5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Pleasures for today (Thursday).


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Off to town to hand in bigger son's college place acceptance form, get him some shorts from TKMaxx and a celeriac from Sainsburys.


3) Got 8 bags of soil improver from the tip.


4) Hens well. Sorted the allotment (muck and soil improver) and planted 15 pumpkin and courgette plants and 9 sweetcorn. That'll make a bit of space on my windowsills!


5) Smaller son brought his cooking home from school - a marvellous lemon meringue pie.


6) My brother popped round (for a bit of pie!)


7) Watched Ambulance. (Which upset me as a great chunk was the exact place where smaller son was whizzed from an ambulance into Resus).


8) In bed with 1hwb now.

It's another glorious morning but cooler, so & has just come in for cardigan while early outside for sits, birdy listens, reads, look abouts.
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1. Another Spits done - up at 2 bells, back at 1 bell. ipso facto, old lady longhaul heavy lugging days continue. Felt it when loading up again last night, finished 2240h. Heavy rain much of way down and there made unloading horror. Trade decent d.g., as & must rebuild savings/replacement Meriva expenses. Spirits really lift when a 3-£ig sale comes - and early. Likeable ephemera man hunts'n'gathers around 6, and was indeed v. interested in &'s recent cache of old airline luggage labels and stickers and flyers from just post-war>late 50s. That sale set the tone. So relieved. Bonus joy - spoke in French with 4 families of buyers. It helps so much and really is a mutual pleasure.

2. Opening immaculate cleaned fridge, having forgotten task done.

3. Spits friends'/fellows' 'Welcome Back' greetings and apparent concern. & never expects any things like this and is always taken by surprise.

4. Thinking something through.

5. Enjoying the latest Rumpoles:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b1sycv
and, of course, the continuing delices of.High Table, Lower Orders
https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?filter=programmes&q=high+table+lower+orders
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This time next week, & has landed. & is saying Bonjour>little hire car. & is back in her beloved Var.
On rtn, President's Rugby Match - a fun game, then em for this is v.tempting:
https://www.lullingstonecastle.co.uk/events/
Yes, think they will mesh nicely. Liked Tom hugely when met last year, & having taken decades to finally get to Lullingstone.
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Glad you are loving Barcelona, mhags - don't forget Casa Batlo. Long ago, & and R were left suspended for over an hour over the Med. on the cable car thingy, down past Christopher Columbus statue on the beach, No idea if it's still there.
Some great ballon ovale finals coming up tonight and tmrw. The Alma might have to be visited;-)
YouBeaut vendredis à tout et à tous with matching w/e's.
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No thanks button - again - so apologies for none given.
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Oh, yes, dd. Custard tarts are &'s pref., too. rtc emporium accidentals are best. & draws distinction btwen h-m and shop-bought. Equal but different, both splendid....and any of younger son's lemon meringue leftovers would be v.welcome, too, thankyou Frith.
Back outside now-)))