Friday, January 27, 2006

A good flat stone for skimming

This week can not be put at the top of my good weeks to remember list. In fact, it has been pretty bad. So last night I was trying to cheer my self up by thinking of good stuff in life. I don`t mean like money and cars and things, which is obviously good stuff, but more Amélie Poulain coffee bean stuff. This is what I can remember of my list.

- someone else stroking or washing your hair.
- sitting on the beach, looking at the sea when it is late at night.
- the smell tatami makes when the sun shines on it.
- smell of fresh, white bread and the taste when it is still hot with lots of butter
- sitting in the sun with a cold beer and a good friend and nothing to do all day.
...i just noticed all my nice things start with "s", weird...
- a very long, hot, bubbly bath. (can be appreciated even more after not having had a shower all week due to frozen pipes!)
- waking up a bit early and then realising it is still ages til your alarm goes off.
- really vivid dreams
- long bridges
- smell of cut grass

and i had loads more, but i guess this post is long enough by now. What simple pleasures do you have in life?

2 Comments:

Blogger Chris said...

- onsen (alone, rather than with a bunch of grumpy ojiisan nearby)
- the smell of slightly mouldy pesto
- Glastonbury sunrise
- hearing a siren go past and wondering where it's going
- putting on a suit
- being plucked by a cat
- thinking 'it's a bit dark and gloomy in here' until you remember you haven't opened the curtains yet. When you do, the natural light comes flooding in.
- seeing a really funny new piece of graffiti on the south bank
- the decadence of devoting an entire sunday to cups of tea and the sunday papers (even better if you have a good hangover)
- walking through big cities in the daytime
- rediscovering a band you haven't listened to for years and, oh!, they're as good as I remember!

I'll stop now. Bad form to have a comment longer than the post.

10:03 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You've really started something here............

having the beach to yourself on a blustery winter's day and watching the grey sea crashing in

anything to do with Christmas

a log fire (especially at Christmas)

that wet dewy smell very early on a Spring morning

the thud on the mat which means you've got lots of post

eating fish and chips on the beach whilst watching a blood-red sunset

watching a good drama on tv with a glass of wine in your hand

12:13 pm  

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