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5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

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  • oldtractor
    oldtractor Posts: 2,262 Forumite
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    1. glorious warm sunny day
    2. riding the cob
    3. cuddling the dog
    4. shopping and feeling happy that I could buy the food I wanted
    5. good results from the Docs this morning.
  • Skint_yet_Again
    Skint_yet_Again Posts: 8,434 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Hung up my suit! Mortgage-free Glee!
    Good to see you enjoying the school holidays Kittikins

    Lovely pleasures OT

    Heres mine for today

    1. Bacon and egg for breakfast

    2. shaved my legs for first time this year :p

    3. lovely sunshine - wore my cut off trousers for first time this year ... showing off my legs :D - well as much leg as I allow into the daylight ;)

    4. garden tidied - dead shrubs & old wood from fence rebuild last week taken to tip. Popped to Mr M on way home and got more reduced almond milk for DS

    5. grass mowed for first time this year - looks lovely and tidy out there now

    May start to creosote the fence tomorrow ...
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  • Still in Mid SparraLands, so will be popping down for the goose grease for BoPsie. Hope it goes with a bang, as that is the on,y way to shift a BoPsie cold. Tomorrow will be its three hundredth mutation.

    Enough world rights, or wrongs. And a big no to the argies. POETS day tomorrow, munch awaits.

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  • DundeeDoll
    DundeeDoll Posts: 5,218 Forumite
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    sorry to hear about your disturbed day skint we have lots of building work down our road - 2 years ago they decanted the children and knocked down the school. i think the new is due to be finished this summer.
    hope your neighbour simmers down frith ours hasn't talked to us for years - better than shouting i guess
    1) another glorious day. went for lunchtime walk with gbf. he has his first practising for retirement day tomoz
    2) ate an easter egg mid afternoon. it was yummy - hollow, about the size of a creme egg, perfect for afternoon dip
    3) lovely chicken curry for supper. i had a bit of cooked chicken in the freezer, cooked 2 portions of rice so have lunch ready made for tomorrow
    4) walked dogs and delivered a couple of invites for gbf's 60th birthday garden party - very posh! he wanted to put no presents, but his bf said no that would look rude. i thought a challenge would have been fun - present in a jar, or don't spend more than a fiver and the most imagiative one wins a prize
    4) long relax in the bath (as mum phoned yesterday just as i was headed upstairs)
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  • Frith
    Frith Posts: 8,749 Forumite
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    Last boy-free day - hoorah!


    Here are my pleasures:


    1) Not a bad sleep.


    2) Handyman here 8.30 and fitted fireplace to the wall better and did various other jobs and put my new trellis up in the garden (writing that reminds me I haven't actually picked the honeysuckle up off the floor and tied it up yet!)


    3) Last bout of charity shopping. Went to Hereford and found a street with charity shops I hadn't seen before! Found 3 new t shirts for bigger son.


    4) Lunch at my favourite caf!. Every time I leave there I think I will make savoury bakes, quiches and different salads...


    5) Went swimming with my brother.


    6) More painting :-/ Lots of glossing tonight.


    7) Tasty tea of cous cous with tomatoes, peppers, chicken and hummus.


    8) Lots of skyping with smaller son this evening.


    Neighbour very quiet today ;-)
  • topsyturphy
    topsyturphy Posts: 1,785 Forumite
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    My pleasures for today

    1. Glorious sunshine, I actually braved it and wore shorts.
    2. Seeing my gorgeous grandson who is 10 months old.
    3. Having butter pie for tea, homemade by dm.
    4. Apple crumble & custard for desert again homemadeby dm.
    5. Taking ds2(14) to army careers office, he is still interested but I'm not sure he will get in due to his medication he takes to help him sleep, that relates to ADD. Now trying to talk about other options to think about. The officer at the careers officer was really good advising him on what he needed to concentrate on in the next 12 months.
    6. Seeing lots of butterflies today.

    Really enjoying doing this makes me look at things more positively.
  • Well we have cloud, fog and rain this morning. Also a weather warning for the south for severe pollution :( advising people not to do anything outside - even healthy people - so may leave the painting of fences until tomorrow. Take care all who may be affected - sparrer hope you cope ok and take it easy today.

    topsyturphy I had similar situation with my DS who has always wanted to join the marines but was automatically barred due to a detached retina. Hope your DS has better news. It was a very difficult time for my DS and hard for him to accept but he did in the end and is now concentrating on a career in the police. He is just finishing his training for police special constable with a view to applying for regular police officer when our county starts recruiting again.

    Have a good day everyone x
    0% credit card £1360 & 0% Car Loan £7500 ~ paid in full JAN 2020 = NOW DEBT FREE 🤗
    House sale OCT 2022 = NOW MORTGAGE FREE 🤗
    House purchase completed FEB 2023 🥳🍾 Left work. 🤗

    Retired at 55 & now living off the equity £10k a year (until pensions start at 60 & 67).

    Previous Savings diary https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5597938/get-a-grip/p1

    Living off savings diary
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6429003/escape-to-the-country-living-off-savings/p1
  • ampersand
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    edited 11 April 2015 at 8:53AM
    Ears fastened to R4 as Election Today is broadcasting from Fens.

    &'s not in much atm - nailing political colours to mast=volunteering, rather in late maman's footsteps. Re-writing, correcting Press Releases/leaflets, phone bank, door-to-door, postal voting checks, stuffing envelopes, distribution, follow-up on/delivery of publicity requests. All needs doing and & knows opportunities missed and bungled are poison, ditto loose comment, unattributed impartial stats etc.
    Insist on proof-reading everything - accepted - and will give what time I can to a constituency which is not my own, but targeted.
    [Frith, mentioned your UKIP leaflet election date booboo:-)]

    No rudeness from anyone....yet, quite the opposite.

    1. Vic's b'day was a week ago, seems much more, but that and Easter were good - as was discovery of &'s lunettes 3 days later in wet grass of Good Friday Church. Slowly consuming excellent Simnel cake.

    2. Professor Stephen Hawking is Cambridge candidate's poster boy. Things on today.

    3. Big lime green/yellow butterflies fluttering out back over recent early mornings.

    4. Rhubarb reaching for sky[through neighbour's bunny straw and poo], will fell some soon.

    5. Overnight slow cooker: NZ venison meatballs and various etceteras, all rtc+a v.decent St Chinian, opened for glug-glug pour-in. Might drink verre avec ce soir.

    6. As we speak, suddenly decided I'd try to phone enzed famberley - and am doing so:-)))). Just as well - Aunt says they've been trying to phone here, 3x last week and couldn't get through. & says 'Worry not. The so-called new boxes in High Street for nearly a year now, have just been all wrapped up in black plastic, so what this portends... qui sais?'

    Chatting on, so will pop along.

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  • villagelife
    villagelife Posts: 3,047 Forumite
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    Been busy and not able to post but have been reading.

    Spent time in the garden and enjoying all the flowers - violets, daffodils, primroses and others. Also seeing bees.
    DS2 dug some veg beds - which has saved me lots of time.
    Went to pub with DH and DS1 good to talk without phones etc taking preference. Also great cider - locally made.

    Only worked 3 days which was good - boss was a worse nightmare than normal but she is leaving soon. I may start to stop dreading going in then.

    Cooking from scratch and enjoying it generally. Food does taste better and am stopping some of DH love of takeaways.

    Met a friend in W8rose who I hadn't spoken to in ages and we had a long chat.
  • mhagster
    mhagster Posts: 5,682 Forumite
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    Hmmm! I did post before so not quite sure it went to.

    In brief :

    Good day at work.
    Extra $55 'commission' added to the stash .
    Beautiful day.cold start but sunny and bright.
    Trees. Love 'em! The colours are stunning. Had a good stomp through them with DD1... A true pleasure for us!
    Bacon and egg pie for tea was delicious.
    Pretty posy of roses bought for me by me. "Are they a gift?" Yes....extra pretty wrapping :)

    Have a good one!
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