5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

villagelife

My five are

1. Cake at work.

2. Long chat with a friend that needed a shoulder to cry on.

3. Seeing lots of rabbits and pheasants while walking the dog - who loves chasing them but doesn't manage to catch any.

4. Seeing buds slowly developing on the trees.

5. Started knitting a jumper

mummysaver

Morning all!

Fab bargain Caterina, you've reminded me that I need to add parmesan to my shopping list, I know that ds took the last piece out of the freezer the other day! Which thought has jogged my memory that there is some dolcelatte lurking in the freezer too, so that will help with today's meal planning - cheese is loved by everyone here and vanishes at an alarming rate!

My five pleasures for yesterday/this morning:

1. ys crumpets with lashings of butter and marmite for breakfast, all washed down with a hot cup of Lady Grey!

2. Silly kitten sprawled out at my feet at the mo and snoring away to himself!

3. Finding a nice scented candle in the kitchen cupboard, bought when on offer, smells lovely and will be nice to light this evening.

4. Coming home from work last night to a tidy (ish) house, kids all cheery and chatty and lovely.

5. Planning a trip to Cornwall to visit my friend who has just moved 'back home', will be lovely to see her.

Hope everyone has a lovely day, ds is finishing college early today, so we are off to get the rest of the flooring, then we can start planning when to lay it, will be so lovely to have a nice easy care floor.

sparrer

Just wondering if anyone has heard from Frith? Hope I didn't put my foot in it but she hasn't posted since I replied to her post re her doubts about Mr N. Sent her a pm last night but no reply as yet...

Come back Frith, missing you!

Caterina

Hi all

Ladyhawk, thanks, I got your PM. Hope you can make it on the 9th if you can, it would be great to meet you in person. Just let me know on the OS Meet Up thread if you decide to come along, whether you will have fish and chips in Lewisham (so we do not leave without you!) or just Blackheath.On a different note: what a lovely thought for your friend undergoing treatment, that is so kind of you!

Kittikins and Mummysaver, yes it was quite a bargain but not the cheapest on the market. You can get cheaper parmesan in Lidl for example but I really wanted to have a good stock at home of fresh top quality stuff. Spoiled ol'me!

Tealady, reading about your DD's trip to Morocco, I was thinking why did we not get this sort of trip when I was in school? My kids went to New York! I went to see the ruins :-( If you live in Rome like I did you are bl**dy well surrounded by the old stones any way, some treat! The only good part was to miss the lessons, though!

Only 10:15 am and pleasures already sorted for the day:

1 - Got up early and made DH breakfast (poached eggs on buttered kale) and lunch (mixed salad with feta) to keep him on the straight and narrow of low carbing.

2 - Lunch which he promptly forgot on the kitchen table. So like the fishwife I am, I went out in my pinny and slippers, run down the road shouting his name and caught up with him. Do you think he really secretly hoped that I would not notice and so he could hit the snickers bar as an excuse that he had no lunch (he has a lethal vending machine at work!)?

3 - Then got the remaining family's breakfast together for DD, DS, a friend of his who stayed overnight and me. We had kale and onion omelette. They all loved it.

4 - As I am meeting DH at 6pm to go to the cinema (but not to dinner!) I have got dinner prepared in advance and almost ready in the pressure cooker (leek, squash and watercress soup). All I need to do now is add more stock and blitz it with the blending stick. Will do when it is cooler.

5 - Following a mini-flood of the washing machine yesterday, I called the Washing Machine Doctor (this is his business name!). He is an old acquaintance of mine, Italian man, very competent and honest. I recommend him to everybody and nobody ever found him anything but great. He did not manage to make my machine to misbehave (go figure) so he did not charge me a penny, did not even want money for petrol. What a perfect gentleman!

I am due a workout today so better go get ready! Have a good day all x

zarazara

1. DH is off work for a couple of days so its nice to be catching up on little jobs which need another pair of hands
2. picked up a British Long Horn rib of beef today yummmmmmmm
3. Bought some flowers for the garden including much longed for Auriculas,I feel so blessed
4. The sun was shining and the birds singing
5. looking forward to dinner later. Have a good evening everyone.
6. need to sneak in an extra, got the Colin Firth Pride and Predudice DVD for £5,solooking forward to drooling over this later.
Take Care everyone x

CCP

Evening all.

Mine for the past couple of days:

Yesterday:

1) Looking again at my HG daffodils and realising I've got 6 varieties, not 4 - I was counting all the pure yellow ones as one variety, when there's actually 3 different types.

2) Went to get a new bowl for my cat's food and found the type I wanted at half price in the pet shop. :money:

3) Phoned my lettings company to inform them of a fault with my boiler, and they arranged for someone to come out the same day. Even better, it's a minor fault - just a loose valve which needed tightening.

4) Decided I fancied a walk after dinner so I mooched out to join friends at a pub quiz a mile or so away...

5) ...and came home richer by one bottle of cider (which I've promised to turn into a cider cake for my team mates ), one bottle of spiced ale (which I'm not sure what to do with - perhaps a casserole? :think:), and £42 for winning the quiz jackpot. :j

Today:

1) A fun day at work with lots of laughter.

2) Discovered the 'auto-fill' feature on my new web browser at work - very useful for entering competitions during my lunch break.

3) A rather guilty pleasure - I decided it was too cold to eat the salad I'd carefully prepared for lunch , so I bought myself some Heinz tomato soup instead. Naughty of me, but sooo good!

4) I've been feeling headachey and very tired all day, so I've swapped two days of my meal plan around and will make chorizo and squash stew tonight, as it's quick to make (and tastes lovely, too ).

5) It's Friday. :j

Have a pleasant evening, all.

Kittikins

Early pleasures for me

1. I've made the most amazing lentil and veg soup
2. DD had a great dance lesson, the girls are getting ready for a show in May and they're starting to look really good
3. Lovely phone call from MrA that made me all swoony (yup, even more than usual)
4. Saw lots of lovely daffodils and crocuses whilst meandering about
5. DD and her friend are having great fun with DD's new walkie talkies, they're secret spies!!
6. Going out on the lash tonight, woo hoo!

Ladyhawk

Evening Ladies,

Feeling very sleepy tonight and have promised to go out with some friends. I am sure I will perk up a little later.

1) Yummy higgidy pie for supper - sample from the food expo I went to earlier in the week

2) Good day in the office (no senior management around) and I managed to get some work done

3) Good chat with a colleague who kindly gave me a lift home.

4) Remembered to buy my lottery ticket for tonight... £90m jackpot which obviously has my name on it

5) Got a lovely email from my friend in Swaziland entitled "Who I am makes a difference"... the basic premise is whoever you are, you make a difference to everyone you come into contact with and you should take the time to tell people that you appreciate the difference they make to you.

Righteo - I had better get ready to go out.

Nighty night

L

Caterina

STOP PRESS

Pleasure no. 6: just got a phone call (fancy that, at 7pm on a Friday evening, but I am not complaining!) from the director of the centre where I applied for a job, to tell me that I am shortlisted and to invite me to the interview, on Wednesday! Wish me luck please!

vikki_louise

My main one today was I was recently taught how to do spirelli (sp?) cards, I remembered today my nans old collected of coloured threads which haven't been touched for years and a folder of stickers = new hobby for the price of some scalloped card (around £3 for 60)