5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Kittikins

1. Sunshine

2. Popped out to the local charity shop at lunchtime and bought 2 lovely tops molto cheapo, so am now thinking of taking more new-shop bought stuff back

3. I'm reading a brilliant childrens' book, "Weasle and the Wrathmonk" - Frith, I think your boys would love it. It's very funny, almost Roald Dahlesque and best of all, it's 'studying' for me! DD is also reading it and enjoying it too.

4. Managed not to be late for school this morning, which was amazing given the time we left the house!

5. Have just found £4 of LV in my bedside table drawer whilst looking for something else - woohoo, free shopping ahoy! It might have to go on nearly a bottle of wine

CCP

Evening all.

Apologies for the recent radio silence - I've been back from my DPs' for a couple of days now and haven't been feeling at all pleasurable about it. The one pleasure I wanted to post I felt that I couldn't / shouldn't share, as it involved a large quantity of French cheese RTC from a market stall which was closing down for the weekend.

(J'adore le brie. J'adore even more beaucoup de very cheap brie. (With apologies to ampersand for the tortured Franglais!))

For today, though:

1) Lots of lovely warm yellow stuff.

2) Paid in the cheque for my competition winnings, which arrived while I was away.

3) Catching up on all the posts on this thread - congratulations / commiserations / hugs / welcomes to all.

4) Not fantastically OS of me, but I went a bit shopping mad at lunchtime: Wilkins0ns were selling off various flowering plants for 75p each, and M&S had had a run on the yellow stickies - proper discounts, too, not the 10p ones they usually do in my local store. :money:

5) Reverbed 20p.

6) Planning lunch out with my DM in the next few weeks, as she's found a money off voucher for one of our favourite restaurant chains.

7) Knowing I'll be back on my beloved IOW within the next couple of months as I've offered to house-sit (or, more accurately, cat-sit) for my DPs when they go away for a weekend.

8) Dinner tonight will be RTC chicken nuggets (a guilty pleasure of mine ) with RTC salad and RTC garlic flatbreads. :drool:

Have a good evening, all - I must go and water in my new aquilegias. (No, that's not a euphemism either! )

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

KK 99, bit flakey counting that and dd!, I will give you 100 and as I remember, the Lion returns. (101 Squadron). It is what this thread is about. Being positive to us all and it paid off. That pint of Titanic last week did the trick. Share the wobbleades all round.

Sorry, and as I is away from Ms Whack, I has given a pleasure.

Just tossed a ready meal in the bin, it was absolute sh1te. Dogs can have it.

Rite, POETS Day tomorrow and my next post will be from the nest.

lovefullshelves

More vegie joys...
1. Planted (yes MORE) 230 sprouts, 200 purple sprouting and 100 cabbage ish (evil snails chomped some). 3 rows of french beans and 3 rows of beetroot...yum to come:D
2. Sunburn on leggies has turned golden! My leggies are no longer blue!
3. DS has finished exams so MAY be nicer to live with!
4. OH walked the dog so I could lie in bath extra time:D
5. Filled 2 old butler sinks with herbs that had self sown! Freebies I like:D
On the minus side had a sad mo today watching OH do woodwork, dad was always hitting things with a hammer and measuring twice, I do miss the old devil:( so had a little cry and then got on with it! 'No point crying gal, can't do nothin about it, there's planting to do'

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

LFS. Yous don miss, you remember the good bits!

ampersand

1. Just in from compline. More than glad I went. Taiz!. Met new lady Vic's husband - great fella. She starts back from Mara tomorrow. Safe journey - means something from there.
2. 2 w8rs rtc marmalade sausages under grill as we speak. Will have with ditto salad, hot milk+honey[although wine was given at compline! That was a surprise.] It's what I want. Eagerly waiting....
########just finished, feel snug and cosy now#######
3. Head still full of sinusitis, tastebuds awol, sense of smell almost - looking forward to bed, but praying to breathe through nose tonight, with no rip-me-apart sneezes and calm throat. Hell last night. Luckily no Spits.
4. lfs's post in its entirety. Did some sunburn here, after mowing neighbour's meadow. We then enjoyed watching his hens and Mr Alpha bunny charging about, loving it and showing off absurdly.
5. Jug of harebells next to orchid, 3 buds out now, on kitchen sill. More planting done.

Thinking of /praying for L whose invasive surgery is tomorrow, and l-h, who I'll see on Friday. Took them both to compline with me.

Happy Home demain bop - calm and restorative rest to all tonight.

VJsmum

BoP / LFS - of course rememering the good bits is best, but the odd pang can't be helped and is probably healthy.
Welcome back CCP - you can talk cheese if you want. i remember driving to Disneyland Paris a few years back, winding the window down and saying "I can smell cheese" and then realised we were in Brie country.

Mhags - I can't even imagine 300 parrots! I don't like huge flocks of birds much but I think that would be an astonishing sight.

Today's pleasures

1. DS cooked chilli at school, brought it home unadulterated and ate some for tea :T it's good that he is cooking stuff he likes - though i think there is a proportion of rock buns and fairy cakes to come.
2. Work was OK and I think I am nearly caught up with everything. Having a "work at home" day tomorrow - 'cept I'm not doing anything as they owe me loads of time
3. DD did the ironing - though I did pay her. THe quality of her workmanship is improving all the time.
4. Sat quietly again tonight, reading. Although i did listen to this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvsI3OveO0I

Kate and Anna McGarrigle - I eat dinner. Beautiful and sad.
5. Nice phone call with Dad - he was quite upbeat.

Night night all - I'm off to bed with the archers

Frith

Pleasures for today!

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Got housework and a load of washing done.

3) Went swimming with my brother.

4) Took brother in law to get a part for his car and got to meet his mum and his brother for the first time.

5) Went to Waitrose for a few bits (very rare trip as our nearest branch is so far away). Mentioned the Waitrose card, Ampersand, but the nearest branch doesn't have a caf!!

6) Made a massive chilli for tea (Jamie Oliver's recipe) so there are 4 portions in the freezer now.

7) Oh yes, got a chilli plant from Waitrose, only £2! I had been looking for one for a while. Was a bit tatty so have repotted it carefully.

8) Phoned the County Council after another fortnight had passed and no word about smaller son's next school. Apparently they are allowed up til Monday to let me know...

9) Smaller son had a lovely day at school. They have a sort of courtyard to play in and all spent the afternoon tidying it out. Smaller son particularly enjoyed sweeping all the sand up which had escaped from the sandpit and pulling the leaves out of the drains! He made me laugh when he said the teachers had cleaned the windows overlooking the gardens but "if I had done it, I would have cleaned the painted boards below the windows down as well" !!

10) Off to bed in a minute to listen to the Archers and perhaps catch up with Holby from yesterday.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Pang pang. It's late at night. You have coffee. You have have your tea.

I'll have my cocoa!

sparrer

Briefly, as I have to be out early in the morning -
1. yellow thing all day
2. cleared far patio, removed 2 grow-bags, rescued the soil for further planting
3. mince, veg and mash for lunch, simple yet delicious
4. 2 bags of 5 panini's in Mr M's bakery, rtc at 19p a bag
5. Ordered a personalised tee shirt and sweatshirt using code for 15% off and free p&p

Hugs to all, sweet dreams