5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Gingerjar

Hello everyone

Dont know if this will work but I've been reading this for a while. I love it!!!

My 5 today are:
1., Seeing an old schoolfriend for coffee
2. Going to Asda and only spending 99p on vegetable oil as i had a cupboard audit and have managed to get a full week's meal out of them!
3. Stirring the sugar into my damson gin
4. Looking fprward to a greta walk tomorrow.
5. Missing bank holiday traffic by cocooning at home.

Thanks for everyone else's loveliness, it's a real lift

glitterkitty

Mine for today!
1. Getting 5 HG apples from boyfriend's granny for my apple pie
2. Lovely bowl of Heinz tomato soup for lunch :-)
3. Getting to take dressing off my arm as it was itching and seeing I only have minor bruising :-)

ampersand

Gingerjar wrote: »

Hello everyone

Dont know if this will work but I've been reading this for a while. I love it!!!

My 5 today are:
1., Seeing an old schoolfriend for coffee
2. Going to Asda and only spending 99p on vegetable oil as i had a cupboard audit and have managed to get a full week's meal out of them!
3. Stirring the sugar into my damson gin
4. Looking fprward to a greta walk tomorrow.
5. Missing bank holiday traffic by cocooning at home.

Thanks for everyone else's loveliness, it's a real lift

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Gingerjar, others will come along and say, as I do, it's terrific that you have made this Thread your first post:T.

sparrer

Welcome Gingerjar :hello: as ampersand says, so pleased you made this forum your first post. It's a lovely, friendly, positive and caring place to be
ampersand missing your posts
CCP well done on finding pleasures from a day that didn't seem to have any. Have a super holiday with more pleasures than you can count
Many congratulations to Aunty mollythewestie, and to the new mum and baby boy :j
my5
1. Managing to hang some laundry out to dry as no rain today. Long may it last! (Cos I've got more to do tomorrow )
2. Looking from the kitchen window, through the little pear tree midway down my garden, and wondering what the tennis ball sized orange/red thing was on the back wall. On investigation I found it was a Coxes apple on my espalier. There are 15 and all huge!
3. DNeighbour just returned from holiday and bought me a really pretty shell bracelet which just happened to match the top I was wearing perfectly, and a dolphin candle
4. Found some paving slabs from the little local builders merchants which were the same price as one of the multiples, and no delivery charge. One of the big stores, only 6 miles away, wanted £25 :eek:
5. nsd
6,. a really good 1p phone call, my lovely, lovely friend and I spoke a few words together. His nurse says he's had a particularly good day today

Night night, sweet dreams
S x

Frith

Rather a nice day here today (well, Friday). Here are my 5:

1) Had bigger son's friend round and he was very good. He and bigger son are completely over the top so there was a lot of shrieking, playing on the rope swing in the tree, water pistols and general running about. Luckily they included smaller son.

2) Looked after one of MrN's sons and he was also marvellous and we had 2 good games of chess.

3) Mum came round (I had asked her too as I'm not used to looking after 4!) and played Pass The Pigs with the boys and we had a cup of tea.

4) My sister phoned and we are going to a glass exhibition thingy at Stourbridge tomorrow.

5) MrN called round and has just gone. :-)

PetuliaGristle

Primrose welcome back, loving to hear about all your fresh veggies
CCP your homegrown tomatoes sound yummy. Enjoy your holiday
sparrer the kittens were a little sleepy after a long day, as we used the opportunity to register them at the local vet as well, both are fine and full of beans. Your little dog is so cute singing to you in the morning. Best wishes to your friend, as always
glitterkitty glad your arm surgery went well, yummy Nandos sauces are great
Ladyhawk hope you have/are having a lovely holiday
Frith sorry you had a nasty fall hope the swelling goes down soon. It's a great feeling when the loan value drops by such a huge amount. imho you're being very sensible with MrN, great to hear that you're keeping an open mind and enjoying yourself.
Broomstick wd on organising the car tax
chinagirl sorry if I've missed an earlier post, belated welcome if I have. wd on saving £66! Any chance you could post the Banana Bran recipe on here? In my experience teenagers and speed are mutually exclusive, lol.
Tealady can I come and work in your office please?
crickett steak and chips, mmmm!
molly CONGRATULATIONS to you and your sister on your new arrival
house elf your camping evening sounds blissful
Caterina I'll look out for Mark Boyle's book at the library. Glad to hear Ziggy is feeling better
Gingerjar welcome and thanks too for using this thread for your first post! wd on your 'cupboard review' and on being v. mse
ampersand good to hear/see you

Any sign of jexy or ollie anyone?

Yesterday was also an up and down day for me, and reading about your pleasures has given me a lift too. Thanks everyone. Here are mine for yesterday:

1) 15 minutes step aerobics on the Wii
2) breakfast in bed, courtesy dp
3) cuddles from dd
4) dd's continuing joy about having kittens
5) making a good start on listening to the Mindfullness cd's.
6) dp making Curry Queen curry last night

Red_shoes_2

Hello, hope you don't mind me joining in. I've loved reading everyone's pleasures, it does give a boost to the soul.

Here are my 5 for today:
1) It's a lovely dry day with patches of sunshine - it seems as though it's been continually raining here.
2) A free afternoon for crocheting
3) My pom pom loom arrived in the post, so I'll have a play around with that
4) A lovely cuddle from OH
5) A relaxing bubble bath and a bit of pampering 'me-time'

Have a lovely day.

Primrose

1. Managing to make some tomato sauce with all my split tomatoes.
2. Sprinkling foxglove seeds, and planting surplus wild primrose self-seeded plantlets in a footpath
nearby in the hope that next year they will flower.
3. Potting up about 10 new strawberry plants from runners.
4. A load of laundry drying in the sunshine after 3 days of solid rain.
5. OH managing to mend a tool I had borrowed (and broken) from neighbour so my conscience is
now clear again.

crickett1234

My 5...

1. I had a lovely swim at the pool this morning (and grabbed a shower - cos ours is still out of commission. No one was in the pool when I got there; and it felt like I was swimming in my own personal pool. And I must say, I like that feeling!

2. My hollandaise sauce last night worked a treat. Hubby liked it...a lot! So much in fact he asked me to marry him again! (We have been married for 8 years already and together for 15 years nearly). Whoever said the way to a man's heart was through his stomach was bang right!

3. My hubby is wonderful - he is fixing the shower right now, and there hasn't been much swearing... which is nice.

4. I have been a cat magnet all day. At one point, I was sitting on the sofa with one on either side of me and the third was on one of the arms of the sofa and all were purring and content. I like being a cat magnet!

5. I have a yearning to do some baking. Chocolate Chip cookies coming up I think!

RAS

Frith wrote: »

1) Getting a letter from HSBC so its really official now that £3200 is being knocked off my debt with them. :-)

2) Going ice skating, my favourite sport in the world. I fell over bigger son (I was towing them round as they had never been before). I hadn't fallen over in YEARS (I'm actually not bad at skating) but because I didn't want to catch him with my skates, I had to do a massive dive and I landed on my jaw. I suppose a pleasure is that I'm not nursing worse injuries. You know its bad when you can't see straight for a second and everyone rushes to the side, sucking their breath in! I have a big chin on the one side, a graze and its going black and blue. I also fell on one knee which hurts and, I didn't notice at the time, some part of son or one of his skates must have clouted me in the thigh on the other side because that is spectacular too.

Some pleasure Frith!

Do you have access to any comfrey? dried herb, ointment or just the leaves.

Mash it up and boil for a bit. Add the juice to an old cloth (it stains) and apply the poultice. Dont' let it get near sheets or anything.

It will bring out the bruise but also reduce the pain and help heal the tissue.

I once took a tumble on the plot, foot under the T-bar on my number, me and the spade over the top. Two weeks later I had completed a work party but the sole of my foot was black. Only slight discomfort.

Now a few pleasures for today and yesterday

1. Had yesterday off after a hectic time. Took the bus into the country side and went of a short walk. Sunshine and long horizons.

2. Bought some local plums and pigged out.

3. Sat by the river, curled up and read a bit, watched the fish jump and the moorhens. Would have fallen asleep if the cloud had not intervened.

4. Afternoon tea overlooking the river and a slow walk down the valley to intercept the bus instead catching it locally.

5. A lazy morning and now about to get going properly.