Thread by @jimoutoffaf

#ReasonstobeCheerful no.1
We may not have to endure The Hundred this summer.

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These leaves

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Washing on the line.

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The park

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Forsythia

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No one is panic-buying broccoli

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Porridge

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@ZoeTheBall

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Found a new battery for the electric scales in the kitchen crap drawer.
The days of approximate bread are over, @Miridoesntweet

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Guinness

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Tuba

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Rug

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Leather pouch made out of old, broken bike saddle bag.

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Boiled egg and soldiers

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Orange

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Shutting up shop for the weekend.
The stag is by the great and lovely benlong.co.uk

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Of course.

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Sunset

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Bread

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Telly

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Warm evening, outdoor lights and next-door-but-one’s palm tree, for which thank you, Aaron and Gillian.

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Running
(Although, honestly, I’m not sure quite how cheerful this makes me; but I’m glad enough still to be able to do it.)

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This. This’ll do.

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Plane tree bark

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Music and Silence.
The book, certainly, but also just music and silence.

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The wind in this tree.

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Three old blokes playing frisbee in the park.
Wonderfully skilful.
50 yards apart.
All wearing gloves.

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Keith Haring on the bedroom wall

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Mechanical pencil.

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Forget-me-nots

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London

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This tree sprouted from a conker in north Essex in 2002 and was planted in Peckham Rye Park in 2012. In 2018 it was snapped off by vandals but now it is thriving again out of its broken stump.

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Phosphorescent rocks at @morethanadodo

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Seeing my FaF boys (Silas was there too)

Of all my #ReasonsToBeCheerful so far, three have slipped through entirely unremarked.
One was the bark on a plane tree, so fair enough.
But the other two were telly and wine which makes me suspect that not everyone is being wholly honest about what makes them happy in lockdown.

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Windowboxes

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‘People on a Bench’ by William Roberts, pencil on paper, c.1937; @AshmoleanMuseum
It was given to the Museum by a group of his fellow artists including Muirhead Bone and Albert Rutherston.

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Sheep’s-bit scabious; out soon on the cliffs at the Logan Rock, Treen, Cornwall.

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This window at the top of the house.

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Sky
a) South
b) North

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Waking to find the first clematis flowers are out.

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Bike

Insufficient reasons to be cheerful lately but I went for a walk today and here are
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Sky and trees. I’ve done them before but no apologies because they are wonderful.