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Blossom in the orangery at Calke, and daffodils and anemones in the orchard, but my #smalljoy was seeing FIVE border collies waiting patiently at the cafe

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Crocuses at Markeaton Park in yesterday’s sunshine

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It’s been a day of pottering around the garden; sowing chillies and tomatoes, clearing dead stalks, bringing some wallflowers and daffodils inside, and watching the sunset to the accompaniment of a robin’s song #smalljoys

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It’s felt a bit colder today but I’ve started sorting out my vegetable seeds and filling plantpots in the propagator ready to start sowing tomorrow #smalljoys

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Morning. Happy March

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Fewer joys today but the sun shone and this second vase of forced forsythia cheered up the dining room (won’t be long now before it flowers out in the garden) #smalljoys

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So many #smalljoys today - booking a short break with younger daughter, a lovely sunny day, daffodils and crocus at Kedleston, and the tea room open long enough to have cake ❤️

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Snowdrop adventures at Hopton Hall

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Today’s #smalljoy was taking a short walk in warm sunshine and seeing all the spring bulbs flowering

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Today’s #smalljoys - a proper day of sunshine at last, a sea of snowdrops at Hopton Hall, and sighting a strange bird (possibly a pheasant) flying above the car

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A totally miserable day today but there are still #smalljoys to be found - muscaria bulbs starting to flower indoors, and raindrops on the birch twigs

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Snowdrops at Shipley Country Park, Derbyshire #smalljoys

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#Smalljoys today - losing my extra Christmas weight, and a phone call with my daughter (not from anywhere exotic but from a Tesco in Manchester)

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Up early and then waiting around for ‘men’ - one to fix some niggles on the new front door (he couldn’t), and another to measure for new cupboard doors in the kitchen (he did but advised that a dishwasher wouldn’t fit because of pipe work). Now I’m wondering where the day’s gone 🤷‍♀️

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An excellent day. From chatting to one daughter via WiFi as she flew home from India, to birthday tea (and cake) for the other daughter’s partner #smalljoys

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Today’s #smalljoy the brightness of forsythia flowers

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Very little achieved today apart from starting to sort through my late parents’ photos - masses of them going back a hundred years. I wonder what they would have made of the possibility of carrying a phone/camera around every day. Loved it, I’d imagine

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Markeaton Park - snowdrops, daffodils, swans, and sunset #smalljoys

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Another snowdrop adventure - this time at Kedleston Hall #smalljoys

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Watching Operation Mincemeat with Colin Firth and Matthew MacFadyen - two Darcys for the price of one

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Today there were garden snowdrops, a Lenten hellebore, a sunset walk, and a video call from my daughter on the beach in Goa #smalljoys

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Chilly walk today but all the little birds were singing at dusk and it feels like it won’t be long till Spring #smalljoys

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Splashes of bright yellow from this week’s supermarket daffs and the first garden crocus (You’ll have to squint to see it because I didn’t want to walk on the flower bed) #smalljoys

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In 2007, a clip went viral of a man being stopped on the street by a Guangzhou TV reporter. The man was asked about a sex scandal that was all over the news at the time and his reply has been a popular Chinese slang phrase for not getting involved ever since. He said “I’m just here to buy soy sauce”

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Noticing a disturbing change in the resident squirrel’s behaviour this last couple of days. Instead of raiding the bird food he’s trying to eat garden bulbs. Wondering how to discourage him …

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Today’s small joys - blue skies after yesterday’s storm, snowdrops in a neighbour’s garden, and opening parcels from Vinted

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Today’s small joys - Betty’s florentines from my daughter, sprinkling seeds from my loaf to make my soup look fancy, a squirrel being blown across the lawn by gusts of wind (it bounded away okay) and an evening sky clear enough to go planet hunting

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22 January. I usually reserve birthdays for authors and, more often than not, children's authors but today's an exception. On this day in 1865, the great Wilbur 'Hot Stuff' Scoville was born, inventor of the Scoville Scale to measure chilli pepper taste and spiciness. He's a guy worth celebrating!

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Filling the house with the wonderful aroma of lemons. Freezer a little clearer and four jars of marmalade waiting #smalljoys

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