Five OS Pleasures in your day today

newlywed

here's mine:

1. Sunshine
2. Hanging the washing outside - first time this year
3. Realising with very little in the cupboards I have managed to make enough soup to feed myself lunches for 5 days from a butternut squash, some stock, a few carrots and an onion (plus herbs)
4. Free teabags coming in the post - a taste survey to complete next week
5. Free coffee bag in the post

Anything free is a bonus these days

ampersand

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Primrose

Last few days:
1. Getting one of the garden fences recoated in preservative.
2. Getting the compost heap dug out and spread over the garden.
3. Deciding to relocate our mini garden pond to enable us to extend the
vegetable patch. First two newts arrived in it today so tomorrow we
have to get moving very quickly on this task. Luckily it's a fibre glass
one so no messing around with pool liners.
4. Getting our mini plastic greenhouse re-erected after its winter sojourn
in more sheltered quarters.
5. Thoroughly enjoying some early spring sunshine this week. My energy
levels are beginning to rise again at last "

laineyc_2

1) Sitting in the garden having my coffee this morning
2) Shopping for clothes with DS,14 and seeing how pleased he was with his new clothes
3) Getting my hair cut and feeling 5 years younger
4) Preparing the food for my friend coming to dinner
5) Dinner with my friend and all the family round the table

Olliebeak

Congratulations everybody on all your bargains and freebies - gives us a great boost doesn't it .

Hope you're all enjoying your weekend and perhaps enjoying the milder weather.

I visited our local shopping centre this afternoon on the hunt for storage boxes for toys and 'stuff'. Didn't have time to trawl all the charity shops today due to nattering .

1. Coffee and scone in my favourite charity shop and bumped into one of my work colleagues. Had a lovely chat with her - normally only manage to 'talk shop'. Picked up a great cookery book - Woman's Own 365 Menu Cook Book for £1 and a great Fisher-Price musical toy for dgd!
2. Got 2 big storage boxes with lids in Wilkinson's - didn't consider how I would carry them over to Asda though lol!
3. Also got some seed trays - I'm living in hopes again .
4. Whoopsie hunting in Asda - but not much going begging today . Did get a couple of Root Veg packs for £1 each (rollback from £1.37!) and some Organic Red Potatoes reduced to 62p.
5. Managed to get some washing done and dried today . Need to get another load done tomorrow but don't think it will be good enough to dry outdoors.

jvs

Hello all. Been feeling a bit down lately - have tried to count my blessings and I have so much to be grateful for - but it is nearly 12 months since I last saw my DGD and DGS. I miss them so much, I miss being around little people too. Anyway enough of my maudlin
1. made Twink's hobnobs for the first time today - they were really scrummy
2. sat on my garden swing with DH in the lovely afternoon sun to eat said hobnobs with a cuppa
3. made some cards for the Marie Curie cancer care - feel good that a couple of hours enjoyment for me will help towards caring for cancer sufferers
4. Edward our 19 yr old cat sitting on the swing between DH and me
5. Visiting my DM and DF this morning and my mum wanting some knitting needles and wool to see if she can knit a square - 80 yrs old and has rhematoid arthritis - love her to bits

Nan Night all - hope you all sleep well and have a lovely day tomorrow xx

Olliebeak

jvs - sorry to hear you're missing your dgk's - (((((((HUGS))))))) to you. I'm so lucky to be able to see mine regularly and don't know how I would manage if I couldn't. Hope that situation can be rectified .

Broomstick

My five pleasures for Saturday:

1.. Mr T points came in the post which I intend to exchange for 'Deals points' to put towards DS1's next OU short course - we will get over £40 off, so far.

2. Our notice board has become the voucher depot - everything gets pinned up there so we now use them before they become useless. Took a voucher to our local Co-op and got a free Fairtrade Chocolate bar which I ate while tidying.

3. Yesterday's soup again for lunch, then veggie burger, speckly carrot and potato mash, and salad for supper. Enough mash left over to fry up as part of tomorrow's supper as well.

4. Tidied store cupboard and began an inventory of the contents so that we can tick things off as they get used. The cupboard is so packed now that I'm afraid we'll not realise that we have some things and buy unnecessarily unless we get a system in place. I've been meaning to do this for ages so I'm really pleased I've got started.

5. I have, at long last, finished knitting my beautiful socks. I'd put them to one side because I'd gone wrong in shaping the second sock's toe and keeping the pattern going at the same time. Anyway, today I undid quite a bit and finished it. They are just lovely. Have to decide what I'll knit next.

Off to have another bath by candlelight then bed.

Sleep well.

sparrer

Saturday blessings...

1. Another bright and sunny day and an incredible sunset. I didn't need the heating on until this evening

2. Postie brought me some Nivea samples and a gadget for when plugs are left on standby, not that any are in my house. A car boot item, perhaps

3. DNeighbour invited me in for a cuppa just when I was feeling sorry for myself. She does this often when she knows my chest is bad, I'm sure she's psychic :cool:

4. 'Won' a gravity strider on freecycle, thought it would help with exercise as I can't walk too far these days. Unfortunately it was ginormous, wouldn't have looked out of place in a gym and even the man who owned it had trouble picking it up so I had to refuse it :doh:. I felt really bad but luckily he was very nice about it and said he had some other enquiries so wouldn't have problem getting rid of it

5. Mr T voucher came today, the princely sum of £1.50p...or £6 if I can find an offer I want to spend it on. Somewhere I have 2 more making a total of £5.50 (£22)...these have taken me 2 years to collect as I very seldom go to Mr T so I'll try not to spend them all at once

mineallmine

Morning everyone,

Thanks for my welcomes and thanks to ampersand for the kind offer of a pashmina (have PM'd you :A )

My 5 pleasures for yesterday:

1. Drying washing outside (like many people, this is so welcome!)
2. Did really good home made egg fried rice (I amazed myself)
3. Looking at the sorted "spices" cupboard - having opened it the other day and had most of the contents roll out toward me - I now open a very sorted and bare cupboard (a lot of it was very very very out of date ). The cupboard now looks tidy and I can find things!
4. Sorting out some charity bags for the local charity shop. I understand they have a "rag bag" man who comes along to buy unsaleable clothes/ material by weight. So nothing goes to waste :T
5. Using Boots points to get some treats.

My OS pleasures so far today:
1. A cracking cup of tea and some toast.
2. Utilised the economy7 tariff with washing machine overnight.

Have a great day everyone and thanks for making me feel welcome.