Category Archives: Five Good Things

1. Payday! 2. Several hours of uninterrupted sleep; 3. Somewhat succesfully figuring out how to buy online all sorts of stuff; 4. Smoothies; 5. Better Call Saul. Please stay in touch, consider creating your own lists of five (or more) … Continue reading →

1. It’s another mild and sunny day; 2. It looks like this nice weather is going to hold at least until the end of the week; 3. I noticed I have a slight tan from going on my morning walks; … Continue reading →

1. Getting an early start on my to-do list for the day; 2. Thinking about bulk food orders I’ll make on my next payday (which is soon); 3. Realising I can make certain things from scratch (and that it could … Continue reading →

1. Keeping to a schedule; 2. The buzzing of a bee seeming so loud; 3. Pizza and beer on a Saturday night; 4. Leftover pizza for breakfast; 5. Having my next payday in sight. Please stay in touch, consider creating … Continue reading →

1. Waking up fully rested and earlier than I expected; 2. Thinking about what to have for breakfast; 3. Coming up with a tasty and easy roasted broccoli recipe for dinner; 4. Bluebells growing in the back garden; 5. Bryter … Continue reading →

1. Hey, it’s Good Friday. That’s a good thing; 2. Accidentally typing “Goof Friday” in the line above; 3. Anticipating the continuation of a great conversation recently started but abruptly ended; 4. Having lots of stuff to keep me busy … Continue reading →

1. Bernie Sanders; 2. Bumble bees; 3. An actual busy morning and afternoon ahead of me; 4. The waft of flower scented air when I opened my bedroom window this morning; 5. Flannel sheets. Please stay in touch, consider creating … Continue reading →

1. Chocolate; 2. Coffee; 3. Chocolate and coffee together; 4. Some – but not too much – scheduled activity for today; 5. A recent episode of The Brian Lehrer Show featured an interview with the authors of The Power of … Continue reading →

1. Murmur by REM; 2. Sleeping with my bedroom windows open; 3. Strawberries; 4. Coffee; 5. Looking forward to my walk in the sunshine. Please stay in touch, consider creating your own lists of five (or more) positive things, and … Continue reading →

1. Seeing kindness and patience in others; 2. Discovering I can be more flexible than I realised; 3. Crossing a lot of things off my to-do list before breakfast; 4. Coming up with recipes for an early lunch; 5. The … Continue reading →

1. The smell of freshly cut grass; 2. Watching a white Westie run across a green field; 3. Noticing there are multiple bird nests in a tree I walk by nearly everyday; 4. Being reminded of music I love but … Continue reading →

1. Coffee in bed; 2. Listening to the On the Media podcast. Particularly noteworthy was a segment from the latest episode which featured a scathing (and hilarious) critique of celebrities “famesplaining” Covid-19; 3. Grilled sourdough toast drenched in garlic-infused olive … Continue reading →

1. Deep breaths; 2. Morning sunshine; 3. Having lots to read; 4. Starting a new project next week; 5. Drying laundry on a line outside in my back garden. Please stay in touch, consider creating your own lists of five … Continue reading →

1. I make a killer risotto; 2. Zoom (for social chats); 3. Getting an early start in the morning; 4. Receiving a delivery of lots of fresh fruit and veg, milk and a loaf of bread; 5. Red vermouth. Please … Continue reading →

1. The postman not quite blaring Could You be Loved by Bob Marley and the Wailers from his van while parked to make deliveries on my street; 2. A range of scheduled activities to keep me fairly busy today and tomorrow; … Continue reading →

1. Frost melting to dew in the bright morning sun; 2. I Against I by Bad Brains; 3. My one-size-too-big black hoodie; 4. Making phone dates with family and friends; 5. Thinking about what’s going into my smoothie this morning. … Continue reading →

1. The smell of rain on asphalt; 2. Being There by Wilco; 3. Losing my sense of time during an in depth conversation; 4. FiveThirtyEight Politcs podcast; 5. Sunlight streaming into my bathroom while I take a shower. Please stay … Continue reading →

1. The Ribman’s Holy F**k Hot Sauce; 2. Deliveroo; 3. Chats with family; 4. Whatsapp; 5. There’s a couple with two small children and a dog who tend to go to the same nearby field around the same time as … Continue reading →

1. Waking up from several hours of sound deep sleep; 2. Crisp sunny blue-skied morning; 3. Only sounds at this moment are me typing and a bird chirping outside my window; 4. Checking my phone to see kind messages from … Continue reading →

1. There’s a really tall leafy tree that I can see from my bedroom window. I love the way it sways in the wind and how it seems to glow in the early morning light; 2. On the Media podcast; … Continue reading →

1. Halloumi burgers; 2. A string of sunny days; 3. Damaged by Black Flag; 4. Keeping a routine; 5. Starting up this Five Good Things series! I think it really is helping me cope with being cooped up and feeling … Continue reading →

1. Last night folks went out to the front of their houses and to their windows for a public round of applause for the NHS. I was impressed with how enthusiastically appreciative the folks on my street were; 2. Songbirds; … Continue reading →

1. Blueberries; 2. My Nutribullet 900; 3. Coffee; 4. How quiet the world seems this morning; 5. Saving money not commuting to work. Please stay in touch, consider creating your own lists of five (or more) positive things, and look … Continue reading →

1. The Muppet Movie; 2. My phone is ringing more often than usual with friendly non work related calls; 3. I make a mean risotto; 4. The tree just outside my bedroom window is flowering; 5. It is so quiet … Continue reading →

1. Sesame toast with butter, miso and maple syrup; 2. The Brian Lehrer Show podcast; 3. There’s a new episode of Better Call Saul I can watch later; 4. Local coffee roaster, Perky Blenders, delivers free of charge; 5. Waking … Continue reading →

1. The neighbours’ cat coming round to say hi (and staying in my room most of the day); 2. Catching up on the phone with an old friend; 3. Family reaching out to see if I’m okay; 4. Strawberry, banana … Continue reading →

1. It’s another sunny day and supposed to be warmer than yesterday; 2. I’ve pre-order Disney + and look forward to bingeing from tomorrow; 3. I just found out that Werner Herzog has a prominent role in The Mandalorian. That … Continue reading →

1. Going to sleep when night falls and waking up with the sun; 2. Sitting in bed and drinking a cup of coffee; 3. Eating leftover pizza for breakfast; 4. Having significantly less laundry to do than I normally would … Continue reading →

1. I live near a beautiful park; 2. The local pizza place still delivers; 3. I had the chance to listen – really listen – to Bryter Layter by Nick Drake, one of my favourite albums; 4. I spent much … Continue reading →

Hey gang. I hope – in the sincerest of terms – that you are well and taking care of yourselves. Covid-19 is a monster of unprecedented proportion. Same goes for all the precautions we must take to prevent the spread … Continue reading →