Five OS Pleasures in your day today

RHYSDAD

Hello all!

My five OS pleasures today:

1: making my first ever batch of jam with damsons left over from last year. First batch i boiled for five minutes too long and now it's damson gel!! second batch, 10 minute boil, crinkled nicely and now (fingers crossed) is just right. Oh well, a wasted batch but i'll never forget that for damsons anyway!!

2: Fresh organic eggs from our lovely chooks

3: Home made cherry cheesecake (mascarpone/kent cherries etc) Why would anyone buy a half assed effort from iceland?? Bleughhh!:doh:

4: My beautiful boys just going at 100mph all day (but not in front of the tv) playing trains etc

And 5: That homebaked loaf of bread my wife baked that we'll be having for tea with damson jam!!


It doesn't get much better i reckon!!

Have a great day all!!!!!

SunnyGirl

Ollie Lovely to have you back :T :j

Ceridwen I used to laugh at my parents listening to Radio 4 now my children laugh at me & ask how can I listen to something with no music on it and call me an old lady (I'm 42) :rotfl: Hopefully you'll get the time to listen yourself soon.

Bella I totally agree re home made versus bought when out food. The homemade is always better, cheaper & nicer

My five for today are:

1. A lie in :T

2. A lazy day reading.

3. The sun has been out for most of the day.

4. The latest lettuce plantings have come up in 3 days.

5. Some 49p grapes from Aldi were a lovely snack earlier :money:

Kitchenbunny

Hello, everyone. Hope you don't mind my joining in - it seems like a great way to stay motivated and that is something I really need.

1. Having a nice lazy day getting caught up and taking our time doing things.
2. Making a pledge to myself not to be too lazy when using the oven and making the most of it by using all the shelves.
3. Finishing another page of my cross-stitch. Only another 4 pages to go!
4. Having a nice long walk in the sunshine. Bliss.
5. Sitting down to a nice meal that will serve us both tonight and tomorrow night.

Thanks, all

shelley1977

This is my first time at this but this week has been so awful that the few good things have stood out.
1.Being told that the neglected bunny i rescued probably will recover after 4weeks of medicine.
2.My little boy(4) who broke his arm on tuesday finally let me take hissling of and put a clean top on.
3.Our rescue house bunnies lily and rodger have now been with us a week and come up to me and give me bunnie kisses
4.Seeing my little girl(3) and her beautiful blonde curlylocks looking so sweet as she sleeps on the chair
5.Going upstairs and seeing my boys room looking lovely after recently decorating it myself and putting together the new furniture.

Shelley

Primrose

1. Busy day yesterday taking part in our local village fete. Seeing lots of familiar faces and having nice chats.
2. Picked our first handful of French climbing beans today.
3. House cleaned and vacuumed ready for the week ahead and all laundry dried.
4. Nice visit from a good friend today. We haven't seen each other for a while so it was good to catch up.

thriftyscotslass

Hi shelley1977 and Kitchenbunny

My five for today:

1. Going for a long, long walk with two very good friends in the countryside
2. My friend's gorgeous little dog who came with us - what a day out he had
3. Finishing our walk at the beach, sitting eating toffee crunch icecream - yum
4. Dh and ds having an afternoon out together and laughing together as they walked back into the house
5. Looking forward to a glass of red wine that has my name on it later on tonight :rotfl:

Hugs to all xxx

bellaquidsin

Ollie - so good to have you back, you have been truly missed.

Today's pleasures:-

1. Visitors today - the lovely bunch of sweet peas I picked from the garden this morning made the house smell beautiful.

2. Lovely piece of half price silverside cooked for dinner, used six portions and there is enough left for meals for a day or two.

3. Visitors loved my rhubarb pie, I'm so glad they did as not everyone likes rhubarb.

4. The peace and quiet at the end of a busy day.

That's all except that I am

5. Going to send an email to a good friend, I'm very blessed to have her.

Bella.

elf06

1) Getting long lie this morning
2) waking up before my son and getting to watch him sleep for a little while
3) Having a fun afternoon with my son at a charity fun day with face painting, bouncy castle, fire engines etc
4) Seeing some family that we havent seen since last year
5) not happened yet but going to arrange some beautiful flowers that I was given yesterday by a friend

Rainbowchild

Hi everyone, Heres mine from the last few days
1) Owner of local deli giving me some rye bread for free
2) Having a coffee and brownie in coffeeshop and watching the world go by
3) Passing a house with a pink grass umbrella over their outside table - made me smile
4) Cuddling with our cat
5) Decluttering a couple of areas in our house that have been bugging me for a long time
6) Sunday dinner
7) Chats with the neighbours
8) Finding the right color for the walls in the kitchen - just have to get my butt into gear to paint them
9) DH just coming home with a choccy bar for me

Patchwork_Quilt

Hi to all those who have posted for the first time recently!

Ours for today are
1) Texts from DD, who is away. Sounds like they are having a lovely time and I get to know she is all right (worried mother syndrome)
2) Lunch made from last night's leftovers - put together in five minutes, which suited me nicely
3) An afternoon at the allotment. I like weeding and I didn't think I'd get the weather for it.
4) Advice from one of my allotment neighbours about the potato blight (cut off the foliage before the lurgy gets down as far as the tubers and leave them in the earth) and a gift of one of his first cucumbers. What a lovely man!
5) Looking at the photos of other people's gardens on the Green Fingered Thread. I'm quite nosey but I also have a new (to us) garden to organise from scratch, so I'm looking for inspiration too.

Sweet dreams, everyone.