5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Wee_Jo

_party_ Happy Birthday FunkyMonkey! _party_

:bdaycake:

Have a great day! :beer:

(Though now you've made me want takeaway....:D)

alec_eiffel

Hi, newbie here!

Here are some of my good things for the day.

1. we bought a swiss roll for 50p last night and there's still half left for after tea.
2. there are lots of birds pecking about in the garden today, fun to watch
3. we have 5 NSD's ahead, well, 5 including today
4. found a half used roll of bin bags
5. now the rain has stopped it's nice and windy, so the laundry will dry quickly

mollythewestie

Happy Birthday Funkymonkey :beer: :bdaycake:
Jo_Rourke - To be perfectly honest, I make it different every time I make it as I am still trying to find the perfect recipe! However here is the one I used yesterday, which was more of a cake than bread, but still very yummy!:

Banana cake/bread
125g Butter
150g Light brown sugar
2 Eggs
3 overipe Bananas (mashed)
250g Plain Flour
1 tbsp Baking powder
pinch salt
1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
1/2 tsp Mixed spice

- Cream butter and sugar
- Beat in Eggs
- Add mashed bananas
- Sift together Flour, Baking powder, salt and spices and fold into the wet mixture.
- Pour into a greased loaf tin
- Cook for 50 minutes at 180 c (160 Fan oven)

I sometimes add sultanas and walnuts too. This cake is lovely on it's own for afternoon tea or sliced and drizzled with a little golden syrup.

Enjoy!

Edited to add: I can't remember where I got this recipe from originally, but it was probably from OS somewhere.

Wee_Jo

Thanks Molly! I am going to try that as soon as I have some suitably squishy bananas :j

Frith

5 for yesterday (Weds) if I can remember.

1) Had a lie in.

2) Went into local canal town for a look around. Got a T shirt for smaller son and 2 toy cars for 80p!

3) Had lunch by the canal basin and had a walk about.

4) Spent the evening printing out 2 for 1 vouchers for our trip to London next week. The train for sons, sister and me costs £40 and is direct! Going to Tower of London in the morning (free with Blue Peter badges, 2 for 1 for me and sister). Then going on the Thames Clipper (2 for 1!) then to the Globe Theatre. (Again, free for the BP badge holders and 2 for 1 for us!) We will be taking all food and drink. Getting quite excited about it now.

Can't think of 5 but will do today's 5 later on.

CCP

Evening all.

I'm really sorry to come on to what's supposed to be a nice cheerful thread and post about bad stuff, but I've not had a good day and I need to vent. Please feel free to skip this bit and go straight on to my pleasures for the day - at least I've had some!

I've just had a phone call from my dad asking if I can get out of work tomorrow afternoon to go with him to see my grandmother - the doctors have apparently indicated that there won't be another chance. It's not as if it's any surprise, but it's still not exactly cheerful news.

This came after having a 'mole check' at work today on a lump on my arm which has been there for some time - I thought it was harmless but my mum said I should get it looked at. Sadly, my mum's right - the specialist nurse reckons it's a benign form of cancer - harmless at present, thank god, but it needs removing. I really didn't need that at the moment.

And, just to top everything off, I've just gone to get out a new toothbrush to use this evening, and the only one I've got left is pink. And I hate pink.

OK, nice things for today:

1) Cut through the main square at lunchtime today and glanced up at the big screen, which shows short films when there's nothing else on. I ended up watching a stop-motion film about a television trying to get in front of a mirror so it could watch itself - it was beautifully done, and so silly it made me laugh.

2) I mentioned the thing on my arm to a colleague at work and found out that she'd had exactly the same thing, so she was able to reassure me that it's really easy to get rid of and not a problem at all. It was a great relief and stopped me bursting into tears, which I was about to do (and I'm not a tearful person at all usually).

3) I've got some beer in the fridge which I bought some weeks ago while it was on special offer, so I'm sipping one while typing this.

4) There were peaches in my fruit and veg box today. I'm not actually that keen on them, but they're so summery.

5) Tuna pesto pasta bake for tea tonight - yum!

(It's a bit worrying that my pleasures are always food-related when I'm down. No wonder I'm fatter than I'd like to be! )

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Acey - well done on your voucher collection - it sounds like it's going to be a great trip, and very MSE. :money:

alec eiffel - welcome to the thread. :hello: I'm sorry for the initial moan in my post - I don't usually do that sort of thing, I promise!

funkymonkey - hope you had a lovely birthday.

sparrer wrote: »

Lol at your cat practising his singing...a dawn chorus?

I think you might have solved the mystery of why my cat does it, sparrer - he's trying to join in with the birds! Sadly he's not nearly as tuneful as the avian songsters.


I hope everyone has a pleasant evening.

Ladyhawk

Evening all,

Sorry that you have had such a bad day CCP. So glad that the lump on your arm looks benign. What a relief! Sorry to hear about your Gran as well. That's awfully sad. And lastly, my little mite also like to meow at the crack of dawn, though I think that it is just a reaction against his diet and he is reminding me he is there to be fed.

1) Waking up to the smell of fresh bread. I wasn't hungry so didn't have anyway... but the smell was nice.

2) Had a meeting down at Canary Wharf (certainly not a pleasure as I always get lost there) but the view from the meeting room was spectacular over the Thames, the O2 area an out towards the South East. I was a little worried about how the meeting would go as my supplier and I had been summond to see two of our Senior Directors. But it went really well and was very constructive... and I chaired it all by myself despite being the most junior person there by quite some way.

3) The two eBayers that were due tonight turned up on time and paid in full... £31 into my Mortgage Pig. One more to come on Saturday...

4) Pottered around the garden while I was waiting for the eBayers. I watered the plants properly for the first time in ages and did a little weeding.

5) Best till last... Got my new contract through in the post which means that at last my promotion is complete!!! From next holiday year I will be on 28 days holiday as standard and I am now on the higher bonus scheme as well! YAY!!!

Right - am now off to turn the red and black currants I got off freecycle into something wonderful!

Nighty night all. Have a fabulous Friday!

L

parsonswife8

Happy birthday funkeymonkey :beer:
1. My two tier bamboo steamers arrived.:T

2. Got a good few bargains at Netto and Lidl.:D

3. A lovely day, somewhat overcast, but the sun eventually shone through and it wasn't too hot and humid.:cool: Had a trip to see my orthopeadic consultant, about a 30 minute drive away. Still avoiding an op.

4. A cornish pasty, mash and mushy peas and gravy for our supper. So yummy, but I couldn't finish mine.:o

5. A truly lush glass of cold sauvignon blanc whilst watching Eastenders. My nerves wouldn't have taken it otherwise.:rotfl:

Have a lovely evening everyone.:A

Caterina

Hi all

CCP I am so sorry about your gran, even if not unexpected this sort of news is always terribly sad. Glad that the skin thing is benign and of course I understand that it is not something nice (having to have it removed) but at least whatever it was it is being treated. However I am not trying to diminish the fact that you are feeling down and therefore I am sending you lots of (((((((HUGS))))))). Well done for keeping up your pleasures even in the face of sadness and worry.

Happy Birthday Funkymonkey!

Thank you all for your lovely comments re. my work. Another (long) day and still feeling positive, so it can't be all that bad!

Here is a handful of pleasures from me:

1 - Still feeling positive about work!

2 - Yesterday evening I visited a friend with her two little boys (she was my first doula client!) and we had a great time, and she gave me an advance birthday present because she might not be able to join my celebrations on the day.

3 - Got a birthday card with a teabag inside from Yorkshire Tea! hehehe

4 - Got a cheque for £0.07 (yes 7 pence!) from an account that I had forgotten and that now has been closed!

5 - Dinner in the pan, 80% of the veg, including the side salad, come from my garden!

6 - A neighbour across the road gave me some artichoke plants which I hope to plant tomorrow in the allotment

7 - Looking forward to the London OS meet on Saturday!

Good night everybody xxx

Tealady_2

CCP - Sending big hugs to you and thinking of you.

The voucher I found yesterday was for Argos, always plenty in there to spend money on but thinking of buying a breadmaker so can go towards that.

Pleasures for today,
1. OH brought some tomatoes and a cucumber in from his parents garden so they went into a salad for lunch
2. Bought 3 tops in the next seconds shop for £6 should have been about £50 full price
3. HM (ish) curry for dinner. Did cheat and use a jar for the sauce
4. Lovely chat with DD who was very excited that she got to feed a raccoon today.
5. Lots of washing line dried and a pile of ironing done this morning


Hugs to all who need them