Whilst snagged in rush hour traffic this morning, frustrated and willing the road to clear, a spotted a lollipop lady in the cut from Wandsworth to Putney, jigging from leg to leg and waving at random cars. It made me laugh and I waved back.
In these times of financial doom and gloom, with darker evenings creeping in, sneak in the odd simple pleasure, it’s surprising how good it can make you feel.
I was made to stay in bed on Sunday morning, with a cup of tea and the papers, just heaven, a real luxury with a young baby, and very welcome as I had got in at 4.30am and was hungover.
Every time I go home to Devon, I pass the red cliffs at Exeter and it makes me grin to know I’m on my way home. I get great pleasure from watching moving water, driving through Dartmoor or seeing great splashes of green. Two years ago I bumped blindly into a passerby making my way to work, distracted by catching snowflakes on my tongue, it made us both howl.
So the question this week is: What are your simple pleasures?
4 responses so far ↓
paulclarke // 7 October, 2008 at 10:56 pm |
Bacon
Goose-down duvet & pillows
Dry socks after a real soaking from the rain
More bacon
Steph Gray // 9 October, 2008 at 9:53 pm |
Predictable, but it has to be catching Arthur (my little boy, just under four months old) looking at me, and then the two of us beaming at each other.
We’ve been on holiday with him in Canterbury and Whitstable this week and it’s been ace.
Mulqueeny // 15 October, 2008 at 2:38 pm |
You
Claire Lancaster // 17 October, 2008 at 11:56 am |
Bubbles …
Soaking in them in a nice hot candlelit bath.
Drinking them nice and cold with my girlfriends.
Making them for my baby to pop, giggle & wonder at.
Bubbles rock!