tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88173312542416349822011-04-21T15:44:19.636-07:00It's all very self-explanatory, here are my reasons to be cheerful. What are yours?Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01676588329405536812noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817331254241634982.post-46506790723512479982008-03-29T05:42:00.000-07:002008-03-29T05:46:29.752-07:00<ul><li>Updating your blog after almost a year. I feel like I'm doing something productive, even though I'm still in bed and it's 1pm.</li><li>Taking photographs of the city you love. Glasgow is incredibly interesting, and it photographs really well.</li><li>Working hard all week, and then doing nothing on the weekend.<br /></li><li>Eating Chinese food with my parents and relaxing in their company.<br /></li><li>Knowing that I did the right thing.</li><li>Being supportive in someones time of need.</li><li>Lounging around in a comfy pair of linen trousers.</li><li>Doctor Who next Saturday.<br /></li></ul><br />Take care, and please for the love of God, email me at reasonsblog@googlemail.com<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8817331254241634982-4650679072351247998?l=reasonstobecheerful123.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01676588329405536812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817331254241634982.post-65910527206215205892007-05-13T08:21:00.000-07:002007-05-13T08:50:08.393-07:00<ul><li>Hot pizza. Any kind. Just as long as it's hot.</li><li>Chilled Irn-Bru. Lord knows what they put in it. It could be radioactive arse-scrape from Chernobyl for all I care, it's delicious.</li><li>The Specials doing any of their songs. But if I'm being fussy, then make it Ghost Town.</li></ul><br />And the very first reason to be cheerful from a reader! Woohoo!<br /><ul><li>Chocolate. It needs no explanation. Cheers Cailliath!</li></ul>Email me your reasons at reasonsblog@googlemail.com<br /><br />Ash, xxx<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8817331254241634982-6591052720621520589?l=reasonstobecheerful123.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01676588329405536812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817331254241634982.post-54826080473449215872007-05-08T05:56:00.000-07:002007-05-08T05:59:59.156-07:00<ul><li>Quitting a job you hate.<br /></li><li>A sleeping cat on your chest, purring away like there's nothing wrong.</li><li>Hot toast, with butter and a little bit of honey.</li><li>Uploading photos to Flickr, and finding out that people actually look at them!</li><li>Seeing someone you love with a new haircut that they really like. Their self-esteen boost is great.</li><li>Sleeping in. Always.</li></ul><br />Email me your reasons to be cheerful at reasonsblog@googlemail.com<br /><br />Ash, xxx<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8817331254241634982-5482608047344921587?l=reasonstobecheerful123.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01676588329405536812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817331254241634982.post-19752917848553085062007-03-03T13:55:00.000-08:002007-03-03T14:07:58.005-08:00<ul><li>Having lunch at Where The Monkey Sleeps. Thar She Blows and an Oreo Speedwagon are just super.</li><li>Taking the bus past your office when you have the day off, knowing that everyone inside is hard at work. AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!</li><li>Pumpkin ravioli with goats cheese. Words cannot describe the toe-tingling pleasure.</li><li>Snuggling up on the sofa with someone special to watch The X-Files.</li><li>Having the cat also snuggle up to watch The X-Files.</li><li>Trying on a jacket you haven't worn for ages, and finding out if still fits really well, and dammit if you don't look foxy to boot.</li></ul><p>Adios, and email your reasons to <a href="mailto:reasonsblog@googlemail.com">reasonsblog@googlemail.com</a> </p><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8817331254241634982-1975291784855308506?l=reasonstobecheerful123.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01676588329405536812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817331254241634982.post-38150153729440455752007-03-02T08:20:00.000-08:002007-03-03T13:53:23.484-08:00<ul><li>Coming in from the cold, sitting on the sofa and having the cat greet me by nuzzling my cheek.</li><li>A 'Stars & Stripes' bagel from the Bagel Factory- bacon, cream cheese, tomato and guacamole.</li><li>'Raspberry Beret' by Prince</li><li>New socks</li><li>A clean shirt. </li><li>A cinammon latte on a cold morning.</li><li>Giving great news to someone you love. This is one of the best things ever, in the entire world.</li></ul><p>Take it easy, and email your reasons to <a href="mailto:reasonsblog@googlemail.com">reasonsblog@googlemail.com</a>.</p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8817331254241634982-3815015372944045575?l=reasonstobecheerful123.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01676588329405536812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817331254241634982.post-63993736273295113172007-03-01T14:15:00.000-08:002007-03-01T14:33:55.535-08:00Right now, pay attention scum.<br /><br />In a bid to combat the overwhelming tide of negativity and cynicism that infects our daily lives, this is a blog dedicated to the small (and not so small) pleasures that make things that little more bearable. I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours, if you will. Email all your reasons to be cheerful to me, your supreme overlord at <a href="mailto:reasonsblog@googlemail.com">reasonsblog@googlemail.com</a><br /><br />The original reasons to be cheerful were laid out as follows by the lovely Ian Dury accompanied by his smashing beat combo The Blockheads.<br /><br /><br />Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3<br />(Dury, Jankel &amp; Payne)<br /><br />Summer, Buddy Holly, the working folly<br />Good golly Miss Molly and boats<br />Hammersmith Palais, the Bolshoi Ballet<br />Jump back in the alley and nanny goats<br /><br />18-wheeler Scammels, Domenecker camels<br />All other mammals plus equal votes<br />Seeing Piccadilly, Fanny Smith and Willy<br />Being rather silly, and porridge oats<br /><br />A bit of grin and bear it, a bit of come and share it<br />You're welcome, we can spare it - yellow socks<br />Too short to be haughty, too nutty to be naughty<br />Going on 40 - no electric shocks<br /><br />The juice of the carrot, the smile of the parrot<br />A little drop of claret - anything that rocks<br />Elvis and Scotty, days when I ain't spotty,<br />Sitting on the potty - curing smallpox<br /><br />Health service glasses<br />Gigolos and brasses<br />Round or skinny bottoms<br /><br />Take your Mum to Paris<br />Lighting up the chalice<br />Wee Willy Harris<br /><br />Bantu Stephen Biko, listening to Rico<br />Harpo, Groucho, Chico<br /><br />Cheddar cheese and pickle, the Vincent motorsickle<br />Slap and tickle<br />Woody Allen, Dali, Dimitri and Pasquale<br />balabalabala and Volare<br /><br />Something nice to study, phoning up a buddy<br />Being in my nuddy<br />Saying hokey-dokey, singalonga Smokey<br />Coming out of chokey<br /><br />John Coltrane's soprano, Adi Celentano<br />Bonar Colleano<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8817331254241634982-6399373627329511317?l=reasonstobecheerful123.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01676588329405536812noreply@blogger.com0