5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

house_elf

Good Morning,

Very quiet day yesterday...

1. DH has developed the cold, so we hibernated most of the day.

2. Used my last coupon from Mr W to buy a birthday card and some nice flowers.

3. Spent most of the day on the internet trying to find a craft course as a birthday present......there were lots to chose from if I wanted to pay £100s :eek: Eventually decided on afternoon tea at local tea rooms, as we have been talking about going for a while now. Trying to make memories, not buy stuff.

4. Trying to think of alternative entertainment when we go to London next week as our meal at the House of Commons Dining room has been cancelled. :mad: We think we have a plan

5. Evening out celebrating a friend's birthday and hearing stories of their trip to Amsterdam.

Have a lovely day

mhagster

Jings! Miss a day and Sparrer'sbeen and gone and frith's been on a hot date.

I'm sat in the spare room single bed trying to cough quietly and not wake everyone else quite yet. I seem to have caught the lurgy off my boy son though niece in law has a cold too so hopefully I don't get the blame if baby gets a cold ( hopefully he's got good strong immune system)

Gosh! Don't babies come with a lot of stuff? It's everywhere! Literally. All his stuff plus all the extra they've brought to pass on to niece ( nephew is her brother) and if i could just hold on to it a bit longer !

Lovely baby snuggles with such a lovely baby. I know I'm biased but he is gorgeous and scrummy and as delicious as he looked in his photographs!

Great niece had stayed overnight. She was in DD2 room. I was in DD1 room. They were in my room. No wonder the dog was confused!

Lovely walk down our woods and it thankfully brightened up after a very horrid rainy start. Much fun and nonsense between nephew and great niece of the tipping upside down, up on shoulders variety. She loved it.

The tired parents went to the cinema and very kindly left their son with DD2 and I for about 3 hours. He was fine. We walked to T ( remembering the days of stuffing everything under the pram with affection) and then popped into my mums for 10 minutes.

A couple of nice dog walks too. Haggis met his lady friend so was most happy.

The tired parents brought home pizza which I struggled to get in the oven. Had a nice dinner. My new dining room ( extension) is just the perfect space for a pile of people. Had pavlova and peaches for pudding.

No party animals here all in bed by 9.30pm! Changed days.

On Friday I'd made a veggie frittata ( using up my egg yolks from meringue making) most of veg RTC in Aldi. Also a thai (ish) butternut squash curry. A Cajun chicken pasta . Used up some naan bread from freezer. RTC herby potatoes. Nobody had room for pudding though they'd found the box of tablet so that was demolished. The feeding of many for not too much money. Lovely to have them all round my extended table ( and thank goodness for extending middle bit) . I love the chatter and the laughter.

Have a good day. My visitors leave by lunchtime so will no doubt be a frantic sweep up of baby paraphernalia. The niecelys coming mid morning too to see the nephew-lies before they leave. So full house this morning then I think I will sign a huge sigh when they leave and lie on a sofa and cuddle my dog and marvel at the silence! That's the plan!

villagelife

1. Met friend for coffee and long chat. Paid for coffee with a gift card another friend had given me.

2. Went to garden centre with DH and had free coffee there!

3. Not too cold and spent some time in the garden. Some weeding done and lots moved.

4. Watching the birds in the feeders makes washing up more enjoyable.

5. Had a meal with friends. No disasters happened either which was a relief.

Frith

Pleasures for yesterday (Sunday).


1) A lie in.


2) Cooked breakfast including fried bread, cooked by bigger son.


3) Hens well.


4) Quite a bright, windy day.


5) Smaller son and I went to watch his team play football and they won 4-1! After a disappointing season so far.


6) Watched Casualty.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

V Just got Raffles treats inn as it is his hiding under the bed day. Yes he is [STRIKE]getting[/STRIKE] got his flea treatment this morning. He is not happy. BoPsie is recovering.

4 Had a bowl full this morning for breakfast! Proper biscuits of wheat and ice cold milk. Then raspberry jam on buttered toast. Tea was drunk as well as concentrate of orange, with eau de faucet.

3 Just whipped up the batter for the toad inn the hole later. Will be served with proper pan gravy. swede and carrot mash, minted tatties and peas! Bet you wish yous having dinner at BoP palace?

PM2DD #UTM We on a role now! Top performance and we keeps 11 men on the pitch as well!

Not having one today!

Useful that not eh?

DundeeDoll

PM2BOP 3 goals a piece each again. we is on a roll indeed!
frith all the best for DS
DFV I avoided all royal traffic. Working very long hours at the mo - the uni certainly gets its money's worth!
For the weekend
1) book club on friday (mrpiano picked me up from work 7:45, quick cheese sarnie and only 5 mins late!)
2) library on saturday am to pick up reserved book - use it or lose it. i is using it!!!
3) watched scotland match with DD2 in student union. i swear i was twice the age of the next oldest. at least!!
4) saturday evening ceilidh for uni trampoline club. great fun, though late end
5) still managed to get up for church this morning. very good service, with visit by Archbishop's chaplain for refugees in calais. humbling
6) then home for steak round. my adopted home does the best steak rounds in the world! dd2 came round
7) then we walked the dogs to DM's for the rugby. DM is not a rugby fan, but took her belated birthday present round - a folio set of 3 books on medieval britain, £20 from oxfam book shop. She loved them. And engerland won. so good result all round
8) dropped dogs off home then off to choral evensong. beautiful setting of magnificat
9) and now just finished editing personal statement for mrpiano. may be a year of change. will of course keep you in the loop if he gets an audition. fingers crossed.

plumduff55

My pleasures for today are;

1) Long lie till 9.30.

2) Low fat square sausage on a sandwich for breakfast - yummy

3) A beautiful sunny day - I went for a walk in the country park and didn't think it would be so muddy in parts. I ended up walking along holding my trouser legs up off the ground :rotfl:

4) YS chicken Kiev for dinner then apple crumble and ice cream for dessert.

5) Just finished watching the last two episodes of The Medici on Netflix. It was so exciting and Sean Bean definitely got his comeuppance.

Going to bed soon as no Long lie tomorrow as I have lots to do xx

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday).


1) French toast and berries for breakfast.


2) Hens well and 4 eggs.


3) Found 6 geocaches after lunch.


4) Walked down off the geocaching route to have a cup of tea at my parents'.


5) Toad in the hole for tea.


6) In bed with 1 hwb.

Suffolksue

Some pleasures for the last few days
1 no falls ,a couple of staggers into walls etc but they don't count!
2 DH much better in himself ,took him to sons ,who took him to the football (the derby match ) they won so top of the league .much happiness !
3 then back in time for history lectures ,Mrs Gainsboroughs clothes and after the interval ,the flu pandemic of 1919 ,both excellent speakers .
4 we are packed and off tomorrow on U3a break ,DH really looking forward to it .i have mixed feelings ,hoping he will cope ,hoping the disabled room will be ok ,worrying about falls etc ,but really looking forward to no cooking for 5 days .
5 planning on meeting his brother and wife in Dorchester ,haven't seen them for 5 yrs ,have warned Sister in law of changes .

Better go ,DH making awful noises ,alarm set for 6 .
Good luck to Frith sonand to all .

villagelife

1. DS1 has moved back home. Now have him and his stuff home.

2. Most fitted in the storage unit that we wanted in there.

3. DH moved a tree in the garden. It was in the wrong place.

4. DS2 cooked roast lamb followed by sticky toffee pudding.

5. Early night as felt shattered.