Five smiles a day! :)

[Milims]

Inspired by Mr & Mrs Luvpie and A N Other I thought it would be a good idea to share (at least) 5 things a day that have made us smile - no matter how small - a bit like counting your blessings. SO here goes the first 5 - feel free to follow suit!

1 Being able to start this thread
2 Coming home from work this afternoon to find that Chris had made me the most yummy wrap sarnie with cajun spiced grilled chicken and salad
3 Driving to the Newcastle to deliver a very large hand made rug as a donation to a museum so that everyone can share it's loveliness
4 Calling at T***o ( ) on the way home and getting 2 half price organic chickens - bargain!
5 Reading all about you lovely peeps on a daily basis
6 - just to show it's ok to overflow a little - my lovely family

[pumpy]

1) sitting out in the back garden last night &
2)sipping a cold tinnie
3listening to the church bells(as the campanologists practised)
4)listening to our new home-made water feature,babbling away
5)watching our local colony of Long Eared Brown Bats,hunting insects.

[Milims]

Glad to see it's catching on!

[pumpy]

what could be better than being totally content?.....which would count for nowt, without my Jackie.

[Milims]

THat's a lovely thing to say - I think you just added another smile to my list!

[pumpy]

[Annpan]

1. Reading this post - thanks Helen, I needed a lift
2. E (age 22 months) 'helping me' in the garden earlier by throwing handfuls of freshly mown grass up in the air - weeeeee!!!
3. Finding some tomatoes on the tomato plants I had mostly given up on.
4. Printing out photos for a picture frame which has been lying around for months, and hanging it up.
5. JohnM coming home with 3 butternut squash plants he has just picked up from a freecycler

[Milims]

Bows humbly...... glad to be of service! It's something that's been shared with me and has helped me thru some very dark days - so lets all speard the smiley virus - it's much better than a cold!

[pumpy]

love butternut squash!!...ours are coming into flower now.Had to pollinate our first female fruit, from a male courgette flower,yesterday,as no male flower available.Will this work?
(eerm, should i put this on another thread??).

[Shirley]

What a fab idea!

1. Reading Mr & Mrs Luvpie's post

2. Reading this post and realising that the luv has spread

3. Sitting on the sofa with my loved ones this evening and looking through cookery books planning the food we want to eat over the coming days.

4. Smelling the home made bread wafting through from the kitchen.

5. Watching the bats flit about outside this evening.

And finally - and because it's just happened... lol - watching the dogs face. She was lying down on her rug and J's train was unintentionally hidden under it. It made a strange chugging noise, the dog looked at me... I looked at the dog... and I swear that if she was capable of bursting out laughing she would have done. She wagged her tail instead and I laughed (which increased the intensity of the wag!)

[Milims]

Here is todays offering!

1 Its Friday!
2 I just called my friend to invite him to our impromptu happy Saturday party and not only would he love to come (he's cancelling other plans!) but he also get the job he'd gone in for - so it will be a real celebration!
3 My other friend who I haven't seen for a while is going to come - and bring her new fella and her poi!
4 We are about to sit down to roast chicken and veg - all organic and reduced to clear in T**co last night!
5 We've won a Kenwood Chef on freecycle - so now Chris will be able to make bread in it!

[mrsflibble]

1. completing soph's jumper
2. knowing I'm working tomorrow
3. knowing the friend I'm working with has totally and unconditionally forgiven me for a humungo mistake I made when I was young and stupid
4. hearing sophie order her own food in the local cafe
5. waking up next to my darling husband for the first time in a week (he's been on nights).

[the.fee.fairy]

1. Not being at work til tuesday
2. Watching Finlay with a beetle
3. Watching Rock Of Love (it has Btret michaels from poison in it...that makes me smile!)
4. Finding out that my right eyesight hasn't deteriorated...but my left has...and getting really nice new glasses!
5. chocolate ice cream

[Annpan]

1. Being offered several pounds of raspberries form my neighbour
2 Finding a raspberry on my teeny weeny raspberry bushes that I only put in in May - and munching it then and there.
3. My neighbour kindly relieving me of 5 of my courgettes ( I still have 4 growing and 3/4 of a 7lb marrow from last week)
4. Knowing it is the weekend and it's farmers market tommorrow (we have missed the last 3 and only get one a month)
5. Seeing a beautiful full bow rainbow over my house in the last (of many) sporadic shower of the day.

[pumpy]

ain't life grand, X 5!!!