Five OS Pleasures in your day today

Reverbe

Friday

1. Finding 6p on the street

2. free cotton shopping bag at the Mall with an adios diet mag and free probiotic in

3. YS Thai Veg soup for dinner

4. Free Fulham dvd with the season ticket pack

5. free Metro

6, selling another book ON Green Metropolis

7. US Glamour not OS but a treat to hold instore in case swine flu hits

Saturday

1. YS prawn cocktail for lunch

2. Tropic Thunder and The Colour of Magic on dvd from Lovefilm

3. 4 bottles of antibacterial handgel from Poundland for £1

4. YS thai prawn fishcakes and YS peas for dinner

5. Quo on who wants to be a millionaire

6. getting a huge pile of ironing done

7. Harry Potter book from library - memoir from the webmistress of the Leaky Cauldron website

8. hot milk with cinnamon. nutmeg, cloves and cardomom before bed

honey

Morning everyone :hello:

Louba - I do, thank you. You are so right about this thread!

My five for yesterday

1. Watching DD2 tottering about and falling over but still having a big toothy grin as she learns to walk.

2. DD1 eating pasta with tons of veg "hidden" inside and saying how nice it was.

3. A lovely glass of pear cider.

4. The sunshine - I was expecting rain all day.

5. Being able to have a lovely shower now that the curtain rail has been repaired.

newlywed

Here's mine:

1. Sitting quietly bead weaving all evening - helps my mind to switch off.

2. Going online to check sainsbugs value against Aldi prices to see if I can shave anything off the shop I need.... and managing to get £22 down to £15.23 without sacrificing anything (Only have £20 in my purse till payday).

3. Being able to answer a support call at work - part of my job but haven't felt at all confident about it after being off work.

4. Sausage eggs and oven chips for tea last night. Easy and tasty.

5. OH liking the cheap lidl tartar sauce on his chips (for 30p a jar it's fine by me!).

6. Seeing the yellow rose in the garden as I left for work this morning.

7. Knowing I've made it through one full day of work and this week only have a 3 day week so nearly half way there! A huge relief.

8. Hugs from OH this morning.

9. Someone on a family tree website contacting me and stopping me going down a dead end - the person I thought could be my great grandfather really can't be. Happy to know for sure that I need to do some more searching!

10. The sun shining - so I may walk to sainsbugs to get my lower cost shopping.

11. Knowing there are no treats in the house till after payday but that I have a be-ro book, half a pack of stork, and some flour

tudorfan22

Good morning all, here are mine:

• only 36 days till my holiday!!! Almost counting the minutes and the hours!!!
• have finally taken a good long look at my finances and realised that in May and June I spent wildly over what I earned, I was spending £600 per month on just rubbish, internet shopping and the like, but so far ive cut that right back in July, fingers crossed I can keep the momentum until the end of the month
• with this in mind I am planning to go to my local RSPB centre on the weekend to do some walking and bird watching, went last week and it was heaven!! Only £3
• my hens are now mingling and not bully each other, they tolerate each other, things can only progress from here on!
• my OH, always is and always will be, my number 1 blessing in my life!
• just got my first ever cross stitch magazine, it was a 3 for £1 deal which is good cos the RRP is £3.95 an issue – crazy!! But it did come with loads of patterns and ideas, including a baby sampler which ill use for my BF who has just found out she is expecting her first! Made me want to get frantically stitching!!
• just got my Michael Jackson refund, and although im sad to not be going it will help the savings to have that money back in there
• going to London on Friday and doing the majority of tourist stuff for free, seeing the galleries and museums, plus I saved money on travel
• my OH is a teacher so is starting his summer holidays and has promised to spoil me rotten and do all the DIY jobs that need doing over the summer break!! (about time too!) who said that!
• just changed desks at work and now my desk is by the window and I have a heavenly gentle breeze wafting over me every 5 mins or so, feels lovely and I can hear the birds

hope everyone is having a good day, getting closer to the weekend all the time

newniepg

1. My brother found a £5 Morrisons voucher and gave it to me. Went to Morrisons 20 mins before closing time and bought a HUGE amount of discounted stuff. Very exciting.
2. Using left over pork to make a balti in the slow cooker.
3. Knocking up a batch of crumpets and saving extra money by leaving the mixture on top of the dryer to work (couldn't avoid the dryer today am afraid, is belting it down here)
4. Reclaiming the spare room from all the washing that needed folding, HURRAH!
5. Making the milk last longer so the weekly shop can wait until tomorrow or even Thursday.

grandmasam

Hi all,

Bella....have spent more than 1/2 century doing too much, and that penny dropped this morning well better late than never!

My 5 so far are...

A long lie in this morning, awake at 5.30 but went back to sleep, up at 11.30,feel good for it.
Lisa the mynah bird greeting me with lots of whistles,made me smile.
No aches in my knees or soles of my feet today.
A lovely brunch of nectarines, apricots and blueberries with toast and a cup of tea in the garden
Feeling smiley inside, as if i have a secret.

Kittikins

Grandmasam - love the thought of you feeling smiley inside Hope lots of people reading do too!

Reverbe

Sunday

1. LO cold porridge with cinnamon, nutmeg, raisins chopped nuts and coconut in for lunch

2. YS stuff at Tescos - raisin & lemon pancakes, sugar snap peas, salmon fishcakes and smoked river cobbler

3. seeing the pigeon that visits the tree outside our window back for the first time in ages.

4. Ghengis Khan on tv - delightfully silly

5. Reading more of Steven Kings "the Stand"

Monday

1. 2 great big bottles half filled of value disinfectant from Tescos to trial

2. free mag from library and 5 p on the street

3. How to feed your family.... by Gill Holcombe from library

4. Ratatouille 2 disc edition from charity shop for £3 - seen it twice already but was looking to buy it anyway

5. gorgeous dark blue sarong with turtles on from charity shop for £2.99

6. Desperate Housewives repeat

7. LO river cobbler and a hazelnut probiotic yoghurt for lunch

8. YS bargains from M&S - prawns, pomegranate, Count on us veggy lasagne and pack of 2 saucy strawberry cupcakes

9. coffee frescato in Costa bought by flatmate.

10 free download of a novel from Oprah .com

11.YS salmon fishcakes and LO rocket with strawberries for dinner

zarazara

1. blessing someone by posting my old vac on freecycle and them being v pleased with it.
2. A new vac! DH bought today
3. A pot plant for my kitchen, gorgeous
4. baking some buns----then eating 4!
5. watching Brideshead revisited on ITV player whilst the rain lashes down outside my window.

bellaquidsin

newlywed - well done with the stretchy mince and on getting the shopping bill down. Ahh a Be-ro book and a few ingredients - heaven. More of this in my pleasures. Reverbe - good to see you back on form - 11p on the streets in just a few days, how do you do it? It reminds me of when I was little, when we went for family walks in the country, my grandad would go on ahead and sometimes drop a sixpence for me to pick up. I think it was supposed to make me observant. Well I did find 1p a few weeks ago. DH said he wouldn't be bothered, then we turned the corner and there waiting for him was 3p - he bothered! grandmasam -keep smiling, you have got a secret, you have learned not to thrash yourself to death. Could this be the reason you feet and legs aren't aching so much? I know it is working for me, so from now on less is more.

1. Breakfast with DH is still scoring as number 1.

2. Cleaned out all my top cupboards in the kitchen.

3. Unearthed my collection of Be-ro books, I have five, the earliest being one which belonged to my DM and is printed in sepia. It is full of nostalgia and just makes me want to bake and bake and eat. So far I have resisted the temptation. Might take it on holiday though and if we get a rainy day.......,

4. A lift from DH to Mr. S for my midweek top ups. This was such a treat as it was raining cats and dogs and before retirement I would have been walking. We are trying to keep the use of the car to a minimum but sometimes we have to be kind to ourselves.

5. Making cards and using up my stash along with the papers and die cuts I got in a magazine. It's making loads which I hope to sell for £1 a time so will easily get back the cost of the magazine.

Bella.