5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

DundeeDoll

A quick catch up before i go to the Paul Melalor pop-up choir concert at the cathedral. Thank you for your birthday wishes
1) Wednesday night went to dinner with a friend over from Oz and two other colleagues. I miss her :-( but was a lovely evening
2) Thursday another friend gave me 2 cinema tickets so went with gbf. (donor had won them and was unable to use them in case you're wondering why i didn't take him!) Pain and Glory. Very good.
3) He suggested we ate out, I suggested I cook something back home. I'd made some Puttanesca ('in the style of a prostitute'. charming!) so we had that on tuna steaks with veg and birthday cake after
4) rest of puttanesca sauce on pasta for lunch
5) 3 very lovely meetings, 2 with very lovely students, 1 with very lovely student union guy. Days like today restore my faith (unlike the thing noone's mentioning cos we don't do politics!)
Have a lovely weekend everyone.

mhagster

From the land of lashing rain. Seriously hoping son can do the sisterly pick up from work later! But if not it will be me! I just actually want to have a shower and get my jammies on but a friend said she'd pop in and I might have to drive so shall stay fully clothed for now!

Walks to and from work were just done in drizzle and I had a cagoule!

Work was busy and actually decent tips considering it was just 3 hours.

Have spent afternoon sorting! So the shelving unit that was in the spare room and then moved down to the living room temporarily is now the shoe shelf in the understair cupboard . The shoe shelf is now in my wardrobe. The wardrobe has had a thorough clear out. Whenever a charity bag doodah comes through the letterbox I try and find something so the past three weeks I've out things out. However today I was slightly more ruthless and between two bedrooms we have 3 bags to go and a bag for a friend to go through first! She can have first pickings. There's lots I wore in Australia that just doesn't suit here , there's lots that doesn't really fit and who am I kidding that I'll suddenly shrink into it! I wore a lot of dresses and skirts in Oz and here just not really so much!

Then leftover rolls of wallpaper ( because someone has papered their ensuite three times in a year!) are going to another friend who can use them at work.

DD2 ordered pizza so had a munch on a slice or two in between sorting the shoe shelves!

The less said about a sausage roll found in a bag in the cupboard from a day trip in June ( DD1) the better!

Have succumbed and put heating on for a bit as needed to get washing dried...ran out of stuff for work!

Happy it's raining as my pumpkins need a good drink!

Nargleblast

juliettet wrote: »

My recent 5,
A lovely trip to Vienna, I have always longed to visit and it did not disappoint.
My own bed and pillow. Complete with two happy cats.
The garden was well watered by frequent showers, and although beginning to fade a little still can see bees and butterflies.
Work had been ticking over so not too much on my desk.
It is Friday!

The orange brandy sounds good Nargle. Have you done any other fruits? Does the container need to be ceramic?

No, I use glass containers. The general method I follow for fruit liqueurs is one pound of fruit, half a pound of sugar and a pint of spirit. If you're metricated then roughly 500grams fruit, 250grams sugar, 500mls spirit. Put in jar, seal and shake. Leave in cool place for about 6 weeks, more if possible. Double strain (using sieve lined with muslin) into sterilised bottles and seal and label. The alcohol and sugar are what preserves it. The straining is important, the merest hint of fruit pulp will go mouldy in time and spoil the drink.

I have done elderberry brandy, blackberry whisky, strawberry vodka, red currant vodka, orange brandy, there are many possibilities.

Nargleblast

Pleasures today...

Picking the first batch of elderberries when walking dog.

Getting two loads of washing done and dried in the breeze.

An orange cake made, using the pulp from some of those oranges I used to start the brandy.

Homemade plum crumble using foraged plums - I feel a yearning for autumn foods.

Sitting here after dinner listening to Classic FM whilst son does his exercises in another room. He bought himself a set of weights today from Argos. Guess who got asked to give him a lift there and help him with the packages?

Frith

Pleasures for today (Friday).


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Hens OK.


3) Smaller son's other bus pass arrived (what a saga - the first didn't cover before 9.30am).


4) Took the cut up bits of sofa to my brother's to go on the bonfire.


5) Took smaller son for a pre-college haircut.


6) Cooked a neck of lamb for tea which we had with chips from the van. Also did a quiche and some jam tarts.


7) Watched various bits of tv.


8) Just went in the garden and a tawny owl was watching me from next door's tree!

ampersand

Seem to be awake, despite late-ish return after tutoring. Last one before all 3 children resume school.
Thanks for tip re: post retention, bop. I recall you offering this before, but
1.

ampersand

...and there you go. That much just took off by itself. Touched nothing. & does her best - and despite another 'despite' - despite the asb, ongoing. Understood some process was in offing, not evident yet.

1. Another dozen figs plump and ready, so 10 taken to tutee family. Nargle, I divine a fellow maker, methinks. Enjoyed reading your method/ingredients, nodding head. Left modest trickle hose on fig roots while out, since mhags has surfeit rain:-)

2. Spits unloaded. Always good to complete that hefty task and little car pleased. Dropped a few things into our cs. Day swap next week so oldest UK uni friend+& can observe 'tradition': her birthday lunch@Caf! Rouge, via &'s MrT vouchers.

3. Parked alongside puss enjoying heat atop surgery compost heap:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/CCkKiwBSN2WvPQPB7

4. Town of Horse, Bank of Purple, lovely S, and decent £s in, worked for.

5. Up on The Gallops, mulled car+trailer fares to Spain, 2nd half October. Hefty. All our remaining upholstery/lining/soft fabrics will work for gbfs there. Must be back for RWC Final though. Can ABs lift it for 3rd consecutive time? Vvvv tough, thinks &.
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Good weekends to all. Special thoughts, Suffolk Sue.
Thankyou, too, vl - yes to swimming in that lovely sea.

house_elf

Good Morning,

Up until Midnight last night and woke at 6am this morning......fretting about work on Monday. (I can hear BoP's hollow laugh :rotfl:).

Mhags Well done on the rationalising and decluttering. Our Charity bag is not filling quite as fast as I had hoped. I am sure DH must be questioning the need for more cupboards, when we could just throw stuff out :eek:

Friday

1. DH has spent all day building new cupboards for the extension. I have spent all day moving cupboard contents around. Upstairs to downstairs. Old kitchen to new kitchen. Downstairs to upstairs......my plan has worked. We just needed the new cupboards. I think I have definitely reached my step count today.....if I had one

2. Treated ourselves to lunch at Costco, while DH filled up with petrol. (Hybrid.....he has not put petrol in since April. There has to be a silver lining to losing your job ).

3. Made Spag Bol for tea. Quick and easy, using a jar and extras. Everyone cleared their plate.

4. Another trip to IKEA . Needed to exchange some of the shelves.

5. Watched Best Exotic Marigold Hotel before bed. Watching the backgrounds for places we recognised from holiday. Got very excited when we got to the scene that was shot in the hotel we stayed at, and we could see the hotel where we got engaged in the background. :rotfl:.

Still sitting here with the door open, but it is definitely autumnal.

Waiting for the dishwasher to end, so I can continue filling cupboards.

Have a lovely day

LaineyT

Friday pleasures,

Rough night with little sleep so pleased to be up.

Breakfast of scrambled egg on marmite toast.

Visit to farm shop and found rtc slab of millionaires shortbread for £1, it had just melted a bit in recent hot weather and choc discoloured, couldn’t make it for that so popped in basket.

Used my new wood fibre cleaning cloths and pleasing results with just hot water, trying to cut down on chemicals in our house.

Salmon and dill risotto for tea, lots of foodie pleasures noted, ‘twas a hungry kind of day!

villagelife

1. Met a friend for coffee. Great to catch up. She has had fewer sagas than she normally does. She appreciated the eggs and tomatoes I have her.

2. Managed to bank some coins at the bank. £43 worth.

3. Essex best Kent at cricket. Both sons thought I should be supporting Kent as we live in kent and they were born here.

4. DS1 home at a reasonable time and chatty.

5. Knowing the person that came to pick up tickets so had a chat.