5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

VickyA_2

Good evening everyone :hello:

Frith - I'm very envious of your two strawberries! Our plants haven't offered us any fruit yet...

A busy couple of days. DH took me to a super smart restaurant yesterday as an extra to my birthday, which was in March! OS in the fact that the weekday lunch menu is cheaper than the evening menu - and he got many Avois points paying with the correct credit card!

So, the OS pleasures (the above was just a pleasure!):

1) Baked a cake for a cake sale in aid of a young local girl with a rare disease. My cake club buddies were invited to have a stall at the fundraising event and all donations went towards Phoebe's research. Obviously great to raise money, but equally as lovely to spend a good quality 4 hours with a couple of lovely cake club friends. I believe Phoebe's story is in the current issue of "Real people" magazine, which is a magazine I'd not heard of until today.

2) Sorted out under our bed. The cat has taken to hiding under there, but erm, well, it needed a jolly good dust/vac. Quite a few unwanted things have been binned and other items (3 handbags and a couple of books!) taken to the charity shop.

3) More clothes, which I was undecided what to do with, also found their way to the charity shop!

4) Found a lovely, simple recipe for sausage rolls in today's Telegraph Magazine. Mmm, now I just need the weather to be a little more picnic like!

5) When parking today I bought a ticket for all day. Upon leaving the car park, I gave my ticket to a lady who was just arriving. She offered me money for it... but I'd already got my money worth. A teensy bit of good karma was felt.

6) Planning all completed for next week. Very satisfying!

Night all.

DundeeDoll

was clearly having a bit of a brain not connected to typing fingers there vjsmum cos i knew it was mhags. you are she of the 35 scripts to mark. against my better judgement i brought home a dissertation to mark. did the first 13 pages this morning and now it sits causing me guilts :-(
1) a sunny start. walked the dogs, finished off some smoked salmon for breakfast then rinsed 'empty' bubblebath container and got my bubbly bath - very os mse
2) went to garden centre with dd2. we bought some plants and a nice jacket for her. then we had a cup of tea and wondered why on earth we had signed up for the rnli h2o challenge. 10 days with no tea eek
3) then home for lunch then we walked the dogs - took them up balgay which gives fab views of the tay and fife
4) then l!dl then i put the plants in
5) then rugby with glasgow warriers winning the pro 12.

judi24

Ok just a thought - if you clever academics feel pain marking the blasted masters dissertations and we poor students feel pain writing them, maybe we should just call a truce and stop hurting each other! (but I'd still like certificate just as I'm sure you would still like your pay packet!) Happy all round!!!

Purple_kitten

1.We popped to the next town to pay in a tiny cheque, only a little but it helps.:)
2. We had a couple of CS bargains,a lovely plate with otters and mink from davenport, plastic golf balls for the animals:cool:
3.Geraniums planted everywhere and DH working on the back garden creating 2 tip runs in 2 hours:cool:
4.Did a bit of cleaning and tidying up. And started to un pack our bedroom again from when we decorated bang goes that minimalist look but mainly hidden behind big built in mirrors now.
5. Had left over sausages and egg in a sarnie for a late brekkie.
6. I grabbed the car and popped out to get a fresh bread for the morning, picked up lamb kidneys for the animals for 28p.:p
7. Not sure it’s a pleasure but I must finish our books tonight so I am here with a big cup of tea and choccy bar I will keep going until they are done, updated to add I’ve completed them now I will review and submit them tomorrow – phew:j, we owe a little and will pay it well - when I am paid.:T

Susan1962

1. Put the washing out - brought it in again half an hour later as it started bucketing down. Still at least it will have the line dried smell
2. Decluttered 12 DVDs, 8 CDs, four paperbacks and some kitchen bits and pieces
3. Tidied (a la Marie Kondo) so realised that I have more than enough underwear and could safely throw out the dingy and sad pairs
4. Had half a box of Orange Matchmakers and feel slightly queasy. But it still counts as a pleasure LOL

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Oh no is Sunday evening and I came into the Bridge on Friday evening.

The weekend gets shorter!

Purple_kitten

1. We were incredibly late to bed having been engrossed in a movie, and incredibly late again to get up, pfft the fashionable way of saving money I reckon.:o
2. Before we got up I needed to reorganise the wardrobe as I’d used the airing cupboard but not put anything away for ages.:o
3. Submitted our accounts after minor heart failure at logins.
4. More leftovers for tea, I am a bit bored of them now, brightened it up with scones from the freezer, and whipped cream picked up with the bread yesterday.:p
5. Job searching and at least I am in one while looking see there is always a bright side.:):)

DundeeDoll

judi24 wrote: »

Ok just a thought - if you clever academics feel pain marking the blasted masters dissertations and we poor students feel pain writing them, maybe we should just call a truce and stop hurting each other! (but I'd still like certificate just as I'm sure you would still like your pay packet!) Happy all round!!!

rofl.
1) tipping with rain so was happy that i had got yesterday's plants in and rain watering them in nicely
2) walked the dogs to the top of balgay. was wet but not chilly so i enjoyed getting wet, knowing that i'd enjoy that wonderful moment of getting home, peeling off the wet clothes and wrapping myself in a nice warm fluffy towel.
3) xoh had come back for the car as she's helping her bf move house, so i cadged a lift to cathedral
4) fabulous sermon on the trinity followed by very tasty meal at new japanese restaurant (£7 for their sushi and we had water so fairly mse os) then round to S's to watch without a clue. very funny. then
5) walked home with dd2 who finished work at 5:15. we watched mrs brown's boys film (lent by S) then i finished cleaning the house and am now in bed tired but happy.
the rest of the masters will have to wait till tomorrow...

mhagster

Let me find some weekend pleasures , it's rather cold and chilly and wet in Melbourne this Monday morning, the first offical day of winter here.

It's been a quiet weekend , which is nice after the busyness of last few weeks.

I tidied up and enjoyed doing so.

I caught up on some UK telly.

I went to local cafe on Saturday with DD1 and enjoyed Pumpkin tart and salad.

We have a rather odd ( but hearts in the right place ) neighbour , who brought round a huge bag of lemons and trashy magazines, so I took the magazines up to library swap box and oops may have brought some others straight back out it ( but they've been perused and shall be returned today)

I made lemon cupcakes with one of the zillion lemons , so shall be kind and neighbourly and hand some in for her.

We had friends over yesterday afternoon for an hour , which really tired out OH but was lovely to see them .they brought gifts of Scottish food! ( all the way from Brisbane!)

I've made soup and then some more soup as OH can manage small amounts so freezer is full of the stuff!

My dog has been exceptionally cuddly this weekend which has been nice for both of us.

I have today off so shall do supermarket shop and hopefully another quiet day. Last day for district nurse to come in ...hurrah!

Maybe more pleasures later

mhagster

Monday teatime and everyone is home

Long lie for me...I'd woken up early and then dozed off again, woke at 7.45am! Yikes! Drove DD2 to school in some very scruffy clothes!

It was our coldest start to winter in decades apparently, snow in the mountains.

Took ( blushes) about 30 read magazines to swap box and borrowed 2 books from library, went to pharmacy , took hired crutches back and for some reason did not have to pay as much as I'd thought ( nowhere near as much! ) , meds not available at that time, so had to go back this afternoon and it seems we were overcharged last week so that was credited

Bread and sausage rolls bought from the bakers , primroses bought from the hardware shop for my front porch, flowers bought from florist , fruit from the green grocers , UK magazine from newsagent and in each one a warm and friendly service provided. I love our local shops.

Home and read one of my new library books, may have snoozed!

OH came a teeny tiny walk....from the back door , out the back gates and all the way to the corner and in the front gates and home! Not far but it's a start! District nurse in for last visit, so that's another thing done and dusted.

I've ordered takeaway for dinner....it's a freebie so will taste even nicer.

Back to work tomorrow but just for the morning and then off again .

Have a good Monday