5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Nargleblast

Pleasures for today, some in anticipation.....

Lemon and ginger tea in bed - I do go on about it, but it is such a comforting and calming start to the day.

Light rain outside, refreshing the atmosphere, but the promise of a bit of sunshine later.

Fresh milk, a dozen eggs and orange juice from our milkman. The egg boxes were damp (cardboard) and one of them dropped on the floor as I picked it up, cracking three of the eggs....leading to the next pleasure...

The anticipation of making a cake today using the three cracked eggs. I love cake. I am thinking strawberry jam and buttercream filling and some squished raspberries as well (we ate all the strawberries)

The anticipation of spending a gift voucher in M & S, I am thinking new jeans and some new cotton bedlinen.

In the meantime there's a dog to walk and the gym to visit for a half hour workout.

Suffolksue

Lainey we get wrens too,in and out the big long,largely hedge ,.They are always so busy .
Pleasures for last few days
1 The antibiotics are helping and DH is a bit better .Sadly the infection seems to have taken the remnants of his voice and even with my new ears I can't hear him.

2 We have had a lot of laughs at my attempts at interpretation !

3 Actually made the hairdressers and feel much tidier .

4 Made 3 blackcurrant crumbles from my Aldi bush ,2 kg of fruit from one bush ,probably not Mrs LW standard but it has thrived on neglect.still some in freezer for another round.

5 gave one to my lovely gardener and one to my 80 yr old neighbour who is so sad about DH ,his friend

6 Neighbour has given me some runner beans (missed growing my own this year) and some tiny beetroot,lovely

Thank you for all your support,it means so much and really helps

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Jenny sends a :heartpuls to Sparra and all

You don’t say!

Now BoP is havinn the Ming Inn this weakened. Tonight it is the chilli with tagutelli pasta, and roastd Aussies! Wobbleades shall be consumed. Tomorrow is mixed gorilla nite. Fillet steak, snorker and some chicken tikka bites! Rite tasty with mushrooms. Far better than egg custard tart with streaky bacon. Proper Foods!
Chicken Tikka.
Natural Yogut. Chicken chunked into bits, tossed into the yogut. Then add chilli, coriander, termites (Turmeric), garlic and lemon juice to taste. Brew on the side for a day! Skewer on prong and add chunked peppers. Through under grill with the snorkers! Rite tasty! Got it! No bored bins either!

JAM This Sunday, I shall be on the Hunter again. No, the hunter, not the Hunting Gorilla!

PM2DD No Nails!

That is it for this weak at the mill!

All on the starting line are equal!

juliettet

My 5 today
1. Bunch of sunflowers on the kitchen table. How beautiful. Does anyone know If I dry them the birds will eat or do they seed on the living plant?
2. Anticipation of a trip over to Edinburgh tomorrow. Maybe Botanic Gardens?
3.Friday, everyone is cheerful.
4.Happy Birthday to my Aunt in Lincolnshire. Guess which corner house she is lunching in BOP?
5. The trees are still lovely and green here. Lots of rain. Hope everyone missed the flooding.

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A trip to Morrisons where I got EVERYTHING for the next few days for £27, they are so reasonably priced.

We have just cut the hedge between us and our neighbour, it's their hedge but we do our side, all cleared up and looks much better now.

I've cooked ahead 2 x kilos of new potatoes and 8 big jackets for reheating as part of our meals next week. Saves a whole heap of fuel if you cook the whole bag at the same time and they reheat so well in the microwave.

A postcard from the Zebra child, written by him from the family holiday they're on.

Just rescued a big bumble bee from the French windows in the kitchen.

mhagster

Hello. It's been a lovely day here.

Work was worked. I've now decided to just go in with my work head on and leave with my work head off. A few niggly things today. Anyway...

Home and shower and an upright snooze.

Then cut the grass and deadheaded plants and picked some sweetpeas and took the pansies out the tubs at patio doors as they were scrawny. Picked the flowers from them and have a teeny tiny jam pot I put them in.

Washing all dried hu-blooming-rah! Only taken days with big heavy showers. But today has been lovely all day.

I had chicken Kiev with my new allotment potatoes for my tea.

Had 2 nice emails from oncologist / philanthropy department of cancer hospital in Melbourne thanking us for our donation. The one form oncologist made me cry.

DigForVictory

The summer hols have arrived! Where are we going? No idea, but the tent is ready to go even if we aren't, yet.
sparrer - delighted to see you again, and much impressed at your doings!
DundeeDoll - 10 more days of mr.piano - ulp?!
Frith - awed & impressed at how you manage to raise two sons so well & think the unflinching honesty of friend coming will make me have a tidy up a vital component.
mhagster - you had a Day Off! and A$1500 - just Wow. Delighted you have a cleaner, especially such a right-thinking one. Sounds like Melbourne has a special place in their hearts for you, rightly.
villagelife - line drying is a special treat, isn't it? Best of luck to your father, his medical team & to you.
LaineyT - a Lammas loaf? Googled & admiring!
Nargleblast - to find pleasure in cracked eggs takes a special something but a lovely home made cake, absolutely!
Suffolksue - atta girl both with hairdressers & making blackcurrant crumbles (adds nudge to go check own currants!)
BoP - that chicken sounds glorious. Kudos Raffles for the Yellow Stuff & can he stretch a paw over Whaley, please?
juliettet - a green tree is a lovesome thing & the light through the leaves a special pleasure. I live on a hill so watch the rain with releif - no watering can to lug.
MrsLurcherwalker - blimey what a run to Morrisons! Well Done Zebra writing cards on holiday!

OS Pleasures recently
Got some of the abundant sage crop into the dehydrator - sage & onion stuffing at Christmas is all the more merry when the sage is home grown...

Dear gods - the wet tissue left for the butterflies had dried rigid. A lost butterfly can recover hugely if able to stay hydrated but they can’t swim so wet tissue is the way to go. [Now it’s raining outside!]

Rehomed two Eagle volumes to local museum who’s CEO is a huge fan. [Her parents hadn’t realised she was lapping up the science & engineering until an aunt put the verbal leather in. Grudge lasting decades...] Caught up on museum plans & guided secretary through the joys of gift aid, which will be two separate games for them, one for membership & the other for random donations. (Emphatically not an expert, just good at speed reading Google!)

Making lemon barley water for the first time. Using up three limes that had got a “bit tough” [ahem], the single lemon in the house & an orange to show no hard feelings. Other recipes say grate/zest/juice the fruit: the one I’m using says chop & simmer with barley then add sugar to taste after a night cooling off, and has happy approvals from forumites. [And colleagues!]

Reloading dehydrator with more herbs! Rain soaked flowering marjoram so likely will need to have the rest of the Italian herbs mixed in to boost the flavour. Still, easy enough to strip & scatter into the dehydrator trays.

Old Mock the Week is as daft & funny as current Mock the Week but the Boris jokes are funnier....

Laying out another plate with wet paper for butterflies. The chaps think I’m deranged &/or cruel.

Youngest left his headphones at Ma-in-law’s. Whoops! Family teasing fodder for Months, poor coot.

When driving in the wet, do please go slower than seems reasonable? Seen three errors of judgement on the side, one across three lanes just on the other side. Water can surprise you unpleasantly, let alone other road users.

Poldark & the bewildering sight of a bad guy bewildered in madness. Mind, that open lantern had me blinking....

Not “one song to the tune of another” but “one song in the style of another” seems to be A Thing - apparently my boss does “Old McDonald had a farm” in the style of Whitney Houston....

The apple cider vinegar drink was unexpectedly cool & delicious! Pondering seeking organic apple cider vinegar for personal delight but fridge well stocked with rhubarb cordial & citrus barley water at the moment.

There are days I adore eldest “There's no need for a reward, I'm your spawn I'm supposed to help with stuff...there's a principle involved.” that’s just upped the size of food parcel he’ll be dropped off with. Like he says, there’s a principle involved.

Butterfly perched on edge of window and fell off back indoors. I am No butterfly-herder!

There is something about the young Englishman in summer with his furled umbrella that is both awwww & phwoar.

Listening to a 1724 recipe for barley gruel - which sounds intriguingly like custard with bonus barley lemon & raisins. Intriguing & not what “gruel” suggests, but that’s what John Knots’ cookbook called it in the “The Cooks and Confectioners Dictionary”.

Squaddies can be as passionate about next brew as the rest of us. Indeed, it was known to seize a twig to plug the drain hole in the basic webbing pouch and use that as an improvised mug. Suddenly my assortment of mugs seems slightly more reasonable.

Son wrapped in dressing gown cinched with his Judge Dredd belt - he does love that belt but I think he’s also lost the dressing gown tie...

Summer is here, even if it’s raining. The lads are strewing the house with ice lolly wrappers. I may collect them & dump them in beds... or the proper bin if feeling kind.

More herbs out of the dehydrator - bit wet to pick more to go in... [Didn't stop me]

Watching the Alita film & both OH & I wanted the lad to 'wake up' in the little girl body...... Daft sense of humour we share. (I prefer the comics - the heroine looks too much like Gollum with the augmented eyes to me!)

Woken just after midnight by husky youth complaining there was a strange noise under his bed in his bedroom. In this vile weather a tiny field mouse thought his room safe dry & food abundant - and even broke cover as two blokes stood watching. (I sided firmly with the mouse.)

This led to the wearing of some apres ski headgear in pseudo mouse format to advise the young gentleman that it was morning, with consequent unbecoming language.

And now mother-in-law is chortling over it & recommending hairy string around the trouser legs...

Laundry on the line - there’s something that makes me smile even pegging out. (Oh you know what I mean, & there’s a mumsnet thread you may enjoy...)

Read the meters & submitted the numbers online. Wildly not-smart but somehow satisfying.


Right, RL making disconcerting thudding noises. Health strength love & courage to all as have need & I hope to post a bit more often!

DundeeDoll

1) got in early, got student's feedback to her in time phew, put out a few fires and then
2) lunch with friend, watched some of the cricket, come on Engerland
3) after work, opening of dundee street art exhibition with gbf then
4) phoenix, caught up with friends then 1st half of hatters then
5) fish supper and mennies for rest of 2nd half. PM2BOP 3 points would have been nice but 1 point is better than none.
Huge thanks to both pubs for putting the match on for a hatter far from home...

Frith

Pleasures for today (Friday).


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) My brother appeared and helped me with the last bits of fitting the stove.


3) Hens OK. Spoke to the allotment owner for a while.


4) Had a good tidy up of soot.


5) Went to see my sister for a cup of tea.


6) Salmon for tea.


7) Spent an hour or so working in the garden.


8) Sat out in the garden for a bit, watching the bats.


9) In bed now and may watch Gardeners World.

house_elf

Good morning Lovelies,

Thursday

Financial adviser came for a chat. Gave DH some pension ideas. Will charge us loads , but hopefully this will set us on the right path to retirement.

Shopping with coupons and cashback sites. Makes shopping much more fun.

Message from work friend that her new grandson had arrived. So beautiful.

Chatting with friend on the way to and from Craft Club. Catching up with stories from her holidays. Managing to avoid the traffic from the cricket ground :eek:

Craft Club......Workshop with a very bubbly Instagrammer who makes a dress a week :eek: My friend and I managed to make a bag in an evening. Very jolly, and I will be able to use it for toiletries on holiday.

Friday

Day out to Countryfile Live......

Lovely drive through the Cotswolds. (Stopped for a cup of tea, to charge the car, so whole journey there and back cost about £5 :j).

Joined in a recording of Gardeners Question Time. Saw Bob Flowerdew and Christine Walkden. Very entertaining. Was very excited that the man next to me asked a question! You will be able to hear me clapping :rotfl:

Free ice cream at the O2 stand with our O2 app. Had a turn on a fairground grab machine. DH won a goody bag and I won a £5 gift card for Pizza Express! ......free cheese on toast :j

Cooked chicken Kiev and wedges when we got home. Yum.

Watched 3 episodes of Kirsty's Celebrity Mastercrafts before they disappear. Poor DH, he is very understanding. :rotfl:

Have a lovely day