April 16, 2004

Simple Pleasures No7

[This is one that isn't in the original list I wrote when I thought this strand up]

A brand new mouse.

You suddenly realise just what you'd been putting up with all this time.

(And it helps if someone else paid for it.)

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April 07, 2004

Simple Pleasures: No7

Stumbling across the elusive emotional or social cue that a particular food so nearly conjures up...

(In this case it was some Keen's Cheddar from Sainsbury's, and it's the smell of cleaning out the underside of a Flymo that has been left uncleaned just a tiny bit too long. The mixture of fresh green, and slightly dusty mouldiness)

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Simple Pleasures: No6

Wood Pigeons cooing for the first time of the year. The birdsong equivalent of a great big hug.

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March 30, 2004

Simple Pleasures: No5

The suprise, mixed with a slight guilt at your unnoticably incrementally-diminished horizons, when you find a DVD special feature that is actually in some way special.

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March 25, 2004

Simple Pleasures: No4

The echo of childhood caused by shaking a blown lightbulb to hear the faint high-pitched rattle from inside, with its naughty hint of adult danger from the knowledge that all lightbulbs are so fragile they will Break At Any Moment!

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March 23, 2004

Simple Pleasures: No3

A fully charged electric toothbrush with a brand new brush-head, giving that feeling of dental purpose and power as they start getting your teeth properly clean.

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March 18, 2004

Simple Pleasures: No2

The acrid, almost sick-like, smell that uniquely identifies the binding of each book the first time it is opened, accompanied by the first rough run of your fingers down the just-cut pages - the teases of a world of knowledge or imagination waiting to happen.

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March 17, 2004

Simple Pleasures: No1

The cool, freshly springy hug that comes from putting on a brand-new pair of good socks.

[This is an occasional series on reasons to get up in the morning...hopefully daily until I run out, but I'm not promising anything]

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