5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

Thinking of Nargle and her family today x

Thursday pleasures,

Another warm humid day, housework done in vest top and shorts, still hot.

Drove into town of gown for much needed haircut, chatted to hairdresser with half an eye on the cricket score.

Head felt so much lighter and cooler!

Home and sat down to watch the last 10 overs, apparently we’ve made it through to some kind of final

Despite the temps we had a mini roast, very tasty.

Ambulance, what a programme,

ampersand

Thoughts for you today, nargle, from Lille.
In French, you know 'thoughts' translates to 'pens!es', which we take again, as pansies, for flowers.

Martin09

5 things
1. Do my breakfast, share with my kitty.
2. Reading on Kindle.
3. Go restaurant for lunch.
4. Friends came and we played a foosball table game.
5. Picked and watched an old movie

ampersand

Have just seen that posted at 0750 Albion time, = 0954h ici!

Hot, humid again already.

Mhags, will you have a tiny bit of 'nuf's enuf soonish? Not unkindly said, but just a typical bit of & nomb :-))), with hugs.

vl - may your back pain continue to vanish. It's a particular kind of Hades.
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1. Petit d!jeuner done, downstairs, included @ auberge de jeunesse. (Can hear Raffles telling bop not to laugh at that last word in relation to ancient &)
I, too, held on round Dunkerque coast for le cricket. As a good kiwi should, YESS!!!'d, with every copycat wicket Albion took from Strylia. But not come Sunday, when Guptill owes us a big bat, despite his missing toes and that latest sumptuous catch.
& will be Bastille-ing and fireworking and listening somehow, as only multitasking wimminses can.
There's a big Boys on Bikes race underway, too.

2. 2 early hours in sea yesterday. So good for soul and bare feet.

3. .....during which, set a beautiful, tiny, silvery fish, cast up by waves, back into sea, a good 30 metres out. Hope he survived that and survives again.

3. More shells, gnarly oyster, clam, moule, fan, others, to put round &'s olive tree when back. Still have to find a holey stone. Always look for one, whenever/wherever away.

4. Listening also to France Culture. Such good things.

5. Renewing acquaintances, being remembered at Secours Populaire Français and Emmaüs. Had some things for them, too.
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It seems rhubarb news is mixed this year. Have always had bumper crops and split the crown into equally prodigious clumps to same effect, after greenfingered Mse advice several years back. I bought(and brought)a crown from here ages ago. Might again.
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Have your best today today. ((())) de ma part, d'ici ����

PipneyJane

Morning All

Apologies for being AWOL. I'm not sure I'll ever get to the point where I post every day, but I do read the digest email every morning.

A few pleasures from this week:-

1. Being "Tu-ed" by a French ex-colleague on FB. I always thought he was a friend but being refered to as "tu" instead of "vous" confirms that he thinks so too.
2. In my last post, I mentioned we were off to France for the day. One of the highlights was walking along the boardwalk on the beach at Le Touquet and see two cricket matches! OK, it was beach cricket, with plastic stumps, and the participants were obviously British (from their accents) but "We are the Borg. We will assimilate you" one game at a time.
3. Catching up with a good friend on Monday night, after choir practice. Just being able to sit and natter about nothing much is a pleasure.
4. Nigel Slater's "Toast". If you get the chance, do see this play. It's excellent and had me in tears at the end of the first half. I sobbed all the way through Interval. We saw it on Saturday, having bought the tickets on a whim using our "date night" savings.
5. The cricket, particularly the New Zealand-India game. I just couldn't believe it, when I opened the Ball-by-Ball commentary in my browser and India were 5/3. (Yesterday.... Not so much. As an Aussie, who's lived here for decades, it was torture. I wanted both to win. The team I sweat blood over, day-in, day-out, is England because that's the team I get to see a lot of, but I also didn't want my national side to lose. )

ampersand wrote: »

About to look up Magasins B!n!voles/Lille....:-)


5. .... completing intro. Well, that's from here, where? Ici, Dunkerque dawn, 'cos &, duly charging to Dover after Spookymen's concert - and having a few of those scary eyes shut moments en route, reached Port. Presented NZ passport to v.likeable young dfds man....
Oh, hold on. Isn't that today? Now? The 12th?
Umm, no. One of &'s best yet.
Have arrived a day early��������...and lovely young dfds man sorts it. Not only that, do I want to board this 2am one right now?instead of 4am tmrw?
Really? Yes, please! Aren't you lovely! Yes, you are:-)
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So, an extra day Francophile is &'s and down here on the old helipad, & has perfect reception for TMS start, 0930h. Tide is coming in. Gulls galore wheeling, calling, little boats going out and in, bigger ones later, working the incoming tide, sturdily shepherded by the fleet of tugs with names I love: Adroit, Superbe, Vaillant, Serval and more. Lighthouse on the long mole to walk, just over there, and that 'over there' is the vast hopeless endless beach, concrete redoubts and tank ramps still prominent in the dunes, where easy target men were slaughtered in their thousands....
I always come here, then always along to Bray-Dunes, always to the monument, the words, always the bridge to be walked, always the Bunker Museum...
Some current sub-animates power-crawlers could do with a bit of this, and bop's lot.....

I completely understand how you feel. Utah Beach is near where we stay in Normandy. I always go for a quiet walk along it and visit the memorial. I also visit the American Cemetery, on the bluffs above Omaha Beach, and lay flowers on my friend's great-uncle's grave. (Omaha was a killing field, with the Nazis looking down over the beach. He got as far as the bluffs.) It's the least I can do, in tribute to those brave men.

- Pip

Suffolksue

Thinking of you today Nagle

ampersand

Pip, ��♥️��✝️ for your post.
Now see that we are deadly enemies, Blackcaps now and ABs come September.
We'll survive :-), especially here, in osp-land.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Was inn the gym this morning keeping up my beach ready looks.

Dropped BoPsie offs at her salt mine and made it to the mill. Extra bonus today as it is POETS day, a little chocolate covered roll mad by the people in Bourneville!

Got the ‘putah back from its midlife crisis and it is working top dog again! That is what it is like being with BoP.

PM2DD. If wes can’t beat the likes of Boston, its over! End Off!
PM2&. Did you see them sixes, wes on fire!

And that is it for the mill this weak!

Dont bat an eyelid, when you can run for a score

fuddle

Consoled, educated and hopefully calmed my friend who has found out she has the same heart condition as I do. We live opposite each other. What are the chances of that? We'll be OK together.

Started new asthma meds so hopeful they'll help with all my triggers.

Used my comfrey fertiliser, putting it to perfect use.

Home grown strawberries picked.

Very muggy followed by a heavy period of rain that has saved me watering the allotment plot. The mugginess cleared now as a result.

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The walk to and around the arboretum e just come home from.

Watering the garden in the evening sunlight with a nice little breeze to freshen things up.

A gorgeous Rotweiller dog that bounded into the glade in the woods and was a marshmallow soft teddy bear of a dog, gorgeous thing.

The evening smell of flowers, honeysuckle, buddleia , roses, and my kumquat tree outside the conservatory door oh it's blissful.


A doze I had this afternoon while the tennis was on, not intentional but I'm sure I enjoyed it!