5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DundeeDoll

A lovely lazy day
1) breakfast was fab - left over st delia red cabbage with bacon
2) finally on my own, took boys for a Long wet walk. We found a nature reserve I never even knew existed - long and narrow where a rail line used to be
3) found a discarded mcd's hot drinks cup and took the coffee bean - 6 for a hot free drink
4) lunch was hash from left overs nom nom then off to neighbours for very pleasant drinks and chat
5) now home with my boys. Dinner - dd2's left over Chinese eeked out with ys mr t stir fry (11p New Year's Eve) and another nsd comes to a close. Off to bed now. Night x

topsyturphy

My pleasures for today

1. Ds2 home from his dad's.
2. An invitation out to lunch tomorrow.
3. No problems on the tube today.
4. More crochet done.
5. Enjoying my colouring book.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Saturday)


1) A lie in!


2) The first batch of yoghurt I have ever made worked! Had it on granola for breakfast, then with strawberries at teatime. Then sons finished the lot off!


3) Bigger son went to work on the estate, in the rain.


4) Smaller son and I went geocaching in the forest. Found one easily, one was in the arboretum bit (so fenced from the deer) and we couldn't get through the high fence and the gate was locked. Third we were driven back to the car by the rain.


5) Watched Casualty.


6) Booked 2 nights in the posh youth hostel in Brighton. So I need to find some good things to see while we're there. I went as a student (whilst working in Pevensey) then for about 2 hours a couple of years later.

jollymummy

These are for yesterday

1. Visiting my lovely Mum, being thankful we spent a fab Christmas day with her. She was gravely ill last Summer and our best gift was her being here

2. More painting with my Son.

3. Hubby making scrummy southern fried chicken using deep fat fryer (my work trousers won't fit next week).

4. Watching Iron Man 3 with our boy and really enjoying it.

5. Spending time jewellery making and watching some old episodes of Still Game.

[Deleted User]

1) He Who Knows is safely home after the 2 1/2 hour drive in the monsoon from DD1s house this morning.

2) Broccoli and Stilton soup made for lunch today, just the ticket for this abysmal weather.

3) Got very disenchanted with the TV yesterday evening so I turned it off and read a book with the woodstove for company, this has much to recommend it as a way of spending an evening and will be repeated often!!!

4) Yesterdays bedding wash was dry this morning so is now in the airing cupboard and todays washing is up and drying in the utility room. A utility room with a boiler in to dry washing in is a REAL pleasure all year round.

5)The cyclamen in my front window box that I can see through the window. They were last years bulbs and normally just wither away and need replacing but we left them in this year and planted the summer bedders above them and they have responded magnificently to being watered over a long period and are now a mass of blooms, wonderful on a cold, wet January day.

Kittikins

Frith, what's the posh youth hostel in Brighton called? Is it just a YHA but happens to be fancy-dancy? I fancy having a weekend back down there with DD but with more freedom than staying at a friend's house.

bagpuss38

I too would like to hear about the youth hostel please Frith. Do you have to be a member? Are there other good ones?
Btw I booked a hotel in amsterdam, am booking flights when I next get paid. Off 15 - 18th Feb

Goes back to lurking 😉

Skint_yet_Again

Pleasures for today


1. watching the birds in the garden this morning - resident robin and blue tits flitting around despite the rain


2. Christmas decs all packed away


3. washed bay window (inside) now that the Christmas tree is packed away - didn't bother with outside as it was lashing with rain


4. home made soup for lunch


5. hoovered up all the "snow" which falls off the Christmas tree every time you touch it, and had a general tidy round


Shopping day tomorrow and then back to work Tuesday

DigForVictory

MrsLW - awed by your garden centre selling pheasant! (Mind you, lads startled lidl had quails eggs.) Dress the zebra in as many bright colours as your eyes can stand - it saves Anxious Moments...
Sparrer - your family consist of *wonderful* people! Who appreciate you properly.
ampersand - it's one thing to go quiet over Christmas but for MSE to deny entry?! Horrified. Bonne Annee likewise & meuilleurs voeux for improvements in Fennynet.
BoP - live Scrabble is a thing of joy. All thanks!
Frith - hurrah Sainsb had robot & we too are starting this healthy eating bit.
mrs motivated - well done unsubscribing: there's junk & there's temptation!
jollymummy - love Dr Who blue!
skint - it's a leap year? Ah. Now, to warn the lads or just watch & wait... You have a robin?! One visits us to supervise occasionally.
Dundeedoll - thankyou for the peace of mind re Frozen bean stew...
kittikins - well done getting in quality family time - I must chase Esio on iPlayer!

OS Pleasures recently
The offspring opine that I, when giggling while being hugged, am "like those chairs at service stations". How the devil they'd know, I wot not.

A New Years Eve supper is being sorted. Haggis & mash & parsnips! Not quite the traditional neep but the lads were a bit vehement. [Buttered in honey, served with a dash of lemon juice - utterly glorious!]

For some reason my extended family struggle to understand my youngest son. Me, I share this bafflement but approve of the cunningly veiled intelligence required. Better to be a figure of mystery than a proven lout...

Transcribing my grandmothers recipes she sent her son off to both University & in the long vac to keep lighthouses with. I can read her writing easily but giggle a bit as to where she imagines fresh herbs are to be found out at sea?!

Victorian!Sherlock... Middle son, a recent Sherlock convert, is muttering somewhat as he's only seen the first series so far.

Son getting increasingly bemused by box labelled "Vader slipper boot Do not put on shelf before Sept 2015". (I think someone at Disney was being 'way too prescriptive). Son hadn't quite twigged it contained *several* pairs of slipper boots....

Fresh bedlinens - an unquestionably OS pleasure.

"Betrayal soup" - son lamenting his slightly heavy hand on the balsamic (into scotch broth, for breakfast) - some days the boychicks baffle me Utterly.

Son declares he's going to start drawing, with a still life. "Brother, strip!" Minutes later, "My Art career is over. This is hard." I'm still chuckling... The routines of work & school are going to constrict a bit.

Huge hugs to all who need them, health strength courage & at least one working pen for all facing back to work, school, education etc and hurrah Christmas is Done for several more months. (I love it, but I'm tired.)

DundeeDoll

Met xoh youth hosteling as did my mum my dad. She said YHA stands for your husband assured, and although our husbands have since both found love elsewhere, I think we'd both agree we had some good years (met xoh at brighton, wonder if it's the same hostel) Must go again.
1) 10th day of Christmas. No lords a leaping, but a rather fine performance of winters tale from the Garrick with Ken Branagh and judi dench. Gbf, mum and I went as we all missed when it was live. (So not a nsd as £15 for ticket and £3 for 2teas and a coffee at the interval)
2) due to horrid weather gbf had car and we went back home to mine for lunch which was mse
3) left over steak pie, mash, neep, last of sprouts, and Jamie Oliver's Sicilian aubergine followed by left over xmas pud, cheese and crackers. Still 3 portions of pud left, and enough aubergine stew for tomorrow's lunch, but apart from that other bits finished
4) as gbf driving, red wine left over from New Years remains unfinished. Thinking I will freeze it in ice cube trays
5) after they'd gone and after I'd walked the dogs I totally cleaned and sorted the fridge and the fridge freezer. Very satisfying