reasons to be cheerful

reasons to be cheerful
let me count the ways
when stuck at home in Newport
with the lock-down blues at bay

reasons to be cheerful
“go on” I hear you say
- try coffee with a ‘Fika’, 
in the good old Swedish way (see Heanku’s blip)

reasons to be cheerful
let me enumerate
an outside space - a sunny spot 
inside our garden gate    (which hasn’t actually arrived yet)

reasons to be cheerful
for me and Anniemay
another year since we first wed
- marked with a take-away   (delivered by the pub round the corner)

reasons to be cheerful
last one on the list
we’re still hunky dory
while the virus doth persist