5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mcculloch29

1. Chat on phone with sis.
2. Opened a pack of 2 x 900g bacon for £1.49 from Heron for a casserole... and it was bacon steaks, big thick not rashers but thin chops of best back bacon. So bacon and beans and lovely bacon butties instead.
3. Friend is coming to help with my new mattress installation tomorrow.
4. Delivery guys kind, patient and prepared to wait.
5. Your pleasures, thank you - great to see some new names from other threads. Welcome!

Skint_yet_Again

Hi Gintotmelinda :wave: I am envious of your seeds I wonder if I can get some seedtrays in £1 shop. I would like to grow some plants this year


Frith - "YOU'VE got the job" !!!!!!!! How confusing but hopefully - as Cappella said - a good omen and we will be saying that to you again soon


Pleasures


1. awake early but its the weekend so didn't need to get up for work
2. got a load of washing out between heavy showers
3. cleaned my oven - one of those oven pride boxes and the shelves left overnight are now gleaming like new with minimal effort yay ! The bottom of the oven was a bit more effort One of those jobs I keep saying I will do more often before it gets so bad :whistle:
4. blackbirds on the lawn
5. bulbs are coming up in the garden

Miss_Penelope

Please can I join in? since every time I talk to my other half about doing something frugal or saving money he rolls his eyes so thought this would be the best place to get it off my chest so to speak.

- started spring clean this morning whilst children played lovely together.

- other half took our son to his grandparents and my daughter did not want to go, so we had our own little tea party with the left overs of the birthday cake I had made her and then we did some colouring in. Made me remember that as a parent you can be the best toy to your child and it does not cost anything.

-made chicken and spinach lasagne (jamie oliver recipe) with left over roast chicken and it was yummy.

- finished reading library book to the children.

- did stock take of kitchen cupboards and have enough food to last until Thursday and still within food budget for the week.

Have a good evening all.

:j

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday).


1) A lie in.


2) Tidied - floors, stairs, nearly finished washing mountain - sons have used 3 towels since they got home at 6.30...


3) Sainsburys for lunch and shopping.


4) Went to see the hens.


5) Quite enjoyed Top Gear.

ampersand

Of course you can join in MsP:-)
This is such a lovely and supportive Thread, brilliant for rants too. Leaving them here can be a real pleasure. Big library fan here:-) AND manic about the importance of reading REAL BOOKS with and to children.
You've been an mser so long!

Big Welcome to all newbies on board.

1. Still replaying the FACT of no.3 in #36858 and have just left msgs with the OZ family. Need to make bkgs today for leaving. Hours spent on all of this yesterday....after

2. Outstanding Church, and our former prison chaplain vicar's sermon was brilliant......after

3. & had relayed news 0f x's call to M at carboot, v.v.v. early. He grabbed and hugged &, swung her about in joy too - has been equally supportive for this young man and a family he'll never meet or know. Oh dear, far too many No More Books were found AND some superb studio pottery. & in happy land. Down to Spits they'll come on Thurs, 'cept for 2 Billy Graham 1st edns[1954, 1956, vg\g, uncut d/j's, as we say in the trade], which & gave to N[knowing BG had been his way in]. He was amazed and delighted. & said it was within a few years of those that BG was in NZ and & in Napier Municipal Theatre totally clueless as to why. Lots of us from Nelson Park Prinary School went along, as did hundreds more, without any idea. Said & to N, 'and just the same when we left. Didn't have a clue WHAT was going on - not much change there:-)
Poor booters all curtailed sharpish as fierce cold winds and biblical torrents suddenly arrived.

4. Same at rugby Club, where all the littlies and youngs and colts were arriving for their matches. Left the clean, dry teatowels, saying & wouldn't be around for next several weeks. Rain lashed in, players loved it. Mud, mud, glorious mud. Still away in time for 2.

5. Late afternoon up on gallops, did some v. pleasing i.d'g/research/valuing, watching fierce rolling weather, not always in the distance. Had usual Thermos - black green tea.
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Thankyou Lainey, yes - all will be well, Mother Julian moments galore with this needless biz.
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mhags - with your dates set, more parallels [in &'s mind anyway]. &'ll be in Marseille collecting someone, prior to bunging someone on plane home. Old world, new world releases and freedoms.

Right &, try Oz again.

Oh, a 6. Saw the 1st clematis amandii flower, a feeble-ish little one, out on coralux corner roof last night, when coming in.... and a violet! )))))

ampersand

Standalone - more than 5 with any Rich Hall piece:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2017/mar/05/trump-promised-to-wipe-out-isis-perhaps-he-already-has-
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and prisonbag.com josie's latest: The Big Squeeze
http://prisonbag.com/

Miss_Penelope

Thanks for the lovely welcome ampersand. I see you are a fellow thermos lover. It is an essential tool of the frugal kit!

Cappella

Oh & Such tragedy and comedy in one column. Brilliant but terrifying.

Pleasures
1. The Slow Regard of Silent Things. Patrick Rothfuss. Will reread and reread this. A strange and haunting book. Loved it.
2. A trip to Waterstones for coffee, cake and to spend Christmas gift tokens, hoarded since Christmas.
3. Two new salad recipes trialled and approved; one potato, one orzo to use up aspirational pasta. Both wanted again by the family
4. The ginger ninja has a new friend, a sleek, shiny whippet called Blue who runs rings around him.
5. Show of Hands CD the family bought me for my birthday rediscovered inbetween two rows of double stacked books on a bookshelf. :j

ampersand

My golly goodness,MsP and C - writes & as Show of Hands youtube their way to glory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBnSFZx124A

Does & recall them with beloved Spookymen's Chorale? Yes yes! 'tis so. They shared a Shrewsbury stage 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZauxBAeaC2E
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Of course, & will take any chance to reboot Spookies for QUITE QUITE soon:-):
https://spookymen.com/

bop's polishing his pinky tutu for Stroud as we speak.
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Spits is always a 2 Thermos 22>26hr day, sometimes renewed!
Lent is no coffee. Nearly forgot after HC hier.
Wish own gingers+many other 4-foots were still part of &life, but on call-y things, erratic comings+goings, sometimes long, rule them out nowadays. Love everyone else's though:-) In fact, Elsie, long-haired golden lab in Church yday, particularly fancied &'s ancient Marr's leather jacket sleeve, v.v.v.gently:-)
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GOOD JOB LUCK AND STARTS > pk, Frith, lady bopsie.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

OMG & has gone spooky!
5 Not really, but the future looks pretty good, so BoP is thinking pension. Company looking for peoples like me link-in’d to BoP a couple of weeks back. It seems they found someone and I tell you now he came at a price because they has garnered a bag load of dosh from their shareholders! More like, good job I did not bother! Just checking with millwright about the project.
4 Proper food last night was munched by BoP, poached salmon, minted new tatties, variety garden peas, not that carp from Harry (PM2 DD They have a song about Harry’s fish in the Pontoon stand!). Fresh homemade Parsley sauce. Recipe available on request.
Now as you know, BoP is at the mill at the now, and I has just checked the refrigerator here. Someone has put a tub of Philadelphia cheese, with salmon in there. Now that is like this peanut butter thing, carp food. I tried some once when mum BoP had some delli food, and it was awful. Just like when she used to served boiled bacon, broad beans, tatties and mashed spuds. Awful. Have you smelt broad beans? She used to say eat up your broad beans, otherwise no pudding. Pudding was always treacle sponge. I hated treacle sponge, so the encouragement to eat the broad beans fell on deaf ears! Now on the foods to avoid, as they serve no purpose, we have the following.
Sprouts
Broad beans
Cut French beans, another story, and on, and on.
Treacle sponge
Peanut butter
Strawberry jam. Strawberries are for munching on and adding cream.
Soft cheese such as Cottage, Philadelphia etc
Lentils, they are only for pipe smoking wood burning types from Totnes.
3 Now where was I! Hawker demon built and flying on mantelpiece. Sorted. Is next to the Boulton Paul Defiant. There. Now, Mathew Boulton was a mate of Jimmy Watt, him of steam fame. His company was set up in Wolverhampton and is still going, though absorbed a few times. Now you wanted to hear that. The Battle of Britain Class 603 Squadron is waiting for the house chess to be completed and should be on track in July!
2 Nite BoP is in his pink tutu getting ready for the beach! And I had elevenses this morning of proper food, a cake of jaffa! Lovelly. None of them silly fifty week old donuts from the emporium, and the 2lb bag of sugar cookies either!
Now when I worked in Browns Arcade, we made proper foods such as candy floss, in the same process used to make fibre glass. You need to know that! We also made fresh donuts! Proper food. Light and easy, not syrup infused carp and coated in sugar.
After that, you can also see details of BoP’s recipes …