Five OS Pleasures in your day today

helyg

1. Homemade Shortbread

2. Knitting a cardi out of super chunky wool, have managed to knit the back and both fronts in one weekend!

3. Chicken and Mushroom pasta bake for dinner made from leftover Sunday Roast

4. Followed by leftover apple and blackberry crumble made from free apples and blackberries

5. Spending the afternoon volunteering in school.

zarazara

1. taking stuff to the charity shop
2. Speaking to little grandson on the phone
3. a tin of soup for tea, nice scotch broth,great not having to make it from scratch
4. listening to the Archers
5. the autumn colours of the trees

billy858

Olliebeak, there are even more new people to this thread and your posts are getting longer!
Caterina, the thought of you doing your keep fit class is making me feel I'm being incredibly lazy.
Mine for today
1. Walking the dog before the rain came.
2. DD1 in a reasonable mood for once. (She's at that age).
3. Going out of my way to help one of my clients - I made her day.
4. YS chicken and pork.
5. Going to have a lovely hot shower and put on my clean PJ's. I've got a really bad headache and doing this works better than paracetamol.
Love to all.X

Frith

5 for today...

1) Going out by myself to look round the shops.

2) Getting some new underwear!

3) Finding a Mr S's that had a Club Penguin card left! They keep selling out and my older son was desparate to be a proper member.

4) Going for a walk locally and picking sloes.

5) Yet more floor tiles being taken by an Ebay bod!

mineallmine

Evening all,

Hearing about Sparrer getting a bargain scarf is a nice reminder to us all, to wrap up a bit more. Winter tis on its way.

So so happy to see a post from ampersand. wheres our kiwi friend too?

1. A healthy dinner this evening of fish, glorious fish.
2. A warm house. I have a thick door curtain like you Caterina, it makes such a difference.
3. Buying full-fat dairy-lea for my loved one, at the supermarket (I;ve tried low fat and he aint having it), makes me smile now.
4. Seeing pink packaged flakes (Cadburys flakes) at Asda as part of the tickled pink stuff. SOO cute. May get some for stocking fillers.
5. Sorting out a friends christmas pressie. normally buy vouchers and stuff, but we were out together and she fell in love with something. one sorted off the list.

Found a great smilie thingie today

Olliebeak

Morning everybody :wave: - oh boy is it chilly again this morning .

Thanks to Reverbe and newlywed about calling the USA - going to give telediscount a try next time - and see how much it works out at :T. I just wish that ex of hers would sort out a comp for her - it's his 'business' and he's been promising for about three years!

billy858 - think you could be right - will have to reduce the length of my postings - don't want folks having to wade through my waffling all day long.


Mine for yesterday:

1. Visit from DS1 - he's going on a fishing trip on Friday (Loch Venacher in the Trossachs, Scotland) and wanted to borrow my OH's 'pride and joy' camera for the week. By way of 'buttering up' he brought me a lovely variety-pack of Sesame Bars from the local Chinese Supermarket :drool:.

2. Did a note for tenants to remind them all about putting the clocks BACK at the weekend and that I'm on an all-day training course tomorrow (Lone Worker Training - been a lone worker for 19yrs and they're going to tell me the dangers NOW!!!!!). Delivered half the notes yesterday and will do the rest today. Freebie lunch on the training course .

3. Phone call from DS2 about our preparations for dgs3's christening on Sunday. We're doing the catering between us, so in for a busy weekend.

4. Made a big batch of Spicey Parsnip Soup. Had some for evening meal last night and froze the remainder in portions . Think I'll do some Leek and Potato later today :drool:.

5. Found a great pattern for a stole/shoulder wrap that I think would be brilliant for mum for a Christmas pressie - very hard to choose for her as she seems to have everything she needs. She IS a knitter but I know she appreciates when people make something for HER for a change - plus her fingers aren't as quick as they used to be when it comes to making larger items.

That's me done for now - take care all - love Ollie xxx

HariboJunkie

Good morning everyone :hello:

I haven't posted on this thread for aaagges.

Yesterday's pleasures...

Spending the morning in the garden pottering, drinking coffee and getting to know the hens.

Finishing off a knitted flower that I've been promising someone for ages.

Organising my Christmas spreadsheet and seeing that most of the HM gifts (sloe gin, blackberry vodka, 4 kinds of jam and chutney) are all done.

Baking an apple and blackberry cake from wrinkly apples and foraged blackberries and eating it with hm vanilla cream and good coffee in front of the fire.

Speaking to my girlies on the phone lots of times. We are missing eachother lots but they are having the most fabulous holiday with their grandparents which I know they will remember forever.

Spending the evening playing monopoly with OH. Was great fun and I won.


That's all folks. :Dxxx

zarazara

1. last window legde in sitting room being varnished by DH as I type, AND hes vaccing up the sanding dust!
2.speaking on phone to DS1 and DGS this morning
3.delivering a compost heap to neighbour for her veg plot

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happy neighbour and a big empty space for me to fill again, I love composting stuff
4. being able to get in the shed as bike gone to free cycler and some rubbish into the bin
5. feeling blessed for having running hot and cold water in the house.

ampersand

Noon exactly and not sure why I'm coming here now, but want to offer this, found inadvertently just now while sorting ebay pix:
[and first pleasure has to be the miraculous - yes, it is that - thing of it being possible.]

What to Remember When Waking
by David Whyte © 1999 Many Rivers Press

In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake,
coming back to this life from the other
more secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world
where everything began,
there is a small opening into the new day
which closes the moment you begin your plans.

What you can plan is too small for you to live.
What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough
for the vitality hidden in your sleep.

To be human is to become visible
while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.
To remember the other world in this world
is to live in your true inheritance.

You are not a troubled guest on this earth,
you are not an accident amidst other accidents
you were invited from another and greater night
than the one from which you have just emerged.

Now, looking through the slanting light of the morning window
toward the mountain presence of everything that can be
what urgency calls you to your one love?
What shape waits in the seed of you
to grow and spread its branches
against a future sky?

Is it waiting in the fertile sea?
In the trees beyond the house?
In the life you can imagine for yourself?
In the open and lovely white page on the waiting desk?

I had anyway been thinking 'pleasures' as I ironed earlier.
1. listening to Clive James as I began.
2. hearing, R4, one Laura Ponsonby on Marianne North and the re-opening of the M.N. House at Kew, which I always spent time in, on every[frequent] visit...thinking also how VERY like my imaginings of MN Ms LP sounded!
3. slicing h/m bread to put in freezer - toasts beautifully kept this way.
4. picking 3 sticks of tiring rhubarb to quickly zap with today's raspberries
and have with yogurt.
5. pleasure of young man whose fave baggy pants I revived, repaired, reinforced and his incredulity that it could be done.

Next pleasure will be catching up with all of yours from yesterday.

ampersand

zippychick wrote: »

AGGGGGH! Typed loads and lost them.

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Just as I catch up zc, hugs and empathy on this one.