Sunday, June 08, 2014

Reasons to be Cheerful Part 2

I thought of another hundred things that make me happy:

101. Underfloor heating

102. Stars on a clear night

103. Gatefold sleeves for vinyl albums

104. Making connections

105. Suspended 4ths

106. A goal scored after a period of possession and several passes

107. Pain relief

108. My varifocals

109. Sandblasted stone

110. Ties

111. Mark Rothko

112. Christopher Brookmyre

113. The Alabama 3

114. Candles

115. A great click-track

116. Trains

117. Flat whites

118. The moment when you know the show is about to start

119. Impressionist artists

120. Wayne's World

121. Finding a quote direct from source, not a quote book

122. The instrumental break on Cinema Show by Genesis

123. Churches with comfy chairs

124. Being dry when there is rain falling hard on the roof

125. The smell of bacon cooking

126. People dropping in

127. Pizza Express pizzas

128. Gelato

129. Last minute winners

130. Weeping willows

131. Fair trade

132. Locally sourced

133. Foraging

134. Free cycle

135. Juvenile fledglings

136. Home-grown herbs

137. Things finishing on time

138. Being served in the correct order at a bar

139. Anthony Trollope

140. Peter Carey

141. Swatch watches

142. Old Testament wisdom literature

143. Hot air balloons in the sky

144. Heavy bottomed glass tumblers

145. Evolution

146. Good dark chocolate

147. Geordie accents

148. Carl Hiaasen

149. Jason Bourne

150. Snow on the city

151. Bristol's floating harbourside

152. The Eden Project

153. L'occitane almond supple skin oil

154. The Wire

155. Breaking Bad

156. The Sopranos

157. The Good Wife

158. The West Wing

159. Thinking things through by writing about them

160. Danny Baker

161. TheiPaper

162. The Guardian

163. Q

164. Watching a film in the afternoon at the cinema

165. KFC

166. Big Mac meals

167. Fopp!

168. Summer nights

169. Lighting effects

170. Two minute power-pop songs

171. Getting things done without being in charge despite opposition

172. Knowing when you are good at something

173. Onions softening in good butter

174. Puppies

175. Pitching outside off and hitting leg

176. Catching a firmly hit cricket ball one-handed

177. Watching a nicely judged putt

178. England winning stuff

179. Backing vocals

180. Killer sudoku online

181. Codeword

182. Mark Steel

183. Mark Thomas

184. Milton Jones

185. Bill Bryson

186. Sea salt and cider vinegar kettle crisps

187. Shadows

188. First big gulp of ice cold Becks

189. Audi and VW

190. Liberal evangelicalism

191. Breakfast buffet

192. A shower after a day on the beach

193. Reading by the pool

194. Air con

195. Bodycon

196. Sporting behaviour

197. Underdog victories

198. The many varieties of cool

199. Faithless

200. Tracy Thorn and Ben Watt

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