Five OS Pleasures in your day today

Broomstick

And another five from me for today:

1 Sitting quietly this afternoon listening to Classic FM on the radio and mending and darning a trillion holes in my warmest, chunkiest cardigan so that I can wear it again in the house when I am cold..

2. Making a very recycled draft-excluder for the front door that looks great and works.

3. By Tuesday (when the next box arrives), using the meal plans I worked out today, I will have used up all this week's veggiebox and the left over bits from the last two weeks with minimal waste. I will also have more or less emptied the fridge and freezer so that they can all be defrosted. I have enough pennies to buy a head of broccoli which is the only extra thing we will need before Tuesday. I feel so organised on the food front and that is definitely a pleasure.

4. Arranging to meet up with a friend I haven't seen in ages in a couple of weeks time.

5. Having a big mug of cocoa tonight while I sort paperwork and wait for the late-night BM to finish making its loaf.

Have a good, warm night everyone.

sparrer

Saturday blessings...

1. It was much wamer this morning so I ventured into the garden for a few mins to do some tidying. Really thinking now that I have to grow some veg this year, I'm no great shakes as a gardener but I'm going to give it a try

2. Went to the local shop this pm and bought a lottery ticket. I got a whole one number...ah well, no doubt somebody much more needy had my other five:rotfl:

3. Played with the new laptop for a while, slowly getting used to it. DS deleted some unnecessary programmes the manufacturer had installed, now it boots up in only 5 minutes instead of the 10 it took yesterday :rolleyes:

4. Lovely tea of salmon fillets from the freezer, lemon and coriander cous cous from my food parcel and a stir fry. Scrummy and only 55p a head:j

5. Sat waiting with lots of other MSE's for the Sun booking line to open late Saturday night and managed to get DM's first choice of holiday, 4 days in Sussex in June, half board..she doesn't like 'this fussing about looking for somewhere to eat' so she'll be over the moon when I tell her (She'd better be!)

rev229

1 Home made pizza for tea
2 Made a beef casserole in the slow cooker half for sunday lunch other half made into pies for mondays supper
3 Sent DH to tesco for weeks shopping pears, milk, salad using stuff up in fridge freezer and cupboards.
4 Kids buying reduced annuals for 99p reduced from 6.99:j
5 Spending an hour at the tropical pet shop DD loves it. Looking at all the fish and snakes etc and its free!

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Hi everyone
Have had a great weekend, so here are my five.

1. Feeling blessed by the good friends who drove hundreds of miles to visit and spend time with us.

2. Taking one of our friends to the beach we live beside and seeing it anew through her eyes, it makes me appreciate that I should never take these wild incredible surrounding for granted.

3. Going to a concert put on by same friends for my OH, and seeing the pleasure he took in being part of the band again.

4. Enjoying the incredible taste of an apricot ripened ON the tree, just so much better tasting than the commercial ones - although they don't look as pretty.

5. Listening to another friend of his life in South Africa before he arrived here and again realising how lucky we are.

Blessings be

Jennie

Kerfuffle

Hello everybody,

My Five OS pleasures for the last couple of days are:-

1) Walking into town just for the exercise as I didn't need to go in.

2) Spending ages in the library and having a good browse and eventually coming out with three books - all for free!

3) Being able to do some work in the garden as the weather has warmed up.

4) Eating HM soup out of a flask and HM bread whilst sitting in a parked car - eating out doesn't get much cheaper than this.

5) I'm pleased it's the weekend and I get the chance to spend more time with my husband :blushing: .

Hope everybody else has a good weekend.

Reverbe

Friday Pleasures

1. Free Boots magazine

2. 1/2 price eyshadow kit. 5 shadows for the price of 1.

3. Finding money on the street and finding 2 tesco trolleys lying around the back of my mates office and returning them for the £2.

4. reduced blueberries and pasties in Mr S

5. Thermal socks form the market 3 for £2.50 (not as much of a bargain as if I had got similar from Poundland but the ones in Poundland looked like they could fall apart at any minute!!)

6. HM shrimp and wild rice soup for lunch - piping hot and I chopped some leftover curly kale and threw that in

7. 2 Lovefilm dvds

8. 2 free downloaded books - one on money management and one on holistics

9. More soda crystals and value food from Mr S before the price goes up.

10. HM Chicken Carter and HM Hot banana pud for dinner

11. Plum Duff Beer and old film "You Can't take it with you" on dvd

clutterydrawer

- delicious toast
- was picking litter out of the garden and found 2m of red ribbon patterned with black hearts - fantastic!

thats al till later, there's day left yet

KarrieBee

Hello all, hope the chilly weather isn't putting too much of a downer on the weekend! My OS pleasures for the w/e:
1. A lovely hike over the hills to do our shop in the nearest co-op - much more fun than getting the bus even if OH had to hold on to me at times so I didn't blow away.
2. a free taster of a very nice ale in the local where we sat by the log fire to warm after the hike!
3. a lovely meal cooked by my lovely OH from stuff we had in the cupboard, half price lamb chops and some gorgeous baklawa we got for xmas
4. a big lie in together this morning, for the first time in ages!
5. hearing that an old friend of mine is now the proud father of two healthy twin boys - it's baby central with our lot at the moment
6. bizarrely having a lovely chat with the lady in the jobcentre about feminism and hiking - i was so scared and demoralised about going and it was actually fine
7. getting a dvd in the post from an old family friend who thought i would enjoy it!
blessings to all
Karrie

Caterina

Hello all! Here are my five for the day:

1 - An incredibly long lie-in, with breakfast in bed courtesy of DH (I know this seems to be a repeat pattern in my daily 5 at the weekend, but we sort of take turns, only he does not post here so it looks like it is always me to get the best deal )

2 - Late lunch of pasta and broccoli bake, which everybody loved!

3 - Going to a meeting with a few local people interested in starting a Transition Town where I live. Very exciting!

4 - Coming back and finding that DH has finished sorting out DS's room and put all the bits and pieces that he needed, and DS being so happy.

5 - Seeing my DD wearing the shawl I crocheted for her around her hips, looking really smart!

Good night all!

savingforoz

Here are my five:

1. Getting lots of YS veg in Morrisons for the teeny sum of 53p. :j

2. Hopefully making my 1st successful loaf in my new breadmaker - attempts 1 and 2 were terrible! Am waiting to turn it out of the pan - wish me luck...:D

3. Finally deciding what to do about making homemade yoghurt - will be treating myself to the Lakeland Bulk yoghurt maker. Another new toy! :T

4. Getting new undies for a lot less that I thought I'd have to pay. :j

5. Successfully resisting temptation in Robert Dyas, Gardener Haskins and Wilkinsons to buy kitchen gadgets that I don't need. Am all for labour saving things like breadmakers etc but I only want things that I will actually use. :T