5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

VJsmum

LOL - DD..

PK - you can make soda bread or flat bread?  Have any beer?  That has yeast, make Beer bread - Jack monroe has a recipe.

Pleasures for yesterday

1.  The washing, the washing.  2 lots yesterday - virtually dried on the line
2. made inroads into the marking
3. went for a walk with OH and DS across the fields.  
4. DD made a coca cola cake with an out of date bottle i'd found at the back of a cupboard.  was yom
5. Watched more of the English game

LaineyT

Thanks DD, will save for a read.
For yesterday,

Made a new friend, delivering food parcel in village and had a 2 metre chat with elderly recipient who shared many memories of village life.

When a nearby Old McDonalds closed down earlier in the week they offered all food, fresh and frozen to the local food banks, bit of a scrabble for freezer space but gratefully accepted, I’m not their biggest fan but you can’t knock that.

Tuna and couscous salad for lunch.

As always time spent with the beautiful grey one.

We live a mile or so outside the village but went outside at 8pm and could hear the cheering. It was a cold, clear night and there was the tiniest crescent of the new moon in the sky.

CRANKY40

Morning all, pleasures for yesterday....

I cut the grass in the back. It was very long and the garden looks so much better now. The HT started scrubbing the patio but gave up and went to make a cuppa while I did some more cleaning. There's about a third of it done. More today.

Garden furniture also cleaned so we can sit out (probably just in time for rain but at least it's done)

A chat over the hedge with my new neighbour. Her little dog keeps smiling at me through the wire fence at the bottom - the doggy is small enough to squeeze under the hedge.

I made cherry scones. I'm so thankful for the contents of my baking cupboard which I have previously thought may have been a bit over the top. For normal circumstances they probably were but we're coping with isolation thanks to what is in there. 

Standing outside at 8pm clapping and cheering with so many other people. We're very close distance wise to our local hospital and there have been some f/book posts to say they heard our estate and were as emotional as we were. 

Take care all of you 

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

BoP not on Tour, Live ===

Last full day of the Not on Tour inn DC. Not DC, but Coney Island in Brooklyn. Was here in September 18. That was around 20 after the Coney Island Lifeguard Joe McCarthy died. He served on 617. Why, well I never though I would see things somehow. I went back to late July 1990, via Baghdad. Best Chinese meal I ever had. Then later at the airfield Al Kharj, we had a few visitors, but no shortage. Well, yes, there was shortages, but that was for the water. It came on every twenty days or so in the summer that year, every year. But you stored enough in the tanks for 28 days anyway, so you were never ever short! So contrast that with today? At least peoples, some, were self distance inn! Then there is always one who thinks he does not have too? Oh, and the only link as the cut the phones that weak, was the service of the BBC world. 

Never thought I would ever see it, but a security guard outside the A!D1. Did not need him, as the one inn front of mes got inn thirst. Frock off was the cry, well it sounded like fork anyway? He and his ignorant mare (sorry parishioner!) complained and left the premises. A clap went up like the evening before!

And they had all I needed. Wobbleades are Inn. Could not save any pennies for BoPsie so she has no chocolates!

Now onto more on youir version of Life as BoP knows it all!

Had yet anover Chipolata snorker and best back this very morning with best back. Mushrooms and toasted with poached eggs. used to gets mes eggs from the w8rs, but now gets 'em from the A!D1 and theys be much betta. Rite tasty. Then had the wafer, and some luch, and some strawbs and berries. Right tasty and wes has the fish and chips for later.

Checked another flix fors yous lot last nite. Has Ms Keaton and the Queen inn it. Mad Money. A fizzy wobbleabe was consumed.

As I says'd early'r, was inn A!D1 this morning and dispute the queue, had too weight 10 minutes, and how some cannot? was inn and out with all BoP's wobbleades and things! They had everything, apart from 1 pints milk. IO does like their cheese, wes weres funding w8r5 cheese a bit wet! Poor quality?

Inn Ter view weres well last day, so keep crossed fingers, but we are all in now Boris has got it?

Rite, I is off to shout at Alexa and let her play the Sex Pistols. 

That is that for your words from BoP
Keep Safe and tucks yours toes inn!

DigForVictory

BoP - love the DIY pub crawl! Cheers for chatbot link. Nipped into butchers today for snorkers - Idiot Child maanged to leave a weeks stash on the kitchen table overnight. Penitent, but ye gods this batch chaperoned into coolth Personally. Shocked to hear security needed at A1di, but more so that you tolerate Alexa. (You do know she's paid for in chunks of your soul?)

MrsSD - yes, all this Yellow Stuff (excellent work there Raffles!) is a treat! A whirligig is a wonderful thing!

Purple_kitten - you had to get a new washing machine too? I thought it was just ours that was sensitive & conked at at the threat of overwork! Out of yeast? There is always deer horn (aka ammonium carbonate, ammonium bicarbonate, baker's ammonia, bicarbonate of ammonia, E503, or hjorthornssalt) but you need to be a bit desperate until the smell of ammonia goes. Doesn't really do real bread though makes a wonderful flatbread. Any home brewers nearby?

mhagster - Houston the offspring have landed! Hurrah! Haven't heard "smirry rain" in Ages - lovely to hear tho must be a chore to live with. To be booed by video with a towel is surely unsporting?

DundeeDoll - and what is wrong with food based pleasures?! Chocolate rationing is Wholly Sensible. Three days in leggings & even my social trousers are feeling tight, ahem.

Frith - very glad to read you have both lads back even if for the less good reasons, best of luck with chickens & with allotment! Wow new veg bed & blink at "thought I hadn't seen him"!

villagelife - hoping your boss OKs working from home soon (but in the name of the wee man make sure your desk & chair are right before you run Any cables!) Phone calls can be a pleasure.

LaineyT - "Synchronised bathroom cleaning" - OK there's my imagination getting the exercise my backside isn't. Hadn't heard Old McD had donated food - well done them! It was a cold noight but the applause was warming & the stars clearly visible.

CRANKY40 - you go running? Awe! Suspect cake tin no longer full but earned! I'm not wholly convinced you can have an over the top baking cupboard unless you have significantly more cookie cutters than flour.

VJsmum - your DS stockpiles laundry too? Oh good, in a wan blinking-wish-they'd-figure-it-Themsleves-but-then way. After all, you have a PhD to finish. (cheerleading cries of Go VJSmum, go! from sidelines here) Coca cola cake? <ponders if we have a can of the real stuff anywhere>

Happycas - some places are really going all out marking for distancing & it's helpful - others aren't & it shows!Love how your family are distancing intelligently!

PaulieHerts - very glad OH safe & that even though kitchen not 100% complete, now operational. Many happy times there!

OS Pleasures recently

Son’s part awed part peeved tone when he realised I knew & could put my hand on both his NI number & his payroll number... 

School children, shirts ruined with signatures, the old end of summer term marker, chittering with their mobiles as they await parents.... Seems appropriate but the timing is awry.

Being there as lad pays £2 grand on car insurance. It is not easy being a new driver! So proud of him though. (Even more so if he followed Martin’s advice but a mum can only do so much.)

Installing your own washing machine is a doddle - so long as all the bits are the same size before & after. Apart from heavy lifting, getting the polystyrene off & tucking it into position on rucked Lino, of course. I have stepped away from the “cut the hose it’ll fit on the old connection” discussion as I am a (pragmatic) wimp. They took a saw to the easy to replace bit, ulp, & I am supervising the calibration run... [All is good!]

I have the slightly dubious privilege of being mother to a son so organised, he even had a word with a mechanic about scrapping my car - before I had a chance to phone and ask. They are fully agreed I need something smaller & more economical.

How odd is it to be gently startled by a double take by a Tesco assistant? He was concerned we might have one too many cartons of orange juice (the limit was 3) & I was  delighted by him gently lifting the errant 4th from my hands without contact but with a beautiful grace & courtesy. Strange times, these.

“No milk, I’ll have to have wine on my cornflakes!” - the gentleman sounded more amused than peeved.

I’ve sold, (well, scrapped) my car. It was about to fail it’s MOT & need taxing at the end of the month. My insurance will cover me on any car I can borrow but I hope to just do without one for a bit. Then, when various old points have evaporated, I can source new wheels. [The black humourist has said there should be more ex-Motability vehicles & is nursing a painful ear.]

No idea where he got the idea, but Himself has bought spring onion seeds - he wants to grow micro greens! Not certain he grasps these are sew, germinate, plant out & as you crop sew more, but impressed he’s planning it.

Awww, so proud of young engineer! I awoke & was asked to get a courier label sorted for eBay parcel - as I did, son came in & hugged me, strangely chilly around the ears - he’d been outside pegging out the laundry!

Ooops - youngest did not put the sausages into the freezer as bid, (nor the fridge) but Just Forgot them. Himself heroically trying to do a cooked breakfast anyway, but the sulphur in the atmosphere will take a while to dissipate. Pleasure is he’s still cooking!

“What’s twice 28?” “40,56” “which?!” “56” “so what’s ‘40,56’” “I’m chunking” <snicker> It’s good natured - he’s eBaying, I’m calculating but the chunking idea tickles him.

Sat on online team meeting discussing various matters & my eye was caught by one medal in a box “the great war for civilisation”. Hate to think what the chap who won that would make of the covidiots. Pleasure is that he did his bit & I am doing mine.

Someone criticised British Army uniform as uncomfortable, etc etc and a historian shredded them pointing out which countries have copied us (over centuries) & generally putting the critic firmly & obviously In The Wrong. Himself is still chortling over various choice phrases hours later.

I am hearing several happy, slightly winded, buzzing-with-endorphins parents saying “you have to tune into Joe Wick on YouTube at 9 each morning!” Seems Live PE (aimed at filling the school gap) is happening & parents are being roped in and enjoying it!

Aw, colleagues at dial in pleaded with for dog photos (as otherwise I’ll post son photos & even coshed with a half brick they may lack Cute) - one colleague promptly emailed a photo of twin grandsons. Happy croons amidst news our manager’s fiancé on ventilator with thought-to-be-pneumonia but testing anyway. [Tested as negative, slightly better]

My wonderful half-marathon running cousin has repatriated from US sis, husband & dog all staying with her, so her exercise was videoed & the “training partner” dog, having frolicked hopefully, was to be seen slumped gnawing a stick. So proud of her & laughing so hard at dog!

Yeay! Corned beef hash! One of my favourite dishes & bring cooked by the chef along with a mess of leeks. I did an inventory - we have a lot more leek & cheese than thought. The crypt startlingly has much more icecream than I thought as well as frozen pizza for emergency near idiot proof cooking.

While MyHermes is offering collection from home, we are keeping right on with the eBaying as a way of staying alert occupied & active. The courier pickup is a godsend.

Coronavirus rhapsody very funny & has me eyeing the herb plot & the sack of grain & the brewing gear - in theory now’s the time for an AngloSaxon beer making session... Well, maybe.

Baked beans on toast cooked by youngest with his signature burned but buttered toast - dark, smoky, & strangely delicious!

Tea sat on the spokeshave in the back garden. Got an online meeting in minutes but a few minutes vitamin D & birdsong with a cuppa is very special.

Colleague known for keeping own counsel admitted to the existence of a household dog. Slightly insistent request for photos (of any pet, newt, child etc) led to heartwarming snap of tired dog flaked out on similarly shaggy rug!

I clapped for carers, stood on my doorstep & (hugely to my relief) heard pattering applause & cheers around the park. Sons were magnificently disbelieving, until they heard!

Beautiful stars out. A sunny day and a clear night!

A really old Have I Got News, before Harry married Meghan, and what was funny-then rather highlights why she’s not in the UK now.

A good night hug from youngest. He’s more than old enough to know better, but he knows I love the hugs.

Giggling at beach towel display for the future that is on hiatus.

Son has platelet donation tomorrow so I have to drive his car. Means I need to learn where the clutch bite point is, fast. Tonight I think. As I'll be herding it along motorways & In Manchester City centre tomorrow.

Just so darn proud of my son! (Will then be sat in car reading while he’s drained, as of course Manchester Arndale should be closed but will be heaving with unwise life.)

On which slightly petrified note, I wish you all love health strength & courage as needful & may the medics keep an appropriate distance from you & all you love. I am being paged <in te Domine speravi>

ampersand

1. Yesterday's walk was over 4 miles. Two hares in this pic, not that you can tell.  Low and flat into their scoops they drop.  & eyes quarter and scope for them, easier when they suddenly leap, dance, box, run against green, than over ploughed brown land.  Plenty of both here.

2. Big digging, big holes. Who's at home?  Shoved thumbstick all the way down, still cavernous.

3. Fertiliser spin-spraying today. After some hit &'s face, little gravel stings, stayed off farmland. But great R4 listening, in sun. Both parts available. Recommended: 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gn6j

4. Msg'd with Spain at length this morning.  6am street fumigation, but negated by more rain?  On verra.  Still planning on October there. We are all in various groups of 'permitted', yet 'at risk'.

5. 
Next big test - will this post post? :-)
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Everyone keep on being careful :-), with constant 'satanising' as posted on Illiterate Britain.  You WILL laugh, promise! 

mhagster

How to follow a DFV epistle? I can only try 😀
Got a bit too late to post pleasures last night as I was nattering on the phone to friend. 

For both days, some really lovely doggy walks. Good morning to the ducks and there were loads in the field this afternoon. There are a couple of man made ponds near by that I occasionally  see them in but they just waddle around the field. Was a tad squidgy.

Yesterday made lentil soup that was yummy. Today made soda bread and a delicious pasta using up odds and sods from the fridge. And I’m thinking I’ll make some scones for tea.

My favourite florist put a post up yesterday saying  she was leaving some bunches of flowers around the town and my girls found a bunch when they were out a walk. So that was rather nice. 

DD1 walked to the shop this morning for essentials. Had to queue up and got just a few things. ( my mother has just been on the phone bemoaning(as per!) that my poor brother had went to supermarket and there was a queue ( yes all shops have them now...well he didn’t know that) so he didn’t wait. 

Chats and messages with friends. Much laughter at a friends message this afternoon. I can’t share but I was in hoots! 

Today I’ve hoovered and washed floors and cleaned bathrooms and hoovered upstairs and my room and shock horror the son hoovered his room! 

Put a few Easter/spring decorations up. May as well brighten things up. 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Friday)
1) Not a bad sleep.
2) More work done on the allotment - 2 beds cleared and muck and compost added.
3) Sat in the garden. Had a chat with uphill neighbour (over the fence!)
4) The cat came in the house, sat on the sofa and purred. These 3 things have not happened since 2010 when she lost her tail and realised she had to come in to seek help. So hope she is OK. She's a farm cat and never comes in.
5) Had a campfire on the allotment and cooked sausages.
 6) Watched Star Wars 7.
 7) Now in bed to watch Gardener's World


and *whisper it* I'm not feeling very well...

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Friday pleasures

The sun was shining, it was warm in the sunshine but it was colder in the shade & the wind was chillier than of late ☹️🥶

First delivery of extra 4 pints & 6 eggs 🥳 (from my milkman) - even the milkman struggled to get eggs 🙁 so they are organic & more expensive - but I am more than happy as I would sooner have the eggs than the extra 40p 😆 

Nice chat with neighbour & his younger son drew me a picture - Pizza man knitting 🤣 

Mrs Fox turned up for dinner 🙂

A yummy dinner - pork medallions in mushroom & Marsala sauce with mashed potato & broccoli for DSis but a mixture of mashed sweet potato, parsnip & carrots for DH & I + broccoli. 

Reading your posts 

Stay safe & well

MrsSD

villagelife

DforV - car rental companies have sold majority of their car fleets so probably not too bad a time for a deal on a second hand car.
Frith - hope you are feeling better.
For yesterday
1. DS2 went to work - he was pleased to leave the house. There was a problem with Age concern collecting supplies they needed.
2. Went for a walk in a route I don't very often do. Lovely seeing the flowers and bluebells nearly out.
3. Time in the garden. More veg plot dig and seeds sown. 
Enjoyed the sunshine.
4. Washing dried on the line. Two loads and managed to get stains out of a couple of items of clothing.
5. Watching Gardeners World and then the programme about pilgrimage to Istanbul.