Five OS Pleasures in your day today

kaz665

My 5 for today are:

1. Getting 2 bargain cashmere jumpers from Tesco's for just £21.
2. Treating myself to some new specs.
3. Finding a Victorian outfit for my son in the first charity shop I visited. (thought it would takes me ages to find what I was looking for).
4. Being contacted by 2 friends who wish to do the Race for Life with me (it'll be great to have the company).
5. Looking forward to going to a meeting later and letting everyone know that our Youth Club has received a surprise grant to buy equipment.

Reverbe

Saturday

1. 2 strips low salt bacon - not for health just cos it was cheap

2. Free Starbucks Raspberry & Blackcurrant Frappuchino using the money I found on the floor in the pub the day before.

3. Itty Bitty T!tty Committee on dvd

4. BOGOF on paperbacks in local charity shop - got 2 huge ones for £1

5. free Boots Purple eyeshadow

6. Daffodils nodding and dancing in the breeze

7. Market Kitchen on tv esp Gennaro Contaldo

8.How To Be Free - Tom Hodgkinson - book about how to live and be free found in library

9. Comic Relief Let's Dance esp Keith & Paddy

10. Gromit as Nipper on the HMV Leaflet i picked up

11. Berlin on the tv - used to live there as a child

12. Fulham's first away win of the season and 3 goals to boot

13. Flatmate buying me M&S mini pork pies and stuffing filled chicken wrapped in sundried tomatoes

Sunday

1. Full English Cassoulet book from library

2. Orangutan Diary on tv - snoring babies and the nursery with Peanut and Pickle

3. The Road by Cormac MCCarthy - very moving unusual book with a powerful message and storyline

4. Bacon butty for brekky

5. The evening on TV - Heston's Feast,Peter Kay, The Departed and taping the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency

7. steak pie roast spuds and Yorkshire for dinner

Primrose

1. Wandering round the garden in the sunshine & picking some baby leaves of Swiss chard, endive and sorrel to make a freebie green leaf salad.
2. Finding some varieties of tomato seeds in my Seed box which I'd forgotten about so I can experiment growing several new varieties this summer.
3. Feeling rather smug, having done a thorough dust and vacuum this morning - a rather rare event in this household!
4. Letter notifying me of April increase in my State Pension. Don't know why I should feel pleased - it's only the Government giving me some of my money back for all the NI contributions I've paid over the years but it's still nice to have a little extra.
5. Lentil soup for lunch and have just started off a flask of home made Greek yogurt to accompany soft fruit compote from the freezer...

Jet

1. Beautiful weather
2. Tidying up the garden and making it look nice.
3. Having a home made picnic with my boyfriend in a field where he is working.
4. Getting all the housework done.
5. A cup of tea and cuddle with my cats.

Liney_2

1. Having a cup of tea outside in the garden with my father in law this morning

2. Sowing some flower seeds in the garden

3. Cleaned my greenhouse glass top to bottom using eco-washing up liquid and water

4. Looking after my ds as he is poorly - cuddles on the sofa - heavenly!

5. Did 4 loads of washing, all out on the whirlygig and all dried beautifully.

shopndrop

1. My yoga class this morning, all done with the sun shining through the windows.
2. A phone call from friend asking to meet up this evening for a catch up chat.
3. A walk to the osteopath this afternoon and now my tennis elbow feeling much better after lots of gardening at the weekend.
4. A delicious chicken and leek pie cooked in the Remoska for tea.
5. DH walking to meet me from the osteopath as he also fancied a walk in the sunshine after work.

morganb

1 Making a little girls day when I said she didn't have to worry that Dad couldn't afford the school trip (she;s in my class) and that I had enough money to cover her contribution so she could go after all
2 Taking DS1 and DS2 swimming after school, very relaxing until
3 DS2 decided to start jumping in (he's getting very brave now and hasn't clung on to my leg for a couple of days, bless!!!)
4 Seeing DS1 and DS2 eat up all the leftover hm apple and blueberry crumble with custard
5 Getting all the washing in off the line and realising that only about 1/4 of it needs ironing, and then only lightly!!!
6 Two people saying that they need me to increase my hours at work next year!! Yipee! (I work in several places)
7 Finding out that Lovefilm have sent me The Duchess with Keira Knightly ... not very OS I know, having membership to Lovefilm, but it works out cheaper than buying any DVDs as, if there's anything we or the boys want to watch, we just put it on our list ... saves us cluttering up the house with DVDs as well!!!

mineallmine

Evening all,

1. Cleaning the kitchen as per flylady - I have a floor!
2. Making the infamous Twinks hobnobs for the very first time - done half the quantity and thank goodness as we munched and munched...
3. Buying a mini-shopping bag from M&S for my friend - will pop it through her letterbox later as a nice surprise
4. Putting the washing out overnight ready for the next day (mmm maybe just me that does this, but it's lovely and fresh after a day of sunshine)
5. Refusing to waste money and buy some Argos curtains simply because they were in a sale - very cheap in price and sadly in quality. Wish I could make my own.
6. Seeing a butterfly in the garden yesterday.


Ampersand - hope all is well with you.

scousewife

Hi all
My pleasure for today was;
1) Deciding to make the most of the lovely weather & spending most of the day outdoors. Thank goodness Spring is just around the corner!

xxxx

Rowan9

Hello folks...been away for a lovely few days, which will show in my pleasures:
1. Great, fantastic, wonderful day at Cheltenham Races with DH on Friday
2. Seeing the Queen and standing not far from her for the National Anthem - this tickled me no end. Last time I saw the Queen, I was 5 and was waving a flag as she passed through our town on the way to \Balmoral. Also could see her in her 'box' with race card in hand. I just loved it!!
3. Having a lovely winner in the Gold Cup
4. Going to the National Stud at Newmarket yesterday and seeing the gorgeous foals. Do you know - they have to bend their front legs at their little ankles to get the grass as their legs are soooo long? Little lambs (well, not literally)
5. Spending the whole time with DH
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ps......6. Gorgeous weather today and had a cup of tea outside at work

forgot to say .....sweet dreams everyone. DH is ironing fresh PJs for me just now, which were air dried today and I'm off for an early night. I hope you all sleep well.