5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Primrose

1. End of summer ceremony today. Taking down our gazebo which has been up since mid-June. Sad but felt smug because 30 minutes after we'd packed it away the heavens opened and then canvas would have taken ages to dry.
2. OH continued with his breadmaking experiment this morning and has made two tasty looking loaves.
3. Coffee and home-made cheese scones mid morning whilst leisurely purusing the Sunday papers.
4. Roast rack of lamb shortly going into the oven for lunch.
5. Will enjoy the wet afternoon finishing my library book.

BlimusOreilly

savingforoz - The route we took was from where we live near Cromer on the North Norfolk coast down to near Gt Yarmouth. I love it. Good luck with the viewings. Fingers crossed!
Caterina - I know you've already left but wishing you a fabulous time.
Tealady - well done on boosting your ISA. And well done on the cheque for your old phones.
Patchwork Quilt - Glad you had a good holiday. Sounds idyllic.

Here are mine from yesterday:

1) Did a car boot sale. Didn't sell much but we won 2nd price in the raffle £40!:j:j We never win anything - so was absolutely delighted about this. Wull be using it to buy a load of firewood.
2) DS1 back from his 'Kip on a Ship' trip to HMS Belfast with the Sea Scouts. He had a fab time.
3) A lovely chat with my mum after wining the raffle.
4) Sausage and roast veg casserole. Yum!
5) An early night where I planned to read but ended up falling asleep pretty much straight away.

Hope everyone else is having a pleasurable weekend.

CCP

Evening all!

This is a bit of a flying visit while my dinner's cooking, before going out for the evening...

1) Washed the cat's litter tray, which I've been intending to do for nearly a month.

2) LO pizza for lunch - yum!

3) Got my towels 90% dry before the heavens opened (again!) and I had to dash out and rescue them.

4) Got a letter from a shopping company offering me a set of ceramic casserole dishes if I place an order. I had a quick look at their website and they've got towels on special offer, to replace my current ones which are so thin I can practically see through. Result all round, I think! :money:

5) Cooking up the last of the apples from my grandmother's tree with some squishy plums to eat for pudding tonight, and there should be enough for breakfast tomorrow, too.

Right, have a nice evening, gotta go - I can smell over-cooked pastry!

Ladyhawk

Hi everyone,

Phew! What a weekend of domestic godessness!

1) Made some redcurrant jelly, and the last of the plum jam.

2) started processing the cobnuts - so now I have a massive bowl of cobnuts to shell or do something with!

3) Am making jam tarts, banana bread and pizza at the moment

4) Chatted to my mum

5) Got rid of a few bits and bobs on freecycle to some lovely people (for a change!!)

6) Pottered around the garden

7) NSD - though I still might slip and order my Kenwood Chef...

Early night tonight... I need to be in the office early tomorrow

Night all

L

Patchwork_Quilt

1) Getting the holiday washing dry outside, even though it looked rather threatening at times.
2) Went to the allotment to see what two weeks' absence has done and found the path all swept and tidied - my beekeeping lady, who wants to keep a hive in the old goat stalls, had been down and been at work.
3) Filled the freezer with french beans. We've had a good crop this year. Also pickled some beetroot, pickled some nastertium seeds and made some fruity salad dressing from a secret recipe handed on by DS's gf. All small amounts but it still looks good lined up in the pantry.
4) Shepherd's pie for tea, using half the usual amount of mince and padded out with home grown veg and green lentils. There was just enough left for DH's lunch tomorrow. Dessert was a jam sponge to use up the runny HM jam we opened this morning.
5) A pound of plums from the plum tree and a few more to come. It's doing well for such a little twig.

Lastly, DS has just presented me with three plastic lidded boxes that he last used in Year 9 to take baking ingredients to school. They've been in his locker for two years!

laloopi

This is a lovely thread, thought I might join in...

1) Baked a batch of delicious flapjack
2) Baked a white loaf in my breadmaker and managed to slice half of it without making a complete mess of it
3) Traced and cutout the pattern ready to make my baby boy some trousers
4) Went for a walk into town with my dad and son (then spent a shocking £21.50 on makeup, must find a cheaper source!)
5) Picked up some OS books from the library (ours opens on a Sunday), including one on making handmade books. Was a bit upset to find out that you now have to check your own books out using an automatic scanner :-(.

sparrer

Evening all, sounds like everyone's been having a busy/productive/sociable Sunday...

My 5
1. A good run down to Henley and back, due to so many roadworks I wasn't able to drive at my normal speed and I've used considerably less petrol that I usually would
2. Gave my mother some bits I picked up on holiday, in exchange she gave me half of the produce a friend gave her, some apples, tomatoes, a marrow and a good bag of beans
3. Went out for lunch, we both had a roast with lamb shank but we couldn't possibly eat it all - why do they serve such enormous portions? However my lucky little dog got lamb in his dinner bowl this evening
4. We were really lucky with the weather, it rained a little on the way down, it was sunny when we went out, it drizzled while we were in the restaurant then bright for the rest of the day
5. While I was out a friend moved several of the new paving slabs front the front of the house to the back garden for me

Night night, sweet dreams
S x

Frith

5 for Sunday...

1) Had a bit of a lie in.

2) Went swimming with the boys, my mum and my sister.

3) Had lunch at mum and dad's then the boys played on the trampoline there and sister and I took them for a walk down the lane in the wheelbarrow.

4) Feel just about on top of the housework/paperwork/finances.

5) Had tea with MrN. :-)

Its such a time of change at the moment. Tomorrow, the ex husband is in court again (don't know if he's just getting his bail extended or if its the actual trial). He is up on 20 counts of fraud... The investigation has been going on for about a year but the trial keeps getting postponed, very difficult for the people who keep being called to give statements then put off each time.

MrN is starting a new job tomorrow and I will be looking after his sons and mine after school each day until he comes home. It should be straightforward (including making a bit of tea) but I will admit to being a bit anxious about it.

On Wednesday, I get to see smaller son's paediatrician and psychologist and their massive report will be ready. I don't think they will come up with any diagnosis for him (they toyed with the idea of autism for a while) so instead they will think of some strategies to deal with some of his problems. I suppose at some point everyone will just sign him off - the speech therapist, occupational therapist, psychs, paediatrician.

So things should all be clearer by next weekend!

Tealady_2

Morning

Frith - Good luck with getting things sorted for your DS this week. Hope things feel a bit more settled for you by the end of the week.

Pleasures for yesterday:
1. Cup of tea and the papers in bed
2. Sausage sandwich for late breakfast
3. Managed to get some washing dried outside before the showers
4. Busy hour in the kithchen with a big pan of carrot soup for lunch at work this week, Bakewell tart (one of DD's favourites) and Fakeaway chicken curry for dinner. Plus enough curry for me and DD for dinner tomorrow.
5. Watching the drama "U Be dead". Scary stuff:eek::eek:

Hugs to all who need them

savingforoz

Patchwork Quilt - glad you enjoyed your holiday in France.
CCP - cat hassle in the mornings - don't you just love theirr energy at 5am?! (or maybe not...)
Girlysquare - how are the kittens?
Wogglemaker - wow, that's quite some haul of blackberries!
Ladyhawk - sounds like you won't need to make any jam for another year at least!
Primrose - how lovely to have breakfast in the garden. I have a rather sad concrete square that masquerades as my garden...
Tealady - glad you enjoyed the pygmy hippo link. Off the scale cute!!
Sparrer - wow, that's some windfall your friend had - how wonderful that they've been able to buy a house!
Frith - I'm envious of the lie-in, been a while since I've managed one!
Primrose - sounds like you have OH well sorted out on the bread front!
Blimus - well done on the raffle win!
Laloopi - welcome!

Recent ones for me:

1. Yummy curry at a new local curry house with friends.
2. "Salt" at the cinema - very good indeed.
3. Motoring on with sorting out the house - more stuff taken to the tip.
4. Getting a call from my letting agents to say they have a couple who want to rent it. Yippee!
5. "The Mentalist" on TV.

On another note, would any local OSers like either my Lakeland yoghurt maker or my knife block? I don't intend to put either into storage, so they're up for grabs (free). The knife block is a good one - the knife and handle are all in one so nothing to work loose. PM me if interested.