5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

PetuliaGristle

ACEY I'm off to google Earth Hour, reading books by torchlight brings back childhood memories of reading under the bedclothes
CCP lol at girls trying to impress the DJ
house elf would you post a linky to Dorset Apple Cake when you find the recipe?
jexy I'm glad you're feeling so positive, with 'H' coming back and the nice lad starting next week
Kitchenbunny it's great you're getting more sleep. It's great that dp and I aren't the only L*kel*nd addicts. We have a list of things we'd like to buy, and we're planning to drop into our local store during the school holidays.
Kittikins I'm glad your dd enjoyed her exam and that you both spent a great morning together
newlywed sending positive vibes about the job interview
savingforoz great news about Penny and Gizmo
sparrer what a lovely thing you did yesterday for your residents, the buffet sounded fantastic
Tealady it's lovely to hear that you and your dd had such a good time at the Ideal Home Show

Mine for today:
1) waking up early and reading Kate Mosse's Labyrinth for an hour or so before dd woke up
2) spending a lazy morning with dd
3) having a long shower whilst dd watched Hannah Montana
4) finishing this month's mealplan and doing the online shopping
5) sausage, mash and peas for tea real old-style comfort food
6) watching Jeremy Clarkson getting flirty with Will Young on 'Star in a Reasonably Priced Car'

nuttybabe

Evening all

House elf - I dont know if you can use Vim for washing clothes. I didnt check the label until after I had used it. And it was the vim whitening one I used but thankfully it hasnt made anything fade!! :rotfl:

Jexy - great! but if I dont reply its cos I am away, I am not ignoring you!!

Mine for today:

1 A lie in!!! :j

2 Booked a holiday, this is NOT the pleasure. We are going to the caravan. Its been in storage all winter so needs to be cleaned and we will spend a few days on that site then move the caravan and spend a week at another site! I hate going. Caravan too small and I hate paying money to put it on a patch of grass!!! Anyhoo, the pleasure - when we told the kids their faces lit up and kept cudding me and were bouncing!!! And thats the reason why I put myself through it!!!

3 Crocheted a pink sparkly scrubbie for the caravan to cheer me up when I am there!!!!!!!!!!!! :rotfl:

4 Cleaned the kitchen

5 Done lots of washing.

Off to make my sock zebra now and cheer myself up! Got a busy week of cleaning, washing and getting stuff ready for the caravan. We are leaving 6am (or earlier) friday morning!! :eek:

Hope you all have a good evening.

savingforoz

Evening all! My 5 for today:

1. Large and yummy roast lunch in Wetherspoons with family.

2. Being a domestic goddess - have made pate and a batch of rolls today, and will be off soon to make a curry for the slow cooker tomorrow.

3. Getting given a free bag of Hills dry cat food - very MSE.

4. Really good session in the gym - felt great afterwards.

5. Visiting friends this afternoon and meeting Jezebel, their new adopted cat. Jezebel is 18 and only has three legs, and is gorgeous! She loved all the fuss and attention that I gave her.

Kitchenbunny

And my five for today are:

1) Managing a 2 mile walk, even if I sounded like Darth Vader!
2) Sorting out the cookbook shelves in my kitchen. I've managed to find home for some of the clutter that was up there, threw away some other bits and given away a couple of the cookbooks. Just a few more to go through, and then some charity shop will have them.
3) Watching the F1. It was a nice change to stay awake through it.
4) I made spaghetti bolognese for tea and have now (finally) settled on the recipe I like for it.
5) I trimmed my fringe so I don't look like an early nineties boyband member now! No more floppy fringes for me.

KB x

bellaquidsin

Today's pleasures:-

1. SIL her DH and adult DS came to dinner. I had agonized over dessert, would it be chocolate roulade, lemon cheescake etc.etc. in the end I settled OS apple pie and steamed syrup sponge and they loved them both. The old ones are the best.

2. Smiling at your comments about my DH cooking his first breakfast in 42 years.

3. My visitors brought me a perennial wallflower plant and a dwarf photinia - they're both lovely.

4. DH right now washing up the tea crocks as they are too precious to go in the DW.

5. I am exhausted after my day entertaining but truly blessed.

Bellla.

wssla00

Evening all here are my weekend ones:
1. Ideal home exhibition and a lift home from my bro
2. A cutting of a passion flower from my bro in law for my garden
3. A HUGE spice rack which I won and had never opened had been laying in my ma and pas house. I opened it and found a world of wonder in it! Am getting it shipped home for me
4. A lovely family dinner today it was great catching up
5. Not spending any money in the ideal home exhibition so feel completely virtuous :A:rotfl:

Enjoy what's rest of Sunday!

Caterina

Hi all

Sorry if I haven't been very attentive about other people's issues, am always here in a hurry and feel bad that sometimes I only skim posts. Am very tired and going to bed soon so this time I shall send group (((((HUGS))))) to all of you who need them. Once I am no longer working I shall be able to dedicate more time to my friends here online.

My pleasures for the weekend, in random order:

1 - Had a lovely visit from LilacLillie, we went to a sale at the Steiner school, but unfortunately they had packed away the textiles and only had kids things.

2 - But I managed to get a reduced Weleda product (shaving cream) that my DS likes very much.

3 - LilacLillie was my hero, she helped me resist the temptation to have all those naugthy homemade cakes at the sale, instead we spent a long time in my kitchen, drinking tea and chatting about life, the universe and everything.

4 - DH came back from the opticians and I have to say this, I am really proud of him, he is really turning very OS! A bit of his specs (the pad that sits on the side of the nose) had fallen out and he refused to pay £2.50 in Blackheath, so he trekked it to Lewisham and went to a few other opticians until he found someone who did it for free. I have trained him well - RESULT!!!

5 - Reading a very good book from the library, Bad Science by Ben Goldacre - I have to say, it is debunking so many myths for me, it is a bit depressing (turmeric does not prevent cancer, omega3 is overrated, homeopathy is baloney etc...). But it is very interesting!

6 - We have started planting, we have some lettuce, chicory, radishes and chard down already!

7 - I have to add this with a glow of pride: I am in the middle of turning my first shirt collar (on a shirt that DH would not wear at work because the collar is very frayed). He said that if it works well he will wear it again for work. Wish me luck, I am doing it just off the top of my head, no instructions no nothing!

Good night everybody xxx

Frith

Bellaquidsin - do you do your steamed sponges in the microwave? I've been trying to persaude my mum to try it! I think they are not so stodgy (and stodgy is a good thing) but still very nice.

Another lovely day here, its been the best weekend I've had in years!

1) Got up at some random time (all the clocks say different things) to porridge made by bigger son.

2) Had a quick scooter ride/walk.

3) Popped to Sainsburys and bigger son had saved up enough money for a new scooter - £14 by the way.

4) Went to mum and dad's house (where my brother still lives - he's much younger than me). M and D have gone on holiday so me and my brother and sister rushed round trying to get the house to look half decent. It did get to a "How Clean in Your House?" standard after my sister and I left so last time they were on holiday they paid me to clean it and had to hire a skip... It wasn't anyway near as bad this time - only 6 months of rubbish, not 10 years... Got a bin bag full from the bedroom and my sister did the living room.

5) Me, brother and sister (and boys) went swimming afterwards.

6) THEN! We came back to my house and my school friend came round. Sister went out and got us all Indian takeaways. :-) Spent the rest of the evening reading to children and making them go to bed an hour earlier than normal and playing on the Wii.

L

sparrer

Thank you for the link jexy, 1500 bottles of Irn Bru? At one a day it would take me over 4 years :eek: . Think I'll stick to my little plastic one even if it does take off down the garden in a high wind. Btw for anyone getting one of these £15 plastic 4-tier greenhouses you need peg it down firmly, it's so light it does a Mary Poppins at the slightest gust
newlywed you'll be fine - as jexy says, remember how much they need you, not the other way about.
GirlySquare the buffet was for a friends 50th. It was great to do as I retired some 4 years ago so don't have the pleasure of cooking for tenants any more.
nuttybabe some of my best hols were in our tourer, I lived in at work so to get away on alt weekends we'd just hitch up and even if we only went 5 miles it was away from the office. The 'van was my little dolls house (not really so little at 24ft), my ex hated it though. Putting up the awning was not his favourite task so I stood by with a glass of red for when he'd finished

My 5 -
1. Sleeping in til 8 and lazing in my robe til 11am when I thought I ought to go and (try to) make myself look halfway respectable
2.DNeighbour doing some washing for me, although the new w/m was plumbed in on Weds the water isn't going in so I have to wait til someone can come and have a look at it. Think it's just the inlet hose got kinked put I can't pull it out so need a big strong bloke to come and do it
3. Yesterdays buffet going down well, very little of anything left and was asked if I cater professionally!
4. Making a wheat/gluten free loaf from scratch in the bm, and it turning out so well my coeliacs sufferer friend said I have a job for life
5. Losing my purse in the supermarket, big hunt by the staff but nowhere to be found. I went back to the car and it was lying on the floor by the boot which I'd opened to get out the carrier bags.. How lucky was I?! :j :T :j

Night night (((everybody))) sweet dreams and have a good week
S x

bellaquidsin

ACEY yes I always do my steamed puddings in the microwave, so easy and so delicious and those who do not know the secret are always so impressed.

sparrer so pleased your purse turned up - what a fright that must have been.

I'm off now to work on todays pleasures but even the mention of the word work makes me feel weak, I'm feeling a bit delicate at the moment.

Bella.