Five OS Pleasures in your day today

zarazara

1. its raining! great stair rods of fresh smelling lovely rain.
2. HM veg soup for lunch with bowl of mixed lettuce leaves given to me yesterdy by a kind neighbour
3. finding gooseberries on the bushes in the veg patch
4. making stewed rhubarb [also from veg patch] and meltinga raspberry jelly into it. yummmmmmmm. itsin the fridge now setting
5. having DH at home this morning to share time with me, hes working the afternoon shift.
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bellaquidsin

Just a quiet ordinary sort of day:-

1. Supermarket shopping with DH, so lovely to get it out of the way on a Friday and leave the weekend free.

2. DH commenting on what a lot of OAP couples there were, then realised we now fall into that catergory.

3. Lovely salad for lunch, gathered from the garden before the rain came, well as it came actually.

4. All baking i.e. large round loaf, scones, fairy cakes and a sponge flan case baked in the Remoska, kept the kitchen cool and saved leccy.

5. Kind neighbour giving us a bag of surplus brocolli. Went down a treat with the fish pie I had made.

Bella.

Rainbowchild

Mine for yesterday.
1) Farmers market. Chatted to a young woman who has set up a veggie box scheme and she is from our villagso picked up a leaflet and will give them a go.
2) Listening to great music on radio
3) DH brought me flowers for our 10 yr "meeting" anni
4) Being wined and dine for said anni - lovely meal with cooked watermelon!! was yumm
5) Cuddle with cat when we got home

Patchwork_Quilt

Hi chaps! I've been helping on a school trip to London for the last couple of days so had lots of catching up to do but here are mine

1) The lovely people who loaned us their church hall for our stay. It was clean, well organised and free.
2) Getting to know the children much better. I wished we'd had a bit longer for this, really.
3) The London Eye and a river cruise followed by the Aquarium.
4) My walking boots. Despite the heat, they were by far the best thing for trekking around London
4.5) Getting back to the green and pleasant north of England. Sorry folks! London is fascinating. Even addictive. But there's such a lot of concrete
5) A meal with DH's colleague from America when I got back. The food was lovely, which is important when you have a guest, and he had an interesting life story. Work paid for the meal so we felt very lucky

Am now recovering on the sofa. Have a happy weekend everyone

Reverbe

Tuesday

1. Roots on dvd from Lovefilm and sample of Rock & Dreams perfume in the post

2. YS food at M&S!!! - edameme bean saladfor £1.50, vegetable medley for £1 and a couple of chocolate tarts for 50p.

3. Bad food Britain - a really interesting library book

4.a sunny day

5. last nights value pancakes for supper

6. kaftan beach style top form Sally Army for £2

7. Finding the nail brush and conditioner I went to Wilkos for were reduced.

Thursday

1. Moneywise mag freebie and M&S bracelet in post

2. Soap and Kung Fu Panda on dvd form lovefilm

3. getting £10 for my recent mystery shopping assignment.

Friday

1. Banana nut porridge for lunch

2. sold a book on Green Metropolis - been ages since the last one tho I have loads listed

3. My Name Is Earl on the net

4. cheap fresh asparagus from Tescos

5. getting a guide to Lost from the library

6. Monk on dvd

mineallmine

Evening all,

Its so hot!

1. Eating half a bag of mixed nuts (felt like Christmas and memories of mum cracking open the nuts - as well as eating that jellified orange and lemon slices)
2. Having simple meals (scrambled egg on toast yesterday)
3. Finishing a novel today
4. Getting rid of clutter (did the get rid of 100 things from the house - from the flylady thread - recycled lots of bits)
5. Finding this thread - http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1780195 and keeping the pets cool in this heat - a combination of closed curtains, lots of water and putting up paper blackout blinds from Argos (called blinds in a box, was featured on Dragons Den).

:cool:

SunnyGirl

Hi to everyone I haven't been online since Friday as the children have all been on constantly & I had a migraine yesterday. Thank you for all of your good wishes regarding my Dad :A He feels great now he's home & has spent 3 hours in the garden and walked to the local shops with no problems :T :j He'll be bench pressing his own weight in the next few weeks :rotfl: My five for yesterday - hard looked for as I was sick for most of it with migraine:

1. Watching 2 of the cats flopped out in the middle of the trampoline, obviously it wasn't in use at the time!

2. Enjoying doing a bit of early morning pottering in the garden.

3. I picked some lettuce for lunches sandwiches.

4. A lovely cool drink of water. We are so lucky to have clean, fresh & cold water coming straight from the tap.

5. Listening to all the neighbourhood children, and my youngest, playing out.

Primrose

Haven't posted for a few days as we had a brief break away so a catch-up.
1. Meandering around seaside charity shops and picking up some really good bargains.
2. Visiting farm shop and poultry-keeping centre and enjoying watching all the hens (but it really does make me frustrated that our garden just isn't big enough for a vegetable patch AND a poultry pen).
3. Lots of seaside walks and a forest picnic.
4. Returning home, laundry all drying on the line and whooppee, my automatic irrigation system has really worked on the vegetable growing areas!
5. Just picked nearly 2lbs of ripe blackcurrants for the freezer, with another gooseberry bush ready to pick (but wood pigeon has nicked the last remaining strawberries in our absence).
6. Brought the gazebo out of store just erected it and hoping it will earn its keep this hot summer.
7. Just going to pick a lettuce, and a second mini-cucumber. Feel an alfresco lunch and a nice cold drink is imminent.

sunflower76

1) Spending an hour at the allotment (if I ever get off here and sorted :rolleyes:)
2) A YS joint of rib beef for dinner. I've been drooling over this since I bought it
3) All my bills paid and shopping ordered for the month ahead so that for once I'm actually organised
4) MrS doing outdoor jobs that really need doing without me nagging
5) Having had a really peaceful weekend as everyone thinks we're camping (we we're supposed to be but cancelled as the weather report was really bad. It hasn't rained but I've got loads of jobs done so never mind)

Reverbe

Saturday

1. Free hand cream from Boots

2. Soap on dvd from Lovefilm

3. getting some good library books out

4. a sunny day (for those that like it)

5. mini tomatoes, grapes and a yoghurt for lunch

6. water bottle and fig perfume from TK Maxx

7 getting a cleanser for 99p instead of £2.69 for one bottle from Wilkos

8. superdrug mag for free

9. Listening to 80s stuff on Spotify - Steven Duffy, Lilac Time, House Of Love, China Crisis, Sisters of Mercy and Daniel Ash