100 Days of Wonder – #26

After the 2019 Dopey Challenge (if you googled that or clicked the link, yes you read that right, it is mad and 48.6 miles over 4 days is ridiculous), we took Dopey out to the parks to celebrate. You could say he went on a bit of a bender and there weren’t many sweet treats he didn’t try. For he, read we. It was an epic celebration of fun and silliness fuelled by good coffee, lots of food and some fancy drinks with lights and straws.

Completing a big impossible challenge like running races on 4 consecutive days with a marathon on Day 4 obviously warrants a big celebration but as I was looking through the pictures trying to pick just one (and failing, obviously), I was thinking about how celebrating the small stuff is even more important. Perhaps not always with a sweet treat or a light up drink but marking things completed, celebrating a job well done or giving yourself a pat on the back for holding your shit together are all worth consciously doing. So today I am celebrating 2 things: Senior colleagues having your back and students with brilliant ideas. And how? With a cup of tea and a small square of Ritter Sport chocolate, perfectly meshing together my German childhood chocolate with my oh so very English drink. It made for a lovely reflective moment and a smile in an otherwise busy day. Perfect. What are you celebrating today? And how?