5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

I hope your mum goes on OK, MHags.
Pleasures for today (Monday)

1) A lie in.
2) Allotment and hen OK.
3) Bigger son cycled up the Clee Hill and back.
4) Went OUT! First time for just short of 4 weeks. An exciting trip to Lidl.
5) Muntjac casserole for tea, with roti.
6) Lots of scrabble games.
7) Split and transferred self seeding herbs - lemon balm, mint, oregano, thyme and chives. Need to bring the spade back from the allotment to tackle bigger stuff.

ampersand

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Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Rest of Monday pleasures

The wildlife - robins, squirrel, birds singing, bees buzzing

Lettuces sprouting, potatoes sprouting, carrots sprouting 

DH & DSis being absolutely delighted with their dinner - lo duck & venison, lo mash, lo parsnip & sweet potato mash each wrapped in their own foil package  & placed in oven with the roast potatoes + mixed vegetables from the freezer cooked on hob.

Nice chat with neighbour but both of the opinion that this situation will probably last until August 😱 

villagelife

A strange day.
1. DH went to paint his mother's old house to paint he fence in the garden. He saw no one else and he was going stir crazy being hone.
2. Planted some more plants in the garden but in short bursts as it was cold in the wind. Such a change from Sunday.
3. House is looking tidier. No be else seems able to tidy or dust!
4. Messaging a few friends.
5. Roast beef and all the trimmings for tea - cooked by DS2.

villagelife

A strange day.
1. DH went to paint his mother's old house to paint he fence in the garden. He saw no one else and he was going stir crazy being hone.
2. Planted some more plants in the garden but in short bursts as it was cold in the wind. Such a change from Sunday.
3. House is looking tidier. No be else seems able to tidy or dust!
4. Messaging a few friends.
5. Roast beef and all the trimmings for tea - cooked by DS2.

LaineyT

For yesterday,

A much, much colder day so the pleasure of jeans, socks and a sweatshirt.

Visit to see my girlie, her welcoming whinny makes my heart hurt a little as she doesn’t understand why I’m not there everyday as usual but made the most of time with her.

Long chat with elderly Uncle, he’s doing ok and had attended usual Easter services via zoom, impressed.

Easy tea of cold chicken, jacket pots and beans.

Watched and enjoyed Uni Challenge although fav team went out.

VJsmum

Sorry about mum, Mhags, hope she's ok
Pleasures for yesterday
1. A very frustrating work day, trying to get to grips with " 'isms"..  anyway i think i have grasped enough of it for submission just will have to brush up on it for the viva
2. yoga, works really well online although not quite the same as attending.
3. virtual pub with different friends.  Thank goodness for technology
4. Beef casserole for tea from the freezer.  Freezing a fairly tough one tenderised it and it was delicious.
5. OH and i watched two episodes of "Unorthodox" on Netflix.   Very good indeed.

Have a good day folks.  I have one of 'those' meetings this PM.

DigForVictory

Purple kitten - mucking up meds can be educational. Line drying is multiply rewarding. Inspired to try hm curry!

Frith - home made ice cream. Awed at younger son's walk & elder son's Nepalese cooking by committee! Muntjac steaks. Younger son's hair sounds familiar - middleson's pelt is hard to cut without power tools. Must remind sons oregano can be split...

Mrs SD - DH digging for a raised bed. Christmas leftovers pack a special wallop. That "cheery tree" is going to haunt me! The municipal one has begun to bud & I can see it from my office from home. Hope your neighbour right about August - need to get children back into education as soon as it is relatively safe!

CRANKY40 - the storm was a bit of a surprise, but it washed the air. Cat swinging, has me chuckling. Love me a line dried bathtowel - bonus scritch!

villagelife - well done supporting local nursery! Just to start puts you ahead of those of us still peering at the packet! Well done DS2 cooking!

LaineyT - aww little jackdaws nested in beautiful grey. Reading in bed is a special pleasure. Emporium Crimbo treat - yum! elderly Uncle zooming & impressed?! 

mrs motivated - 100% linen bedding <Must.Not.Covet> family group chats - it is good to see the faces for the reassurance! Absolutely right to exercise for the lift in mood.

mhagster - lazy in the wet is just conservation of energy. Haggis bonnet off?! Yipes, mum

VJsmum - Dorset apple cake now haunting me, & an OH who can cook a roast dinner. Where are you online for yoga? (Got to exercise somehow despite working from home) Good luck this afternoon!

Happycas - washed everything .. not nailed down - there's satisfaction! Andrea Bocelli was stunning

BoP - did you do the Christmas pud, in the end? Monty - handsome chap. Ah, Goose.

Nargleblast - home made pesto is the business!

ampersand - Jacinda & her family just a working example of The Right Stuff.  

OS Pleasures recently

Sight of son coiled like a hibernating animal but headphones on & eyes locked to his phone screen. Seems some tech self isolates the individual anyway...

I realise today is the start of my 5th week working from home. I’ve not laid eyes on some of my colleagues for 7 weeks but we’re scattered across the country from Liverpool to Hull. I’m stupendously lucky to be able to work from home & my commute is down from about 45 minutes, driving, stressful to about 20 seconds. [We do the work chat in 5 minutes or so then revert to humans, bragging of gardening, grumbling about offspring, worrying about relatives & sharing photos (in my case of the rhubarb & one of the throwing knives. They knew I said I did, but seeing a knife laid along a keyboard for scale was apparently a bit startling. The dogs are glorious!) We also chuckle quite a bit, which makes the meetings happily anticipated.]

I have found a stash of mint humbugs! Quandary, to share & have them evaporate or not, & berate myself for being a greedy piglet as they evaporate Anyway... Giving things makes me happy, so I’ll share. [Aw, youngest nesting in a heap of wrappers...]

Hurrah technology! Thugged/Nagged both sons into paying in birthday cheques by app & photo. All seems OK to me, but sheesh the grumbling! [Then tiny iSupply cheques through so followed lesson I’d taught, myself!]

Wa-hey, Super Moon indeed! Not pink when I looked but gloriously luminous.

Online advert for tools for construction - special trade offers - I grin as better that than bang my head on the wall.

Love the google doodle today celebrating all emergency services workers! [and the farmers, & the grocery workers & the public transport drivers!]

Wryly amused South American gangs have called truce to work against the virus. “They’re used to making deliveries & everyone knows them” - blimey.

Youngest, contemplating me doodling a shopping list, added teenage skin care product  & “biscuits, an unreasonable amount of them” - I would flounce but haven’t baked for 5 days! [Between us, his brother & I Delivered.] 

Last week I admired Tesco feet markers, this week I am giggling at the odd shapes of the feet. No clawed ones yet, aww. Amused that lady in full Muslim garb is wearing blue gloves & very possibly a mask under her veil. Other supermarkets use a trolley as a distancing tool, Tesco collects them up, sanitises them & issues you your pick as you enter. 

Ah the twangle-thud-ponkk of a grill tray being flung into the sink to be washed up by someone sometime...

This Easter I am short of family, but have an abundance of sloping green & mirabile dictu, an abundance of eggs. Real chicken laid, not chocolate. 

Publishing house forthcoming productions include both ‘Death & changing rituals’ (which I suspect needs a revised second edition already) and ’Llangorse crannog’! I learned to canoe on Llangorse & met my first crannog only a couple of years ago & in Scotland but seemingly it’s been under research since 1988.

Blimey just 20 minutes knife throwing in the sun & I’m blown & glowing. Husband & youngest applauding - just as well I can’t hear what they were saying, sarcastic so & sos!

The Indonesian volcano eruption - pleasure is no casualties reported with bonus hallelujah not virus related.

The plaintive yelp as husband handed remote for new TV. Largely set up (blimey, prime and iplayer on a TV not the computer!) but still all new & ooh with a serious side of order of “eh?”... son & I sat within reach lest it all get too much. 

Pratchett’s Going Postal “You know how to pray, don’t you? You put your hands together and hope.” Ripping yarn!

Wading through ancestry, tacking details into place & eventually heard lamenting “did none of you learn how to duck?” - a lot of my identified ancestors appear to be in war graves. Awed at the womenfolk, some of whom had eye watering large families. Just where are the maiden names?!

Oh gods! Husband clutching TV remote & has had to rotate it so he didn’t zap his belly button... (The offspring have abused a calculator thinking it a remote, a phone & a chew toy, so there’s clearly family example in play.)

Easter family yatter with cake online,  I kept slightly behind focal distance that I held a fig roll... Strong contender for ‘oddest family snap’ to date, that screenshot - it looks badly patched as that’s how four cameras catch five people! Still, better than anxious silence & I really need to figure how to get a photo of my choice up. (Positioning a Star Wars model so it just blocked the camera was amusing but effortful.)

Argh, the deliberate computer illiteracy of certain menfolk can be very frustrating. House tech does not translate to infinite patience - I am feeling very human! Pleasure is but not around their throats.

Goggling at the Burmese habit of applying gold leaf to things - statuary, rock etc. Apparently you buy small squares of leaf at the gift shops & apply them to the temple edifice etc of your choice & reach. I imagine British curators boggling if Burmese tourists tried to replicate this...

Health strength love & courage to all as have need, & huge thanks to all posting, who light my path in keeping on.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Hop one, I'll ring the bells!

Today's pix is from San Francisco last year. California Street and the Streetcar! BoP is looking forward to going back!
VJs Mother. Yoga, no that is not proper exercise, that's just a float inn the corner of the room.
Roast Beef, proper food!
Zapping belly buttons!
Ripping tales and eight nil.
Jenny does send her buzz to those indeed! Still looking for a heart things for here!
Now ons with your life of BoP!

Had snorker and best back agains this morning, with scrambled eggs on toast and mushrooms. Tea was drinked.
Listened to LBC Steve Allen, normallys BoP is up and offs with him,. but at the moments he is on the replayer thing. He's always very reflective and gasses allot! Worth listening too instead of the carp.

Wents inns to the yard and did more work. It really does look good the now. Just wish I cans gets on mes treader to the wobbleale emporium. 

Last nite we did watch Goose being ejected, wobbleades were consumes, with cheese, Red LieSter and some mature cheddar. PM2DD I calls it LieSter now, as Leicester went bust, never paid their debt and then ...

Nows BoP is watching the cricket of the past at the moment on the ogle thing box!

Just had the delivery of goods to the pad of BoP. BoPise has gots her whine inn and wobbleades are refrigerated. We has some thing coming on Thurs. Watch and learn!

Nows I am again asked as to why BoP is grate! Is because I can bark up the day! No need to be up before 9, then snorker fest. Catch up with the payer app on Steve Allen. Do yard or house job till 11:30. Then Sit, Shave and Shower! Scrub as well to keep the appearance ruff. Lunch of salad and bits. Then offs on the 'putah things doings our photogs. Hence yous gets one a day at the moment. Then dinner of bitsers from the freezer. And as always I does thinks of the film review for the parish.

And for tonight, I has selected another classic movie. Last nite we had BoPsie wanting ToP Gun as it reminds her of when BoP was in the R. A. Force and Co Ltd. I am thinks a Mazza! The one with ms Russel on the boat springs too mind, but I only watched that the other weak! butr as I thinks An Officer and a Gentleman is better than Top Gun, it has magically downloaded to the box set thing! Cocoa and proper digestives has bin placed into the barrel of cookies.

There, play the ball better after this. That's bee all in your version of the life of BoP!
Keep Safe.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Tuesday pleasures so far

The sun is shining in a clear blue sky 

Garden waste has been collected. Our council appear to have taken back the contract from outside contractor. 

DH gone shopping - a pleasure as I don’t spend any money 😉