OK, what makes me happy,
A small container ship in winter on the North Atlantic, stood on the aft mooring deck and watching this huge wall of water change into an open void with the surface many feet below you. Feeling the ship shudder and pause as it runs into the next one, then leap ahead again as the prop digs in in we lurch forward again.
A hot summers day riding my bike on the tops of the Pennines. Stopping to look a couple of miles across a glaciated valley spread out in front of me and thinking that for all the exotic places I've been to in the world scenery doesn't get much better than this.
Lunch consisting of beef sandwiches made from a joint from the local farm shop, slow pot roasted to keep all the wonderful flavour in it and put between two pieces of my wifes home made bread, fresh that morning.
Demoting an engineer due to poor performance but managing to maintain the guys respect and seeing him return to the ship to take on what I have asked him to do rather than take the easier option and resign.
Explaining to a child at the pond side how a boat works, letting him have a go at the transmitter and watching his face light up as he realises that he is actually controlling it.
Curling up on the sofa with the missis and getting through a movie without her asking me a question.
Flying a Tiger Moth over the route used by the Dambusters along the Derwent Valley when they practised for the raids over Germany and to think I was sat in a seat where hundreds of RAF pilots had first learned to fly.
It's so much better to think of things that make us happy!!