Experiment, week 9. This week’s five things which have made me happy or for which I’m grateful.
- Birthday Wishes. It was my birthday earlier this week. I’ve now had 61 of them. Making a big thing of birthdays is not something that’s in our family tradition. So I’m not one for getting huge bundles of birthday cards. But I was touched by how many of my friends on Facebook remembered and wished me well. Thanks, everyone!
- Daffodils. I’ll probably say this again several times over the coming weeks, but daffodils are one of my favourite flowers (as long as they don’t come in shades of pink!). And I noticed on Friday that our local supermarket had the first spring daffs in: small yellow and orange narcissi. Delightful. And a reminder that Spring can’t be too far away!
- Frosty Mornings. The weather here in west London has been unseasonably mild all winter; more like March than January. But in the last few days it has definitely gotten colder. It was very nice to go out yesterday morning in bright, clear sunny weather following a hard frost.
- London Taxis. The London black cab driver generally gets a bad press — but rarely from me. I’m a Londoner and although I have a reasonable knowledge, for a layman, of what’s where in central London I have to admire the London cabbie’s knowledge of everything. I know they have to work hard to learn it all, but I really don’t know how they ever manage it! An of course many never do manage to pass “the knowledge”. I appreciate their skill every time I get in a London taxi — and that was three times yesterday!
- Freedom Pass. For those who don’t live in London, this is the London “bus pass scheme” for geriatrics. I finally got mine a few weeks before Christmas, but it was really only yesterday that I started to appreciate what an excellent scheme it is. Not only do you get free bus travel, and (mostly) free tube travel but also much of the rail network in Greater London is also free outside peak hours. And it also covers local buses across most of the rest of the country. Brilliant!
And, for once, there’s a list with no mention of food at all.