As usual I’m joining with Emily of Nerd in the Brain (and others) for Three Things Thursday’. As she says…
*three things that make me smile: an exercise in gratitude – feel free to steal this idea with wild abandon and fill your blog with the happy*
First, meeting blogging friends in person. This week has been an especially good week for this since I spent Monday afternoon with Katy the Night Owl, drinking vast quantities of tea and setting the world to rights. And then today we had lunch with Sue, a blog reader who lives in the next county to us, but whom we’ve never met before. It won’t be the last time – again there was lots of tea, plus pies and cakes.
Second, pollinators. Our garden has been full of bees this year – especially little bumblebees. We see hardly any honeybees, although I noticed loads of these on my recent visit to London – clearly city bee-keeping is thriving. The limery, however, seems to be a magnet for hoverflies, which avoid the insectivorous plants and head straight for the flowers:
hoverfly on a melon flower
Third, a trio of eggs. For the first time in many months, today I have collected three eggs. This means that the lovely young Mags (Light Sussex) has started laying – yay! Now if Anna could just get back to it, we’d be swamped!
today’s eggs from (l-r) Mags, Tiffany and Aliss
So that’s it for this week. What are you feeling grateful for?
The Snail of Happiness 
Pat
/ August 11, 2016Have you ever thought of beekeeping? Not that I consider it a minor undertaking. I just wondered if you ever looked into it.
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The Snail of Happiness
/ August 11, 2016We have discussed it, but in our small garden and with close neighbours we decided against it… instead we try to encourage native bees, and we seem to be having some success 🙂
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coppicelearner
/ August 11, 2016It was lovely to meet you both and find we have so much in common. Look forward to next time.
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The Snail of Happiness
/ August 11, 2016Hopefully we’ll get down to see you soon 🙂
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w1nt3l
/ August 11, 2016Fresh farm eggs are the ONLY eggs I eat now. Weekly 3 dozen from a local farm!
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The Snail of Happiness
/ August 11, 2016It is lovely to be able to eat eggs from happy hens… and our girls are so entertaining too.
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katechiconi
/ August 11, 2016I’m grateful to have finished the charity quilt I was working on, and have sent it off, I’m grateful for modern medicine to ease this stinking cold the Husband so kindly brought home, and I’m grateful for a really excellent ankle brace to hold still the ligaments I tore yesterday when I fell over. The last two were a bit of a stretch, I confess…
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The Snail of Happiness
/ August 12, 2016Oh no – a cold and a bad ankle… you’re not exactly having the greatest time health-wise at the moment so there must ba huge gratitude for many aspects of modern medicine in your house.
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katechiconi
/ August 12, 2016Indeed! We just LOVE titanium around here 🙂 and not just because it’s so pretty. The ankle is splendidly swollen and very black, and the cold is now at its absolute apex of snotty feverishness. I have spent the day in pjs. I am a delight to behold… not.
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The Snail of Happiness
/ August 12, 2016I just hope you recover soon… from everything!
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katechiconi
/ August 12, 2016…working on it!
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nerdinthebrain
/ August 11, 2016You always have the most wonderful lists! 😀 I’m glad you’ve had such a lovely week!
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The Snail of Happiness
/ August 12, 2016I’m a very lucky gal!
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anne54
/ August 12, 2016What a satisfying week for you. I met up with dear friends for lunch, got back to a painting I have had on the go for ages and, thirdly, got my tax done! It’s a good life, and I am grateful to be able to live it.
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The Snail of Happiness
/ August 12, 2016Always a relief when the tax is out of the way!
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Deborah Weber
/ August 12, 2016What a lovely collection of three things. And a very pretty hoverfly – I think she selected the melon flower to compliment her coloring for the photo.
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The Snail of Happiness
/ August 12, 2016And she sat so still for me to photograph her!
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