5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Pleasures for today (Friday).


1) Good to get up after a rubbish night's sleep. Hard to remember now that I didn't actually sleep through the night until I was 35 :-/


2) Had to laugh (a bit). Bigger son got in at about 2am and had fallen off his bike doing wheelies as he neared home, grazing his shoulder/knees etc (didn't laugh at that bit!) Anyway, I went into the garden this morning to feed the cat and he'd obviously cycled THROUGH the garden which no longer has outdoor lighting as this was removed along with the porch... he had cycled through my washing that I put out last thing, got tangled with a sheet - and it looked like a murder had been committed! So it had to go straight back into the wash.


3) Hens OK.


4) An exciting morning having my birthday treat organised by my sister - pottery painting locally. Tried to go a mug with "Roses and Castles" type roses but we shall see how it fires. Had soup and tea in the community caf! afterwards.


5) A quick stop at the charity shop got me a nice grey t shirt.


6) My orchid compost had come through the post so I repotted the biggest of my orchid plants.


7) Smaller son came home. We went to see the historic house they will be concentrating on in his history GCSE; his class is going to see it on a school trip in September. His question for a paragraph or so in history today was "Discuss the priest holes"! I asked him what he wrote and he did the location and type of priest holes, which were the best and how they all worked, which was his favourite, that no priest was found, a quick history of the house, the capture of the man who designed them, a comparison with those at Coughton Court AND that the designer had a shrine (?) in the church in the village! (Would it be a shrine? He was made a martyr). We were imagining the history teacher wondering how on earth he knew all that!


8) Pie and chips from the van for tea.


9) Just caught up with Gardeners World.

VJsmum wrote: »

Greetings from an overcast ICT

Commiserations on the sinusitis, Frith - I literally feel your pain. I have been taking antihistamines which have helped - along with beconase. Good news re apprenticeship and the trip with younger DS sounds most sensible.. Was it Baddesley Clinton?

pleasures for yesterday

1. Yoga - lots of leg stretches which was good after all my walking
2. avo toast for lunch - yummy. Weird ICT freezer tea - but with jersey royals which are my faves
3. Reasonable train trip except for an annoying child, that in the end i had to move away from. But got work done
4. a night in ICT alone - i like to have that every so often, OH is coming today
5. DS gave me a lift to the station

Have a good day all

Ooh I'd forgotten about Baddesley Clinton, not been there for years, time for another visit I think

Reading other's memories reminds me that I've only watched the first 2 episodes of Mortimer and Whitehouse so that's a weekend treat

Day trip to the seaside in Wales yesterday, we had a lovely time and it was very MSE-friendly, we took all of our food and drink, the main cost was petrol, apart from that, £2 to park and £2.90 for a Mr Whippy for OH :rotfl::rotfl:. Loads of walking, going in the sea, sitting in the sun and shell-hunting (for me), a much-needed break after a stressful month:)

Came back to find it had rained a lot, shame we missed a good storm but the garden really needed the rain!

Looking forward to watching the rest of the Nadal - Djokovic match today. We drove back from north of Borth to Worcester yesterday, and the final set of the Isner-Anderson match was already started when we got in the car and we got home before it finished :eek:, and it didn't make the journey seem any shorter, a bit like Groundhog Day :rotfl: - not sure if they should introduce a final set tie break like other tournaments, or ban men over 6 ft 5 from competing :rotfl::rotfl:

Going to do a bit of tidying up in the garden now the ground has had a soaking

No, not Baddesley Clinton!


What are you doing in Worcester, Hopeless Case? I hope you gave me a wave as you drove past my house!

LaineyT wrote: »

Friday pleasures,

My Buddleia is finally flowering, I know it’s considered a weed but it’s a beautiful deep purple colour and the butterflies love it so it stays in our garden

We went racing :j love the July course and, if you avoid all the drunken music nights, a good venue. The Friday meeting is one of my favourites, we always get dressed up and make a real day of it.

The hollow legged ones came with us together the youngest’s girlfriend whose a smasher, might be biased but they are cracking young people and apparently ok to spend time with us oldies :rotfl:

Came home footsore and slightly sunburnt so OS pleasure must be the aftersun being kept in the fridge, oh the relief to my shoulders!

Spent evening, laying on sofa, rehydrating and recovering!

I'd hate to be without a buddleia, the smell is heavenly and they're still the butterfly bush even if they do seed a bit readily! :heart2::heart2: