Written in my notebook in 2007

• A handwritten menu
• Secretly taking swigs from the bottle of milk
• Ten extra minutes
• European backpackers
• Eating healthy
• Learning
• Recipes tucked in notebooks
• Sitting under a shady tree
• Ironed clothes
• Colourful playdough
• Jotting down an idea
• The sky as your ceiling, the grass as your floor
• Composing songs on an instrument you can't play
• Finding your sense of humour if it was lost
• Rediscovering a favourite song
• Raking up leaves and then jumping in
• Irish brogue
• Novels for a bargain
• Newly-cut nails
• Finding a good book at the library
• Drinking from your favourite mug
• Making up your own rhymes
• Eating cereal at lunchtime
• Finishing something you've started
• A plate of steamed vegetables and gravy
• A clean desk
• Being cooked for
• Doing something at your own pace
• Natural light flooding into your bedroom
• Homemade desserts
• Meatballs and sauce
• Spare seats on a train
• An appreciation for differences in others
• Magazines that aren't the gossip type
• Quiet companionship
• Stretching after a long sit
• Walking without a destination
• Art galleries
• The Royal Botanic Gardens
• Toasted and buttered hot cross buns
• Greasing a creaking door
• Hard work
• A pleasant surprise
• Diced apples in milk
• Fantastical silliness
• A girls' night in/day out
• Crosswords
• Knowing that you did your best
• A cupboardful of canned soup
• Watching the waves rush by