5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

CCP

laloopi wrote: »

2. Managed to identify the trees with bright red berries growing on a nearby street as Rowans. Apparently you can't eat the berries though!

Actually, I think you can - I've heard of people making rowan berry jelly, although I've never tried it myself. Please don't try them on that basis, though - I'd hate you to poison yourself! :eek:

Ladyhawk

Evening all.

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY SPARRER!!!

1) Boxercise today at work. We had a good work out and I'm aching a little now (in a good way)

2) Got started on my leadership training course - despite having done a bachelor of commerce (which included accounting and economics) I am really struggling with it. The pleasure is that I know that I am not alone and I am slowly working through the e-learning.

3) Easy supper from the fridge which just needed to be heated up

4) Finished my book (One of the Detective Agatha Raisin novels - easy and enjoyable)

5) Wandered into town at lunch time and bought some leggings from M+S to wear at boxercise... for only £3... bargain!

Night everyone... sleep well.

L

Chickenopolis

Many happy returns Sparrer . CCP sorry to hear about your windscreen.

5 OS pleasures for today

1. Going to a market and OH buying me an old knife for gardening, oooh how romantic I hear you say .... It's made by "Opinel" cost £1.50 and is quite a good make, so I am told. OH sharpened it and came in saying "look how sharp it is!" and proceeded to demonstrate this by taking it across the hairs on his leg , which are no more. :eek:

2.Using the "hairy" knife to top and tail some french beans from the garden . They went in the Thai green curry , which was rather nice.Without the hairs:rotfl:

3.Spotted a bird in the garden that was the size of a sparrow but was completely white and had a carrot coloured beak . It appeared quite tame and wanted to hang around me and hopped down on to the grass a few feet away only to be chased off by a hen :mad:. I was hoping to catch it as it looked quite vulnerable and I could invisage a cat getting it. Might be some sort of finch?? I hope it will be alright.


4. Our five year old moody hen started to lay again today. She produces Wedgewood blue eggs .She had a bad chest infection about two months ago and then moulted and looked like a porcupine, so its nice to see her back in form again.

5. I booked a beauty treatment for myself and my sister in a few weeks time. I won a £50 voucher for the spa , when I entered a Calendar Girls competition and won. I also won two tickets to see the show and met the cast afterwards for a drink backstage. It was great.I won't shock you all with the details as I don't know you all well enough yet. Lets just say I did not need "considerably bigger buns":rotfl:

I thought that I would treat my sister to an Indian Head Massage as she deserves a bit of pampering. Its all new to me as I have never received any "pampering" before , so opted for a pedicure.

Have a good evening everyone x

nuttybabe

Evening all

Mine for today

1. Gave away our old printer that took up way too much space that we cant afford to buy toner for and was given £20 for it that we didnt ask for

2. Got all my cleaning jobs done

3. Few offers and sale stuff today (well i did still have a bit of birthday money )

4. Dyed my hair and straightened it and was told i look younger! :T

5. Rest of leftover chicken for tea in ham and chicken pancakes with cheese sauce and chips. very nice.

ampersand

CCP -all I ever do is tap '[subject] sparkly smileys' into google - hey presto, take your pick. Can you not return to your car peeps and show them what has happened so soon? - any chance of goodwill anything there?
Also use google for Rowan Berry Jelly/Recipes laloopi...shan't post linkies here as there are so many. Always check on mse's The Preserver's Year Thread. That's a fave of mine and always useful.
I love calamari too, reverbe - and re: your good symbolic name, the only reverbe's I've spotted lately have been 5 or 10p discs of chewing gum :-)
Chickenopolis - your little bird does sound finch-y, doesn't it? I have a mental pic of one, species unknown. As for your Opinel, I LURRRVE mine - have had it some years now. They are deeply essence of France things, like laguiole knives too, provençal fabric, cork fruit bowls, souche de vigne corkscrews, things made from olive wood...more and more and more. Mine lives in the space beyond the gearshift, with other ESSENTIAL things...just as my dash is home to many stones, shells, bits of pottery et bien d'autre objêts trouv!s. I think one or two of us have visited this topic before.

1. Posted BNIB Logitech Quickcam E1000 to NZ rel.s, after helpful techie thread assurance that it was not geog. location specific. Bought for 1 euro the other week at a village vide-grenier. Thrilled to bits then and now.
2. Rang L. in next village from a branch of The Works -whole window was covered in '50>70% off' posters - to ask if she wanted this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Home-Cookbook-Monty-Don/dp/1408804395Monty
with foreword dated June 2010, so recent. It's beautifully written, substance and style[how else from MD?]as I skimmed: £4.99, down from £25. She has no money atm, so I did a big-breath-think and bought 4. I hope I can sell a couple to cover 2 gift-y ones.
3. At last managed to catch M at home in France - for some reason our em's are not finding their way in either direction. Her 2nd daughter married while I was over there! They decided to do so for civil purposes and will have the big wedding in Portugal after baby's Dec. birth, combined with christening. Conception has been a long, struggling road. I saw her born in the late 70s. It seems amazing that she will be a parent and a late 1st-timer at that! M. is v. happy. It was hush-hush when I was down in April/May, but now all is confirmed happiness.
4. £land for some camping bits and the 3-pot stackers for M's strawb plants[much dearer in France] Found that these were 3 for £2, not £1 each., so even better.
5. Wondering whether, despite spitty stuff and dodgy grey forecast, to do a crazy Marks Tey carboot tmrw, then scramble for ferry Thursday night. Funds will appreciate any boost, but it's not guaranteed and I lose a day's prep...hmmm.

Cogitate...Bonne nuit.

laloopi

CCP wrote: »

Actually, I think you can - I've heard of people making rowan berry jelly, although I've never tried it myself. Please don't try them on that basis, though - I'd hate you to poison yourself! :eek:

Thanks CCP and ampersand, I've taken a look and am very excited! I've never made jelly/jam before, but it's high on my list of OS skills to master.

Frith

Am quite tired but 5 for today.

1) Builders in! They've replaced the very dangerous lintel lentil over the front door and are set to put in a lintel over the garden side window tomorrow - WHERE THERE IS NO LINTEL AT ALL!!!! Apparently, nothing has been holding the wall above the window up in recent years apart from plaster board and some crumpled up newspapers dated 1962... The inglenook fireplace is getting a new 6 foot timber tomorrow as well.

2) Boys happy today.

3) Lots of texts from various friends.

4) Sister came round for tea.

5) Going to watch Holby City on iplayer in a minute.

6) Had my haircut and it looks better. College is shut though so I had to pay £12 to have it cut in town (rather than £3) and the girl snipped my neck and I had to have a plaster. :-(

ampersand

laloopi - I don't have any flash equipment, just use old fine net curtaining or lengths from a ancient roll of cheesecloths that I've had for many years. I boil them after use, with a steradent tablet or £land sterilising fluid and they're perfect. Sturdy old Petersham crimbo ribbon<my early 80's Habitat days is indestructible for all sorts, esp. stringing up weighty jelly bags, sometimes from oven door, sometimes across bath from a stout stick....hi-tech moi :-).
It's good to use up rough-chopped windfall apples this way and flavour exquisite jelly with fresh herbs>toast and meats. The colours are glorious, jewel-like, beautiful as gifts and so much appreciated.
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Frith - 2 Eek/ouch moments for you today! Mmm, my hair had to be in Graduate salon last week as trainees have finished their year, much dearer.. but still cheaper than elsewhere.
laloopi - I long to urge my NZ Edmonds book raspberry jam recipe upon you. Best, simplest, failsafe, superb. It's on TPY thread at least twice.
Heard on R4 today that apples are picking at least 6 weeks early already and some other things too.

sparrer

Thank you all for my lovely birthday wishes and yummy ciber cakes . I kept it low key as I didn't want to take the shine off DM's 90th, and it's my DB's 40 w/ann in Sept, so lots of lovely times to celebrate this year

1. Having a super time with DM, we have the same silly sense of humour so lots of laughter over breakfast. No pain au chocolat sadly, but chooky egg and soldiers, which was very tasty
2. We went to the local market town where I bought 10lb of sirloin steak for £10! Got a bowl of bananas for 50p, plus a blouse for DM and a much needed cardi for me, so a good morning's shopping
3. A carvery lunch, only £3.65p for me and £3 for DM as she only has child portions. Had fun watching a family of 5 going to the 'bottomless ice cream machine', one lad refilled his dish 3 times, and was asking for a fourth :eek: when his Mum decided enough was enough
4. The apple tree is heaving with fruit. I read somewhere that apples are ready for picking much earlier this year, and the Coxes are the size of grapefruit so I'll have to try one to make sure it's not sour before I pick any more. The plums are doing really well too, just beginning to change colour so hoping they'll be ready in about a month
5. One of the cats jumped into a tall cardboard box which had been used for the delivery of flowers yesterday. It gave her such a fright when it overbalanced that she ran through the kitchen and lounge, up the stairs and lay cowering in her bed on the landing. Ten minutes later her brother did exactly the same thing! :rotfl:

mhagster

hello ,will post now as will be probably be too tired later.
I had a sad end to yesterday as I got news that my next door neighbour from growing up had died. Not unexpected but still sad. My mum has lived there for 40 years so a long time to know someone. He was only early 60's. However he is no longer in pain & his family were with him

1.Up early & had a phone call with my mum & had a few tears but glad that I could if that makes sense?

2.Busy day at work. It was 1o when I left the house at early o'clock & had to scrape the car & then got a call to say the keyholder had slept in ,so had to be let in by security! So much excitement at 7am!

3.From such a cold start it turned out to be a beautiful day with blue sky & sunshine (but still chilly!)

4.Quick dash home & then back out to get my eyebrows waxed....that in itself is not the pleasure....the fact that I look more human than ape woman is the pleasure!

5. I'm just going for a relaxing bath (not for 3 hours though!) as I'm being cultured & going to the opening of an art exhibition tonight! Get me....!

Have a good day x


eta : 10.30pm & I'm still awake...a minor miracle! art exhibition very.......er....not my cup of tea, however, it was a night out & a chance to get dolled up & wear high heels.....I know why I don't wear them often! Then out for a wee drink with my husband & back in to flatties as I was driving....bliss!