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Ok, here it goes.
I want to invite all of you to do this experiment. It's fun and you have to do it on a daily basis for 30 days.
It's about feeling good. We are often surrounded by all kinds of doom and gloom, from little irritations to really upsetting things that can affect us the whole day or longer.
So what I would like you to do is when you get up in the morning to make it you dominant intent to look for good things around you. Tell yourself that this day you are going to interact with nice or interesting people, see, taste and smell lovely things and just in general look for the best in everyone, everything and anything surrounding you.
You have to make it your purpose. Make it a game for yourself.
I would like you to post some of those things on here if you will. Just tell on here what you have been doing that made you feel good, if and when something good happened, how your day went, how it made you feel etc....and I want you to milk those feelings, focus as long as you can on the thing that makes you feel good. They don't have to be great things, it can be just simple things, like you saw birds in your garden and you enjoyed seeing them playing and feeding, or you saw someone who had a lovely smile, or a cat climbing a tree after a squirrel, or you picked up a bargain in the shops. Just stuff like that. Look for these things around you and focus on them. You might think it's ridiculous, but it's no more ridiculous than focusing on all the bad stuff surrounding you (which I know everyone is very good at, so now get good at recognising all the good stuff and put your attention on that for a while)
Only put the good stuff on here. NO complaining allowed.
If you don't want to share it on here with others, then still do it for yourself and see what happens or has happened after 30 days and just see how that month has been for you. 
Aaaah - this is easy for me!
Several years ago, family bought me a hedgehog house for Mother's Day. We haven't had hedgehogs in our garden for years and years, so it hasn't been used.
Two nights ago, a little hoggie trotted past our patio window, same time the next night.
Whooppee - made me feel really happy! 
Would be even happier if it settled in my little hedgehog house, and had babies . . .
@Anonymous wrote:That's is what I mean.
It would be so cute when that happens. Keep us posted.
Being retired, I try to find delight in simple things...
Four years ago, I bought a Clivia plant (Kaffir lily) and I was assured by the fellow in the flower shop that it was a 'mature' plant.
You only get flowers from mature plants, so I thought I would have myself a beautiful bloom that year, but for some reason it never happened..?
Being a little disappointed, I sat the plant in the corner of the living room, and while I attended to it's needs, so to speak,I really didn't give it much of a thought.
Well...imagine by delight, when I passed by yesterday and noticed that it was finally flowering..
I doubt if I could be any more thrilled.!!
This is a clivia in bloom..
F.A.O. Harriet.
Busy on here lately, aren't we dear ? 
Bit upside down meself.
I quite like Foxes and Hedgehogs, the latter baked in clay. I still haven't found a decent recipe for Foxes, though. Must drop a line to Mary Berry.
Keep 'm coming, and think of more stuff like that during the day as much as you can. Seek for the treasures that surround you day in day out.
The other day I had to go on a long train trip and took a taxi with my daughter to the train station. It's not a long distance, maybe 15 minutes. The taxi driver was a really nice guy and in a very good mood and I was as well as I was excited about the trip. He started chatting and mentioned Amsterdam. "I come from Amsterdam" I said, and then the conversation really got going. He had lived in Amsterdam for 20 years, spoke quite a bit of Dutch as well. His kids were born there. He came here in 2005. I think he was Indian, but not sure.
He was such a nice guy and for me to actually get a taxi driver that lived in my hometown for so long is not something I would expect. I rarely go by taxi by the way. It was a shame the trip was so short as we could have carried on chatting. I gave him a big tip, because he really made my day. And I think I made his as well.
*quickly changes subject*
That's a nice story, Harriet. You were lucky. I usually get Taxi drivers who want to witter on endlessly about football. *groans*
That's lovely, Wilson! A beautiful flower, flowering because it's been nurtured. What could be nicer??
IT MAKES ME SMILE!!!!,,,, when people turn around in a queue and smile at me instead of just look away. Or start to chat even if i dont know them.
Animals make me smile,,,my cat makes me smile and i love her. Sometimes i just take it for granted that shes there!!!.
Rose, we all take a lot of things for granted and we forget how blessed we really are. And the whole point of this 30 day experiment is to start to appreciate those things much more than we normally do. We might do it on occasion, but the game is to do it every day and on purpose, simply because it's a whole lot more joyful to focus on things that please us.
So appreciate your cat all the time, appreciate the plants in your garden, the rain, the sun, etc...find those things in people you can appreciate instead of looking for the things that you don't like in them.
There will hopefully be a knock on effect in doing this and I am really curious to see how it will affect the people who take this challenge serious.
Doing it still has to be fun though.
Hi Astro.
Good to see you again.
A very good friend of mine came round tonight and she gave me a beautiful wall lamp, very expensive (she is a lighting consultant), and not something I could afford to buy myself. I'm really chuffed.
I'm getting ready to go to see my mum in Holland. I'm leaving on Saturday. We're going by boat and will be back on the 16th, so a real nice break. Just my husband and me. He won a holiday at work in December, and we could pick where we wanted to go within the limits of course of the money they allocated. Not a difficult choice as it wasn't near enough to have a proper foreign holiday, but more than enough to go to my mum's by car and boat. We will have a luxury cabin and we are really looking forward to the trip and the visit.
I feel good today as a lovely friend of mine has got a job with me so we will be doing some work together. We have a similar sense of humour so its made me happier now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..
I'm going on holiday tomorrow. I hope that some of you will continue the experiment whether you post things on here or not.
I'll be back on the 16th. Have a good time.
Sun is out today,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,i feel good about that.
Have a nice time in Amsterdam, Harriet. Keep away from that awful Reeperbahn though. I'd hate to see a photograph of you in the Daily Star, posing and preening in some window. *sniggers behind hand*
