5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Lily_The_Legend

Evening all! :hello:

Here's my five for today:

1) Wrote a detailed budget for Christmas.

2) Bought some presents for aunts and uncles and have come nearly £10 under budget on those alone.

3) DH dug out cards, wrapping paper and gift bags that I squirrelled away at the start of this year. I could wrap the whole house up with that lot!!!

4) Had a nice meal made by DH, then I made myself a quick apple crumble for dessert.

5) Started writing a book yesterday. That's what I was meant to do when I left work in April... I sort of started one, but gave up. I wrote some more today - two days in a row of writing is a big improvement on what I have been doing... Even if nothing becomes of it, if I can finish it, it'll be an achievement. I just said to DH, if I do about 1,000 words a day until Christmas, it would be the length of a book. Oh blimey, I think I have set myself a challenge! :eek:

ETA: Just thought of one more - DH has spent no cash in the last couple of weeks as every time he tried to get some out it wouldn't let him. Today he realised it's because he was still using his old card when a new one had come in the post. Had to laugh...!

Kittikins

1. Day trip to London with DD was great

2. We met a lovely friendly soft and silky doggie at the station and had a good chat to her owners

3. The Natural History museum was great, but we couldn't be bothered to queue for the dinosaurs after we did our research into DD's topic, so popped into our favourite, the Science Museum :0

4. Treated her to an ice cream sundae rather than cake at a patisserie

5. We played a bit of 'Famous 5' during the day, she's always George and I'm usually Anne

6. Apart from the sundae/my tea, we had enough to eat and drink stuffed in my rucksack.

7. We planned ahead and had some amazingly delicious soup ready and waiting in the slow cooker on our return, just what we needed as it's got blooming cold!

Lily_The_Legend

Skint yet Again - I'm not watching the X Factor after last week's debacle! I enjoyed Strictly though. Really admire the dancer's figures, but boy must they work hard! I did a 45-minute Zumba class last week and it nearly killed me.

mcculloch29

I love Strictly too.. Not going to make any predictions about who will go out. I'm usually wrong.
It's always a shame for the first to leave, isn't it, but at least with the current format they get two dances and not just one.
Also when it comes down to the finals the ones I want to win never do!

Lily_The_Legend

I'll say Johnny or Jerry, but I'll probably be wrong!! Was it just me or was Artem looking particularly nice this evening? That's one more pleasure for the day lol!

sparrer

Wow, seems everyone has a really interesting background.
mcculloch I understand the difficulties but it could still be possible through your family's town/church/doctors records etc. Oddly your ex's situation is similar to my ex, US serviceman posted to UK during WW11, met an English girl, baby, adoption..and dark hair & eyes. Eerie!
Chicken good to hear Stephen is okay. Any news on the 'curtailed' jackdaw?!
CCP if you ever get to Norfolk the registrars office in Norwich is the most helpful department ever. One of the staff there took great interest and even sent us some copies of b/m/d certificates after we'd visited. Your family name wouldn't be anything to do with young hares? Just a long shot

Re x factor. Why oh why don't they find something watchable to replace it? Thank goodness for the other 99 channels

1. Gym was packed so could only get on the treadmill but managed 10k - slowly but I got there
2. A friend for whom I did a favour repaid me, with interest
3. Went to the market in a nearby town this afternoon, my first visit there for two or three years. There's a new £1 shop, I bought a car freshener there but when I opened it, it smelled like public toilets _pale_. It'll be interesting to see what colour my hair is when I use their auburn dye
4. There was a stall selling scoops of fruit/veg, I was so tempted but I'm going away on Thursday so I had to be sensible. As it was late afternoon the stall was reducing everything so I got a dozen nectarines, a scoop of 9 bananas, another of 12 satsumas and a cantaloupe for 50p each. What I don't eat will go to DD
5. Lisa Riley, again. She was amazing, I thoroughly enjoyed watching her and can't wait to see her on utube

Just time to get ready for bed then watch David Walliams on the J Woss show. Sleep tight

missmoneysave

Hello everyone,
Today's five;

1. Made pastry for the first time and turned it into apple pie. It was blumming amazing! Genuinely impressed with my new found cooking abilities.

2. Made some gingerbread cupcakes that were also very lovely.

3. Spending time with my family. It's my grandads 70th birthday tomorrow so we all got together for a meal at the local pub, it was nice to spend time together, it's getting rare now all his grand kids have flown the nest.

4. A close family friend coming over from jersey just to suprise my grandad. It's been lovely to catch up.

5. Excitement about tomorrow, the celebrations continue with a big family lunch.

Love my family. Hugs to all in need xxx

rayyycharles

hello everyone! ok so its been a really lazy day but im sure i can think up 5;

1) nice lie in with the cat this morning (always nice until she starts getting impatient for her breakfast and causing a ruckus)

2) cleaned the bathroom with soap nuts/ citric acid/ bicarb of soda recipe which i recently found and have to say best used so far!

3) re boiled same batch of soap nuts to clean toilet/ to use for more cleaning sprays

4) found a lovely meringue pie recipe on here which is due out of the oven any minute

5) did a load of dreaded washing, pet hate and bore is having to put it all out, but done now!

so all in all a bit of a dull lazy day, but all on the cheap side and quite pleasureable! now to relax and go to find my lovely meringue pie is cooked!

giddynici

My pleasures for the day

1 - An enjoyable day at work

2 - A man told me today that my accent is beautiful

3 - Wearing a new work outfit

4 - Astronomy book and binoculars from my dad

5 - Went to the procession and firework display in Hastings tonight. Great free event

DundeeDoll

Have fun with the book lily sounds a great target
1) ds phoned. He'd lost his phone and key last week in glasgow and they'd been handed in hooray but he needed a lift to the sports centre. This did put the kybosh on oh and my plan to go out for the day but while they went out
2) i snuck back under the duvet (cheaper than heating) and caught up on iplayer :-)
3) mum gave me her ticket to live from the met cos she's away. Just about to leave (in the rain) when son phoned and sed they were nearly back and would i like a lift
4) opera was fab. Champagne reception before, met friend who is newly gran (coo'd over photos), ex work colleague, someone i used to do am op with and friend from cathedral
5) went for drinkies with friend from cathedral. He's just back from a holiday of a lifetime in nz.