The What makes you Happy Thread 2018 version

[Snoop Puss]

OK, I know this is gloating, but... lunch out today was spectacular, especially since it only cost 12 euros for a three course meal (every course a winner) including bread, wine, water and iced coffee. We'll be going back there again for sure. First meal out in absolutely ages, so nice that it was a success.

[veggiechicken]

Snoop's lunch and................

10 more cheap books. Don't know which to read first.

[self-contained]

Two weeks off work! That's the most holiday time I've had in one go for six years

[lottie dolly]

Just had a phone call from granddaughter,we are pregnant again,and all is well this time,got a pic of the scan ,next week will know the sex,i am guessing boy from the head shape,this will be the 4th GGchild,i knew a few weeks ago,but did not want to jinks this one wow

[Nicos]

Recovering after a whole day in the kitchen jam making...
Thanks roitelet.....We had a fantastic day yesterday with you xx

[veggiechicken]

Four more jars of strawberry jam made here too - and its set.

It rained (a bit) this morning.

[self-contained]

There's one nearly ripe strawberry on the plants my Mum gave me earlier this year and one on the plants that seem to have crept under the fence from next door and that did nothing last year (probably because I kept mowing them). I last had home-grown strawberries 25 years ago. If I can just stop them getting eaten by the birds...

[veggiechicken]

Its raining..............again. Not much but every little helps as the old lady said when she...............never mind you know what she said!!
(No rary, it wasn't me. )

[Nicos]

Just checking (optimistically carrying a large bowl) to see if the first pink raspberry has finally turned red...only to come away with a bowl full!
Guess what we'll be having your pud tonight?

[Cadalot]

Finding My first Tomatoes

[Nicos]

First potato plant flowering!

[Greenleaves]

Lifted my autumn planted garlic today as rust was appearing....absolutely cracking bulbs

[Potstubsdustbins]

Snap Nicos, went to the club today to meet friends and put the World to rights, went out the back this evening and 7 ripe raspberries have appeared.

I then foolishly told the lady wife...................

[self-contained]

I was due an appraisal at work during my annual leave. My appraiser has now moved it back. This means I have much more flexibility to do what I want with my time off. I still need to use some of my leave to prepare for my appraisal, but I have more days where I can go off and do exciting things now that I'm not fitting everything around a random weekday where I have to go up to work.

This means a trip to the seaside has suddenly become a very real possibility. Apart from a day-trip to Cleethorpes in the snow (really) a few years ago, I haven't seen the sea in well over ten years. And Cleethorpes doesn't really count, because you have to walk miles and miles south to see the actual sea rather than just the Humber estuary and by then you are a long way in-land because the shore itself is not safe to walk on. I just have to decide where and when and how long to stay (day-trip? overnight? so many possibilities!)

Everything is suddenly feeling very good

[veggiechicken]

3 pounds of strawberries picked
Punnet of raspberries picked
3 cheap books arrived
280 plug plants ordered
Woodpecker on feeder at this very moment
Downstairs washbasin unblocked.

Its been a good day.