Your "OS" thought of the day :)

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I love my U3A groups and have to cut back as I belong to so many.we have 41 different interest groups in our branch and its the best value for £15.00 a year subs that I can think of.

I went to a tiny W.I charity shop last week in a local village hall It only opens on a Wednesday lunchtime for 2 hours but well worth the visit as I got a nice pink leather/suede purse for 60p which I really wanted and needed as my old purse was falling apart.

This afternoon at a family birthday bash my DDs ma-in-law gave me three balls of wool for my charity blankets that she had spotted for 20p each and thought of me bless her One peach,one baby blue and one sparkly pink,all 100gms so I am chuffed to bits .

I knit for The Linus Trust and make blankets for children, that go all over the world to kids who have very little in their lives. I have seven healthy, warm, well-fed grandchildren, and I like to think that somewhere in the world a child is being kept warm with one of my 'blankeys ' Keeps my fingers nimble and stops me from dropping off in front of the TV win-win I think

milasavesmoney

We ate food DH had caught. Very OS.
Wonderful fresh fried black bass, so moist and delicious. DH coated it in corn meal and pan fried it quickly until golden. Reminds me of summers over 50 yrs ago when we had outdoor fish fries at different relatives homes.

Jazee

Morning all. Birthday cake here today and in true OS, it is homemade (but not in this home - a friend baked it), not shop bought. Chocolate with icing and smarties on top.

camelot1001

The old body isn't too bad, not helped by climbing over 200 steps up a church spire. Thank goodness it was a good view, well, as good as it gets in The Netherlands!

Spent yesterday wandering round this beautiful city and had a picnic lunch by the river with DD, OS and so relaxing.

DigForVictory

We have a dehydrator. Himself has just bought a mill (hand cranked thing, not Dark Satanic). He's now talking about vacuum sealing/packaging & I have no idea whether this is a good OS idea or a step towards a tinfoil hat.
All information and opinion on vacuum sealing/packaging & whether it is OS/MS appreciated!

monnagran

Sorry DFV I've no experience of mills - neither pepper, hand cranked, wind, dark satanic or of God (that grind slowly but exceeding small ), or, indeed, of vacuum sealers but I'm sure someone will be along shortly to enlighten you.

I was just going to say that I enjoyed an afternoon watching my 3 year-old DGD at her first school sports day. It was lovely to see all the children happy and fairly competitive enjoying the sunshine and the mums and dads racing each other and being fiercely competitive. Nothing seemed to have changed from when I was at school some zillion years ago.

At least the weather stayed fine. I remember when I was teaching how we prayed for rain so that the whole thing was called off. Well, I don't think that the games staff actually prayed for rain but the non-sporty ones among us certainly did.
When I had my own school there was one famous occasion when it started to rain too late to call it off. So we transferred everything to the gym and the parents flattened themselves against the walls while the children did their thing. It was hilarious. It had some very posh parents, (it wasn't a posh school - Well, it was mine so pretty much off the wall), who were much more at home with picnics at Polo or Glyndebourne but who gallantly spread out their elegant repasts and sat on the gym floor to eat their lunches. Wine glasses and all.

Priceless and free.

x

VJsmum

This is a lovely thread isn't it?

A bit like the 5 OS pleasures one, which is also lovely

We are currently enjoying copious amounts of raspberries from the canes in our garden, gorgeous..

milasavesmoney

I have been thinking of how my mother and I, her sisters and my cousins would go to the fields and pick black eyed peas, green beans, tomatoes, okra ... What ever was coming off and take it back to our carport in bushel baskets. We'd sit out in the shade and shell peas or snap beans or shuck corn etc and then have a huge canning session in our little kitchen. The aunts and mother would shoo us all out and start canning. It was a long day and into the night. They would have brought food to share and watermelon to eat. There would be jam and jelly making sessions when the fruit was ripened and picked. They were all hard workers. I miss those summers. I miss those women, especially my mother.

Jazee

My OS thought the other day was 'how quaint' when I saw someone riding in our village on a penny farthing style cycle.

Today, two more strawberries from the garden and I'm planning to be OS and run the freezers down before we go off on hols.

Butterfly_Brain

Had washing on the line billowing away this morning, had to bring it in at 12pm because it started spitting with rain all dry enough though so it is on airers finishing off under the ceiling fan . Pottered in the garden this morning, picked a punnet of raspberries and a punnet of strawberries, the raspberries will go with weetabix in the morning and the strawberries have been turned into 4 Eton Mess and I was naughty and had one after dinner (Had main meal at 2.30pm because we are out tonight at a leaving do and then out for staff BBQ tomorrow night).

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