🎶These are a few of my favourite things🎶

Posted on August 4, 2025 by Candy

List 30 things that make you happy.

  1. ‘Veronica’, my daughter, who has made me so proud and happy over the last 60 years.
  2. Chloe who is my very lovely granddaughter, who also makes me very proud and happy!
  3. Lola, of course. It is her job to make me happy, I imagine.
  4. Puppies and kittens
  5. Human babies – always such a joy to see new life.
  6. Things that grow in my garden.
  7. Things that grow in public areas – including trees. We don’t have enough trees in Thanet.
  8. Cake
  9. Really cold dry white wine
  10. Beautiful music
  11. Painting
  12. Julian – he should be higher up the list but I don’t want to change all the numbers!
  13. Seeing old friends
  14. My iPad
  15. Blue skies
  16. Trees silhouetted against blue skies, just when it’s getting dark.
  17. Seeing bats flying (rarer nowadays, sadly)
  18. Good food that I haven’t had to cook and won’t have to clear away
  19. Memories of places I’ve been happy (Paris, Le Touquet, Avignon, Waterford, Zanesville, Cincinnati, Palm Springs, Reno, La Quinta, London, West Malling, East Malling, Bath, Wateringbury, Center Parcs etc etc
  20. All the little wooden objects that I have collected over the years.
  21. Christmases when all my family is here, eating and playing board games
  22. Seeing clearly (after having had cataracts)
  23. Not having my hands go numb (after having had carpal tunnel problems)
  24. Being able to walk painlessly (yep, after 2 knee replacements)
  25. Actually managing to live to 82 (so far)
  26. Beautiful paintings,
  27. Beautiful objects
  28. Elephants, tigers, polar bears, lions, meerkats, slow lorises, monkeys, apes, and on and on and on…..
  29. Days that are not too hot (writing this in summer 🥵)
  30. Days that aren’t too cold (remembering what winter can bring🥶)
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About Candy

I have reached the grand old age of 82 now. Until the mid 90’s I was a teacher, then a dealer in antiques and collectables which I loved! When I retired to the seaside I started a website selling antique and vintage games and wooden jigsaw puzzles. Now, I'm spending my time blogging and making oil paintings as well as looking after my very spoiled dog, Lola.
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  1. julianlovegrove's avatar julianlovegrove says:
    August 4, 2025 at 1:21 pm

    Number 12 ? 😎

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    • Candy's avatar Candy says:
      August 4, 2025 at 5:51 pm

      Did you read the rest of no. 12? It was difficult to slot you in there without a great deal of hard slog! 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😆

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