5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DundeeDoll

Coo friday already and pay day next week. Where is the year going?
1) reverbed 23p, 3 in the library which is full of studious students
2) took cheese and tom sarnie in tupperware to lunch time seminar where they provide tea and coffee, cake and grapes. I was last out so filled tupperware with grapes and wrapped up cake
3) wobbleade after work with very good friends from work who i havent seen for yonks
4) then walked home with oh and lish supper left over from yesterday
5) now waiting for best friend who is coming over to take 'emotion' photos for his photography course. If he doesnt turn up soon he'll get zzzzzzzzzzz

missmoneysave

Didnt get chance to pop on yesterday as our shower blew up :eek: thank heavens we have plumbers in the family!

My five for today;

1. Lazy day watching my fave tv show.

2. Looking at houses online. Keep forcing myself to stop or I'd never sleep, it's all so exciting.

3. Cup of tea and a slice of homemade chocolate cake.

4. New chest freezer arrived :T I've spent the last hour designing a monthly inventory sheet on the laptop so I can keep track of what's in it. Another useful thing for my household folder

5. Spending some time just writing stuff down, it really calms me down when I can see everything laid out

Purple_kitten

HMMM ginger biscuits I love ginger biscuits, in fact just pretty much ginger in general.:D
1.Picked up some Mr T mark downs late last night, didn’t do badly at all, it was a £40 shop but £12 of that was cat food:eek:. When we came back we had some cinnamon buns for20p, then Brekkie was warm croissants. :)Tonight is rosemary potatoes, 30p, with a piece of steak each £1 and luxury coleslaw 17p. should make a decent meal. DH has a thing against flowers but treated me, they were £12 reduced to £2 which are lovely of course:T
2.We took the back roads to the vet to enjoy the snow flurries and enjoy being out:D, the vet visit was very pricey but 3 animals now neutered, give it a bit of time for those hormones to leave and they will be bootiful and here for good:j

3. While waiting for the animals we meandered around the shops, stopped in at a cafe for tea and we where honestly only going to have a snack but by the time we worked out the cost for a tea and snack we decided to have a full brekkie for £4 each.:rotfl:
4. With trepidation I returned a call to the tax man, it was not a problem and talking to them is fine, there is a problem with their software, and I am having problems submitting things we didn’t get any further forward but at least they have communication.:)
5. Enjoying watching the snow flurries
6. A contented happy feeling, yes I’m feeling naff in myself but in general feeling happy with my life, I know it’s a weird pleasure but had a person visit us, who lives in a different far more monied up world than I, I’ve never really been drawn to the lifestyle probably just as well. But I am feeling oddly content just with life in general.:o:)

VJsmum

Blimey a glass and a half of wine and I'm ready for my bed. Someone sent me a picture yesterday that said "when did I turn from Party Animal into Laundry Expert" - yep, that just about sums it up :rotfl:
Rainy Days - I see you are in Middle England, as am I. Want to come and do my cleaning?
Mhagster - enjoy the scone.
Edit - aww PK that was a nice post.
Mine for today

1. Another lie in and a soak in the bath.
2. DS went to soccer school and won the penalty competition - he got a new football
3. Listening to DD and her mates having a laugh. They are here on a sleepover and we've never met them before, but they are lovely. Not at all your stereotypical 17 year olds. There are 2 additional girls and a very camp boy - i do have a soft spot for a camp boy - and DD all in their jim jams playing "singstar" awwwww
4. Leftover bits of curry for tea - last weeks slow cooked lamb, some vague chicken from a while ago, left over biryani from my meal on christmas eve and a supermarket chicken sagwala. Lovely
5. Sainsbugs gave me the full rebate on a jumper I had bought in January, despite me not having the receipt and there being a sale on. I never buy supermarket clothes, and now I remember why - it was hideously badly cut / shaped. Still good on them.

Saturday tomorrow - and OH is out for the day. is it wrong that I am excited to be having a "nothing to do" day and he can't plague me to do something? :cool:

Night all

nuttybabe

Hiya

Sparrer - i have to climb the tree first :eek: :rotfl:

1. another lie in :j

2. kids homework done ready for monday :T

3. Kids been so well behaved today and lots of hugs from them

4. fakeout pizza for tea

5. glass of wine, film and debating whether or not i shud put the onzie on.

sparrer

1. Neighbour gave me a handful of charity bags which seem to come through the door at an alarming rate. Not one to waste anything, I use them to put the cat litter tray in before the newspaper and litter go in. Then I can just pull it off all in one, makes emptying it much easier

2. The lovely friend who is going to replace my wing mirror for me phoned to say the new one has arrived and he'll be here tomorrow to put it on.

3. The winter flowering jasmine I bought on Monday is beginning to flower – it's supposed to be over by now! Lots of sprouting going on too, but I think it's too cold to plant out yet so it's in the unheated spare bedroom until the weather improves.

4. The dog and cats are looking very smart after a good grooming. It won't last

5. Watching the One Show which showed a family of very tame otters who live in the sea off the coast of Shetland, feeding on fish the trawlermen give them. The cameraman was no more than two metres away filming them feed and play, just so unperturbed by humans. Nature is simply amazing.

Bellows being a bit naughty so early bed, take care n sweet dreams

Erosgirl

Evening all. Have enjoyed reading your posts.

My five for today:
1) Cooked breakfast in the local pub with my daughter. Weekly treat before tackling the weekly shop: 1 rasher of bacon; 1 sausagel;1 hash brown; 1 egg; mushrooms; bread and butter, each, cup of tea for me and coffee for my DD, £7.10p and worth every penny.

2) Treated myself to a new pair of jeans and two sweatshirt type jackets, but only ended up paying for the jeans because my brother paid for the jackets and also the breakfast. Good brother.

3) Put shopping away and sat down with a nice cup of tea.

4) Made a big saucepan full of lamb stew, enough for today's meal and for tomorrow, so the only important thing to do tomorrow is watch the match: Come on Wales!

5) Nice relaxing night, trawling the threads while my husband is watching a film.

Frith

Here are my pleasures for today:

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Porridge for breakfast.

3) Went to the cinema by myself!

4) Finished typing up the appendices of my dissertation (170 pages)

5) Went swimming with my brother and did 630 metres.

6) Made myself a massive tea. Had steak, chips, butternut squash, tomatoes and mushrooms. Creme brulee for pudding!

7) Looking forward to going to bed to listen to the Now Show with 2 hwb.

mcculloch29

A collection:

1. In to town on the bus, my version of the Magic Greengrocer - this week apples, bananas and oranges in abundance at 50p a bag, ditto tomatoes and mushrooms. Peaches 60p for 5, grapes 69p, kiwis ditto, broccoli 40p, and Scotch Bonnet peppers for DS who so wanted to try them.

2. Expensive hair conditioner in Poundland. Sulphate free Andrew Collinge. Yippee.
All sorts of goodies there - went a bit mad, and now have books to read, a new dynamo-powered torch, bio oil, support socks, bulbs for the garden, inc. lily of the valley and double freesias, lightbulbs for the expensive kitchen lights, decent Bic pens and various edibles.

3. Dropped off 2 bags of books at BHF charity shop and arranged for Gift Aid to go via son so that they can still claim. Lovely customer service in there.

4. Sister on phone and much better following horrendous tooth extraction involving stitches, blood and tears yesterday.

5. "Shop chips" (normally do jacket oven chips of my own, in micro first, then oven) A!di's Specially Selected Maris Piper Chunky Oven Chips. Meant a meal prepared in under 20 minutes when tired after shopping, of smoked mackerel, lovely shop coleslaw, doubled with extra grated carrot for the OS touch, and the chunky chips. A!di coleslaw the nicest shop bought I have tried.
6. Free range chook in A!di with 30% off, now in freezer, anticipating lovely lunch on Sunday.
7. Managing to stay awake all day - now very tired but don't have to stay up to 2 am to wear myself out. Hooray!

katholicos

Sparrer, your daughters sound hilarious! Bet they still pull your leg now they are older! I do with my Mum still!

Frith, apologies if i am *speaking* out of turn, but Mr N sounds completely unworthy of you.

Missmoneysaver, sorry to read about your shower blowing up, thank goodness you have plumbers in the family! One of your pleasures was writing things down...i find that it helps me to sort my head out too, my brain gets jumbled very easily and seeing things written down really helps me to get to grips with things like finances, shopping, gardening plans etc.

VJ'smum, i love your teaching style, 'discuss', great payback :beer:

Rightio, my five for today (friday)...

1. Outing to the theatre this evening. An opportunity to dress up (well, my fairly casual version of it!) and get out for the night. Couldn't get a disabled spot near the the theatre but managed to get one on a nearby carpark. i had the wheelchair in the boot but protested about using it and managed on my crutches. There was a lot of standupsitdownstandupsitdown as we hadn't been able to get seats in prefferred seating areas of the theatre, but i had rested well for hours before going and dosed myself up on meds so it was a minor annoyance in the scheme of things. :j

2. Chippie supper on the way back home from the theatre.:D

3. Central heating engineers x 2 came to fix the boiler this morning :T

4. Mum gave me a small box full of ribbons and bows from prezzies and flower arrangements etc that she had been putting aside for my crafting. Waste not, want not.

5. Colliewobbles was super excited when we got home tonight, so excited that she knocked her large bowl of water over in attempt to clamber up to me...i let her out and she attempted to drink from one of the outdoor dogbowls but a covering of ice had formed on it, she tried the next bowl and that too was covered with a layer of ice. She loves the rainwater from outside so i dutifully went out and broke the ice and she begun happily lapping the freezing water. So cute!

Hope you all have an enjoyable weekend!