Reasons to be cheerful

[Roger Webb]

A Private Eye cartoon of yore showed Oscar Wilde with a policeman, holding a notebook, saying 'Anything you say Mr Wilde will be written down and printed in a book of quotations'.

Yes, I've always had this habit....so much so that a dear friend (RIP David ) on the occasion of my 50th gave me a book of OW's quotations. I thanked him with the promise that I could now misquote him with greater authority!

[smittims]

The comments about Trump remind me of what my father (a headmaster) said about Idi Amin when others were saying 'he's mad':

'I don't think he's mad; just uneducated.'

[Roger Webb]

Reasons to be cheerful? Not many apparently! We've slipped a few places down the Happiness Index. Finland tops the list...why?...they've got YLE...all we have is Radio 3!

[LMcD]

Reasons to be cheerful? Not many apparently! We've slipped a few places down the Happiness Index. Finland tops the list...why?...they've got YLE...all we have is Radio 3!

Apparently the Finns have developed an 'infrastructure of happiness', key elements of which are lower income inequality, high social support, freedom to make decisions and low levels of corruption.

[Roger Webb]

Apparently the Finns have developed an 'infrastructure of happiness', key elements of which are lower income inequality, high social support, freedom to make decisions and low levels of corruption.

Until only recently Finland had the highest suicide rate in the World....apparently they've managed to half the suicide rate in just thirty years! Although their 'infrastructure of happiness' doesn't prevent mass shootings, which seem to be on the rise.

[LMcD]

Until only recently Finland had the highest suicide rate in the World....apparently they've managed to half the suicide rate in just thirty years! Although their 'infrastructure of happiness' doesn't prevent mass shootings, which seem to be on the rise.

The Finns may benefit from solidarity in the face of not only a hostile climate but also a hostile neighbour. They also enjoy making jokes about Swedes. They are currently rated 38th in the list of world suicide rates.

[gradus]

Ging heut Morgen ubers Feld; the countryside absolutely gorgeous.

[cloughie]

A great reason to be cheerful is the sheer joy of the first day of spring (the equinox, arguably spring starts on 21st). But that lovely warm sunshine weave been waiting for so long. It may not last but that awful winter is now behind us. .

[Pulcinella]

Yes: Year 5 trip to a farm near Thirsk.
Absolutely glorious.

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes: Year 5 trip to a farm near Thirsk.
Absolutely glorious.

Even managed an hour of afternoon sunbathing on the lawn - shade temperature reached 18.5C up here so probably 20C in the West End.

[cloughie]

Even managed an hour of afternoon sunbathing on the lawn - shade temperature reached 18.5C up here so probably 20C in the West End.

Car registered 21C for short while - driving in Dorset.