{"id":455,"date":"2010-05-10T14:56:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T14:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=455"},"modified":"2010-05-10T14:56:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T14:56:37","slug":"10-things-that-make-me-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"10 things that make me happy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been tagged by Marianne-Paris<\/a> from the excellent Paris-Ankara Express blog, so I now have to do a post called 10 things that make me happy. These aren’t in any order, but they have been fun to think about – it makes a change from fretting about forms and bureaucracy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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  1. Rog<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. When I manage to have a conversation in French – particularly when I manage to make a Proper French Person laugh. I’ve been living here nearly 12 months now, and I’ve been working quite hard on learning French, but I still find speaking difficult. When I was doing French courses in the UK I always got top marks in reading, near top in listening and writing, and, like, 55% for the speaking test. I’m just not that good at getting my ideas lined up quickly. But every now and then it comes together.<\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Walking up hills. Well, specifically, walking in<\/i> hills (and mountains). If I’m 100% honest, the going up bit is not my favourite – but being in the countryside is great. And Grenoble has some amazing mountains.<\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Good books. Particularly detective fiction. Particularly Ian Rankin<\/a>. But any good book will do – I like literary fiction too, and bit of sci fi (Peter Watts<\/a> being my current favourite from that genre), and even the occasional piece of chick lit.<\/li>\r\n\t
  5. The Druid’s pub<\/a>, Grenoble.<\/li>\r\n\t
  6. Arcadia Ale and Wine Bar<\/a>, Headingley.<\/li>\r\n\t
  7. My nephews.<\/li>\r\n\t
  8. Bike rides in the sunshine.<\/li>\r\n\t
  9. The fact that sometime this year I’m likely to eat cherries, apples, blackcurrants, redcurrants, blackberries, raspberries, loganberries, tayberries, gooseberries, strawberries and ( … drumroll … ) honey<\/b> all from my own back garden. Maybe we’ll even get a pear or two, but that tree’s a bit young still. I expect the rhubarb is ready already. And there’ll be potatoes, tomatoes, leeks, beetroot, spinach and other healthy stuff, but it’s the soft fruit I love the most. I am seriously looking forward to the honey. Buzz buzz.<\/li>\r\n\t
  10. The fact that I’ll be back in my house in Leeds in under 4 weeks. Taking a post-doc in Grenoble has led to a very interesting year, and it has not been without its good points, but I’m ready to go home now!<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    I suppose I should tag some other bloggers here as that’s the done thing with these meme things. So I’ll just bounce it back at Paris-Ankara<\/a> and ask the other two blogging sisters to do it – Sandrine, and mysterious sister #3 who only posts in pictures (tee hee). I’ll also tag Rog<\/a>, and anyone else who reads this and wants to have a go. What are 10 things that make you happy?<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’ve been tagged by Marianne-Paris from the excellent Paris-Ankara Express blog, so I now have to do a post called 10 things that make me happy. These aren’t in any order, but they have been fun to think about – it makes a change from fretting about forms and bureaucracy. Rog When I manage to have a conversation in French – particularly when I manage to make a Proper French Person laugh. I’ve been living here nearly 12 months now, and I’ve been working quite hard on learning French, but I still find speaking difficult. When I was doing French courses in the UK IRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-meme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}