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

Have been looking for a very specific size table for ages, needed to be a short height, very narrow depth and quite long. The only one I'd seen that fit the bill was in a notions furniture store and it's a cold day in hell before i pay eight hundred quid for a relatively small table, and that was the sale price too.

By chance yesterday i went into one of those Vincents second hand furniture stores and found one that is absolutely perfect for just thirty quid. And it looks like an antique AND the tabley bit lifts on a hinge to reveal a secret storage area underneath where i can hide my valuables (biscuits).

I genuinely think the Irish have an empathy towards death that is unmatched, it's a weird brag to say we do death better than anyone else.......... But lads

That an Irish girl called Deirdre was on The Chase and her name was pronounced properly . In the North the amount of people who call ’ Dear.dree ‘ is very annoying so it’s nice to hear it pronounced properly

neighbour has a wooden modular home out his garden for air bnb. as a result of the storm last night it was decimated, all of it redistributed in ‘bits’ around his garden. The property itself and its contents…

For 99% of the people regardless I’m a fan or not, I’d have some degree of empathy, for this fella constantly being a noisy scrote with his outdoor am noisy parties during covid restrictions…and a list of other carry on…especially making life tough for my favourite elderly neighbour…karma. 😈 what goes around….😎

I was watching one of those Star Trek episodes more specifically the tv series “Enterprise”. It took me a while to twig who the guest star was an older woman dressed up as a Vulcan. With sort of an English accent but not fully. Had great stage presence, little subtitles in her performance. Carrying the episode, head and shoulders above the rest.Still couldn’t place her looked familiar.

Finally after a bit of internet searching I found out it was Ireland’s own Fionnula Flanagan.
I thought to myself that while Ireland is capable of producing exceptional people like that in any field Ireland will be grand. You hear so much negativity about Ireland, by people - online in particular. Maybe it is time they step back at the exceptional people and good things Ireland has done and produced?

I was reading a bargains page on SM. On this page, in particular, there were many listings for short-dated/cut-priced meat. Lots of the followers had photos of their hauls, and even though I'm not a big meat eater, I could see there was a lot of value in it.

A badly written post asked for the details of the cut-priced foods in their specific area The poster explained his wife was sick, and he was working and doing all kinds of new tasks as home/family work which took too long as it wasn't in his culture. He was completely lost and didn't have a lot of money as he had to cut down on his driving hours.

Happily, within about 30 minutes, he got positive responses telling him where and what times each shop local to him put out their cut-price foods. I stopped reading at 50 posts.

When I went back last night I saw some posts which according to Google Translate were asking him which language he spoke(I assume so they offer direction/aid more easily for him) this am he posted that he had found the shops and now had enough in for a few days at least.

He sounded so happy and so so relieved!!!!! which has made me happy!!!!

realising it’s only December 9th and 100% of my Christmas shopping is done ✅

Literally never in my life have I been that organised.

I got my copy of the RTÉ Guide bumper Christmas edition today.

I love those tightly-packed blocks that Lavazza coffee comes in. Something so satisfying about how solid they are. Also the little puff of air that comes out when you puncture the packaging (followed by that fine smell of the coffee granules). It's the little things….

The chance to sit outside in the back garden today in the sunshine in December, if only for a short while

during a tidy up I noted a serious amount of small coins in my old money box. Mostly euros but Sterling too which I’ll keep. Thought about counting, bagging and taking the euros to the bank. But that’s time consuming, so just stuck it in a plastic bag thats coming with me to the supermarket. They never adequately staff the tills, so be gladly taking an extra minute or two to use their self service tills to dispose of most of my 3 kilograms of shrapnel later. If I start getting ‘looks’ from any of them I’ll happily point to all the empty tills. I hope they or whoever enjoy counting. 🪦👀