5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

parsonswife8

Mine for today are:-

1. An earlymorning call from DD whilst on her way to the station for work. "Please excuse any crunching sounds mum, I am eating an apple, while I walk".:D
2. Some lovely green melon for breakfast.
3. A length of polo fleece fabric in the mail, using it for curtain backing.
4. A bowl of lamb and pearl barley soup with a slice of homemade bread, for lunch with DH.
5. A new loaf in the breadmaker for tomorrow.

And a bonus one today, curtains drying on the line whilst DH cleans the windows and re-varnishes the wooden windowsill.

Patchwork_Quilt

1) The house is clean and tidy, and all the bedding dried on the line.
2) Cooking tea now as it is going to be cottage pie. Using our potatoes for the top, our onions and chard in the bottom. Then having it with our broad beans and beetroot. This is my last attempt at eating beetroot without pickling it first. I want to like it so much but it's too sweet so I'm smothering it in cheese sauce to see if I can bear it.
3) Five huge apples on my spindly little tree near the rhubarb. Have had to tie it to a stick (with a pair of laddered tights) to stop it overbalancing.
4) My neighbour called to see if I want a lift to the Gardener's Club this evening. Everyone there is at least twenty years older than me but I allowed myself to be dragooned into being Secretary to pay back all those lovely old men at the allotments for their advice/free fruit/path mowing and generally keeping an eye on my allotment.


That's it for the moment. Have a lovely day everyone!

zarazara

:bdaycake: HAPPY BIRTHDAY Caterina :j:j:j

Caterina

Hello everybody!

Sparrer, have a good trip and a lovely holiday!

Thank you everybody for all your birthday wishes and wise words.

I had a truly lovely day with DD and it is continuing into the evening.

Here are my pleasures and blessings for the day, not all are very OS but hey, it's my birthday!

1 - This morning I bought myself and DD a Hawaian massage treat via one of the mobdeals. Did not manage to get the booking for today as they were already fully booked but this means that we will have a future treat (the party goes on!).

2 - I also bought myself a real bargain treat for £10 from Lastminute.com, a massage at O Spa for £10!

3 - Outing with DD, what fun, we cannot stop laughing when we are out together!

4 - £4.50 refund in a shop where they had overcharged me the other day.

5 - Free lunch with DD using a voucher that a friend of mine gave me, we loved it!

6 - M&S sent me a voucher for a free cream tea for 2, but I am going to give it to DS, as he did not come out with us today.

7 - DD and I seriously hit the sales! But we got very good stuff at bargain prices, so we aren't too worried, we did not go over the top and had great fun. I treated myself to a Designers Guild quilt cover and matching pillowcases which I needed and was reduced to 60%off. DD got a very nice pair of shoes for winter, also extremely reduced and extremely good quality. Also a jumper and a waistcoat. Did not break the bank but it felt like a treat altogether.

8 - Got a free eye pencil with a Grazia voucher.

9 - DD's BF picked us up with his car at the underground station so we did not have to squeeze ourselves into a bus on the return home.

10 - The kids are going to cook me dinner (it is already 8:30 mind you and eventually they will get around to doing so hehe).

11 - Amazing discovery: on my kitchen table I discovered a GINORMOUS bunch of flowers in a beautiful glass vase, sunflowers, irises, gerberas and grenery - my crazy crazy DH has sent it to me via Interflora!!!! I can NEVER accuse him again of never buying me flowers! I was laughing and crying when I called him to thank him! I am soooo happy!

Good night everybody, have a great evening xxx

Ladyhawk

Evening all,

Hope your Thursday has been Tremendous!

Have a lovely holiday Sparrer

Happy birthday Caterina! Hope you are having a lovely day.

1) NSD - I had product testing (we did chips, pizza and onion rings among other things!) at work so didn't need lunch.

2) Finished two more squares for my blanket.

3) Hope early because of the off site product testing.

4) Little snooze this evening

5) Cuddle with the puddy tat.

Night night - have a fruitful Friday!

L

CCP

Evening all.

Caterina - happy birthday! It sounds like you had a lovely day.

sparrer - have a lovely holiday.

Wee_Jo - good for you and your DH for treating yourselves to such a lovely night out. I'm glad you enjoyed yourselves.

My pleasures for today:

1) NSD.

2) Went to my GP about the lump on my arm and he reckons the 'experts' were wrong and it's not cancer at all - benign or otherwise - but just a mark on the skin that I don't need to worry about. That's quite a relief, and almost worth the hour and a bit wait to see the GP.

3) While I was there I checked my weight as I suspect my scales are broken. It turns out I was right - my scales are showing a weight nearly 10kg more than I actually weigh. :j

4) Watching a JCB 'eating' a building that's being demolished - brings out the child in me.

5) Friday tomorrow, and getting a new floor for my kitchen, too. :j

Have a pleasant evening, all.

savingforoz

Hi, everyone, hope you are all well! :wave:

I thought I'd post again, because although I try to remember to do my "attitude of gratitude" thing each day and think of 5 pleasures, without the discipline of coming on here and noting them down I find I tend to forget. So, I think I may well come back to post here, maybe not each day as i did before, but fairly regularly (and to keep tabs on what you lot are all up to!)

(if I'm allowed back after my temporary defection, that is....)

My 5 for today:

1. Feeling good at work despite some grim office politics going on (didn't involve me, thankfully).

2. Delicious homemade chickpea and vegetable jalfrezi with brown rice.

3. Feeling more human after getting over a bad cold. I think my immune system must be down with all the travel jabs I'm having (6 so far, 4 to go!)

4. Treating myself to a magazine with my grocery shop.

5. Chatting on the phone with an old schoolfriend. Going to see her in Leicester this weekend.

6. Doing my budget and seeing that I can afford some software that I'd like along with some new stuff for my trip.

7. My petrol bill almost halving now that work has moved to new offices.

8. Getting a text from an old friend who I've not heard from for ages. A curry has been arranged!

9. Swapping messages with a guy from a dating site - OK, it's way too close to my trip for anything to happen, but...his advert said that he was handsome, so I thought "yeah, right, bet he's not," then I clicked on his picture...phew! Smoking hot! (Assuming that is indeed him in the picture!)

10. Seeing pictures of my friend's new kittens. There's not much that's cuter than a tiny kitty!

OK, that's 10, but hey, I've some lost time to make up for!

Ladyhawk

savingforoz wrote: »

(if I'm allowed back after my temporary defection, that is....)

Good to have you back Savingforoz. I've been wondering how you were getting on. When do you disappear off on your amazing trip?

Frith

Hope you had a good birthday, Caterina.

Here's my 5 for today.

1) Going to see the osteopath with smaller son. He was very quiet throughout his session today and wasn't as hyper afterwards as he was last week. Although I was prepared this time, with the bike at the ready!

2) Cleaned my car out, hoovered it, washed it etc.

3) Had a good go at the garden and it looks OK now.

4) Not a bad tea - sausages, roast potatoes, courgettes and carrots followed by melon and strawberries.

5) Walked to our local pub (5 miles or so round trip). I haven't drunk since 1997 and don't really go to pubs but this week and last we've enjoyed the walk up there along the footpaths. Nobody seems to mind a 7 and 9 year old sitting in there having an orange juice for 10 minutes!

6) Bit of excitement this evening. The cats were in the living room being odd and I saw a vole and caught it in a jug! We let it go over the road and I thought it was just one the cats had caught and brought home with them. 10pm ish I was sitting playing the piano and I thought I saw something move out of the corner of my eye. Then spent 10-10.30 running round the living room with the hearth brush and the jug trying to catch vole number 2! Then my neighbour came round and the vole shot into the kitchen at which point I had to give up and bring in the heavies - the 2 cats.

Nothing more to report from here! Hope everyone has had a good day.

Broomstick

If I type quickly it won't be too late to say Happy Birthday to Caterina for today! Sounds like you had a lovely one.

My five for Thursday:

1. The shaggy dog story - thanks Patchwork!

2. DS2 has been offered a fully-funded place on a full-time workshop for the next two weeks. He's over the moon and I'm over the moon. I'm going to be able to drop him off each morning then go into our local academic library to get on with uninterrupted research for my writing full-time for two whole weeks.

3. Late afternoon, stopped off at the garden centre (big posh one with many departments and excuses to spend money but I usually resist ) and discovered that their designer foody section reduces all left over Hobbs Bakery loaves (best 'artisan' bread ever but horribly expensive) down to £1 just before closing. So I picked up a rosemary foccaccia and a huge tiger bread for £2. Am freezing chunks of each to see how well they do.

4. Made a big potato and cheese bake for supper which will do tomorrow night as well.

5. Heard that a friend's child has passed the necessary exams at the right level to take up their university place this autumn. Brilliant.

Sweet dreams everyone

B x