The small happinesses post

[white_hart]

This weekend has been hard. I've spent far too much time tweeting and retweeting and signing and emailing and now I'm suffering from news overload again. And it's Sunday evening, and I'm still fighting off a cold, and I need to unwind so I can get a decent night's sleep before I go and tackle another week at work.

We're in this for the long haul, and we need to look after ourselves. And sometimes that means looking away from the big awful things and trying to find the joy in small things. On which note, and without trying to deny that the awfulness is still going on, I'm declaring this a Good Things Post. Tell me something that cheers you up, even a little bit. Tell another commenter something nice about themself. You could even tell me something nice about myself, if you wanted. Or, if you ask, I'll tell you something nice about you, or just offer a virtual hug.

I don't know if it'll work, but it seems worth a try.

Comments

[el_staplador]

You have fantastic taste in boots. Also, I approve of this post.

[perennialanna]

Lucy Mangan's article on tiny reasons to be cheerful made me cheerful.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/29/reasons-cheerful-trump-brexit-pleasure-smaller-things?CMP=share_btn_fb

Also being only 23p out in my calculation of a running total as I went round Morrisons. Generally I am a pound or more out.

[nineveh_uk]

ABBA's Dancing Queen continues to be great. This video contains extraordinary amounts of shining hair, velour, and very wholesome looking Swedish children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s

Also, this photo of a very new baby dressed as a chicken: https://www.nrk.no/urix/verden-i-bilder-_-2017-1.13300934?index=6#undefined

[white_hart]

We are watching Endeavour, which continues to be amazingly good television, and not just because of Roger Allam In A Hat.

[antisoppist]

Not exactly taking our minds off things, but I want someone to make a film about the sisters who smuggled Jewish people's valuables out of Nazi Germany and Austria while going to operas, their tickets funded by writing Mills & Boon novels.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-38732779

[aella_irene]

I made lemon bundt cake and watched Alexander Armstrong and Professor Michael Scott get excited about archaeology.

[birdsflying]

My current crochet project (Attic24's moorland blanket) is filling me with glee because the colours are so marvellous and the neat wave stitch is very soothing.

I'm going on a sewing class next weekend

[jinty]

and I have some lovely darkish red babycord to make into a skirt. Hopefully I'll get something I will even manage to wear regularly! The last skirt I made (the first one I have ever finished) was quite wearable but a bit light-weight and not very exciting, though at least it proved I was able to finish something if I actually tried.

Oh yes, and we do round-robin storytelling some evenings at home with my partner and kids (one 4 and one 6). We get some delightfully random plots out of it, and some great repeating elements. For instance, three of our friends feature as recurring dastardly villains in the story. A new character who has joined is more morally ambiguous - she is called the Queen of the Dark Tunnels, and she is a giant Ant Queen.

[aunty_marion]

I have just re-empurple-enated half of my hair, including some of the roots on the blue side; I have, alas, 'resistant' grey. Waiting for it to dry now so I can see if it's much better than before or not - I think it will be!