What made you happy today?

Bradshaw Piggies said:
The sunshine ☀ and watching birds bathing in the pond through the patio doors whilst I'm working 🥰
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I'm with on that one @Bradshaw Piggies it's beautiful here in Dorset too. Birds singing and apple blossom staring to come out🤞it won't be long before Basil and Pedro can move back out to their hutch.
 
LollyJJ said:
Good news @Lorcan glad your skin's improved and got to the bottom of it so B12 can be monitored!
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I always knew about the B12, I have it tested fairly regularly - it's been a long time since I've seen it tank as badly as it did. I don't know if it was the B12, the other new med, or a mix of both that's been the trigger, but I suspect it's not just been one thing. My GP has basically agreed that I'm never going to get B12 properly from my diet, essentially causing anaemia. It's why if anyone is feeling off, tired, lethargic etc constantly, I always say don't just get your iron levels checked, get B12 checked too, especially if following a vegetarian or vegan diet.
 
My sister in law has been sorting through a lot of the stuff they took from my dad’s flat after he died.
She sent me a package of photos and other bits that my parents had kept from my past.
There were lots of photos of our wedding and a trip we took to Orkney as well as lots of other bits and pieces.
It’s been a real trip down memory lane
 
Yesterday I taught science and most of the children remembered what they’d learnt when the teacher asked them a short while later. Then today one of the children said she enjoyed science 😊 💃

RE went well today. Maths could have been better - I must remember to use the resources. Now I’m feeling sleepy! I’m debating whether to have a nap.
 
Mum’s and dad’s marriage makes me so happy. They’ve been married for close to 30 years, they work together and do everything else together as well. Apparently last night they stayed up until 4AM, just talking. I showed up at noon to bake them a cake and they had just gotten up :’)
They’ve built a beautiful life for me and my siblings, and they’re always there for us, no matter how many headaches we’ve caused.
 
Well, I nearly gave myself a heart attack earlier because I couldn't find my lighter anywhere - and it's kind of a special one, definitely not to be lost. Finally found it behind the ashtray, because where else would it be.

So on a slightly cheerier note, I've decided I'm moving as soon as and now we're out of lockdown I'm hoping people stop screwing around and actually find me somewhere else. I've only been asking for a year. And they're still saying no to pets, except for my neighbours that have cats, they can stay. Yeah, no thanks, discrimination in pets? Get me outta here lol.

(edit: just because it's probably not obvious, it's the moving and stuff that I'm happy about)
 
RosieLily said:
Mum’s and dad’s marriage makes me so happy. They’ve been married for close to 30 years, they work together and do everything else together as well. Apparently last night they stayed up until 4AM, just talking. I showed up at noon to bake them a cake and they had just gotten up :’)
They’ve built a beautiful life for me and my siblings, and they’re always there for us, no matter how many headaches we’ve caused.
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That is such a lovely story to share.
Thank you.
I hope when they celebrate their anniversary they have a fabulous day.
 
I'm happy today because I've been able to sort out the heating in the piggies' outbuilding so they stay comfortable without it costing the earth.
Now they are in an outbuilding, since the weather turned cold in the autumn I've had an oil filled radiator in there almost 24/7 to keep it warm enough, which must be hideously expensive and also bad for the environment. I also had to keep an eye on it in case it got too hot, and turn it off manually if necessary. A bit of a pain all round. This week I decided to look online, see if there was such a thing as a thermostatically controlled plug which I could use with the radiator - and joy of joys there was one, which also had a remote i could put inside the hutch. It arrived today and is now in the hutch keeping the piggies at a nice steady temperature, and also I hope saving me electricity and money 👍👍👍🌍💷
 
Late breakfast outside with friends, actually properly out for breakfast, in the sunshine! Weekly grocery shopping done then home and helped hubby replace some fence posts etc in our garden, not a job I'm good at but he is and we've got it done and it looks good. Next job is to try and get the veg garden finished being stuff over and see about planting seeds out, if it stops being frosty! I feel I may have late crop again.
 
It’s bluebell time of year so walking in the woods is really lovely
 

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My garden in the sunshine made me happy today - so many insects.
Plus I run an informal pollinator bee scheme.
Four years ago I got hold of 30 Mason bee cocoons, and set up a home for them in my garden.
Every year I harvest, clean and store the cocoons, and 4 years later it is much bigger than I ever imagined - over the weekend I distributed 12 bee kits and over 400 bee cocoons.
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Merab's Slave said:
It’s bluebell time of year so walking in the woods is really lovely
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Beautiful bluebells, I will have to go back to the woodland walk I went to on my birthday on Friday as not quite at their peak. They are really stunning aren't they when it's just a blue carpet spread out in front of you🥰
 
The toilet, the one that used to block up if you so much as looked at it wrong, had someone out to look at it today. One new outlet pipe later (the old one was basically designed to cut the actual outlet in half - so say 100ml goes in, only 50ml can leave, that kind of thing), and he asked my permission to dump half a toilet roll into the bowl to see if it went.

It went. No more blocked toilets at 3am. Halle-flippin-lujah. :beer:
 
Lorcan said:
The toilet, the one that used to block up if you so much as looked at it wrong, had someone out to look at it today. One new outlet pipe later (the old one was basically designed to cut the actual outlet in half - so say 100ml goes in, only 50ml can leave, that kind of thing), and he asked my permission to dump half a toilet roll into the bowl to see if it went.

It went. No more blocked toilets at 3am. Halle-flippin-lujah. :beer:
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About time! So pleased for you @Lorcan nothing worse than a blocked loo!
 
Betsy said:
About time! So pleased for you @Lorcan nothing worse than a blocked loo!
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I'd written the damn thing off as a lost cause, it was ridiculous. You'd go to the toilet and have to flush repeatedly before you'd actually finished or it'd get blocked before you knew it. Although the guy asked me if it was a fairly new toilet and I said no, just the flush mechanism got replaced a couple years back. "Oh yeah, I think that was me did that actually." I told him he did me a favour, I'm the only one in the building with a decent one haha.

He also increased the amount of water my cistern holds to help with the flush. No complaints here!
 
Swissgreys said:
My garden in the sunshine made me happy today - so many insects.
Plus I run an informal pollinator bee scheme.
Four years ago I got hold of 30 Mason bee cocoons, and set up a home for them in my garden.
Every year I harvest, clean and store the cocoons, and 4 years later it is much bigger than I ever imagined - over the weekend I distributed 12 bee kits and over 400 bee cocoons.
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That's amazing! Where can I find more info about this @Swissgreys ?
 
Pigwhisperer said:
That's amazing! Where can I find more info about this @Swissgreys ?
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For UK based members this is the best place to start for all things solitary bee related:
www.masonbees.co.uk

I actually have gifted a guardianship package to several friends and family in the UK and they love being part of it.
Sadly they are all sold out for 2021, but you can also buy just the equipment and do your own tube cleaning (this is how I started).
I am not sure if they have any cocoons left as it is quite late now, but you could always e-mail and ask them.
 
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