5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

supersaver1000

Can I tag along, looks like a really fun thread?

1. I had a coffee in town with my old work colleague yesterday
2. Last night made vegetable pasta and garlic bread from the yellow sticker brigade and was delish and oh so cheap
3. Started my first ever thread on MSE - and got a reply too!
4. Made some yummy carrot cakes first time ever
5. Found instructions for home made chalk paint using wilco grout
6. OH out tonight so easy cooking night

Hope you don't mind me joining in

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Scrabble update.

BoPette stormed into an early lead this eve, putting down a Seven letterer. But leads are not everything, and BoP played a Sparking to win in the home straight.

Anyone spot the proper cocoa?

Welcome SS

ampersand

Indeed you may, Supersaver - WELCOME
Don't be surprised if kk uses your no. 5 for something lessony-sciencey-crafty.
Raffles, you left off the 'YUM', unless you clawed it away pre-bake....looks splendid, bop.

1. Wonderful, tactile, most ancient of ancient carved pew ends+centuries-old patina today. Ran my hands over so many.

2. More marmalade sold. It turns out people have been putting in more than £2 per jar.

3. Enjoying William right now:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/on-air

4. Frith - crochet alert. Unpicked and re-did 2 balls of wool in one of my lost, big sky places this arvo -:mad::mad::mad:-when I realised pattern must be using US terms. Beware: crosspond dc=albion tr. It's certainly grown much faster this way:p

5. Mrs Hare and Mr Hare courting and quartering vast slope-away field.
Scrape rehearsals by Mrs. Bounding pop-ups by Mr. I never tire of seeing them.

kettle's on, another 2-hwb night tonight.

Courage and endurance kk - you really ARE nearly there. The fact that snakefrog is STUCK in a mindset, while you develop, are freshly inventive and inspire your pupils, is her problem, not yours. Analogy time: it's the difference between learning to pass a Driving Test and learning to drive.
YOU WILL DO THIS THING.

broomstick - hoping radio silence = just the right house.

Bonne nuit.
On this day in 1891, goal nets were used for the first time in English football.
I gather Cambridge won a something with the incorrectly-shaped ballon rond today.

Kittikins

Hello supersaver1000

1. NSD


2. NPD


3. Despite both DD and my mum being very unwell , I got cuddles from the first and chats with the second.


4. Yummy dinner, cooked by daddykins.


5. Most of the lessons are planned.......how well? Darned if I know, and tbh, I don't care any more. Just want to get through this week without wanting to cry or run away.

VickyA_2

BoP - I'll be round in 5 mins for a slice of that yummy pie!

Had a lovely weekend, including helping to celebrate two friends' 40th birthdays. The two friends are married and celebrated their 40ths on just one day apart. She is just a day older than him!

So, my pleasures for the weekend:

1) Joules Big Sale - bought a large bag full of clothes ready for the summer for £50. :j Birthday money used! Went with a friend, so good to catch up.

2) Jaunt to Primark with a friend. Another couple of items of clothing for work wear!

3) Friends' birthday party and even got a free bed for the night!

4) Chinese takeaway this evening. Not OS, but I'm keeping the boxes for freezing portions of meals. This is leading to an OS goal, isn't it? *clings to tenuous link*

5) Able to sit down and have a lovely cuppa!

Have a good rest of the evening. :wave:

sparrer

Welcome supersaver and any other newbies I may have missed over the past few days

Just a quick report, now back in Bronte country having spent the weekend in Blackpool with friends, and this afternoon in Preston with DS and family

1. A most amazing weekend with over 1700 like-minded peeps at a convention.
2. Hotel was, as before, a bit scrubby but the meals couldn't be faulted (hence my not reporting to Weight Loss OS board yet )
3. Friend bought me a beautiful inscribed silver bangle which I haven't taken off yet
4. Had a lovely few hours with DS and the family, he cooked an enormous Sunday dinner and she and the children make a stunning chocolate layer cake surrounded by kitcats and topped with sm@rties. Sad to say I couldn't finish it all
5. Picked friends Miniature Schnauzers up on the way back to her house, the greeting we both got was so lovely, you'd think I lived with them too! So looking forward to collecting my boy on Tuesday, missing him but getting my doggy fix with these two little poppets

Home tomorrow if the forecast is wrong, they're saying snow here :eek: so hoping it holds off til I head south

Hugs all round and sweet dreams

Purple_kitten

Sparrer: Sounds like a wonderful time.
1. Ordered last nights Chinese on the phone, popped in to pick it up and noticed them doing proper spuds for the chips, as I was chatting she gave me a portion of their lovely crispy chips we proceeded to scoff backing hot on the way home, so today there is lots of left over Chinese.:o
2. Remembering why the WII was put away, we are stress players I can forget to breathe throughout a race, but what a fun way to lose track of time until the wee hours of the morning (well it’s the weekend). You can tell we aren’t gamers, but wow we get into it and ahem swore like troopers at the game lol….:rotfl:
3. I cooked properly trying to make it healthy and interesting, turmeric rice, with cabbage layered over it, and a beef stir fry thing on top, honestly it was horrible. Made a dozen coffee and walnut cupcakes, dont worry there’s 10 left:o:rotfl:
4. I’ve finally found something on ebay that I have been looking for about a year now, it’s got a few missing bits so Ive fingers crossed it won’t be popular in a few days.:T
5. Time to apply for the job I saw on Friday, so it might be top of the pile on Monday.:)
Chicken: Hope you visit mse soon, we miss yer.:)

VJsmum

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

Told yous lot I was on fire.

Tut tut, no YUM. It is the law you know.

Today's pleasures

1 two hours on the train there and an hour back to do some internetting and marking of exam papers
2 coffee and pain au chocolate while we waited for audition time
3 DD said audition went well, and she got an interview here. Nice to be given opportunity to talk, two weeks to wait and who knows?
4 we nt to see the commitments. Got tickets for £12 each :T. Unfortunately weren't that impressed with the show. It didn't seem t have any story, though the main singer was brilliant
5 home after tea at NAndos, awful place. It's just chicken and bliddy expensive chicken at that. Many years ago, as a teenager, I forced my mother to McDonald's. I think I know how she must have felt. Sorry mum

Overall, though, nice to spend time with DD. since my revelation the other day, re Aspergers, I am more than ever convinced that I am right. I also think she will take it well when we do tell her, she knows she's unique, different, has certain issues and anxieties. We do need to wait till after exams though.

I am off to my bed soon. Night all

Frith

VJsmum - some of my friends were at Comic Con at the NEC yesterday! In fact, my friend had a coat hanger sticking out of her bag (presumably in a new T shirt?) and hooked someone up and started pulling him along. She turned round and it was Danny John Jules!! (Cat from Red Dwarf).

Pleasures for today:

1) A lie in.

2) Porridge for breakfast.

3) McDonalds for lunch!

4) Swimming with sons and my brother.

5) Got some more bark chippings from the forest which will make the allotment paths.

6) Brother cut me some more stakes to do the raised beds.

7) Mum made tea.

8) Watched the Great Escape despite smaller son having a very sore throat and drinking cup after cup of strawberry tea with honey in it.

9) This now not in chronological order! Before tea, smaller son and I went to check the slow worm "traps" (just pieces of corrugated iron left in the field on purpose for snakes and lizards to warm underneath). All the way down there I told him it was too cold - then we saw one! And he fed the lamb.

BritishBibliophile

Forgot to post here yesterday evening so this is a combined Saturday and Sunday post;

1. Clearing out continued apace! My desk is so clear that you can see the surface. Today cleared out my wardrobe and took two bags to a charity clothes bin (most of it had been sitting unused for 6 months and I couldn't be bothered to wash it and attempt to ebay it).

2. Went through 3 recipe books and wrote down in my own "Recipe Notebook" ones I want to try in the future, then added the books to the selling pile, out of 2 big books (plus one smaller) there were only 4 recipes in each one that I actually liked the look of :eek:

3. Nice walk around Kew Gardens in the sunshine, although there was a chilly wind so glad I took my hoodie.

4. Walked back via bakery stall and bought a rather mediocre quiche and an okay-ish cake (the cake bit was very nice, the icing wasn't). The good bit from this is that I had cake :rotfl:

5. After the clearing out I had a relaxing afternoon watching Sherlock Season 1 and playing around online.

6. Roast chicken for dinner, with leftovers for tomorrow night and possibly enough to go in tomorrow's lunch sandwich.

I've just made a hot water bottle because every night this week my feet have been bloomin' freezing Not sure if it's me or if it's genuinely that chilly.

Enjoy the week everyone!