52 Weeks of Gratitude – Week Six
- feeling human again, after a three day migraine
- kiddos who let me sleep when I’m ill
- yummy salad from the garden
- sunshine!
- garden picnics
- summer being almost here
- singing along to my favourite Cat Stevens vinyl
- a bed to myself for a whole night ;)
- seeing plans coming together
- sweet customer emails
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Jess @ Along Came Cherry
June 13, 2014 at 09:44Three day migraine sounds awful, glad it’s over. I love Cat Stevens x
Jo Middleton
June 13, 2014 at 10:11Great list! I just finished reading The List of my Desires and although it’s very sad it’s very powerful in terms of making you appreciate the value of what you have.
laura redburn
June 13, 2014 at 18:22oh no, 3 day migraine :( but yay sunshine!
Laura
June 14, 2014 at 09:22This just reminded me to put together my list! So sorry to hear you have not been well but good to see your kiddos let you have a lie in. What Cat Stevens record? I love him
Laura x
abigail
June 14, 2014 at 09:26Great list, glad they’re letting you rest! I love Cat Stevens too!
You Baby Me Mummy
June 14, 2014 at 16:40I am glad you are feeling better after your migraine. How awful. I love this link up x
Kate Thompson
June 14, 2014 at 16:46Love children who let you sleep – it’s yet to happen here but I live in hope! Sorry you have been under the weather. x
Jen aka The Mad House
June 14, 2014 at 21:28I used to get a lot of migraines and there was nothing worse, I am glad that the girls let you sleep and recover.
Gill Crawshaw
June 14, 2014 at 21:31Lovely idea to make a list. Sorry about the three day migraine though! Glad you’re feeling better.
Sarah Bailey
June 14, 2014 at 23:13What a lovely idea – so nice to think of a few things to be grateful for each week – I must try and join in next week :) x
Hannah Staveley
June 14, 2014 at 23:26What a good idea to do this .x
Helen Dickinson
June 14, 2014 at 23:33We have had a few garden picnics this week. We love the weather and have been making the most of it.
Julien Peter Benney
June 15, 2014 at 13:38One thing seldom listed but which everybody in Eurasia and the Americas needs to be grateful for is having such freakishly fertile, young, and renewable soils.
The Quaternary glacial ions and Alpine progeny that have created almost all present-day soils in Eurasia and the Americas have produced a land surface totally different in chemical composition from almost anything on the Earth’s surface in past geological epochs. Vis-à-via the immense majority of soils in geological time, Eurasia, North and South American, East African and New Zealand soils are greatly enriched in a large number of essential micro- and macronutrients, including phosphorus, sulfur, zinc, copper, selenium and molybdenum. They are even more enriched is metals which can be extracted at low energy costs like lead, tin, antimony and mercury – despite these elements’ toxicity, they have historically been a vital resource for people of the Enriched World.
If you wish to gain some idea of how most environments over geological time have worked, read George Orians’ and Antoni Milewski’s ‘Ecology of Australia: The Effect of Nutrient-Poor Soils and Intense Fires’ to see what normal environments in geological terms actually look like. Depleted even more than the rest of the crust in essential nutrients and easily reduced metal ores – whilst enriched in elements that are extremely refractory and never extracted until the 1940s due to their extremely tight bonds with oxygen (titanium, zirconium and the myriad lanthanide elements) – the productivity of natural ecosystems in Australia limited human populations on a flat land supply ten times that of the whole of Europe to as little as 0.5 to 1 percent the population of Britain today. It also completely put paid to any sort of complex technologies that we now take for granted – instead restricting humans to gatherers of plant foods of limited nutritive value, at the same time as the Aborigines at least initially caused major extinctions.
Zena's Suitcase
June 15, 2014 at 16:54Three days! That’s awful! So glad your better now, and love your list too!
Mina Joshi
June 15, 2014 at 19:25Sorry to read about your migraine!! Good gratitude list. Good health would be No 1 in my list.
Jenny
June 15, 2014 at 21:26What a lovely list, the weather has been amazing this week.
Fritha
June 16, 2014 at 17:43omg I hate migraines! I remember those few day long ones too… poor you! xx
KARA
June 17, 2014 at 07:03Very jealous of kids letting you sleep in……that never happens here
ninjacat
June 17, 2014 at 09:42what a great list and idea
Rachel
June 18, 2014 at 13:35Glad the migraine has passed. They are horrid. I had one last week as well.
I like the idea of a gratitude list – I’ll share mine.
Lori
June 18, 2014 at 17:09Such a good list! It’s great to think about the small things you’re thankful for. x
Lia
June 18, 2014 at 19:48I always love your lists – no exception this week :) Sorry to hear about the 3 day migrane though :(
Lottie :: Oyster & Pearl
June 18, 2014 at 21:31Yikes, a three day migraine? That sounds awful. Love Cat Stevens though!