up in the house and did fiddly little jobs like dismantled the table fan to clean the blades, watered the orchids etc. Cleaned the kitchen bin outside.


5) Beans on toast for lunch then made Jack Monroe's carrot and kidney bean burgers for tea. We had them on sliced bread with cheese and tomato; I have not been shopping yet since coming home from holiday. Made flapjacks later.


6) Watched Top Gear.


7) Ooo yes, and in my rush of jobs this morning I applied for both sons' bus passes for next year (£1300!!!!!), then for a bursary to get some money towards them, then I applied for a job. :-D It's ridiculous that it would cost less for me to buy bigger son a car and for him to drive them both there (24 mile round trip) than to get on the very unreliable bus.