5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Suffolksue

Very pleasant lunch at a local pub with the Remnants of my lunch group ,flu etc has decimated us this month ,as at 75 I am the youngest ,it’s probably not surprising.

froze the meals I made yesterday ,I must eat from the freezers this week ,am still so weary that frequently just nibble at junk food.

christmas food gifts v nearly gone ,hopefully eating more healthily will make me feel better .

forecast says cold spell lifting .i do hope so .

take care all 

topsyturphy

Pleasures for yesterday

walk with the dog, met friend and her dog and just chatted as we walked.

The crunch of the frost under my feet and the sight of the frost on the trees and the plants.

Roast Chicken Dinner

hopefully have found some wardrobes that are solid wood at a good price on Facebook asking for a donation to a local charity.

Hot milk with a slug of baileys before bed.

Highdays

Morning all.

Well, the big thaw has certainly started in our neck of the woods, the snowmen are slowly disappearing.

Recent, small pleasures:

1) Had a catch-up chat with my lad, not seen much of him so far this year as our walks have been curtailed.

2) Ventured out yesterday but still too icy to walk. Ate our picnic lunch in the car overlooking a reservoir, lovely to have a change of scenery.

3) Using up the last of the 8p veg today to make a Pan Haggerty for tea.

4) Making plans for this year, some nice things in the pipeline, places to go and people to see.

5) Waking up on a Monday morning, still a pleasure years after we finished work. 

Have a good day, whatever you are up to.

mhagster

Up early and up and at ‘em.
Chat to sister. It was so dark this morning 
A bit of work done this morning and service draft sent off.
Dog in car, popped in to work place for 10 minutes and then off we went to CP…for a very wet walk! 

In caravan for about 15 minutes. Brought some stuff back ( tin of paint to use here) and found a wee coin purse in my shopping bag I have hung up in the hallway…£27.60! Thank you very much!
Home via supermarket. Got a few things RTC.
Attempted to move very heavy desk upstairs myself but had to admit defeat and ask the chap to help! It’s one of those ladderback styles that’s all one piece and about 7 foot tall! I am not!

Hoovered yet again.
Brushed dog yet again…then hoovered!
RTC steak pie for tea with use up seasonal veggies. 

And I’m having a very early night! 

Purple_kitten

Topsyturphy, That frost crunch sound is great.

1 Dropped the sold parcel off, while on the way to the garden centre as DH wanted to nosey at the 75 percent off Christmas things which were still very overpriced. I may have peaked early this week and used my bay earnings to buy us lunch in the garden centre, £7 for 2 pasties, with a free tea and coffee. We also picked up a free ice scraper.

2 Greeted as long-lost friends when we got in, after a whole just under 2 hours.

3 Popped a casserole in to cook through and was quite perplexed by trying to remember how to cobble it together, it was all a bit well we don’t have that, so I’ll use er this. Did make dumplings with it for proper comfort food. I used some of the butcher winnings and have to confess its superior meat.

4 Fuse, our lovely lad who’s completed his antibiotics just isn’t right, I’ve just phoned up to book him back in and was chatting over costs with them honestly by the time I’ve paid 29 for the prescription, another 30 to buy it for the meds online, for the sake of six extra pounds, I may as well get it direct and into him quickly. I’ve removed what I would call luxury foods from our food order and saved 25 towards his bill.

5 Seeing the very skittish woodpecker down, but it also means I can’t move while it’s there.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Monday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Had to make myself leave the house and go to a free art class in a church locally. Glad I did! Everyone was welcoming (it has a little cafe that runs a few times a week in the church hall with the art class up the other end). I honestly thought of MHags while I was buying a cup of tea because the first four people I spoke to were all Scottish with very Scottish names! It was like I'd gone to Scotland on holiday!

I used acrylic paints for the first time and I was reasonably pleased with my painting. Other people were doing their own things, including knitting socks. The teacher's child goes to the SEND college that smaller son went to. We both said we had never met another parent from there before. 

3) Smaller son and I went off to look at floor tiles. He has always liked looking round showrooms and testing out the different bathroom fittings. 

4) Smaller son has played darts a lot today.

5) Popped in to work (with smaller son) and 2 colleagues asked me about difficult colleague and where had she gone. (She's on annual leave). They both made a few quiet but pointed comments and smaller son said afterwards that it is very unusual to hear people talk like that. I do feel sorry for her because she is unhappy but she behaves so badly to everyone. 

6) Ordered my niece's birthday present. My sister sent details of the birthday meal restaurant (everyone buying their own) and I checked online and it would be the most expensive meal I had ordered in my life. I said no and felt quite pleased afterwards that I did. No 10 year old would have chosen that place anyway and I shall see her before she sets off. 

DundeeDoll

1) using up food continued with lettuce soup (recipe Jamie Oliver) and toasted end of sour dough bread made into croutons
2) first day of step challenge went well - up to 19932 and going up to bed will see me through 20K
3) piano lesson was super duper (if you ignore all the wrong notes lol) - I have a Beethoven I used to play and a short Chopin that I sight read (he wrote it when he was 16, it's very pretty)
4) did my workout while watching first half of the Christmas Death in Paradise (then watched 2nd half sat on the sofa)
5) watching an old HIGNFY then it'll be bed with a cuppa and the urchers

topsyturphy

Pleasures for today

Dog walk through the fields met with my dog walker & other doggies. Little white dog of mine was very muddy by the time we got home. Missed the frost crunch this morning!

Sorted out transport to pick up new to me wardrobes and new to me lather sofas( the latter courtesy of my old amazing neighbours)

All Christmas stuff now back in the loft.

4. treated myself to new PJ’s

Dinner was leftover chicken, mash potatoes and Veg & gravy - comfort food

Happycas

Good morning.  Dark and cold but not freezing any more so that's good.

Finally got to see DS on Sunday to give him his birthday present.  His birthday was 1 Jan and they live about a mile away ! but a combination of things meant this was the first time we could get together.  It was good to see them all though DGD was worried about mock GCSE and DGS was fed up off football being cancelled. 

Gave my old kindle to DD.  She only wants it to read books and it's good enough for that.  I use mine for everything and am always worried that not all data has been removed so I never know what to do with old tech.  But I know I can trust DD.

Yoga cancelled but I went with yoga friend for coffee anyway.  The garden centre had a table loaded with Christmas biscuits, jams, sweets etc. Lots in fancy tins and packages.  All overpriced normally but they were clearing them at £2 for a basket full !. That was a good start to my day.  With the Christmas goodies we already had, I think we now have enough treats to last until next year.

I got out all my summer clothes to check yesterday.  We go to southern Spain in three weeks and I don't really know what to take. It should be warmer than here ( not difficult last week) but not Spain hot! Layers I think.

My meal planning is working surprisingly well.  In over 50 years of housekeeping I've never really done this! Just decided on a haphazard daily basis! Ah well.  Never too late to learn 😂

Happy warmer day everyone

mhagster

Hello!

Up early. 

Friend phoned on her way to work and pup dropped off at same time.
Had massage of ouchy kind at 9am. Ouchy. But helping. I’ve a duffed rotator cuff ( technical term) 
Home and had log delivery about 11am which was fine as they had  said late morning to early afternoon. 

Hung a washing out! Who even am I in January? Wasn’t dry but wasn’t as wet and had a smell of fresh air on it. 

Emptied a couple more boxes in garage and put a notice up on local FB page if anyone wanted boxes so they’ve all just been picked up. I was going to keep them but I ain’t going anywhere soon! Still have about 5 boxes to empty and a friend had asked if there were any left if she could have them so that gives me impetus to empty! There were about 30 plus boxes collected. 

Moved some things in the garden that had been blown about by high winds .

A very last minute Tuesday Tea. Friends didn’t think they’d make it due to something else happening but I said if it wasn’t going to happen let me know! She let me know at 4.20pm…operation TT was commenced! I’d RTC sausages and RTC croquettes in the freezer. Mashed potatoes/ broccoli/roasted carrots and parsnips and sprouts all from festive 15p prices! 

And a fatless  apple sponge! Made from very RTC apples! So cheap and cheerful but very delicious. Laughter and chatter round the table! 

Nice chat with couple who came for boxes. 

Enjoying the last of the log burner heat then I’m heading to bed! Dogs delighted to have his sofa back ( now friends have gone home!)