5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

sparrer

Welcome BB

1. My all-day pleasure was celebrating DD'sand DS's birthdays. Spoke to them both on the phone and will be seeing them in the not too distant future, DD probably on Monday and DS in March. To make it special I treated myself to dinner of ribeye steak, which DS bought for me when he visited at Christmas. It was just as I like it, bloody enough for me to have to stab it with the fork before it hoofed it off the plate, and soooo tender it barely needed a knife to cut it. Beautiful, just like my children

2. Watched Torville and Dean again, it was just as enjoyable as last night.

3. Nice lot of shredding in the post, seems the insurance companies haven't caught up with the fact that I changed my car last year

4. nsd/npd

5. Splash, Casualty

6. a two-hour convo with my Aussie friend in NSW, who will be flying back to UK next week. Thank goodness for skippy, as we call it, free chats as long as we like

eta PK I completely understand your anger - my DM bought an arm chair a couple of years ago through a company rep who persuaded her to spend approx 4 times what we could have bought one for in a specialist shop :mad:. I loathe those thieves with a vengeance and fully sympathise with you.

Sweet dreams

DundeeDoll

Hello all have caught up on posts. What a fab lot of cheerful os things. Sorry though to hear about the not so nice, particularly pk but the triple sec sounds good
1) dd2 (season ticket holder) bought us all tickets for le match for christmas and today was the day
2) ds came over and we drove. Much cheaper than train and easier as of course match day trains are heaving!
3) we found free parking place right outside dd1's pad
4) took dd1 and ds for lunch in fave pizza place between greyfriars bobby (sniff) and museum of scotland. It's a funny wee place, skinny triangle in shape. £25 for all four of us, excellent portions and non-alcoholic drinks. You can see why i love it!
5) then MoS (free) before meeting dd2 and her bf at waverley at the end of her shift. While waiting i wandered round and reverbed over 30p in small coins. All going in my swaziland haggis pot
6) after match (where we forewent interval drinks, not even a ginger grouse) we walked back to dd2s vis mr t where i bought a feast for 6 for £20 minus £1.80 wombled mr t spit
7) found a dropped engerland flag which i in true bagpuss fashion have brought home
8) warmed, stuffed and repleat we bade farewell to dd2 and her bf, dropped dd1 off at her flat (xoh had kindly gone in the rain to get the car from dd1's), dropped ds back at his flat in dundee and now in bed with snotty cat snuggled up against me.
So a pretty good day all round. Well unless you were supporting wales or scotland which of course i wasnt.

mhagster

Hello, hello from a bit cooler but still awffy warm Melbourne. It was 35o when I went out to work this morning at 7am, having been in the 30's overnight. Went up to 40o and then a 'cool change' came in and it's dropped to high 20's. When I go out to work tomorrow it's to be 14o....I might even need a cardi!

We are watching the Winter Olympics....vicariously feeling chilled!

Had a chat with my friend on phone this morning

Had a good day at work . Train there and OH picked me up.
He has been working on my car but we have a new problem that wasn't there....but he has sought advise from a mechanic friend back home....just need to wait for home to wake up!

We went and had an amazing treat of ice cream from an ice cream parlour.

DD1 had something to return to a shop in next town, so we went too. I got a few photos developed from yesterday's trip to the beach and bought muffins that I had a voucher for.

We have tawny frogmouths back in our tree. We are delighted. I thought they were giving us a miss this summer, mum ,dad and their baby!

ampersand ...make sure you do as recommended and look after yourself!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Morning, brrrrr. Think I will not disturb BoPsie, just put kettle on, and give her mugs in bed.

Then we can have SpagYETTI hoops on toast.

DundeeDoll

Goodness mhags your weather sounds mad. They say in scotland if you dont like the weather wait half an hour but yours takes the biscuit.
Right, off to make custard for the last piece of xmas pud for brekkie.

Patchwork_Quilt

Hope everyone is having a peaceful Sunday.

1. Another lie in. Not quite so long this time but not having to set the alarm clock is such a luxury.
2. Made a roast dinner for DD and DS so they go back to Uni feeling full.
3. The discovery of a box of fancy biscuits in the cupboard. Bought them for Christmas but didn't use them. We are having MIL and FIL round shortly and my cake has sunk so they will be very handy.
4. Am wearing a lovely purple top bought at the charity shop yesterday. Purple is good.
5. Just about to make soup with the left over stock. Can't think of much more frugal meals than home made chicken soup.

Chickenopolis

Good afternoon all !

BoP- if you cook like that you can all move in! Gotta share your talents !!

PK- Have you shared his with Trading Standards.. down here if there are complaints, negative feedback and/or, safeguarding issues they get struck off the Buy with Confidence scheme (technically for trusted traders etc).

very impulsive weekend ..

1. Met friends and had lunch on a floating restaurant

2. The weather was so bad we had the place to ourselves :TService sh*t (again) and change your dirty tunic puuurleease waitress ! But had £6.95 lunch menu so can't moan !

3. Lovely to meet up with my work colleagues ( a select few) and an ex colleague . We hit it off straight away and became friends instantly (quite rare for me) and I know that she would "turn up at my funeral" :rotfl:so to speak..A lovely afternoon had by all !

4. Got home still hungry .. so had some potato rosti's and a quorn thing and cheese and crackers !

5. Put a DVD on that I got OH for xmas Peaky Blinders . Love it .

5 for today

1. Got a message yesterday from nephews gf that someone on the Book of Face was giving away some hens but that they must be collected this weekend.

2. Had a think and cut down one of the hen runs, well OH did ( the sick bay , newbie run) as some of the wood had rotten and we were then able to put it in the new walk in run . Separated from my others but safe from Mr.Fox.

3. Went to see them and they are lovely hens in good nick. Took all four home . Now installed and settling in much to my red hen's utter disgust . She hasn't stopped shouting and swearing at them.Gentle introductions in a few days but all old enough to sort themselves out.

4.Roast chicken for tea :rotfl:No not one of my ten hens, that would be to me like eating my kids , got one from Mr. T .

5. It has stopped raining !!!

Have a good evening all !

lovefullshelves

1. *giggle*
2. 6 meal servings so far from the ickle £3.08 chicken. Plus a saucepan full (enough for 15 cats!) of HM cat food which they love:T this week whats left is going in fried rice one night (3 portions) then the last ickle bits are going in a pie(another 3 portions) with some of this weeks meat, gammon:D stretchy!!
3. Didn't buy a new dress in the sale yesterday! Therefore 'saved'£10!
4. Finished Dmitry Orlov book:) 'Reinventing collapse'. Basically Learn to live with less
5. Saw the little deer from my kitchen window:) adorable! I don't even mind him eating my artichokes!
Big hugs to all those who are windblown and wet xx

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Easy Chikka, I have defensive animals in my mist.



Now, where were we. Ah, Scrabble. No!


FaceBuck Hens. Impulsive weekend. Fancy Biscuits, tea to share? Mad weather, a month from the Ides! Ginger Grouse, no train. Past Midnight again? Plash, Casualty. No, not watched for Years. is that geezer from Harry's Game still there? Mini Rants, off the chests. Baffoons need legging, all the rest. Two DDs, need I swing more? Two DDs, one more than any can afford. Lemon Pie, That be Lemon Curd Tart then! L:Ie Ins, Come on now, get the libgo Frith. PORAGE. Oooh. Ehh and spinach. That be an omelette. Used to have them in the Self Loading Cargo Feeder. After their breakfast of course. MiL., We has nun. Got rid of them early doors we did.


Wild salmon and Wild Bears. Now there is a cause street from a BoPs barrel of rum. Reading books. Still reading onbe a year on. Old School now! Carrot, now we just had Door Stop carrots for tea! And welcome Lurkers. BB and DD


No time too loose


5 Just had Tom Soup, then Cottage Pie, with Door Stop Carrots and Caulifliower cheese. You know it is best I wear the apron. No pictures, just Raffloes asleep. Then I was steaming all day. So we had Spotted !!!!!! and custard as well.


4 Full and Ms BoPsie is washing up. And I had a slip with the Cauliflower, but no tell her will you!


3 Backed up computer at last.


2 Nite Ms BoPsie will be playing Scrabble again. She has never won three on the trot.


2 Lost Count!

Purple_kitten

Chicken you did make me chuckle with the Chicken for tea comment, thanks for trading stds info.
1. A lovely lazy start to Sunday
2. Planted out the rest of the plants etc.
3. Guilty pleasure watching Garfield a tail of 2 kitties.
4. Played the freezer lottery not sure if we won or not as what ever it is I have put potato ontop of it and called it mash. Smells overwhelmingly of garlic at the moment.
5. Just err busy doing nothing this evening…