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The happiness of small things

Marianne72

There are lots of books on the theme of small things that bring happiness. What are yours, past, present or imagined? You can have more than three but I was thinking of Desmond's thread!

Here are some of mine:

1. planning a garden project then seeing it through to completion, over weeks or months

2. sitting outside when it's quiet with a cup of tea, watching clouds scud past

3. sliding into bed just after I've just changed the sheets - the scent and the feel of crisp clean cotton

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  • Picking blackberries for my daughter and discovering a hairy shield bug. (Released back into the bushes after marching across my phone I was trying to take a picture of him with!)

    Seeing an interesting day flying moth, then finding it in my book (magpie moth).

    The wonderful haul my kids found of interesting natural objects at the beach -my daughter setting up her museum display by the back door of her grandparents. (I remember making similar displays).

    A walk along a quiet beach we had mostly to ourselves.

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  • Picking blackberries for my daughter and discovering a hairy shield bug. (Released back into the bushes after marching across my phone I was trying to take a picture of him with!)

    Seeing an interesting day flying moth, then finding it in my book (magpie moth).

    The wonderful haul my kids found of interesting natural objects at the beach -my daughter setting up her museum display by the back door of her grandparents. (I remember making similar displays).

    A walk along a quiet beach we had mostly to ourselves.

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