Five OS Pleasures in your day today

Purple_Sparkles

Well done Sparrer, I know it can be hard to do, keep it up :T

Mine for today are -

Made more bread - I love the smell of home baked bread

Received a free copy of Delias Frugal Cookbook :jdon't know who from though but whoever it was, thank you very much.

Taking the dogs for a walk around the pond and taking pleasure from watching both them and the various wildlife doing their thing!

Getting a big hug from an old lady who I gave some tokens to in the shop as she was collecting them and I didn't want them. Bless her, she was really grateful.

Making Xmas crackers and filling them with little things I've made, much nicer than a plastic novelty! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Wishing you all a lovely afternoon

Caterina

Good evening all,

Here are my five today:

1 - Keep fit class, I always feel so virtuous afterwards!

2 - Concocted a nice rice and veg soup cooking some brown rice and adding the leftover veg soup from Sunday that I had frozen. Yummy!

3 - Got around to sending a parcel that was long overdue sending.

4 - Put three sprouting bulbs that were languishing in the back room in a pot with compost and put the pot on the mantelpiece, hoping to get flowers for Christmas

5 - Got two top price tickets for The Lost and Found Orchestra at a greatly reduced prices, so I am treating DH to a lovely night out (but will be eating in beforehand because I am giving up restaurant meals for a while - need to change my diet for health reasons - even more OS!)

Good night all!

Caterina

bellaquidsin

I was an OS failure yesterday. We had some 'posh' relatives round for the day. There were quite a few vegetables left over from dinner which I put on one side for future reference, but when I looked at them at the end of the day, I was so tired and felt rather 'queasy' and couldn't stand the sight of them so threw them in the bin. Oh well here are my pleasures for today.

1. Being kind and forgiving to myself, I do try hard most of the time.

2. Making a lovely big shepherd's pie with the lamb left over from yesterday. It fed four adults and two children.

3. Christmas pud from the pound shop for afters.

4. Going to a talk at the local library which was really a review of 1908. Got a free mince pie and a cup of coffee there too.

5. Having a mini crafting session with my DGD after tea and seeing her face light up when I gave here a few bits of paper from my stash.

Bella.

knitter

My 5 Pleasures of the day

1. Sun shining and lovely frosty morning and watching "our" Robin in the garden

2. Making Hobnobs for the first time from the Recipe from this site and they were goergous.

3. Saved Myself £20 Cut my hair for the first time in years (with hubby help at back) And it looks absolutely fine. Really chuffed Daughter popped in the afternoon And thought I had been to the regular Hairdresser. Its a big plus my hair been curly.

4.My 19th month Beautiful Granddaughter saying her first sentence on phone "Nanny....Iggly Iggly Wet" She had "accidently" dropped her Nightgarden IgglePiggle in the toilet!!!!

5.Spent as little time as possible worrying about how bills are going to be paid if my husband loses his job, as third of the workforce is going to made redundent next week...Had a "What Will Be Will Be Day"

newlywed

Here's mine:

1. Making raisin twinks (last night) and eating them while watching spooks.
2. HM parsnip soup made with gammon stock for lunch today
3. Chilli cooking in the slow cooker ready for tea when we get home from work.
4. Meal planning meaning I have 3 easy evening teas - as they are going to be busy evenings with step kids staying and packed lunches to make etc.
5. The sun shining and planning to go for a walk at lunch as I don't need any food shopping.

Sarahsaver

1. breastfeeding my baby and seeing her happy, healthy and growing
2. her 2nd hand clothes which are lovely and cost very little
3. getting bread pudding ingredients ready for later
4. planning to do 'something' wit the bits of leftover chicken
5. turned the thermostat down and i will put my old style wool fairisle cardigan on if i get cold!

ETA the bread pudding has some Baileys in it and the chicken carcass has become chicken yakhni which is a bit like a poor person's biryani
AND littlun has finally had a nap AND the big kids didnt notice the candy canes i had put on the tree for them- hey almost 5 more pleasures! LOL

Primrose

Today's pleasures:
1. Helping OH bottle two gallons of wine from our own grape vine.
2. Ate last pickled onion from the jar at lunchtime so have shredded some
red cabbage, will salt it overnight and pack it into the existing spiced
vinegar tomorrow for a nice red cabbage pickle.
3. Local carol concert this evening
4. Heating off most of the day.
5. More Christmas cards arriving. (Really must get started on ours).

Caterina

Hi all

You might recall how I was trying to look at the silver lining in the cloud of my broken dishwasher - well today I am delighted to report that this is my Pleasure no 1:

1 - When the dishwasher repair man (no call out charge thankfully!) came to repair my broken dishwasher, it was actually working! The problem had been that it was not draining and in true OS fashion I had tried to get the lemon juice and bicarb combination to make a chemical reaction to unblock any greasy blockages in the pipeline. It did not appear to have worked so I called someone to repair it, but today when the technician tried the machine (after two days of the concoction sitting in the pipes) it was draining perfectly! The gentlemanly young man did not even want to accept some money for petrol that I had offered him!

2 - Lunch, rice and pasta soup, eaten with my DS who loves the stuff, I like taking time with him, as it is such a rare event that he wants to spend time with me these days!

3 - My trip to the PO Box for work, I managed to post a parcel that needed posting (today again yeh!) after picking up work mail.

4 - Planning to make some pickled red cabbage, going out in a minute to buy vinegar to prepare with spices.

5 - Aduki beans out of the freezer, veggi mince in the freezer, planning a nice chili con carne tonight!

Good night all

Caterina

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My five are:
1. dehydrating onions for winter.
2. making applesauce muffins with applesauce canned from the apple crop last year.
3. Making plum jam with the wild plums foraged from our street.(again) I seem to be the only one that picks them and there are about 8 laden trees. will have to get out the plum wine recipes.
4. Builder has nearly finished the bathroom, only a couple more days until it is finished.
5. Weaving a mohair scarf for SIL Christmas present.

Blessings be

newlywed

1. HM parsnip soup for lunch
2. Dinner from the freezer defrosting in the fridge
3. Cheap train tickets to london have arrived in the post.
4. Found out about the 2for1 voucher for Pizza Express - so will have a cheap dinner in London too!!!
5. The sun shining so walking 3 miles to work and looking at all the different buildings - saving £2 on the bus ride and much more interesting than being on a bus full of school kids .