100 Days of Happiness 2020 - Days 39 - 47
Friday, 13 March 2020 10:08 pmOops, got a bit behind again, didn't I...
Thursday 5th March
My Riverford shop was entirely packaging-free this week, except for the box itself - which is returned to be used again and again.
Friday 6th March
Food from the local grocery shop not being thrown out because no one bought it.
Saturday 7th March
Who isn't made happy by a surprise plesiosaur outside the library?
Sunday 8th March
Metal detecting rally! Now who couldn't be happy about wandering around this sort of landscape all day, looking for buried treasure? *g* I got to try my new waterproofs out (which were) but it was also gorgeously blue-skyed, and full of other happy people wandering around with things going beep. Lush. *g* I wanna do it again!
Monday 9th March
Food saving again... and actually being a bit achey from the day before, because I knew it meant I'd been outside exercising my muscles!
Tuesday 10th March
Daffodils in the garden and cleaning my finds from Sunday. Nothing really exciting, but it made me happy to find out what it all was. I think the shotgun caps at the top are actually from the early 1900s, that's a spent copper bullet case below them. Not sure what the two bendy iron things are - they're sort of shaped, so look like something, but I can't quite work out what. Not sure about the trianglish-shaped piece of metal either, but maybe off a plough. A very heavy-duty length of chain! Strange horseshoe - seems very light, but I'm pretty certain it is a horseshoe. Someone suggested a racehorse shoe. Anyway - no hammered coins or even Victorian pennies, but solid farm history all the same...
Wednesday 11th March
Erm... no pics today. Oh, my creative writing group, which is down to just me and my friend a few doors up - but we actually did some writing, and I quite liked what I got done. So that made me happy.
Thursday 12th March
My sister's birthday - so messaging with her, and despite being job-hunting she sounds in decent form, and she liked my present (although we thought waiting until the whole coronavirus thing has died down might be a better idea for actually having it, cos it's a year's pass to her local zoos. Not much point in it if they stop people going out to places like that, so we'll see what happens first.
Oh, and I finished work to the theoretical deadline (it used to be one, but it isn't any more really), so I got to catch up on The Voice, which I am now missing on a Saturday because of food saving.
Oh, and also someone in the village posted on Fb about getting organised to help older villagers who might be worried about catching coronavirus out shopping etc., which did make me happy because the local environmental initiative that I was planning to be involved with seems to have faded instead to people who want to manage other people rather than coming up with action and getting on with it themselves. There's far too many managers in the world. If you don't want to get your hands dirty, if all you want is to say you organised other people to do things, then I'm about ready to say shut up... Okay - /rant. *g* (But I was quite disappointed about that, I hadn't been expecting it...) So the fact that someone's actually doing it re: helping people out, is a happy thing.
Friday 13th March
There was hand sanitiser in the shop when I got there for something else entirely. So I bought it all, cos apparently that's what people do now! No, clearly I didn't cos I'm not a selfish fool, but I did buy two little bottles, one for the car and one for my bag. There was a maximum limit but it was five bottles - honestly! I wasn't happy but I was rather amused that all the eggs had been bought up... eggs?! Is there a chook somewhere with a sore throat and a shifty gaze that someone's not telling us about?! Still no loo roll.
Food saving was a happy thing again tonight. I'm clearly using that as my emergency-happy-thing, aren't I... Okay, work today is blargh as always, but it's archaeology/history blargh, which is quite happy-making. Work in my field of interest - who would have thought such a thing could happen! Oh, and plus as soon as I get done it's the weekend of course, and I can read, and sort out my finds, and maybe try detecting at a beach somewhere or something, weather depending...
Go on then. How're you doing? What are you hoarding? I must admit to buying four bottles of wine, which is two more than I'd usually buy at one go - but only cos they'd run out of them last time I was there, and they're quite nice kinds. Probably won't help much with the plague, mind, or the apparently impending apocalypse though - well, not only four bottles. *g*
Anyone else wondering whether they should re-read all their dystopian apocalyspe fiction for hints just in case...? *vbg*
Thursday 5th March
My Riverford shop was entirely packaging-free this week, except for the box itself - which is returned to be used again and again.
Friday 6th March
Food from the local grocery shop not being thrown out because no one bought it.
Saturday 7th March
Who isn't made happy by a surprise plesiosaur outside the library?
Sunday 8th March
Metal detecting rally! Now who couldn't be happy about wandering around this sort of landscape all day, looking for buried treasure? *g* I got to try my new waterproofs out (which were) but it was also gorgeously blue-skyed, and full of other happy people wandering around with things going beep. Lush. *g* I wanna do it again!
Monday 9th March
Food saving again... and actually being a bit achey from the day before, because I knew it meant I'd been outside exercising my muscles!
Tuesday 10th March
Daffodils in the garden and cleaning my finds from Sunday. Nothing really exciting, but it made me happy to find out what it all was. I think the shotgun caps at the top are actually from the early 1900s, that's a spent copper bullet case below them. Not sure what the two bendy iron things are - they're sort of shaped, so look like something, but I can't quite work out what. Not sure about the trianglish-shaped piece of metal either, but maybe off a plough. A very heavy-duty length of chain! Strange horseshoe - seems very light, but I'm pretty certain it is a horseshoe. Someone suggested a racehorse shoe. Anyway - no hammered coins or even Victorian pennies, but solid farm history all the same...
Wednesday 11th March
Erm... no pics today. Oh, my creative writing group, which is down to just me and my friend a few doors up - but we actually did some writing, and I quite liked what I got done. So that made me happy.
Thursday 12th March
My sister's birthday - so messaging with her, and despite being job-hunting she sounds in decent form, and she liked my present (although we thought waiting until the whole coronavirus thing has died down might be a better idea for actually having it, cos it's a year's pass to her local zoos. Not much point in it if they stop people going out to places like that, so we'll see what happens first.
Oh, and I finished work to the theoretical deadline (it used to be one, but it isn't any more really), so I got to catch up on The Voice, which I am now missing on a Saturday because of food saving.
Oh, and also someone in the village posted on Fb about getting organised to help older villagers who might be worried about catching coronavirus out shopping etc., which did make me happy because the local environmental initiative that I was planning to be involved with seems to have faded instead to people who want to manage other people rather than coming up with action and getting on with it themselves. There's far too many managers in the world. If you don't want to get your hands dirty, if all you want is to say you organised other people to do things, then I'm about ready to say shut up... Okay - /rant. *g* (But I was quite disappointed about that, I hadn't been expecting it...) So the fact that someone's actually doing it re: helping people out, is a happy thing.
Friday 13th March
There was hand sanitiser in the shop when I got there for something else entirely. So I bought it all, cos apparently that's what people do now! No, clearly I didn't cos I'm not a selfish fool, but I did buy two little bottles, one for the car and one for my bag. There was a maximum limit but it was five bottles - honestly! I wasn't happy but I was rather amused that all the eggs had been bought up... eggs?! Is there a chook somewhere with a sore throat and a shifty gaze that someone's not telling us about?! Still no loo roll.
Food saving was a happy thing again tonight. I'm clearly using that as my emergency-happy-thing, aren't I... Okay, work today is blargh as always, but it's archaeology/history blargh, which is quite happy-making. Work in my field of interest - who would have thought such a thing could happen! Oh, and plus as soon as I get done it's the weekend of course, and I can read, and sort out my finds, and maybe try detecting at a beach somewhere or something, weather depending...
Go on then. How're you doing? What are you hoarding? I must admit to buying four bottles of wine, which is two more than I'd usually buy at one go - but only cos they'd run out of them last time I was there, and they're quite nice kinds. Probably won't help much with the plague, mind, or the apparently impending apocalypse though - well, not only four bottles. *g*
Anyone else wondering whether they should re-read all their dystopian apocalyspe fiction for hints just in case...? *vbg*
