5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

CCP

Afternoon all.

I had a very pleasant birthday yesterday, thank you all, although the plan for my sister and I to go out for lunch was rather hampered by the same power cut which set off my building's burglar alarm - it knocked out most of the city for most of the day, and it took us nearly two hours to find somewhere open to get some food. :eek:

Saturday's pleasures:
1) A nice mooch along the seafront in the sun with my sister.
2) Cuddling a jack russell puppy on the common (my friends don't call me "the dog magnet" for nothing! ).
3) Finally finding a pub that was open and doing food, for a very late lunch while watching the football.
4) Eating rather molten ice lollies under a tree in the park (all the ice cream places' freezers were off because of the power cut, so they were just selling what was still nearly frozen).
5) As we ate so late I didn't need much dinner and just defrosted a couple of slices of HM pepper and onion tart to nibble on.

Today's pleasures:
1) Sausage sarnie for lunch while watching the grand prix.
2) Popped up the pub to watch the football. I started off sitting on the floor as I was feeling a bit dizzy (sinus problems again) and I didn't want to keel over from standing up too long in the heat - when it became obvious I was going to get trodden on if I stayed where I was, a kindly couple let me perch on the end of their sofa. :T
3) Watering the garden while listening to highlights of Muse's set at Glastonbury which one of my neighbours was blasting across the area. Very kind of them.
4) I can't face cooking tonight so I'm going to get a takeaway pizza using a 50% voucher they've sent me. (Lazy CCP! :o:D)
5) I don't fancy going back up to the hot, stuffy pub on such a lovely night, so I'm going to skip the quiz and just sit out in the garden until it gets too dark to see my book.

Have a lovely Sunday evening all.

Ladyhawk

Evening all,

What an absolutely glorious day!

CCP wrote: »

my friends don't call me "the dog magnet" for nothing! .

I get called that for completely different reasons!

And CCP - I hope you are not complaining about being forced to listen to Muse.... it could have been a whole lot worse!

1) The wonderful sunshine... I am most definitely a summer person (despite being obscenely pale!)

2) Chatting to two of my brothers and my mum on the phone today.

3) Mending a shirt, skirt and top. I don't sew so I am really pleased with myself.

4) Popping in to town for a contact lens appointment as I had a free voucher for D&A. And yet again had truly appalling service from them. The voucher said it was for a contact lens assessment but when I went to get the trial lenses the sour woman told me that I wasn't eligible as I was existing customer. When I pointed out that that wasn't one of the terms and conditions she tried to tell me that "assessments" were only for new customers... but then in the next breath she said that "from the looks of your assessment today..." I pointed out that she had just contradicted herself and she got a little arsey... Anyway the pleasure was walking out of there and swearing that I would never cross their treshold again.

5) Pottering around in my garden planting even more veg that I bought this afternoon - some mange toute and broccoli which were both reduced to 30p. I will be very surprised if more than 1 of the mange toutes survive though. I also repotted some of the tomatoes (I counted that I have 22 in total!!) so hopefully they will start perking up.

6) Having such a relaxing 3 days away from work, with glorious weather and just doing the things I really love doing: baking, gardening, chilling.

Enjoy the rest of your evening.

L

nuttybabe

Evening all

mine for today

1. a lie in :j

2. must have had rain last night as the chalk had gone from the patio so the kids spent today re-decorating it!!!

3. A lovely sunny day so have sat in the garden every chance i got

4. Made some lovely food for a half time buffet and everyone enjoyed it

5. Dh fixed the fan so that will be in the bedroom tonight. i am hopeful of a good nights sleep!!

Have a good evening everyone

Ginger_Snap

Hi folks, hope you have all enjoyed the sunshine. Mine for today:

1. Did my first Race for Life today with 3 really good friends. We had a great time and vow to have another go (but jog more!) next year. Brilliant weather and a lovely atmosphere.

2. Enjoying uploading the photos onto facebook this evening and seeing the ones posted by my friends.

3. Meeting my £300 target for fundraising.

4. Realising that this time 2 years ago I was about to undergo a mastectomy and a year ago I had just finished chemo and herceptin. I have (hopefully) got my health and confidence back and could never have attempted the race even a short while ago.

5. A lovely dinner of gammon, jacket potatoes and salad cooked by OH followed by an evening of Top Gear. (well, you can't have everything!)

Good night all. xx

5.

savingforoz

Hope everyone has had a good weekend!

My 5 for today:

1. Sorting my Microsoft Outlook problem - turned out it was a Yahoo issue and I've managed to sort it.

2. The wonderful smell of my bread baking - I never get tired of it!

3. Yummy homemade chilli for tea, with rice.

4. Lovely relaxing day at home, getting stuff sorted.

5. Successfully avoiding the football - and from what I hear, I didn't miss much.

jollymummy

Hi all

I've been working all weekend, but have next two weekends off - yay !!

1. Absolutely LOVED watching Muse at Glastonbury on telly last night - would love to have been in the crowd - tee hee CCP.

2. OH made a lovely chicken dinner for me this evening.

3. Lovely cool breeze this evening while I watered the garden.

4. Had a little potter round our allotment tonight.

5. Planning on making chilli jam and elderflower cordial next weekend and feel quite excited - am I sad - no don't tell me

6. Really enjoyed the Dr Who finale last night.

JM x

Patchwork_Quilt

1) Getting to the bottom of the ironing basket this morning. I don't like ironing but there is a great deal of satisfaction in having none left.
2) Spending the rest of the day celebrating a friend's 40th birthday. We had lots of nice salads and cheeses, venison sausages and lots of wine. The weather was lovely. The garden was a lovely setting and they have an enormous summer house with lots of chairs and blankets.

That's it. We didn't do anything else but I couldn't think of much else I'd rather be doing on a sunny summer Sunday.

Broomstick

Hiya.

My five pleasures for Sunday:

1. Trip to the garden centre farm shop to buy strawberries. Am going to have a go at making jam. Have had fun looking up recipes and trying to resist buying jam-making gear from the Lakeland catalogue.

2. The myriad of boats on the rivers which we had to cross several times on our trip out. It was so good to see people out enjoying themselves and everything looked picture postcard pretty.

3. Very pleased with myself for staying on target with food planning and clearing the fridge without waste this week. Cauli cheese and leftover salads from yesterday with strawberries for pud.

4. Timing another afternoon nap to coincide with the football

5. Have been experimenting with some ideas for rag rug making using up the beyond-all-hope clothes that I was going to send to the rag bank at the dump. If I get going on some rugs for the stone kitchen floor now I might stand some chance of getting them finished before the winter!

Sweet dreams

B x

Frith

5 for today!

1) Mum brought a sheep leg bone round! My bigger son likes the Horrible Histories TV programme and there is a song about Vikings and the lead singer "Viking" uses a leg bone as a microphone. So he's been happy all day. :-D

2) Had some minestrone soup for lunch. The boys have been insistent for years that they love tomato soup above everything else but, today, they decided it will have to be minestrone from now on.

3) Went to the school's Classic Car Show. I was on a stall for 2.5 hours and didn't get to look at anything but both boys went off with their friends and just came back for more money! It was lovely to see younger son run off into the distance and ask the stall holders how much things were/ask for a ride on the quad bikes and so on. He had Selective Mutism for years but he gets by now, especially when he has his best friend with him.

4) My sister came round on her way home from Wales and brought me a birthday cake after I mentioned I didn't have one on my birthday.

5) Phoned my school friend and was on the phone 1.5 hours which cheered me up.

6) Did LOADS of little jobs this evening - usual housework plus 2 loads of washing, cleaned the stairs and kitchen floor, bits of paperwork and listed stuff on Ebay.

That's about it! Been VERY hot and sunny all day but its cooling down nicely now.

sparrer

My 5

1 Strange that you should mention sheep bones ACEY, visited DM today and she gave me half a lamb shoulder which she said was too much for just her. I'm sure I can do it justice

2. While I was watering the garden last week I found one of my desert spoons resting on top of a flower pot. That's strange enough in itself (I'd never use household cutlery for gardening) but this evening when I returned from a day with DM I couldn't find the fork I use for the cats and dog. I used it last night and had washed it up and put it away with the rest of the cutlery, so I searched the drawer but in the end had to use another fork. When I was watering the garden later I found the fork...in the gooseberry bush at the end of the garden :eek:. I live on my own and no-one locally has as key to my house. My neighbour suggested I sleep walk but there's no evidence of that, and why would I do such a peculiar thing? I won't tell you the other neighbour's suggestion, it'd send shivers down your spine . The pleasure in this is the speculation and fun and games we all had in the twilight, speculating how the two events happened. Suffice to say I don't scare easily or I wouldn't be sitting in bed typing this now

3. A good, reasonably priced lunch out...just as well as it was my turn to pay , then a wander round the Henley shops and I didn't buy anything

4. DM gave me a sackful of clothes to sort for car booting/charity shop and I found a lovely top which I'd always admired so that one's mine!

5. The car I was following on the M25 on my way home had a German plate. I saw 2 cars flash him and and as they overtook him the passengers in both cars stuck their thumbs up. Never let it be said the English are bad losers :T

Night night, sweet dreams
S x