The Simple Things

I've been inspired to make a list of the best simple things in life by Christina, via MPC. It's not strictly related to my 101 in 1001 mission, but I love lists, and think it's a particularly apt topic after a day of brain strain trying to buy bathroom fittings for Task #58 (who would have thought there were a dozen styles of floor wastes), with my 26th birthday tomorrow and living in the middle of this penny-pinching recession...

These are a few of my favourite things:

- Jumping in puddles in gumboots - amazing. The autumn leaves just make it extra pretty.

- Real mail - I have 4 birthday cards waiting for me to open in the morning - yay

- Clean sheets

- Being asked for directions in a foreign city - I love being taken for a local - it always makes me grin

- The first page of a new book. And the last

- The first glimpse of the sea - yep, that little dot of blue below - it doesn't matter if it's been a day, a week or months, it's always a thrill

- Winning: scrabble, the lucky door prize, the race - we never really grow up...

- A good hair day

- And... The weekend papers in a sunny bedroom (even better in mounds of clean sheets)

*Big contented sigh* I'll be sure to keep this post handy when I get too stressed about the advantages of wall-mounted taps over basin-mounted or when the builders decide that actually building anything would be far too difficult. Everyone should just go and jump in a puddle.

xx