5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

mhagster

Wow to a trip to India house elfmaybe you can share some of the delights?

Bedtime here. Still warm. A memory from 5 years ago said ( along the lines of) after walking to train station every day in the dark all winter I walked this day and it was light. Well today I woke at 5am and it was still dark! Much prefer light!

Work. In and out. And the bit in between. Have a whole shift missed off my pay! It will get reimbursed .

Work...there's someone asking for you! An old friend from school days so sat with them at the end of my shift for about half an hour and caught up. Nice.

Very warm outside. Walked there in a jumper...walked home wishing I didn't have jeans and boots on! Though I was offered a lift home I declined and walked.

Full of good intent! Didn't quite happen though started a library book and read most of late afternoon.

Chat to sister.

Son away for weekend and DD2 out with a friend so had left over lasagne lurking in fridge.

A bit of deadheading in garden when it cooled down a bit.

A couple of nice dog walks.

Watched Casualty.



( one more shift...I can do this! 3.5 hours tomorrow morning then a whole day off!)

Frith

What a palaver last night! Maybe you heard the screams... I was sitting in bed thinking I had had a pleasant day. Checked my phone and saw something move (in the light of the phone). Whatever it was scuttled over my legs then stopped and I looked properly and it was the largest spider I have ever seen! Smaller son, the vacuum cleaner and I tried to catch it for over half an hour. I have never seen anything that could run and change direction so fast. It was under the pillow, under the duvet, ran under the bed, hid between the slats. In the end I gave up and slept in bigger son's top bunk bed! (He was at a friend's house).


Pleasures for today (Saturday).


1) Not a bad sleep, despite being more than a metre higher up than normal!


2) Hens OK.


3) Went to my brother in law's birthday breakfast which was very pleasant.


4) Took smaller son and his friend to watch their football team.


5) Saw bigger son briefly then he went out again.


6) My brother came round to watch MOTD and help me do a big spider check. We saved the pom poms off my slippers (cut off on purchase, as are all stupid decorative bits on clothing in this house) and we occasionally hide them or chuck them at each other! Anyway, I had a pom pom in my hand and pretended I had found the spider and flicked it at my brother who then did a dance of panic!


The pom pom kept reappearing at different points during the evening until it landed in my cup of tea.


My brother then left, only for a hornet to land on his hair as he was putting his trainers on just outside!


Going to bed now and have got a single duvet cover to use as a sort of sleeping bag...

villagelife

1. More sun. I love the heat.

2. Daw a wedding party leave a registry office. The groom was military and there was a guard of honour with swords held up. It looked wonderful.

3. Had lunch in a little village in the square people watching.

4. Managed to watch the rugby in catch up. It was a good match.

5. Back pain improving.

LaineyT

Welcome home HE

Saturday pleasures,

Was making bread dough at 7am so that it could prove and bake before the temperature climbed too high.

Eggy bread for breakfast, definitely not French Toast as nothing sweet added just a splash of L&P.

Popped over the yard with carrots for girlie, already very warm so just grazed her in hand for an hour, she ate whilst I daydreamed.

It got hotter as the afternoon progressed so just lolled about watching various sporting fixtures and reading my book.

Pork Souvlaki for tea again with lemon Couscous and a large glass of something cold & alcoholic.

house_elf

Good Morning,

Frith I would be exactly the same about a spider :eek:

Mhags Indian adventure highlights.........We booked the flights way back in December, as we intended to catch up with DD who was working as a Bollywood dancer in Mumbai. (Strange, but true :rotfl:). In April, she came home to renew her visa, but got another contract in Greece :rotfl:......so, we decided to relive our youth, and revisit some places we visited 30 years ago.

Mumbai, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Udaipur and back to Mumbai. Not quite 'Ageing Hippies', but the locals were amazed that we were still 'travelling' at our age!

So we have walked, and walked, around lots of World Heritage sites. Hawa Mahal, Amber Palace, Elephanta Caves....Travelled by air, train and coach.We have stayed in some fab hotels, all different, but full of character. At Udaipur we stayed at a hotel used for filming some of the scenes from Exotic Marigold Hotel. (I am so shallow). We booked it because it looked across the lake, to the Lake Palace Hotel, where we got engaged. Sadly we could not visit, as it is not open to non residents

In Mumbai, we stayed in a little boutique hotel, behind the Taj Palace, so we could spend some time in there pretending we could afford it :rotfl: We treated ourselves to cocktails, and the view of the Gateway to India one night, and it cost the equivalent of 2 days food money :eek:

In the movies, we would have got chatting to someone who would offer us the opportunity to run a boutique hotel in Mumbai, or shop for an interior design store, and we could stay for ever.......Unfortunately, we are not risk takers, so it's back to reality

Sorry about the long post, Mhags but you did ask :rotfl:

Yesterday

1. Washed the doggy. She smells much nicer

2. Holiday washing done.

3. Treated ourselves to 2 for 1 iced drinks at Cafe Nero with O2 offer. Barista was lovely, and gave us the excess in a take away cup for DS2.

4. BBQ at friends house. Yummy.

5. Dropped DS2 and his friend at their glass collecting job in the club where DS1 works. They are all growing up into handsome young men. :cool:

Enjoy the sunshine

ampersand

Thankyou all again, truly.
More asb and, it appears to &, clumsily inflicted damage to toxic's number plate to implicate &, whose pics will disprove any accusation. Car now reversed, but still blocking frontage. & now being followed by their new tracking camera, attached outside at roofline.
I will welcome investigation.
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1. 8 groups of people and 5 individuals now saying, 'We've got your back', which helps. If it comes to any more actual physical assault or more witnessed damage, I will call on at least one of them+police. I still find it not quite real that I am writing this &'s hinterland and family b/g has been one of academic biz and voluntary whatnot, the ones to whom others have turned.

2. Well, rugby at t'Alma yesterday arvo. Albions were happy and revenge for Scottish E, archaeologist and cellist in CGO. Great times, great friendship and great for Welsh patron and & in that Wales and ABs uninvolved:-) We were the experts therefore and little son and heir, 1 next month, came in from lovely afternoon out with mummy+friends, both looking more tanned than last week. Son then did jumps+Wheeee! in &'s lap, with beaming Hi 5s. Good for soul, as was Toulon 44 - Agen 27. Pilou! Pilou!

3. We also watched cricket.... and & has listened post-Church through to just now, outdoors listening.
Bi-i-i-i-i-i-g YESSSSS!!!
Luckily, bop, & has gifted kiwi Stokes, with Maori ancestry, to Albion, ensuring The Hashes stay live. Much jesting hier in The Alma, re: &'s massive support making the difference, fully into 'anyone but strylia' mode

4. A woodpecker darting low across bonnet as I drove. Felt a very near thing.

5. The perfect big button jar (freak smash, several months ago, what a mess), another kilner for another rumtopf, perfect new nailbrush, all among excellent finds before HC today. 3 curiosities: prison-made studio pots, c.80s/90s, under the guidance of a well known potter. Trouble came when some 'Bernard Leach style' pieces started moving in the market as rare early pieces.
https://www.grizedale.org/writing/blog/8830/pottery-please_radio4-sunday-nights_
Jeremy Broadway, a public school art teacher with a ceramics degree was caught deliberately putting Rie and Leach fakes he'd made into Bonhans and Christies. Some of these are now collectable, too, in the way that Tom Keating's Samuel Palmers are.
On verra.
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Spider talk - was thinking how big, how early the huntsmen in the bath are this year. Knew you weren't a fan, mhags, but not you, Frith:-)

Wonderful hols report, HE.

Lainey, did a double take at L&P:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_%26_Paeroa

mhagster

Past bedtime but been having a lovely chat with friend on phone. Always plenty to talk about!

Work. Done. Walked to and from. Was boiling hot as I walked home ...made me think of walking home in Melbourne .

Cut grass.

Dozed off.

Finished library book. Nice (light hearted ) story.

Nipped out to do my Monday shopping early! We've silly roadworks ( probably essential ) and I couldn't face them tomorrow first thing, school / work rush hour time . So shopping done and put away.

Watched Poldark. A very full episode I thought! Love the theme tune.

Beautiful sunset.

Chit chat!

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday).


1) Had a reasonable nights sleep using a single duvet cover a spider-proof sleeping bag!


2) Hens OK and I watered the tomatoes etc. They much prefer drinking from the end of the hosepipe to drinking from their bowls.


3) Very hot day so did little save read the 2nd part of Paul O'Grady's autobiography. I only bought it yesterday from the charity bookshelf in the foyer of Sainsburys and I've finished it now.


4) Quite a tasty tea of Spanish chicken (HM from the freezer) with broccoli cheese.


5) Bigger son finished his video of Nepal. I will link to it just now... He is the tall one who dances around a lot ;-)

https://youtu.be/aNTIiAcHbfU

villagelife

House elf the holiday sounds lovely.
& Thinking of you. A horrible experience to be living through.
Frith - video was great. A wonderful experience for bigger son. He must get his dislike of spiders from you!

1. Swim in the sea.

2. Got sunny weather

3. Listening to end of cricket on radio. Even DH was excited.

4. Ate at a small restaurant and food was very good.

5. Glass of wine on the balcony .

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This morning which is cool, misty and absolutely divine here!

My wonderbag thermal cooker that I dug out of storage yesterday and made a chicken casserole in. 15 minutes on the hob and 3 hours in the wonderbag gave me perfectly cooked chicken thighs and no heat in a baking hot kitchen. I have mince and potatoes in it now and that's a 4 hour cook and a reheat and thicken of the gravy when it's done. Fab thing!

Going for coffee this morning as we missed our usual Sunday one yesterday due to DD1 having blocked drains and HWK being a good dad stayed until all was OK again.

I am feeling less itchy and uncomfortable due to some fantastic Aveeno body wash and body lotion I got last week, I'm mightily impressed with them and grateful for being more comfortable and less itchy.

The walk around the lake we went for when it cooled off yesterday evening, under the trees it was just lovely and the young moorhens were whizzing round like little speedboats on the water, so cute.