5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

bagpuss38

1 -5 A little mse moment I thought I'd share. After cleaning the house all day I was pooped and was about to reach for phone to dial takeaway. When I stopped and thought hmm no we can do better. So I whipped out some frozen chops and chucked them in the oven with herbs. Fried some red onion and garlic in butter. Made some mash,poured onions in mash, steamed some veg. While that was all muddling I threw together a quick chocolate sponge. A very yummy dinner and not a penny spent. Very proud of myself:money:

bagpuss38

Also popped on to ask Frith if she would mind divulging a little of her European journey.
I would love to do something like this with the kids yet haven't a clue where to start. X

VJsmum

Good evening from Ice Cream Town

Ampersand - leek and tattie soup was lush thanks. Not sure how slimming it is however.
Quite quiet on this thread at the mo, innit? Some regulars missing (still haven't got over Chicken's absence either )

McCulloch - I love Jacks chickpea and peach curry
Bagpuss - start with where you'd like to go and work back. Places served by ferry / Eurostar work well - Amsterdam, Brussels, Bruges, Lille, Paris, South of France. Trains are so quick these days that many places are reachable in a day (depending on where you start). From here in the Midlands, we've done Hamburg, Avignon, Lyon, Montpellier within a day.

Pleasures since Monday

1. Soup, as said, is delish
2. Work has been kind of OK - I have dropped a module, which will help stress levels
3. Bought some new loafers yesterday and some fantastic jeans. Not cheap but really needed and loved (jeans anyway)
4 More decluttering
5 Back with DD in Ice cream town - she is liking the job, and it's good for her (as well as the money, of course)
6 Bought some storage for ice cream town house, in Ikea. THat's tomorrow's job while waiting for plumber to quote for some heating
7 a 10 minute phonecall has meant a £400 windfall and some shares reallocated (courtesy of Santander, as a result of 100 free Abbey National shares given 30 years ago), it will pay for Ikea, Jeans and more....
8 Good drive tonight to Wales, a beautiful evening for it.


night all

Frith

Pleasures for last 2 days:

Smaller son's operation yesterday. I think the NHS as a whole is short of sedatives now. Still, they worked enough that he was able to have his anaesthetic. Operation was to take 40 minutes but son presented complications (of course!)
I was waiting outside recovery after 30 minutes and he was wheeled out after 1 hour 20... Maximum dose painkillers since but the op has worked and he's very pleased about that!

Bagpuss - journey is limited to somewhere we can get to without flying. Sweden is about as far as you can get by boat and train! Anyway, its rail and sail to Amsterdam for us. :-) We'll be geocaching, hiring bikes (recovery permitting) and going to the coast (Zandvoort) by train. By fluke, hotel we chose backs onto the city's largest park!

bagpuss38

Thanks guys. I shall do some research. Tbh it was only Frith posts that piqued my interest. We have recently aquired passports for dds and it would be nice to explore by train as we don't have a car.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Live view from the nest. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

ampersand

Frith - great news re:son and DONE. You have been through t'mill as much as he with this on/off op.
vjm - ditto re:chicken and lovefullshelves and ccp and other current mia's.
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1. Rather enjoyable cricket atm....rather large glee time. & sent Brendan and blackcaps over in perfect time to show albion how to beat them.

2. Hemmed Vicar's huge new tablecloth. Felt good to do this sort of sewing.

3. Bought 2 of last 3 tkts! Tuesday next. Can't wait.
https://www.theapex.co.uk/whats-on/event/1653/the-spooky-mens-chorale

[bop can have first 5 words,,,]

4. Compline 2 nights ago. Listed bells are away for recasting after much fund-raising. Saw clock! All the 30+yrs tired and tatty old blue and gold is re-done. Looks fantastic. After prep. and 3 layers of blue, the bog standard local building co. men mastered perpendicular laying on of gold leaf from crane, which is remarkable. I hear they have loved this job and really 'got' it.

5. ABs vs Oz will be seen in The Alma demain. Will they do better with no sticks in their hands? Bledisloe Cup Final's a biggie.
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mcc - shall follow you with Fatty's outing at Catterick. Again, the continuing lift as you write your pleasures is really heartening - and just as good for Dr C too.

mhagster

Almost bedtime for me. Just popping in to say hello. Not much happening other than work which was busy.

OH and Haggis came to pick me up.

Snoozette.

Days are stretching out by the tiniest amount. Not dark until 6pm

Hopefully some pleasures over the weekend.

mhagster

frith hope youngest Master Frith gets well soon and makes a quick recovery. You must be relieved it's all over now.

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1) making the first two batches of chutney of the year, jolly hot in the kitchen but worth it.

2) Making one of the batches of chutney with some peaches and nectarines that had been in the fridge long enough to not be fresh enough to eat as fruit, so not wasted!

3) chopping up another batch of free apples for He Who Knows to juice for cider, strangely satisfying to sit here with the demi johns burbling away around me and know I helped.

4) My cup of tea, which I feel I've earned today.

5) Walking to get some milk in the nicest sunshine we've had for a few weeks, it's glorious out there today, I'm looking forward to doing the watering in the garden this evening, it will be toasty warm!