Pleasure Triggers

My previous posting on this Blog listed a few of the things that were Irritation Triggers. 

My dear American friend Roberta (one of the three people who read this Blog) commented that I sounded a bit crabby, and perhaps it would be a good idea to list some of the things that give me pleasure. 

So, always ready to oblige, here are just a few of my Pleasure Triggers ...

• Hearing my 6-year old grandson come out with a new long and complicated word.
  
• Listening to said grandson declaring he's going to keep on asking his Dad to stop smoking.
  

• Putting up Christmas lights inside and outside the house.
  
• Switching them on and finding they all still work.
  
• Forgetting that it won't be long before I have to take them all down again.
  

• Americans' enthusiasm for their democratic processes.
  
• The 2008 results of their enthusiasm.
  

• Having some very good friends, both British and American
  

• My wife's cooking.
  
• Her willingness to keep on doing it.
  

• My wife's love.
  
• The fact that I'm still the recipient of it after 45 years.
  

• Being with children who are happy to see me even when I'm bussing them to school.
  
• The appreciation shown to me by their parents.
  

• The sight, sound and smell of steam locomotives.
  
• Travelling on trains, ancient and modern.
  

• My son's sense of humour.
  
• Watching my son giving devoted attention to his son.
  
• Seeing it reciprocated by my grandson.
  

• The beauty of my daughter-in-law.
  
• Her good relationship with us.
  

• Gazing at the orange and red hues of a winter sunset.
  
• Watching George W Bush riding off into it.
  

Merry Christmas! (Oops - sorry - that's in irrigation trigger: premature Christmas)