Five OS Pleasures in your day today

Jacks_xxx

Oooh I've never done one of these before, but I love it on here. I am learning SO-O-O much! Thanks everybody :A

1) Clean line dried sheets on my bed. (I'm about to go and make use of them in a minute.)

2) Making home-made pizza with the kids and their friends and the friends telling their dad all about it when he picked them up.

3) Having a good old girly gossip / put the world to rights chat with a good friend I haven't seen for a while over coffee and "Chuck everything in" fridge cake.

4) Not setting the alarm and waking up naturally then fetching a cuppa and coming back to bed with a book for a while.

5) Cooking a potluck risotto with the left-overs and user-uppers in the bottom of the fridge and seeing a slightly sceptical hubby enjoy it.

It's been a good day. :j

Love Jacks xxx:D

Bambywamby

My 5 O/S magic moments from today are...

1) Shopping around town for a Christmas shoebox present for the poor children living in Romania.
2) Using my bubble free bath water to flush the toilet all day before rinsing out the remainder and scrubbing the bath clean with bicarb and vinegar.
3) Going shopping and not buying one item of junk food.
4) Putting the dog bedding on the washing line and beating it to get rid of the majority of the hairs rather than bunging it straight in the washer and cursing at the mass of mutt fuzz left behind.
5) Having "just" a cup of coffee in town rather than the usual coffee and flapjack.

RugbyLisa

My 5 best bits from today are:

1) Turning the blackberries which were collected during a fun walk into a pudding.

2) Hanging washing out to dry.

3) With nothing planned for lunch, opening the cupboards to find tuna, pasta, and sweetcorn to make a "yummy" meal.

4) Finding a bargain for DS2s school tracksuit for shool that both him and me liked!

5) but the best was being called Mrs Impossible by my youngest - I thought it was a complaint about something but he said

"No one can make it like you"

It doesn't get better than that!!

RLx

JillD_2

end of another lovely day

1. Washing out again hurray
2. Picnic in country park with wee'uns, we have annual passes so it feels free to get in
3. HM banana muffins and even DS ate them, he NEVER eats HM baking :T
4. Made plum and cinnamon oatslices with plums from friend yesterday
5. Reading Martins email item about getting mortgage free - sent it to husband to inspire him

Night night all

moanymoany

lovely smell of towels dried outside.

freshly made Twink's hobnobs and half the batch in the freezer for another day.

Tesco shop for the month arrived, 6 of those crates full and the cost was £51.94.

Looking in the freezer at lots of home grown fruit and free blackberries.

Friend has phoned and offered me some apples from her garden. This is two, one for the apples and one for having such a lovely friend.

MRSMCAWBER

Hi everyone

My 5 today will have to be...

1) getting up this morning and seeing my lovely clean kitchen -wiping around the kitchen and making sure everything is back in its place before i go to bed has become 2nd nature now:T

2) the smell of chicken, roasties and homemade stuffing cooking away for tea - dont forget im an hour ahead of you

3) having no washing again:eek: ..so knowing my washer is now on holiday until monday :j

4)sticking to my"dbelle shopping challenge" and still eating a varied and yummy selection of meals:D

5) and this is one for later....having a hot soak, using lovely fluffly line dried towels, putting on lovely fresh jiggly parmas and slipping into lovely fresh, clean line dried bedding......bliss

So all in all another lovely day....

hope everyone else is having a good day:D

twink

had a walk round the village
had a cuddle with dgs3 on my knee, he loves to coorie in, petted lump
the cats shared a tin of mackeral in tomato sauce and spent ages licking their lips and washing their faces after
took fridge bottom soup from the freezer for dinner
seems work might be ok till next easter

RugbyLisa

I love this post and will think of 5 things a day even if I don;t always post - sometimes I think we forget to step back and think of the things we are doing and hey, even give ourselves a pat on the back.

So 5 things today:

1) Taking cuttings off a very overgrown flowering bush in the garden and looking at lovely purple flowers in a vase in the kitchen.

2) Meeting up in the park with a likeminded friend today and entertaining all the children for the cost of an ice cream.

3) Adding some shredded chicken frozen from Sundays roast to last nights aubergine curry and eaking it out for another meal.

4) Counting up £23 of pennies to pay into the bank tomorrow.

5) Using a squirt of some not very nice smelling shower gel in my boys bath this evening and them being really happy with loads of bubbles and not even noticing the smell!!

RL

MoaningMyrtle

Great thread, why haven't I noticed it before?

1) Counting my pumpkins growing in the garden, they are the size of small footballs now, we have about 15.

2) Harvesting some blueberries from my blueberry bush (They were as sour as hell, but I'll persevere)

3) Making a huge stir-fry for dinner that was enjoyed by all.

4) Buying a gorgeous dress in a charity shop, pale blue vintage 1940's style for £1.75 (They have a half-price sale). It goes fabulously with a pair of powder-blue vintage style suede sandals I purchased in 1996 for my eldest Daughter's Christening.

5) Buying a pair of knitting needles for 30p so I can continue with a knitting project, it's mohair scarf in cornflower blue. I have somehow lost one of the original needles, so I can finish it now.

Penelope_Penguin

Over the last few days:

• Fresh yogurt from my Freecycled yogurt maker
• HM Nectarine and melon smootie with said yogurt
• Welsh cakes - didn't make them until I found this board, and they're now a staple
• Out on my bike in the sunshine
• PMs to and from lovely Old Style people (and a message from a 3yo ) who I'd never have met but for this board

Penny. x