Cheap SMS

I already love 18185 for my landline calls.  It's a flat rate 6p per call any time of day.  (I use BT's option 2 for evenings and weekends, but their daytime rates are extortionate).  I use it for international calls that are either 1p or 1/2p a minute, but I've just discovered that they now offer 1p text messages to mobile phones.

For me, the appeal is not just the low price, it's the fact that I can send the message from my computer - I find it much easier to touch type in front of my computer, then to peck at the keys of my mobile.

But as I have a pay as you go mobile and the cheapest text is 5p, the cost is an added bonus.

If you want to give it a try, there's no rental cost, it's just a cost per call billed to your credit card once a month.

Five Reasons to be Happy

It's well established (seriously, they've done the research) that one of the things that will reduce your stress levels is to think at the end of each day about five things that you have to be happy about.

So, in an effort to counter all the doom and gloom on much of my flist, here are my personal reasons to be happy today.

1.  After 28 years, I'm still happily married to a cuddly man with a beard who is kind and loving and sexy and a good cook and a dab hand at gardening and DIY and a great person to play board games with and good in bed and just generally nice all round!

2.  I have two amazingly gorgeous sons who have managed to beat all the statistics about how horrible the youth of today are by being intelligent, helpful, kind and loving.

3.  We own the house we live in.  No mortgage to hang around our necks.

4.  We have a garden and an allotment.  Both causes for relaxation and fresh food.

5.  I have lot of books.  Books, my Precious....  We reads them, we does.

Consider this a meme and post your own reasons, no matter how trivial for being happy.

(If I were adding number 6, I would quote from  a Heinlein book that I can't recall properly, which says words to the effect that any world that contains little girls and butterflies cannot possibly be all bad)