It has been a really busy week, hence the lack of book posts (although there has been book reading, of course). I was tempted to skip my list this week because at first all I could remember were the busy and stressful moments. Plus it looks so lame to have two happiness lists in a row reminding me that I didn't post all week! But I like the tradition so here are seven nice things about the week:


1. After a work trip to Brussels in which very little was fun, I was cheered by eating a hot waffle with chocolate sauce at the train station. Yum!

2. The train home ran very late but a young couple in line near me were really interesting people who made the time seem like fun rather than utterly annoying. This is now the second time in recent memory that talking to people near me has turned out to be positive rather than a very regrettable mistake!

3. I gave a lecture to a very large group of students, many of whom still managed to overcome the whole lecture theatre atmosphere and ask interesting questions.

4. We had found out a few weeks ago that we weren’t actually the registered owners of our car, which was obviously not a good thing to find out. But now it’s all sorted! Phew!

5. To celebrate legally owning the car we went for a drive to England’s oldest pub (I should note that there are several of these “oldest” pubs scattered across England) in Cambridgeshire yesterday and had a nice lunch

6. On the way home we visited a new local farm store and bought a free range chicken that is roasting in the oven right now, and some very local honey (apparently this is supposed to help with hayfever. I say why not try out such a yummy solution?).

7. To go along with the other spring flowers I’ve been enjoying, there are also pretty pink flowered trees (cherry?) and white flowered Hawthorne (possibly?) hedges and trees everywhere.

As usual, more lists are up at the wonderful Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast.

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