Not all of life’s pleasures are complicated or expensive to arrange, or need to be planned in advance; the best are simple, often spontaneous and
either inexpensive or even free! They can be visual or aural, textural or oral, but they are invariably sensuous:
- a sunset (or sunrise)
- that ephemeral time of day when the sky changes as you watch it, defying you to capture it with a camera
- birdsong
- maybe a blackbird, a thrush, a robin or a wren
- the smell of lavender
- or rosemary, or just about anything you can pick and rub between finger and thumb
- a bird of prey
- soaring overhead or, if you’re really lucky, dealing with its last victim
- a glade full of bluebells
- or any eye-popping show of flowers such as daffodils that burst forth at one time of the year, then they’re gone
- picking ripe blackberries
- eating them straightaway and having the little berries burst in your mouth
- hot buttered toast
- ideally with coarse-cut Seville orange marmalade, wild strawberry jam or a home-made jelly
- early morning dew
- perhaps on a spider’s web
