Five OS Pleasures in your day today

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Thursday

1. Value strawberries,Sainsburys value products and a little piece of fresh haddock.

2. Boots shaving foam and razor to test

3. Sainsburys magazine

4. grapes for lunch

5. Giving some food to foodbank in Tescos - Sainsburys value teabags, jam, baked beans and a big bar of chocolate(not on the list but nice idea for a treat for someone old or someone with kids)

6 Reduced tins of Heinz stuff - only time I have bought Heinz this year - Ravioli, Spag Bol, beans and sausages - all at only 19p a tin in Tescos

7. James Pattersons Swimsuit £18.99 hardback brand new for only 20p in library. Read it that afternoon and will give it up charity shop so they can make a coupla quid on it.

8. Prodigy at Glastonbury online

9. winning a jar of instant Machu Picchu Cafedirect coffee

ambyence

1) Getting up early to weed the garden, then dashing inside for breakfast before the rain started
2) Cooking up the first harvest of potatoes (dug up this morning) to make some hm potato salad for my pregnant friend who is craving the stuff at the moment
3) The sun coming out again just as washing machine cycle ended so everything could go out on the line
4) Enjoying a mug of hm soup with hm bread for lunch, soup was yummy and made mostly from from veg & herbs from the garden
5) Having a chill-out afternoon, reading all the OS threads and marvelling at how many great new ideas there are out there

thanks for starting this thread, it really is the simple and free things in life that make you happiest xx

zarazara

1. spening time with my pets
2. making a raspberry trifle [ I love raspberries]
3. watching the Wimbledon final
4. having DH home
5. knowing all the washing is done

zarazara

Welcome Ambyence. :-)

SunnyGirl

My five for today are:

1. It was much cooler when I woke up.

2. Washing dry on the line despite some dark clouds this morning.

3. Reading a Harry Potter book out loud to DS3, he's really enjoying it :T

4. My parents have been married 50 years today

5. Doing a quick tuna pasta bake for tea that didn't melt me as I was cooking it!

JaySL

My 5 for the day:

1. someone gifted me with a bike! :D
2. got to know another neighbour better as we went on a ride to the local park.
3. Cooler day but still sunny
4. Finally got a waterbutt (before the hosepipe ban comes)
5. weeded the garden

Have a lovely weekend.

JaySL

sparrer

Saturday blessings...

1. This one's for Friday actually, when got my first tattoo at the age of blprblprblpr years old. I was surprised how painless it was, and am very pleased with the result. I don't think I'll be having any more but it has very special meaning to do with my sobriety

2. Found some separates undies in pretty pink which is the one colour I didn't have, for a total of £7.50p

3. A big salad roll for lunch made with a Mr M's herb and garlic rustic roll, or 'pillow' as my family calls it. Lettuce, tomato, cucumber, mushroom, grated carrot and hard boiled egg with a smattering of mayo instead of spread, it was delicious, inexpensive and very, very filling .I haven't found space for anything else today :rolleyes:

4. Still no rain here so watering the garden every evening and having a nice chat about the day with DNeighbours

5. Looking forward to Live at the Apollo with Al Murray and Shapi Khorsandi, two of my favourite comedians, later this evening.

Totally out of context, has anybody else noticed that when typing in English English the red line shows under some words as a misspelling (colour, neighbour, favourite etc) but when I remove the u it goes? I'm very proud of being English, and of its language, so I do hope the powers that be can change it. Sorry to bring this up in totally the wrong place but don't know where to mention it. Perhaps a board guide could point me in the right direction, please. .:o

Night night, God bless and hugs to everyone
S x

BlimusOreilly

Welcome ambyence :hello:

sparrer - ooh! Well done on your tattoo Sounds great.

Here are my five for today:

1) A very long lie-in (only cos none of the others got up so I decided to join them).
2) DH took the boys to the beach so I could get on with some jobs.
3) Neighbour gave me some rhubarb - enough for a cake and a crumble (which we had tonight).
4) Found a bottle of Pimms at the back of the cupboard so made a nice jug of that with apple, fresh mint, lemon and grapes.
5) Went through all DS2's toy boxes with him and he was very good and got rid of loads of toys he no longer plays with.

Have a great Sunday everyone xx

onetruevoice

First time on this thread but here are my 5 for the day

getting a new bunny
being offered a free gas bbq
having a lovely takeaway curry with my darling wife with a few beers
recoverring from a long term illness and starting to realise that there is much more to life than work
the smell in the garden after it rains- so lovely

thats it from me

Caterina

Hi all

Missed ages and ages, will catch up soon. I was in Bruges with DH for a few days and then came back to a few more busy days. Here are some pleasures in no particular order:

1 - The weather - absolute bliss!

2 - The time in Bruges was spectacularly nice and relaxing, loved it (and we both really needed the break!)

3 - DH is no longer at risk of redundancy (for the time being) thanks God!

4 - Nice walk with friend today, shopping at LIDL and cup of tea at Starbucks (I know, I know, but I made two cups from one tea bag and had cakes bought at the Sainsburys bakery, so it was not a bank-breaker!).

5 - Lovely sunset from the window.

Love to all and goodnight xxx