Five OS Pleasures in your day today

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ampersand wrote: »

Here it is sparrer -

And from me too sparrer :wave::wave::wave:

jvs

((((((sparrer))))))))

KarrieBee

Morning all. I didn't manage to post at the w'end due to evil laptop being evil!
So here are 10ish OS pleasures for the weekend!
1. Meeting someone from the local arts festival about getting involved - i'm very excited!
2. OH getting 2-4-1 tickets to see Ian Macmillan at another local lit festival.
3. Walking up into the hills with a pasty and a flask of tea and taking in how beautiful the valley is.
4. Making HM pasta for the first time and OH saying it was the best pasta he ever tasted.
5. A cheeky pint of local ale in front of the fire at our local - not very MS but we needed to warm up as it was freezing on the tops on saturday!
6. Taking the OS map and exploring on our way to the farm shop on Sunday, it was cloudy when we set our but turned so lovely we just kept walking. I was very proud of my rapidly improving map reading skills!
7. Having my camera with me on Sunday, sheer coincidence but it meant I could take an extremely comedy picture of 5 cows mucnhing on a bale of hay looking like they were all having a good gossip.
8. Finding a HM swing in a tree in the woods, OH and I had a great time playing on it!!
9. Stocking up on lots of good value, happy, local meat at the farmshop and knowing we are set for the next month.
10. Getting through the backlog of ironing and enjoying the smell of fresh clean clothes as I put them away.

Hope you all had a blessed weekend.
Hugs
Karrie

Primrose

Just a quick posting for yesterday and today:
1. Visiting a local acquaintance and seeing her newly acquired young chickens and feeling a little envious as I watched them wandering around the garden enjoying themselves. Foolishly researching chicken arks on the internet in the hope that we could accommodate some but realising our garden is just big enough for a vegetable patch or a small chicken run, but sadly can't accommodate both.
2. Home made soup for lunch - another portion of stock removed from the freezer!
3. Checking out our tiny pond today and finding the first batch of frogspawn. Yippee. We will have tadpoles again this year after a visiting wild duck arrived last year and ate them all. No matter how old I become, this annual ritual still excites me.

Caterina

Hi all

I was meeting the Brizzle OSers during the weekend (see Bristol meet thread) so I did not post, so here are my pleasures over the weekend:

1 - Meeting all the great OSers

2 - Lunch with OSers in Wetherspoons

3 - Walk around St Nicholas Market with OSers

4 - Walk around canals with OSers

5 - Fran's exquisite hospitality, I stayed at hers overnight and it was great to catch up with her!

6 - Sunday morning buying the Observer and finding a great moneysaving mag inside (even with an interview from Martin and a voucher for free strawberries!).

6 - Lunch at an Italian stall (broccoli lasagne - delicious) and speaking Italian with this lovely lady.

7 - Lovely Italian lady (see no. 6) selling me two jars of Italian honey at a discount (I did not ask, she offered!).

8 - Boat trip around canals, showing my student card I got it at reduced price.

9 - Sunshine all Sunday, walking around in glorious weather.

10 - Finding artisan bread loaves reduced 2 for 1 and buying 2 Campagne and 2 Spelt to take back to the family.

Today:

1 - Sunshine again! Loving the weather!

2 - Breakfast with friend, cutting into one of the spelt loaves I got yesterday and spreading the Italian honey on it - yummy!

3 - Picking up an interview for a local job and talking with the manager of the centre, who seems very pleasant.

4 - Looking at the wonderful work DH and DD's boyfriend did on the front garden, now we are ready to order topsoil and start planting veg.

5 - Anticipated pleasure: knitting class tonight.

Have a great day, all! xxx

I am looking forward to seeing Sparrer again too, hope you are well!

scousewife

Hello all
Im worried about Sparrer too
to you Sparrer - Hope all is well x

My pleasures for the weekend are;
1) Recieving cheques in the post in exchange for my old mobile phones. :j
2) Taking my 2 y/o ds out (without his buggy) on my own shopping & taking the bus & him being very well behaved for once - It was surprisingly a stress free few hours. No buggy & no car means that I buy less shopping so quids in
3) Buying a reduced pirate hat from Mr T which was well worth the 75p spend as it kept my ds amused during & beyond our shopping trip! :silenced:
4) Putting my Boots Advantage card in the machine & having points added that I had forgotten about so have enough to buy make-up when I need it.
5) Enjoying the milder weather that we are having at the moment & taking advantage & getting 2 loads of washing dry.
6) Buying a loaf of bread for 10p & a pack of bread rolls for 5p with bb dates for 2 days time so dh's & dfil's packed lunches sorted.
7) My ds noticing the purple crocus appearing in our garden and saying it was lovely - just goes to show that even at his tender age he appreciates the beauty of nature.

xxx

jvs

Hello all. My 5 for Sunday
1. My niece completing her abseil and raising money for Stroke Association Wales - this lovely young woman was involved in a most horrific car accident 8 years ago and broke her neck. I'm one very proud auntie
2. Seeing most of my family yesterday
3. One of my great nieces who is 7 years old giving me a lovely hug
4. The other who is 5 years old , when asked if should would give me a hug replied 'nah'. Hilarious!!!!!
5. Having a lovely mug of Bovril from the kiosk down on the beach - just what I needed
Hope everyone can find blessings in their day.
xx

zippychick

Hi all. A few from the weekend

1) Charity shop picks - 4 egg cups for 60p. Two pyrex dishes, a pyrex plate, a spatula, wooden spoon and pizza stone (i think) fvor £2!

2) Making fairy cakes for the first time

3) Cooking Jamies chicken and leek pie - more OS than buying shop made one?!

4) HM bread and HM coronation chicken for lunch

5) thinking how i can bulk up the pie next time!

6) Best friend telling me its always a "cullinary treat" being at my house, and how she has yummy memories

7) the last of my seeds collection sprouting. Cant quite make out what they are and which is which, but exciting all the same

8) Paying my overdraft off on Friday , after a long hard slog.

Disflop

Hi everyone. Hope all is well in your world(s).
My pleasures for yesterday and today:
1.A walk in the sunshine.
2. Delicious HM veg soup with HM bread rolls - first time have made and pleased to say they turned out well - too well cos we ate the lot!!
3. Long chat on phone to a friend.
4. Starting Nella Last's Peace.
5. Seeing lots of families walking on the shore in the sunshine.
6. Making macoroni cheese for the first time in ages.
7. DD popping in with youngest DGD for a quick cuppa cos she was nearby.
8. Looking forward to going to the cinema with a friend this evening.
9. Getting lots of whoopsies at the supermarket today.
10. Looking back and realising I have saved over £150 on the same 2 months of last year in the food budget.

[Deleted User]

Hi everyone

thanks for your kind thoughts ampersand, feeling much better today.

1. Tai Chi with the neighbours, now up to 24 moves!
us

2. deciding to visit DD for the weekend, so can anticiapte lots of cuddles with 18 month dgd. We live hundreds of kms from the rest of the family, so don't see them as often as we would like.

3. Oh is home today, so will be able to spend the whole day with him.

4. Making grape and apple juice with the steam extractor, and it tastes great.

5. HM blueberry muffins for lunch.

Blessings be
Jennie