5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Kittikins

1. NSD

2. Went to a lovely carol service at a church I really want to be ours, but DD's not sure....

3. Mince pies!

4. Finally cleared out a load of recycling rubbish that has been sitting around for far too long.

5. Started wrapping pressies

mhagster

Quiet day. Still coughing & spluttering. Didn't do much at all other than go to church this evening for Christingle service.

Got 10p off each litre of petrol. Glad I searched for the voucher as it ran out today.

Hadn't taken key & son was out with dog so we nipped into tesco and picked up some RTC stuff whilst waiting for him.

bagpuss38

Feeling quite low today, not quite sure why so pleasures must be found.

1. Church this morning, enjoyed the hymns today
2. Warm ham and Wensleydale sandwich and a peaceful cuppa.
3. Meal planned and shopped for the next few days. Hopefully do big shop when hubby gets paid.
4. My very best friend, always at the end of the phone to listen to my woes and wants.
5. Hot cuppa of tea and a chocolate mini roll when I got in from work freezing.
Night all xx

Frith

Goodness me, PK. I hope you are ok (and the gentleman too).


I have been to a pub in Bryn Crug, VJsmum, but can't remember the name. It was in the centre of the village on the edge of the road. That was in 1992 when we used to camp in Rhydyronen!


Quick pleasures for today as it has gone late.


1) A lie in.


2) A few bits and pieces done including managing to get the car down to the chickens with the clean bedding in it so I could change their sleeping quarters hay.


3) Went to local National Trust for lunch and a look round.


4) On to Ludlow for the charity shops and did well in Oxfam - wrapping paper, a Moomins book for niece and a pair of lovely bird design Fat Face pyjama trousers for me!


5) Took smaller son to play football with his friends. They hire an all weather pitch. I read my magazine for a while in the reception then you have to ask the receptionist to let you through the turnstiles so you can go and say "hello" without paying. She was very chatty and said she had put them on a pitch that no one else had booked so they could pay for an hour but have it all evening!


6) Went home and had a butternut squash curry from the freezer.


7) Sainsburys delivery came - hoorah!


8) Smaller son arrived home and had had a marvellous evening. Some "old men" (so probably 30s) had arrived with 2 younger men and said they usually used that pitch (this after smaller son and friends had been playing for well over an hour). The 4 men asked if they wanted to carry on playing so they played 5 a side with them! Smaller son was very impressed with that. Unfortunately, all that running round has meant his knee is now not bending again...


9) In bed now and will try to listen to the Now Show (3rd attempt) without falling asleep.

villagelife

It was a good day yesterday. Felt less on edge.

1. Cleaned the kitchen and sorted out good store cupboard. Will now slightly adapt meals to use up some of the tins. Means I do not need to buy as much as I thought I did.

2. DH went to work for morning and came home with a couple of Christmas presents in bottle bags. Wonder what they are.

3. DS2 came home after a night out. He had stayed with a friend. Complained that he had broken his thumb - he had been to his rugby club Christmas party at the rugby clubhouse. Didn't ask how in too much detail.

4. Went to my parents as it was my Dads birthday. Both sons there as was DS1 girlfriend. An enjoyable late lunch.

5. Home and watched sports personality and The Apprentice.

ampersand

Snarl.
Just lost post, when adding this, especially thinking of you, McCulloch.
Wonderful writing, compelling listening. Strongly recommended to all.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09hw8jw

Can't re-do rest. May post later.

Good wind-down week Mondays to all.

vjm - despite your efforts, suspect we are both aware that shortest day is Thurs. For &, Spitalfields, last for year and may then be away for several.
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Safe days, warmth in comfort.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

5 Minutes of life of BoP that cannot be regained in any part. So this very morning BoP was off to the quack for a blood test and his waters! Cholesterol, that beast that eats at you arteries and inn the end keels you over and we has wander drugs to cure it! Not! Quack say my Cholesterol is normal! What am I doing here! Oh well, at least my water is good as well! So he says I am also not some dialectic! Either! Whatever that is. So you know what this means don’t you!

4 Well as we follow the frogs and metircate the cakes of Jaffa and they are now off the shopping list as I refuse to pay for being conned! Today after BoP cleared the shelves of the dozen packs, we are into our last for the while. Why do we have to follow this method, when a pack of ten is not family friendly, you can only split into two’s and fives! Yet the dozen pack can be divided into twos, threes, fours and sixes. Far more mixing than that stupid revolutionary French system! Avoid.
So in BoP’s Munch Box today we have pieces of chocolate, nutty this weak as it is time of yule. Two cakes of Jaffa, salad, and Lincolnshire poacher cheese. Please avoid Lincolnshire poacher cheese if you are considering having children!
Also we have a biscuit from the fox! It is covered in choclate!
So again, this is what proper foods and having your vitamins everyday does.

3 So on that it is a bloody good job I don’t have a serious condition! Jenny sends her :heartpuls to those who are less fortunate that BoP!

2 Night BoP is out on the lash for a christmas meal! More later.


Life Testing Continues

mhagster

another cough spluttery day with a touch of labyrinthitis thrown in for good measure.

My children slept in! Hurrah! I was downstairs, just me and my doggy. Pottering. 2 loads of washing done, flowers sorted, recycling done. All by myself. Lovely.

Lovely frosty walk with Haggis and his ladies.

Made braised red cabbage with apples . Had bought RTC cabbage . In freezer.

My mother visited.

Lentil soup and laughter for lunch.

Snoozette on sofa.

DD1 has made fajitas for tea...just been told they're ready!

Skint_yet_Again

I am now off work for 2 weeks and am so glad. Todays pleasures


1. nice puppy walk in the sun, have taken vets advice and bought a halti and its like walking a different dog - no pulling me over & no biting


2. popped into town, parked in 2 hours free spot, and collected 2ft Christmas tree for living room reduced to £6 at wilko. Lovely lady I spoke to early this morning put one by for me.
Feeling so unwell I haven't got the energy to get the large tree out of the loft and decorate it just to take it all down again.


3. Little old lady behind me in queue was telling me about her brother-in-law who has had a heart attack and her husband is unwell waiting for test results Glad my ailments are not life threatening.


4. Coughing and wheezing had a lie down this afternoon and may have snoozed


5. all food from stores today. Lovely slow cooker stew for dinner and the last slice of vienetta which was meant to be for Xmas

Purple_kitten

1 Enjoying my first day as a temporary lady of leisure.
2 I had a rather painful time at the doctors, it was a pleasure when that was over and I could get home to take some painkillers. Very surprised just how busy it is out there and can’t help thinking trying for RTC’s may be a daft idea, but we shall try, like a challenge.
3 Well it was busy but giving yellow stickers, spoke to the people doing the reductions to work out when best to go again. 1kg pork mince for a pound, peppers, sprouts, raspberry’s and apples all for 25p each.
4 Rather in awe of the food unwrapped Christmas cake programme.
5 Being greeted by the animals like I had been gone for days when I only popped out for 30mins for the rtc’s.