Tag: happiness

Woken by the warmth of the sun

Not a great photo, but one of the first blossoms I saw this year. It’s been a super-productive day today. It started on a really positive note, with the warm sun streaming through the trees, through the glass doors that make up a whole wall of our bedroom, and onto my face. It made me […]

Valentines Day 2009

After work last night, I came home to find the house stinking of rancid steamed broccoli – we’d forgotten to put a dish of it away in the fridge before heading off to Saitama the previous day, and what with these spring-like temperatures it had rapidly deteriorated. Windows open, air purifier on full blast …soon […]

Cafe de Twinkle

Today is a day to be remembered. *Twinkle* and I have a whole day off together. It’s a rare thing. We stayed up pretty late last night (about 3am), planning and working on our goals in our cosy little bedroom – with the heated carpet warming our tootsies (had a little switch-on ceremony). This morning […]

Overly content?

A reoccurring theme for discussion in my head is one that revolves around being content. You see, I believe that it is important to be content with today’s life, because there is no tomorrow. And thus, I generally feel very content. Yet, I can feel that this feeling of contentness is perhaps holding me back, […]

The Wedding Reception

The wedding website has now be updated to reflect the post-wedding reality of our present existence. Anyone interested in taking a peek can find it at www.twinkleandjoseph.net (with the name ‘twinkle’ being replaced with a name she uses in 1st life). The username is ‘guest’, the password ‘banana’. So there we were. Married, with the […]

The wedding service

The morning of the wedding was pretty hectic. I’d had this idea that if I tried to prepare everything as far in advance as possible, there would be little to do on the day itself …but it didn’t quite turn out like that! At 7.20am I was on my way to Hereford to do some […]

The night before my wedding

It’s now ten minutes to midnight on the night before my wedding day. I dropped *Twinkle* back to the cottage we’ve rented for her parents, where she will spend her last night before she becomes my wife. It’s been an amazing day. Thinking back over the last 16 hours I feel tearful – we have […]

*Twinkle*s arrival and the first of two weddings

The drive to Heathrow airport never takes as long as I expect it to. I think of London as being a long way away, but it actually takes less than three hours to get there from Herefordshire, and what with the airport being located just off the M4 there’s not much in the way of […]

Touching base

In response to anonymous’ comment on the previous post: you’ll have to bear with us – things are a little busy at wedding central… Will be back online ‘soon’. Driving back from Heathrow At Ludlow castle Camping

Hurray it’s Monday :-)

WARNING! THIS IS WHAT YOU MIGHT LOOK LIKE IF YOU HOLD ONTO LOTS OF BALLOONSBeen a bloomin fantabulous week this. The conference, the completion of the website (will give you the link soon), the people, the coaching course, the friendship… just grand. So much to smile about. I’m really excited that it’s Monday again. That […]

Happy for today

Before I get on with this mumble, I’d just like to mention that this post is not an invitation for you to kill me. Thank you. These really are good times. Whilst it is a core belief of mine that it’s important to appreciate today and not postpone the attainment of happiness for ‘tomorrow’, sometimes […]

Sunday morning stuff

Woke up feeling a bit sad today – is it due to the ‘loss’ of one hour as we enter British Summer Time? I think not, as it’s no loss at all. Decided to tackle the sadness and so went for a jog up to the top of Cole’s Tump from where one can see […]

Today is whatever I want it to mean

The church opposite my house The smallest of things make me happy. Like the way our Japanese literature teacher walks into the room with such energy, so happy to teach us (even if she can’t see us: “My usual glasses are broken so I’m having to use these ones that go dark in the sun […]