The what makes you happy thread 2019

[Lumpy]

Just watched Michael Caine in the 1 show.
Absolute legend.
Brilliant.

[Nicos]

10 days away...having munched 'carefully ' on cream eggs, fresh bread, baby spuds rolled in butter, pork pie, some alcohol, cheesecake...and a few other self imposed 'forbidden foods ' ... no exercise apart from some gardening...that on weighing myself this morning, I have actually LOST 1lb

[1Bee]

I'm having a little solo getaway next week, two nights in a camping pod and two garden visits. I've done a little schedule planner thing, simply because I can't keep all the details and travel times etc in my head.

The title reads, "1Bee's Great Garden Escape" and the subtitle reads, "Mummy Needing To Get Her Stuff* Together And Not Speak To Any Folks* Unless She Absolutely Wants To And Then Only About a) Gardening b) Plants c) Swimming or d) Cake."

*Words changed to meet forum guidelines

[kitty12345]

Seeing first flowers coming up on Charlotte potatoes
And little pea pods setting
Both these are first time plantings for me

[Snoop Puss]

Nicos asked whether we really do have cicadas here. While looking for photos, I came across a person on Flickr with photos of an insect that is new to us this year: Libelloides cunii.
https://ichn2.iec.cat/Bages//brolles...es%20cunii.htm

We have a lot of new insects this year. A worrying development (some of them look really nasty), but this one at least looks to be OK. Certainly very impressive on the wing and when resting.

[Nicos]

^^^thats really pretty!

My happy is seeing that most of my charlottes are finally peeping through the soil ( nowhere near flowering, but they did get planted very late!)
Also several neat rows of radish

[Nicos]

Just for you Snoop
https://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/...s-and-species/

[Snoop Puss]

^That I have friends like Nicos.

[Nicos]

Losing weight!!!!yippppeeeee

[Florence Fennel]

One of the pumpkin seeds from youngest Golden Girl's in 2011 is up and on my birthday

[Small pumpkin]

expanded my business a little bit too. I have another outlet.

[Small pumpkin]

Postman has just been. Thank you VC. That was a lovely surprise

You may not see me for a while now, I have reading to do

[Nannysally99]

My best friend has recently become a Nanny again. I have borrowed this little baby girl every day (they live a few doors up) and her Nanna lets me. Today the little cutie looked straight at me and smiled. 8 weeks old today.
My heart just melted
2nd Happy, I too am losing weight Nicos, head is back in the game again.

[Vegi potager]

Thursday: New bird spotted in garden, very pretty
Friday: Pair of small squirrels on foot path in park on way to work too cute for words. At least they were not on my bird feeder, I wouldn't be able to write on the forum what I think of them then
Saturday: had home made quiche with the first courgettes of the year and a side of the first of my mangetout.
Sunday: BBQ in the sunshine, willing for the hundreds of strawberries to turn red.
Monday: discovered 5 teeny tiny sungold toms amongst the flowers. And the Thursday bird has been visiting the bird feeder every day and is a Eurasian Jay, happy 10 minutes watching vids on the intraweb.

[Nicos]

Happy to hear I'm not the only one dieting.... NS ...good on ya!