Reasons to be cheerful - not the big stuff

Sunshine after miserable weather
Music
Birdsong
Something I am making going right first time, without having to be unpicked and redone

I'm here!

The smell of welly boots, wet dogs and DH cooking bacon as I come back in from walking the dogs.

Seeing spring bulbs coming up
DGS screwing his face up when he giggles
Reading a good book

Knowing there's something good coming on TV later.

And they may pass you over bags of home-grown tomatoes, cucumbers etc from their huge greenhouse vegasmags!

Finishing a knitting project and starting another one with lovely yarn
Realising that I can see the garden better because I cleaned the kitchen window (however lashing down with rain today )
The DGC coming round unexpectedly

Very good point rosequartz - another reason to be cheerful!

Looking out of the bathroom window, I thought there was something funny about the birdseed feeder. With the binoculars, I saw, one on each perch, a lovely goldfinch. What spectacular little birds they are! This weekend I've been speaking to my sister in NZ who is coming over this summer and we always go away for a week together. This time we have arranged to go to Majorca in June, staying in Palma. So plenty to look forward to this summer.

Strangely, I'm quite pleased with the drop of rain, today. The garden needed it to perk up the plants. Also to wash the dust off, after our recent building work. x

Catching a fish on a fly I've tied myself which looked like the Frankenstein's monster of fishing flies and thinking, as it swam away, "bet you won't fall for that one again!" Seeing a barn owl flying down the field at the side of the reservoir. Chatting to my step-grandson about his uni course while he scoffed my home made quiche. The thought of seeing my DGS this afternoon.

I held a baby barn owl yesterday. It was a gorgeous bundle of white fluff.

We went to our local pub last night. There was an 'act' on which we usually avoid like the plague but he was really good, singing lots of stuff from the '60s and Motown etc. DH and I danced. I can't remember the last time we danced.

When the weather forecast gives sunshine for Wales and it's correct

Buying a stitching magazine which contains a pattern I can do

My youngest granddaughter still calling me Bro now she is in her teens,

My youngest grandson Louis Mummy sent me a short video on FB yesterday of him paddling in the sea, their first beach visit this year and to hear him shrieking with delight as he dashed in and out of the waves holding his other granny's hand and saying a big CHEESE everytime he spotted Mummy filming him certainly cheered us up.

I shared it with the rest of the family on FB it keeps us up with his 'doings' even though he lives far away..

When my dd or dgd facetime me for an unexpected chat

my little grandson taking my hand
sparrows chattering all winter long
adjusting previous sewing creations so that i can continue to wear them
watching the babies born last year tottering around laughing

Having running water and our toilets. I hate the hole in the floors, poo in a bag and worse. We are so lucky!

Spring and summer, watching the world burst into life and colour.

Our wild life , having so few nasty critters like poisonous snakes, spiders , corocodiles. I know we have an odd one or two but you know. what I mean.

Being anywhere by the sea .

Music and television.

Quite big really, but I've just seen a photo on fb of my latest newborn great nephew. Just a few hours old! Gorgeous, it's made my day!

Watching the baby birds outside my kitchen window learning to bathe in the water on the garage roof opposite very cute indeed,and just taking my joint of beef out of the oven to find it didn't shrink too much after all my concerns.

Walking in the countryside.

Being by the sea.

Sitting by an open fire on a cold day.

Sleeping well.

Good friendships.

Hearing happy children.

Watching birds

Satisfaction in a job well done.

Apart from being by the sea, I've enjoy everything on my list in the last 24 hrs.

Lovely, hilda. I hope you have lots of happy moments like that.

Anno I saw a pair of goldfinches dancing in and out of the laurel bushes in my back garden yesterday, then as I drove away down the lane, there were more of them. What a great sight, after seeing so few in recent years.

I read an article about the decline in some of our wild bird species and goldfinches seem to be the worst affected by an infection that can be spread if we don't maintain hygiene in our bird feeders. Mine will be washed thoroughly when the little darlings have emptied them yet again. The collective term, 'a charm of goldfinches' is just so appropriate, isn't it?

Lying in bed listening to the sound of the Pacific Ocean thundering onto the beach, which is what I am doing now (it's half past midnight). I love the roaring sound. The power of the ocean is frightening and exciting all at once, and also has a strange calming effect.
Lots of other things make me cheerful too!

A mowed lawn.
It looks nice, and is one of the best ever smells!