Old fashioned/simple pleasures that you still enjoy?

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There are plenty of things that I appreciate about modern life including MN but I’d love to read about some old fashioned ir simple things that you still enjoy.

Perhaps not the best example but the other day I went to a garden centre and I had an egg mayonnaise sandwich on wholemeal bread with a pot of tea and it was lovely. I often find that a lot of cafes put too many ingredients and sauces in their sandwiches so it was nice to have something relatively plain.

Also sitting having a cup of tea and a simple iced bun while listening to a Radio 4 play. And I’ve been watching old one off dramas and mini-series on Youtube. They’re so much slower paced than dramas now but all the more enjoyable for that.

What simple pleasures do you enjoy?

The Archers omnibus on Sunday mornings
The Shipping Forecast late at night
Walking on the beach in winter looking for sea glass
Working on my allotment
Writing Christmas cards
Hand knitted blankets
Cheese on toast
My very simple cafetière - keep your nespresso machine!

Getting my treasured Parker ink pen out of the drawer and filling it up to write my Christmas cards. I bought it in 1981 when I started my A levels.
Enjoying a snowball at Christmas, complete with a cherry or two on a cocktail stick.
Selecting an LP, taking it out of it’s sleeve and playing it on a record player.

Dog walk with Desert Island Discs or Just A Minute playing.
Re-potting baby plants that have sprouted into their own pot.
I weirdly enjoy using a dirty sock to dust skirting boards/top of the washing machine and tumble before I put it in for the wash.

My favourite clock stopped working last week - the first thing DH and I bought together nearly 30 years ago. I ordered a new movement, it came late last night. So this morning, I dismantled the clock (photo every step, little pots for the bits), cleaned it with a soft brush, fitted new movement and reassembled. It worked first time.

I definitely saw at that moment, just what pleasure a craftsman gets from their work. A simple pleasure for a Sunday morning.

Many of the above things. A vase of flowers on the coffee table.

Owning a teasmaid (bought my first one second hand when I was a teenager) and lying bed for an hour or so in the morning with a choice of radio, podcasts, solitaire, Mumsnet.

Then breakfast with a pot of looseleaf Barry's tea.

Spotting wildflowers when out and about, and enjoying all the seasonal changes in plant and birdlife. Noticed my first redwings of the year on Thursday.

Thanks to this excellent thread I put the very good but quite painful to read Lionel Davidson thriller (1) I was part way through aside, am enjoying re-reading Venetia and have ordered one of the few Angela Thirkell novels I've never read as a Christmas treat.

And some Janet Evanovitch Stephanie Plum books, I need some Morelli vs Ranger, Grandma Mazur misbehaving at a funeral, and a blown-up car or two.

(1) Davidson Making Good Again, a German Jew now living in Israel in the late 1960s looking for reparation. As I said, excellent, but not fun.

Simple Things is available online through my library for free. Perhaps others will have access to it through theirs?

My simple pleasure is going to a library or a bookshop to browse and then reading one of my finds in a coffee shop.

This, absolutely. I love my Kindle, but there is something wonderful about curling up with a physical book.

Can we bring this back alive? It so cosy!
I love a Mum type meal meat pie mushroom and onion gravy and mushy peas and mint sauce. An absolute favourite.

And the satisfying last page read..and close.
Then that feeling that was really good

A lie in at the weekend. Partner gets up, and I relax in bed with our dogs. Bloody bliss

Reading a real book
Watching a TV series in real time, so l can look forward to next week's episode
Tucking into a Sunday roast (although not in 40 degrees!)
Phoning up my local Chinese and actually ordering food through a real person

A road trip
A proper pork pie
A pint of guiness
A custard tart
Art
Architecture
Soul blues
Sticky toffee pudding
Complete quiet

I bought myself a fountain pen the other week and it feels very special to write with.

Those fur carpet scrapers. I have black animal hairs on all carpets and it is very satisfying to get them off into one big hairy chunk that can go into the bin https://www.amazon.co.uk/Portable-Blankets-Reusable-Clothesline-Removers/dp/B0C7W4V1FH/ref=asc_df_B0C7W4V1FH?mcid=596beaaf0ceb3b65ba9df9a283455688&tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=710857302139&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11669061018637646312&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9045109&hvtargid=pla-2281042307414&psc=1&hvocijid=11669061018637646312-B0C7W4V1FH-&hvexpln=0&gad_source=1

I have recently rediscovered scotch eggs. I like the non fancy ones from Waitrose or M & S. Retro snacking.

I love my Kindle, all the 99p books have opened up all sorts of genres for me, and invaluable for travel. However, you can’t beat a physical book, a great big chunky family saga.

A good cup of coffee in a cafe plus people watching.

I am with the OP on an egg mayo sandwich. Just the ticket.

I love wool shops even though I don’t knit! I just like the idea of it, and the walls full of beautiful colourful possibilities.

Buying scarves and gloves.

Going to the bakery
Going to the butchers
Scrumping apples
Picking blackberries or raspberries
Plucking side shoots from tomato plants
Going to the library
Teapot with tea leaves
Homemade baking and pinching it whilst it’s too hot
Old music and sitting listening to it
Horlicks or a hot chocolate on a cold night with thick socks on
Sitting on a bench people watching
Sitting on a rock watching the sea
Opening a new bottle of wine and seeing what print is on the cork
Getting a postcard from each new place

Hot chocolate and crackers and cheese at 9pm.
A walk in the countryside woods, remote and silent.
The real log fire on and a pot of soup slowly hottering on a cold winters day.
A proper daily paper and doing the puzzles page with a nice mug of tea.
All things the remind me of holidaying on my grandparents farm as a kid, amazing memories of the very simple but full lifes they had😍

Going to bed with a cup of tea and a good book.

SItting in the garden in the early morning when people are still not up and enjoying some green tea and hearing the birds. Its peaceful and just feel more in tune with nature. Sometimes I will read a book.

Playing board games with my children.
Sunday roast
Proper pudding like apple pie and custard 😋
Making chutney

Swimming in the sea on a dead calm day, early morning or late evening, just so beautiful

Heading off for a day trip with my DH, listening to Sunday Miscellany

Lovely 😣😣

Every Saturday morning I listen to the same music radio programme I listened to in the 1990s. It’s still presented by the same person, now in his 70s. Though it is now over the internet as all the good journalists left the original station for political reasons.
At the weekends I make a pot of coffee and drink it from one of my late mum’s gorgeous china cups ( while listening to the radio).
Over the last year I have also gone back to attending a mass every Sunday after being away from church for over 20 years. I know religion is not for everyone but it brings me a feeling of peace and calm.

Morning coffee
Beautiful bar of soap to use in shower
Autumn leaves
Comfortable but pretty shoes
Cats
Sunsets
Fairy lights
A good book
Cheese on toast
Getting into bed when linens have been washed & line dried
Candlelight