5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Kittikins

Happy Birthday PK x


I reckon my latest cold is all the fault of my nemesis at school who was off sick for a few days this week then came back in looking more than half dead...makes me feel slightly better to 'blame' him, lol.

LaineyT

PK - Many happy returns for yesterday, re meal out best laid plans etc but Baileys with ice, mmm
Ah Ampersand the A14, enough to strike fear into the hearts of even the most resilient of drivers. Hate the thing and avoid whenever possible.


1. Evening walk with girls, cold clear night, looking up through branches of beech trees and seeing stars.

2. Enjoyable Saturday night, cuddled up with Captain Scarlet on sofa watching Life of Pi, might have shared a box of maltesers as well.

3. Today's drive through to pick Mum up, sun was out and positively balmy after yesterday's freezing wind.

4. Present from DM, a lace candle that forms as burns down, can't wait to light and see.

5. The fundamental pleasure of cooking and providing food for your loved ones, cleared plates!

VickyA_2

Happy birthday PK! :bdaycake: I do love a good MSE birthday. :beer:

Pleasures for the past few days:

1) Visited a clothing sale of a well known clothing retailer (seconds and old stock). Managed to get a few Christmas presents for DH/my mum. Went with a friend and had a cuppa in the queue whilst waiting to go in. Only a 20 min queue this time, but we've waited up to an hour before!

2) Saw friends yesterday and went for a lovely meal. Great time.

3) Friend's daughter popped in to feed the cat. She's saving up for a big school trip next year, so is trying to get as much money as possible. Happy to help out.

4) Found a sneaky loophole on Amazon Prime... If you have Amazon Prime membership and order something, not needing it to be delivered immediately, you can opt to have a 3-5 day delivery AND £1 towards Amazon Music/Apps/Kindle store... DH's present has been ordered with a 3-5 day delivery so I can get £1 off a Kindle book I would like.

5) Packaging up a book for my friend's son's Christening next weekend. We're unable to attend as it's FIL's next *big* birthday, but I wouldn't let the day pass without me recognising it. Just need to get to the post office to post it!

Purple_kitten

Thank you for the birthday wishes, they are nice and non calorific:beer:

1. A slouchy Sunday afternoon:cool:
2. I finally got round to batch cooking and currying up the chickens the smell and taste is lovely, 6 portions for 2 people frozen it used up walnut, raisins and anything I had really, kept some separate to create the chicken wraps tonight, it already did 4 meals last week I think they lasted well. I pressure cooked any inedible bits for stock and the left over from that bones checked to be mash and given to the animals no waste at all.:T
3. Washings up to date and did a little bit of tidying.
4. DH bought me Thornton’s caramel birthday cake nom nom nom nom. He made me a birthday cake many years ago now but after it took a shopping trip and most of the day thanks to various disasters he swore it off after that as possibly the most expensive cake:rotfl:
5. The neighbours replaced their fence today with a lovely quality one, all I can say is phew! There’s been no fence there since they "tried to get us to replace it for them" 10 years ago. When we had just replaced “our” long fence with a quality animal proof one using all of our wedding money. Needless to say they aren’t great neighbours but appear to be making the effort now.
6. In between all the cooking I took the oven apart again and washed / scrubbed again, it’s looking almost sparkly now.:T

Frith

Ooo, I wish my neighbours would replace their fences, PK! I don't "own" either boundary.


Pleasures for today:


1) A massive lie in.


2) Sitting in bed surfing the internet until nearly lunchtime.


3) Sainsburys trip.


4) Brother phoned.


5) Sons came back and have been very jolly. It seems at their father's yesterday, there was no heating. :-/ Lots of complaining about how the cold air rushed in, if they turned over in bed.


6) Watched I'm a Celebrity.


7) Picked up lots of pears from the millennium green the other day and they are cookers. So I poached them for 25 minutes and we had them whilst watching I'm a Celebrity with a bar of basics white chocolate melted on them! They were very nice, which is good as I've about 20 more!

mhagster

Good evening
I'm having to make an effort after a very trying weekend at work with Mr @rsehole aka Mr Angry

So pleasures,
I'm now officially on days off! Got away half an hour early today which was lovely , home before I'd normally be finished!

DD1 had a birthday ...went out for a birthday tea. We all kind of shared what we had and brought leftovers for DS, who wasn't available.

Jacaranda trees are starting to bloom ! Purple trees are amazing!

Parrots and a baby in the big tree on driveway.

Tawny frogmouth baby and mum and dad in the big tree in back garden.

Haggis went to the vets. Annual boosters.he loves the vets.

Haggis went to the local vintage car fair ...everybody loved Haggis

I Woke up this morning an hour later than I normally get up on a work day. Oops to the alarm not going off. Mad dash and took car rather than train. Managed to get a free parking space, saw hot air balloons above me as I drove. Then hey! Half an hour early , drove home , missing all the school traffic

Having an almost sugar free November....tried some samples of brownies handed in for work in Friday , tut tut! Then had a bit of cake for DD2 s birthday , so, so sicky sweet.
Have been diet coke free since last Monday and today started bread free week! I'm a toast fiend at work so was really struggling by 10.30am! Aiming to be low carb (again! Tsk!) by end of month. Taking it slowly rather than all at once.

Do have a good Monday
PK belated birthday wishes!

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1) A super weekend with my lovely elder daughter.

2) A superb concert in the Cathedral where she was singing with the Choral Society, some Bernstein 'The Chichester Psalms', some Brahms '18 Liederwalses' and the jewel in the crown Carl Orff's 'Carmina Burana 'WOW just WOW!!!

3) Trains worked today and were on time and I got a seat on all of them, brilliant.

4) So much wildlife in the fields bordering the railway lines, Roe deer, pheasants, a covey of Partridges scurrying along, Red Kites, a Hare in the stubble and several smallholdings with chickens, geese, sheep and a grumpy Shetland pony. Coming past Winchester a field full of Alpacas, we had the pleasure earlier in the year of taking a couple of these chaps for a walk, they're gorgeous and a really beautiful scene of some cows standing in a stream and looking at the train going past, magic!

5) Best of all today and I think it might be my best unexpected pleasure of the year was sitting in the train in Swindon station and looking up at the sky, it was grey and pearly looking but not misty on the ground, then as we sat there the sun broke almost through the clouds and as I looked the most beautiful circular rainbow formed in a perfect halo round the sun, at about 3 o clock position in the circle there must have been a break in the clouds because there was a ray of bright sunlight shining through the edge of the circle and round the ray was the brightest coloured rainbow I've ever seen, it stayed for ages and I could see it nearly all the way to Didcot from the window, then the cloud went and we just had sunshine. I've never seen anything as lovely in my life! Lucky to have sat on the side of the train I did or I'd have missed it!!!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Look, BoP is on holiday again! Last week I was on the fishing net, carp was caught!

Ooooh, PK is twenty one!

1 Iced the Christmas cake on Sunday. This year topped with rough cut orange marmalade, smoothed with IOM whisky. Pure almond marzipan, so not for nutters, and came out at just over 10lb! Cannot wait!

2 Good run up to the lakes, boots on, big feast breakfast with snorkers and black pud. Proper foods. Rubs Tum!

3 Went to Vercovcium. Outpost of a trading nation. Bloody wet and rainy. Nearly lost BoPsie, she nipped to get her boots on, and BoP wents round shop! BoPsie walked off up to fort. Oh well, I caught up eventually!

4 And to good measure, we rescued an eagle. He is huge, made of tin. Will put Raffles to test. Ohh be fun!

Please God, can we have a new world, your followers have messed this one up.

VickyA_2

Good evening everyone :hello:

An interesting day, in a good way. Discovered a little more about the fascinating lives my class have. I'm such a nosey person that I love getting to quiz them a little more. If you're nosey, teach! :rotfl:

Pleasures (other than me being nosey!):

1) NPD

2) Lit a gorgeous "Winter scented" candle, which I've had since last year. Lovely.

3) Salad for supper. Yes, one of the coldest days so far, SALAD! Used up various veggies and salad items in the fridge.

4) HM soup for lunch - pea and spinach again. Delish!

5) Realised that we're going to have £6.99 extra per month after I cancelled an "emergency" call out on the previous home insurance, which is now included on our new home insurance provider. Now, do I add it to our mortgage overpayments OR add it to our household savings. Tricky....

Frith

Quick pleasures for today as I'm tired!


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Made it to work OK. -3 and very steep and twisty roads. Ungritted, as always...


3) One of those days where my small talk (such as it is) evaporated completely so I probably came across as sullen/talking at cross purposes with everyone. I did enjoy wearing my new (charity shop) coat during lunchtime duty and bigger son's enormous gloves!


4) Ordered a tonne of logs. We're down to the last few now.


5) Smaller son in particular has been mentioning wanting a dog. We've not had one before (plenty of them growing up but not since). I had a look at the Shropshire Greyhound Trust (too big?) and there are 2 more rescue kennels surprisingly local...


6) Sat in front of the fire and watching I'm a Celebrity.


7) Smaller son is very much looking forward to tomorrow as his favourite TA is with him and it's the once a fortnight all day breakfast for lunch! He has sandwiches all the other days.