5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

RageinEden

Hoping to have a quiet day today - neighbours had their telly on so loud last night I could hear it over ours. Fed up of them being so inconsiderate. I even filmed it. Floor vibrations the lot. It was like I had my own telly on. We're constantly going 'round but most times they don't answer the door. The are in their fifties and arrogant as anything. Anyway, woke up with splitting migraine.


1. Having a root in my toiletries stash (it's a big stash) and found something that is discontinued for my hair which I loved - two bottles. Oh yes!
2. Making big progress with my jigsaw
3. Cooked veggie breakfast with a veggie lasagne for later. Going to have a go at spicy roast cauliflower as well
4. Reserved a book in the library which I've been after for ages (cross stitch)
and most importantly
5. silence from next door - yay!


Lovely blue skies here as well so that bodes well for gardening during the week. Double Yay!


Hope everyone has a good Sunday

VickyA_2

Good afternoon everyone :hello:

A busy week last week, including an interview for a new job - which I didn't get. However, it sounds as though I had a lucky escape! Still, doesn't make it any better.

A number of pleasures this week:

1) Rugby with my "Tigers family". A great group of people, whom I've got to know better this season.

2) New, faster broadband AND a capped price. Saving money. :money:

3) Meal plan done for the week. Just need to stick to it. I've got some delicious salad bits for work lunches too, including as much British produce as possible.

4) Actually using up stuff stacked up in the cupboard. You know the stuff that you get on special offer, then you see it on offer again and "stock up" - forgetting that you'd stocked up 3 weeks ago. That goes for toiletries, dried food etc!!

5) Met up with a friend I hadn't seen for a year. Her little boy (4 yrs old) was most impressed with my prowess on the zip wire thing at the adventure playground!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

I don't need Aunt Bassies carp!


See proper pan gravy in the background, The bird is pretty hot as well!
I wear the apron!

chella

Out of the house nice and early for a coffee and a wander by the river to feed the ducks.


Roast pork for dinner tonight, just had a lovely piece of crackling.


Lazed on the swing bed this afternoon. I love how the sun makes the fabric cushions smell. Reminds me of my childhood, cherry picking and picnics in the cherry orchards.


Planted 2 clematis that I bought for a pound each in wilkos. Planted more lavender plugs and some peas in pots.


Had a really good sort out in the house and lots of winter clothes and coats put in the charity boxat the local college.


Going to open a bottle of cider to have with dinner.


Cat is sat on my feet, she really is my shadow

[Deleted User]

Having a smashing weekend with DD1 yesterday was busy and today has been relaxed and comfortable and sunny, always helps!

1) Lovely concert last night in the most beautiful old church, gorgeous music Rossinis 'Petit Messe Solenelle' very good listening and a wonderful venue.

2) A golden sunny day today, we had lunch in the garden and were warm, too warm at one point but that's NOT a complaint!

3) DD1 is cooking us German supper, Grunkohl mit Mettwurst and fresh pretzels, slurp!!!

4) Zebra doesn't have the chickenpox, he is well again!

5) I was able to walk into M&S yesterday and find 5 pairs of trousers that fitted, I bought the two most comfy ones and achieved an ambition of long standing!

milasavesmoney

* DD3 calling and reporting that her talk to 1000 high school boys and their house fathers went fabulous. She is the religious director at a very large private school. Her topic was on how to treat girls. She said these guys were really responsive to the talk and she had lots of them and the house dads thank her. Girls are definitely on these boy's minds and they had a lot of questions.

* Cooking in my new kitchen!!!! :j:j:j It is such a pleasure.

* When we hooked the old dishwasher (and I do mean oooooolllllllllddddddd!!!) back up it leaked everywhere. Plumber said get a new one, this one has had it! So, yesterday we went to buy one (after my scouring reviews for the best brand, model, price etc) and found the exact one I wanted on sale for $250 off the regular price! Happy days!! It was delivered this morning and will be installed tomorrow. We have not had a working dishwasher since the kitchen was torn out in December. I'm a happy woman! :j

* I love cooking with gas instead of my old temperamental flat electric cooktop. It was a pain and expensive to have that wall plumbed for gas but I'm over the moon that we did. And the oven works beautifully. My old double oven had one oven not working and the other heated either too hot or not hot enough depending on it's fickle mood. It was 33 yrs old and rightfully cranky!

* Quoye telling me about walking on the big balance beam (with help...she's two) at 'nastics' yesterday. Very impressed with herself.

Frith

Quick pleasures for today:


1) A lie in.


2) Cleaning - turtle tank, bathroom, stairs, hoovered etc.


3) Bigger son popped in to use the bathroom (for a wash) and his father's is too dirty :-/


4) Got some quilting from the Range to use in the turtles' filters. Only 80p for a huge off cut.


5) Went to Sainsburys for lunch and shopping.


6) Neighbours were so ridiculously loud and obnoxious all day that I sat on the allotment and read the paper.


7) Came back to find a car was embedded in the end of our little row of cottages! A car had not stopped at the crossroads so had smacked another car which had twirled round and smashed into the end house. Quite a lot of damage done to the wall and car totally squashed and air bags gone off on all sides/front. The other naughty car had carried on a tiny way then crashed into the garden of the same cottage and hit their parked car! Pleasure was everyone was fine and we got to watch police cars etc fiddling around.


8) Made some ice cream.


9) Watched Casualty.

milasavesmoney

Datchet wrote: »

It's a lovely day in Yorkyshire

Fencing off neighbors "wildlife garden" to keep rabbits out of ours

This made me think about what DD1 told me this morning. She has been putting their pet female rabbit's poop in their compost pile and it has attracted wild rabbits who come to sniff it. (Don't ask why b/c I don't know) She said she is getting her rabbit 'fixed' as this rabbit has had a litter (not from the wilds) and there is to be no more! Plus now the wild bunch know what she has in her garden. Yikes! She didn't know there were wild jackrabbits in her neighborhood. Maybe they come from miles around. She lives in the middle of her city so they would have to cross the interstates. Or not.

mhagster

Overcast and chilly in Melbourne. A few showers throughout the day.

Work...I do like a Monday.

Paid

Cleaned bathrooms

Hoovered

Snoozed

Painted dresser...the end is in sight.

Wrapped up warm for a dog walk.

I'm thinking beans on toast for tea.

Have a good Monday

Oi Pirate Pete those roasties look good!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

MHags. The roast tatties. Some of the evidence has been destroyed in the eating. Tum was rubbed.