5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

5 for today:

1) Getting us all to a dentist's appointment and no work needing to be done!

2) Going to my physiotherapist appointment (about my back, they've all admitted defeat about my arm!) and getting signed off. :-)

3) Having a good (child free) look around Mr S and stocking up the store cupboard.

4) Watching Paul O Grady in front of the fire.

5) Getting a present from my Secret Santa.

That's about it for today!

L

bellaquidsin

Today my head wanted to have a good post holiday blitz but my body was suffering from post holiday exhaustion. I did manage to:-

1. Make some bread rolls in the Remoska.

2. Clean the cooker.

3. Cook a joint of silverside in the sc.

4. Have an afternoon nap.

5. Feed DD, her DH and my two lovely GK's, beef and yorkshire pudd with roast parnips, boiled potatoes, sprouts and carrots followed by syrup sponge (microwave version) and custard.

Bella.

ginnyknit

Not a bad day here in Manchester, yesterday was very shivery cold!

1. Got a recipe off Nigella last night and solved the last present problem - reeses peanut cups, and all I need to buy is the little paper cases. Just hope I can save enough to give away and not eat them all.

2. Leg broke on dining table - ooh pooh - but Dh has fixed it with glue and screws, warned him not too throw the car keys on it as usual - just in case haha

3. found a bag of half finished knitting in Dh's bedroom while she was blitzing and theres a jemima Puddleduck in there that just need sowing up. I am doing Beatrix Potter theme for grandchild that DH is presently carrying - what baby craves seafood and profiteroles????

4. Finished last but one blanket that Im crochetting for Presents, the only one left is the one requested by 3 year old step grandson for his Mummy - how can I resist him - too cute for words.

5. Best pleasure of the day DD just passed me a homemade profiterole - sooo good.

I really like my life today,I may be fed up again tomorrow with too many problems but right now I have a smile on my face ( and chocolate round my mouth!)

nuttybabe

Scotrae - I think its wearing off now, we left late for school this morning and dd refused to eat her tea even though she like everything on her plate!!!!! Ah well, hopefully they will get back into it after they see him 'fishing' in the fish tank!!!

Ollie - he is a grinch about everything. I decorated the house for the halloween party and he didnt like that either!

Anyway mine for today are:

1 Seeing dd as Mary in the school nativity

2 Ds getting the ray of sunshine badge in school for his good behaviour

3 My mum sending me up loads of wool (pink and sparkly) for the sock monkeys hats and scarfs and has a load more wool for me when i visit. All free as she is trying to clear her clutter!! yay!

4 A lovely tea of leftover chicken in a home made bbq sauce

5 Made a batch of cheese puffs today and ate the lot then made a second batch and shared them. The next batch will be frozen into small tubs as soon as they are prepared (so I dont get tempted) so i will have some for all over xmas.

SunnyGirl

Good evening all

Ollie & Bella Can I come & live with you both? I love the sound of the lovely meals & care taking of your family's :A - I'm house trained and very polite if that will swing it for me :rotfl:

My five for today are:

1. Getting the kitchen 'bottomed' this morning it's all sparkly clean now. I almost didn't want to cook in the oven tonight as it took me ages cleaning it this morning with brillo pads

2. DD finished college at lunchtime so we sat and watched Love Actually together with a cup if tea. What a lovely film I like to watch it around Christmas time.

3. DH has taken DS3 to the MEN Arena in Manchester to do a charity collection with Lions and they get to watch the concert afterwards. It's children's choirs from all over the North West that are performing and DS3 went every year with his primary school. He was very excited at the idea of seeing the concert from an audience perspective :T

4. Having got up with DS3 every morning since September at 6am we both woke a few mins before the alarm today so it must be paying off. I love our half hours together before the rest of the family are up. He is such a lovely lad with a different way of looking at things that never fails to make me smile :A

5. Listening to more Christmas music this morning. Handel's Messiah today which always brings back memories of childhood Christmas Eve when my Dad used to put it on. He still listens to it now every Christmas.

With the biggest hugs to anyone who is feeling down. I'm sure that the tv advertisements peddling what sort of 'perfect Christmas' we should all be having don't help. Very unrealistic.

Have a good evening & a day full of small pleasures tomorrow xxx

huston_kw

mine recently are;

1 winning school raffle at dd Christmas play, ds choose the prize (ringtons tin with jellies)

2 Cleaning out kitchen cupboards to plan Christmas shop around contents, so I don't overspend.

3 Making a chicken dinner tonight for tea, it was a huge chicken so only used part of one breast (for 4) - making fajitas tomorrow & chicken soup (to freeze) will be left overs for sandwiches.

4 Putting up the Christmas tree with oh and kids.

5 All presents bought, so now I just going to relax until the big day.

6 DD deciding she wanted to make teachers a Christmas cards, which she did by herself and they are lovely especially since she's only five.

Kitchenbunny

Here's mine for the day:

1) Being determined not to spend money and not going in any shops at all - all day!
2) Making good use of the oven for tonight's tea by putting the homemade potato wedges and sausage & bacon stuffing pasties on the same baking tray.
3) Using the free shelf I whipped up a few double chocolate chunk muffins and baked them at the same time.
4) I got my hair washed and everything ready for tomorrow so I can sit down now.
5) DH loving the pasties. A person enjoying the food I make is serious soul balm for me.

Have a good evening, everyone.

Kitchenbunny xx

elizabunny

Hello everyone!

Although feeling a bit 'under' today, I managed:-

1) To enjoy planting the plants we bought yesterday at the garden centre. My pots look lovely and bright now when I look out of the kitchen window.

2) Had a lovely long chat with DS1 about his weekend (he'd been visiting DS2) and had a nice time. Roll on Xmas when we get to spend time with them both, their partners and DGS:j

3) Stretched 1lb of Mince to make 10 individual portions of Lasagne, so feeling very pleased with myself and thrifty.

4) Seeing my DH come through the door after work and feeling so thankful for a happy marriage.

5) Visiting my DM who is very poorly in a Nursing home. I miss her company so much but love going to see her. We put up a small Xmas Tree in her room and hung up some tinsel and shared a few Jelly Babies:D always her favourite.

ampersand

How good to see so many new arrivals and returnees[including self:o-sorry, but just felt I needed to go away, after 3 sizable posts on the trot, over 3 days, self-deleted out of the blue. It is infuriating. I'm now told it's to do with Low Virtual Memory[not always unfamiliar?:rolleyes:...'Putah Alzheimer's?]
Kitchenbunny - your 5, beautifully worded, is so true.
Ginnyknit - still trying to work out 'DH', as it can't be your husband who is pregnant? as you can tell, a lot of techie abbreviations have not found me chez moi yet.:D
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1. A Reverbe 5p under Mr T trolley wheel, which led in turn to thoughts of sparrer, too - two staunch absent friends of this healing, positive Thread.
2. Honey bee busying herself around a sudden new bract on raspberry cane - nascent berries and flowers, on 7 December!
3. Have managed to download, then flashdrive, Earthrise photo, taken on day of s.o's birth. Could well be a t-shirt, naff or no. Kind techie Board help sought and received.
4. Outside to hang jumpers, who should I startle away in indignant squawking flight but Mrs Wifey. She was 'nesting' on the nylon webbing of my folded garden chair. I don't know which of us was more astonished. I DO know who it was who apologised, yet again. There are days when I feel I never stop saying 'Sorry' to Big Boy and She, when they're having a trough-out but I must go outside and it is wonderful that they are coming again. [Hope they don't see roadkill cousin hanging from trellis:o]
5. Voucher in post for 100gm Milka bar - whence cometh? No idea, but nice'n'naughty'n'num...to come.
5. Finally sorted out big em to M, oldest friend in France, and will be somewhere in the sacred hexagone for b'day, le jour de Ste B having just passed. I look forward to our meeting again.
6. Lovely rice accompaniment to freebie organic brisket<Mr T. Added this morning's orange peels, sage and thyme quickpicked in rain to boiling water, before adding wild and brown rice - it was wonderful, with chinese-y slow cooker beef/peppers/sesame paste/plum sauce/red onion concoction. It really is gorgeous. 4 servings left and frozen already.
7. Steady ebaying continues. Amazon tomorrow.
8. The black dog does not announce his coming, but he lurks and is sensed. So........I hand-sewed a lining into carpet bag for L, machine embroidering 'L's Big Bag' to the inner, so it sits within, secret, unseen. There's always a good feeling that comes with hand work, be it bread, gentle/rescue laundry, letter-writing, sewing, hands in earth...everyone who posts here will know their own.
9. Mr T vouchers for Saracens v. Castres match, 19/12, came. Took onward envelope, for ticket to be sent back, and posted it at once after shutting curtains...dark at 10 to 4 today! Of course, I'd love to be down there for the 1st leg match on Friday...still not long before my heart lifts as laden little long-suffering, ever-forgiving car heads South, SOUTH, and S-O-U-T-H-E-R. I love heading off in dead of night to Dover, doing a Reductions raid at Mr T's there, pinpointing THAT moment when wheels are no longer on English soil, but on the ramp over the water...we're away.
10. OD Christmas dinner tomorrow; another the next week. TW will be there and I will buttonhole him for sth at Kettle's Yard. Hope he is able to participate: I know his time is much taken with Big Things.
11. Good news re: SOS involvement.
12. Feel like singing Adam Laye A-bounden and will love it if all of you who know it and love it too will join me. It is the most exquisite of carols, though lots of the pre-Victorian ones run it close....Lullay My Liking, anyone?
13. Looking forward to doing Hugh's biltong and taking it with me.
14. Now, to do a Broomstick - kettle will have boiled by now, much i-player to enjoy, think it'll be last night's AR first off.
15. Hairwash/condition felt extra good today.
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#What a mess, not fiddling about any more. Nightynight.

Kittikins

1. DD did a Reverbe this afternoon and found a shiny penny piece on the floor
2. She then kindly tried to give it to her little chum who had come round for tea with his mummy, but said friend didn't want it, so she's going to add it to her stash
3. Bought a hugely expensive fake Christmas tree yesterday (not very OS but I'm being realistic about my ability to lug a heavy tree up a couple of steps into the house.
4. Unpacked said tree and put it up in the sitting room this evening, haven't quite found the decorations yet, have a small set of lights and about 8 baubles so far!! The rest must be upstairs somewhere....but I'm excited at the thought of the look on DD's face when she sees it in the morning and am pleased that it looks so realistic - as it should, the cost of it!!
5. DD's friend came for tea and I had a good chat with mum
6. Finding out that the school fete raised lots of lolly on Saturday
7. Popped upstairs just now and realised that DD has gone to my bed. Big decision time, do I sleep in the spare room to "teach" her a lesson that sleeping with me is a treat not a right...or do I go and enjoy having a warm bed?!
8. DD going up another level in reading and me being a pleased mummy
9. Have made £17 on Amaz*n over the weekend to go towards the mortgage this month.