Five OS Pleasures in your day today

Reverbe

1. Being chosen for the Perfectil trial

2. Vouchered Starbucks Hazelnit hot chocolate

3. Getting a large pile of library books - including Rachel Allens Bake,Heroes novel, Goddess experience - all brand new

4. Sainsburys shop - lots of value products new to store - tortilla chips, blue riband type biccies for footy packed lunch,value tbags (yummy and fairtrade), beef stock cube, tinned fruit and bacon - and a treat beer

5. LO YS beef sausages and YS dolcelatte pasta for lunch.

6. not being hassled at the dole office

7. YS rainbow trout and Reduced price curly kale for dinner

8. A Kid for 2 Farthings and reading My Judy Garland Life - an afternoon off from Jobsearch.

9. some LO concannon from flatmates dinner

10. Hello Kitty memory stick to replace the stick lost bought by flatmate til I find my other one.

11. piglets on Jamie Oliver

sparrer

(((((((Caterina))))))) Get Well SOON!!!

Thursday blessings...

1. ooh my post lady is being kind this week! Today she brought me a double mascara which makes my lashes look almost as long as lush as they did 25 years ago :rotfl: ..now I just need somewhere to wear it

2. Went to the bottle bank and the £ bank, paid in at both places so I'm feeling a little bit self-righteous now :rolleyes:

3. Spent some time on the pc making up a 'brochure' for DGD, of the place we're going to in Rhodes in April

4. Gathered together a huge carrier of used bubblewrap, padded envelopes etc to give to a lady who has a small shop on ebay and likes to recycle as much as she can. And the bonus is a nice tidy stationery cupboard

5. Only two for dinner this evening so the turkey drumstick did a roast and there's enough for a risotto tomorrow...I love Mr. A's £1.27 turkey drumsticks

Broomstick

Yes, 'Get Well Soon Caterina' from me too.

Five for Thursday:

1. Doing some very detailed reading and feedback for my writing friend and working some more on my own ideas.

2. Getting more or less on top of the washing again (before the winter weather that is due to sweep the country next week).

3. Veggie bolognese for supper using last night's sauce, so it was an easy meal.

4. Having a no spend day and not even being aware of it 'til now.

5. Loving seeing that Singer treadle sewing machine in action on The Victorian Farm tonight. It was identical to my Gran's which I used to sew with.

Sleep well x

rhiwfield

Yesterday:

1. Wood ash from woodburner put on rose beds
2. Veg peelings went in runner bean trench
3. Had bunching onions and leaf beet from the kitchen garden and saw new season garlic appearing
4. Had a beef roast dinner treat last night, everything cooked in oven (apart from steamed leaf beet) to save leccy, beef was part of a large half price joint from Mr T, cut down to make 5 small joints
5. OH made another fine loaf in the breadmaker

bellaquidsin

Caterina (((((hugs))))) be better soon.

I didn't get time to post yesterday must have been having too many pleasures.

1. The postman brought the seed potatoes and potato growing bags we had ordered.

2. Laying the potatoes out on an egg tray and placing in a cool light place as directed.

3. Getting a deep pot ready to sow carrots, but the seed packet said to put into warmed soil so I now have it in front of the fire. DH is glad I'm not rearing pigs!

4. Having no 'home grown' salad available for lunch yesterday so using up some leftover veg from the freezer which had been destined for soup and making a hot cheesy meal. Nice change.

5. Making up more cards and counting up that I have now done forty. If only half of them sell at £1 per time it will be a welcome boost to my crafting budget.

Bella.

bluenose1

Love to Raggydoll and Caterina.

1. Treated myself to watching Victorian Kitchen while I cycled 8 miles on the stationery bike. (The Council gym I go to has a TV on each piece of equipment.)
2. Hoping I will keep this up, but I have stopped eating all the chocolate, biscuits and refined carbs such as bread and pastry. I have so much more energy and have stopped having a doze of an evening. Trouble is if I run true to form I will revert back to my chocolate cravings in a few weeks.
3. Went to Home Bargains and bought Starclen and Starpine to go with my Stardrops. Love cleaning the house using these, they smell so clean and fresh.
4. Bought pretty tins for £0.20 each, will keep them until Christmas to put cranberry mince pies and brandy butter in as presents. (I made my mince pies for the first time using a Nigella recipe, can’t believe how much everyone loved them this year.) Will have to make double quantities next year.
5. Walking around the lovely old Red Brick University where I work and imagining all the people who have worked/studied there over the last 100 years. The University is in the centre of Liverpool, but there is a grassed quad behind the walls which I always think is like a secret garden as passersby on the roads outside would have no idea it was there.

KarrieBee

Get well soon Katerina!
Bluenose I was an undergrad there and spent many a summers day sat on the grass (Studying of course!)

1. Lovely homemade chilli for tea with whoopsied peppers and some aging tins of beans from the cupboard - made double portions so we can have wraps next week.
2. Finishing 'never let me go' from the library - it was a spectacular book
3. A beautiful smoky sunset over the hills, all colours of pink, blue and grey.
4. Getting to the bottom of Odins washing basket that resides in my bathroom
5. Snuggling up with the cat and my knitting as OH was giving an evening lecture last night - kitty has finally realised that wool is not a toy when it is attached to needles!

blessings to everyone, hope you have a peaceful and happy weekend.

Disflop

Hi everyone and special thought to Raggydoll and Caterina. hope you are both feeling better.

My 5 for yesterday:
1. Having the morning to myself and enjoyed making a birthday cake for dgs,butternut squash soup and a chilli for tonight when some girlfriends are coming round.
2. Feeling the sun through the kitchen window as I worked.
3. Looking forward to tonights proceedings - it gets very raucous!!
4. Catching up with a friend I dont see often in the afternoon.
5. Eating a delicious fruit salad made with some of my bargains from the market stall.

Weekend almost here- enjoy it everyone, though I believe it is going to be veeeeery cold. Must get the thermals out again!
5.

laineyc_2

Hello, everyone.

Today's 5

1) Watching my son's assembly. It was really entertaining.
2) Baking 2 banana loaves. I was supposed to do it last night but had no time.
3) Totting up my spend this week for the grocery challenge
4) Adding some meals to my meal plan
5) Finding a recipe for chocolate peanut butter cookies

Beki

My five things to be thankful for today...

1 - (bit of background to the 'thanksfulness post' first... my sister is 27 weeks pregnant and we had some devastating news just before christmas that the baby has a problem in his brain and will be at the very least severely disabled, but worse than that, he probably wouldn't even survive...).

the good news is that today she's had another scan and although the situation hasn't changed very much, the brain problem has slowed in it's progression and they've referred her to kings college hospital in london and are talking about the things they can do to help him after he's born. so talking about him as if he's going to survive rather than not. also his heart, lung and kidneys and all other organs aside from his brain are 100% perfect and working

a little hope to brighten our day as we were all expecting another devastating blow, as every scan since xmas has been even worse news.

my other 4 'thankfulness posts' are a little less important, but nonetheless brightened my day a little

2 - watching DS singing along to a song on the telly. he knew all the words but when he caught me looking at him he went all shy and started giggling lol

3 - cooking a belly pork joint and having it turn out just like jamie olivers'. lots for dinner tonight, and another 2 or 3 meals' worth. plus 5 ribs which i separated from the joint after it was cooked.

4 - looking in the fridge and seeing that i've got 11 packs of butter which i usually run out of as it's so expensive... i stocked up on the asda 47p deal lol

5 - thinking about making a sponge cake with buttercream and h/m marmalade filling.. hmmm.. think i might do that in a minute actually