5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Kittikins

Hoorah for aloe vera CCP, hope you keep on the mend. I've cut my thumb this evening cutting up veggies for DD's favourite bean soup, silly me, I've got so many little cuts on my fingers from grating cheese, cutting bread. I'm becoming a hazard to myself!!

My weekend goodies

1. OH putting up with me whilst I was very grumpy and hormonal yesterday.......his fault for winding me up first thing and making me feel rubbish (oh, okay, I did take something to the extreme, not in my usual way).

2. OH's mummy has lent me her kitchen mixer and given me her tried and tested meringue recipe

3. DD and I went for a great swim, she's like a little dolphin

4. Lovely picnic in the park with her afterwards
5. Made our favourite Tuscan bean soup for dinner tonight, and there's enough for OH next time he comes over

6. 12p for some scrummy hummous and 50p for a bag of pea shoots in Sainsbugs

7. Have made DD a hat for her dressing up day at school on Tuesday, most impressed with myself and what I was able to do with a piece of elastic and a cut up vest!!

nuttybabe

Hiya

Mine for today

1. A lie in :j

2. Ds1 used the 20% off code on grabbit board to spend their toys r us gift card. :money:

3. Built a helicopter with ds2 from his mechano set.

4. Made biscuits with dd.

5. Roast for tea with apple crumble for dessert using the apples I was given last week. :money:

Tealady_2

Evening

VJsmum - Hope you enjoyed the great north run today

Pleasures for the last couple of days,
1. Make a bakewell tart and some chocolate and pear cupcakes to take to inlaws. Went down very well plus gave FIL some HM horseradish sauce
2. Washing dried today between the showers
3. Chicken roasted and stripped down for sandwiches during the week. Thanks to Tesco special offer cheaper than buying cooked meats. Bread also made for sandwiches tomorrow
4. Just had lovely roast beef with all the trimmings with some of the HM horseradish, yummy
5. Game of scrabble with DD even if I did lose.

Hugs to all who need them

frugalfrancesca

My 5 pleasures of the day
- made stew with a whoopsied pork joint down from £6 to £2.80, had with dumplings for tea and hubby loved it! also managed to freeze enough for another tea
- made choccy cola buns with little one
- had a brilliant driving lesson
- had a lovely phonecall of my stepmum thanking us for her card and birthday pres
xx

sparrer

1. Excellent lunchtime meeting with good friends, always lots of free laughs
2. Called into Mr M and got 2 bags of ys pears, just right to add to the apple/pear pies and crumbles I'm making tomorrow. Also got two enormous honeydew melons for £3
3. Discovered the vouchers board, passed a couple of hours reading through and printing off some vouchers. I'll never be America standard but every little helps
4. Phone call to tell me ex OH had a successful hip replacement yesterday. Pleased for him, hopefully he'll be able to enjoy walks across the Warren again soon
5. Natures Miracle Babies and Countryfile, then a decent library book this evening

Night night, sleep tight
S x

mhagster

Hello , will post early as far to much to do to be online later!

1.No need for headlights on car today! Nice & bright!

2.My air-con on my little car is just wonderful......not needed to use it until my drive home today! 29o out there .....oh how I hate the heat! That's the moaning started folks!!

3.Got 2 loads of washing done this morning before I went to work & asked DD1 to hang it out before she went to school. If it is still on the line......incredibly windy!

4.Got a letter from DD1's school to say I still had $45 outstanding school fees to pay! Er....no I don't! Got cheque book out, looked it up on-line banking & it was paid in June! Phoned school ,who have no record of it being paid.....but they would credit me this time! Nice of them!

5.Not had my pleasure yet, but going out with work colleagues tonight as one of the girls is leaving. Husband coming too , so he will drive (phew) , going to same place him& I went last week, so should be a fun night.

Have a good one.......off to iron, start to pack , go to GP for a repeat prescription....can't just phone, need to go!, make tea, hang another load out.....then I can maybe go out!

mhagster

Very Yummy Brownie cupcakes
Do not use SR flour.........believe me....it doesn't work!

8oz plain choc
3oz butter melt together in a pan & allow to cool slightly

2 eggs
7oz dark brown sugar whisk together
1tsp vanilla essence then add
5oz plain flour
2 3/4 oz walnuts (chopped finely, I don't use them but they are in recipe)

add melted choc/butter.

Spoon into 12 cupcake cases &
Bake at 180o/ gas 4 for 30 minutes. They should have a cracked appearance to the top of cake!
Enjoy!

VJsmum

WARNING Great North Run heavy

1. I DID IT!!! managed it in a little over 3 hours, which, considering i thought i'd take 4 was pretty good.
2. It was amazing!!! The atmosphere was incredible - Britain at its best. It isn't about the elite runners or really the fastest times (says she who didn't do a fast time :rotfl:). It is about people running in memory of loved ones, or to raise money for charities close to their hearts. I did it for the British Lung Foundation and for my mum who died from emphysema. It is about people in wheelchairs either pushing themselves or being pushed. One woman stopped to help a man in a wheelchair get up the steep bit - only for him to sail down the hill the other side miles faster than anyone :T. It was about the poor widow of the red arrows pilot who ran in his memory - 3 people had inflatable red arrow planes on their heads and red cloaks! Loads of people were dressed up, to draw attention to their cause, but making it harder for themselves. It was about the people who line the route and encourage you by name (and provide welcome biscuits and jelly babies).
3. My sister's sister in law putting us up at really short notice on saturday because our hotel was too grotty to stay in
4. The hotel manager ringing and apologising and saying that he won't charge us :T
5. The family visiting yesterday and staying late so they could see me when i got back.


I thoroughly enjoyed it - and i'm never doing it again! Although maybe next year i might get under 3 hours....

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Tealady_2

VJSMUM - Well done on your Great North Run success, hoping to join in next year.:T

FunkyFairy

Been a while since i've posted on here! now i have more time :T

1. Walking to school on a brisk sunny morning
2. Washing my towels and seeing them drying on the line
3. Giving my house the love it deserves with a good clean
4. Baking a cake and some cookies ( with blackberries picked on the way back from the school run )
5. Preparing a yummy roast pork dinner for tonight.

Hope your all having a lovely day :j