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
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