What made you happy today?

Posyrose said:
I used to go to boarding school for a while and 'tuck', biscuits and chocolate care parcels in my case, were an absolute necessity. I didn't get them often (my family was abroad and they didn't have the vital dark chocolate digestives there).

Glad she realises that she needs to look after her teeth after all those biscuits!
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I send pretty regular 'tuck' as it is clearly essential. However these days it is definitely easier, as an Asda online order counts!
Plus with postage costs being what they are, when she asked for biscuits and toothpaste I just got them sent directly from Amazon in the UK - faster and cheaper :))
 
Swissgreys said:
I send pretty regular 'tuck' as it is clearly essential. However these days it is definitely easier, as an Asda online order counts!
Plus with postage costs being what they are, when she asked for biscuits and toothpaste I just got them sent directly from Amazon in the UK - faster and cheaper :))
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If only Amazon had been around in the 70s..........
 
I feel like this should be a meme.... My piggies just heard a bag rustle and they both came flying out of their hay bin (mind you it is so full that you cannot see them in there) at the same time. It reminded me of the old Batman show with Burt Ward and Adam West when they would drive out of the batcave.

Cocoa: Quick, Oreo! To the Pigmobile!
Oreo: Right, Cocoa!
 
I just got great news! My grandma was having heart issues yesterday and was admitted to the hospital last night. They did a procedure this morning to help her heart go back to a normal rhythm and she is doing really well! :yahoo: She gets to go home tomorrow.
 
Ritika said:
I am ashamed to say this but nothing made me happy today it was a really tough day🙁
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Ritika said:
I am ashamed to say this but nothing made me happy today it was a really tough day🙁
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Don't be ashamed. You're allowed to feel what you feel. Look after yourself. <3 You are enough.
 
Gardener's Delight!
I got a massive free donation of proper quality leaf mould for the school garden which might not ring your bell but I was beaming! It takes two years to make this stuff well - it even had worms in (a good thing!) and I shovelled as much as I thought the car could take into a builders bag in the boot. BUT when I got to the school I couldn't drive through the yard as it's full of kids all day (everyone is outside as much as poss because of Covid) so I had to leave the car in the car park for 3 hours. I was sitting at home thinking, "that's going to seep though - he's going to have something to say about that" because it was sooo heavy and moist (and did I mention all the worms?) but do you know what? My boot was dry and fresh as a daisy because it held all it's moisture and that, people, is why it's such a brilliant soil conditioner!

NB: 25 years ago he'd come on a camping weekend in Snowdonia - biblical rain, but the tent held up. However, it all seeped into the boot carpet on the way back to Birmingham and because it was Wales there'd been sheep in the field the smell was... remarkably organic, and also impossible to shift. Two weeks later we gave up and cut out the whole carpet lining the boot of the Peugeot and replaced it. He really loved that car. Boot seepage has remained a sensitive topic ever since!
 
My daughter made it home safely to Switzerland.
And she also managed her first solo flight - it was only London to Zurich but I am so proud of her. She got herself checked in, through security, to the right gate, onto the plane, collected her luggage and came through to meet us at the end.
She even shopped for British snacks for her sister at the airport, and dragged those along as well.

And apparently the kind man sitting 2 seats away offered to give up his seat so she could sit next to her parent/s. :))
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
Well done to your daughter, a solo flight is quite a milestone. I remember how nervous I was about doing something wrong the first time I flew abroad on my own, and I was in my twenties at the time!
Sweet of the gentleman to offer his seat :D
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Same and I get really anxious on planes.
 
Swissgreys said:
My daughter made it home safely to Switzerland.
And she also managed her first solo flight - it was only London to Zurich but I am so proud of her. She got herself checked in, through security, to the right gate, onto the plane, collected her luggage and came through to meet us at the end.
She even shopped for British snacks for her sister at the airport, and dragged those along as well.

And apparently the kind man sitting 2 seats away offered to give up his seat so she could sit next to her parent/s. :))
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That's good that she got there safe and well. :)
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
Well done to your daughter, a solo flight is quite a milestone.
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Yes, a proper achievement! I'm not sure I could do it now myself it's been so long!

I remember when my lad first got on a bus on his own. He was 2. One minute walking along holding hands, when he let go and I looked down - then around...? I assumed he'd gone into the 'Baker's Oven' (as was) to look at the cakes, but no. The I saw all the heads of the passengers on the downstairs of this double-decker slowly turn in a sort of Mexican wave - almost as if watching something very small tootling up the aisle and... "STOP THE BUS!" The poor driver nearly jumped out of his seat!
 
Made me happy now the leaves have gone to discover three birds' nests in the garden.

We've had to get rid of the main places they used to nest (two leylandii, a Berberis that made way for a veg patch and a privet that was so weighed down by snow it broke off at the root!) So I've been trying to grow a natural hazel / field maple / hawthorn hedge and one of the nests is in the hawthorn.

The others are in the big trees, one blue cedar thing and one acer.
 
How lovely! We've had a mini-flock of sparrows the past two years and I coughed up 30 quid for a 'sparrow terrace' (which is 3 birdboxes in one... apparently they like to nest with neighbours). Well they love it - it's their favourite toilet! They sit on a branch over it and cover it with cr*p. Maybe next year...? :roll:
 
Swissgreys said:
My daughter made it home safely to Switzerland.
And she also managed her first solo flight - it was only London to Zurich but I am so proud of her. She got herself checked in, through security, to the right gate, onto the plane, collected her luggage and came through to meet us at the end.
She even shopped for British snacks for her sister at the airport, and dragged those along as well.

And apparently the kind man sitting 2 seats away offered to give up his seat so she could sit next to her parent/s. :))
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I remember my first flight on my own, to visit my friend. I'd only flown once before & with others so was quite anxious about it. Luckily I bumped into this oldish couple who were on my flight, we bonded over the lack of gate number for our flight as wasn't up yet & exchaged general chit chat. When we got to the other end, they said I looked much happier! My friend later confessed she didn't think I'd even get on the plane.
 
Sar said:
I remember my first flight on my own, to visit my friend. I'd only flown once before & with others so was quite anxious about it. Luckily I bumped into this oldish couple who were on my flight, we bonded over the lack of gate number for our flight as wasn't up yet & exchaged general chit chat. When we got to the other end, they said I looked much happier! My friend later confessed she didn't think I'd even get on the plane.
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Ha - such a nice memory to have.
I was actually older than my daughter is now when I took my very first flight (with my parents and sister), never mind flying to another country on my own - that happened much later!
 
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I just went in to the piggy room and found Boris and Iris sharing a cosy:luv:
For years I’ve been telling my piggies these are big enough for 2 and finally my 2 chunkiest piggies have worked that out!

They weren’t too impressed at me sticking my phone in there though :lol!:
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