5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Phew, getting tired! Wish sons would go to sleep. :-(

5 or so for today (Saturday).

1) Lie in! Hoorah!

2) Popped out to get another birthday cake and various bits.

3) Beautiful weather again.

4) Bigger son's birthday bash for his friends. We went to my parents' and son and friends made a film. It involved a lot of running about in the woods, shrieking etc but looks pretty good.

5) Made 4 more bottles of sloe gin with smaller son whilst watching Dr Who. These will be Christmas presents for the boys' teachers and TAs.

Patchwork_Quilt

1) It's Saturday! A lie-in for longer than strictly necessary.
2) Picnic with DD at Uni on the lawn. Saved paying for lunch.
3) My phone has started working again. DH said it needed a reboot (?)
4) This is not money saving. Avert your eyes if you are nervous. However, it was a great pleasure. Went out for a meal with DD this evening and sat outside the restaurant. Had lovely food, a good chat and enjoyed the fine weather.
5) DS came home while we were out and conscientiously switched off all the lights we had left on as a deterrent to burglars : )

Kittikins

mmmmm Millie2008, mojito.......slurp

1. DD and I started the day with cuddles, singing, and belly laughs, the neighbours must have wondered what the heck we were up to

2. DD told me that before she was born, she was a cloud and she looked around and chose me to be her mummy as she thought I'd be the best one for her, and then I chose her daddy and she chose me, so she decided to stop being a cloud and be in my tummy Love the way her daddy was just in there as a side dish as it were, lol, and even nicer that I'm the best mummy she could have chosen

3. Didn't do much (ok, barely any) tidying up, but got the washing done just about........I must get the engineer in to look at the machine this month!

4. Yay, to help with no.3, I had a NSD!!

5. Have made a gorgeous smelling soup in the slow cooker that I will enjoy this week - fat free natch!

6. Also made fat-free (but not sugar-free.....) courgette cupcakes, which I LOVE but sadly DD doesn't So, thinking of my waistline, I have given 4 away and eaten ***** (oh look, MSE can't count up the number of cakes I've scoffed!!)

7. OH suggested we have a takeaway last night - luckily I'd already taken him some meat out of the freezer and decided to make a dahl and a potatoey curry to assuage his curry tooth, so he saved his money. I told him I'd rather cook and him put the money aside for our holiday next year

8. The sunshine again - thank you weather for being soooo good

9. The look on DD's face when she realised it was finally 1st of the month so she could do her pinch punch!!

10. My lovely parents have just gone on holiday for a couple of weeks, and they posted me their newspaper subscription vouchers to use whilst they're away

11. Read OH and DD a lovely French story (well I read a page in French, then translate it) at bedtime, think they both enjoyed it!

Beetlemama

Late evening....its tomorrow really but I can still be grateful for Saturday

1) Two loads of laundry on the line dried in an hour

2) HOT sunshine at 9am, marvelous.

3) I collected 3 more pieces of my free fence this morning before the sun got too hot, only 3 more to go
:T

4) I filled a paddling pool up for my Labradors in the heat of midday, they're so funny! Dallas is all about water, straight in it and splashing about, whereas Jessie doesn't mind getting wet but it has to be on her terms, she does NOT think being sprayed with the hose is fun and she didn't think Dallas diving in the water right next to her was funny. I did.

5) Sitting in the bath at 11pm with DH after a long day working in the house and garden while tomorrows dinner cooks in the slow cooker, yay!

Chickenopolis

Kittikins wrote: »

2. DD told me that before she was born, she was a cloud and she looked around and chose me to be her mummy as she thought I'd be the best one for her, and then I chose her daddy and she chose me, so she decided to stop being a cloud and be in my tummy Love the way her daddy was just in there as a side dish as it were, lol, and even nicer that I'm the best mummy she could have chosen


6. Also made fat-free (but not sugar-free.....) courgette cupcakes, which I LOVE but sadly DD doesn't So, thinking of my waistline, I have given 4 away and eaten ***** (oh look, MSE can't count up the number of cakes I've scoffed!!)

Kittikins - Awwh and:rotfl:

CCP

Evening all.

1) A lie-in this morning - my last one for a while as I'm back at work tomorrow.

2) A chat on the phone with my DM. It wasn't particularly nice hearing the names her obnoxious sister (my aunt) has been calling her but my DM obviously needed to vent. :mad:

3) Picked another handful of HG tomatoes - this hot, sunny weather is ripening them nicely.

4) Did a bit of weeding in the garden - one downside of the weather is that the dandelions are also having a growth spurt.

5) Pasta with pesto for dinner - both from AF. :money:

Have a lovely evening, all.

ampersand

Another beautiful weather day -

1. More dozing and reading out back - such bliss.

2. Some great rugby at silly clocks this morning with :)pleasurable interleaving pms - ykwya.;) All ready to crouch, touch, pause, engage next week:D.

3. Some energy, sufficient to remove a mad bush of feverfew, which exposed a potato! Dug gently. Result - 13 fine taties from a 2 year-old rogue. Weighed 1.6kg!

4. Little ones boiled for a minty salad, big ones currently roasting with shoulder of lamb on bed of onions, peppers, celery, garlic, rosemary.

5. Used 2 desperate bananas for Perrywinkle's Banana and Lemon Drizzle Cake recipe. Kittikins - watch my weight zoom:o. It's smelling beautiful.

6. Deliberately savouring slowly Susan Duncan's The House at Salvation Creek. After roast and cake went in oven, I went outside to book again, page.226, to read....'What's on the menu?' we ask Stewart and Fleury.'Slow-roasted lamb shoulder....'Stewart replies.


mhagster- I recommended Susan Duncan earlier, but for everybody, this is good, good stuff from a former Editor of The Australian Women's Weekly', which was also part of my childhood[sea passage across the Tasman] along with Colliers' Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post[USA] Please do take a look.
http://www.susanduncan.com.au/

Just realise I've given no thought to SCD - i-play later - but not before Antiques Roadshow.

Blessings to all as a glorious weekend beds down in our respective memory banks, to draw on in the coming months.
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Chickenopolis

Good evening all!!

Wow another beautiful day !

Ladyhawk- hmm. It sounds as if you could be "nesting"? For want of a better word ( house and adoption)x . Re keeping chickens, I own an ex Council house,the house was one of the first "waves" of council houses to be built so it has a very large garden . The hens are only a bit noisy when they lay an egg around 9am onwards. As my Mum lives next door and my cousin next door but one , my "neighbours " aren't too fussed about the odd cluck:)

7 for today

1. Croissants in bed

2. Picked a huge chilli and some french beans that just keep on growing .

3. I made a sauce out of our tomatoes to have with some pasta and fresh basil tomorrow.

4. I finished my book - it was a great read , but finishing a book that I like always makes me feel a bit sad as I will miss reading it .

5.Had a nice visit from my brother, sister and my great nephew who is almost 3 and is already mad about animals. He came in to my garden and said " that chicken wants me":rotfl:

6. Thai red curry for tea - yum.

7. Had a peek and a head count of the hens who are now all locked up for the night- they are so warm tonight that they all have their wings out to cool off.

Have a good evening all x

Kittikins

Hello gorgeous people

1. The sunshine

2. Waking up with OH and him being kind and going downstairs to entertain DD whilst I snoozed on for a bit, as I'd had a rubbish night's sleep: my hero!

3. Second NSD in a row

4. DD and I went for a lovely swim

5. then we had a fabulous picnic in a park we haven't been to in ages, glorious surroundings

6. Enjoying my free Sunday paper courtesy of my parents' token

7. Impromptu wine and early dinner with a lovely friend and her children

Chickenopolis: I know exactly what you mean about the sadness of finishing a fantastic book, haven't had that feeling in a little while, but have a new book to start tonight, once DD is asleep (she's in my bed )

Ladyhawk

Evening,

Chicken... there is no way I am pregnant unless you of course believe in imaculate conception and this is the second coming? But you're right. I suppose the two things are connected. I see these lovely big houses that I want to buy and want to fill them with people. But even if I were to get married, I would want to adopt - there are too many people on this earth and I don't want to burden it with more. Plus there are also too many children out there that need a good home. So it's a win win really! Well it will be in a few years time when I am ready.

1) My flat is clean and tidy (well I need to do the dishes but besides that...). I give it 24 hours before it reverts to bombsite status.

2) My nice neighbour came round for cake and we had a good chat. We're similar ages and face similar challenges with work/life so it was a very enjoyable couple of hours. We sat in the garden which is the first time I have done so in the 4 and a half years that I have lived here.

3) Dyed my hair this evening... no more grey!!

4) Yummy supper of Y/S salmon, Y/S broccoli and Y/S asparagus with tatties from the garden

5) Spent an hour weeding the garden and found 5 potatoes hiding in the dirt

6) the glorious sunshine... wonderful!

Night night all

L