Trivial things that make you happy - Part 2 - The Happyning

PlaneSpeeking

Just discovered dark mint KitKat.

Nom.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

So many people taking a walk in the countryside. Great to see.

I may open a tea shop, or lemonade stall, at the gate

PlaneSpeeking

Sasha Thoughtless Bayou wrote: »

So many people taking a walk in the countryside. Great to see.

I may open a tea shop, or lemonade stall, at the gate

I have visions of a lovelier time akin to something out of the Famous Five!

I now have the warm and fuzzies! Thank you!!!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

PlaneSpeeking wrote: »

I have visions of a lovelier time akin to something out of the Famous Five!

I now have the warm and fuzzies! Thank you!!!

If any of the younger grandchildren had been here today I probably would have set them up at a table offering free cold drinks of water or lemonade just for the craic.

Mountainsandh

There were 2 kids selling something on the side of the road on my way back from town, outside their driveway !

It was cute but what they were holding looked like a bottle of wine rather than lemonade or anything like that, and they had no sign saying what it was so I just drove on.
(can't drink on medication !)
(no, they weren't wearing dirty overcoats and their noses weren't red)

Graces7

Almost finished the second heavy official document letter and the first one is away. Happy the weight has gone and happier still if they take moooooooonths to replyl

Trigger Happy

The kids bike got a puncture which I managed to fix despite lack of practice over the past 30 years.
Instant hero status.

Ted_YNWA

Was out for a stroll, passed by a shop playing Baker Street as the sax solo was playing. Lad walking behind me started whistling along.

Stopped off for an ice-cream on route too.

iamwhoiam

Bath towels are bone dry and fabulousy hard from the sun ! I know I am unusual in this but I love my towels hard ! I love drying myself with a air fresh hard toweling

mohawk

Was watching some squirrels earlier playing on the grass. Along came a dog and the squirrels made their escape to a tree. The dog has been watching and waiting by the tree for ages. Poor dog will be waiting a hell of a long time before those squirrels come back down the tree. So my TH is at the poor dogs expense.

New Home

"Barking up the wrong tree", quite literally.

Graces7

Had a check of my seedling situation and the tub I planted with poached egg and trailing nasturtium seeds is looking very grown up and promising great things. Tiny seeds and so much life ... miracles always

PlaneSpeeking

Graces7 wrote: »

Had a check of my seedling situation and the tub I planted with poached egg and trailing nasturtium seeds is looking very grown up and promising great things. Tiny seeds and so much life ... miracles always

I admire you! I swear I can kill plants by being near them!

TG1

Got my nails done today as a treat. I never have the time or the money to spend on myself, and bite my nails so there is no point but just said today I'd treat myself. Just looking at them now is making me happy, they are done in a really pretty, girly shade, not like my usual style at all!

northgirl

TG1 wrote: »

Got my nails done today as a treat. I never have the time or the money to spend on myself, and bite my nails so there is no point but just said today I'd treat myself. Just looking at them now is making me happy, they are done in a really pretty, girly shade, not like my usual style at all!

Did you just get regular polish or a gel type thing? My nails get ruined by Shellac/Gel and I'm always cleaning so regular polish doesn't work either. Would love to get them done. Really thing it makes you look way more put together.

TG1

northgirl wrote: »

Did you just get regular polish or a gel type thing? My nails get ruined by Shellac/Gel and I'm always cleaning so regular polish doesn't work either. Would love to get them done. Really thing it makes you look way more put together.

Just a shellac, I'm hoping it might be strong (and expensive) enough to stop me biting them! :pac:

northgirl

TG1 wrote: »

Just a shellac, I'm hoping it might be strong (and expensive) enough to stop me biting them! :pac:

Sounds lovely. My friend gets that too for the same purpose and her nails have really come on

Kitty6277

TH that my first shift at my new job went well okay so it was only 2 hours so I could get used to the place, but I'm still glad it went well

northgirl

Kitty6277 wrote: »

TH that my first shift at my new job went well okay so it was only 2 hours so I could get used to the place, but I'm still glad it went well

Congrats!!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Kitty6277 wrote: »

TH that my first shift at my new job went well okay so it was only 2 hours so I could get used to the place, but I'm still glad it went well

Onwards and upwards from here on.

Kitty6277

northgirl wrote: »

Congrats!!

Sasha Thoughtless Bayou wrote: »

Onwards and upwards from here on.

Thank you both!

Glad to have started, at least the most nerve wracking part is over with (I hope!)

Sephiroth_dude

Kitty6277 wrote: »

TH that my first shift at my new job went well okay so it was only 2 hours so I could get used to the place, but I'm still glad it went well

Congrats Kitty !

New Home wrote: »

"Barking up the wrong tree", quite literally.

Ohhh homeo

PlaneSpeeking

Happy it's only a four day week.

(Yeah I know I'm grasping at straws there!!!)

Colser

Happy that I'm off work again tomorrow.😀

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Colser wrote: »

Happy that I'm off work again tomorrow.��

Isn't it a great feeling?

That's me every day for the past 20 years. I still regularly get a TH about it.

Colser

Sasha Thoughtless Bayou wrote: »

Isn't it a great feeling?

That's me every day for the past 20 years. I still regularly get a TH about it.

Did you ever miss work as you obviously retired at a young age?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Colser wrote: »

Did you ever miss work as you obviously retired at a young age?

Retired at 54 after over 30 years of the job. After a fortnight I hardly even thought about it other than being so thrilled to be retired. I kept, and keep, busy and keep body and mind active; so don't miss work at all. I never realised how stressed I had been until I stopped work.

Colser

Sasha Thoughtless Bayou wrote: »

Retired at 54 after over 30 years of the job. After a fortnight I hardly even thought about it other than being so thrilled to be retired. I kept, and keep, busy and keep body and mind active; so don't miss work at all. I never realised how stressed I had been until I stopped work.

That's a really great situation to be in,the ideal work life balance.I've read some of your posts regarding your work and travels and it sounds fascinating..you'd be an interesting dinner guest without a doubt.

madmaggie

I was told off by a three year old for mixing up the names of her dollies. I'll get it right from now on!

Graces7

Happy to have sorted and sent official stuff which was weighing on my mind mightily ...

Happy that when I sat down in the kitchen and found a thick cushion.. that the cat survived the ...oppression. so is he and he then decamped to my bed. Wet fur and all

Peatys

My 3yr old thinks rice crispies are called nice crispies.

Wanderer78

Peatys wrote:

My 3yr old thinks rice crispies are called nice crispies.

Nice and crispie, seems logical to me

Try_harder

Being on my flight to Lisbon!

Next drama will be the accom lol

Ted_YNWA

Lisbon is a great place.

TH at getting some flashbacks.

Graces7

Wen out to check the seedlings etc. and to my amazement the yellow gladioli have literally shot up an inch and more overnight. Now they are safe from the cats... Very glad-dening..

PlaneSpeeking

Graces7 wrote: »

Wen out to check the seedlings etc. and to my amazement the yellow gladioli have literally shot up an inch and more overnight. Now they are safe from the cats... Very glad-dening..

Additional kudos for that one!!!!

Graces7

Magical.. had a wander into the abandoned back field and it has come alive with wild flowers butterflies and bees, just in the last 2 days.

Not been anywhere like this for many years and and I am utterly enchanted. Ided cuckoo flowers; so I have cuckoos singing and pretty flowers//

Last several rentals have been sheep country and they eat all except rushes and docks...

Wonderful here.
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So odd though. When I lived on a north sea island, I had a space to wander in that was scattered with wildflowers.. and revelled in wandering round in rare sun gazing at the sea. And now I am back doing that and is it so incredibly good. .. longed for this.. alleluia

Graces7

PlaneSpeeking wrote: »

Additional kudos for that one!!!!

It was not deliberate! Had typed it before I realised and almost amended it!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Met three French anglers while fishing this morning. Had a very pleasant chat in my poor French and their poor English. They were enjoying the morning and didn't mind the rain. Common delights in the countryside

Graces7

Graces7 wrote: »

Magical.. had a wander into the abandoned back field and it has come alive with wild flowers butterflies and bees, just in the last 2 days.

Not been anywhere like this for many years and and I am utterly enchanted. Ided cuckoo flowers; so I have cuckoos singing and pretty flowers//

Last several rentals have been sheep country and they eat all except rushes and docks...

Wonderful here."

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So odd though. When I lived on a north sea island, I had a space to wander in that was scattered with wildflowers.. and revelled in wandering round in rare sun gazing at the sea. And now I am back doing that and is it so incredibly good. .. longed for this.. alleluia

Dial Hard

I went to the work gym for the first time ever (I've been here since November) at lunchtime and did week 4 of Couch to 5k all the way through with no extra walk-breaks despite not having run since this time last year and now I feel like Wonder Woman

Dial Hard

Oh! And I won tickets to Star Wars: A New Hope in the O3 with the score being played live by the RTE Concert Orchestra on the radio this morning!

Peatys

Dial Hard wrote: »

Oh! And I won tickets to Star Wars: A New Hope in the O3 with the score being played live by the RTE Concert Orchestra on the radio this morning!

I went to one of these, they're class!

Colser

Dial Hard wrote: »

Oh! And I won tickets to Star Wars: A New Hope in the O3 with the score being played live by the RTE Concert Orchestra on the radio this morning!

Do the lotto..you're on a roll.😀

Poochie05

I heard a woodpecker today

Ninjini

My brother just sent me a picture of his newly adopted dog. The picture made me broody (for a dog not a baby)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Why would anybody not be even a little bit TH on an evening like this? It's an absolutely stunning evening right now.

northgirl

I'm finally feeling a bit chilled today after days if not weeks of being quite wound up...

Sephiroth_dude

TH is I have mighty and a cupan tae!!!

Poochie05 wrote: »

I heard a woodpecker today

Woody wood pecker? :pac:




*gets coat*

Colser

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

TH is I have mighty and a cupan tae!!!



Woody wood pecker? :pac:




*gets coat*

I loved that cartoon.

Survived the dentist and the hygienist and it only cost me 18e because prsi is covering a bit more this year.