5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Megs_mum_2

Good Monday Morning Everyone - Have just spent ages reading all the weekend posts. Thanks everyone for sharing your hopes, fears,dreams and most of all laughs.
Jexy - Good to see you back. Hope your Summer Season goes well. My "girls" have a thick layer of bark chippings in their run (like 9" deep). You might be able to get a bulk delivery from the forestry .... It drains really well and you can easily rake it over to plump it up.
Acey - Where the **ll do you get your energy from girl? Your household sounds like fantastic fun. I love the idea of your themed evening ...my dgd is coming to stay next month (she is 4 1/3) and wants us to camp out in the garden so we can watch the badgers in the night. How nice is that? I shall suggest we have an Earth Day like yours as well. Thanks. The kids in your classes are very lucky to have a superteach like you.
Tealady - the Dundee cake is from my neighbours recipe - keeps moist because you soak the fruit overnight ...(Brandy if you have it or any other booze or cold tea at a pinch) If I can work out how to do links I will post the recipe. Also Dorset Apple Cake - I have a great recipe that can start out as a dessert eaten warm and be finished the next day with coffee (if it lasts that long!). Only downside of all this yummy baking (and I could bake all day unless I am gardening) is the lbs and lbs it puts on.....
So mine for yesterday:
1. Very nice weather for my run - and got to within a minute of my PB for the (quite hilly) village 3.3 mile circuit. The trouble with getting older is that year on year your times get longer even if you are as fit (have not explained that v well) so by my twisted logic I must have done a better run than my PB from last year 'cos I am a year older.
2. Laughing at the hens - we had to dig a narrow trench round the fruit cage (so bury 6" of chicken wire that we are putting round the foot of said cage to prevent the girls for excavating theor way in to gobble all the rasps and goosegogs). Anyway the hens were in the trench, standing on us, on each other, on the spade to grab worms. They ate soooo many worms - poor worms but its nature.
3. Made 2 special cards for my friend for her birthday surprise and my dgd for her special pressie in 2 weeks time. When I make cards I have to be in the right frame of mind - if I try to force it the result is rubbish and I just waste materials (which I hate). So last weekend I was on a roll and very pleased with the cards I made.
4. Winding my friend up about her birthday surprise next Saturday - telling her she will need to wear comfy shoes etc ... I have arranged a "how to do your make up" lesson session ... he! he!! he!!!
5. Pricking out seedlings in the greenhouse - each year I try to only sow a few of each type so that I dont grow loads and then have to destroy them but its really hard. I sowed a pinch of pomodoro tomatoes (they are an outdoor variety with plum shaped fruits that are great in any italian cooking) and they have all germinated. I pricked out about half of them and now have 20 pots ... maybe I should put a "help yourself" table out at the front gate.

OK Thats me done for now. Dogwalking calls. Hope everyone has a good day - interviews, tardises (tardi?), boilers and all!
XX MM XX

Tealady_2

Morning everyone,

Mine for yesterday;
1. Tea in bed made by DD
2. Lots of bargains in Mr.T when did my shopping, got a few extra treats as well and managed to use a £5 off voucher.
3. Bought DD an outfit that we could agree on for the wedding we are going to on Thurdsay. Her idea of something smart and mine are usually the same but after the 6th shop we agreed on something:j
4. Being invited for Dinner at MIL as it was her birthday. Yummy roast
5. MIL liking the radley purse we had bought her and I had managed to get the same one that matched the bag she had bought for herself:T

Hugs to all who need them and newlywed good luck for today

ABerrisford

Hi again everyone :wave:

Feels so long since ive been on the thread, what with the end of term and having no internet at home I havent had the ability to sort it out. But i am here now and slowly making my way through posts. While i am doing that though, here are my five.

1: End of term! Three weeks of getting through everything i have to do without distractions.
2. Seeing my parents at the weekend even if it is briefly and making plans to go back home for a bit.
3. Realising (with a bit of help from BF) that some things just arent worth getting worked up about.
4. My Green Beans have sprouted and started to grow like anything! as have the hydraengeas. Too big for the pots they are currently in so definately have to try and plant them out.
5. Flat hunting with BF now things seem to be ok to move out.

Hope everyone is having a good time and looking forward to Easter. (and eggs!) :EasterBun

emilyka

Everyone is soo friendly on here :A

Hugs to all that are going through hard times, focus on the positives

Here's my OS pleasures for the weekend (I'm not feeling any pleasures for today.. grumpy Mondays!!)

-Digging the allotment over ready for my seeds (when they eventually show themselves!)
-2 NSDs (ignoring the fact that it's overshadowed by spending too much on Friday!!)
-Random chicken curry made with legs and thighs in SC for tonight
-Sorting out my budget
-Mosey round the charity shops for bits to customise

Julie67

Hi, not a regular poster on here but feel I have lots of OS pleasures and this website has been a lifeline recently. Here are todays:D

• OS Lamb curry made from yesterdays Sunday lunch leftovers
• My little seeds sprouting on the windowsill including the chillies which were a bit slow
• My DH telling me not to worry. If I can't go back to work we will manage.
• The special offer mobile I got for free through Virgin (would have gone out and spend a fortune before OS)
• The smell of my lovely clean bedding dried on the line

Happy Monday!

katholicos

1. Baking 5 loaves of bread (no fish, alas).
2. Making a margherita pizza for tea.
3. Getting through an appointment this morning, that i had not been looking forward to.
4. Covering my 'vulnerables' (carrot seeds and potatoes planted outside) with fleece/bubble wrap.
5. It may sound bizarre to some, but i am really looking forward to going to the Penitential Service at church tonight and to making my confession and preparation for the Easter Triduum. Since I'm organising myself around the house today I may as well get my soul in order, right? LOL!

Have a good day all!

niksyg

julie67 - your pleasures sound lovely, it's great to see your seeds sprout and even better to have a kind and caring DH.

My 5 today are-

1) Didn't have to get up at normal weekday time as still off looking after OH
2) Managed, like katholicos, to get through a horrible appointment this morning so at least that weight is off my mind - until I get the next appointment date through for the followup!
3) OH has been getting ratty being housebound so we took a packed lunch up to Portsdown Hill overlooking Portsmouth, and even though it wasn't that clear, just nice to get out and about with a bit of a view.
4) Puppy preparations are almost complete, sorted out his cage and bedding today.
5) Having pie for tea that OH's mum gave us when she had a freezer cull!

CCP

Evening all.

Bear with me this evening, please - I've had a lousy day. It's pouring with rain, an unannounced change to financial policy at work means I've spent most of the day answering confused and irate phone calls and emails, and my best mate at work's on holiday for three weeks so I didn't even have anyone to complain to over lunch. :mad:

niksyg - I wish I'd known about your picnic - I could have waved to you. (Although I work about as far from Portsdown Hill as you can get in Portsmouth so you wouldn't have seen me - it's the thought that counts, though, right? ) I hope you had a nice time - you must have got your timing spot on as it started raining not long after lunch.

Let's see if I can find five pleasures for a miserable Monday:

1) Despite the change in the clocks, I woke up before my alarm this morning. (Or at least before my alarm clock - I very rarely manage to wake up before my alarm cat starts meeping. )

2) Debenhams had a sale today, including in the jewellery department, so I got some cheap - can you guess? (Earrings, for those who don't know me - I'm addicted to the things!)

3) I've made a bit of a boo-boo on my mealplan this week - I needed to defrost and roast some chicken yesterday for dinner tonight, and completely forgot. I've re-arranged things, though, and now have my favourite pasta dish for dinner tonight. :drool:

4) And I've still got lots of banoffee pie left for afters - it's worth the stomach ache I get after eating a piece (toffee and cream isn't a good combination for someone who's lactose intolerant. The pie's sooo good, though! )

5) Later I'll curl up and watch the third part of a TV series I've been enjoying on iplayer (a travel show called Tropic of Cancer - great stuff for armchair travellers like me).

Have a pleasant evening, everyone.

bellaquidsin

Today's pleasures:-

1. Cancelled this week's trip to Yorkshire to visit my aunt a) because snow is forecast and b) I'm not really feeling up to it. The pleasure is that I feel much better now I've taken the pressure off.

2. Taking the day at a slow pace instead of my usual gallop.

3. Baking scones ready for tomorrow's 'coffee and scone' at home instead of buying whilst out shopping.

4. An afternoon nap.

5. A rehash of yesterday's lamb dinner with fresh roast tatties and parsnips - yummy.

Bella.

summerday

Don't think I've posted on this thread before, but it's a great idea, a bit ike a 'gratitude journal'. My 5 today:
1. Bringing home some free plastic plant pots from work that were about to be put in a skip- I will plant my strawberries in them.
2. Got an outfit together for a party at the weekend, mixing and matching a dress and accessories I already had, all of which we bought on sale or second hand
3. Making OH some 'ready meals' using leftover meat from yesterday and an old jar of sauce I found in the cupboard.
4. Watering my seedlings
5. Tidying out my cupboard at work, which had become a real mess- and it is so tru when they say 'a tidy house (or cupboard!) is a tidy mind', I feel so much better for it.

Hope you've all had good days.