Five OS Pleasures in your day today

sparrer

Ollibeak I don't like chocolate and orange together either, in fact I just like my chocolate to taste of chocolate

I've missed ampersand and her posts too, but she has been pressing the thanks button until yesterday. I'm hoping she just needs some 'me time'? I hope she's alright, and ampersand if you're reading this please know we're missing you and thinking of you

Congratulations on your find jvs, may it be a small start of bigger things to come!

Sunday blessings...

1. A good journey round the car park (M25) I avoided most of the traffic by leaving early. I've learned the hard way that on special days it's best to travel before 9am to avoid the crush

2. Spent a super day with DM, we had a delicious roast beef lunch in our favourite restaurant then wandered round the French market and did some shopping afterwards

3. DB visited to bring DM her card and pressie, haven't seen him for some time as he visits her on Thursdays and I go on Sundays so it was good to catch up with all the family news

4. A long-drawn-out trip home, M40, M25 and A1M all crowded so pootling along at 60/ 65mph - it seems everyone had the same idea as me, to leave after 7pm and avoid the traffic. The blessing there was it saved about a quarter of a tank of fuel - not saying I usually drive a little faster, of course...:o

5. A lovely greeting from the mogs and the dog, anyone would think I'd been away for a week judging by the meows and wags I got when I walked in the door.

Night night everyone, sweet dreams
S x

Liney_2

My five today are

• Drinking a lovely cup of earl grey tea right now- i'd forgotten how nice earl grey is!
• Making a fence from old odds and ends we had laying around rather than buying new
• Got all the washing done and dried on the line before the shower we had this afternoon
• I stopped putting off an important email and sent it
• made some Spring Rhubarb Sorbet - homegrown and homemade - can't wait to eat it now! lol

What a nice afternoon its turning out to be after the rain :EasterBun

Olliebeak

sparrer wrote: »

Ollibeak I don't like chocolate and orange together either, in fact I just like my chocolate to taste of chocolate

Yup - quite agree - though I do lurve chocolate with nuts in :drool: and it just has to be freezing cold! I actually hide mine underneath the veggies in the freezer - dk's/dgk's wouldn't dream of touching a bag of sprouts or cauliflower .

Caterina

Hi all

Olliebeak, yes it was inspiring and very good to have DH with me, somehow it didn't double the pleasure, it compounded it - he is so good at the design stuff that I know he will make great use of the ideas and suggestions.

Today's five for me:

1 - My visit to the Italian consulate for a bureaucracy thing was nice and quick (sometimes it takes all morning!).

2 - No time for breakfast so I treated myself to a nice bagel with cruncy peanut butter in Victoria Station

3 - Went to eye hospital, although there is a possible problem in my eye (maybe a small tear in retina), if it is so it is reparable by a quick laser intervention. Glad I caught it in time!

4 - DS and DD are cooking me a Mother's Day dinner tonight!

5 - Because of the above celebration DH came back home early (ish) from work, so I am off the computer now!

Have a good evening everybody xxx

mineallmine

Evening all,

Feel quite puffed out this evening, so am going to do a bit of paid work at home, then have a bath, I am shattered! But I have lots of lovely OS blessings to post, so here goes:

1. Getting a really nice email from someone this morning
2. Having a chat with a fellow passenger on my journey home, I soon found other "strangers" also starting up conversations around us
3. Letting a cab driver have a (fairly generous) tip which meant I just caught the train, karma!
4. Finishing off dreaded paperwork, only need to pop items in the post
5. My bathroom mat set from Aldi, been looking for a set for ages - it's is a bit fluffy though. Might damp them down and give a spin in the tumbler drier.

Right over and out. Off to have a quick wizz around the rest of the site and then to do some paid work stuff. Caterina, should be off of here by now sitting down to her lovely Mother's day meal.

Olliebeak wrote: »

Mineallmine - how organised you are :T. I can do 'spreadsheets' but I just know that I'd never keep up-to-date with them. I think I might just have a go with a small accounts notebook - more likely to remember to keep track that way. I could keep it in my shoulder bag and then use my 'me-coffee-time' in Asda to tally it all up while I've still got the receipt handy .

Olliebeak, you're too kind! It's something I've started this month. It is hard to keep it up to date, but if you do it every few days it helps. A book is just as good, as a useful way of checking your spending.

Reverbe

Been off for a few days - been busy and also had a coupla days when I found it hard to find any... will try to find some today but feeling pretty down.For now here are ..

Thursday

1. a sunny day

2. Having my haircut - feels much lighter and better now I can see!

3. a walk in the breeze too and from the hairdressers to save money or it would have been 2 buses each way.

4. discovering a huge Sainsburys with a whole floor of clothes and lots of other home and entertainment sections etc which I will go to properly soon when I have some more money handy

5. Getting some Indian pulses, spices, beans and other delicacies from the store near the hairdressers - spent £10 but got a lot of stuff and things I can't get anywhere else as well as some more unusual items that I had never heard of before - like mango powder and tinned curried mustard leaves

6. The Prestige on dvd from Lovefilm

7. getting some stuff from a Lidl I found including some lovely German green tea with vanilla

8. small tin of Mr S wild red salmon and bulgar wheat for dinner

The weekend


1. Cappuchino bought by flatmate on way to match

2. seeing a lovely tabby cat on my way back from the ground to the club

3. Fulham beating Man United - and laughing at the various childish antics of Ronaldo and Rooney

4. Ireland winning the Grand Slam which meant along with some £300 wins on football meant he won £700 which goes towards a huge tax bill he has - this means I might not have to lend him so much before the tax go mental at him.

5. Getting the Interpreter and 2 Days in Paris on dvd - former bad, latter ok

6. Having a Powers Gold Label whisky in the club to celebrate the win - i adored it when I went to Ireland years ago and haven't had one since

7. sunny days

8. YS Toad in the hole saving us £1.50 on something we had gone in to buy for dinner anyway.

9. M&S apple and cinnamon hot cross buns and a salmon pasty for the footy
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10. Double bill Jack Black movies on tv

11. going to visit flatmate mum and dad - always nice to see them and his mum is going to teach me knitting soon.

12. having a drink and darts on the way to the visit - with Black Sheep Ale - also found some money in the dart hut on the floor

13. crispy roast spuds for dinner

14 finding real sticks of chewing gum which i have been looking for for ages actually in my local off licence!!

SunnyGirl

Evening everyone,

My 5 for today are:

1. Getting through my list for today - feeling very organised now :T

2. Mum rang to say that their rhubarb crown that they were given on an allotment last year has poked through. I took pleasure in it as I'd helped Dad dig the hole & plant it.

3. A lovely afternoon once the lashing rain & wind had died down.

4. A chat with a neighbour who I haven't seen in a while.

5. An anticipated early bath & relaxing evening.

Primrose

Only two today:
1. Getting down on my hands and knees and giving the kitchen floor a good scrub, especially clearning all those lurky bits at the base of the skirting board with a toothbrush, and putting on two coats of Shine. As the flooring tiles are 30 years old it was rather like trying to tart up a 90 year old for a Ball, but at least that's one bit of my spring cleaning done
2. Similarly cleaning all the grotty pipework and skirtings in our downstairs loo. Where does all this dirt come from ? I vacuum every week but I think the dirt bogles breed overnight while I'm asleep.

thriftyscotslass

Evening everyone :wave:

I haven't posted for a few days, so it's lovely to be back.

Kiwiblue - I am so pleased everything went well with your dh's op.

((((Hugs)))) to Reverbe - I hope you are feeling a little better soon.

Here are some blessings from the past few days:

1. Catching up with this thread

2. A weekend away with some very good friends - not money-saving or os at all but what a giggle :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

3. Ds and dd being genuinely please to have me back :smileyhea

4. A belated mothers day complete with hand-drawn card and home-made cake from dd.

5. No work and a long lie-in today to recover.

Enjoy the rest of the evening everyone xx

kaz665

Haven't posted for a few days as just getting over what must be the worst cold I have ever had. Seriously, how one can person can blow their nose so much in a week 'll never know. Anyway feeling a slight bit better today and decided that I'll venture back to work in the morning. Primrose, you made me laugh with your cleaning exploits, I just wish I could be as enthusiatic about it as you. Reverbe - hope you cheer up soon. Unfortunately I dont even think I have finished my list of things I wanted to get done by last Thursday and the weather here has been freezing and rainy. However, my 5 for today are:

1. Picking up my new pink specs (pretty trendy they are too!)
2. Eating cold leftover apple pie. (mmmmm)
3. Getting back to writing my essay (should have been in by last Friday but I was given a weeks extension).
4. DH making chinese with leftover chicken.
5. Off to chill out with a magazine and then watch Heroes.