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Things To Make Me Smile (and a few things that annoy me)

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  • Ethel & Ernest

    I love the work of Raymond Briggs!  So it is with great joy and glee to read on the Ethel & Ernest blog that there is a trailer for the up and coming film by Lupus films.  October 28th is now in the diary and I can’t wait!!!!   (Trailer via Flickeringmyth) Read more

  • Snuggled Up

    Yesterday I bought a “thing” – it’s a throw with a hood and mittens.  It’s one of the softest things I have bought in a long time (normally it’s balls of wool).  I spent most of the afternoon offering my purchase around for people to feel – it really is that soft! When I got… Read more

  • If I Was A Cat I’d Purr

    There are two things I love about getting my hair cut:-  Somebody washing my hair.  As the title suggests it really would make me purr, if I won the lottery this would be my luxury – having somebody wash my hair.  There is something so soothing about it. I no longer do a rather good… Read more

  • Cake!

    I read in a book recently that it helps to make lists of things that make you happy in an effort to boost your mood.  So I thought that as this blog is about things that make me smile, why not use it to boost my mood – your mood even. Today is Thursday.  For… Read more

  • The Stations of the Cross by Rev. Richard Coles (8-14)

    Stations 8 – 14  and more things to think about. #StationsOfTheCrossEighth StationJesus Consoles the Women of Jerusalem pic.twitter.com/t9noeeWFwf — Richard Coles (@RevRichardColes) March 25, 2016 #StationsOfTheCrossNinth StationJesus Falls for the Third Time pic.twitter.com/oGtcOBfp3N — Richard Coles (@RevRichardColes) March 25, 2016 #StationsOfTheCrossTenth StationJesus is Stripped of His Garments pic.twitter.com/QjONnykunO — Richard Coles (@RevRichardColes) March 25, 2016… Read more

  • The Stations of the Cross by Rev. Richard Coles (1-7)

    Each Good Friday the Reverend tweets the stations of the cross.  Always with a modern image to illustrate and make you think #StationsOfTheCrossFirst StationJesus is Condemned to Death pic.twitter.com/qqjtCufi2z — Richard Coles (@RevRichardColes) March 25, 2016 #StationsOfTheCrossSecond StationJesus Takes Up the Cross pic.twitter.com/a36kmjujCk — Richard Coles (@RevRichardColes) March 25, 2016 #StationsOfTheCrossThird StationJesus Falls for the… Read more

  • A Day Trip

    Whenever we go to Waterford it’s always to visit family, never really to visit the place.  So yesterday that’s what we did. On International Women’s Day, March 8th, I spotted a post within a group on Facebook that said: “International Women’s Day exhibition at City Library, Lady lane. Opening today featuring unveiling of Blue Plaque… Read more

  • David Bowie, RIP

    This is another post that isn’t going to make me smile. This morning the alarm went off – I looked up the weather on my phone and then decided to have a sneaky look at Facebook.  The first post was by the Radio Times with a picture of David Bowie.  The internet has been full… Read more

  • The Big Snow

    Here in Ireland we get two types of weather – warm rain and cold rain – ok that’s an exaggeration but sometimes I don’t think that it’s by much.  I have to admit I don’t mind the rain and given a choice I’d pick cold rain.  However, the weather episode of choice for me is… Read more

  • Hiroshima by John Hersey

       Last night I finished reading this slight tome.  If you’d seen me reading it on the bus you would have thought I was just after receiving bad news, I couldn’t help but continually put my hand to my mouth, and in a way I was getting bad news. If this was a piece of… Read more