5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

scotrae

Just popping in while I've got a mo, so I'll have to come back and catch up on news and thanks at the weekend.

Newlywed - <<hugs>>. I've got my fingers crossed that your home-time lasts just long enough to be nice and get things sorted out but not long enough to become a financial worry.

Recent ones from me:
1. Not OS but MSE - Spending a whole day with DH yesterday on a £10 spa day thanks to the Grabbit forum. I'd had to bring it forward with starting my job so suddenly but it's really supposed to be his birthday treat! He loved it anyway and it was perfectly relaxing for me too. Won't be getting used to it though!
2. Finding a nice long skirt and gorgeous 'as new' olive and turquoise soft-cord-jeany-type-trousers (I'd be no good at listing clothes on ebay!) in a charity shop.
3. Only having to ice the fairy cakes for today's school sale last night because I'd been organised enough to bake them the previous night. (DH says they are my best ever and DS2 insists that he's going to buy one of those at the cake sale!)
4. Receiving a congrats card in the post from a very sweet and thoughtful family who have become new friends since my boys moved school. I was so touched.
5. Enjoying the 'Jimmy' programme about how food gets to our supermarket shelves with my sons and having a very interesting conversation about whether we should avoid buying foods which have travelled so far or buy them to support the farmers who rely on exports from some of the African nations that were shown. I've always boycotted Kenyan green beans on 'green' grounds as much as supporting British farming but it's an interesting one.

sandy71

Hoping this thread will encourage me to be more os:D

1. Made my first weetabix cake and I am ridiculously pleased :j
2. The kids had pack up's with homemade bread which always fills them more.
3. Recieved 2 books in the post from readitswapit. Only just discovered it and now I'm addicted. Got a backlog of 18 books to read
4. Made spag bol in the slow cooker last night and padded it out with red lentils and extra tomatoes so there is enough to freeze for the 5 of us. I normally chuck the leftovers out. :eek:
5. Put the contents of my son's bedroom on freecycle! Just hope people collect before he notices:rotfl:

nuttybabe

Evening all

Not stopped all day, not even had chance to switch computer on!! :eek:

Anyway, mine for today:

1 Shopping with my mate this morning and getting some reduced stuff for birthday presents and cheap xmas stuff (3 christmas ties for dh reduced from £3 each to 25p each!!)

2 Thoroughly cleaning the kitchen and all the doors and shinning all my stainless steel, the glare is blinding in there now!!! :cool:

3 Blanching and freezing a load of veg bought the other day. still got 2 huge cabbages to do tomorrow

4 Fakeout night - pizza and chips with a film for the kids. They are all sat quietly watching it now after clearing all their toys away!

5 Finished my dads birthday present. A crochet bookmark of my dad! Dh says it looks like him!!


Have a good evening everyone!

CCP

Evening peeps! :hello:
newlywed - I'm sorry to hear you've lost your job. Hopefully an even better one is just around the corner for you.

My five for today:

1) It's been a lovely sunny, warm day in Portsmouth - positively spring-like. Even the tower blocks outside my office window looked halfway attractive in all that sun.

2) I woke up this morning to a passable loaf of HM bread, despite a moment of idiocy when making it that I'm too embarrassed to share even here*.

3) My garden was full of flirtatious sparrows this morning, so hopefully I'll have an even bigger flock of them in a few months' time.

4) Lunch was sandwiches filled with ham and my dad's HM chilli chutney. Yum! :drool:

5) I have decided (slightly guiltily) to abandon my meal plan for tonight and have pizza instead. In the interests of being at least slightly OS about it, I decided that, rather than getting a takeaway, I'd buy a cheese and tomato pizza from the supermarket and add my own toppings**.

Right, I'm going to go and hide my embarrassment offline. Have a good evening, everyone!

Edit - I've just seen your bookmark, nuttybabe. I love it!

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* Oh, all right - I realised a few moments after switching on the BM that I'd forgotten to put in the mixing paddle. With great presence of mind and an absence of the remotest amount of common sense, I decided to try and put the paddle in while the machine was running. :eek:

I somehow got away with only bruised fingers and a brief snowstorm of flour, and a deep relief that even the cat wasn't around to see how silly I'd been. :o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o



** I'm not making my own as, due to the above moment of foolishness, I don't currently have the mixing paddle for the BM. It's buried somewhere inside the loaf of bread and I have yet to cut it free, which means I can't make the dough for a pizza base. :o:o:o

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Olliebeak, thanks for your kind comments. The rich biscuit recipe is as follows:
8 ounces SR flour
4 ounces caster sugar
4 ounces marge
1/2 lemon grated rind and juice (I just used bottled lemon juice)
1 beaten egg

Mix the flour and sugar and rub in the marge. Add lemon juice and enough egg to make a stiff dough. Roll out thinly, cut out biscuits and place on greased baking trays. Bake for 10-15 minutes on 180 degrees. I used 170 degrees because I have a fan oven.
These made me a biscuit tin full of tasty, light-golden biscuits. Well, it's empty now sadly, because the grown-up kids turned up and looked pathetic until we fed them all our goodies:D

bunny_too

Just had to pop in to say.

Nuttybabe love the bookmark. Your Dad will be so pleased.
Budgeteer thanks for the bicy recipe, will give those a try tomorrow.

Going to bed shortly to watch a bit more of old grumpy Victor.

PetuliaGristle

newlywed sorry to hear that the day had come, good luck with the job hunt
Hester sorry to hear about the umbrella incident, glad you'll have a break from the little darling for a few days
nuttybabe loving the bookmark!

1) tea and toast in bed, dp's home made breadmaker bread
2) cuddles with dd in bed this morning
3) productive day at work, despite irritating colleague's attempts to scupper things. I kept telling myself to 'step away from the handbag Girly', why can't you find a sharp, pointy stick when you need one?
4) finding HSM annual for dd reduced to 50p, reward for being good today
5) dd doing maths homework
6) bottle of wine from boss, forgot that as I'm on the wagon due to meds so dp will enjoy it

bellaquidsin

Such a lovely day to day, so here are my pleasures:-

1. The sun shone so -

2. I put salt on the housework and went out to tidy the garden,
where -

3. I found my own clump of snowdrops just about to flower and -

4. A crocus just turning yellow.

5. Took a trip to the shops this afternoon instead of making bread and the sun was still shining brightly when I returned after 4.00p.m.

Bella.

jollymummy

Hell oeveryone
Here's mine
1. it's the weekend - yay !!!
2. It poured it down with rain until about 2pm so DH took pity on us and gave us a lift to school in the car, don't mind walking home as long as DS is ok.
3. Made coca cola chicken for tea and it was lush, we used to eat this all the time and it was the first time DS has had it.
4. DS was a good boy atschool so got some pocket money today, as his behaviour is much better than last weeks, we stopped at the village shop and he bought a Bob the Builder comic and a packet of Starbursts. He also earned his monthly prize from the prize bag (Ths is a carrier I keep on top of a tall cupboard. I go to a really fab charity shop where they sell practically brand new childrens books for 30p!!! I have a stash and if he is good he'll get a monthly prize he was pleased today with a Hairy McClary book!!
5. Just about to settle down and make a few ATCs for my group swap.
6. Had a nice natter on the phone with my Mum today.
Have a lovely evening.
JM x

Tealady_2

Evening all,

Mine for today:
1. Easy dinner tonight as DD and me had last nights leftover pasta bake and OH had Piri Piri chicken that just needed to go in the oven.
2. Getting the above Piri Piri chicken free from waitrose with a voucher sent in the post (thanks to the freebie thread)
3. Having a conversation with DD's deputy head and managed to get some bullying sorted out at school (one of the boys thinks its fine to push her around)
4. After yesterdays meeting being able to get on with my job a lot better and the finance director thanking me for my input
5. It's Friday :T looking forward to the weekend as OH 40th birthday. Out to a Marco Pierre White restaurant tomorrow (good deal only £15 each) and then to the theatre. On sunday out to a restaurant with the out-laws but have a voucher for free champagne:beer:.

Sorry one more
put a banner on the front of the house this morning with happy 40th birthday OH on it. He saw the funny side eventually honest.

Hugs to all who need them and have a great weekend