People have been sharing the ‘small things they really really love’, and it’s exactly the wholesome and uplifting read we all need right now – 28 delightful favourites
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Giving someone a kiss on the cheek, outdoors, in the winter, and only then realising how warm they are and how cold my nose is
— Kate ✨🐱 (@magickitten.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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I was in the shop once when a woman came in, pushing twins in a twin buggy. She produced an apple, cut it in half, and gave half to each twin, whereupon each ate their half identically. I exited my body, never to return.
— Roland Bates (@rolandbates.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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Pushing a shopping trolley then holding myself up by the handle so I glide along with my feet off the floor.
— Freeside Local (@chrisg-n.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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One of the greats about retirement is the playtime sounds from the primary school up the road.
— Steve Grace (@wibblegrace.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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Toast. Toooooaast. Mmmm toast. Toast would never hurt me. 😍🥰💖~toast~💞💌😘
— Looking Spiffy 🇪🇺🏳️🌈 (@lookingspiffy.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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When your temperature and position in bed is *just right* and you feel like you've never known comfort like it.
— Emily ✨ (@emilyoram.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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The lollipop man who works at the end of our street who always stops the traffic for everyone, whether it's a small child or a beefy builder. He's a gem.
— Andy D (@dougalyd.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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The knowledge that baby puffins are called "pufflings".
— ewanmcf.bsky.social (@ewanmcf.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 2:52 PM
No doubt you also know that baby pterosaurs are known as ‘flaplings’
— Lev Parikian (@levparikian.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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When I'm making coffee using the Aeropress, my daughter comes and lifts up my outside leg to "help get the weight for the plunger" so that I'm more or less T-shaped by the time it's done. Ridiculous nonsense but played utterly deadpan.
— Tim Hardy (@timbobaggins.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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I’m convinced Alan Partridge’s description of Gary Barlow as a “generously hipped wealth enthusiast” will make me laugh on my deathbed.
— Graeme Swanson (@swansonian.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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Our sheep having the zoomies at sunset
— Andrei Szerard (@andreiszerard.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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Driving back to Cornwall, there’s a bend in a B road where I see the Atlantic for the first time. In my head I always have to say: I can see the sea, but the sea can’t see me.
— Kernowspringer 〓〓🌈🇪🇺 (@kernowspringer.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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An alert baby on public transport. Looking around and smiling at everyone.
— Sharon McGuinness (@blushingunseen.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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Here in Brighton, maybe elsewhere too, almost everyone thanks the driver when they get off the bus. It’s so deeply ingrained, that I believe that even if we had been driven at top speed & crashed, people would still thank the driver as they stumbled from the wreckage. I love it
— James RS (@milknosugar.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Fiona Dolman shared not only a wonderful small thing, but also a lovely poem about people being decent to one another.
Have always loved it when strangers say bless you when someone sneezes. Discovered this poem during Covid and it made me cry.
— Fiona Dolman (@fionadolman.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 4:32 PM
We’d love to hear the small things that you love.
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