Day 2: The Happiness Project

The wilds of inner city Leicester

It’s Day 2 of my attempt to find something that makes me happy for 100 consecutive days.

Today was a bit easier than yesterday to find something suitably happifying.

The sun was shining and the tree blossoms were perfumed and billowy rather than sodden and thudding to the ground in sad clumps. We went for a walk into town, en route to lunch with a family friend we last saw in Canada in Autumn, before Thwacky was born. It feels like a long, long time ago.

Above is a photo of wilder part of the New Walk, a paved foot path that quite possibly used to be a Roman road and then a Georgian one, and which weaves downhill past really lovely old university buildings and houses into the city centre. It was sunny and bright today, with squirrels and birds and whatnot bopping about.

And then this was lunch at Kayal,  a restaurant near the bottom of the walk which specializes in dishes from the Kerala region of India-

The crunchy Keralan tea house special at Kayal, with mango, lemon and coconut chutneys and pickles.

And then there was lunch, which had a dosa the size of a toddler and a gorgeous selection of nibblies in tins.

The baby didn’t howl, we had good grown up conversations and I got to eat my whole meal without being interrupted too much by baby needs- albeit awkwardly and one-handed, with him sprawled across my lap, drunk on milk and fresh air.  Some rice ended up on him, but nothing too embarrassing. I’ve learned how to eat with my non dominant hand and how to minimize spills when the table is a baby’s width away.

Small pleasures.

Aiming for more and bigger.

The whole Happiness Project collection of posts can be found here.