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Reasons to be cheerful - not the big stuff

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vegasmags Sun 29-Mar-15 09:57:51

What small things cheer you up? I'm not talking about the gratitude you might have for family, friends etc just the little things in life.

Yesterday I cleaned the house through - well overdue - and in the evening a friend asked if she could overnight on Monday because of complications with her house sale/purchase. I was immensely cheered to think that for once I could welcome unexpected guests into a clean house, rather than the usual tip.

It turned out that I had bought an unusually sweet and delicious net of clementines, so I ate four of them whilst watching TV.

I realised that I don't care about the huge and hideous greenhouse my neighbours have erected (think Little House on the Prairie) because they are lovely people. They just have really bad taste in greenhouses.

What small events or realisations brighten your day?

rosesarered Sun 29-Mar-15 20:58:28

I'm easily pleased.

pompa Sun 29-Mar-15 21:18:34

They certainly are some of the better moments in life smile

annodomini Sun 29-Mar-15 21:37:29

Pompa, you have the same sense of humour as my late father - not that that is always a bad thing! grin

pompa Sun 29-Mar-15 21:40:07

Your Father must have been a great man to know, even if he did have my twisted sense of humor.

Lona Sun 29-Mar-15 22:12:02

pompa you're obviously feeling much perkier!! grin

pompa Sun 29-Mar-15 22:21:15

I am, and today's news added to my perkiness.

annodomini Sun 29-Mar-15 22:37:50

Yesm pompa, Dad's humour remained at undergraduate level all his life - he was fond of puns and spoonerisms too!

Mishap Sun 29-Mar-15 22:44:52

A blackbird singing in the rain today.

NotTooOld Sun 29-Mar-15 23:11:55

This is a lovely thread.

A cup of DH's special coffee in the morning.
A hug from my eldest GD.
A new baby in the family (so long as it is not crying.)
A blackbird's song in the summer.
The smell of a greenhouse.
Very,very early on a summer's morning when there is mist over the fields.
Reading a good book and realising you are less than half way through.
Baby Oleg.
Dad's Army.

absent Mon 30-Mar-15 06:26:59

A wine is okay too.

kittylester Mon 30-Mar-15 07:00:22

Poldark!

jinglbellsfrocks Mon 30-Mar-15 09:29:05

Prozac

pompa Mon 30-Mar-15 09:52:37

JBF LOL, but I guess you are right.

ginny Mon 30-Mar-15 13:55:30

My reasons to be cheerfull just now are,

A lovely day on Saturday with family.

Another lovely day on Sunday with long times friends who we don't see often enough but when we do it's like we saw them yesterday.

A family camping weekend coming up.

DD3 Wedding in three weeks time.

ginny Mon 30-Mar-15 13:59:58

My reasons to be cheerfull just now are,

A lovely day on Saturday with family.

Another lovely day on Sunday with long times friends who we don't see often enough but when we do it's like we saw them yesterday.

A family camping weekend coming up.

DD3 Wedding in three weeks time.

kittylester Mon 30-Mar-15 14:23:54

Today, the case of tulips and daffodils on the chest of drawers in the hall which have all opened at once.

Easter coming up with all the family coming for lunch on Sunday and DD2 organising an egg hunt!! tbugrin

A walk up the canal 'staircase' and lunch at the pub with a few of the DGC and a couple of daughters and their partners.

AlieOxon Mon 30-Mar-15 17:00:27

G came and dug a trench for my (eventual) runner beans. They aren't even up yet!
And we planted out a hibiscus which had been in a pot too long. (From a tree in Cowley which I admired, growing in a front garden in a sheltered place, so I hope I have chosen the right place for it.)

AlieOxon Mon 30-Mar-15 17:01:01

And my car's MOT isn't quite due yet....