5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

jollymummy

Evening all and Happy Valentines Day.
1. Had a great time at the park, DS rode his bike and we had a ride on the miniature steam train, only costs 20p, it was 10p in the 70s when I was little !!!
2. Had a lovely Valentines roast dinner, cooked by me.
3. I ordered 3 Valentines lollies from Mr T and they delieveed 3 big choccy hearts for the same price saving me £3 !!
4. Received gorgeous HM cards today from Ds, he's written them and made them all by himself - proud mummy alert
5. will be lovely going to bed and knowing I have my boy at home for half term all week, can't wait.
JM x

Mr_Lahey

Hope everyone has had a great weekend

1. Half term this week - Ok, i know i don't mind now, come Wednesday ill be wishing they were back at school no doubt!
2. Seeing England beat Italy in Rugby Union and seeing Leeds lose in League.
3. The kids getting a new cousin on my ex wife's side and talking about nothing but Harrison!
4. Not getting a single Valentines card and genuinely not being bothered!
5. Grolsch on special at Asda.... Well it is my week off!

Muppet81

Caterina - thank you for your kind word. All donations to the BHWT are much appreciated and can be done online on there website. It is a very interesting website to look at.

If you go to the home page and then look at the list on the left side you will see the option to look at "adopt an ex bat" . If you look at this you will see moi wearing a red rosette and talking to my original 6 ladies, 3 years ago when I started. Since then we have had several more ladies and lost all the original 6 one by one. The garden is also in much worse condition! Love them to bits but they are hooligans! Sadly I think tomorow another will be taking a last trip to the vets. She is old and has reached the end of her days. I am always sad to see them go but so pleased that they have had a happy retirement. We will then be down to 3 who are all now quite old so will take some more nebies inApril

xx

bellaquidsin

pepsimax62 Welcome. Sounds like you've got some OS good thrift going on there, I'd say you've definately come to the right place.

I'm struggling for pleasures a bit at the moment. My 90 year old aunt who was given a clean bill of health on Friday re the skin cancer on her nose, had a fall later that evening and is now in hospital ? fractured tibia and fibia.

Now lets see what else has happened over the last two days.

1. A Sunday School party at which my DGK's performed in a scripture play.

2. Didn't have to get tea, as ate at the party.

3. DS came to dinner today and brought a carton of nice fruit juice and a bar of chocolate, which he does every Sunday, except when we have extra visitors, then he brings a bottle of wine.

4. Enough left over from our half price beef joint to give DS some for tomorrow, make us sandwiches tomorrow lunchtime and a cottage pie at a later date with a portion I've frozen away.

5. Looking forward to DGK's coming to stay for two nights this week and enjoying the calm before the storm.

Bella.

savingforoz

I hope everyone has had a good weekend, ((())) hugs if not :grouphug:.

My five for today:

1. Making a delicious potato and peanut curry for tea, with plenty left over for lunch :drool:.

2. A good session in the gym :j.

3. Doing another 1,000 words on my latest short story - not too long before it's complete. But it's not good :eek:; it will need a heck of a lot of work before I even consider publishing it on the Web. Guess it's a good learning curve!

4. Swapping messages with a local guy on the dating website, who looks a distinct possibility...:heartpuls

5. Getting all my finances completely up to date :beer:.

6. Unexpected phone call from my brother this evening :T.

7. Continuing to feel really upbeat and good about life .

Frith

5 for today:

1) Being brought breakfast in bed for Valentine's Day and getting a homemade card! Thank goodness for sons, eh?!

2) Popping out to Sainsburys for bits and buying a sandwich and ready made pasta meals (not OS at all) and eating them in the car with the radio on.

3) The excitement of my sons when we took the car in the car wash.

4) Planning then having our Chinese New Year party. We made paper chains, paper lanterns then had a Chinese for tea (courtesy of Sainsburys and I did a bowl of extra rice).

5) My school friend coming for tea and bringing creme eggs...

6) My brother phoning to confirm we will all be going swimming tomorrow and he will put my new garden gate on its hinges.

L

scotrae

DH and I agreed not even to do cards this year, although we'd probably have made one for each other if we hadn't got so many other things on the go. However ...

1. Making Valentine breakfast for DH. Heart-shaped miniature fried breads, heart-shaped fried egg, plum tomatoes placed like a heart and 2 rashers of bacon, as a 'X' - very sweet and appreciated by His Nibs.
2. Serving mini-heart-shaped toasts smothered with raspberry jam for my boys too - which DS1 ate without even hesitating after a year of insisting he 'hates' jam on toast! Apparently this jam tasted much, much better (Lidl preserve). He asked for seconds.
3. Going to Aldi and stocking up for relatively low cost. I haven't done a mealplan as such (must try harder!) but mentally I've got most of the week covered. (By the way, has anyone tried the laundry balls and dryer balls they have there at the mo and would you recommend them?)
4. Having a nice chat with my auntie who'd had a nasty shock last week but was handling it well.
5. Sending my boys off to Grandma for a sleepover rather than dropping
them early in the morning on my way to work tomorrow. They couldn't wait to go and 'help her to look after her dog' and will no doubt enjoy being waited on hand and foot and spoiled rotten over half term - Grandma's perogative apparently

So off to make sure I have a matching outfit ready for work tomorrow, then ready for a very early start. Roll on another week!

sparrer

Adding my welcome to pepsimax62 :hello:
Congrats everyone who celebrated St Valentines, sounds like you all had a good time and got spoiled - just as it should be
It was a double celebration for some of us with Chinese New Year as well, I was fortunate to get greetings for both from my very dear friend in Beijing. He's still remembering quite a lot for which I am so thankful . I was sad not to get to Chinatown for the celebrations but don't think I'll make it any more, damn this stupid illness. It makes me so cross, I tell it that it has to live with me, not the other way around but just occasionally it tries to disagree with me. However my cup is always half full and it won't beat me

My five -
1. feeling very tired tonight having spent the evening putting the 4 dining chairs together. I admit to a bit of a tantrum when I discovered I'd put two rungs on upside down then gone on to finish chair 1 so had to undo it and start all over, so in theory I put 5 chairs together. I still have the table to do which looks very simple - but that's what I said about the chairs :rotfl:

2. Had a friend in for a 'mini banquet', the ingredients and advice were from a local (ish) Chinese wholesalers who had everything I needed.

3. My friend and I sent up our sky lanterns just before she went home, much to the curiosity of a couple of teenage girls who asked what we were doing. We explained and gave them one each to send up which they thought was great fun

4. No ch on today at all, it was so mild. Also the heat from cooking and later from the exertions of my carpentry efforts kept the temp up - nearly to boiling point once or twice!

5. A freecycler coming to take my old dining table away, that's the last of all my offers gone to good homes instead of landfill :T

OLLIE where are you???? Has anyone heard from her at all?

Night night (((hugs))) for everybody. Stay safe
S x

Muppet81

Hello Pepsimax62 Welcome to the forum.

mollythewestie

Here are my weekend OS pleasures:

- Dh and I spending time to make a Valentines meal together, rather than spending over the odds at a restaurant. We had a scrummy meal of baked camembert and cranberry relish to start, followed by Rib of beef with all the trimmings and DH made his (in)famous Chocolate Tart for dessert. It was devine!

- Getting all my housework and washing done by saturday morning so that I could relax for the rest of the weekend.

- Finding some bargains in Morrisons and a new, cheap ingredient to try - Pork cheek which I have in the Slow Cooker for tonight.

- Having time to get stuck into a new book. We are both avid readers and are trying not to buy too many books this year, so I need to try new genres and authors. I have never read any Steven King before, despite my DH having nearly all his books. So I have decided to try a collection of his short stories to start with and see how I get on with it, so far so good!

- Packing up DD's baby clothes that she has grown out of, and putting them away in boxes (but not for long as my sister is due in August!)