Recognising those smile moments as signs of sanity, sanctity or sagacity?

Recent reasons for smile and laughter

"Spooks" is back, plausible enough to be scary, implausible enough to enjoy.

A meal with two friends who are amongst the best conversationalists around

One of said friends recalled the job-interview question we all get asked – "Hobbies"

His description of the face of the high flying kingpin who asked, when he replied, "Tunisian Croquet and Gaelic singing".

A gift of another Poetry CD which will instill serenity, lift imagination and humanise thought during urban driving.

The face of a student at that precise moment when an important penny dropped with a life changing ping

The migrant redwings raiding the local rowan tree supermarkets as they stock up for Christmas and the long journey back to Scandinavia later

A Thornton's chocolate covered bar of marzipan delivered at the exact moment of need – though with me, when it's marzipan, each moment is exactly right

A friend who bought a new (not  cheap) umbrella in M&S on the windiest wettest day of the year, and described its brief life and messy death on Argyll Street less than a minute later.

The many hundredth affectionate dunt on the head from our 17 year old cat who uses the Glasgow kiss to focus the owner's attention on the absolute priority of the feline need for affection

A new book delivered – Oh come on! That had to be in any list of recent smile inducing events in my life!