Well, they were playing this on the radio this morning, and while I was dancing around my bedroom I thought about all the reasons I have to be cheerful on this sunny Monday.  Here is a selection. Not necessarily my top 20 but up there somewhere:

In no particular order…:

1. my family is healthy
2. It’s sunny even thought it’s August in England 😉 – we must be due for a storm…
3. I went to bed later than I should so I’m still sleepy, but I was lucky enough to be able to get a good night’s rest in a comfortable bed with a soft pillow
4. I had an invigorating shower with as much hot water as I cared to use
5. Despite ‘never having anything to wear’ I do actually have a huge selection of clean clothes to choose from
6. I still have my own teeth, and hair
7. I can still dance – after a fashion 🙂
8. none of the people I love smoke. This is something I am grateful for every single day (I have very strong opinions on smoking…don’t get me started!)
9. I have a very daft dog
10. I’ll be eating vegetables today that I have grown and picked myself
11. If I didn’t have my own veggies to eat, I could go to the supermarket and buy as many as I like
12. I have perfume to make me smell nice
13. Even though I know and appreciate that there are terrible, horrible, disgraceful, unfathomably nasty things going on in the world, I can still listen to jolly music on the radio in the mornings.
14. I am retired, though I don’t feel old enough to be
15. I have nice feet, and shoes to put on them
16. I know how to bake a cake and make wine….really, that’s all you need 🙂
17. I haven’t seen a spider in my house for several days
18. I can go out for a spin in Mavis, my new little red car, if I fancy it today
19. I can count at least five different species of birds in my garden right now… as I type..
20. I’ll get to have another session learning Japanese today

I’m wondering what your list might look like. I guess that one or two of your’s would match mine, but I’d love to hear what other’s you have. For inspiration here’s Ian Drury and the Blockheads for you:

Have a magical Monday x