Five OS Pleasures in your day today

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and mine are:
1. Playing with 3 yr old grandson at he beach in the sprinkles (his word for sand!)
2. Making blueberry muffins for his lunch and watching him enjoy them.
3. DS telling me he has just got a major promotion at work
4. Helping dh paint the new pantry
5. checking the copse of wild plums at the end of the street and realising will br harvesting next month.

fedupandskint

Mine are
1. making flapjacks and biscuits with store cupboard ingredients
2. Sunny day and upstairs windows open to air the house
3. Line drying the washing until 3/4 dry when too damp/dark to dry and only needed 30mins on radiators to finish off when heating came on
4. Made muligatawny soup in SC for lunch at work this week
5. Spent £1.70 all weekend for the first time I can ever remember!

Thanks to all for OS ideas and tips to make me feel better about things than I have in a long time. Support and hope at last to live a better life on OS.

bellaquidsin

1. Turning the fire off and the heating down now that my guests have gone home and realising that I actually prefer not to be too warm.

2. Finding that I have 10oz lamb left from lunch, so hurray, that's two days meals for DH and me.

3. Knitting a waistcoat (my granny would have called it a hug-me-tight) to wear as an extra layer. Better be quick as I could do with it any day soon.

4. Feeling very pleased that freezers and cupboards are all full.

5. Having a wonderful DH who is at this moment doing the last of the day's washing up without a word of complaint.

Bella

kittyscarlett

The smell ( and later on, the taste ) of a piece of gammon simmering slowly with cider, the last knocking of a jar of honey rinsed out with some of the stock, cloves, peppercorns and bayleaves.

Patting myself on the back for getting up at 7 a.m. to get the washing up out of the way before I came on duty !

Putting my feet up after work with a nice cup of warm milk with a little cinnamon, nutmeg and honey in it.

Braving the cold to take a few brief brisk walks in the sunshine for work and personal reasons, and quite enjoying battling against the chilly wind.

Looking forward to crawling into bed later to the feel and smell of newly washed and hand dried bedding, and tucking my feet round my hot water bottle - hardly ever have a fire on in my bedroom.

parsonswife8

1. Dividing up the massive pot of homemade soup I made, into Tupperware bowls and storing away in the fridge.

2. Having some scrambled egg and reduced smoked salmon trimmings for lunch with OH.

3. Watching all the birds in our garden especially the dear little red robin.

4. Settling down to read a magazine bought for half price with a coupon and enjoying a cup of milky coffee .

5. Looking forward to eating half price duck breasts for our supper together with some fresh veg from the veg box scheme.

freyasmum

1. Taking DD to work and her being as good as gold, she sat and drew pictures and talked to the customers.

2. Playing in the garden with DD, watching her running around, giggling and playing - I got some fantastic pictures!

3. Eating a warming bowl of broth when we came back inside, watching DD help herself, dipping her roll in, and making 'mmm' noises

4. We're going to make some little cakes/biscuits later which will be enjoyed with a lovely mug of hot chocolate.

5. I'll probably have a lovely hot bath when DD is in bed.

newlywed

Here's mine:

1. Finding most of the things I want from Sainsbugs are on offer (only go there once a month for specific bits)

2. Finding leeks on half price offer - so more leek and potato soup in the planning.

3. Getting a prize from the love food hate waste thread so planning what to the lunch box bits for

4. Eating HM chicken soup for lunch

5. Using money from lightspeed to buy two jumpers from ebay - total cost from my bank to top it up: £1.44

Caterina

Hi all

Here are my five for the day:

1 - Going back to my Over 50s keep fit class after a few weeks (my old bones are complaining but I feel SOOO virtuous!).

2 - Spending time and enjoying a cup of tea after keep fit with other women who attend the same class

3 - Lovely bread from the Farmers' Market and the last of the gorgeous cheese that I brought back from Sardinia, for lunch

4 - Receiving an email from a mystery shopper agency giving me a lovely assignment

5 - This is a bit dubious as a pleasure, but going to the dentist :eek: with my gold inlay (that fell out on Saturday) in a little plastic bag, worried that I would have to pay the whole price again for having it redone, and instead the dentist was able to cement it in again and did not charge me a penny, even if the work had been done more than one year ago. This saved me nearly £200! I never thought that I'd post anything related to going to the dentist as a pleasure, shows how you should never say never!:D (Sorry if this is also a bit gross )

Love to all

Caterina

cafelady

Here's mine...

Adding up what I've spent on Xmas presents and working out I've saved about £37 with nectar points, money off coupons and boots points.

Wrapping most of the presents today using paper left over from last year.

Realising I've spent nothing for 2 days as poorly with cold so not been out!

Putting one of the cakes OH made yesterday into the freezer for later.

Getting my gas bill and finding direct debit is going down from £87 to £67 a month.

[Deleted User]

And for today:
1. practicing Tai Chi with a couple of neighbourhood ladies.
2. Harvesting the first of the basil and making pesto.
3. Watching the chickens meandering around their yard, very peaceful.
4. Finishing the mohair scarf I've knitted for a nieces Christmas present.
5. Starting to clear away some of the kitchen clutter into the new pantry.