Five OS Pleasures in your day today

Louba

Evening everyone! Catching up with the weekend's posts so my 5 for the weekend are:

1 Reading a great book on the bus on the way home, it was so good I finished it and had to borrow one for the journey back!
2 A glass of wine an a bath full of bubble bath
3 A hug from my partner
4 Seeing my parents and family for the first time in over a month
5 Passing a round about covered in harebells, simple but very pretty
6 My friend being transformed as soon as the karaoke came out at the weekend, very funny!
Reverbe - I can't get my quotes to work to link to your post - sounds like you're having a rubbish time right now. Hope you feel better soon. Legally the bailiffs can take anything that doesn't belong to the debtor - speak to the CAB or if you have one a local law centre who can give you more advice. I also found this which might help a little too http://www.legal-zone.co.uk/bailiffs. Try not to worry.

Lx

Kittikins

Hello from another long-time Radio 4 fan, I've always loved R4, but as I mature like a fine wine into 38, I discover more and more to love about it

Mine for the weekend:

1. DD and I having a fruitless search for a Mr T hammock as advertised in their magazine, but having lots of fun on a cheapish girl shopping day with lunch (for her) at M^S, according to her, their 'school lunchbags' are the best Shame everything is organic and vegetarian but then they spoil it by putting in gruesome looking jelly sweets with beef gelatine....I shall be writing a mildly worded letter of complaint! Historically they had an organic chocolate cookie or something, they're obviously trying to save money.
2. Cooking DD soup using herbs and spring onions from our garden, we both felt proud
3. Going for a swim with DD yesterday, bumping straight away into one of her friends from nursery, so they played and I had a lovely chat with his parents who I'd never said more than hello to before. Later, we bumped into an old work friend and his family who I've not seen for a year. Our local pool is very sociable at the weekends
4. The rain clearing away and it being lovely and hot, just in time for some lovely friends' annual birthday BBQ, rescheduled from June. They always have fabulous weather - I think even if they held a BBQ in November, they'd get sun!
5. Taking DD to the beach for a run around and of course an icecream in the early evening on the way home.
6. Being a tad pink yesterday, even with factor 50 on, but thankfully it's calmed down this morning.

Happy Monday to all, hope your week starts well.

mineallmine

Morning all,

Great to see lots of newbies. Welcome back Ollie and hugs to Reverbe and anyone else who needs them. Reverbe - can you leave valuables eg jewellery/stuff you wouldn't want to lose with a friend/relatives?

1. A yummy roast dinner last night. Finding an alternative to not having a joint of meat (found some M&S pasties and that did the trick).

2. Finding the gardens in pictures thread as mentioned above, like wow!
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1485585

3. Catching up on white washing laundry basket.

4. Resisting one purchase so I can spend the money on something else more useful.

5. Enjoying reading India Knight's thrift book.

:A

ampersand

1. Catching up here and Welcome to Kitchenbunny, who has made her first post on 'our' Thread:T, where it stays for ever now:D.
Good to see RHYSDAD and other newbies joining us. I had a marmalade re-run to do, same reason and my only excuse is that I was HERE:mad:, my very own fault:eek:.
2. I am aware that knowing this Thread is here, sometimes to save for reading as a backstop/buffer to grim times, can be a saving grace. Contributing is then a bonus.

3. Reverbe - for some reason, I know not why:rolleyes: - you have just finished doing a second coat of that lurid red cedar stuff on a section of fence with me. I'd avoided using it till now, but everything else is used up and, with luck, this will be grown over before too, too long. And hardly any splotches on our respective nighties! Hadn't read anything here at the time, so you were more or less pressganged alongside me in my thoughts. This sort of association and floating out of pleasantries, empathy, is ever present for you, by virtue of being posted here, even when you are unaware. I've sort of started setting up the corner between bathroom and No.1 shed, as an arbour/rose/grapevine/not-sure thingy space.
4. Fittingly,4 more post-holes dug[hmm, one's discovered big drainpipe en route]. Lifted 12 big and bigger concrete slabs for re-use elsewhere. Feeling good that this sort of thing answers something in me and I can do it, despite being ancient crone. One of them is 24"sq and 8"thick, has a central hole, so womanhandled it down back and bedded it in down under table, ready for any umbrella. Most satisfactory.
5. Marmalade saga[yes, rhysdad - snap!] - batch first mentioned here, write-off. re-did yesterday finishing the boring snipping peel bit before turning to cricket, then hooked on that and making self weed strawbs and toms while listening.
6. ............leading on to the euphoria of Another Great Escape. Didn't remotely mind the gamesmanship, about which Ponting R. now gripes as THEY did that to US[New Zealand]infamously a few years back, bowling an underarm to deny us a victory.
7. Picked first 8 beans and cooked with lamb chop and more salad leaves. Yum. Foolishly[I now know], upended a tatie bag, revealing ballbearings and marbles. Am now just covering all back again with soil and will leave and hope.
8. ...which I will also do in a couple of days. YES!!! Good Skype yesterday and person now knows I am coming;).
9. Usual well-journeyed sense of hopelessness setting in as I contemplate so much to prepare, so little time, praying for dry weather, no wind[single-handed tarpaulin+roping becomes a nightmare:eek:] to sort, pack, arrange trailer, car...but I love it. Have been playing the 'this time next week' game since last Thursday.
10. Unplanted dogwood has a beautiful soft pink flower and perfume...yes, yes, you WILL be planted in arbour corner before I go, with the 2[unplanted ditto]ramblers for company and grape vine.
11. Thinking of the 3[so far] brocantes booked in places where je me sens bien dans ma peau...fingers crossed for return fare:rolleyes:. not booked yet.
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:oThere's my usual 5, succinct one-liners, neatly worded.
Carpe diem everyone and thanks for fence-painting company reverbe. Start today knowing you've already done a Good Thing:D.

Reverbe

mineallmine wrote: »

Morning all,

Great to see lots of newbies. Welcome back Ollie and hugs to Reverbe and anyone else who needs them. Reverbe - can you leave valuables eg jewellery/stuff you wouldn't want to lose with a friend/relatives?

Sadly not. I don't actually have any of those which is also adding to me worrying about being homeless as I would have nowhere to go.Thanks for the hugs.

RainyWednesday

Hello, hope everyone had marvellous weekend - I need more time to catch up fully but in the meantime here are my 5 for today:

1 - still very satisfied after last nights roast have grown most of the veg ourselves

2- delighted about how well the lottie is doing considering we are such amateurs!

3- looking forward to rubber chicken meal number 2 (pasta bake) tonight

4- getting an extension for my Uni assignment (Yay!)

5- Booking a cheap as chips Center Parcs holiday in the Lake District next January for me and the hubby

newlywed

Ok time to try very hard...

1. The sun shining through the window
2. My rose having at least 8 new buds on it and it's growing well and looking healthy (the first buds since we got the plant and the first thing I've planted in our little garden)
3. Working out we have at least 16 meals in the freezer/fridge and only 12 days till payday - might just need milk and veg.
4. Reading overcoming depression for dummies and being enlightened to my own feelings.
5. The cut roses bought by hubbie, and the roses bought by m-i-l - reminding me of those who care about me (as well as texts from others asking how I am).
6. Laughter and cuddles with my OH.
7. Realising I have more pleasures than I thought.

SunnyGirl

Hi to everyone. My five for today are:

1. Getting up at 5am again & having 2 hours alone before the rest of the house awoke - even the dog stayed asleep!

2. Cleaning & ironing are all up to date.

3. The smell of HM ragu sauce that I've cooked HM meatballs in for dinner this evening.

4. My petunias are growing like lightening now & are flowering profusely :T

5. This thread. Like Ampersand I often find myself thinking of the people on here as I go about my daily business.

shelley1977

My five today are
1.Free carrots for my bunnies from woman who owns the corner shop just down the road.
2.My eldest took my parcels to the post office for me without being asked.
3.My little boy receiving get well soon cards in the post.
4.Getting nappies half price and some other bargins today at morrisons.
5.Getting a phone call from my grandma,its usually me who phones her so she doesn't get a large bill aswe speak at least once a week.

Shelley

Pooky

Feels as though I need to dig deep to find mine today....

1. Getting 4 loads of washing dry even though rain was forecast.

2. Washing the windows and nets and seeing them gleaming.

3. Peeling, preping/mashing/freezing 5kg of potatoes that were on the turn.

4. Lots of hugs from DH who's just been signed off for another 2 weeks.

5. Watching our local fox snuffling around the back fence and sneezing ....he looked so surprised