Trivial things that make you happy - Part 3 - The Happyning

gormdubhgorm

At hurling match young family in front of me in stand seating. Mother, father and a young child.

Out of the three of them. You wouldn’t have guessed who was the most animated.

It was the mother! Any time she saw a Galway score etc she couldn’t help standing up and roaring. Her husband tried to signal for her to sit down, hand on her back. But gave up fairly quickly as he could see it was a battle he wouldn’t win.

Strumms

my Dad dropped his TV remote and it’s fecked. It’s a smart TV but an olderish one and no electronics retailer is stocking the spare remotes for it… but last chance saloon… tried Amazon last night and they still stock them. Not expensive.

Bredabe

Given it was such a lovely morning, I decided to walk back from my COVID-19 booster. The natural walk back took me along a narrow street lined with pavement tables where people and dogs sat.

A young dad with a baby caught my eye as he walked the narrow path with a tiny baby, who was no more than 8 weeks old, and who I assumed was the baby's mother, was sipping her drink.

The look on their terrier-type dog's face was amazing, a mixture of concern as the dad and baby walked what the dog considered to be too far, and being on guard to intervene if needed, in case anything bad happened.

*I mention the bun as a survivor of many, many small children pulling at my tied-up hair and flash back to the unexpected pain of those pulls.

Dan Steely

Adult son with autism went to his first proper concert in Dublin at the weekend. He bought two tickets, one seated and one standing and 5 single one-way bus tickets instead of one return. One ticket was to the wrong town.

Brought everything back though, nothing lost. For the first time probably.

Had a great time. All that matters.

He can go again now.

gormdubhgorm

I want some person to create a film / play called “50 shades of great”. Based on this headline. A Ukrainian fella’s impression of Irish people.

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That article made me think how would I describe how I feel? “Middling to grand”

And very appreciative of living in this country, that gets unfairly lambasted by some Irish people.