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Reasons to be cheerful 2019 - the antidote to Curmudgeons' Corner

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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    The builders did a lovely job of fixing up my front step. :)
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    We have 3 little lilac crocus flowers coming up through the tarmac right in the middle of our drive and our postman is doing his best not to step on them. Happens every year and we're always surprised.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    wild edges said:
    The builders did a lovely job of fixing up my front step. :)
    Good stuff  :)
    Lizzie - the nicest bit of that story is the postman avoiding them   :)
    The beautiful weather here yesterday meant I spent all day outside, painting, varnishing, potting, tidying up,  and watching [and listening to]  the birds. Doesn't get much better than that.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    The spuggies (sparrows) were really going for it in song yesterday. There was one singing so loudly for such a small bird. Lovely! 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    First iris!!   There I was, chuffed to bits because the iris reticulata have come back this year and now, before they're over, the first big one is out and lots of buds to come.  Yum yum!


    Nectarine blossom too.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    The young street tree that we looked after in the drought last year has blossomed for the first time 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    edited February 2019
    That was a good freebie @islander. I like the comment about the donkey and pony! My reason to be cheerful is that the first flower on our magnolia stellata is out today.@B3 you must have been pleased - I remember you were quite worried about it last year.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I am😀
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Reference the donkeys.  I've just seen a video of 3 donkeys in a field.  2 were trying to get through between horizontal bars, and failing.  The third came along, got hold of the middle bar in its mouth and lifted it out of the way.  All 3 then went out through the gap!
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I had a stroke of luck yesterday on my trip to town - gardening gloves in size extra-small, £1 a pair.  Normally it's mail order megabucks for anything that's not huge on me.  I bought four pairs :).
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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