5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

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house_elf wrote: »

Back from hols!

I could have posted 5 pleasures every day, but decided I should have a technology holiday, so here is the heavily edited version!

Florida pleasures

1. Universal For 11 days!

2. Kennedy Space Centre - spent the whole day being space geeks. BAZINGA!

3. Celebration - love this Walt Disney creation. Managed 2 visits.

4. Cabana Bay Hotel - Stayed here as booked before it was built. (Deal!). Did not need car, and early entry to park for Harry Potter World. 1950's theme-still singing the songs! Pool open til 11pm. So cool swimming at night!

5. Who would have thought Hogwarts was in Florida? it is done so well! I loved the train journey between Hogwarts and Hogsmede. Diagone Alley is so good.

New York pleasures

1. So much for free! Times Sqare, Statten Island Ferry, Walking on Brooklyn Bridge........Very MSE.

2. Breakfast in the park. The view was Empire State Building!

3. High Line walk along old railway and strole through Chelsea Market.

4. Top of The Rock - view of the city at the top of the Rockerfeller Building at sun set. Terribly expensive, but worth it. Watched the educational films at the start, which everyone else skipped past. They missed a treat!

5. Lost half a stone with so much walking! Amazing given the size of American portions! DD and I had to share a lot of the time!

Many, many more pleasures, but these are the high lights.

Missed you all.........sad to be back at school tomorrow. Thinking of looking for another job, as feelings of dread are not good!

HE x

house elf

Having visited both these places I have to agree. They are amazing to see especially Universal! Sounds like you had an amazing time?

LynseyLou_2

My OS pleasures today:

1. Delicious homemade chicken and rice soup for lunch
2. Saving £2.40 on bus fare by cycling to meet a friend
3. Triple points on Debenhams beauty card
4. Homemade chicken and potato curry for dinner
5. Booking my wedding car - 1937 Austin London Taxi Laundaulette

VJsmum

Evening all

Frith, I feel for you re mother. My mother was great but, as you may know, MiL can be a trial. She doesn't get personal though. How bizarre for them to question your sexuality because you are single. Have they forgotten your story?
House elf. We loved the Highline. So few people know of it. And for free.

Pleasures for weekend

1 OH and I went walking in the Malvern hills yesterday. Caught the train, lunch in a lovely deli /cafe in Malvern. 2.5 hours walk over the hills to British Camp where there is an unprepossessing tea bar that was lovely. Treated ourselves to half a Rock cake each as we'd walked so far. We know how to live. Then a short walk to somewhere or other, just in time to miss the four o'clock train so we had to go to the pub for an hour
2 came home and ordered curry for all
3 dahlias in gardens on walk home from station
4 blackberrying today. Loads left for next couple of weeks.
5 barbecue in garden tonight. Lovely to sit by chimenea blazing away

DS is back on Tuesday. He is off to your local steam railway tomorrow, Frith.

mhagster

I now have a vision of a little cockney sparrerin her jammies!

Monday evening here and what a wet day it turned out to be....torrential rain about half an hour after I got home this afternoon and I found a brolly in the store cupboard at work so didn't get wet!

Work was workety....start of my 6 day week , however, I did finish at 1.15pm had a 2 minute at the station and missed the rain so not so bad!

Home with leftover chicken which shall become curry for dinner, some leftover cookie dough...don't want to use on customers but will do for the kids!

Sat on my backside and watched some catch up UK telly!

Pottered around and tidied kitchen, put a washing on and prepared for dinner.

Home to a nice letter from my letter writing friend....coincidentally, I was thinking on the train coming home that I must write to her....so letter done as I watched TV...multitasking!

Emails to friends done and a phone call to estate agent made.....more branches have broken off the big tree in the driveway, just where OHs car would be ...tree is supposed to be getting cut back, so have chased that up.

Have a fabulous day....another new months started already!

Tealady_2

Morning

Frith - I feel your pain re DM, mine suffers with mental health issues and while she is aware that she has issues it doesn't always make it easy to live with. I know my DD finds certain aspects really difficult to deal with.

House Elf - Holiday sounds fab

Pleasures for the weekend,
1. Shopping done, vouchers used and store cupboard full.
2. Lots of washing done and dried outside
3. Most amazing roast dinner at a local hotel/pub, don't know why we haven't used it before as the setting is lovely as well. DD had the most enormous dinner and ate all of it. Decided she was too full for pudding but we would share one, she then proceeded to eat most of it. The salted caramel ice-cream was amazing, well the little I got to try was. My DD is such a stick insect and eats so much, no justice.
4. DD out with friends last night and really enjoyed herself. DD is not very sociable so this was a good thing.
5. Peaceful hour to myself yesterday afternoon

Hugs to all who need them

ampersand

1. Car bill will wipe out chqs banked last week - £300 - had no option. Couldn't get to fenboys/wait, so it had to be local. Appts. all postponed. Need water pump and serpentine auxilliary belt. All 'talked', id'd through ??s with help here on mse. Again I thank Martin for this site. Nothing for it, but it's walloped me. Really really walloped -there's MOT, tax, shipping, NZ policy, revolving door £500 and other to be synchronised this month.

2. Balmy loveliness yesterday and car-less, so had planned time. 2 super-seedy loves started early, to be out by 1030h, which happened. Slow rise, knock back, shape in loaf tins, 2nd rise, bake.

3. Early laundry out, then walk>Church. Our terrific lady Vic. back from Assissi, had wonderful time but sermon accurately pinned my current deep unease re:world. Strongly felt need to be there.

4. Long walk to storage, bearing next half-year's rent+card. Walking boots on, cake container in double bag for wise reason: minimise squish, plus cloth extra. Lovely passage of time and plenty of it, way over 5hrs, 'to stop and stare'...and listen, esp. on way back. Local-ish Lox-fest drifted from afar:-) Arms and legs stung and shredded, still are, but 2kgs blackberries[none of them big round here] now in freezer. Bag of wild apples. Munched a couple. Will do pic of blackberries on my Blackberry:-)

5. As I eventually left garage Sat., was just in time for village bus>town>Library bks rtn and collect new, then far Mr T. Bullet bitten, new camera+mem. sticks, all 'paid' using double-up vouchers. Have been researching for some weeks.
http://www.tesco.com/direct/canon-ixus-150-digital-camera-grey-16-mp-8x-optical-zoom-3-lcd-screen/414-9128.prd?pageLevel=sku&skuId=414-9128&icid=eml_BIS_414-9128
vicky - 25pt, 4 pt wombles, abandoned 90p off ts, ditto dbl pts, ditto £1 off, all contirbuted. All wonbles feed vouchers.

6. No more Sharapova screeching and gamesmanship.

7. Think phone worked to NZ earlier. Hope I left Bonne Anniversaire for oldest schoolfriend with promise that gift WILL leave here today=bday, if not arrive on same. Late i.e. yday, decision to add a slouchy vintage-style beret, to shawl, and it's nearly done. Tennis, then Neville Gwynne et al on t'wireless and crocheting>0230h.

vjm - I'm another who's taken to your sliced veg instead of lasagne sheets idea.
Hearing on r4 that 2 portions red meat, 5 eggs wkly is wise now, realise I'm pretty much there anyway. Don't have that sort of appetite any more.
skint - hooray, boss gone>tealady, hooray OH's last day.
house elf - what a wonderful time and hooray, you've brought a lot of it here:-)
Welcome LL - love the car. But you left out the most important bit - When?
vjm - hope son will rtn to refereeing, new season, forget last year's nasty parents.
dfv - hope son's progress continues well. Take care of yourself too
#
Hurrcherrrs storyline pretty much tiresomed out for moi - 'An everyday story of farming folk' - remember that?
Woy is yuck anyway - that bleugghhh just doesn't work, no matter how Eliz.actor tries. Ludicrous and worse in pipeline....
Ho hum.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Hawks

Oh no, guess what you lot gets from BoP this day. Get on with your work. An Acre is the area of a rectangle, whose length is one furlong and width is one chain. See, if you kept the proper numbers they mean something, more than cricket! DD, No No No No No No No. Dr Who, absolute Codswallop. BoPsie likes it though. Must be a girl thing! London Taxi, DfV. Nows I forgets what I was to say. Oh well. Welcome newbies then! If you pm BoP, he can give marital advice. Thirst 30 minutes are three!

5 Raffles, has again been in his humanoid free environment and retrieved another protected species from the pool. As if we do not buy him cheap cat food as well. Note, please do not buy Raffles the food that one out of ten cats does not like, because Raffles is that one cat. That’s my boy!

4 I see on another thread around this here, that there be some goodness about spending $4 a day to eat on. That is, at the rate today is equivalent to £2.41 per day, or £16.87 a week. Well, as stated last day, if you look, I can well beat that. See my posts passim. This week was £18.90! And what did we get. toms, radishes, lettuce, curly and expensive variety! Cucumber, cress. Ham, reduced and on offer. Cheese, on offer. Milk. Oranges. Sea Bass, reduced. Snorkers and bacon. Prawns. Mushrooms. You eat well BoP plaice.

3 Yesterday, we walked along our canal, or rather un-dredged non navigable water themes presentation scheme, to alienate the poor and perhaps entertain the boaters, not. Problem is, railway viaduct and motor prevent connection to tangible system. Now, being a pedantic bod, I note the discussions about Train Station. This is wrong, as it is a Railway Station, where one can purchase a ticket to travel on a train Choo Choo!, told you.

2 Salt mine has clouds of grey again from the winding house window. Gaffer still awol, yet the yard cat seems to be off as well. The rats are now running the tip.

1 The eyes of a Hawk!

lovefullshelves

1. 40p curry for tea
2. tablet doodah thing
3. freebie plums
4. kittens
5. cinnamon apple cake
I know I've been missing. We got firefox, i couln't find history, then I got a tablet and have problems with touchscreen. I missed you all x.

Purple_kitten

Waves, hello all
1-5 for the past while a lovely week at the steam fair, old friends called by the van on both Saturday and Sunday and we didn’t stop yabbering until gone 3am, it was lovely. Lots of goodies found and a lot of mud waded through, lots of odds and sods bought.
We had final day freebies of bits of aluminium, we stopped at a caf! and got chatting to the owner about waste etc. he said we were welcome to the bread rolls and 4 loads of milk which we have gladly alleviated him of as he only had room for freezing meat. So we have been bagging up the bread rolls and spreading them around the freezer the wholemeal bread will be turned into bread pudding. We were talking away to him and I said I will cook it up and freeze up, he loved the idea of it being used up such a shame to waste it.
I picked up a whole load of free books.
Ordered in tonight half price offer of course.
We didn’t spend as much as we had allowed, which is always nice as it’s only the beginning of the month.
Drive back today was painless as the drive there was incredibly painful.
Just had a hot soak and some deep hair conditioner.

VickyA_2

Evening all :hello:

Quickly whizzing on here. I hope everyone is well.

My pleasures for today:

1) Went for a run after work. Well, I say run... It was more of a stagger. I haven't run since my 10k in July, but I have many (wrong) wobbly bits which I need to make less wobbly!

2) Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food salmon pesto for supper. Yum, yum!

3) Great salad for my packed lunch. It was delicious, even if I do say so myself!

4) LOADS of school work done this evening. Still loads to do, but I've made inroads into my "to do" list!

5) Starting my "Bake Off" enrichment club on Friday in school. I had some of my class working out what we could make in our first week. I'm going for fairy cakes... Possibly.