Five OS Pleasures in your day today

helyg

1. A big slice of homemade sponge
2. Using a free trial with a genealogy website to trace my family tree back to 1599
3. Yet more strawberries from the garden
4. Being on the second sleeve of my daughter's cardi so ALMOST finished!
5. (technically this was last night, but...) free tickets to see The King & I as my husband moved the set for them with his lorry.

RainyWednesday

Hiya, hope you have all had a good day x

1 - celebrating the weekend with a G&T
2- looking forward to going to Portsmouth tomorrow (Come on Fulham!)
3 - having a good old dance round the kitchen to some tunes on the radio
4 - getting some bargainous organic meet whoopsies in Sainsburys, which will cover us for another two weeks in meat
5- Bolognaise for tea (my alltime favourite!)

Reverbe

Thursday

1. Seeing my cat friend Duke for the first time in ages and spending a lot of time with him.

2. Free notebook with Elle

3. £1.25 boots no 7 dark blue nail varnish with £5 moc

4. Flintstones double bill

5. The post - free sample Boss Orange, carrot seeds, colour catcher, Boots anti bacterial hand gel,Glamour trial of Johnsons 24hr moisturizer

6. YS cod fishcakes and YS broccoli for dinner

7. Book club with tea , coffee and biscuits

8. free Amore orange yoghurt for lunch

9. Rick Stein on tv

10 Free pint of Pedigree as bumped into friends on wya home from book club.

Friday

1 Steptoe and Son on tv

2. Our House and Six Feet Under on dvd

3. Flintstones and Norman Wisdom film on tv

4. Tescos clubcard points in post

5. Vodafone mystery shop trip. £10 to come for 20 mins.

6. Twilight coming from ebay

7. Street finds - pristine copy of The Sun and a still in packet ecotool blusher brush.

8. Lots of samples of Olay Definity from Boots

9. YS clementines from Tescos

10. Best of all dinner - Wholewheat pasta with capers, anchovies, toasted brown breadcrumbs, pine nuts, garlic, LO YS broccoli, linseeds and black olives.

zarazara

1. coffee morning in the village this am
2. coffe andcake
3. troking the pets
4. tea with DS
5. putting the heating on to dry the washing and being grateful for it.

Kittikins

Another lovely day

1. Receiving some money off vouchers in the post (thanks Reverbe for the Clipp*r tea idea)
2. Receiving payment for a mobile I sold for recycling - shame I hadn't noticed that I should put the charger in the bag too, first time I've ever needed to do it...an expensive lesson, cost me £5 in payment but what the heck, I was given the phone to get rid of, so all pure profit
3. Selling another CD on Amaz*n
4. DD and I going to the cinema for her first ever visit, she enjoyed it but was a bit scared in places.
5. Taking DD out to lunch afterwards, and we got chatting to a lovely family at the table next to ours
6. Going shopping in Mr A's for some fruit and veg and also picking up a lovely jumper which....taadaa....turned out to be too big in a size 18 Either they're very generous in their sizing of that particular garment, or I am shrinking big-time
7. The anticipation of watching one of 3 DVDs that I need to send back to Mr T's dvd rental on Monday, 2 chickflicks and something a bit more cerebral to choose from. Decisions, decisions....
8. Another MSEr recommending a gorgeous local camp site for me and DD, I'm very tempted to go on our first ever camping trip (in a caravan) for a couple of nights before she starts school, but scared of going away alone with her, lil miss paranoid that I am!

Olliebeak

Hello all :hello: - not long got back home from my week with mum. Managed to pop on the board once or twice but lots of posts to read and catch up with.

Will call in again later and get back up to speed with what you've all been doing.

Love Ollie xxx

Maitane

Hiya all,

Today some things to make me happy after a really horrific Friday... My mother in law ended up on one of the wards I work for, I had to have blood taken and I found out I'm allergic to the numb-y cream, I didn't get a new job eeep and my lecturer - to whom I owe my life - died ... Friday truly was awful.

Today I went to my new house which has previously been lived in and trashed by students living up to the stereotype :mad: and:

I managed to put up with the spiders. Go me. :j

I got the oven which previously would have made most people retch spotlessly clean with soda and vinegar. Oh and some elbow grease.

I found out that Bethesda has a nice butchers and a knitting shop (hopefully, they can give me some tips on the jumper I'm knitting my beloved uncle.. who owns my new house :rolleyes:)

Aaaand.. measuring the windows and my piece of beautiful blue toile de joie, I can make curtains from it! Just about enough for tab top curtains and a cushion. Oh happy days.

I also tricked Mr Maitane into going to Mr T's so I can stay at home with my puffy eyes.

Not a bad start after such an awful yesterday!

Caterina

Hi all

Maitane well done in finding pleasures even after such hard day! (((HUG)))

Many pleasures in last couple of days, bu am on an unfamiliar laptop so I shall be brief:

1 - Made it to Galway!!!

2 -Met my dear friend and her daughter who I used to look after, she is so lovely and grown up!

3 - Stayng as guest at my friend, it is lovely to catch up and her place also is wonderful and peaceful!

4 - Homemade soda scones and eggs fresh from under the chickens for breakfast - unbelievably tasty stuff!

5 - trip to Burren and cliffs of Maher - stunningly amazingly beautiful landscape.

So many more pleasures but it takes me ages to type so will update another time.

Love to all xxx

Patchwork_Quilt

Sorry to hear about your awful day Maitane and a happy birthday to Primrose

1) Had my hair done by a new person today. They've put prices up by a whole £2 but it's well worth it at that salon
2) Brunch all together afterwards and I made it so that we didn't pay to go out. Saved £20
3) A bit of patchwork whilst DH snoozed on the sofa
4) Our Saturday date at a local coffee shop and I've asked them to stop saving the mini jam jars for me now, as I have about thirty
5) An invitation for an after-wedding party for one of DH's colleagues. They are also providing some work experience for DS later in the year. Spent the evening at his parents' house admiring the garden and eating all the gluten free food they had got in specially. We felt so welcome
6) Just about to do the usual Saturday film and chocolate raisins together. Persuaded DS and DH to ask for a free film as we have enough tokens on the card and DD took over to make sure they got it. Bliss.

Have a lovely weekend everyone

Primrose

1. Two carrier bags of books and odds and ends taken to the charity shop.
2. Had the afternoon to myself in the garden pottering around as OH is now back watching his Saturday afternoon football matches.
3. Lovely dinner this evening with virtually everything home grown: potatoes & herb salad plus a tomato, green bean & onion salad.
4. House vacuumed from top to bottom so feeling very righteous.
5. All my washing dried and ironed.
6. Spotted some ripening damsons in a nearby hedgerow. Must go foraging.