Great idea for a thread. Thank you, Jerry. You're absolutely right: quiet, usual, regular, mundane is just fine ! I was thinking that very same thing only yesterday and really appreciating and loving a plain old ordinary day. That feeling of "ordinariness" can be so welcome when it has been absent for a while. My mother and daughter had both been going from one health problem to another for month after month, which set my life totally upside down in helping them and I was starting to wonder whether we would ever have anything remotely like a "normal" week again.

Thank goodness, all has settled down, life is getting back to an even keel, and it was such a good feeling to go buying plants in the garden centre with my mum, then coming home and making pancakes with my daughter. Simple, everyday, family weekend things. Then today, daughter well and gone to school, and me sitting at my desk at the window, looking at the buds in the garden outside hiding those tiny leaves just peeping through, radio playing, starting a new piece of work....so glad to be having a plain old regular day. Added bonuses: the days are getting longer; hearing from old and new Mudcat and "3D" friends; and I found out that Gordon Giltrap is playing a gig in Chelmsford this Friday and I'll be able to go to it. I haven't heard him play live for years.

Something to do, someone to love, something to look forward to. According to an old Chinese proverb, that's the recipe for happiness. Most definitely.

- jeanie