5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

VickyA_2

Hi all :hello:

CCP - huge hugs to you.

VJsmum - thanks for that feedback! Think I'll start to save ready for next December. I used to collect them about 12 years ago, I think, but I can't remember what I actually did with them.

My pleasures for today:

1) Nipped in to Waitrose in order to pick up a JL order... and discovered the gin selection. I didn't buy, but I know where I'll be going when I need to stock up!

2) Bought part of my dad's Christmas present. I saw a lovely looking hamper on Fortnum's website, but then decided I'd do MUCH better (re cheaper) if I did a DIY hamper with port and stilton. Just more hassle, but we're lucky that there are some excellent local cheese shops (and stilton is produced close by!).

3) Withdrawn payable amount from TopCashBack. :j :j It's gone into my savings pot (read: online saver). Phew!

4) Spoke via Skype with my cousin in Canada. Amazing that we can chat for free face to face.

5) Speaking of my Canadian cousin, I have a parcel which needs to be sent to her. It won't reach her before Christmas, but it will be a nice treat in the new year, I'm sure!

Night all.

mhagster

vicky I always bought saving stamps , used to get at least one each time I was in t3sco and would use half way through the year for my holiday shop ( we self catered in France ) so would buy stuff for that and then again at Christmas.

My reckoning was I wouldn't miss a pound and it does add up and it's rather satisfying to see them fill up. However , it is the same as cash so you do need to keep them safe.

Not sure if they still do but the main supermarkets gave you an extra pound or two at the end of the year.

VickyA_2

mhagster wrote: »

vicky I always bought saving stamps , used to get at least one each time I was in t3sco and would use half way through the year for my holiday shop ( we self catered in France ) so would buy stuff for that and then again at Christmas.

My reckoning was I wouldn't miss a pound and it does add up and it's rather satisfying to see them fill up. However , it is the same as cash so you do need to keep them safe.

Not sure if they still do but the main supermarkets gave you an extra pound or two at the end of the year.

Thanks for that. Right, with two positive comments about them I'll be starting my savings card just as soon as I go to Mr T's next. :beer:

Broomstick

Evening all.

CCP, I'm thinking of your little sister and sending her lots of 'get better soons'. Fingers crossed they will find the reason and be clear about the way to sort it all out asap. Hope the pub quiz works in terms of distraction for a bit at least.

Ampersand, thanks for the link to 'Precious Metal' - another goody on my list of things to listen to later.

I know I snuck in three pleasures earlier, but here's the official five pleasures for Thursday.

1. Mhagster, your example worked! I now have a plan written down about how to use up the contents of the freezer between now and Monday. So Monday will be fridge and freezer defrosting day. It means I can get myself all sorted in terms of restocking it before Xmas.:T

2. Heard back from the allotment people. It looks as if there might be plots available. I really don't know about the advisability of taking on a plot just before Christmas but we'll look in on the site at the weekend and see if we can find out what's to let and what shape it's in.

3. Really long hot shower mid-afternoon. Warmed me up a treat.

4. Discovered an unopened pot of apple and pear spread. Haven't had any of that for ages and I love it.

5. Made some little envelopes into which to put my nephews and neices' book token cards, wrote the accompanying Xmas cards to their families and found stamps so those are all ready to send in the morning. Another thing off the list.

Sweet dreams
B x

Frith

I hope the nutrition and blood transfusion make your sister feel better, CCP and she gets a diagnosis very soon.


Quick pleasures for today as smaller son won't settle.


1) Sons both happy at school.


2) Not a pleasure to have a terrible cold but it was lovely to go back to bed after the school run and listen to the radio for an hour in the warm


3) Hummus sandwiches for lunch.


4) Nice Christmas card from mum and dad's neighbour. His wife died earlier this year and he had printed cards out with a photo of her last Christmas with a robin on her hand that she fed every day.


5) Bigger son made shortbread at school so we soon ate that!


6) Smaller son had a couple of inches of hair cut off at the barbers.


7) Too ropey to cook tea but not too ill to get fish and chips. :-)


8) Watched new Big Bang Theory.


9) Traditional counting of the Christmas lights on the way home from the barbers/fish and chip shop. That small town is 7 miles away (and our nearest) so we went a different way to see how many people had lights. Sons both count a different side of the road and bigger son won tonight!


10) Booked the man in to come and mend the storage heater properly. I paid for a year's worth of repairs (silly system) and they sent me a reminder letter to renew. Well, they can come out and mend it (again - so it actually gets hot!) then I can cancel the agreement in January.

Purple_kitten

For yesterday
Engrossed in a vast kindle book
Picked up some RTC Christmas food, potatoes, thyme cheese, and another weird cheese I can’t spell, 3 packs of chestnuts everything was 25p each.
I picked up some yellow stickered mushrooms for DH, I literally can’t stand them but he was chuffed to bits when he smelled them cooking tonight.
For Today
Physio was wonderful, acupuncture while I was very nervous was absolutely fine, I feel chuffed to have tried it. :pI have one more session in the new year with a lot more acupuncture.
Just in and cooking a curry, with lots of onion, garlic turmeric, lovely smells.:)
A lovely postie surprise of train refunds as I was delayed so much recently I put in all the delay repays and they all arrived today.:cool:
I’ve just taken some bacon out of the freezer, with some almost fresh bread to make a “working from home” breakfast tomorrow .

DigForVictory

Frith - hyper-illuminated tree! Happy birthday Ma of Frith! Coloured lights in the bedroom are fun. (Small & interesting is a smart jar of Stilton in our household.) Small boy eating? It'll be inches upwards soon! All the best with radiators.
VickyA - cake club sounds wonderful as does Advent candle! I'm not a fan of Tesco stamps as inflation gnaws too hard. The Asda card works better for me. You remind me I must email my Canadian cousins and ask if they Skype.
sparrer - puppy wins And pulled pork and sandwich for homeless man <awe>
VJsmum - laundry nailed! Brilliant! Hope housing assoc bod reaching for chequebook. Love happy birthday curry! Good luck with marzipan! Saying *nothing* about my handwriting...
Kittikins - you are epic & we adore you for it. Also counting days til holidays start! The children will learn, you will survive & your family love you! School Christmas lunch - my lot loved it.
DD - with 4 chaps in the household, I'll get cramped hands knitting all the snoods... A good sunrise is a treat! You resisted macarooons? <Why?>
ampersand - would iron-y tasting veg include sprouts? (Not quite up on healthy food.) Reading all day sounds like my kind of heaven! burgundy ink? Oak galls & logwood... The logwood gives an *incredible* purple. A singular find, that bus driver!
Bagpuss - bacon & egg with brown - food of the goods!
mhagster - good to postpone surgery for a little and hurrah for a Pie Jesu! (Me, I go for tried & tested under pressure.) Wobbly? Why? Imagining majestic sweet corn... School replied to Pie email? Excellent! *Why* is food so expensive?
BoP - hedgehog day? Ah well, rock on Friday. Via Red Dwarf - yes! Haradh sounds stunning.
CCP - hurrah for extraneous prescription moisturiser & I continue to hold your sister in my heart. I'll light a candle for you both. Bacon sarnie - you know it makes sense.
lovefullshelves - the Green Bauble Garland is up? Christmas has started!
Broomstick - "larmes de cassis" sounds stunning & I hope you get the allotment! Right with you on enjoying the planning, & considering & waiting... Will point the lads at Cornelissen - inspirational! Long hot shower a very special pleasure.
Purple kitten - brilliant shopping & well done with acupuncture! Have a wonderful breakfast.

OS Pleasures
Costco run complete! Lots of good stuff stashed so I can save money & not go out in the cold...

Seasonal celebration metalwork commissioned. Only some is likely to be with us before Christmas but happy plans for poplar & sheepskin already being researched. (Profoundly authentic scabbard planning.)

My word. Sartorial combo - beanie, nice wool chaps coat, shorts & converse trainers. (Good legs & clearly excellent circulation.)

I love the clatter of glass recycling in the morning....

Brilliant training at work - can feel gears mesh & struggle, which is tiring but very satisfying.


Hugs, health, hwbs!

DundeeDoll

Just back from dept away day ending with xmas dinner. Hugs to ccp and her sister.
On the 12th day of advent my dear mum sent to me a schwarz jar of cardammon pods
dfv i resisted the macaroons cos i sm trying to lose my weight, trying being the operative word!
1) free lunch - soup and sarnies
2) my session using appreciative enquiry went very well
3) got a nice watch from my secret santa
4) pub quiz (my own devising) went well (though was quite hard! First time i've run one)
5) yummy xmas dinner with good banter.

mhagster

Hurrah for Friday and next Friday will be a Scottish one

Did my online order at 5am.

Told DD1 I was going out at 10am ...if she was coming with me she had to be ready....she managed 10.20am and then DS decided he would have a lift so we had to wait until he was ready ...grr! Anyway, Christmas shopping completed . Our bargains included: diary for sons girlfriend....who I've only been introduced to once but seeing as she's coming for dinner I thought it would be nice to get her something, anyway, in nice stationery shop and picked up nice diary but it had a couple of tiny marks on the cover, which had a kind of fabric- y texture.....none left, last one....blah! blah! from sales assistant....then her supervisor said "oh we could disount it for you," "oh how much?" asked I...."50% off okay?"
That did very nicely thank you...washed marks off when I got home with a lightly dampened facecloth and a touch of soap!
DD1 was buying me a new sunhat and was delighted when it went through the till at $3! Was marked as $9!

Did grocery shop , reasonably priced seeing as I don't have a full week but do have 2 big dinners over weekend. Met the mum of DD1s friend, oh my! If you think I can talk....well she out talked me by a mile! And then she was behind us in the queue! Yakkety yak!

Home , popped to our local fruit and veg shop and was paying when I saw a sign in window looking for staff, asked about hours etc , so said I would come back with my CV...back in 10 minutes and handed it in. Fingers crossed. Ideal hours and 3 minutes from house.

Home, Christmas music on and then wrapped and wrapped ....Christmas gifts all beautifully wrapped....brown paper packages tied up in string...well pastel raffia or pretty ribbons.

Received another nice email from the school head about cathedral concert.

And that's me...was forecast to rain but didn't. Was very warm and muggy and felt like the heat was trapped under the grey clouds....if that makes any sense! But then clouds disappeared and it was a nice afternoon. Washing dried and ironed.

DD2 on a school trip to a shopping outlet. Given money ...asked to get everyone a small gift for Christmas .....oh dear....seems she forgot everyone else as she is the only size 8 in the house ....3 tops, the most awful pair of intentionally ripped leggings ( with lace behind the rips) and a vertigo inducing pair of heels! However....all were bought in the sales and she did get a lot for the money but all spent on herself!!

Have a funtastic friday , hope poorly people/ families/ friends feel better soon.

lovefullshelves

VJSmum - Ah the joys of finest green we don't have a tree, not enough space sadly, so I have lights and baubles all over instead! Mainly green! It's my favourite colour:)
1. OH put lights in living room:) after my falling apart with frustration.
2. Bath without granny seat, water touching tummy was AaAarg! I lasted 10 minutes!
3. DD not coming to see me so I can rest:)
4. another hat..more rasta bag lady!
5. Asda delivery of all the things OH forgets when he does the shopping:D
Big hugs xx