Trivial things that make you happy - Part 2 - The Happyning

So drear and dark out here these days, and nothing growing well, so was delighted to see a self seeded flowerbed smiling up at me.... deepest orange marigolds from last year and a large patch of forgetmenots... I had scattered a few elderly packets of seeds around last autumn.

Lovely smiling splash of colour on a dark, drear morning

Succubus_ wrote: »

Only delighted with myself today. Got all of my jobs done and went for a lovely walk seeing all of the happy dogs and hearing the birds chirping. Feeling good, content. I had a lovely scone for my lunch and there's a pizza waiting for me in the fridge. It's the little things.

off topic but easiest... I was reading your AMA page? I lived years up in the Northern Isles ie Orkney, and CF was rife there, more so than anywhere else in the UK. Yes, inbreeding. A very limited gene pool . Most islanders these days know who is "sib" to avoid that. But in past generations there was so little choice. Same here; if you read about Blasket , you see the same faces generations on.

Also in Orkney, muliple births were more common for the same reason. I was teaching then and facing identical triplets was interesting

It did have one good effect in that great progress was made in treating cF and many facilities in Orkney were developed to make it a centre of excellence

That the sudden power cut at 7.14 am lasted only until 7.17....well done ESB!