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?
8 August 2026
🧹 Got the house hoovered up.
🍞 Baked biscuits & bread.
🎲 Impromptu invitation to an afternoon board game.
7 August 2026
🛌 A bit of extra sleep this morning.
🥗 Meals eaten outside.
🪴Enjoying the ritual of watering the plants and tidying up outside in the evening.
6 August 2026
📓 Delivery of a new notebook and pens.
🖊️ Enjoying using the above!
📚 Overheard the Oxfam bookshop volunteer saying they needed stock which gave me the impetus to sort some overloaded bookshelves out when I got home.
5 August 2026
🗃️ A quick board game tidy up turned into a full scale take everything off the shelves including lots of stationary, jigsaws, books etc that had got muddled in. Everything much better organised now and much less dust.
💭And some nice memories came back while I was sorting through the stuff.
🌧️ I didn’t think we’d had that much rain but evidently it has been enough to half fill the water butt.
4 August 2026
🚲My bike service was done super fast!
👕Going to put the washing on the line and finding it was already there.
🔌The super long extension cable that lets me keep working in the garden longer than the laptop battery does.
3 August 2026
🌸Petals blowing around me while I’m sitting in the garden.
🚲 Bike dropped off at the workshop for a much needed service.
🥵Managing to get stuff done despite the heat.
1 August 2026
🌧️ The outdoor sofa cushions were too wet to sit in this morning. Given how little rain we’ve had this was a good thing.
😠 My family who put up with me being a grumpy bugger all day for no good reason.
😊 I have cheered up a bit this evening.
31 July 2026
🪳Bugs that looked like they might be tricky to fix actually just turned out to be longstanding typos.
🧵A pile of sewing supplies ready to have fun making things with.
🧠 Something complicated suddenly made more sense to me. Might not be right but it’s a step in the right direction.
29 July 2026
💡Having located the spare bulb supply in the shed the house is brighter in the evening again. (Nights must be drawing in.)
🌊 Booked a holiday!
🚙 Solved the problem with the car bike rack (so we can take bikes on holiday too).
27 July 2026
🐈Eventually found the grille for the cat carrier so we could get Ajay to a vet appointment.
🛖The shed has had a big tidy up and we’ve cleared a stack of stuff out of it (involuntarily started by needing to search for the grille).
♻️ And we’ve already got the junk taken to the recycling centre.
24 July 2026
🏊🏻♀️ Managed to time swimming so that I had the big pool almost to myself.
👓 Lost my glasses but found them where they had blown under a garden chair.
🍇The hedgerows are loaded with blackberries. Going back tomorrow with a tub!
22 July 2026
🛬 Managed the airport pickup within the ridiculously tight limit where parking is merely bloody expensive.
🧳 Which means the offspring is home for a while and it’s lovely to have them here.
🌳 A benefit of this dry spell is that even the super muddy footpath is usable.
