5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

milasavesmoney

Smiley I just love your list!

* watching our gorgeous two yr old DGD while her mommy and daddy go to DD1's school reunion events. She's sweet, smiles all the time, has beautiful curls, and says the most surprising things. Her name is Sequoia and she calls herself Quoy!. Her parents have not let her watch TV and they use movies for special occasions. She is just enthralled with Peppa Pig and Minnie Mouse.

* fresh caught salmon that was smoked to perfection!!!

* DD2 drove in this morning to join in the fun this weekend. She is always such a joy.

* SIL has not been a jerk at all so far. This is a surprise blessing. (Three days left so it's still early)

* DD1 is having so much fun at her reunion. She has a stressful husband and a demanding job...or is it the other way around? :undecided Anyway it's does my heart so much good to see her be excited, laugh again and enjoy herself. SIL is having a good time too.

Skint_yet_Again

Saturday pleasures


1. managed to wander round local car boot between the showers with a friend


2. bought some cheap plants from the local pond association 3 begonias for £1 and a big pot of London pride £1 which has split into 6


3. back to friends house for cuppa


4. did some more weeding and planted me new acquisitions - lets hope they survive as I am not very green fingered and anything in my garden has to fend for itself !


5. DS was home for the evening so we celebrated my birthday a day early with a lovely Chinese takeaway ... nice rest from cooking & chef mike (now the new name for our microwave ! - courtesy of Gordon ramsey)


DS has just gone to work, not back till 11pm tonight so am planning what to do for the day....

villagelife

1. Coffee and catch up with a friend followed by

2. A wander round a local garden. It is attached to a local college and has lots of individual gardens within it.

3. Being grateful for having things to do in the greenhouse during the heavy rain.

4. BBQ at a neighbours - good company, food and drink.

5. A fantastic firework display. About a five minute display.

lovecustomart

Today I had the following occasions give me joy so far:

1. picking some massive courgettes I had planted in my garden (and I mean huge!)
2. my dog gave me a big kiss after I asked him to he puts his nose on my cheek...
3. I was swimming and had a nice sun bath
4. Home made cappuccino and cake

What else is in store today?? I hope you all will have great and happy moments

mhagster

Good evening , it's now dark o'clock but has been a lovely day . Haggis and I have been home alone whilst the adventures amongst us have been gallivanting. They should be home in an hour.

Dinner tonight is a mish mash of what needed used up in fridge. So I've made pizzas ( found a sachet of yeast in the cupboard) , roasting up the last of the potatoes and we have some Indian snacky things . Also made the most delicious carrot , pumpkin and coriander soup which I has some earlier.

I may have eaten a big half of OHs vanilla slice. It's his cake of choice, is easy to eat and high in calories. One of our Queensland friends likes them too so they have a marks out of 10 scoring system for them. Anyway , our Tassie friends bought 2 yesterday ( I think they may have thought I like them so it probably was for me....she justifies! ) apparently the best in Hobart. He gave its a 9.5/10 which is high praise indeed. Anyway. I got the munchies this afternoon and the only sweet thing was a vanilla slice. It's not my cake of choice but was there!

Beautiful rainbows over the bay.

Watched 2 DVDs this afternoon. Bit trashy but okay...they were watchable.

Poor Haggis has missed his family! He's mooched about all day no beach today.

Sad but true but happy to be all up to date with my laundry, sad but true but I love the washing machine! Hanging area under cover but a good breeze off the sea almost drys them . Finish off on aired in front of heater.

Finally saw the kookaburras. I hear them .They start laughing around 6am and are first birds to wake up and then the rest start. I have seen so many new birds here and lots of blackbirds . Have seen lots of Tasmanian Devils but unfortunately all squashed on the road.

So many beautiful shrubs and trees that are a bit different to ours. May be a milder climate? Sea air? Lovely anyway.

Right I'm off to check my roasties ! Have a lovely day

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A few days worth of pleasures

1) The biggest pleasure possible we're going to be Grandparents again very early in the New Year, DD2 told us on Friday absolutely fabulous!!!

2) Goldfinches, we seem to have oodles of them this year and they sit on the telegraph wires stretching across the roads and chat to each other, it's a lovely sound.

3) Mostly (except yesterday afternoon) being able to dodge the showers when I'm Cookie walking, yesterday we got drenched though but getting dry and warm again when I got home was a REAL pleasure.

4) Plots starting to produce quantities of many things, nice to have fresh just picked things to eat again.

5) The amount of blossom on the blackberry bushes this year both in the garden at home and in the hedgerows. If we get the same amount of fruit set and ripened as it looks like we will it will be a very good harvest.

mhagster

That's wonderful news Mrs LW

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

You knows who wears the apron. Flour mess! Oh yeah!

5 Feast at the BoP Plaice today is Roast Buzzard, topped in sage and rosemary crusted skin. 2 Snorkers, and sage and onion stuffing. Proper pan gravy, Roasted Rosemary tatties, Bat On Carrots, Cauliflower and Peas.

Then home made with real butter and soft brown sugar, Spotted Dick! with real home made lumpy. No foams or emulsions will be used. Remember, Emulsions are for the walls!

4 Last night the Saturday Chicky Stickens were lovely. Bit hot and well lemoned as well. Wolfed down. Rubs Tum! Bones taken by the birds again, no food waste in BoP plaice!

3 Said as I get the Chicken this morning for the stove, out no waste shop again came in at under £30, and we even got the Cat his crucnhies as well. BoPsie, ever checking other baskets, another couple had 46 items for £122. No doubt all will be wasted like the fresh nitrogen environmental packaged iceberg lettuce reduced to £1.29. Better takes the cos one off the shelf for 60 pennies does BoP. No wonder we have too much food waste in this land. Now looking forward to two roast buzzards dinners, then two storming hot curries on Tuesday and Wednesday! Again, you will note that the curry will be brewing overnight on the stove as usual. Fridges are there to keep the wobbleales cool, not for food. Rubs tum and wolfs a Jaffa cake! Lovely!

2 Day we are watching the gals hit the leather with willow. Relax, BoP has not been trampled on by some stiletto heeled madam, it is just not cricket!

Everyday the heart gets a little stronger

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Edit, extra Pleasure
BoPsie, who is scrubbing, is washing the pan from last nights sticky chicken. It is, allegedly, well burnt on! Sometimes, you just have to ...

Purple_kitten

A mix over the weekend:
1. We didn’t know the Ikea sale was on which is why we went out there, it was heaving, it had the folding reusable bags in red for 50p each so snaffled a few for both MIL and us, and we got other bits such as tea lights as you always do there. Seriously if anyone is doing bed or kitchen overhauling their sale prices where ridiculously cheap, soft close drawer things reduced from 20 to a pound. We walked around and it was sale madness I swear people where just buying things as they are vastly reduced but some of it was very ugly.:o
2. Over to Costco for their offers and of course it would be rude not to get one of their pizzas for dinner and next day’s lunch, somehow got caught out in a very local and torrential shower. Cause being dry is for wusses….:rotfl:
3. Today I spent hours weeding the front garden and planting geraniums and re planting bulbs I had disturbed, I’m not great at gardening but it looks tidier.:)
4. Dinner was healthy but after I made for my first time a batch of scones that seem ok, and chopped up fresh strawberries and whipped cream that took an age..:cool:

Frith

Have just had several hours of the worst hayfever I have ever had in my life (which is saying something). Such a reaction my mouth/face has swollen up too!


Anyway, pleasures for today:


1) A lie in!


2) All tickets (done thus far) printed out for the holiday.


3) Cleaned my room, hoovered upstairs.


4) Soup and toast for lunch, just what I fancied.


5) Smaller son went to the motor racing locally.


6) 3 egg day from the chickens and we moved their pen onto some fresh grass.


7) In bed now and about to catch up with Casualty.