Small things that make you feel happy

A truly little thing: i found the contact lens that I thought was gone!

Seeing a group of young starlings this afternoon splashing about in the tray of water that I recently put out in my garden to help the local birds through the hot, dry weather.

My two youngest gd,s going home with a large jar full of nasturtium leaves and caterpillars…they were so exited you,d think I,d handed them the moon.
The six year old loves all kinds of bugs and knows more about them than me so I was stumped when she wanted to know what colour the butterflies would be ,thankfully a white butterfly flew past her as they were going home and she decided it was the mother of the eggs that made the caterpillars….coming to say goodbye.
They brighten my days and always make me smile .

so many things to agree with..

rain
not setting the alarm
cuddles when I can get them
Radio 3 unwind and music
my lovely cleaner coming then leaving me all sorted and clean.
sun dappled through trees and the peace when its in your heart.

(ps East Coast from Brid to Brunswick Bay my happy places too)

When a stranger smiles at me with genuine warmth.

On leaving the doctors today a woman in the street said ‘getting hot again isn’t it’. We ended up chatting for half an hour and she said, you’ve really cheered me up and I agreed. I just love chatting to strangers; dog walking, sat on a bus etc.

Spring flowers in the woods
Smell of cut grass
Stroking my cats
Many others

i love youtube and often watch young americans reacting to songs that i bought as 45s (singles) back in the 70/80s, it makes me smile to see the shock when they listen to the bee gees, elo or leo sayer and then saying how brilliant the music was back then.

Thank you for this thread.

Clean sheets... which leads me on to thinking of the smell of fresh linen which has been dried outside

Amazing petrichor smell... makes me feel happy and connected.

It’s uplifting to read all of these. A lovely way to start the day. 🙏🙏 I identify with many of them.

Oreo

Finding a dark chocolate Bounty Bar in a shop😋

Oh yes........I would pay good money to find one!

I love finding seedlings of plants that have appeared unexpectedly in my garden. A gift from Nature.

Also freshly laundered and pressed cotton bedding.

The song of the blackbird.

Remembering some of the adorable things one of my grandsons did when he was a little boy, eg. sending me a little letter with 3 five pence coins stuck on with tape, and the words "Dear Granny, I am sending you some pocket money". And another time , on a trip to the seaside, on a bleak day, he found a stick and drew a huge heart in the sand. In the heart he wrote 'I love you Granny. He was only about 5 at the time. He's half way through medical school now.
Such lovely things to treasure.
And I agree, a lovely thread to start.

Hearing the rain last night and knowing the garden will be watered .

Nanna 8
Thank you for starting this chat. It makes a lovely welcome change.

Getting a video of my great-grandson in America doing something amazing, first words, first Lego building, being covered in sticky goo after eating plums. Lovely.

Hearing my DH singing a song as he does a task. Nice he is happy not like his moody wife!

Wow - I was excited that we had about 7 inches in ours!

Strange.
My neighbour has a rain gauge which said 7 hours of torrential rain was only 3 inches. Our DGC paddling pool went from empty to almost a meniscus.

Molly my cat

Campaspe

Hi Oreo. Can I ask where you found this? I believe that dark chocolate Bountys have been discontinued, but I'd love to buy some of they are in stock anywhere.

My Home Bargains store, it’s never a regular thing unfortunately but now and then they appear.

Dodo43

I love finding seedlings of plants that have appeared unexpectedly in my garden. A gift from Nature.

Also freshly laundered and pressed cotton bedding.

The song of the blackbird.

Remembering some of the adorable things one of my grandsons did when he was a little boy, eg. sending me a little letter with 3 five pence coins stuck on with tape, and the words "Dear Granny, I am sending you some pocket money". And another time , on a trip to the seaside, on a bleak day, he found a stick and drew a huge heart in the sand. In the heart he wrote 'I love you Granny. He was only about 5 at the time. He's half way through medical school now.
Such lovely things to treasure.
And I agree, a lovely thread to start.

How lovely, happy memories 🥰

Proper rain yesterday! Absolutely peeing down for quite a while. Hallelujah!

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Has anyone tried these:

A glut of home grown tomatoes, a robin bathing in a dish of water I left outside, my yucca plant that got broken, sprouting roots in water.

Nasturtiums that have appeared under a large blue fir tree. I planted seeds about a year ago from another plant in the back and had thought they wouldn’t take. We have had a bit of rain lately which must have brought them on.