Happy thinking

Given my getting-to-be-highly-advanced age, people might expect me to be turning cantankerous.  I've got news for you if you are one of that band: I don't need to turn, I've always been cantankerous.  But not necessarily all the time.  Just occasionally I manage to be pleasant and think happy thoughts, so here are just five of the things that make me smile or give me pleasure - and I am quite deliberately omitting any reference to family.

1. The view across the valley when I open the bedroom curtains on a sunny morning.
2. Catching a whiff of the scent of the daphne sitting in a jug on the kitchen table.
3. The song of a skylark as I walk on the South Downs on a summer afternoon.
4. Eating a bowl of rigatoni amatriciana at our local Italian restaurant.
5. Lying snug under the duvet while the rain lashes down and the wind blows a hooley. 

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The view from the bedroom yesterday afternoon.  Blue sky with snow is not that common in these parts.