5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Nargleblast

More pleasures, even in this strange parallel universe.

Walk with dog in the park, playing chuck the ball. Very few signs of life, but a wave and a greeting to a complete stranger at a distance. Well, we're all human beings.

Seeing daffs and forsythia in bloom, gorgeous. The trees and bushes have ramped up production of new foliage too.

Good coffee from coffee machine. A definite good purchase by the late OH. He was a shopaholic, always buying stuff, but sometimes he got it exactly right. Like the A3 leather bound Filofax diary that I have in the Admin Central corner of the kitchen, and the wooden chest of essential oils that boosted my interest in aromatherapy.

The satisfaction of clearing the ironing pile to a background of Smooth Radio.

Resetting and winding all the clocks for BST.

DigForVictory

Mhags - Happy Birthday to you!  More virtual cake but also large virtual posy to you!

Frith - very happy to see you back

BoP - you wouldn't have any cherry blossom photos would you? I am missing cherry blossom watching something fierce.

VJSmum - I forgot earth hour too & will do two hours off all electronics in penance. For helping focus, noise cancelling headphones (or just the hard hat & ear defenders)?

LaineyT - one gorgeous dog! Thank you! Marmite soldiers - thank you for reminding me!

ampersand - blinking technology! Heeding your wisdom about hunker down & flatten that curve. 

DundeeDoll - some pickles are not worth the vinegar, others are just a pretext for more vinegar. To rehome/repurpose those you love not is only right. (They can make good metal polish but you do then have to rinse a Lot.) Covet a glass of wine on teams!

Purple kitten - it is always a good thing to startle one's beloved sometimes! (In a Good Way where possible.)

MrsSD - homemade soup - I must go & inspect the veg drawer & have a think - one lad adores it the other chaps are more meh about soup.

Happycas - focus on the happy DGDs munching & plan to see them online? 

Cranky - I love the idea that gingerbread men are essential nutrition - & whyever not?!

villagelife - I had to look up Eve's pudding but yum/wow/Must try!

SuffolkSue - hoping there is still sunshine for you?

Nargleblast - just awed at admin central and good coffee. 

OS Pleasures recently

Car & I on good terms, son “appalled” by my driving but hasn’t hidden the car keys... A few decades’ bad habits shine like a lighthouse to his newly licensed eyes! Still, he donated platelets & I self isolated in the car. [His virtue trumped my boredom, mostly.]

You know the C19 has got serious when Which reviews breadmakers. Senior cabinet members communicating from isolation just says they’ve been preaching one thing & practising something else. Feel sorry for the fianceeee though.

Ancestry has new record sources - Irish dog licence holders & Irish prisoners. Peering at my family tree & wondering if my assorted lot will feature on either. [Alas, all too distant to be used for passport application.]

Son revealing faint instincts of self preservation. Voluntarily added bag of porridge oats to the basket! (Hadn’t seen the filled tub nor the 4 packets in store but instincts sound!)

As a new distraction over the lockdown, make your own onion powder?  Have to say it seems straightforward but the step between dehydrate & jar may need rereading before I reach for the sharp knife. (One good thing - day one of lockdown, himself sharpened Everything that should have an edge. Now cuts heal faster being deeper but cleaner.)

Tried to rescue a bumblebee - dustpan the wrong tool. Himself brought the traditional jar & envelope & released our unhappy dumble back into the outdoors.

Miword, birdsong! There’s a very opinionated finch out there.

Mother in law chortling that her daughter reset all her clocks yesterday & now she knows what time it is "but the clocks are wrong".

Leafing through an illustrated book on field service head dress & pondering the varied things the army has asked folk to wear in various arenas. Not gone near the ceremonial stuff, as giggling plenty anyway.

Found one of those wrong-pitch-for-human-ears dog whistles (bought some time past & put "somewhere safe") & am planning to try it. Carefully. Starting with on youngest. [This making your own entertainment can be a bit hazardous]

Apparently we will begin to see if lockdown "is working" soon. The usual good wishes for health strength love & courage as needed plus tolerance and complete board games or vivid ingenuity repurposing/hybridising such parts as you can souce. Says she, eying a crochet hook & thinking carefully pleated it could make a tafl piece  Stay home, stay safe, try to stay happy?

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

And Return, pack, restart and Return ***

Turn round three times. Sorry DfV was BoP Not on Tour at home, so I was putting up wheres I has bin and wheres we would has gone.

Todays photo from back in 2018 of Central Park, Sheep Meadow.
Nows on with your version of the Life of BoP.
Cannot believe we has had another snorker fest this morning, with poached egg and mushrooms and best back! Sore Ted.

Went for a picnic just outside the Leg of Mutton, on the plaza inn BoP's yard/ Did not stay long as the wind got up. Looked at the Cherry blossom tree inn BoP's yard.

Nows doing the cheats roast chicken for me dinner, with carrots and cauliflower with some pan gravy.

Watched the flix on the ogle box last nite, RatRace. Bit of a mismatch for the It's a Mad, Mad Mad, Mad World. Wobbellsade was consumed.

Just getting tonites flix sore ted.

I fear the wobbleade emporium is to stay closed for a while yet. Keep Safe.

mhagster

Well what turned out as an odd sort of birthday turned into a nice one. 

 Clocks went forward ( as they always do around my birthday) so that means we will be lighter from now on in...hurrah ! 

Lovely early morning walk with DD1 and dog.
Birthday pancakes...more for DD2 than me! 

Watched the church service online. Good to feel part of it.

Lovely chat with DD1 friend and her mum in Melbourne on  ‘house party’ ‘Tis new to me! But so nice to just chat, 
Then lovely phone call with friend from Melbourne. They should have been here in a few weeks time. 

Birthday lunch with birthday cake and a serenade of Happy Birthday from DD1 friends in Melbourne ( despite one saying in her out loud voice ‘can we hurry up.’ The itehrs were happy to wait! 

Birthday doorstep deliveries and chats to the end of the driveway! A steady steam of gifts. The best one I think was yeast! But included lovely flowers and plants and candles and lovely soap ( I do like a nice soap) from Tasmania. Which smelled like Australia  and made me cry. And a dozen cream eggs. 

The company ( in and out) of my children. This meant more to me than anything else. I really missed my husband today. We would just always do something nice for birthdays and it’s still hard that he’s not here but we spoke about him a lot today ( as we do most days but perhaps just a bit more today) 

the sun was shining, though there was a cold wind. It blew my bedding dry which has already been remade and I don’t have that sinking feeling of going to bed and forgetting you’ve still to make the bed! It’s done. 

Birds and bees and daffodils and budding trees. A beautiful spring day . 

Thanks for all my lovely birthday messages 

Frith

2 new beds plus weeded soft fruit 

Frith

Aerial view by bigger son, standing on the fence

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Soooo jealous Frith ☹️

DundeeDoll

Many happy returns mhags
1) ‘went’ to old St. Paul’s for church this morning. Somewhere i’ve Been meaning to go to for some time
2) next door loves pickle chips onions. I have left the offending jar on her doorstep
3) made chicken breast, roast tatties, sprouts, carrots and Yorkshireman pud for tea
4) found my Christmas £10 voucher
5) watched merlin

PaulieHerts

Happy birthday MHags🎂 it’s also my OH’s birthday today 😊
full English breakfast for birthday boy and me!
gorgeous gammon and lentil soup made whilst cooking the gammon joint
 proper roasties with gammon for dinner
heart 💗shaped birthday cake turned out rather well (don’t know how to post a photo)
today’s post is mainly about food! But that does seem to be my main focus at the moment!
dining room furniture moved back into the part finished dining room 
family and friends seem to be keeping well 😊😘

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Sunday pleasures

No Sunshine but only a few drops of rain 🙂 but oh so very cold 🥶 

Robin, squirrel, goldfinches & a couple of foxes.

Strange pleasure coming up - cleaned the fridge 😬  - the pleasure being that nothing had to be binned 👏  Also now have a list of contents with use by or BBE dates 🙂

Finished knitting scarf no.33

Brunch for DH & I was giant crumpets - buttered only for DH but butter & apricot jam for me 😋 

Dinner from freezer - breadcrumbed fish, oven chips & garden peas - yummy 😋 (Sadly only enough fish & chips left for one person 🙁 - will be for DSis as she is a slightly fussy eater 😉 )

Grateful for all our lovely OSers 👏