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Reasons to be cheerful - 2020

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  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Loved being deafened by the wren singing its heart out in the blackthorn bush above my head while I was weeding this afternoon.  
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Simple pleasures. Maybe we'll be able to hold on to some when it's all over. I hope so 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    My simple pleasure was being able at long last to get a delivery slot.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    It is quite ridiculously exciting isn't @Lizzie27 !  I now have a preferential option on slots with the big green W feels very special  :)
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Sat on the terrace in the early evening sunshine after a good day's graft in the garden and a lovely shower.  Lots of exuberant bird song and good wine.   Perfect.
    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
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    The good news people!!! My Cordiline Australis, is flowering for the very first time, I think we put it in 5 years ago, Hooorahhh
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Oooh, can you hover Fairy how cool, realistically, 2 mt, isnt anywhere nar enough, coughs and sneezes havent read that particular rulebook, they go much further.  I find when you get in the shops it all goes pear shaped anyway, people dont follow the arrows, heard yesterday, ocl down the over 70s till Christmas, bah humbug!!
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    sorry, should have been curmuds corner!!!
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It was the one running on the farm lane that was the worst @Nanny Beach . I had stopped to sort my headphones, and she came up behind me. Because it's been dry, and none of the vegetation has grown yet, the track is wide enough for people to easily keep 2 metres, apart on most of it - certainly on that bit. She had loads of room, yet ran right by me. Stupid cow. 
    Anyway - the swallows were back at the farm too, so that made up for it!   ;)

    I've always loved those simple pleasures, but I doubt that those who don't already do that, will remember, or notice,  any of it once things go back to normal. They'll be caught up in their hectic lives again, and won't hear the blackbirds, or enjoy the smell of cut grass.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    I'm ridiculously excited that my Clematis tangutica seeds, liberated from the road side of a garden wall in Halifax last autumn, are producing little roots on their damp kitchen paper, inside a plastic bag...   :)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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