5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

Tuesday pleasures,

Over to the yard for schooling lesson and diverted unexpectedly by the never ending pothole repairs, girlie in from paddock, tacked up and ready in 10 minutes, a record for us

Rest of QL for lunch with big green salad, even though it was rainy and cold.

Started new book to me, Devils Day by AM Hurley, very good so far.

The rain stopped and the sun came out for a while so time spent in the garden.

Watched and enjoyed GBBO, mind wouldn’t want to be the one who cleared up after Lee Mack!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

#RAF100 it is nearly time. Managed to watch Bolshevik Broadcasting Commissariat programme on this and it took them over 10 minutes to mention Trenchard.

V As said, the furnaces are being wound down and the fires damped. That means that BoPisout of here today and yippee!

4 Watched Engerland last night and they have not got this third umpire rule right yet! Referee saw the incident and never gave the penalty, so video comes on slow and a little nick. The Italians never claimed a penalty, should had stayed with original decision. Not out!

3 All this years decorating is complete and we can now look forward to good fryday at the DIY place, eat fish and chips whilst watching those who are going to change a bathroom in three days, find that the suite they want is out of stock. We will then walk home and look at the Palais de BoP!

2 Day in a packed lunch box of BoP is cheese salad, from Applewood, Bourneville chocolate, and a couple of clubs! Proper foods!

Be careful that the proposed plastic tax does not put 4 shillings on the pint of milk and prevents the poor from eating well? Stop the Milk Tax!

VJsmum

Wow what a day yesterday was..

Up at 6.00 after a fitful, anxiety sleep night. Out the house at 6.45 to catch the train to Edinburgh. Arrived at 12 ish, straight on the local train to Edinburgh park - what a murky hole that is... 3 interviews and then reverse - having to run for both trains back.. i don't usually run for trains but when you are many hours away it becomes a priority.

So, pleasures

1. Beautiful scenery in parts - especially the Angel of the North, Newcastle bridges, and the coast line past Newcastle. Simply stunning
2. The longest delay was 2 minutes - and it was that which allowed me to get home earlier as I caught a train i'd have otherwised missed
3. good interviews - though one woman used it as a moaning session. which in itself speaks volumes, I guess
4. OH cooked me begg when i got back as i hadn't eaten very much.
5. Getting into bed and sleeping soundly for 8 hours...:T

Have a good day all

MandM90

1. Working from home - love the flexbility, being in my little cottage, seeing the cats. Dislike the temptation to overeat or underwork! At least in my breaks I can get bits done here and there.
2. Hubby doing well at work. Tomorrow he has a final interview with an exec with a massive international consultancy. If he gets. Otherwise, he's doing well at work. He got two small awards today which amount to £110 extra 'pocket money' and next month is due a hefty 4 figure bonus which should pay for more home renovations I'm really proud of him - not bad for a bloke who left school at 17!!
3. Have writted a letter to confirm we are going ahead with relandscaping the front and side of the house. It was the shabbiest home on the street when we bought it, and it feels good restoring it. We've lived here about 2.5years with no fence between mine and my neighbours home, or a side gate (so people can walk into our garden from the street!). This is going to change in a few months woohoo.
4. Food - lovely lunch. It was the BBC Good Food chickpea, lentil chilli soup recipe. Really cheap, easy, filling, healthy and delicious. What's not to like?!
5. Pension funds. I upped mine to 28% earlier this year as I'd only started contributing last year, at the age of 26. My company contributes 4%. DH has a better package - his company contributes 11% and he contributes 10%. I checked them today and they're starting to look really healthy. Plugging figures into a few conservative calculators suggests we should be able to retire at 55. Woohoo!

mcculloch29

Small collection:
1. Friend's grandson is safely home from hospital, a fortnight before he was due to be born. He has done so well, after a massive scare initially.

2. A really simple pleasure this, making a milk jelly the way my Mum used to, from evaporated milk and tablet jelly. Mum never called it milk jelly, but 'mousse'.
Such a simple thing, I made it for my children too, but to be honest, they preferred the little pots of frozen mousse we got from the freezer shop. Anyway, nothing had changed. It still took ages to whisk to a bubbly froth, even with my electric whisk, (rather than Mum's hand egg-beater whisk), and still tasted exactly the same.

I had to smile, I went looking in the drawer for the can opener to open the tin of milk, and my brain was instinctively looking for the little folding can openers that both Mum and myself had used to pierce tins of milk.

3. Which led to pleasure 3, finding a similar can-opener on Am@zon
It's bigger than the originals, which in my case were supplied by the Army, and in Mum's case, came free with a tin of Heinz Beans sometime in the late 50s/early 60s.

4. A free hair colour has landed in the post, another review freebie. My fringe is now very 'pepper and salt' when viewed from underneath, so this was very welcome. It's a well-established brand I used to use for years, but stopped using when it changed the formula. It's now changed again, so I am looking forward to trying it.

5. Your pleasures, thank you.

mhagster

Gosh, I've not posted since Saturday.

Been a busy few days. My mother is away for a few days so I've been cleaning / tidying / chucking out! Had a few nice chats with her next door neighbour. Have a sore back and hips due to bending and stretching in a jungle like garden.

Nice chit chats with various people I've met when out and about over last few days.

Nice dog walks.

Friend came this afternoon with a lovely Easter bunny.

Son passed theory test this morning. Had to leave house at 7am for his appointment. He's not that much of an early morning person!

One of my school friends was up visiting her dad at weekend . She came for morning tea on Monday. We last saw each other in 1998/99 or so at her brothers wedding. Having last seen each other at school 1987. Lovely to catch up with her. And we don't look a day over 18...!

Haggis was at vets yesterday . He loves going and it wasn't anything as serious as if I'd feared.

Got a couple of filled hanging baskets RTC to 75p each.

We went out for dinner tonight . Had a buffet at an Indian restaurant. Lovely. Starting my birthday celebrations a day early. Too busy tomorrow for dinner! Very busy few days ahead.

Being able to afford to pay for DD1 to go to GP ...as she couldn't and was putting off going. Transferred amount and she made an appointment straight away. Grateful for NHS , free appointments and free prescriptions. We are very lucky in this country.

Frith

A difficult day as smaller son refused to go to school and then wasn't on his best behaviour.


Pleasures for today (Wednesday).


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Hens OK.


3) Bigger son managed to get a bus halfway home as he finished early.


4) A young blonde lady knocked on the door and said she was "here for the viewing" so I pointed her in the direction of next doors!


5) Sausage casserole for tea then apple and blackberry crumble.


6) Lit the fire as it was a bit chilly.


7) Watched GBBO.


8) Brother has left 4 bags of muck at the allotment as my Easter present.

villagelife

1. On holiday in France until Tuesday.

2. Journey went well. A good flight but bumpy landing.

3. Had a good meal out in a local restaurant.

4. Shopped for food and didn't spend much .

5. Warm and sunny here.

LaineyT

Wednesday pleasures,

Rain, boy did it rain, so pleasure of waterproof coats and boots.

Out early to the emporium to avoid any crowds ahead of BH weekend, very quiet and we whizzed round, some wine and beer might have made their way into our trolley

Standing at window, doing my ironing, and watching the crows flying past with beaks stuffed full of twigs, busy busy.

Chores done so settled down to watch old b&w film on tv, Wuthering Heights, very dramatic!

Roast chicken for tea, midweek meat meal.

MandM90

1. I'm popping to Brussels tomorrow for a weekend with a friend, yay!
2. DH's big interview today. I hope, regardless of outcome, it's a positive experience for him.
3. Crossfit last night was chuffing awesome! I'm so in love with it. Have never managed to stick to a gym this well and I can really see muscle building. I want to up it to 3X a week but it's pretty expensive so I think I'd be better off trying to work out myself a couple of times a week either at 'open gym' or by investing in a skipping rope and kettle bell.
4. Because DH didn't have to be in London until 11ish, we stayed in bed together until 7am which was a lovely treat.
5. French tonight, and I think we're watching a movie of the book we've been reading! Will be a lovely chilled session. I really like my classmates so it's always fun. Goodness knows how I'll pack for Brussels tonight...eep. My train leaves at 8.45am tomorrow so will be a squeeze. Will probably just throw some stuff in the case and hope for the best...