5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

villagelife

1. Enjoyed watching practice of French red arrows display team in preparation afternoon display. Later found out one plane had crashed while landing at the airport. Luckily,I think, pilot wasn't injured badly and no one else was hurt.

2. Went for a walk and went past a pond with water lillys on it and counted 4 frogs sitting on the waterlily leaves.

3. Watching DH chasing after his hat which blew away.

4. Still hot and sunny.

5. Spent evening in local city where they have free entertainment on Thursdays. Good music and dance acts. Also had old wooden games out which were really popular. Also in one area about 20 chessboard were set out and 2 people were playing with who ever wanted a game. A lovely evening.

LaineyT

Thursday pleasures,

Watering the garden first thing before it got too hot.

Trying to keep humans & animals cool as temps in the East hit a record breaking 38 degrees.

Little dog was given a towel that had be in the freezer for a few hours to lie on, stopped her panting and she went to sleep.

Capt S home so both me and the dog went out to sit in his lovely cool, air-conditioned car.

Watched the Roses match and the reds won, made my Lancs man happy.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

No pleasures today as I again paid the taxman far too much money again.

That’s all, tonight BoP is inn town with BoPsie and we are having a Thai!

Nows yous not want BoP to gives you advice, but do not open the windwos when it is hot, close them and draw the curtains, that way the house is cool! Open the window when the sun is down. Got it. boP does not give advice but when he does, it is rite from the horses mouth!

Again I has paid more than some?

Nargleblast

Pleasures today.....

Long glass of orange juice from the fridge with ice.

Cooler and more comfortable temperature outside compared with yesterday.

Whites wash done, including net curtains from two bedrooms (I'll do the other two next week).

Said whites wash brought in from the line within an hour because of brief rain shower. Just about dry anyway.

Said rain shower cooling my skin as I walked barefoot on the lawn.

Freshly ground coffee whilst chatting to my father on the phone. Son and I off to see him and stepmum tomorrow (200 miles away)

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Just inn from the quack. BP normal. 128/71. Blood given. Far too much blood.

Hurt her more than it hurt me ...

mhagster

Hello. Bedtime. Bit cooler tonight.

Work. 9-12.30 busy and glad to finish.

Hairdresser at 2pm. Much better. Much needed!

Nipped to M0rrisons to get soap powder on offer. Was crazy busy . Blah.

DD1 back for her last few days.

The niecelys came to tea.

Finally watched Poldark.

Just in from picking up DD2 at her evening job.

DigForVictory

Dear gods this heat.
So, epic, not.

For all who are grieving, strength & cooperative phones.
For all with offspring in unexpected places re:geography, health - courage
For all wanting to hand Raffles a lump of fish for outstanding work on the Yellow Stuff - abundant soft fruit harvests, floppy hats, sunscreen & good air circulation.

Man plans, God laughs - And How.

OS Pleasures recently (er, over two weeks worth?! ooops)

Son dropping an eBay package off returned to enquire “anything of great value?” - oh how I wish. Still, at least it is sent and that eBay ID is live.

Hauled youngest onto electoral register. Had an unexpected amount of explaining to do.

Son complaining frozen food is taking up freezer space... [Not a fan of kippers.]

“A wind funnel, and somewhere to put your stick!” - Himself is examining emergency bothy shelters.

Bemusement from eldest as we called to remind him New Series Of Poldark imminent. [Ulp *that* long ago!]

Finally sorted broadband & phone deal including to mobiles! Still more than I wanted but all mobile calls included & fixed price for 18 months. Huge relief... also updated husband’s mobile credit before away for another week delivering training.

Son played with Snapchat filters - Himself as grown up bloke, as woman & as baby. As bloke - worrying resemblance to Action Man with chiselled jaw. As woman - gone ‘way too heavy on the eye makeup & as baby - hopelessly wrong! Same filter on his father so appalling both agreed to delete immediately. I wimped out!

Had the pleasure of sharing trains with a Carmelite nun heading home to Ware. Loving living example of travel & conversation as I recall it from childhood. I never learned her name but know she likes her coffee with Demerara sugar if possible. It was a privilege, ma soeur.

Snarling a bit that the British museum shuts at 5 when I wanted to see to manga & Islamic art & postcards & the Lewis chessmen. Shrug, all the more reason to do Tottenham Court Road with *thoroughness*.

The irony - big issue seller clutching a Poldark cover (“scythe matters”) - but she can’t read.

Whaddaya know? Given a choice between emmaness vegetarian & their fry it yourself salmon, the lentils won?! Not going the whole plant based length but definitely something to explore further when separated from the chaps for work.

Puttered around Chinese shop to discover assistant rightly proud of his English but aware it has limitations & chatting to customers about what teenage boys & girls like to drink somehow didn’t make a sale. (I still refuse to buy miso soup from itsu when real Chinese grocers exist in a 200 yard radius!)

Trainee has Slovak name & lilting Irish accent - brilliant fun to hear the inflections ripple through slightly unexpected vowel sounds!

The joy of being stuck in a strange city is you putter around completely strange places & learn new things. In a Korean shop in London I met Korean bibimbap, which I very nearly bought an instant pot of but Wikipedia made it clear the real fresh stuff would be loads nicer.

Made it to British Museum! Overheard “that manga you hate” “but mummy, I don’t need it for school” - spent a few moments pondering that dynamic! Youngest declined the museum book of the manga exhibition - thank god, funds finite. The chessmen still delight me.

Saw a till reading “Waiting for end of day signal” & thought you & me both, pal. Why it is I feel such an affinity for machines, I leave to the collective imaginations.

Bought supermarket storage boxes for Denby online from supermarket & Dave heroic fetching a trolley & all the boxes of storage boxes!

Scout to her mother “in case you are are wondering why we’re late, I blame you” - they *have* had a party! (And all bar one leader had a go shooting, which was good.)

Scout colleague at Asda tipped me off the warburtons sliced tiger, while tasty, is smaller & more expensive than Asda’s own tiger loaf custom sliced.

Lovely RAC recovery driver sorting car & 4 adults & getting us all home. I need to empty out all the definitely-not-been-used “in case” stuff &, I think, all the CDs.

“I’ve worded down my thing” - youngest is hungry & his vocabulary is erratic, but his takeaway preference is indeed documented.

Live & learn - son pedalling off to job in end-of-year hoodie labelled “Ragnar” - turns out this is his nickname...

Lovely mechanic called to assure me while technically on holiday, has the car & it can & will be fixed. Pleaded with him to stay on the right side of his womenfolk as higher priority, to a cosy chuckle. [It’s back, he’s marvelous!]

Someone in a carshare was positioned to turn right but the bus casually swung around him & carried on. Being a passenger is strange but that was funny!

Son has done first platelet donation - am hugely proud of him, & of oppo who drove him but is terrified of needles. [Son days later with 8" bruise but flaunting this badge of honour.]

Caught up with retired colleague who left with cancer - still has it & currently thriving but peeved with her hair - regrown as thick, white & vigorously Afro. I think she looks like several rightly packed dandelion clocks, & great, but she’s not convinced!

My strange Hibernian sense of humour (& the start of the holidays) sent me revisiting the ‘fatal beatings’ sketch (Rowan Atkinson) & then the Devil’s monologue. Seen live, in full dinner jacket etc just with a stunning red paisley dressing gown & a small pair of horns.

Miword public space yoga! 8 people, mats & water bottles all tidily arrayed & the people folding serenely. Torn between laughter, awe & envy!

Whoo-hoo! Lots of new tech two desks along - I shall ask then go have a play - it’s brain training for my job!

Fresh cherries. And a bowl for the stalks & stones. Not enough for jam, quite enough for joy!

Another food pleasure - the local butcher does glorious Cumberland spiral snorkers! BoP, come visit?!

Thunder & then rain! Lovely not to worry about watering cans & to hope tomorrow will be cooler & less fractious.

Ella nailing it - Too Darn Hot

Cherished colleague spotted with bottle of apple cider vinegar & squeeze bottle of honey - refuse to believe she has done anything in present or former lives to merit such but she assures me it’s good for you & that on Monday she will introduce me to the delights....


Health, strength, love, courage, decent sleep, recovered health, enjoying those we have around us while we can and adequate hydration to all!

Frith

Pleasures for today (Friday).


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Hens OK.


3) BSD going OK.


4) Went to my sister's birthday gathering, at the (outdoor) caf! of the museum where I worked for nearly 10 years. Enjoyed having a look round.


5) Went round the charity shops and bought a fuschia pair of trousers. I have never worn trousers that weren't blue, black or grey before.


6) Chips for smaller son's tea.


7) Still watching episodes of Old House, New Home.


8) Spent a good hour weeding and sweeping in the garden. Did the little front strip along the road. Then pulled grass from the gravel in next door's front strip. (Knee high grass for the whole length). Then worried that would annoy them so stopped halfway! All my sunflowers are doing well.


Off to see the audiologist tomorrow as I haven't been able to hear with my right ear for nearly a month.

villagelife

1. Went to local market and found some fresh figs.

2. Had to buy a dress too!

3. Met friends and went wine tasting.

4. Lovely weather.

5. Had tapas by a harbour. Lovely view.

LaineyT

Ah the pleasures of ACV & honey await you DFV just add a slice of fresh ginger and you will be in heaven.

Friday pleasures,

A cooler day, if 26 can be cool but certainly much better than high 30’s.

Due to above I heaved to with household chores which have been severely neglected this week.

A woodpecker laughing at me from the trees next to girlie’s paddock.

The large peacock butterfly that seems to fly into the house several times a day.

Lammas came early to the cottage with a harvester arriving just before teatime, we thought we were in for a disturbed night but they did the next door field and then left.