5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Good to hear from you, SuffolkSue.

Pleasures for today (Thursday)

1) A lie in.
2) Hen OK.
3) Seeds etc came through the post so we planted 25 bare root strawberries, courgettes plus 100 hollyhocks!
4) Badminton games
5) Tasty tea plus pineapple upside down cake.
6) Bigger son found a mobile phone on his bike ride. He left a note pinned to the bench (a bench literally miles from anywhere) and its owner came round and gave him £5!
7) Did the clap for carers at 8pm.
8) Did the virtual pub quiz.
9) Will pop out later to watch the Lyrids meteor shower, if the skies are clear.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Another sunny day but with a small rain shower about 5 p.m.

Neighbour has put their XMas lights back on - wrapped around the bush/tree in their front garden 🙂

DH set up his Go-Pro overnight pointed at the ground feeder - we had 3 yes THREE little visitors - mice are so cute when they are not in the house 😉

Crumpets for lunch 😋 

The leek seeds planted in an empty egg box have started to germinate 👏- they are on the kitchen windowsill - south facing 😁 

Will finish scarf no.38 tonight

Dinner was cottage pie made with the last of the bolognese sauce accompanied by half a bag of mixed vegetables from the freezer.

Reading your posts.

BE KIND. STAY SAFE. BREAK THE CHAIN. SAVE LIVES.

villagelife

Much better day yesterday.
1. Cheerful security guards at car park at work. Went for a walk at lunchtime to thank them for making me smile every morning.
2. Messaged colleague who was working from home. She kept me sane.
3. Neighbour pleased with her card and chocolates I have her for her birthday.
4. Drink in the garden with DH.
5. Lovely sunset.
6. Clapping at 8- another house came out this week.
7. No work til Monday

LaineyT

Sorry to hear you have been poorly PK.
Hey SuffolkSue am pleased to read that you will be getting more help but not right you should have to pay.

For yesterday,

Another warm sunny day, means the house is expanded into the garden and it feels like we have more rooms.

Did a freezer inventory and decided to make a visit to the farm shop and their butchers counter, small queue outside as only 3 allowed in at any one time. They had a lot of bedding plants outside and I was tempted until I saw another lady sorting through plastic trays without gloves on.

Our apple tree covered in pink & white blossom and standing underneath hearing the hum of so many bees.

Butterscotch ice-cream in a cone.

Went outside at 8pm to clap, wind in wrong direction to hear the village but the distribution centre over the fields had all their lorry horns going.

Suffolksue

Thanks Lainey,I don’t object to paying some ,just a bit stunned at how little you need to have to have to pay the lot ( sorry for convoluted sentence ) 
at £1200 per month it won’t be long before we get below the savings limit,but having struggled through the financial assessment form ,I suspect his pension will then preclude him .you don’t seem to need much.Of course it is double as he needs two people. .Perhaps we should have followed George Bests maxim !
At least we get to choose his carers.
He is getting much,much sleepier and weaker .

CRANKY40

Good morning all, pleasures for yesterday.....

I iced a piece of chocolate sponge cake (home made) that I pulled out of the freezer on Wednesday and also rolled out the last of the gingerbread biscuit dough from the fridge and baked that. The snack boxes are no longer empty.

The seedlings all seem to be growing well. I watered the garden and there will be enough rhubarb for some more jam soon. The back garden still looks tidy (unlike the front but I'm working on that).

Line dried the washing and put most of it away. I have a few cotton t shirts that  will look better for being ironed but there's no rush for that. 

The HT's application to be a prefect in the next school year has been done and submitted. I helped as proof reader. Three hours of my life that I'll never get back. 

Next door neighbour found a bag of flour for me when she went shopping. It was delivered over the fence in a carrier bag via a pole with a hook. The barter system is alive and well - they had two jars of rhubarb jam from me earlier in the week. I'll probably pass some rhubarb over when the next lot is ready as well. We also all did the 8pm clapping. It's a chance to shout across gardens at all the other neighbours and make sure that everyone is OK. 

Ssue hugs to you both. I agree with what Lainey said. 
village I'm glad that you had a better day
Frith I meant to look for the meteors but forgot - I was distracted by the HT letting the cat back upstairs and by bf messaging me to say he was just having his tea at 10pm. did you see any?

Frith

Cranky - no, too cloudy. They’re around for 4 nights so we’ll keep trying. I like the fact that the meteorites are completely still and we’re  running into them. 

juliettet

Morning all,
Thinking of you Sue & PK.
D for V, your lovely lads.
Happy Birthday Bopsie.
Are you on the home straight VJs Mum ??
Lovely sunny day here. Washing should dry soon. The garden has never been so tidy so early.
Half day holiday booked. Taking advantage of a quiet spell.
Hoping the local garden centres will do click and collect next month. Most of them are independent and it would be so sad if they close. 
Going to attempt Nigella's chocolate loaf. Will pass some over to a little less grumpy neighbour. 
Family & friends well. Cannot ask for more.

Happycas

Purple kitten -  My asthma is bad at the moment too.  Always is around Easter.  Hay fever related? I'm trying to avoid steroids this year if I can as the last thing I want is a weakened immune system.  Fingers crossed it doesn't get too bad for you.

Suffolk Sue - What a terribly difficult time this is for you.  I hope the carers make the practicalities a little easier.  Many hugs - from a distance, of course!

Remembered to clap at 8.  Well, actually asked Alexa to remind me and she did. Only 3 houses in our little street of 10 had people outside, but we could hear the applause echoing round from the village.  Very heartening.

DS says he's going to have As*a painted on the side of his car!  He collected our order yesterday, and theirs today,then he has to take some of theirs to his MiL!!

Was going to paint a tatty old lantern we have in the garden, but once I'd scrubbed it prior to painting it looked fine.  One less job to do!

For some reason, we've never watched Waking the Dead.  Lots to go at on iPlayer ( which is good as there's very little else we want to watch at the moment)

Happy, not quite as 🌞, Friday

VJsmum

Morning all - yes, Juliettet, fingers crossed i should submit a week on Thursday.  wrestling with the conclusions now.

Thinking of you Suffolksue

Pleasures for yesterday

1. Virtual coffee and catch up with friends IYSWIM
2. Lunch in the garden 
3. OH made Dorset Apple Cake...  yum
4. family film night, DS's choice which, a bit bizarrely, was Mowgli.  Quite a nice, if somewhat brutal, film
5. Enjoying my conservatory now that it's fit to be in for the first time in forever.

Have a good day all