My weekly exercise in gratitude – three things that are making me smile – feel free to steal this idea with wild abandon and fill your blog [or Twitter account or Facebook page or diary or life in general] with happiness.
First, ethical coffee. Every two weeks I receive a (completely biodegradable) package of coffee. Our postie loves delivering it because it fills his van with a wonderful aroma, and I love drinking it and reading about the producers that it comes from. The company who sell it, Roasting House, is able to support small-scale coffee growers because it’s a club not a shop, so they don’t have to guarantee large stocks. This is the latest; just read what they say about the project…
Coffee or Cocaine?
Second, more socialising. Last Saturday we attended a Tweet-up (meet-up for people who know each other through Twitter) of Welsh smallholders. Yes, I know we don’t exactly have a smallholding, but we have the ethos. These get-togethers are always good – great food, lovely company and the opportunity to see someone else’s set up.
Smallholders’ Tweet-up (c) Philippa Pickworth
Third, sitting on a parcel. This made me smile because it was so silly. I had a parcel to send to the USA yesterday. I packed it very carefully, but I wasn’t sure that it would be quite thin enough to go as a ‘large letter’ rather than a ‘small parcel’. Since the difference is about £5, it’s quite an important distinction and it was dimensions not weight that was critical. So, I drove to the Post Office whilst sitting on the parcel… and it worked! Sometimes there is a simple solution.
So, that’s what’s making me happy this week. How about you?
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Emily of Nerd in the Brain originally created Three Things Thursday, but it’s now being hosted by Natalie of There She Goes.
The Snail of Happiness 
nanacathy2
/ October 12, 2017Love the parcel sitting one! For me, new grandson takes all three happy spots this week.
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The Snail of Happiness
/ October 12, 2017Hope mum and babe are doing well.
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quietwatercraft
/ October 12, 2017Ahahaha I love the parcel one! I shall remember that for next time 😉 What a wonderful idea with the coffee – super tasty, good for the environment, AND good for the coffee-growers! I’d like to get into something like that, I’ll have a look if we’ve got anything in Scotland.
My three things are anticipation of a visit from a good friend, success at knitting my first ever button holes, and some surprise crochet goodies my mum ordered for me 🙂
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The Snail of Happiness
/ October 12, 2017Do check out Roasting House – they deliver across the UK and they seem to have the best approach that I have found of any coffee company.
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Helen
/ October 15, 2017I’m so glad I read this post. The company is just what I’ve been looking for, since I made a pledge three years ago to find a way of cutting the plastic packaging round coffee out of my life. Anyway, I’ve ordered my first bag, which I look forward to receiving next weekend.
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The Snail of Happiness
/ October 15, 2017Great – I’m sure you won’t be disappointed.
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Helen
/ October 15, 2017😊
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katechiconi
/ October 12, 2017I shall have to remember the parcel trick… I’m loving my new Farmy apron; I’m loving the winding up to our holiday, gathering all the stuff we need (including a new tent, the old one is now more holey than we can mend, but we’ve bought the same brand so we’ll have spares); and last but by no means leas, finally feeling better: I think the drugs have finally subdued all the rampant bacteria 🙂
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The Snail of Happiness
/ October 12, 2017Yay – so glad you are feeling better in time for your trip.
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katechiconi
/ October 12, 2017The black bags under my eyes have gone… waiting to be packed for the trip, haha!
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coppicelearner
/ October 12, 2017I love the coffee idea and will look them up. Jeni told me about the twitter meeting too. What has made me smile this week has been smiles. On my travels I bumped into three different people I know on separate occasions and their faces lit up each time when they saw me! As a sickly only child I was not good at making friends but now I have the knack and I love it! One of the meetings was at the local produce market which is held 4 times a year and I bought lovely meat, cheese, sourdough bread and a codiment made from foraged ingredients plus a delicious tart for my supper. In fact it has been a very good week!
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The Snail of Happiness
/ October 12, 2017Well, you certainly have the knack of making friends now!
You should come along to the smallholder’s get-togethers. Come with Jeni- everyone would be delighted to welcome you.
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coppicelearner
/ October 13, 2017I am not on Twitter – would it matter?
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The Snail of Happiness
/ October 13, 2017I don’t see why it would…
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Laurie Graves
/ October 12, 2017Sitting on the parcel was a brilliant idea! And yay for the coffee and the meet-up.
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Annie
/ October 12, 2017The last time I had to send a parcel I struggled to get the weight down to 2kg. After much economising on cardboard, I did manage – just. I don’t think sitting on it would have helped, it was my old bike helmet!
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The Snail of Happiness
/ October 12, 2017This time it was volume not weight that caused the problems… I did have to miss out the usual fancy packaging, but it couldn’t be helped.
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thecontentedcrafter
/ October 12, 2017‘Parcel sitting’ may well become the next big thing! 🙂 Though I don’t think it would work with light catchers unfortunately. Which is the big thing making me happy this week – one gigantic light catcher completed and hung safely, three more completed and ready for the shop. And the crafting chaos completely put to order – that was a few hours of sorting and tidying I can tell you. Now on with producing some cards……
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The Snail of Happiness
/ October 13, 2017I’m wincing at the prospect of sitting on a light-catcher!
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thecontentedcrafter
/ October 13, 2017😀
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San
/ October 13, 2017We buy our coffee from Pilgrim Coffee over on Lindisfarne, not only is the coffee great their ethics are top notch. Your tweet meet up sounded fab and I love the story of stream lining a parcel it made me smile xx
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The Snail of Happiness
/ October 14, 2017Pilgrim coffee sounds interesting… it’s lovely that there are such companies around doing good and providing good products.
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insearchofitall
/ October 14, 2017What a lovely week you have had! I don’t think I’ve heard of that kind of coffee distribution system here but it would be wonderful. I do almost no social media so that lets me out but a good get together is so good for a person. I have to admit to laughing out loud to the package sitting. Brilliant though. 🙂
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