The What makes you Happy Thread 2018 version

[Ms-T]

Seeing a film and going out for dinner with my son.

[bramble]

Rescuing a queen bee with a sugary drink.
After a few minutes she was up and away.

[ESBkevin]

I might have mentioned my other hobby of playing in a band. Well back in the 90's w ehad a soul band, 8 piece with two female vocalists and a horn section. We were very good at what we did but back then never botherred to record the sound we made. At the weekend I visited a former band mate that joined the band in 1998 and he came to the last gig with the old keyboard player and recorded the whole night. This enabled him to learn the songs and arrangements as well as familiarise himself with the way things worked.
He told me at the weekend he still had those recordings 20 years on and when we worked out how to use the old technology (DAT tape player) we had a listen.
I warmed my heart to hear things I've never played and sung since, especially since one or two of the performers were taken from us far too soon. the quality is not the greatest and certainly not for public scrutiny, but for my old ears they are wonderful reminders of good times.
I've been feeling all warm and fuzzy ever since.

[happyhumph]

Getting a shady parking spot at school

[Potstubsdustbins]

Winding down ready to start our hols, emergencies only this week.

[Lumpy]

Whey Hey I've cracked it......................after giving away a load of toms, Q's and butterbush and.........potting up what we had baskets etc for I've found homes for the 5 toms, 1 Q and 1 butterbush in the garden.

Some of the locations are not ideal but beggars can't be choosers. Blubbered if I was going to give any more away after months of too-ing and fro-ing!

[veggiechicken]

Wandering in the garden and coming back with a couple of strawberries, a cucumber and a couple of eggs. Eyed up a few bolting leeks and thought - that's today's meals sorted.
Strawberries on my granola, cucumber with lunch and stirfry with leeks tonight.
My garden makes me happy

[Bren In Pots]

The smell of Rhubarb, orange and ginger jam boiling in the pan.

[chillithyme]

Seeing my potatoes coming through on my first allotment ever, I've only ever grown potatoe in bags or buckets before, not in the actual ground, wohooooo

[veggiechicken]

Its raining - and I finished planting out the squashes this morning when it was dry.
Good job I didn't waste time and energy watering them.

[Chestnut]

More seedlings coming up by the day. Sweetcorn and french beans today

[Potstubsdustbins]

Well I hope your boiler doesn't break down no service till 4th June....Potty has his feet up....

[self-contained]

Five things today:

1) Managed to stand in just the right way to support and comfort someone who was vomiting while ensuring my shoes were out of range. Had I failed, it would have been my third pair of shoes lost to a bodily fluids incident in three years...

2) After only two of the six cucumber seeds I sowed a few weeks ago germinated, I sowed eight more just two days ago. Already have two poking above the soil! I may now end up with rather more cucumber seedlings than I have space for, but it's better than too few.

3) Three of my ginger plants (grown from supermarket ginger root) not only have green stems, but leaves too. (The fourth chunk of root is stubbornly doing nothing, and might find itself evicted soon so that I can use the container for something else).

4) A bat flew over me as I was checking on my containers this evening. I grew up in a house that backed onto green belt, so bats were a common sight. I now live in a more suburban area and have only seen them when crossing rivers while walking home at dusk. This is the first time I've seen one near my house.

5) I had to seek formal anonymous feedback from colleagues at work, which is always a daunting prospect, but people wrote really nice things.

[Lumpy]

Letter from water company yeserday saying I might be entitled to a discount on the bill as it appears I have soak aways rather than rain water that goes into a sewer.
Phoned, nice lady checked, yep rebate due from Dec 2015 when we moved in of £76.

Result

[Lumpy]

Whey Hey all my floppy bits are standing tall and proud.
Thanks to all the rain I no longer have droopy foxgloves, flappy rhubarb, wilting comfrey or saggy turnips.