The Happy Tag

[birdienl]

It's been a little while since this tag was making the rounds on many of the blogs I read, but I really liked the idea, so here is my take on The Happy Tag, which has only one rule: to list things that make you happy in a number of categories.

If any of you want to play as well, please do!

Books:

Our Mutual Friend / Charles Dickens - The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society / Annie Barrows & Mary Ann Shafer - Lord of the Rings / J.R.R. Tolkien - Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen - Fangirl / Rainbow Rowell

Words:

I don't really think about this a lot, so I'll be sharing this video with beautiful words!

Movies & TV:

Grey's Anatomy - Populaire - Far from the Madding Crowd - Arrow - Call the Midwife

Fictional characters:

Gabriel Oak (Far from the Madding Crowd) - Felicity Smoak (Arrow) - Esther Summerson (Bleak House) - Demelza (Poldark) - Jane Eyre (Jane Eyre)

Scents:

A pot of freshly made tea - Summer evenings - Elderflowers - Something with cheese baking in the oven - Horses ;-)

Songs (with links):

Let no man steal your thyme by Carey Mulligan (FftMC soundtrack)
The driver - Charles Kelly feat. Dierks Bentley, Eric Paslay
He knows my name - Francesca Battistelli
The Pastourelle - Datura Medieval Music
The village green preservation society - Kate Rusby

Miscellaneous:

Medieval/fantasy events - Etsy - Young animals - 1000 piece puzzles - Great Britain

Comments

[crazymaryt.livejournal.com]

Esther is gold. I've been seeing a few things for 05's Bleak House floating around Tumblr and thinking I really need to do a rewatch of that. It was most excellent.

[birdienl.livejournal.com]

I'm listening to the Bleak House audiobook atm and I love Esther's chapters the most. I definitely want to rewatch the adapation after I finish the book!

[elysium-22.livejournal.com]

Love this!!! Will definitely be posting! :)

[birdienl.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[topum.livejournal.com]

Nice video about words. Thank you.

[richyl88.livejournal.com]

This was nice to see :) Always great to see happy posts!

[stellicidio.livejournal.com]

This is great! I might steal it :)

Nice to see you listing Grey's Anatomy <3 Would be on my happy list as well.

[birdienl.livejournal.com]

I'm constantly surprised how good GA still is in their 12th season!

[stellicidio.livejournal.com]

I agree! I've basically enjoyed this show constantly for all seasons and I'm sure it will remain one of my favorite shows.

[msantimacassar.livejournal.com]

This is such a nice post! I have read all of the books on your list, so many gems there!

Have you recently gotten into Arrow? I am forgetting if we have ever talked about it before. Felicity is so much fun even though imo the writing quality has degraded over the seasons.

I've not watched Populaire but I take it you recommend it?

Thanks for the music recs! And the lovely sheep photo! <3

Hope you are doing well!

[birdienl.livejournal.com]

Well, I've been watching Arrow for 1,5 years or so? I'm up to date with the episodes now, but was playing catch-up until recently. The writing was indeed the best in the earlier seasons (there are very few series where that is not the case), but I still really like it!

Yep, Populaire is definitely recommended! Review hopefully coming soon (planned for this week)