Five OS Pleasures in your day today

shopndrop

Bellaquidsin - Good luck to you and your OH on the new stage in your life together.
Reverbe - I agree with mumoftwins, don't give up there will be someone special out there for you who will be a real true friend. I think a lot of people maybe only have 1 or 2 true friends, the rest are probably people that are in our lives but not necessarily friends. Hope that a true friend comes into your life soon.
Caterina - how lovely to have found a babysitting job. I often feel now that I am older how lovely it would be to look after a baby short term and hand it back at the end of the day/evening. A real pleasure.
SunnyGirl - good news about your mum's cardiac results.
Olliebeak - It is amazing how we can manage with NSD if we really try. I often think I have got nothing in then when I really try and use MSE I can concoct a meal that is usually most enjoyable without spending a penny. Birthday greeting to your DS. Well done on reducing your DD. I managed to reduce ours this year too and it feels so good knowing that we now have that extra money each month.
Ampersand - it is amazing how many of us enjoy being on a train or bus and nosing into other people's gardens.
Mineallmine - love the image you find. I am off to put my washing on the line now.

1. Washing all done, sunny day so it can go on the line again instead of trying to dry it indoors.
2. My neighbour giving me some lettuce seedlings as she had too many. This is great as by the time they grow, the ones I had planted will be finished.
3. Managing to srot through a pile of magazines that were all part read, so now have them ready to go out for a good cause somewhere.
4. Looking forward to the weekend as the forecast is meant to be quite good.
5. Going to a party at a neighbours and asking what she would like me to bring along. She has asked for a HM loaf as she has heard that I make lovely bread. I did explain that it is not me that makes it but the BM.

shopndrop

Olliebeak wrote: »

to think I spent y-e-a-r-s having to be dragged out of my pit and now it's my favourite time of day . How much 'peace-time' I've wasted :doh:!

Oh Ollie how I agree. Many many years ago when we travelled to work with a guy we considered be "old" (he was probably in his late 40's) he always used to say we wasted half of the weekend as we always had a lie in till late morning on Sat & Sun. I always thought it was only old people who got up early - he was always up early and said it was the best time of the day. Now that we are older than late 40's and certainly don't consider ourselves to be old, there is nothing nicer than early morning. How right he was, just wish I had listened earlier.

ampersand

Found this on the YouTube thingy:
[another first pour moi]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DenCF53zGjs&feature=related
All sorts on John Nations, but one of them shows him, as yesterday, o/s Holy Trinity in Cambs. Might just look at 'jugglers on the Cam' next....

The[STRIKE] pedagogue [/STRIKE]pedant in me needs to correct 'discoved' tho'......

raggydoll_2

Hi all, been away from this thread for a long tome but am back now and must make the time again to at least think about my 5 things each day even if i don't always have time to type them.

So my yesterdays 5 was,

1. Enjoying a day lazing around at home and putting off all the housework til tomorrow (now today !)
2. Finally shaking off the headache i have had all week
3. Home made macaroni cheese for dinner mmmmmm my fave
4. Hubby suprising me by coming home from work early
5. Making lots of plans toget back on the wagon with my money saving, debt paying, cleaner, greener more organised lifestyle again. I feel inspired and motivated again and its great!!

Caterina

shopndrop wrote: »

Caterina - how lovely to have found a babysitting job. I often feel now that I am older how lovely it would be to look after a baby short term and hand it back at the end of the day/evening. A real pleasure.

Hi shopndrop,

So true, with a heavy enphasis on the handing baby back! Even though, I have to say, he is such a placid and cheerful little soul that it is great to spend a few hours in his company, very peaceful!

Here I am again having missed a day, so in no particular order here are mine for yesterday and today:

1 - Lazy morning reading mags.

2 - Hair colour and highlights (as a model so very cheap) and cut (at slightly reduced price because I am a regular) done by the girl who always does it for me and who really knows how to cut my hair. Excellent results and well worth the money.

3 - Cooking the artichokes I bought last Sunday at the farmers market and finding that they are super-tender, no beard and hardly any wastage.

4 - Friend's visit for dinner.

5 - Fruit salad and great big bunch of mint that my friend brought, used some of the mint for the artichokes and the rest as a tea - yummy!

6 - This morning, half an olive ciabatta with camembert for breakfast (the other half was nicked by DS who was hungry and on his way to college!

7 - More babysitting, enjoying time with the giggly, peaceful baby and getting paid for it!

8 - Piece of cake from the Reminiscence cafe while babysitting.

9 - Planned and booked a break in Bruges with DH for the end of June! He is so stressed at work so this morning I told him he MUST get two days off, the last Monday and Tuesday of the month, then I booked the break, found a reasonably priced hotel and good price on Eurostar, then I called him and gave him the news. He was well pleased! YIPPEE!!!! Can't wait!

10 - Planning tomorrow's BBQ for DD's 20th birthday party (of course it is DS's birthday too but he hasn't decided what to do yet - prob. just go for a drink with his friends).

11 - Looking forward to next Tuesday when we take DD and DS for a cream tea in a posh hotel in Central London (with an offer of course, courtesy of an OS friend!).

Good night everybody xxx

bellaquidsin

Wow what a day so crammed with pleasures.

1. All the kind thoughts and good wishes from peeps on here for DH retirement. Thank you all so much.

2. DH came home at lunchtime looking 10ft tall with all the pressies and good wishes he had from work. They gave him a magnificent send off.

3. A lovely afternoon in the countryside picking elderflowers, a real treat for a couple of old townies.

4. Elderflowers steeping and smelling divine.

5. A real OS tea - a boiled egg and a HM granary roll, followed by another roll with HM raspberry jam. Mmmmmmmm.,

Bella

Dustykitten

This is a great thread, can't believe I haven't found it before. I was in a bad mood but this has really made me think of the good things from today so here goes:

1. Ripe strawberries, taste delicious when picked with the sun on them.

2. Meal plan done earlier in the week so I knew what would be for dinner and had got it out the freezer

3. Time in the garden planting out dahlias which I've lifted and saved for a few years.

4. Getting the bed linen washed and dried outside

5. No exams today for DS1 to sit or me to invigilate.

ampersand

I'm away to bed, but welcome, dustykitten:hello:-

Topping and tailing day on this Thread:

1. New book to start in a moment - Joan Bakewell's autobiog -found in the beloved Galloway and Porter £ corner yesterday. Good to see it still there.
2. HOPING that I may have a happy strawberry story before too long(6 more corpses today) :mad:, after intricate construction of clinical complexity, canes and net curtains. On verra.
3. My little countree beat the trad.cross-the-Tas. enemy at the silly baby cricket today - forgot to gloat when Skyping with A earlier.
3a]REPEAT last four words.
4. Barbecue constructed - only one nut lost in grass - not critical. Bedded prettily in fetching redundant shower curtain until cover bought.
5. Watching Monsieur Merle bomb down to fresh water bath within seconds of my refilling it.
6. 3 more bottles of elderflower cordial done - it is delicious. Will do more while the flowers last.
7. One borlotti bean flowerbud is ready to burst:j, so must protect them all against sparrow munch demain.
8. Hearing the soft promise of elderflower champagne working...at last

Bonne nuit to all - we're due mostly sun, if not the heat I crave.
reverbe - it's official - your 'this one's for me' weekend has started.

Reverbe

Ampersand - erm what am I meant to do??

ampersand

Carpe diem, reverbe - [that's me on the right, you on the left]





then,

tucking this pleasure in, hearing that Dotun Adebayo has been Brenda'd.