Three Good Things
The idea here to be optimistic and cheer myself up each day by picking three good things, usually, but not always, vaguely related to what I've done that day.
It's loosely related to the concept of gratitude journalling and thankfulness but I find both of those terms can get a bit toxic, this is just intended to be nicely optimistic and counter my natural tendency to think of the three worst things that have happened recently when anyone asks me how I am.
This is an archived collection of stuff I've been posting on social media for a while. Initially I thought these were best kept ephemeral but then I realised I wanted to keep them because looking back through the entries really does cheer me up and why not lean into a happy feedback loop for a change?
17 September 2026
🚊Boarded the train with seconds to spare. (There’d be another in 15 mins but it’s nice to have a smooth journey.)
🚲Joined a couple of hundred other cyclists for a protest against the Merseyrail ebike ban. A good turnout.
🧺Coming home to a basket of freshly laundered clothes.
14 September 2026
🌊Spent a fab few days with the offspring returning them (more or less) to their uni life.
🏖️It’s still nice enough to work in the garden, I even had to retrieve the parasol from the shed.
🍓 I ate what was probably the last home grown strawberry of the summer and it was the most delicious.
6 September 2026
👩🏻💻Learning by reading other people’s code. (Emphasis on the ‘people’.)
💷 Got a cheap deal on some last minute outdoor theatre tickets yesterday and we had a nice evening out.
🍕I’d worried we’d miss out on interval pizzas because the last minuteness made it too late to pre-order but we were able to get them.
3 September 2026
😻We played back to back games of Calico to the sound of the cat snoring.
📖 Sat reading in the park for a while.
✂️ Got the fabric for a top cut out today.
2 September 2026
👩🏻💻Realised I could generalise the thing I was building to make it more useful.
✂️ Cut out a sewing pattern for a t-shirt.
🫖 Being brought a cup of tea.
1 September 2026
🚿 Cleaned both the shower heads out, and got them screwed back on ok as well. It was definitely procrasti-cleaning but it needed doing.
🌳 Sitting outside to work again after a few rainy days.
👩🏻🍳I did lots of baking yesterday so there was good low effort eating today.
24 August 2026
📨Cleared my inbox out.
🌳The sunlight through the trees was really nice this morning.
🧶Figured out where I was in the knitting project that I unintentionally put on hiatus a few months ago.
23 August 2026
🎲 Long day of board games.
🐕 I was given promo cards for Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor. (Hound of the Baskervilles!)
🍕Impromptu Sunday night pizza & wine since the week is all out of whack with holidays.
22 August 2026
📴 Did a pretty good job of switching off and relaxing on my holiday.
🌧️I was quite happy to have a cooler holiday and for it to be raining at home as well.
📳 The work I needed to do when I got back was minimal and easily sorted out.
14 August 2026
🍰 Gloucester motorway services have good buns, we bought some to take away and ate them at our next stop.
🌊 Got to our holiday cottage eventually.
🛜 Got the holiday cottage WiFi working eventually.
12 August 2026
📚 Partner tidied up bookshelves while I was out.
☕️Tried a new cafe I’ve been meaning to visit for ages and it was great.
🌒 Projected the partial eclipse onto the garden fence.
10 August 2026
🌧️ It was raining when I went outside to look for the cat in the night (the cat was already inside…).
📚 Actually took all the remaining books we cleared out to Oxfam (rather than leaving them in a pile for months).
Beetroot made a nice sandwich.
