5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

DundeeDoll

Hooray & long may it continue

mhagster

Hello. Not long in from work. Soaked through. My fingers are dyed from the colour of my leather gloves. It lashed and lashed and lashed. But a good evening despite that. Much laughter which is always good and a very welcome cup of hot chocolate, some lentil soup then some macaroni and cheese and chips (just a few)

Niece popped in this morning just so that was a nice diversionary tactic to housework!

Pottered around. Cleaned bathrooms, hoovered, washed floors.

Made a carbonara for my lunch and sons tea.

Walked to work. It was dry then.

Dropped a witches hat off enroute.

Payslip...first pay on Friday! Wow! First in a year. Shan't spend it all at once.

Plasterer came and agreed that much needed doing. Shall be in touch.

Gorgeous photo of my great nephew in his wee Halloween outfit I'd bought him. He's 4 weeks old today.

Hot shower when I got in.

Olliebeak1951

My five for yesterday AND today -

1. Monday was my quiet day. No plans whatsoever, so stayed in pj's all day :T. Pottered about doing 'odd jobs'.

2. A Cup-a-soup, some more of the 'OOD Fake Feta' with GF Crispbreads for lunch followed by a Pear and a Plum - I make that a '3 Course Lunch' !

3. Actifry Chips with Fish Fingers (GF for me) and Mushy Peas (from freezer) for evening meal :drool:.

4. Nathan-sitting this morning with an early trip to the dentist for him. Followed by a wander around the Town Centre checking out any last minute Hallowe'en Reduced Prices for him.

5. Back to DD's house where Nathan put the finishing touches to his Hallowe'en Display in the front garden - complete with 'sound-effects' :eek:.

6. He was highly delighted with all the people bringing kids in costumes to admire his handiwork - plus he was prepared with lots of sweets/goodies to pass out. He also had a whale of a time 'undoing all the dentist's hard work from the morning' by consuming lots of them himself .......................... nothing like a 6ft-3ins, 17yr old, with ADHD/ASD having a sugar rush :shocked:. I was so pleased when it was my time to come back home ! He'd even been on the roof to attach an inflatable black cat to the chimney stack - WITHOUT ME KNOWING :eek:!

And to think - I'm going back for 'Round Two' tomorrow _pale_.

Frith

Very quick update of yesterday/today as am very tired!


Yesterday


1) All well, house and hens wise.


2) Bigger son cooked himself a full roast dinner with gammon to spare for tomorrow and Friday.


3) Smaller son and I went to Leamington via Stratford where they had thoughtfully laid on a food fair in our honour! Bought fudge, looked round, wandered around the theatre with purpose so no one asked what we were doing!


Got to Leamington Football Club (possibly the coldest location on the planet), had a cup of tea and a hotdog and smaller son's side won 4-0!!


4) Journey home OK though it took us until Droitwich to thaw out. -2 at some points on the journey.


5) Got home, went to bed and watched the final of GBBO.


Today


1) Hens well.


2) Bigger son went to work.


3) Smaller son has a new friend so they met up and decided they "wanted a proper sit down lunch" so went to Sainsburys caf! instead of McDs :-D


4) Bonfire at mum and dad's and my school friend also came along.


5) In bed now with 2 hwb.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Tuesday pleasures

Another dry bright day & a bit warmer

DH & DSis worked in the front garden - hoed under hedge, trimmed hedge, got rid of next door’s ivy (open plan front gardens ), strimmed edges of lawn, put ground cover under hedge & DH drilled out a bit more of the tree stump

No cooking as D*m*noes 2 for 1 - enough for Wednesday’s dinner :T

Lots of knitting

Wednesday pleasures

A bright warm sunshiny day :T

DSis drove DH to Sainsbobs & B&Q for more bags of compost & ground cover

DH carved 2 pumpkins with a £2 pumpkin carving set :T

I delivered a bag of bits & bobs to CS & had a nice chat with a new lady, Ruby. I must have one of those faces as she told me her life story & very sad it was too.

Had more than enough sweeties for the trick or treaters - most of whom were dressed appropriately :rotfl: including a mother dressed & face painted as a minion :rotfl: She was the round the corner neighbour who had decorated her house with !!!!!s & ghosts

The joy on my husband’s face when we told him that lots of the adults took photos of the 2 pumpkins (with their tea lights ) as they were so impressed with his carving :rotfl:

The rain held off until after midnight :T

Hopeless_Case

plumduff55 wrote: »

My five for today are;

1) I got up at 7, did my exercise dvd and then had a healthy breakfast so a good start to the day.

2) Spent the morning in my sewing room making Christmas stockings for gifts. I've not been sewing much lately but have to get back into it as I have lots to do for Christmas.

3) My friend came for lunch and then we went for a walk. Happy to say the sun did make an appearance

4) My friend gave me a pumpkin from her community garden and I'm ashamed to admit that I have NEVER cooked one. What an admission for a 63 year old :eek: Anyway I have now prepared and boiled it and I'm going to make a pumpkin 🎃 pie tomorrow.

5) I'm just going to watch a soppy romance on Netflix and do some knitting.

Thanks VJsmum xx

My daughter was working in a pub last year and they had loads of pumpkin as decorations and then after Halloween offered them for anyone to take if they wanted them, so DD brought a huge one home and I made enough soup to last me 3 weeks

It was so hard to cut up, I ended up sitting it on top of my jam pan full of boiling water, so the steam softened the skin, looked quite a sight sat there on the pan with a scary face drawn on with black marker :rotfl::rotfl:

She doesn't work there any more though so no free pumpkin this year

- Looking forward to DD2 and BF coming tomorrow for the weekend and lots of family get togethers

- 'Coiled springer' is getting better and getting his mojo back, which is good, but he still needs to rest his healing elbow so quite hard work stopping him from trying to run and jump, poor thing!

- Broad beans, spring onions, garlic, and lambs lettuce all coming along nicely in the garden

- Sunflowers, marigolds, roses and rudbeckias still flowering beautifully in the garden

house_elf

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

Having one today! Food waste day! How many pumpkins will end up in the waste, just like the evil that is wasted with them. When you have given out the back of the Charlie 130 food, that went to the fit, to sell to the needy, you don’t waste food! MSF were on the ground long before the Buerke and the club singers lot!

The lion sleeps tonight!

I know what you mean BoP I was in The Sudan in 1983/84. The Americans would air drop food to the school I was working in. The school burser sold it to the shop keepers in the market. The pupils didn't see any of it :mad:

Ollie :A Your day sounds like a work day for me, but I get paid and have lots of other people to help. :A Never a dull moment though

Yesterday

1. Chocolate croissants for breakfast with DH frothy coffee from the shiny coffee maker.

2. Trip down to factory shop to buy matching floor tiles for the extension. No seconds available, but got a good discount for being a returning customer. :j

3. Bletchley Park on the way back, to use our annual ticket again. Beautiful autumn day. Enjoyed wandering around again. It was less busy, so we could spend more time reading the information, and listening to the audio guide. Still amazed at how they managed to decipher anything! Our favourite exhibit was the homing pigeons. Heroes. :A

4. Stopped off at IKEA for free coffee, free charge for the car and napkins.

5. Long journey home in slow moving traffic. Popped into Mr T for frozen chips and ice cream. (Last day for free crisps).......tea was fish from the freezer, actify chips and ice cream for afters. Followed by
Beetlejuice.

Having a doing day today. Watch this space.....:rotfl: Have a lovely day

LaineyT

Good news & and hurrah on the all clear.

Wednesday pleasures,

Awake early but read my Midwinter book until 7am.

The sun was out so windows opened and house aired, hate the shut up feeling that central heating can give.

PP worked well for her Mum, she really is such a poppet.

Capt S came home with afternoon treat of custard slice .

Off to town of gown to watch DN play for CUFC in the FA Youth Cup, they won :j

ampersand

Emporium and MrT gave their surplus pumpkins away last year.
They were all stacked outside on pallets.
Could be worth a look.
Don't forget pumpkin pie, pumpkin scones etc. Loads of NZ/Oz recipes here:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pumpkin+recipes+NZ&safe=active&client=ms-android-hmd-rev2&gbv=2&sei=0svaW5LaH42YsAfQxJ_QDg#scso=_08vaW7NCg5OTBeT4tdAN31:384#
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Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

I don’t know, cheese on toast and some with ants in their pants at three in the morning. Dear me! Cheese on toast is not proper food!
Minds me of going on ...
I see T are wasting food now they fleeced the gullible!

V was inn emporium w8rs and partners last eve. Good news, the tack has been cleared from the shelves and the evil products are not there anymore. More tack for xmas is inn! Topped up toms, strawbs and berries! Proper food, not cheese on toast!

4 At mill, the lion is awaiting his bait. Choices! Both are scary! Also IT, software types have downgraded our system to deny access to everything. Never mind, it did work but now it does not. To contact them we need email. Email does not work! Still, none of this affects the boilers in creating steam!

3 Back to gym tonight to get trimmed for the next BoP on Tour!

2 Then proper food on toast, sardines and toms on toast, tasty and cheap and far better than cheese on toast! Stringy cheese at that.

No need to have one today!

And if you think you have it …

HE In the market place in Hardh there were a plenitude of sacks with BandAid and Oxfam on them full of grain. There was no PoxFam shop there where they could get it from!!!

DundeeDoll wrote: »

Why do mathematicians get Halloween confused with Christmas Day? Cos OCT31 = DEC25 (funnily enough none of the children so far has told that joke!)

Will you Hex of like, sorry heck of light not get it! Arrggh softies!