Five OS Pleasures in your day today

Louba

Ohh its Friday!!

1 - I read somewhere on here that before wasking pillows you should bind the sides together in a couple of places with thread and some buttons - kind of like an old style couch cushion - to stop the stuffing bunching up. Worked a treat! Now have lovely clean unscrunched pillows Oh thinks I've gone nuts though :rolleyes:
2 - made some progress in finding homes for all the stuff OH has brought with him and we've put a pile of stuff on Gumtree so fingers crossed.
3 - looking forward to catching up with my friend and her new baby at the weekend
4 - unpacking the last of the holiday stuff and finding a beautiful handmade wire angel i bought for the Christmas tree on hols. Its so pretty it makes me smile but it was also made as part of a project to teach skills and bring employment to people from deprived areas of the country so it has a nice story to it too.
5 - a friend gave me a copy of the next book for the bookclub plus lots more so loads of new reading for me

Have a great friday
Lx

Reverbe

Wednesday

1, Box set of the 3 Oceans films plus bonus disc in the charity shop for £3

2. Coffee and a biscuit in the office with flatmate and his business partner

3. Eclipse from the library

4. BOGOF Greggs steak bake

5. Invite to L'occitane event at Westfield - drinks , canapes, skin consultation and goody bag - can go on the way to the football

6. HM macaroni cheese - made for only the 2nd time - even better than before - foolproof sauce recipe, nutmeg , extra cheese, and mustard

Thursday

1. 5p on street

2. M&S free doughnut holes

3. Marie Claire for winter bag with free dove lotion sample and freeLarge bar of Divine dark chocolate with raspberries

4. specsavers mag

5. YS sausagemeat from Tescos for half price

6. Boots green mascara - £11 worth..

7. Times of Harvey Milk from Lovefilm

8. Free voucher for £37 worth of Nails Inc manicure from Martini - as part compensation for a PR girl at one of their events being rude to me

9. Chanel and Shu Uemura samples

10 L'occitane event - 3 glasses of bubbly, 3 cakes, a facial and a goody bag

11. Fulham winning

Kittikins

1. You know what this is going to be.....the sunshine!
2. Going to DD's harvest festival and having a wonderful time seeing the entire school participate, feeling a great sense of community even though I'm not particularly sure what I believe in.
3. Making tortilla wraps from a recipe on this website for DD, her new best friend and bf's granny for lunch with scrummy looking salad. No bread left in the house and I thought it would be more fun to make these and they went down a storm!
4. The girls putting on a dance show for us grownups
5. Sitting in the garden, chatting to lovely granny, the girls playing nicely, neighbours and their children being around as well, I love having people over, we don't do it often enough.

Life is good!

Olliebeak

Oh drat - it's happened to me yet again :mad::mad::mad: - just done a long post and clicked something I shouldn't have done and lost the whole darn thing.

Needless to say, I feel p***** off. It's been a right miserable day here today - overcast and rain all day - curtains closed early and light switched on to make the place feel warmer.

1. No Spend Day - cupboards and freezers all full so definitely nothing needed at all.
2. DD, dgs1 and dgd2 came for a meal this evening - beefburgers (grilled and then put into a roasting tin of gravy to keep nice and moist), creamed pots, carrots and sliced green beans which went down a treat all round.
3. dgs1 is staying the night (out cold on the sofa at the moment) and we'll take him out tomorrow to give his mother a break from him. He normally goes to his dad at weekends but this time his dad 'doesn't feel well' (may have something to do with a new g/f on the scene!)
4. Will need to get some fresh milk and bread tomorrow, so a trip to Asda will be the order of the day - maybe a wander around the charity shops as well. Will give dgs1 some money before we get to the shops, though he isn't a demanding child and never seems to know how to choose something to spend his money on - usually goes home with it still in his pocket.

Hope everybody has a lovely weekend and that the sun shows its face for at least part of the time - nitey nite - love Ollie xxx

sparrer

A very special, if not particularly OS, couple of days for me..

1. A dear friend flew in from China yesterday, we've had a wonderful time catching up with each others news.

2. Went to see Rigoletto last night...amazing

3.. Said friend bought me a beautiful jade necklace and bracelet

4. Friend had meetings this morning so I pottered about until he came back. Right now he's on the phone to his office (they're 7 hours ahead of us) so I'm grabbing a moment to catch up on my mail etc

5. A traditional English roast lamb dinner this evening which he loved, even if he is antipodean :rolleyes:

He has to return tomorrow but will be back in 3 or 4 months as usual, so although it's always sad to say au revoir to friends I have something to look forward to

Wishing you all a peaceful night, n God bless
S x

princess_lou

For yesterday(friday)

1. Went for a long walk with baby
2. Finding a really old book 'how to boil an egg'- its a student one, my ex's mum bought it 4 me when we had 1st set up home. Going bk over bought bk memorys
3. Got Economy Gastronomy out of the libary
4. Having ds friend round after school- they both really enjoyed themselves- and its refreshing to see friends manners:T(compared to some of ds mates)
5. OH cooked dinner again- cleaned up too(now getting v. suspious-:rotfl:-what is he after?!

Lou x x

Rummer

I just went to a local supermarket that is closing down and I got bags full of treasures for next to nothing! Just so happy I had to share!

flutterbyuk25

Hello

My pleasures for today are:

1. Seeing a heron in the dock outside my window this morning. Despite it blowing a gale he was happily sitting on the edge of the water.

2. Baking my first ever carrot cake I followed a recipe I found on the OS board and it's turned out lovely. Going to take half to my parents tomorrow, and keep the rest for me.

3. The horrendous tension headache I've had for almost 2 weeks has hopefully lifted. It was bad this morning but no pain since 2pm

4. I'm meeting up with old colleagues tonight for chinese and a drink

x

Louba

Evening all!

Ollie - the same thing happened to me three time in a row yesterday :mad:
Sparrer - sounds like a really lovely few days!

For today
1 - catching up wiht my friend and and holding her new baby girl, soo gorgeous
2 - getting my hair cut, all the dead ends are off and it looks much better
3 - getting three for two on make-up at Bxxts. Good excuse to clear out and restock a little
4 - a chinese for tea so no cooking and not much washing up
5 - setlling down to watch a film with OH

Enjoy the rest of the weekend
Lx

Primrose

1. Watching a beautiful pheasant in our garden and rare visit from green woodpecker.
2. Lots of washing done and dried in the wind.
3. Garden tidied up for autumn. Tomato & bean halms composted, poles stored away and lawn mowed.
4. Telephone chat with a friend I don't catch up with very often.
5. Nice Pork Normandy dinner to use up surplus apples.