5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Tealady_2

Evening

Frith & Ninnoodle - Hope you both get better now
Purplekitten- Good luck for tomorrow
Sparrer - The challenges sound great and loved the quote

Pleasures for today,
1. Little bit of a lie in
2. Food shopping for the week came in under budget. Have gone back to meal planning and this really works for me, don't know why I stopped. Just as well food came in under budget as DD needed art supplies for her new GCSE project, prices of canvas and paints are :eek:
3. Walked into town with DD so saved on bus fares and nice to get some fresh air.
4. Using up more freezer stock, had beef wellington for dinner tonight. This week will be a mixture of nice things and some strange combinations.
5. Enjoying a cheeky glass of red wine, well OH had opened the bottle so it would have been rude not to.

Hugs to all who need them

skintmum2012

Sorry not posted mine for a while kept meaning to then forgot Here are my 5 for yesterday/today

1: Went to a table top sale got hubby 2 jumpers,myself lots of jumpers and lots of Per Una Jeans all 25p each could not believe I got per una jeans for 25p I also managed to get 6 soup cups and a bean sprouter all for £1 I had broken all our soup cups so brill find and Bean Sprouter has got Mung beans in now to make Stir Fry and Spring rolls when Sprouted

2: Had my family round for a roast chicken today and have got enough meat left over for 2 more meals

3: Made a Bread pudding and Bread

4:Spent the weekend with my family who seem to be getting over there colds now


5:Frith has stopped my Burning my house done as put said chicken carcass in slow cooker about 3 and almost went to bed with it still on so thank you Frith

Kittikins

Phew! Just caught up reading but too tired to remember all the fabulous loveliness and get well soon people, so consider yourself all bear-hugged

But especially.....

1. Ampersand for the book, it looks fabulous Merci bien xx

2. DD and I have had a lovely weekend with my parents and bro

3. Played lots of whist with parents and DD (bro is a boring beggar who hates all card/board/'family' games with a vengeance, so we leave him to his grumpiness whilst we have a brilliant time)

4. Stopped off at Costco on the way home and got a tray of tinned tomatoes and a few other cheapy bits - with the recent shocking rise in the cost of value tomatoes in all supermarkets, the ones I bought today are now nearly 10p cheaper!!

5. Lots of yummy food and nice wine (but not too much!) this weekend

6. Sooooooooooooo looking forward to seeing OH tomorrow

7. Making up silly songs with DD whilst playing cards, having a bath, all the time really!

8. My dad has lent me the Private Eye 50 years book and its brilliant, really enjoying it but I must finish a library book that's due back soon before I read anything else......good job I read very quickly as I have about 10 books on the go around the house/car/desk.......

9. Making more plans with DD for when (and it will be when rather than if, I'm so hopeful that the final queries will be sorted out to the buyers' satisfaction and we can get going ASAP!) we move to our forever home. Not sure if it'll be as glam-sounding as mhagster's new home which sounds gorgeous, but we'll get there slowly but surely, I just need to look out for cheap but nice tables and book cases etc etc.

10. Not so much of a pleasure, but having gooooooood painkillers that are taking away the soreness caused by driving. Bit worried that even with my automatic car its taking less time recently for me to be in pain when driving, doesn't bode well for Italy (when we have a manual car) or before then, when I have to get us oop North for a weekend!

11. Lovely one - we've been invited to a baptism in March, I'm hoping to meet the gorgeous baby before then, but if not, we'll shower him with love at the party

Hello new chums and to anyone, really hope noone worries about how many pleasures they find in a day, I like to try to get to 5 and always seem to astound myself when I get to 5 even on a really rubbish day, but most days, life can be so good in so many ways, that I write many more and if it's too many..........then I'll recommend some speed-reading books

Nighty night!

sparrer

Just in from a friends birthday luch/tea and absolutely shattered. Not to mention feeling a little icky cos I ate too much cheesecake so will just add a quick 5

1. Woke to find neighbour has removed the shrub he grew up the side of my little shed, cheeky so and so. Pleased it's gone as I was worried it would make the shed damp, and even more pleased that he's putting a shed on his side of the chickenwire fence as it will afford mine some protection

2. Had one of the nicest grapefruit I've tasted for breakfast, made more so as it was in a bag marked 'Seconds' with two others for 45p. Even better, lovely friend bought two bags and gave me one yesterday

3. Went to usual lunchtime meeting which was interrupted by a very aggressive 'visitor'. The gentlemen in blue had to be called as he wouldn't calm down, they were amazingly cool, calm and quiet as they removed him. A huge relief as if they were all like the ones we see on the news etc it would have been very unpleasant for everyone

4. Went on to a friends birthday lunch/tea. The host is a chef, need I say more?! An excellent spread of which I indulged rather too much

5. Sorry if this offends, it isn't a pleasure as such but a massive relief, that my lovely aunt slipped away in her sleep yesterday and is now free from the cruel illnesses she's suffered over the last few years. She was a real star for never complaining, and she's now a star in the sky :A

Sweet dreams
S

Purple_kitten

Chickenopolis: I just read the coop expereicne and I love how you have described it, I rather "attractively" snorted the drink I has drinking - ops.

Tealady_2

Sparrer - glad she is at peace now, hugs to you and your family

Chickenopolis

Good morning all !

Just popped in to saythe new series of Superscrimpers is on tonight on CH4 @ 8pm x x

ampersand

Could have posted again hier soir/aka ce matin, but have spates of sudden uncertainty over too much prattle etc.etc.........when what i was really looking forward to was A Bedtime Cuppytea and a Slice of Mum2Ellis's birthday cake....DIDN'T HAPPEN.
Explanations are not excuses m2e...'fess up, please.
Yes sparrer - for your Aunt. When dear IT left us, mumoftwins em'd quietly and gently - 'he simply stopped breathing'.

1. Early clocks, it's gloomy and dark in the unsunroom this rainy Northern Hemisphere a.m., but all ebay paid things just wrapped and will>village PO shortly.

2. Keeping up with, listening to, Australian Open on R5, occasional dipping into beeb online.

3. Skype pop-in from Oz in her wee small hours[new contact,oldest schoolfriend Lady D]- has degenerating neuro nasty, pills before bed prescribed, but make her hyper before zapping her into sleep mode. Some fun chat - to which my typo's contributed in no small measure. I leave it to you to confect your own b/g Dear Reader - what happens when I misread 'sox' as 'sex'? / when I mistype 'Bosslady' as 'Booslady'?

4. Have been waiting for annual gas/heating inspection man and have just seen what seems to be likely man+van outside, staring here, absolutely no contact, nothing...and he's driven off now! Puts me in mind of old Not the Nine O'clock News sketch, where PO parcels man crouches oos until householder has left, then rushes up to stuff 'sorry you were not in when we called' card through box and rtns creasing up as he and mate compare scores for the day.

5. Feeling powered up to turbolist today - keep going, keep going, mustn't get bogged down in too much research.

BOGOF 5. A pleasing symmetry in that birthday flowers will start new life on compost today, just as Scotsdale's pre-crimbo 'Bowl of 7 Hyacinths bogof', brought in from cold only 2 days ago, is shooting good stalks and fat pinking buds.

mum2e before you joined us, I think I spoke of these splendid tins[@bonkers £rices]. Bear them in mind please. I'll be Mummy
:http://www.reallygood.uk.com/bright-side-cake-come-here-cake-come-mummy-p-2860.html?osCsid=fa624af728cdfede8073b48d06e6f29c

..on which healthy note, lovely Monday partout.
pk - emotion/event highs and lows tend to come like this, in spates of extreme parabolic swing. You are in a better place with SHINY NEW JOB, for which bountiful happy wishes today.
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skintmum - we are natural partners, I can tell, in matters jumble.
kittikins - YES, it is gorgeous, first to look at, then to see signature, then over and beyond le Viaduc de Millau we go, swooping down those fabulously cambered curves and down. down to Narbonne, or wherever you choose. You'll soon come to the pages over which I hung, dallied, re-read...just to be there, just to be there again, as does he. How I love it. I have particular page no. in mind and memory - compare later.

ampersand

Must share this - just in from OzLadyD -

English Plural according to....

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice. If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak of my foot and show you my feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth? Then one may be that, and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim! Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;
Neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England .. We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes,
We find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square,
And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing,
Grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,
What do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speakingEnglish Should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? We ship by truck but send cargo by ship...
We have noses that run and feet that smell.
We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway.
And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
While a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language
In which your house can burn up as it burns down,
In which you fill in a form by filling it out,
And in which an alarm goes off by going on. And in closing..........
If Father is Pop, how come Mother's not Mop.????
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I can always sneak in one more-
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em reminder from Cambs Central Library, so books renewed online. This really is a terrific service.

VJsmum

Excellent poem, Ampersand.

Sparrer - condolences on your loss. The relief is perfectly understandable.

Well, my yesterday started OK

1. DS enjoyed his ski lesson
2. We had a lovely chinese buffet meal for lunch - first family time out for a while
3. Lazy afternoon

Then at 5.00pm got a call to say that my Dad was being taken to hospital after a suspected stroke (and I live 200 miles away). Pleasures after that are

4. It wasn't a stroke (or it doesn't seem so) but a bad infection. He has had this before and displayed stroke - like symptoms so I wasn't too panicked. Hospital are keeping him in, but I think a lifestyle change is on the cards as TPTB think he is vulnerable living alone in a house with stairs (I know all houses have stairs!) I think this will be the catalyst for him to make a change, that we all want him to make.
5. Midwife programme and Birdsong on TV which helped to take my mind off things.

I think I will be on the phone a lot today, but it doesn't seem like a mercy dash is on the cards yet! Have a good one all.