O/S Daily Sunday 3 May 2020

-taff

This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome, please do come in, put your feet up (although check the fence hasn’t just been painted first!) and join us for an Old Style natter. The more the merrier!

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RedRuby1231

Morning Taff and all to follow
Its a bit overcast here this morning and meant to rain for a while later hopefully it will brighten up a bit.
Yesterday I had a shower and actually got dressed in proper clothes and everything    I then took myself round the block for  a gentle walk, I really enjoyed it !! I only went for ten mins but the fresh air was wonderful it did wear me out though, I had a good sleep in the afternoon, I stopped at my mums on the walk and looked in through the window but she was fast asleep in her chair so I left her to it, I might do the same today but go for a bit longer, I am being careful I promise.

Onto today,  I am starving so once ive had a cuppa I will ask OH to make a nice breakfast, maybe bacon and eggs and toast, dinner will be something with chicken breast, maybe some sauce and rice with it.

Hope everyone is well, Nels how are you getting on ?

Have good days all xx

nannywindow

Morning all. Thanks taff for the start off.

All tasks completed yesterday and we even took down a "dwarf" conifer that had grown to about 30ft ! Mr Fix It had to take the chain saw to the trunk and I did all the clearing up and the supervision. We were going back out into the garden today but the weather seems to have other ideas and it's not sure what to do. We have already had a couple of heavy short showers so if it dries up this afternoon we may go outside, if not I will have a quiet day and only Sunday lunch will be cooked. I have a joint of pork at the ready and we will have roasties and veg. I found some cauli cheese in the freezer so I think I'll have that too. The rest of the day will be a day of rest

Take care all, stay safe and well. Hugs to the poorly ones or anyone struggling at the moment.

nan xx

Rowan9

Morning all and thanks for starting us off taff. 

Great that you had such a wonderful walk RedRuby. That will have been good for your spirit. Hope the weather is good for another one today. Great too that you were able to get showered and dressed. 

Hope the weather is kind for you to get in the garden again Nan. 

It’s lovely with us. I’ve enjoyed being out with our dog. 

Sunday brunch later yum yum. I look forward to this all week. 

Hope you all have as good a day as possible x

-taff

Morning all! It is very definitely not sunny here. There has been a car parked outside my house all wekend which is no problem usually except I want ti to move so I can move my car out ready for the skip on Tuesday. It'll probably be gone later one today hopefully, but then [muttering darkly] next doors bloody kids will be round for a chat and a cuppa...grrr...I am really turning into a curtain twitcher. Next door one way don't go out at all, over the road, one goes out for long walks [ he's a walker, that's what he does], next door to them are working, next door to them are out singly every day in turns, next door to me has the world and his wife visiting daily and are also going out themelves every day...And they have a lot more arguments than I have ever heard before, there's a lot of shouting first thing in the morning. Mind you, that could be because they're both a bit deaf So that's how boring my life is, I can tell you the comings and goings of most of my neighbours. That's probably why I am enjoying gardening so much. I can't see any of this from the garden.... And what they eye doesn't see etc... I spent all day on the sofa watching things yesterday so I saw a lot more than normal.

Found a suspicious patch of concrete in the middle of the garden [cut the grass last week and it has just become exposed] last night so will be investigating how big that is today with judicious use of favourite shovel. This will mean I will also curse a lot for forgetting to take in the clothes on the line but never mind, the extra dribble of rain will soften them up...So my day is, play with my riddle [ it turned up yesterday!! yes I know it's qute sad to be excited about a riddle but I am so there!] and dig to find out where the concrete goes...because I'll never understand why....

Hey ruby, good to hear you got out and about, if you can do it, then why not. Gers, nice description Nanny, the garden's not going anywhere...slow down. And I had a packet of sugar the same as your milk but not the fridge and not smelly [ ok, so kind of the same ish? ]...TA, you could do that thing where people dress up as glamourously as possible to take the bins out..Monna, I am trying that with the OH, he does know now which one to turn it to but he can't seem to get the entire process down, you know, fetch clothes, put them in, wash them, dry them, fold them, put them away. He's gets so far -maybe wash them, maybe dry them - and then collapses with the pressure [yes I am the kettle calling the pot the same colour]....Hey all reading along, hope you're doing passably well and are alive and breathing and smelling the flowers...Sit yourselves down Sunday!

Gintotmelinda

Morning RR glad to hear you are feeling better and managed a walk yesterday.
Bit grey here  atm. DH is cooking breakfast now that DS has surfaced. Not much going on here today. DS will do a supermarket run for his girlfriends parents who are self isolating.

DH did a lot of gardening yeserday. And planted quite a few seeds he  had ordered through the post. I sat in a sheltered spot and made coffee when required. Two lots of washing dried and bean chilli cooked for dinner last night. Well I will love you and leave you. Have as good a day as you can.
Gintot

TravellingAbuela

Morning folks and thanks TAFF. I hate to gloat but it's lovely here too and my jackets have been washed and pegged out in the sunshine to dry. It felt quite warm.

I think today may be a day of sloth. I seemed to be pottering most of the day yesterday with nothing much to actually show for it! But I did iron the few t shirts that had accumulated in the basket and took stock of all the summer clothes I have and never wear, so quite a few were added to the already overflowing cs bags waiting for them to re-open.. 

I left a butter basted chicken breast joint out defrosting to cook for my lunch. I will do some roasties whilst the oven is on and get out a bag of my carrot and swede mash to go with it, plus whatever veg is looking a bit sad and in need of eating.

Have a good day folks and ((HUGS)) for our poorlies, sad, worried or lonely. REDRUBY it was lovely to hear you are now up to a little walk. Take care all and stay safe xx

camelot1001

Morning All

Thanks for the thoughts yesterday, you're a good bunch!

Glad to hear you got out for a walk RR, please take it easy.

Well I woke up at a really stupid hour (4.55) and decided to go for a walk to see the sunrise  - as you do. There is a golf course behind me, never walked up there before and it's beautiful, on quite a slope but absolutely glorious. I saw lots of wildlife, many birds we don't see in our gardens and some deer who quickly ran away. The views were stunning and I had a thoroughly good time. The downside to all this is that 1) my legs will ache from walking up a hill and 2) I will probably need a nap later as I got up so early!

Yesterday I was busy outside, painted the front step and the windowsills and will give them a second coat in a bit, cut the grass, swept the deck and generally tidied away all the detritus that was hanging about. I found 2 bags of paving sand in the cellar, one bag has been swept in and will do the rest when the step paint is dry, so glad to have actually finished that job.

Hope you all have a peaceful Sunday, take care. XX

ancientofdays

Good morning, I need help please. A biro exploded and I got inky. I got the ink off me and off the banister immediately with nail varnish remover but I didn't notice for several days that a blob of it was on the kitchen door which is white gloss. I am struggling to get it off so if anyone has a helpful hint, please tell me. I've tried nail varnish remover, wd40 and pink stuff. And a magic sponge.
I don't put my son's clothes away, I put them in a specific place for him to collect and put away, though often he leaves them there and must rifles through his pile for what he wants. I do put my husband's things away because he would just put them on the bedroom floor and as I am in our bedroom a lot i want it to be reasonably tidy.  I used to work away from home sometimes and wrote out instructions for the washing but his method of pegging out was most odd. I came home once to see one of my tops on the line with three pegs, one of which was at boob level.
Today  I want to do some weeding but not a lot else.  Dinner is going to be t h e other half of the casserole.
Ruby, glad you are starting to feel better.
My pantry is  looking sad, we've eaten most of the brexit stockpile. I hope our first lockdown delivery from mr M contains what we have requested. We have plenty of food but not much variety. 
I think one of the local rats has had baby rats, I saw a small one in the garden. Not a mouse, definitely a small rat. And the squirrels are digging holes in the lawn, they have moved on from my planter pots. The pigeons have  decorated the path with poo.
Hope everyone has a good day.

monnagran

Morning all.

It's a bit miz here as well, but no worries, I wasn't planning on going anywhere.  

Nan, you surely deserve a day of rest after all that effort yesterday.  For goodness sake slow down, you'll make the rest of us look bad.  (Oh, let's be honest here.  You'll make me look bad.)

RR you sound better this morning.  Nothing like a shower and getting out into the fresh air.  Hopefully not at the same time.  It's good to hear that you are getting healthily hungry too.  It would appear that life is getting back to some sort of normality for you.  Long may it last.

taff, if the car doesn't move I would suggest that the skip goes on top of it.  Good luck with the exciting patch of concrete (I don't think I have used those words in that order before.)  Perhaps it's the base of an Anderson shelter, or hiding the entrance to an underground tunnel, or the start of a helicopter's runway.  Do helicopters have runways?  OK . A helicopter's launch pad then.  My imagination is running riot here.

Gintot, I thoroughly approve of your idea of gardening.  Watching the workers from a sheltered spot sounds about right.

Here at Chez Moi there will be little of interest taking place.  If this changes I will let you know immediately.  If not before.

THOUGHT FOR SUNDAY 

Prayer is nothing else than being on friendship terms with God.  (Teresa of Avila)

RosyRed

Morning campers ( I wish!)

Miss Plod has had her walk.DH usually comes with me on a Sunday but he didnt appear downstairs and she was waiting so off we went.When I got back he told me he was going to go with me, & gave me a sheepish grin when I told him I knew he was glued to his phone upstairs! I dont class the short stroll with the dog as exercise so we'll go for a proper walk later. Glad to hear you got out too RR.

Did a couple more scrub bags yesterday.I was trying out my overlocker as I hadnt used it in so long.It jammed the other day, and I had to get the dvd out with the instructions on. For those of you unfamiliar, it has 4 different spools of thread and is  very fiddly & I have a love/hate thing going on with it! Mostly hate... but it is very quick! As some light relief from it I want to sew a taggie blanket for DGS new baby (half) sister born last week.Obviously we have only seen photos but DGS looks besotted & is holding her , but his little brother looks most unimpressed and is apparently giving her a wide berth

I've popped a topside joint in the sc for later, we should just have enough spuds to go round. I suppose I'd better make something for after too.I gave up getting apple pie from my sm delivery as they always seemed bashed.

Our friends in Spain were getting very excited as yesterday hopefully they were allowed to leave their house and go for a walk within a 1km radius. After being confined for 2 months, and being pretty active, they'll welcome it.

Taff, curtain twitcher? No, no it's called people watching

Right enough waffle from me. Have a good day xx