Five OS Pleasures in your day today

Reverbe

YS = yellow stickered ie reduced
LO - Leftovers

Both common MSE terms. Surely I am not the only one to use them?I would have thought leftovers was something pretty much everyone was familiar with??

Souk08

1. Sausage casserole bubbling away in new SC (FREE as got money for my bday on Friday).
Only 1 but new to this and hey it's a start.

angelavdavis

The highlight for today was:

Sending my friends off home with 15 eggs from our chickens and a bag of home grown tomatoes!

NJW69

Reverbe wrote: »

YS = yellow stickered ie reduced
LO - Leftovers

Both common MSE terms. Surely I am not the only one to use them?I would have thought leftovers was something pretty much everyone was familiar with??

Yes I've seen them before but never asked the actual meaning.

Primrose

1. A short break away to the seaside. Seeing the beautiful autumn countryside en route.
2. Visiting a farm shop and stocking up on our winter squashes very cheaply - as we don't have the space to grow them.(They were almost giving them away and had a breathtaking display of different varieties and colours)
3. Catching up with family while away.
4. OH found an expensive camera tripod in a charity shop for just £7 - exactly what he'd been looking for and wondering whether he could indulgently treat himself to one for Christmas.
5. Returning home and finding that more of our tomatoes on trays indoors had ripened so more HM tomato soup tomorrow.
6. Picked about 14 kilos of grapes this afternoon. Looks like it's time for the winemaking demijohns to come out of the loft again.

Caterina

Hi all

mineallmine, thank you very much for the OS link on ITV, my DH is making me a cup of tea and then we are planning to watch it together!

ampersand, good to see you here again, hope you are here to stay!

Reverbe, just to let you know that I have started reading the Guernsey Potato Pie book and it looks good!

Souk08, welcome to this thread, good that you posted one pleasure, one is better than none and soon you will get the hang of it and before you know you will post loads (five is just an average, not a fixed number!).

My five for today:

1 - Walk to farmers market in the sunshine to buy organic apples and rye bread.

2 - Visited my friend on my way back from market and brought my friend's son a baked cheesecake. He is suffering from a mental illness and is hardly eating anything, but he ate two slices of the cake. My friend was delighted (as he has been starving himself at times). I am really happy I was able to help a little.

3 - DD seems to be in good spirits. Never mind her Uni drop-out, the important thing is that she is healthy and happy. I am even more grateful of this now, after seeing that poor boy (see point 2 above).

4 - DH and I made great progress in fixing stuff for winter including garden: new cat flap in place, all beans picked and stored, dead zucchini plants in compost bin and raised bed covered in cardboard, other beds weeded and plants moved to south side of house for warmth. Curtain hung on front door to keep draughts away.

5 - Last batch of broccoletti (cime di rapa) made a fav dinner, sauteed in garlic and chili and mixed with cooked rice - normally it would go on pasta but I had this rice that needed eating. It was really lovely.

Actually I have another to add: 6 - Rang my mum and told her about DD and she did not make a drama of it (which I thought she would do). Now I can relax a bit more about the whole thing.

Good night everybody, I am going to watch the OS programme now! xxx

bellaquidsin

Many thanks to all who have shown concerning about my hand. It is now fully functional, although it's all the colours of the rainbow.

1. My friend is recovering well and is very independant with her one handed condition.

2. Sunday lunch at DD's mmm roast beef.

3. The delicious chocolate roulade DD made because my friend is on a gluten free diet.

4. The suberb almond sponge DD made as an alternative.

5. Lovely cuddles with dgs.

Bella

ampersand

Thankyou Caterina[I've done as have you with my huge runner beans-seemed a pity to waste them and have loads saved for next sowing. Also am keeping my borlotti's - only 2 plants - to make plenty for next year] and grandmasam[yes, yes, yes] - off to bed now, where awaits:
1. hottie
2. tea
and knowledge that I have achieved some things this weekend.
3. chocolate beetroot muffins, multigrain bread and a white loaf, a mushroom/ham/leek tart and 20 jars of mint/apple jelly.
4. i-player[my fair countree's kakapo and St Stephen this week; Garth Malone, Clive James and Ian Rankin's R3choice of music to chase up]and DAB radio comfort, which includes noting and approving the changed way of presenting the weather. The choc velvet voice of Neil someone,continuity announcer is delice sublime.
5. picking a few more runner beans, raspberries, tomatoes, tiny chillies in soft afternoon warmth, and using these last two in a stonking wine-y simmer to sieve and freeze, ditto duck stock.
5a. new Mlle Blackbird enjoying the messiest of sploshy baths and her return witihin seconds of my refilling it.
5b. At last 'repairing' ebay after nearly a year of impossible to fix/broken/'give up' by them and have started listing...watchers galore, so fingers crossed as £s v. necessary. Just wish I didn't get so bogged down in research/pix/ etc.etc. It's a slow process for me, so I'll set myself no targets for turbolisting, just ensure that I complete at least 1 a day.
5c. Skype...

Had better go and zap tea, now cool, before a bit more of my one paper weekly[generally Saturday's Grauniad] and a start on Flann O'Brian's The Dalkey Archive(Poundland - I'm a discerning fan - yesterday)now...
A note to NJW69 - I googled 'luxurious fish pie' to look for you and brought up loads of good sounding recipes, but I'd just make a simple wine/cheese sauce to accept the lovely seafood you have[perhaps microwave it for a couple of minutes first and incorporate this liquor in the sauce. It's the sort of thing that you just make up as you go along[but then most of my cooking is so]according to what you have. I'm sure anything you make will be scrummy.
Goodnight all, a quiet night and peaceful hearts partout.
(I'm reading a few pages at a time to catch up - it'll take me a while, so please consider the Thanks button to each and every one of you PRESSED IN ADVANCE.)
Just adding -

Patchwork_Quilt

1) Playing with catapults at Sunday School. Yes, I know it's unusual but we were doing David and Goliath and painting pebbles just doesn't cut it. I brought in some suitable twigs from my garden clearance and we had two adults supervising five children. We had a Lego Goliath and fired foil balls at him. Never used a catapult before. It was fun. And I counted all my twigs back in afterwards, just in case
2) An afternoon digging at the allotment. I thought it would rain but it held off. Also given a bit of carpet for my path from next door and it was beautiful. The things people throw away!
3) Pickled some nasturtium seeds.
4) Left overs for tea, so no cooking. Still have some chocolate cake in the tin as everyone was so full of chilli we couldn't finish it.
5) A lovely British Cox apple for supper. I don't think they can be beaten.

topsyturphy

Hi everyone

Mine for today are

1. Had a lie in as ds2 was at his dads overnight.
2. The house all quiet with no music or tv on most of the day.
3. Made weetibix cake & twinks hob nobs ( have now hidden them!:D)
4. HM vegetable soup been made for lunches this week.
5. All washing up done and put away.