Tree of happiness award

Just having a bit of a spring clean of my computer, and found, hidden away, from long ago, a lovely award given to me by Top Veg, the Tree of Happiness.

You have to list six things that make you happy:

1. all my family sitting round the kitchen table eating a delicious dinner
   
2. tulips
3. reading - a good book, a poem, a recipe, the newspaper ... not too keen on the cereal packet unless there really isn't anything else
4. the warmth of the fire seen through the window of the woodburner, the smell of apple logs burning
   
5. a delivery of fresh organic vegetables and milk from Riverford ... seasonal, delicious, and no need to go to the supermarket
6. winter flowers - snowdrops, the scent of witch hazel, sarcococcus, iris reticulata ... all of them tiny, fleeting yet intense pleasures

And six blogs, new-ish to me, which make me happy, & which get my Tree of Happiness award:

• A Pot of Tea and a Biscuit - does what it says on the tin
  
• Eco-Gites of Lenault in Calvados - an English family in France
  
• Cabbage Tree Farm - on the road to self-sufficiency
  
• Glanbrydan - cooking for the farmers' market
  
• La Recette du Jour - another expat in France
  
• The Sunday Roaster - cooking on his woodburner

Thanks, Top Veg!


PS Bridget, can't find your email address, but I know you'll find this anyway!