That post I wrote on International Happiness Day has kept my spirits raised thanks to the great response that it got and the sense that it resonated with people around the globe.
I want to thank writer Frances Macaulay Forde, who lives in Australia and blogs on the lovely site Exploring Possibilities, for following up on her comment and sending me this happy, happy photo of herself and her niece among daffodils which was taken in Ireland in 2003.
Thanks also to writer Roy McCarthy, who lives in Jersey and blogs at Back on the Rock, for jogging me into ‘count your blessings’ mode through his comments. He succeeded in catapulting me back to absolute basics and, even though I thought I didn’t take much for granted, I’ve realised that I absolutely do and this is something I plan on changing.
Here’s a little example of how Roy sent me into reflective mode early yesterday morning!
It is quite astonishing where counting blessings takes one!
SOCIAL BRIDGE ~ Jean Tubridy connecting with you from Ireland 
How lovely! Thank you so much for highlighting my blog, posting my photo and saying such lovely things. You deserve the credit for inspiring us all. Hope you like my ‘Spring for Autumn’ which naturally was a direct result of your posting. Thanks so much!
p.s. I also LOVE how you’ve cleverly managed to post it onto my blog – I’m still a novice at this so was especially pleased to see you’d done it for me! Thanks again! (I too love collaborations!)
Frances, I’m delighted that you like the post. I can assure you that posting it on your blog was a complete fluke but obviously it wanted to be there!