5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

lovefullshelves

mhags -(((hugs)))
1. box from mommy:D with interesting stuff in it!! Its like christmas!
2. tray of cabbage seeds waiting to grow!
3. radishes have germinated!! Should be ready for the beginning of may:) (perfect to coincide with below the line challenge!)
4. salad leaves growing well too:) 3 little pots so far at various stages!
5. NSD
6. This weeks shopping was...£9.44!!! I'm lovin my april challenge!
Happy bunny:) must be nearly easter!

VickyA_2

Good evening everyone :hello:

Many thanks to those who have sent me joyous messages about my "Good to Outstanding" programme. As you know, I've had many wobbles recently. My first ever teaching job was awful, making me mentally unwell and I still have a nagging fear in my mind that at any moment I'll return to that place. My fears have been completely unfounded (and we're talking 8 years ago since I left that horrid, horrid place), but it's still there.

However, my pleasures for today:

1) A friend has lent me a guidebook for my forthcoming trip to Amsterdam. :j

2) Bought most of my ingredients for Monday's cake club cake.

3) Gorgeous bath. I rarely have a bath, but I came home from work with a splitting headache (day before the holiday headache?!).

4) List made for jobs to do over Easter. Well, it's started and I haven't finished it yet.

5) I've had notification that my "guest" blog post will be posted tomorrow about my afternoon tea last weekend. I'll share the link with you tomorrow, once it's online.

Night everyone :wave:

Frith

Quick 5 pleasures as I seem to be in bed purely so smaller son will stay lying down. :-S


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) FIVE HOURS on the allotment. Photos will follow when it's properly finished. It now has 4 large veg beds, proper paths and is about 90% weed free. Today I started planting so it has (as well as soft fruit): onions, red onions, spring onions, garlic, radishes, two sorts of lettuce, Good King Henry and 2 globe artichokes!


3) Was given a cup of tea by Fred and the globe artichokes by Joe.


4) Popped to Sainsburys.


5) Sons had good days at school.


6) New kitten. :-) She's quite mad. Charlotte cat loathes her so kitten is now bolted into the living room and Charlotte is in bed with smaller son. The lady we bought her off is quite... unusual... and has some sort of charity set up. She has 65.


7) Went swimming with sons and brother.


8) Rhubarb from the allotment made nice crumble mixed with a tin of peaches.


That's about it!

sparrer

SS not sad at all, unless I am too - I love seeing how my Santander and points accounts go up every month. I'd rather say we're :money:
Thank you tealady, am not overdoing things - too much

1. Slept in til 10am! Was awake til 3 because breathing is a little under 100%, am thankful for the nebuliser. Wishing everyone easy breathing through this period
2. Was going to mow the lawn, I usually get the mower out, rest, do a bit, rest, do a bit more etc., etc., but my kind neighbour was in his back garden and sent his son to do it for me. Nice to see a strapping young 18 y/o doing my garden
3. Made a delicious bean and veg passander, it was so nice I had another spoonful before portioning it for the freezer
4. Had a cuppa with my other neighbour while she helped me bling a plain pashmina with diamante strip for Saturday's party. I always count my blessings I have such good people for neighbours.
5. postie brought me two wee phials of EDT, the form asked which one I'd like so I ticked both boxes as I couldn't make up my mind

Sweet dreams

mcculloch29

Good day today, a bit late to fully marshal thoughts for posts in depth but thank you for yours. I so enjoy them. I was up at an earlier hour than usual after scrappy sleep so high time for bed, no 3 am postings tonight!

ampersand

1. Black tea and no-dairy toast waiting beside bed right now. Lent progresses.

2. Just heard the end of Geoffrey Household's outstanding Rogue Male[r4x]read by [still living and working] Michael Jayston, remembered from The Power Game and TTSS[Quillam]in earlier tv times. Cracking production. But TIMBUKTU last night, hooray!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lmcxj/episodes/player. Catch up quickly.

3. Throat and ears still wracking but must settle soon. Thankyou tealady, but doing stuff is what I often need to do, via things I work in/for.
You give me pleasure by wearing the IR shoes:-)

4. Transcribing, sorting x's p/w, c.d. and printing pics from w/e used whole of new ink cartridges and all day hier, so new order[more £s]made and will use bus pass to transport stuff today. This time a week ago, I was all but there, to await x.

5. The good, good card shop which had suddenly opened opposite £land, then just as suddenly closed, IS back open again, with everything now 50p. Parked in w8r0s but didn't go in: how noble was that?

Grass needs mowing again, already - cheery daisy and dandelion faces smiling everywhere.

Frith - has smaller son given new kitten her name yet? 'Rhubarb from the allotment' has a good ring. Haven't used any of mine yet. Frith's gardening fan club grows:-)

supersaver- definitely NOT sad. Saving's quickly addictive, the very best kind, gives a real striving burn, as does what points can represent, provided they don't become an end in themselves. It's always worth checking mysupermarket.co.uk before you go out with your list[which I'm SURE you make before shopping, don't you?:-)]

'Goody!' tgifs to all, esp. vicky and kk atm.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Just treading water as a new, well, two new toys have been delivered and I cannot wait to rip the paper off them. Now can you all not keep a secret?

Nooooo peeping! be back later to catach up yous shenananananagins!

Broomstick

:wave: Hiya again.

Have just whizzed through past posts and I have pages and pages to catch up on and respond to but just wanted to say thanks for the messages.

All is well. Health-wise I am ok and am reducing my meds back down again. Best of all, we will be moving over the next couple of weeks to a lovely cottage in a nearby village that ticks 98+% of our 'must have' list and about 95% of our 'this would be lovely but isn't essential' list. The latter includes a wood burner so I am really chuffed about that. Things are understandably a bit hectic but I will try to post properly over the weekend and get back into posting on this thread again.

Hugs to all

Bx

Kk, fantastic news about your move too!

Kittikins

Hooray, so pleased to hear you've found a lovely place Broomstick xx

Tealady_2

Afternoon

Broomstick - That is fantastic news about your new home.

Pleasures for yesterday,
1. New food store has opened in our local BHS and had some really good opening offers plus £2 off voucher when you spent £10 so bought some of the things on my shopping list there to make use of the offers and money off :money:
2. DD was feeling better by the time I got home from work as she has been a bit sickly earlier in the day. Managed to cook her a simple but tasty dinner that was kept where it should be. She also put some more washing out for me as she was at home.
3. As no work as come up for DD over the holidays have booked her train tickets to go to my parents for the holidays. This is probably the longest she will get to spend with them now as she is leaving college this year and won't have the long holidays. They love having her to stay and she loves going so all good. Managed to get her train ticket a bit cheaper as we use a different company that doesn't stop in the main town but at a village outside which is easy for parents to pick up from (Eaglescliffe for McCulloch)
4. Chicken Curry for dinner for OH and me using the fab Aldi Balti Curry Sauce.
5. OH bought me a dozen white roses. Big brownie points to him as these are my favourite flower and they look lovely in the vase in our living room.

Hugs to all who need them