Five OS Pleasures in your day today

HariboJunkie

bellaquidsin wrote: »

My OS pleasures today have really felt like OS work but here we go.

1. Another lovely line of washing dried.

2. Getting the ironing up to date.

3. Cleaning all the downstairs of the house.

4. Baking, a chocolate cake, an apple pie and a dozen large bread rolls.

5. Fish pie for tea tomorrow and another one for the freezer.

Bella.

I wish I had spent less time watching toads and more time doing what you did.

Broomstick

I love reading everyone's posts about the arrival of Spring-type things

My five for Friday:

1. Doing a lot of sorting out of home-ed resources and finding some more things that I can sell.

2. Sorting out more of the stationery bit of the store cupboard and seeing how much stuff we have been using up because we know where to find it, rather than buying new. It's decluttering and money saving at the same time.

3. Spending some really good one-to-one time with each of the children.

4. Having a cheap and simple pasta, cheese and veggie sauce supper.

5. Getting us put on the local allotments waiting list. It turns out that we may even stand a small chance of getting one this year. Fingers crossed.

Off to have an early (for me) night.
Sleep well.

sparrer

I feel as though I've had a very productive day yet actually achieved very little!

Friday blessings...

1. My first trip out today - it was strange to see 'closing down' signs all over our one food store. On a high note the check-out lady told me it's been bought by Morrisons so hopefully the prices will be lower and it'll stock a bigger range . Apparently it's closing for refurb for up to three months...that will stop me 'just popping to the shop' and make me plan my supermarket trips (next nearest 6 miles away) more carefully in future :rolleyes:

2. Said shop has lots of 50% and more reductions, what started out a a shop for a few bits ended up a major bargain hunt. I need a bigger house to store everything!

3. Changed the bed linen and got it washed and dried in a couple of hours. I just love the smell of air-dried laundry, I sniffed it so much I think I sniffed the smell away!

4. There were lots of overripe bananas left since before last weeks 'incarceration' so attempted two banana and walnut loaves in the breadmaker - not terribly successful as loaves, the first looks like a sticky toffee pudding and the second has more of the texture of a Christmas pudding! However they'll be ideal to serve as puds with custard or ice-cream, so not really a failure at all

5. A local school was asking on freecycle for spare council scrap food bins, they want to encourage the children to compost and I don't throw much food away (dog and cats have cooked meat/veggie waste etc) so it benefitted us all.

Night all, sweet dreams and have a good weekend however you spend it

jvs

My 5 for Friday
1. Lovely blue sky and sunshine
2. DH needed to go to a few different places with work so asked if I would like to go with him -we had a picnic down by the estuary on the way. It was a lovely and so peaceful
3. Went into a shopping park after DH had finished his work - everything seemed very tat - and then realised we didn't need anything anyway!!!!
4. DD and DSIL dropping in - seems to always be around teatime - I wonder!!!
5. Going to visit friends in the evening and having a really good natter

Hope everyone has a good day. ((((((warm hugs for all who need TLC))))))))
xx

Sarahsaver

1. gone 'shopping in my wardrobe' and wearing something i haven't worn for ages
2. seen a dove nesting on my house!
3. making an ice cube tray full of baby food for what must have been a few pennies - apple and rice pudding (tastes yum dont see why she should eat something i would not!)
4. the sunshine. it's free and its lovely!
5. children being pleased with £1 pocket money

Hardup_Hester

1) the sun is shining
2) I don't have to fill in a time & motion form
3) washing is drying on the line
4) hubby has 2 weeks work
5) there are flowers blooming in my garden

rosieben

I agree with Reverbe, nothing tastes as good as that first mug of tea in the morning - toast and marmite was a bonus

A beautiful sunny day here, all the windows open wide

Birds singing their hearts out in the sunshine; I’m so thankful I can still hear this although I’m actually deaf

Sparkly new shelving in my kitchen and in my airing cupboard;

Slept straight through for over 8 hours last night, first time in months and months, so I feel refreshed this morning


Have a great weekend

Olliebeak

Quiet hello :hello: everybody this morning from me! First time in years I was 'out on the razz' last night and oooooohhhhh dear . Not sure why I feel so 'crumpled' this morning because I didn't actually drink a great deal. Maybe it's just a combination of the throat infection, not being accustomed to drinking, lack of sleep recently and being a tad dehydrated - anyway I've only been out of bed about 20mins. Most unlike me - normally up around 7.00am even on my days off.

I'm quite envious of those of you with 'nature' around your gardens. Frogs, tadpoles, mice, wild birds etc. Where we live is still partly a building site and our gardens are only 2 years old so still not quite established yet. Maybe when things quieten down (heavy machinery etc) perhaps wildlife will start to come back again. There are some birds, but mostly gulls and crows (noisey bgrs!) - besides that, we've got a cat who could very well be putting them off coming into our garden! We love him to pieces BUT when he's gone (14 and not in terriby good health) that's definitely IT where pets are concerned.

Yesterday's blessings:

1. Throat inf. beginning to feel much better. Not coughing quite so much, unless somebody makes me laugh and then I'm back to square one again!

2. Got called out to one of my lady tenants to help her sort out some financial stuff. She was so grateful for the visit, especially as she could see that I wasn't 100%, that she rang me later to ask how I was. Unfortunately, I was in the middle of trying to get my 'warpaint' on :rolleyes: - very hard to hold a conversation while trying to handle a mascara brush and a mirror with a mobile phone clamped between shoulder and chin. How embarassing when a lady of 89 rings to ask how you are !!!

3. Cooked whoopsied Breast of Lamb (fatty but very tasty) for evening meal with some whoopsied roasting veg, creamy mash and gravy. The cat enjoyed the lumps of fat that we cut off .

4. Lovely time with mum, two sisters, brother, DS1, DD, respective partners and beautiful niece and her friends at the party last night. It's so rare that all our family are together. Did notice at one point though, that myself and two sisters (all dressed in black!) were huddled around a table muttering about the clothes (or lack thereof), dancing, music etc of the youngsters - we were like the 'three witches in Macbeth'. Mother was sat next to us - kind of oblivious to much of what was going on - saying things like 'It's nice to see the youngsters enjoying themselves' - but she was like Edina's mother in AbFab - 'Just what have those 'bright young things' of the 60/70's turned into!'

5. And the best thing of the whole day ............. crawling into bed around midnight with a roll of loo paper in one hand (for my coughing and spluttering) - OH stayed in the single bed again so we didn't disturb each other! I was just so jiggered - definitely lost the stamina that I used to have for partying.

jvs wrote: »

..... DD and DSIL dropping in - seems to always be around teatime - I wonder!!!.......

jvs, I apologise right now for this comment (but it was just begging to be asked!) - their names aren't 'Denise and Dave' are they?

HariboJunkie

Ollie beak, get yourself a pond and some bird feeders.

We only have a tiny one in a shady corner of the garden but it attracts so much wildlife. The garden is small and in a fairly suburban area but we have toads, mice, hedgehogs, occasional visits from a red squirrel, dozens of different birds,bats, mice, stoats, and a nightly visit from a barn owl.

Our dog and cat don't seem to deter anything. We don't even have any grass. the garden is laid with pebbles and raised borders..

It's well worth the effort and if you surround it with a wild area and a few log piles it will establish itself quite quickly.

No OS pleasures from me yet as despite being up since 7.30 I have done bu**er all.

Olliebeak

Thanks for that, Haribo :T!

I'm no gardener, so the thoughts of pebbled areas and raised flower beds really appeals (especially to my dodgy knees and back!). The turf that was put down by the builders is of such poor quality (all clover) that we'd be as well getting rid of it anyway!

There's a very small patio area by the house, but it's barely big enough for a table and four chairs/picnic bench set plus it's got the water-butt on it as well!

I've also got some old recycling boxes (from the days when we used boxes instead of wheelie bins for the recycling) and I was thinking of trying to use these for growing some potatoes this year. I'll be going to Asda later, so I'll look at the composts etc and see what they've got .