Five OS Pleasures in your day today

ampersand

newlywed wrote: »

Ollie - have you tried firms like telediscount where you dial a number first and then dial your US number? Very easy and makes land line to land line calls about 1p a minute
You don't need to sign up for that one or anything, just dial their phone number and then they tell you when to dial the other number you want.

We use them at work, as well as Skype where calls are free.

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billy858

Mine for today,
1. Getting the dog walked before the rain came. It was lovely to watch her running through the fallen leaves.
2. Home made cake and ginger biscuits cooling on the rack.
3. Coloured my hair myself and made a good job of it - saving me a fortune at the hairdressers.
4. Getting compliments on my new hair colour.
5. Chicken curry in the slow cooker.
6. My house smells great from all the baking.
7. Cup of coffee and a still warm from the oven ginger biscuit.

By the way Olliebeak, what you do is not waffling it's really lovely how you take time to mention everyone and what they've been up to. I, for one always appreciate it.
Love to all.X

Primrose

Yes Olliebeak, I too appreciate all your individual mentions. It's lovely that you can take the time to remember what everybody is doing.
Mine for the past couple of days:
1. Making another batch of tomato soup to use up our surplus ripening tomato mountain.
2. Some useful time in the garden this morning packing away my plastic greenhouse for the winter, and mending some small tears in the plastic cover before I put it away. (Nothing worse than getting it out in Spring and then remembering I have a DIY repair job to catch up with).
3. Digging up leeks and beetroot from the vegetable patch and my first pickings of celeraic.
4. Catching up with variious familiar faces at our U3A group this afternoon.

Caterina

Hi all

billy858, exercise does not come easily to me, believe me, I have to make a real effort to shift my lardy ar** and drag it to the keep fit class. I always feel so good afterwards, though, that it is worth it.

Ollie, I also love that you mention and remember everybody, not waffling, just being very kind to all your friends online. Thank you for your lovely words always!

Ampersand, thank you for the poem, very intense and beautiful.

Hello to all other posters and hope you are all well, hugs to those of you who need them.

Here are my five:

1 - Porridge breakfast in bed courtesy of DH, last we had put the oats to cook on the woodstove overnight and it worked beautifully - he just had to reheat them a bit, they are lovely and creamy.

2 - Packed lunch for my crafts classes day: home-sprouted seeds mixed with last dregs of hummus in the pot, with a bit of oil and two chunks of seed bread left over from last night; leftover plum and apple crumble, also from last night.

3 - FINISHED STITCHING THE CENTRAL PANEL OF THE ROMAN BLINDS!!!! Sorry for capitals, but I am so enthusiastic and excited about this project - apart from anything else, once the blinds are finished I shall have saved nearly £500 to the family coffers, but more than anything I shall feel the satisfaction of having done it all by myself and using materials I already had (the old curtains).

4 - Going to meet DH to see Rigoletto at the English National Opera with cheap tickets I found via the Evening Standard.

5 - Found a 50% off food voucher for La Tasca, tapas restaurant really near the ENO and called them - their veggie paella is vegan - dinner sorted!

Have a great evening everybody xxx

Reverbe

Still catching up sorry

Thursday

1. Lovefilm - L Word series 5 disc 3

2. free samples scented tealights

3. sausage butty for lunch

4. YS bread and YS value sausages, YS asparagus and a tin of value chicken curry

5 cheap over the knee socks from Poundland to keep me warm in winter

Friday

1. 4 free cookies at M&S

2. 50p for a almost full bottle of one of the cleansers I use in charity shop - usually about £2.65 i think

3. hot M&S 49p mushroom soup for lunch

4. Farmville online game

5. Strawberry & clotted cream cheesecake slice from M&S for treat

6. Lovefilm - L Word series 5 disc 4 and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

7 Martin Lewis and OS peeps on tv

Saturday

1. Lovefilm sent me Slumdog millionaire - was rubbish but was a bonus disc for a faulty one I had last week

2. Token for free Innocent veg pot worth £3.49

3. free cinnamon danish from M&S

4. Pint of IPA in pub for 15p ( with £2 donated by flatmates business partner)

5. Bury black pudding slices for lunch

6. more £1 over the knee socks from Poundland

7 found free fresh small baguette in street

grandmasam

Good evening all,
Ampersand....i love the poem, have printed it off so i can read it aloud to myself.

# Cutting branches off 5 leylandii ready to saw them off at the base and the 2 trips to the tip for recycling hooray!
that was all day yesterday taken care of!
# finding a pine louvre 3fold screen reduced to £24 to hide the 'office' under the stairs,and affording it!
# taking 3 bags of clothes to the charity shop,
# finding some heavy lined curtains for my living room in the same shop!
# the perfume from a bunch of lilies when i came back from town, greeted me as i came through the door,
# library books! to read in bed,

have a tranquil night,
caz

helyg

1. Finding my great-aunt's blog (I know, normal great aunts knit tea cosies, mine writes a blog!) online whilst searching for family history, and finding that she has posted loads of old photos on it which mum and I thought had been lost when my grandmother died, including one of my great-great grandmother taken in 1929!

2. Also from my great-aunt's blog, lots of missing info about her grandmother's branch of the family, going all the way back to the seventeenth century.

3. Realising that there are gaps in her family history research on her grandfather's side, which I can fill as I have traced that back to 1599, so have emailed her with the missing info.

4. Looking at old photos and realising that I look just like my grandmother did when she was my age, and that she looked just like her grandmother when she got older. So I can guess what I will look like in 50 years time!

5. Oh, and in between all that family history I baked a Christmas cake

Patchwork_Quilt

Wow, what a day helyg! How interesting! And well done with the cake, too.

1) Took a bird's nest into school today. I found it when I was cutting down the huge shrub and decided to save it because I thought it was interesting. The teacher's first response was, "Wow! That's incredible!" Then, she asked me when I found it, which I thought was odd. It turns out that they have been doing a tree project for weeks and today is the day she had planned to do birds and their nests.
2) Visit to a friend who lives near work. Fortunately, I missed a text that said her son was ill and not to come. He wasn't too bad by the time I got there so we caught up with each other and she sent me away with four empty jars.
3) The whole family sat down to tea together this evening. Chops and home grown veg. The cakes I made weren't too inspiring in appearance as I iced them in a hurry but they disappeared anyway

Frith

Tiring, grumpy day.

1) Helped at school all day.

2) Went into the village for lunch and had a really nice sandwich and carrot cake from the bakers.

3) Had a phone call from my sister.

4) Had a Mr Dave balti for tea (its a Midlands thing!)

5) About to go to bed and watch Holby City on iplayer. I see oldest son is already asleep in there!

L

Rummer

Good Evening!

Today I

1. Went for a lovely walk and played in the leaves!
2. Bought a bargain chicken and had a lovely roast for tea.
3. A gossip with friends over some home baking
4. A relaxing warm bath with a magazine
5. Playing with my kitten

Hope you are all happy, healthy and wise!