Experiment, week 29. Another week, another selection in my continuing experiment in documenting five things which have made me happy or for which I’m grateful during the week. So this week we have …

1. Iris sibirica. These wonderful blue, delicate looking iris are out now in our garden. They’re always a delight to me!

2. Hypnotherapy. I always enjoy my 3-weekly-ish hypnotherapy sessions with Chris. We always find something interesting to mull over and I enjoy the experience of being hypnotised. And this week Chris reckons he got me hypnotised much deeper than ever before; I was certainly reluctant to emerge from hypnosis and it took me a fairly long time to come round.

3. Yummy Food. Yes we’ve had the usual good meal this week (as well as a few mundane ones; we don’t eat royally all the time!). On Friday I did pasta and seafood (a variant on my Pasta with Bacon recipe) again, only this time with scallops. Much as I like scallops I think I actually prefer this dish with king prawns — well who wouldn’t?! And tonight I did Pork Fillet with Pesto, but with a jar of commercial tomato pesto; served with steamed new potatoes and English asparagus — most yummy!

4 & 5. Meeting Friends. It’s always great to meet up with friends as we did yesterday with Katy and her children at Kew Gardens: always another delight and which I’ve blogged about here.