Things that have made me smile today:

A family of tiny wrens who have taken up winter residence in the swallow’s nest under our porch and who peer over the rim and chatter at me when I go in and out of the front door.

Big Stupid Spaniel turning his front end round to catch the ball that rolled past him and snapping it up in his jaws, together with the end of his feathery tail, then spending the next few minutes (unable to compute letting go of the ball and therefore his tail) going round, trapped in a rotating circle of doom, whilst I collapsed into a hedge, helpless with mirth.

The incessant rain stopping, and taking an afternoon stroll in the autumn sunshine with ‘im outdoors and the dogs

Knocking my bottle of Corona off the kitchen surface onto the stone floor as I was cooking dinner where it bounced, span wildly without smashing, fizzing up the contents and wedging the lime into the neck, preventing most of the beer from escaping. I picked up the bottle, poked the lime back in and carried on drinking