5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

DundeeDoll

1) beautiful day - crisp, bright, cold
2) friend's leaving coffee and cake - she lives just up the road so i'll still see her around. good job she's going to
3) another friend's leaving do after work. he's been at the uni 39 years and was my first boss
4) then event at the cathedral - the people against Jack the Ripper. The presented presented evidence to suggest that William Henry Bury – famously the last man to be hanged in Dundee – was also the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper. It was a good evening - i am very pleased to say he didn't sensationalise the death of the poor victims.
5) i brought home left over crisps, olives and pate. oh and picked up another 3 empty plastic bottles!

LaineyT

PK I picked up the Merry Midwinter book last year on the recommendation of our Nargle and like it very much, it goes into a lot of detail about the customs and traditions surrounding this time of year with a number of good recipes and ideas for inexpensive ways to celebrate.

Wednesday pleasures,

We are being spoilt with these cold but sunny mornings, makes the first dog walk of the day much more pleasurable.

Sparkly cobwebs showing up on the outside of the windows.

Treated myself to some new winter slippers and they arrived in the post, warm & snug with hard soles just in case, ahem, someone wanders out to the garden in them

Made bread, part white, part rye with walnut oil and sunflower seeds.

More food, this time tea which was snorkers, honey roasted with parsnips and carrots.

Small dog, dream running in her basket, nose twitching and making happy little squeaks in her sleep.

juliettet

My recent 5
1. Very grateful for a warm house on these frosty mornings.
2. Homemade pasta sauce for tea. Just need to cook pasta and make a salad.
3. Made first steps to understand my pensions. Putting it off.
4. Ditto to overpay on mortgage.
5. Yellow roses still good.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Don’t answer it! They’ll only want money off you!


Well done LT, proper food!
Oh, never over pay the mortgage! They will not give you a brake if things go crazy. I get more on my investments a year than I pay interest, If I paid more, I would lose out! Got it?

Now on to BoP Lunch Bites

Wells wes had Kedgeree last nite with the smoked mackerel, and prawns things of king. Very nice, sat and counted our pennies and the went to get the wobbleade and bits to watch the gooners at 7:45!
Blow me kegs off, it had kicked off early!

So we just watched the rest of it.

Sore Ted outs the trip to town on FryDay, Thai and the big train from Warster! Be catching the small run-around chugger thing back! Cans of paint collected

Now BoP is at the JAM on Saturday morning, on the three pronged fork thing. We don’t charge and yous can have a bacon butty as well!

BoP xmas tip.
Yous only has one pay day until xmas! So those trinkets you bought for All Saints eve, tomorrow will be at give away prices! Learn that lesson! I also note the as I looked low down channel list last night, that the celebs are out wanting money off you for some CiN! Minds me of the Vets thing on the buck face. Woiuld tell yous, but bit crude to sparra and &! Except the lady was only wearing a thong thing, and the guy says, ‘Where’s your Poppy!

There, I got away with it!

Remember that the host earned more in a nite than the single mum on checkout earned it a year, and they expected her to cough up?

MandM90

Last night:
- Gorgeous veggie spaghetti 'bolognese' and garlic bread, made by me. Yum.
- Falling asleep in front of the fire reading whilst DH watched the football

Today:
- A strange one, but someone has spent £450 from our joint account in a restaurant in Altringcham. We live in Buckinghamshire! The pleasure is that, thanks to MSE, YNAB and lots of financially savvy bloggers...we can happily do without it until the fraud team sort it out. We will be fed and clothed, be able to overpay the mortgage and invest in our pensions. That makes me feel wonderfully blessed (even though I'm angry at the b****** who inconvienced us in this way).
- Treating myself to some online shopping. Evening dresses for the Xmas do at work which I'll wear to all other Xmas things. Have ordered 2 dresses both in size 8 AND size 10. Usually maternity sizing is generous but I've been hitting the carbs hard lately. Hopefully one will be smashing and I can have one glorious evening when I don't look and feel like a potato. Will sell on afterwards as this is definitely the last little wriggler to inhabit my body. Also got some bits in the Sainsburys sale - Harry Potter PJs for DD, PJs and a couple of jumpers for DH. They will be stashed for Xmas gifts.

house_elf

Good Afternoon Peeps,

Lovely day yesterday......

1. Trip to Charlecote Park with NT card. Wander around the house, browse in the bookshop and a little turn around the grounds on a beautiful autumn day. Took a picnic, so only had to buy tea for two.

2. Children following a Halloween trail to earn a pumpkin. Lots were dressed up in Halloween outfits. Made me feel very nostalgic for the days of small children and half term activities.

3. Stopped in Leamington Spa on our way home for free O2 hot chocolate and a piece of cake. Then collected a pair of dining chairs won on the Bay. Look really good.

4. Home to collect DS1 and gf to go to the cinema. Comp tickets to see the Aeronauts. DS1 doesn't usually want to go anywhere with us, so is was really nice! Picked up a takeaway tea on the way home, with a £5 discount, so no cooking either. :rotfl:

5. Amazon order turned up, but it was wrong. Complained and got a refund. Also, got to keep the stuff! :j

Frith I have been making the little crochet wreaths too! I found a little stash of mixed curtain rings in a plastic tub in the cellar. Ideal for this little project. I am kidding myself into counting it as decluttering :rotfl:

Have a lovely day

VJsmum

Evenin all...

Pleasures for yesterday

1. Yoga, a new teacher filling in for one on maternity leave, but I like this one better. It's a shame I've only just found her as the original one is back next week
2. 5:2 went ok. I tend to eat the same food each day I do it, which is comforting in a way. (although today is also 5:2 but I have had different things, which is unusual)
3. DS came home for the evening
4. Washing hung out and partially dried.
5. Good, informative phone call about my extension (PhD, not house... :cool:)

Have a nice evening all

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Playing 'I went to the shop and I bought...' with the Zebra child in the car as we took him home after staying for a couple of days, much hilarity.

Just having him around and doing jigsaws, reading books, sharing a DVD and some of his favourite TV programmes (Octonauts is best) he was such a good boy and he's good company for all he's only 5.

Trip to Ikea and lunch there, they do a great big bowl of salad from the salad bar which is most tasty.

Halloween, we've decorated the front and the drive and have sweeties, no callers as yet but I have hopes.

In anticipation a proper nights sleep and not being bounced on at 5 in the morning with a very enthusiastic hug and a sloppy kiss, he's a real early bird that Zebra, I love him soooooo much!

mhagster

Hello. Long day at work although we were so not busy that I left 90 minutes earlier. Met my old across the road neighbour ( who’s in her 80s) so dropped her off home which she was very grateful for. Parked outside our old next door neighbours house who saw me, popped in for half an hour. Nice to see all of them.

Reasonable tips considering we were quiet.

Hello dog...I’m home early!

Parcel left at bottom of garden bin. Really? Almost in head first!

Got a parking ticket .Gah! From when I was baking at work last week. Need to work out if I do have to pay. There are different rules in Scotland.

Purple_kitten

1 One of those days that just worked well, DH wanted to go out so we went over to the next town, and it was one of those times where every CS we went into had something wonderful, I had to reel myself in several times, they had proper well made things, what really caught my eye was a cream maker brand new from well who knows when in it’s original box etc, I was smitten but couldn’t justify as it would turn into clutter! Picked up so many bits and pieces, Disney tsum,tsums makes great ferret toys, a lead, a “proper”cool bag, that’s still selling for £28 for “4 and a brand new pair of purple fluffy snow boots which are unworn and lots of other CS bits and bobs, the street green grocers courgettes, peppers, bananas and tomatoes. And Christmas has arrived in the shops – apparently.:rotfl:

2 We stopped for a cuppa and painkillers which was very civilised, at local the cafe.


3 The all singing, all dancing, "literally" tiny kitchen music box arrived, okay I admit I am impressed it connected to everything first time, sounds amazing, DH has fitted it under a unit, and yes we [STRIKE]sang[/STRIKE] howled and bopped along to it, I wonder if it will improve my cooking skills.;)

4 Monthly trip to Mr T, I have reeled in my rtc habit for the sake of using what we have to once a month!:o They were trialling a quiet time, and it was blissful much nicer to wander around,:cool: I went with my pre prepared list having also checked the prices before hand, rtc habit fulfilled with a large amount of casserole steak, mince for the ferrets, chicken fillets, and loaded potato skins.:T

5 I’ve made an appointment with the lady who designed my wedding ring which was stolen in the burglary, we are going to get it re done I’m a little nervous about how much it may cost these days as it was 15 years ago now. We held off a while as it felt weird with everything going on with DF’s passing.