Since Christmas my sister and I have been participating in the #100happydays challenge, beginning and completing it together, miraculously considering that she lives on the other side of the world from me. So here are my 100 happy days. Some have pictures, some don’t, some are evenings, mornings, afternoons, some are moments, some are people, but they all made me happy.
1. 05/01/14: Lulah and I have decided to do #100happydays so here is day 1: Lulah in her revision hat!!
2. 06/01/14: #100happydays The no singing or dancing at the table rule has been obliterated by James Taylor
3. 07/01/14: I know it’s late, but Internet died Yesterday’s #100happydays Best best man speech & wonderful dancing in #Sherlock
4. 08/01/14: #100happydays Just walked in on @LulahSmarties playing the guitar in the dark #teenagers! No photo, it was dark.
5. 09/01/14: #100happydays after 20 hours of travelling, watching La Grande Bellezza & L’Écume des jours time to sleep. Before a day of reading tomorrow.
6. 10/01/14: #100happydays Someone likes their Christmas present. Excellent presents all round I think.
7. 11/01/14: @LulahSmarties @SempreMunkin #100happydays Joe Jackson playing in the Pilgrim. Songs from my childhood in the world!
8. 12/01/14: Had a lovely breakfast @leafteashop with lovely people @AlexPardey @DarnBegley #100happydays
9. 13/01/14: #100happydays Enjoying a nice cup of tea and some mysteriously rhubarby apple pie after a day in the library
10. 14/01/14: Lovely tea and lunch at @Cuthbertsinfo #100happydays #yummy
11. 15/01/14: Tasty tasty food and drinks with my lovely girls @miriam_jane #100happydays #reunion
12. 16/01/14: Sherlock time. Finally. #100happydays
13. 17/01/14: At tea talking about our fantasy comedy routine and dolphin cuddles! #100happydays
14. 18/01/14: Almost home and have stopped off at Grandad’s for some tea. And he’s making marmalade. #100happydays Smells amazing.
15. 19/01/14: Lovely country walk at my baby cousins’. And they gave me jam. Hoorah!! #100happydays
16. 20/01/14: Lovely day. Reunited with coat, got my watch fixed and found recipe for Spekulatius! #100happydays
17. 21/01/14: #100happydays Cutting this bread made me so excited to eat it! So crisp and fluffy. #lovebread
18. 22/01/14: Don McL’s Babylon starts playing & I laugh, remembering New Year ’12 when we tried to harmonise @LulahSmarties @SempreMunkin #100happydays
19. 23/01/14: #100happydays Could not stop laughing. Still laughing.
20. 24/01/14: Pretty sure it does nothing, but I like the snazzy cards! @LulahSmarties I shall return, soon #100happydays
21. 25/01/14: Lovely lovely wedding. #100happydays
22. 26/01/14: Home sweet home #100happydays
23. 27/01/14: Nighttime hide and seek! #100happydays
24. 28/01/14: So much fun dancing tonight @livbodysoc Happy shoes, happy feet, happy me #100happydays
25. 29/01/14: The wood looks like lots of pig snouts or those BP flames or aliens. Was happily distracted #100happydays
26. 30/01/14: Listening to A Chorus Line soundtrack. #100happydays @LulahSmarties Dance 10, Looks 3 is the best.
27. 31/01/14: ‘You are ill’ you say, ‘what could make you happy today?’ Well the cavalry has just arrived. #100happydays
28. 01/02/14: @LulahSmarties Just finished watching #Tootsie. Such a great film. Dustin Hoffman is excellent and Bill Murray is hilarious. #100happydays
29. 02/02/14: @LozzRiles Banana & Strawberry crumble and many many delicious pies. #100happydays
30. 03/02/14: Got my Vogue and a card from my Mamma. #yaypost #100happydays
31. 04/02/14: Wonderful evening dancing, play rehearsing and watching this baby sea lion #100happydays
32. 05/02/14: Quiet night in with Ethel watching Snow White with a cup of tea. #100happydays
33. 06/02/14: A quiet day of name-databasing, reading and completing #TheRoom and now for #DeathInParadise #100happydays
34. 07/02/14: Happy and tired. Play and dancing rehearsals tonight and was almost ninja champion. #100happydays Now sleep.
35. 08/02/14: @livbodysoc Just finished 1st dance competition ever. So amazing. Everyone was brilliant #100happydays And now cake.
36. 09/02/14: Gears’ reaction to soprano singing opera. The faces. The tortured faces. #100happydays
37. 10/02/14: @LulahSmarties I’m a dancing hairy monster #100happydays #NtnalExprss
38. 11/02/14: Lovely tea & cake with Luci @Cuthbertsinfo Tasty tasty cakes. #100happydays
39. 12/02/14: Firefly and chocolate. #100happydays
40. 13/02/14: I have the glitteriest eyebrows #100happydays
41. 14/02/14: Having fun watching Valentine’s day film with my Valentine. #100happydays
42. 15/02/14: So happy and proud of @livbodysoc at today’s dance competition. Loughborough here we come. #100happydays
43. 16/02/14: The shirt has emerged #100happydays
44. 17/02/14: #CanterburyTales rehearsal was excellent. It’s going to be a wonderful wonderful play! @LiverpoolDrama ‘I will bewail’ #100happydays
45. 18/02/14: Ballet shoes in the library!! #100happydays Been dancing under the table! #sneakyballet
46. 19/02/14: ICEBLAST!!! And robocop. Robocop was sad, but the iceblast. I love the cinema #100happydays
47. 20/02/14: Have just had a really lovely and productive day of work & tea & Skype & sending off PhD application & more tea & now to bed #100happydays
48. 21/02/14: Tasty picnic with @LozzRiles #100happydays
49. 22/02/14: Playing the Discworld Ankh-Morpok board game. It’s all getting very competitive. #100happydays
50. 23/02/14: Made soup. Have tea. Have Clover. Have the Great British Sewing Bee. #100happydays
51. 24/02/14: I got to be a crone in rehearsal today. An old and foul crone. #canterburytales #100happydays
52. 25/02/14: Such a happy birthday of Skype and haberdashery and Firefly and dancing and friends and food and games. #100happydays
(So this picture was not in the #100happydays tweet, but it is excellent and it came into being on my birthday and anyway it was my birthday so it’s allowed!)
53. 26/02/14: Eating all the left overs, and reading all the stories! #100happydays
54. 27/02/14: Dancing in my feathers and sequins at the #PerformingArtsBall2014 #100happydays
55. 28/02/14: Jonathan Creek. Jonathan Creek. JONATHAN CREEK!! I’m so excited #100happydays #jonathancreek
56. 01/03/14: I have just had a kitten named after me! #100happydays I now exist in kitten form!
57. 02/03/14: @LivEveryPlay Just had a look round the beautiful new Everyman and found the @LiverpoolDrama seat. #100happydays
58. 03/03/14: Eating Lamb Salad and watching Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists #100happydays #HamNite
59. 04/03/14: Last minute pancakes. #100happydays Yum yum yum and more for breakfast tomorrow!
60. 05/03/14: Tried on costumes for #CanterburyTales & was a medieval princess for 10 mins today #100happydays & also #ThePillowman see The Pillowman
61. 06/03/14: Birthday celebrations with the beautiful birthday girl #100happydays
62. 07/03/14: The Cook’s Tale is my new favourite tale #CanterburyTale #100happydays
63. 08/03/14: So excited for the #LSUDanceComp results. So proud of everyone from @livbodysoc Been a fantastic day #100happydays
64. 09/03/14: Amazing 2 days at #LSUDanceComp such a fab weekend, but I’m very glad to be in bed now watching #deathinparadise #100happydays
65. 10/03/14: Some hot Ribena to soothe my cold #100happydays
66. 11/03/14: Lovely dinner with @livbodysoc competition team #100happydays I’ve had such a wonderful time dancing with such lovely and talented people.
67. 12/03/14: Limbo and strawberry beer. #FergForPres14 #100happydays
68. 13/03/14: Vogue and the Great British Sewing Bee before bed #100happydays
69. 14/03/14: Congrats to #TheBacchae for a wonderful production in difficult circumstances. So proud of @LiverpoolDrama Now celebrating #100happydays
70. 15/03/14: Tea is the greatest healer. #100happydays
71. 16/03/14: On Sundays we bake. #100happydays
72. 17/03/14: Sleep #100happydays
73. 18/03/14: Wonderful #CanterburyTales rehearsal with musicians. It’s going to be BRILLIANT!! #100happydays
74. 19/03/14: I’m going to be a Medieval Storyteller. Hoorah!! #100happydays
75. 20/03/14: Wonderful first night of @livbodysoc show. Everyone was amazing. #100happydays
76. 21/03/14: All the hard work paid off. Victory for the Alex Ferguson Team. Time to celebrate #100happydays
77. 22/03/14: Alas no board games tonight. But there was fish pie and good company #100happydays
78. 23/03/14: Can still smell the sausage rolls I made earlier. #100happydays
79. 24/03/14: Bed. Book. Tea. #100happydays
80. 25/03/14: Dinosaur Liam dancing round the Stanley Theatre. @SteakAndHalePie #100happydays
81. 26/03/14: Had a fab day. So proud of everyone in #CanterburyTales Had so much fun. Sci-fi won & I was Jayne & wore a silly hat #100happydays #Firefly
82. 27/03/14: Smarm-off between Herc and Douglas in Cabin Pressure #100happydays @LulahSmarties Brilliant! #loveradio
83. 28/03/14: Had a wonderful last night of #CanterburyTales Such a fun & talented cast & crew. So sad it’s over, but so happy it happened #100happydays
84. 29/03/14: Finally found a chocolate orange. Finally #100happydays
85. 30/03/14: Lovely roast dinner with lovely cousins. #100happydays Lots of kale, lots and lots of kale
86. 31/03/14: Have just found this speech in an article about Sir Balin #CanterburyTales #100happydays #IWillBewail
87. 01/04/14: Finished the book I was reading #100happydays What next @LulahSmarties ? Game Of Thrones?
88. 02/04/14: Watching the Musketeers finale. Very excited #100happydays
89. 03/04/14: Lovely lovely @Cuthbertsinfo lunch with Bryony & @SteakAndHalePie #100happydays
90. 04/04/14: Jester Ben does a reading of Richard III #100happydays
91. 05/04/14: Chocolate fondue and and Singing in the Rain with my girls #100happydays @LozzRiles @Charli_Wilson38
92. 06/04/14: Looking forward to a good night’s sleep #100happydays
93. 07/04/14: Had a brilliant time #MedStorytelling today, wonderfully rounded off with a pub quiz #100happydays
94. 08/04/14: Had a wonderful second day of #MedStorytelling but very happy to be home #100happydays
95. 09/04/14: Tasty tasty Lebanese food with lovely lovelies @LozzRiles @riomatchett #100happydays
96. 10/04/14: It’s such a beautiful day. Just walking around listening to Goldfrapp and trying not to sing too loud #100happydays
97. 11/04/14: 13 hour flight = all the films! All the films! #100happydays
98. 12/04/14: Reunited with my lovely family & @LulahSmarties gave a dramatic reading of Star Wars Shakespeare #100happydays
99. 13/04/14: A wonderful day of sewing, singing and composing the best organ based book titles of all time. @LulahSmarties @riomatchett #100happydays 99
100. 14/04/14: 100: Medieval musicaling, singing & photo fun with favourite person in the whole world @LulahSmarties #100happydays
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Even if you’re really busy, or you think it’s a bit silly, I’d recommend doing it, especially with someone. If anything it’s just given me an excuse to do something everyday that makes me happy and not feel guilty about it! Hope you enjoy.
Madelaine reads, writes, makes 