5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

For yesterday,

The village Covid project is now up and running so people being helped.

Spent time at the yard, I did leave a pack of my pal’s favourite biccies in her grooming kit as she’d been unable to get some.

Defrosted and enjoyed a smoked haddock chowder for lunch.

Long chat with DSIL, caught up on family news and had a good laugh.

Pegg and Frost have made a Utubey short film about dealing with the current crisis, another giggle.

Tea was baked sweet potato and cheesy beans.

ampersand

Well, PK, & was a marble-racing+commentary innocent until a few moments ago :-)  You are quite right!
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1. Have just thoroughly enjoyed Daniel Radcliffe's DID, interesting choices - esp. Nick Cave's long-known, deep, beautiful 'Into My Arms' -  associates, chat:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000gc48

2.  Kind msgs from surprising peeps.  & is being sensible, yet also doing ferrying/shopping/comms+visits for others/carefully, etc.  Do believe it was wiser not to be in Spitalfields yesterday, regardless. 

3. Interesting GOOD meals, no doubt undone hier soir, when & opened(rare)packet of Reisens....oh dear!
They are too, too naughty+nice.  But now they're gone, no more temptation:-)  Yes, that DOES work. 

4. Bin men were late yesterday, but lovely.

5. Lots of good reading, a small delivery run later. CUBG open spaces are still open:
https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/
- and guess what? Just heard on Women's Hour that it's International Happiness Day.
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Today's Google rightly honours Ignaz Semmelweis, especially now, but does not gloss over his cruelly foreshortened lifespan. 

Happycas

Yesterday
Met my friend at local garden centre.  We were prepared to sit outside but no need as only two other tables occupied in the cafe so easy to social distance.

The resident robin landed on our table to eat cake crumbs.  Such a pretty bird.

DH has finally decided to make a virtue out of a necessity and is doing lots of jobs in the house and garden

I'm beginning to accept the new normal. Not feeling as jittery now.  I do worry about those who already suffered from anxiety or depression tho.  This must be dreadful for them.

Another glorious sunny day

DigForVictory

Suffolksue - hurrah hoist & keep on plodding? Hope you get some sunshine too!

BoP - gurgling at freezened carrots. Dash about BoP Tour Live but at least credit. Love the sound of "A seven day self inebriating pack"!

Happycas - tomoato seeds sprouting? Awed! Line drying a seriously OS Pleasure. Chamomile tea is calming? I learned of it (in history) as a treatment for fever - either way useful to have handy! It does take a while for the jitters to settle but then - sunnier times!

DundeeDoll - the first day to brave the shave should always be sunshiny. It's dashed nippy without hair I'm told! If Christmas tree makes you happy, Whyever not? Pancakes are good eating & to have a jug of batter waiting for you a special treat! Aww Guiding by facebook!

ampersand - welcome home, awed at your ongoing reachings out despite deciding alas not Spits & Kia kaha! Had to look up Reisens - have a tin of chocolate olivers awaiting Desperate Times. Wondered why I'd never heard of Ignaz Semmelweis then read & realised. Jealousy, prejudice & Pasteur had better press.

mhagster - some breeze here - as soon as new washing machine plumbed in, will test its spin & get output onto line! Son away to the mountains, with your last Creme Egg? Maternal love surpasseth. Even unto declogging the hoover pipe, yikes!  Not Haggis this time!

Cranky - blast about no job for interim - hoping you are eligible for enough benefits. Wholly right to befriend neighbours dog. Can hear cat objecting to having warm place taken & washed! Must make quiche - husband wanted one "without any green stuff" so of course only remaining were broccoli rich...

Purple_kitten - a woodpecker? Your hospitalty has spread further & wider! Add another convert (here, giggling helplessly) to commentated on marble racing - many  thanks! 

PaulieHerts - well done arranging chat with neighbour! Sorry to hear after all efforts kitchen not immediately intuitive but I hope beautiful & a joy mostly?

Frith - at least bigger son in UK, but oh gosh. You have a man who mends driers? Ours ran away to become a landscape gardener.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger - awed at the visiting fox. May your nice neighbours make it home, lugging a food parcel as they go.

villagelife - planning work at the minute is very tricky. I'm WAH but various rules are in stone & others in possibly flexible plastic... WhatsApp & self isolation are a match made in heaven for some & I've turned off the incoming beep on mine. My sisters donlt get distancing menas I am still working.

LaineyT - I find the 5pm press conference too woolly - I prefer the 6 pm round up & limited analysis, but ye gods yes limiting news only sane. No idea how American presidential race is going. Treats by grooming kit - that's lovely! Pegg & Frost - bless 'em!

VJsmum - belated happy 21st birthday to son & hurrah this distancing suits him! Very happy to think you have tickets for next year so can run ruthless planning eye over car and kit... Share your bemusement over what people decide they Must Have.

Nargleblast - isn't it a relief when parents behave Sensibly?!

MrsLW - wrap the citadel walls around you & survey your queendom proudly. You know it's fettled for you  - you did the work!

OS Pleasures recently

I have possibly spent longer than I realised gawking at the building site: a familiar face of the hi-vis-&-clipboard fraternity grinned “hiya!” at me as I shambled homewards...

Then waved to tailor!  Blimey, all this daylight....

Scouts are not to meet (or camp, or likely jamboree) until further notice. This is emphatically Not a pleasure. Our leader (who was all set to run a camp next weekend in part to ensure one of our number gets his mandatory 10th Night Away & this earns his Gold Award) has ruled he’ll get it anyway to a digital buzz of acclaim - we’ve never had such a fervent planning meeting, where we’re in at least 5 locations simultaneously and one space emotionally!

“As a fashion statement, you’re a nightmare old man” some days our youngest takes discourtesy to new depths. Even as they’re both laughing, mind.

The church gates reading “Enter into his gates with thanksgiving” suddenly seem a timely reminder.

Playing hunt the earbuds (so I could partake of an online meeting), I was startled by pills in the lads room - which were a cold remedy & antihistamines, shame on my anxieties!

“This frog’s got a tumour” - you know, ‘the secret life of Chester zoo‘ is dangerous TV viewing when you’re not actually watching but reading Pratchett. Where frogs have a vital role in maintaining the Bursar’s relative sanity...

Wonderful news! My laptop, hearing me pack hand sanitiser & snarling about bring forced into the office, suddenly blossomed with the right new software! I no longer need to go into a big city, or even leave the house, working from home just got reasonable again! [Spoke too soon...]

Odd pleasure but parents grumbling at their various social gatherings closing - they’re both 80+ & I want the pleasure of their company a bit longer, but they have reached the age where their risk perception is “I’ve lasted this long” not “I want to see Next Christmas enough to forgo X”

Technology which works filling with interesting things to watch/listen/share - I may get to the opera yet!

The downside of being the house tech working from home is I still get idiot user calls by people who do not understand the software they’re using. Only I have to share a building with them. Of Course you save your files, Every Time. Technology is your servant & usually, not that bright. (Should I ever meet the Buffoon who thought Auto Save was a bright idea, I may set aside all I was taught by my female relatives & quite a bit recommended by the Marquis of Queensbury.)

Positively my last trip into Manchester for Some Time - technology all lined up and working as it should so I can stay home - now to sort proper desk & proper chair & some cables so I have an office from home... bonus the Spar had paracetamol - scalping at 70 pence a packet but I’ve 3 days for everyone so far. Manager has even said she'll OK reasonably priced cables. (Several days ahead of rest of Department, bless her.)

At online team meetings, the colleagues with dogs are beginning to share snaps. The croons are heartfelt & it does help us feel in touch, even though it is utterly Not Work related!

Engineer apprentice has bought his first car! A little Skoda. Must not jitter about all the other idiots on the road - at present there are fewer of them.

Right. Health strength love & courage to all as have need. Working tech, tea & toilet paper plus whatever other essentials if at all possible. Please, a radio. There is a lot of cheer & comfort, you can retune away from news if you wish and they are marvellously portable - you need not gather around one wooden case (& anyway, Distancing!) Keep the chin up & the soap nervous...

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Friday pleasures already

Window cleaner still doing his rounds 👏 Now I have no excuse not to clean the inside of the windows 🤭 
He also cleans gutters 🥳 so, as he had time, I asked him to clean the gutter at the back of the house - with all the rain & the hordes of pigeons it looked like a market garden 😱 He also checked that the down flow pipe was clear - it was 👏 . All done now & beautiful silty soil & the weeds added to compost bin. As an aside he looked at the roof - NO moss at all 😁 
DH is happy - just gone out on the motorbike (self isolating whilst he is riding 🤣) - will try to find eggs, potatoes, paracetamol & tp 🤞 
DSis went out to collect her meds - checked them before leaving pharmacy & they had tried to substitute her ‘non substituteable’ meds - again 😡 Happily sorted out 😁  She then braved MrA - managed to get a few potatoes, a few carrots, a sliced loaf, some soft rolls & a treat - a couple of tins of rice pudding 👏 
Not a pleasure 🙁 - milkman didn’t get our email so no extra milk or any eggs ☹️ But at least the order is in - so hopefully will appear next Friday 🤞 

The sun has just come out ☀️ 

Being able to find pleasures is the biggest pleasure of all 😁 

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Today's BoP Words ...

Good too see them snorkers being aten with toms and mushrooms. BoP has had his breakfast this day of snorkers and best back! All from A!D1. Very tasty. Stove curry this evenings I thinks! It is brewed.

Watched the wrong flix to start with last evening, buty managed to redeem ourselves with 'The Campaign' Wobbleade was consumed. Decent cheese was also quaffed.

Has telephonie thing about a job this morning. Went well.

BoPsie fuelled up the motor of BoP and got some sweeties.


Wes bin to the QB place and gets oursens some paint for the other boudoir. It will be painted the next weak. Details soon.

Phone of eye is ping inn say I can check inn! But as yous nose, the BoP tour is currently off! Minds yous so is everything else! That probably means a Scrabble Live event is coming up. Please remember that BoPsie is only one win away from the chance of going for too on a bounce! 

That is what is the day inn your version of the Life of BoP
Celebrate the passage of the day!

CRANKY40

Good afternoon all, yesterday's pleasures....

Giving up sending the HT to school. There didn't seem much point when most lessons are cover teachers and so many children are being sent home sick. It didn't feel like he was safe there any more. My aim is to teach him to cook during the next couple of months

Going to asda for dark brown sugar and finding it (there was loads, obviously not many baking sessions happening in our neck of the woods)

Making gingerbread men with the aforementioned dark brown sugar. The HT had said he fancied a gingerbread man and as I'm at home now I had the time to make them. They're rather yummy

The HT had the pasta that he would normally have had for his lunch for his evening meal instead. I have explained that the deal for not having to go to school is that he still has to eat the lunches that I have made. The diffence was that he had it heated up rather than cold as usual with cheese on top. As he has the same lunch every day week in, week out when he's at school I am assuming that two evening meals the same won't bother him. I have told him that we are not wasting food and why

The HT's maths tutor came as usual. He did message me and ask if I wanted him to carry on and the HT said yes please (I left it to him to decide). I have told the HT that this is his chance to catch up with some of the maths things that he isn't sure of. It's lovely to see a rapport building between the two of them. 

Extra one please - it's lovely to see so many of you posting and finding pleasures where you can.

DfV I don't need benefits so I'm one of the lucky ones. I have a widows pension and also receive widowed parents allowance in lieu of the late MrC's state pension. The house and car are both  mine and paid for and my boss has said as soon as things are back on track I will have a job again.   

mhagster

Hello. Well not really sure about my  work ( currently on unpaid leave self isolating...though see there may be money available to at least pay 80% wage which would be helpful though I’ll still manage) I think boss hoping to stay open in a take away situation but not sure as many staff will be required. I’ll broach it next week.

Anyway! I wholeheartedly agree it’s the right thing to do and actually think a total lock down as in other countries would be better. It really is the most unprecedented situation but people are catching it and spreading it unwittingly. And despite people being asked to socially distance are still out and about. 

So for today’s pleasures. Nice to see a big DFV post and that the tailor is still waving! 

Chat with DD1 this morning, hoping to get back to Melbourne her Saturday morning before inter-state borders are closed. She managed to get her flight changed. Then it’s thankfully kindness of friends allowing her to stay with them meantime. 

DD2 bit brighter again though probably did too much yesterday. Slept a big chunk of day.

Such a beautiful day. Sunny and bright. Little doggy walks as we are self isolating! 

DD2 had stripped her bed so that was hung out and dried. 

Found some cocktail sausage rolls lurking in the freezer so had a late lunch/ early tea of them with beans and made some banana buns with a very ripe banana ...not wanting to waste anything! 

Washed cupboard under sink. And my pull out larder  cupboards...kidney beans anyone? Just me that likes them in a chilli and then was given some a few weeks ago from work. Ha e enough basic stuff to do a few weeks . Will just need fresh food. 

Tidied laundry room. Moved stuff around. Started a pile for a charity shop drop off ( if they’ll still be running) when I’m free to move! 

Made DD2 pancakes which looked rather splendid! Used one egg and another in my cakes...only 3 left! To be used wisely! 
Right, I hope this finds you all reasonably hale and hearty. Stay safe and stay active! Ampersand please be mindful of yourself as I know you’re very kind and caring of others needs but remember your own are important too x

 

Suffolksue

I made banana bread for the same reason Mhagster!
1 cleaned the fridge completely ,i am ashamed,it had been on the list for two long .
2 have cut  nearly all the grass ( even more grasslike rather than lawnlike !) but who cares ,it’s green .3 our lovely special nurse rang ,did I still want her to come on Monday .Yes please as long as it safe for you .DH has no voice at all now and using the communication device is not spontaneous and his hand movements are worsening.All my activities have been cancelled .i do understand why ,but am missing speech 
4 having enough ,could do with some flour and will have to search for eggs soon but we have enough.
5lots of spring bulbs out now .

DundeeDoll

Hello all you lovely people. A quick 5 cos I keep waking at 6 so by 10 I'm done for
1) up in time for another beautiful sunrise and 4 hours work by 10:30 - where is the real DundeeDoll hiding!
2) following email from Oxfam re. closing shops tomorrow mum helped me get my 12 bags there today. Lovely to be decluttering. and yes, i did buy one book while i was there
3) then I went to my lovely hairdresser. He cut it a bit shorter than usual in case it needs to last longer! have hair dye for tomorrow
4) dd2 walked dogs down to meet me, we bought steak pie on the way home which we had after an afternoon of work.
5) now sitting in my lovely front room, with my lovely new carpet, blinds and curtains, candles lit, cider poured, dr who with dd2. We're up to the Tessla one (though i've watched them all)
A relatively new tea room, realising that sit in is no longer an option, is offering mothers' day afternoon tea to collect. ordered two to pick them up after the online church service, take one to mum's, bring the other here, facetime mum and share mine with dd2. i have invited dd1 (rotterdam) and ds (aberdeen).