Brief moments of happiness this week

-Being entirely distracted by a tiny bird with one leg hoping and zig-zagging across the busy city pavement.

-The good ache after a long run

-Cycling downwind 

-Claire's half-asleep eyes in the morning

-Really great coffee

-Time to do nothing

-A successful presentation to people more skilled and trained than me

-A new recipe for vegetarian paella

-Making a beautiful working bicycle 

-Nuzzling the cats

-A friends' hand on my forearm when I cried

-Claire's hand on my knee when I'm driving

-Gutteral laughs at a stupid, uncynical just-plain-damn-funny joke

-My morning commute on the bike with good weather, a perfect path and beautiful scenery

-Lego with Tom

-A warm hug from a male friend that isn't insecurely tight (and no slapped backs)

-Homemade buns from conception to eating in 25 minutes

-Others' empathy

-A perfectly written rom com 

-Tardigrades 

-Receiving a telephone service from someone I can hear smiling

-The scientific miracle of modern medication (this week paracetamol, antibiotics, antidepressants and ibuprofen due to a nasty bug)

-Proper gin