The List (in progress):
Please note that submissions can be subject to editing for the sake of clarity and grammar.
1. Waking up to realise you can lie-in. (Nick Baum)
2. Déjà vu. (James Graham)
3. Finding that unexpected five-pound note in your purse/wallet. (Rebecca Robbins)
4. The first bite of your favourite food. (Rebecca Robbins)
5. Seeing a century old city square from the window of a train, just after sundown. (Amil Khassim)
6. Walking barefoot on gravel and then the wonderful comfort of walking on grass. (Ciara Masterson)
7. The feeling of fresh snow crunching under your feet. (Tom Harris)
8. Finding something unexpected in a familiar place. (Henry Westcott)
9. Dreaming that you're falling only to then wake up and realise you're fine. (Mia Dolores Difolco)
10. A really good stretch. (Ollie Williams)
11. Recovering from cramp in your leg. (Tom Kirkpatrick)
12. Noticing that a stranger has the same perfume/aftershave as one of your friends. (James Graham)
13. Throwing something into a bin from a fairly considerable distance. (Ollie Williams)
14. The sound of a cigarette being lit. (Rajan Virdee)
15. Smelling chlorine in your hair after a long, cold walk back from the swimming pool. (Esme Anderson)
16. Arriving at the bus stop just as the bus turns up. (Dave Burnett)
17. Opening a bag of crisps to find one so big that it constitutes multiple bites. (Ed Maitland Smith)
18. Walking to the pub knowing your friends are going to be there and that you will have the whole night free without commitments. (Henry Westcott)
19. The mornings you wake up alone and are okay with it. (Hanna-Marie Grace Hayes)
20. The moment when you see someone you don't know quite well enough walking along and you go to stop and they don't or vice versa, then you s a bit and keep going. (Dave Burnett)
21. Being able to throw an apple into the bushes after you have finished eating it. (Frederick Botham)
22. Catching grapes/skittles/m&ms/popcorn in your mouth. (Ollie Williams)
22. The moment you realise you've unknowingly had too much to drink. (Rajan Virdee)
23. Riding very quickly, with reckless abandon, down a big, long hill very early in the morning, on your bicycle, and singing very loudly the whole way. (Jacquie Barr)
24. Watching the sun set in silence. (Mark Allen)
25. Accidentally realising you've gotten over a persistence bad habit without even trying. (Jacqueline Bond)
26. Staying out all night after planning to only have a few drinks. (Mark Allen)
27. The feeling of utter relief. (Rebecca Robbins)
28. When you randomly find that last ice lolly hiding in the back of the freezer. (Kayleigh Sheekey)
29. Buying something for someone because it reminded you of them so much that you couldn't not. (Holly Walton)
30. The first chord played on a newly-strung guitar. (Luke Grundy)
31. Putting on a new pair of socks for the first time and feeling the comfort in every step. (Luke Grundy)
32. Finding out that someone likes an obscure band/film/tv show that you thought no-one else would. (Ollie Williams)
33. Opening a parcel. (Ollie Williams)
34. Receiving a letter that isn't from some bureaucratic institution. (Rajan Virdee)
35. Getting a surprise discount when you take something to the counter to pay for it. (Rajan Virdee)
36. When a plane flies in front of the sun, casting a shadow over you for a split second. (Alex Grant)
37. When it stops raining just as you're about to leave the house. (Ollie Williams)
37. Driving around a corner or down a hill and pretending to yourself, for just a moment, that you're a racing driver. (Frederick Botham)
38. Being in a cable car and breaking through low-lying clouds to see brilliant sunshine covering miles and miles of pistes with very few people on them, because they all thought the visibility would be too bad. (Ellen Robinson)
39. Suddenly having someone ask if you're ok because you're crying at your book in public. (Ellen Robinson)
40. Getting into bed with freshly washed and ironed sheets. (Ellen Robinson)
41. Seeing an old friend who hasn't changed a bit. (Ellen Robinson)
42. When you realise you're singing out loud when listening to music on your ipod on a bus/train, and not caring. (Christophe Marshelle)
43. Getting the right answer. (Dave Fenner)
44. When you think of someone and that person calls you on the phone at that very moment. (Marija Strajnic)
45. Receiving a text when you wake up. (Marion Guerrier)
46. Listening to your favourite song with the sun on your face. (Marion Guerrier)
47. Waking up with your eyes closed and feeling like you're still in some foreign land in your dreams. (Jeri Negrillo)
48. The unlikely smells you encounter on the way to somewhere, like tropical flowers in an industrial area. (Jeri Negrillo)
49. Finding a strange perfume inside a used book (so that you conjure up its previous owner in your head). (Jeri Negrillo)
50. Bumping into a familiar face in a strange place. (Alex Wilson)
51. Catching the last train home by seconds. (Mark Allen)
52. The way time almost stopped the first time you heard Billie Holiday sing 'love me or leave me and let me be lonely, you won't believe me, I love you only'. (Amil Khassim)
53. Waking up in the car, realising you've arrived. (Isaac Hewlings)
54. Putting on a new item of clothing for the first time. (Esme Anderson)
55. Sitting on the back of a boat looking out across Oxford and the Thames on a sunny day listening to 'Ara Batur' by Sigur Ros. (Alexander Archer)
56. Hanging out in the morning with a friend, completely hungover to shit and realising that you are having more fun right now, than you ever had the night before. (Zac Clarke)
57. Having a massive revelation just before you fall asleep and failing to remember it in the morning. (Tom Gault)
58. Stepping into winter sunlight. (Isaac Hewlings)
59. Getting the job. (Dave Fenner)
60. Waking up to a day with no responsibilities attached. (Jerome Josy)
61. When you realise you're not the only one thinking about the same thing. (Juan Ugalde)
62. Peeling dried pva glue off your hands. (Frederick Botham)
63. Getting hypnotised by staring at the trees blowing in the wind. (Ollie Williams)
64. Surrendering to the fact that, in all honesty, you simply don't give a shit. (Ollie Williams)
65. Going downhill on a bicycle, taking your feet off the pedals, raising your face to the sun and feeling the wind in your hair. (Alice Cox)
66. My first crush at 5 years old, whose name was Daisy. (Amil Khassim)
67. Dropping something fragile and catching it softly with the top of your foot before it hits the ground. (Juan Ugalde)
68. Running through the dark, holding hands with your best friend, while dancing in the empty streets. (Kendra Price)
69. Going over a zebra-crossing when two 102 buses have stopped for you in both directions, and wave at each other. (Jess Fisher)
70. Reading or listening to something - a thought, a lyric, an idea, a sentiment - that before you thought was specific to you. (Hannah Hogan)
71. Running home in the rain knowing you can lie on a rug by a fire and drink tea. (Roxy Cook)
72. Singing in the street. (Hannah Hogan)
73. Listening to headphones and assuming everyone else is listening, and wondering why they don't look happy, 'This is a great song!' (Alex Wilson)
74. Sitting somewhere you shouldn't. (Ollie Williams)
75. Wearing freshly washed clothes straight from the tumble dryer. (Mark Allen)
76. When you think of the perfect comeback straight away. (Ollie Williams)
77. You and someone else both saying 'hairy legs' at the same time on a train, and then making a wish. (Maria Heiligen)
78. Being in ASDA after midnight. (Peter Searle)
79. Finding old letters and remembering forgotten moments. (Mairi MacIver)
80. Spinning round and round on an office chair. (Frederick Botham)
81. Pressing your face against warm printer paper. (James Graham)
82. Finding the perfect gift for someone you love. (Anouk Petry)
83. Going back to a place from your past that hasn't changed and realising how you have changed/grown up. (Anouk Petry)
84. Thinking that your bag isn't going to arrive on a baggage carousel at an airport, and then the relief as it rolls into vision. (Tim Robins)
85. Putting your face on the cold side of the pillow. (Dave Burnett)
86. The moment your lovely, steamy, hot shower turns into an icy fountain and you still have shower gel all over your body. (Anna Simmons)
87. Reading a poem and realising it captures and crystallises something you didn't think that it was possible to articulate. (Laura Hulley)
88. Sitting on top of a mountain in the warm sun, overlooking the landscape with all the time in the world. (Dan Munoz)
89. Discovering that your friend's mum is actually fit. (Alex Wilson)
90. Every time Special Agent Dale Cooper enjoys a 'damn fine cup of coffee' from the Double R Diner in Twin Peaks. (Guy Rimay-Muranyi)
91. Kicking something and being surprised how far it travels before stopping. (Nick Baum)
92. Killing a bird with a slingshot. (Amil Khassim)
93. Your 5th grade classmate casually unveiling to you a chicken heart during 10am recess. (Amil Khassim)
94. Wearing socks to bed and then taking them off in the middle of the night and feeling the cold sheets on your tootsie toes. (Roisin Heraghty)
95. When someone's left money in a vending machine. (Ollie Williams)
96. Looking out the window of your car into another car travelling at the same speed on a motorway. (Gus Beamish-Cook)
97. Finally beating level three on Bad Dudes VS Dragon Ninjas after five years of half hearted attempts. (Gus Beamish-Cook)
98. Stepping off an airplane on holiday and feeling the hot air hit you like a brick wall. (Becca Thomas)
99. Arriving late to the train station, only to discover that the train you were supposed to catch was also late, and subsequently catching it. (Ryan Naylor)
100. Effectively aligning a globule of saliva into your stream of urine while pissing. (Tim Robins)
101. Coming home from a fairly rubbish day and having your flat mate or family member greet you with a big hug and a warm beverage. (Alive Reed)
102. The sound of a coin being flipped. (Jordan Philips)
103. Slowly creeping up to that big mosquito on your bedroom wall, taking a second to aim and violently crushing it with whatever is lysing around. (Edouard de La Rochefordière)
104. The smell of freshly washed clothes. (Anna Butchers)
105. Wrapping yourself in a kingsize duvet when sleeping in a single bed. (Tess Alcroft)
106. The smell of leather, especially when warm. (Henry Westcott)
107. The relative lack of sound when walking very late in a quiet area, which whilst good in itself, allows you to hear things you normally wouldn't; rustling trees and running water under a manhole for example. (Ollie Williams)
108. Being handed a flyer you're actually interested in. (Ollie Williams)
109. Poking your fingers into the pool of melted wax on a recently blown-out candle, and then having ten tiny wax-bowls. (Sarah Lewis)
110. Saying goodbye to somebody you know you'll never meet again. (Geraldine Xu)
111. That perfect silence and perfect breeze you get on a hot summer's day lying on your back in a field of tall grass by yourself. (Dan Tollady)
112. Waking up from a bad dream and realising everything's okay and it's morning. (Cat Van Dort)
113. Making a cat purr. (Elizabeth Worley)
114. Receiving a sincere compliment from a total stranger. (Elizabeth Worley)
115. When you are sitting on a stationary train at a platform and a train on the other platform starts to move and it feels like you are moving, when you aren't. (Lewis Chaplin)
116. The smell of burnt toast in the toaster. (Joceylyn Catterson)
117. Having someone ask, 'How would you feel if you never saw me again?' and finding yourself honestly confessing 'horrible', in response to which they smiled and hugged you and said 'Good, cause that's never going to happen.' (Michelle Farrar)
118. Attempting to wipe the condensation from a bus window with the sleeve of your jacket, only to discover that it is in fact dirt and won't come off. (Mike Laraman)
119. Kicking the door of a public toilet to avoid touching the handle. (James Graham)
120. The crackle of a vinyl record. (Henry Westcott)
121. Watching lightning so far away in the distance you can't hear any thunder. (Frederick Botham)
122. Waking up soon after you've gone to sleep and thinking it's morning, then realising you still have all night to sleep. (Rebecca Stern)
123. Walking with pins-and-needles. (Nick Coupe)
124. Getting a text or call from a friend out of the blue. (Mark Allen)
125. The moment it clicks that you are recovering from illness. (Tim Robins)
126. Walking past a laundry outlet pipe on a cold day. (Max Dorey)
127. Receiving a piece of handwritten post and trying to work out if you can recognise who's handwriting it is before opening to find out who it's from. (Emily Somerville)
128. Taking a photo that you know will come out great. (Mark Allen)
129. When you wake up with an arm so dead you have to use your other arm to move it. (Alex Springer)
130. Getting a text from someone sitting right next to you in a really awful lecture saying how awful the lecture is. (Alex Springer)
131. Getting an unexpected gift from a friend. (Mark Allen)
132. Discovering a blog with years of posts you can't wait to read. (Ollie Williams)
133. The feeling that good things are guaranteed not to change, at least for a little while. (Will Balson)
134. Watching a helium balloon fly away. (Frederick Botham)
135. When you see something during the day that reminds you of a dream you had the night before. (Dave Burnett)
136. Remembering nothing the night before, and then discovering leftover pizza in the fridge. (Dan Munoz)
137. Winning an argument with the best comeback possible. (Alex Wilson)
138. Leaving the shower to find that the towel is warm. (Alex Wilson)
139. A complete lack of concentration at dawn because you haven't slept the entire night. (Amil Khassim)
140. Thinking about someone who doesn't think of you. (Amil Khassim)
141. The first time you get a Wallace Steven poem. (Simon Gleave)
142. Listening to Bon Iver performances. (Rajan Virdee)
143. The smell (and often sound) of your own fart. (Iain Wearmouth)
144. Catching someone trying to pass off a trip as intentional. (Iain Wearmouth)
145. Popping bubblewrap. (Iain Wearmouth)
146. Noticing the first signs of spring. (Frederick Botham)
147. Looking at photographs from the night before. (Esme Anderson)
148. Looking at prints from an old disposable camera for the first time. (Esme Anderson)
149. Noticing you've just eaten a whole bag of strawberry laces on your own in a very short space of time. (Esme Anderson)
150. The feeling of taking your socks off when you have been wearing them for a long time. (Edouard de La Rochfordière)
151. The feeling of taking your heels off when you have been wearing them for a long time. (Sarah Robinson)
152. Counting the bell tolls from a clock, but knowing, no matter what the time, you can still lay in bed. (Ryan Naylor)
153. Bumping into someone you haven't seen in years, completely out of the blue. (Mark Allen)
154. When your fingers stick to ice cubes. (Jordan Philips)
155. Finding money on the floor. (Mark Allen)
156. Seeing the building, near where you have been passing by for years, for the first time. (Tihana Kovačević)
157. The feel of an old book. (Frederick Botham)
158. Radiator-heated trousers. (Dave Burnett)
159. Waking up to the sound of your alarm and realising you had set it an hour before you need to, just so you can snooze. (Andrew Jameson)
160. The feeling of sand through your toes. (Isaac Hewlings)
161. The first day of t-shirt weather. (Dave Fenner)
162. The satisfaction of seeing yourself in a mirror after half hour long preparations for the first date and thinking: 'I'm ready!' (Maja Lipovac)
163. Eating an apple on a woodsy walk. (Emma Aylor)
164. The first sip of coffee. (André Delavarpour
165. Feeling like you've got higher than ever on a swing. (Frederick Botham)
166. The moment the beats drops in on your favourite song, sending you absolutely potty and feeling, in that moment, that everything is alright. (Sam Reed)
167. Seeing or hearing someone use a certain idiom, expression, or word that you always adored but had nearly forgotten about. (Will Balson)
168. Asking a man in a chinese medicinal herb shop if he sells condoms; the look on his face. (Simon Gleave)
169. Opening a brand new camera box and laying everything inside the box out on the floor really neatly and then unwrapping it all and setting it up. (Alex Springer)
170. Overtaking someone on a racing bicycle with your mountain bike on a straight road. (Anouk Petry)
171. Doing a good deed for a stranger and them thanking you. (Rebecca Robbins)
172. Seeing bus drivers wave in acknowledgment as they go past each other. (Rebecca Robbins)
172. Taking or finding polaroid pictures. (Rebecca Robbins)
173. Finishing a dissertation. (Rebecca Robbins)
174. Winning a competition out of hundreds of people, no matter how big or small the prize. (Rebecca Robbins)
175. Having an afternoon nap in a hot country. (Frederick Botham)
176. Sitting down in the shower and letting the water do the work. (Andrew Jameson)
177. An unexpected discount on an item you're purchasing. (Ollie Williams)
178. Getting wasted and waking up with little or no hangover. (Mark Allen)
179. Peeling blu-tack off the walls when you have to clear out of your room. (Emily Somerville)
180. When you take something from a pile and you know it's about to fall everywhere. (Emily Somerville)
181. Stationary. (Ali Botham)
182. Looking up to a glossy brilliant blue sky, realising the rich colors and tones are all around. (Amil Khassim)
183. When waiting for the tube, it arrives and the doors open right in front of you. (Henry Westcott)
184. When you wear epic socks/underwear without people knowing. (Mark Allen)
185. The smell of photocopies. (Frederick Botham)
186. The smell of biros. (Alex Springer)
187. Commandeering a runaway sailboat. (Sebastian Smith)
188. That split second before you jump off something really high. (Sebastian Smith)
189. The smug feeling you get when queuing at a supermarket, and everything you're buying is healthy. (Ollie Williams)
190. When a song is secretly playing in your head and your friend suddenly sings the rest of it aloud. (Jerilee Nerona)
191. Suddenly winning something in a certain field after having been depressed about your ability to perform in it for a week. (Jerliee Nerona)
192. Sitting on the toilet 'cos you're too drunk to piss standing up', and just sitting there for a moment and wondering 'how on earth did I get this drunk?' (Mark Allen)
193. The youthful joy of pissing standing up with your trousers and boxers right around your ankles like a 5 year old. (Alex Wilson)
194. Swimming in the rain. (Frederick Botham)
195. When you are stroking someones face and you think, 'never leave me'. (Safrina Ahmed)
196. Walking into a cold section of a supermarket on a hot day. (Mark Allen)
197. Throwing a paper plane from a high building and thinking you're the pilot and you're leaving the city for good. (Rubén Carrasco)
198. Finishing. (Nick Baum)
199. Taking your dog for a ride in your new car whilst listening to Duran Duran on cassette tape, and knowing that he is more excited by this than you are. (Nick Baum)
200. When a perfect song comes on in the car that everybody knows the words and sings along to. (Megan Gamble)
201. Having a brilliant hiding spot in hide and seek. (Megan Gamble)
202. Seeing how far you can walk with your eyes closed. (Frederick Botham)
203. Remembering that there's a big sandwich at home with your name on it. (Connor Creagan)
204. Standing in the sea, looking at your feet when the waves rush back towards the sea and your head goes funny because its like you're moving backwards really really fast. (Deborah Farr)
205. Lying down looking up at swallows swooping gracefully against a clear blue sky. (Hannah botham)
206. Catching a white puff ball (against the odds) and making a wish. (Hannah Botham)
207. Having a walk down the staircase. (Matthew Blubaugh)
208. Smelling the coffee on a dewy morning. (Matthew Blubaugh)
209. Stretching your arms out of the window of a moving car. (Frederick Botham)
210. Sharpening a pencil. (Frederick Botham)
211. The first sip of tea/coffee when you have a hangover. (Mark Allen)
212. The feel of old wood. (Frederick Botham)
213. Saying the right thing. (Frederick Botham)
214. Being the last person off the last train home. (James Graham)
215. First shower after a festival. (Mark Allen)
216. When you say the same thing at the same time as someone. (Dave Burnett)
217. When you're lying in the sun and you feel the warm shiver all through your body. (Roisin Heraghty)
218. When someone holds a door for you but you're far away so you go a bit faster because you feel like you are making them wait even though you don't know them. (Emily Somerville)
219. Deciding to stop working for the day. (Elisabeth Mladenov)
220. Waking up in a sleeping bag covered in cold dew while camping. (David Litwin)
221. The vibration of a string instrument against your skin. (David Litwin)
222. Realising how isolated you are from the chaos around you. (David Litwin)
223. Eating a good meal. (Nick Baum)
224. When everything is great. (Henry Westcott)
225. When you finally take off your shoes after a whole day, long walk. (Marija Strajnic)
226. A warm bath after an exhausting sporting event. (Carl Hewson)
227. Waking up, trying to remember your dream and it slipping away bit by bit. (Deborah Farr)
228. The bang, crackle, and whistle of the last firework. (Takira Satone)
229. The clap of a well received high-five. (Takira Satone)
230. Nailing that defining bass tone in your mix. (Dan Munoz)
231. Putting socks on straight from the radiator. (Alex Wilson)
232. The homely smell of clean laundry. (Alex Wilson)
233. Tommy Fong smiling at you as if he recognises you as a regular. (Alex Wilson)
234. Listening to an album you haven't heard in years and remembering just how amazing it is. (Dan Munoz)
235. Just realising you've had the most incredible experience at a live gig. (John Watts)
236. Standing in the rain with your head back and your mouth open. (Deborah Farr)
237. The sound and sensation of screwing up a sheet of paper. (Frederick Botham)
238. Looking through your phone and seeing all of the drunken texts you tried to send to your ex-girlfriend are still in your outbox. (Ryan Naylor)
239. Making the first tire-tracks/footprints on overnight snow. (Luke Grundy)
240. The sound of a beer bottle being opened. (Luke Grundy)
241. The moment's silent pause before a big group of people bursts into uncontrollable laughter. (Luke Grundy)
242. The almost sweet taste that water takes on when you're really thirsty. (Ollie Williams)
243. Dropping something and catching it with your foot. (Ollie Williams)
244. Feeling the bass resonate every hair on your body in a club. (Mark Allen)
245. When you pour water over ice and it cracks. (Mark Allen)
246. The moment 5 minutes after exercise, when you realise that the exercise actually makes you feel better. (Andrew Jameson)
247. The sound of a finger tapping the back of a hand. (Luke Grundy)
248. The infrequent sensation of a genuine spring in your step. (Luke Grundy)
249. Successfully doing something with one hand that usually requires two. (Ollie Williams)
250. Waking up because the sun is shining through the window onto your face or your foot and is slowly warming them. (Anouk Petry)
251. Being able to eat something you've bought from the supermarket on the journey home. (Ollie Williams)
252. Watching the last of the daylight fade over the back of houses on the opposite side of the street. (Luke Grundy)
253. When you're so comfortable in bed, then you poke a foot out and enjoy the cold, and enjoy bringing it back into the warm you appreciate your bed more too. (Emily Somerville)
254. That exciting moment when you order Volume One. (Alex Wilson)
255. The sound of a car reversing at high speed. (Mark Allen)
256. Being considered an adult by small children. (Alex Wilson)
257. Scraping the burn off burnt toast. (Esme Anderson)
258. Steam licking off the top of a hot bath. (Esme Anderson)
259. Successfully blagging something. (Esme Anderson)
260. Catching fat people eating unhealthy food. (James Graham)
261. When you have wet hands and you move your arms and water runs down inside your sleeves. (Emily Somerville)
262. Laughing so hard all your muscles ache, you can't breath and tears roll down your cheeks. (Alice Stickland)
263. The moment you accept a loved one is gone. (Levi Mandel)
264. Driving a car at speed on a serpentine road, while listening to Audioslave. (Alena Karaliova)
265. Remembering a word/name/fact, etc. that you poignantly were trying to remember for some long minutes. (Alena Karaliova)
266. Wearing a jumper you borrowed from someone and it smells just like them. (Emily Somerville)
267. Finding disposable cameras from god knows when and waiting to find out what's on them. (Emily Somerville)
268. When the first few raindrops fall on you and you try to understand if it's about to rain or if they were a rogue few or if you imagined it. (Emily Somerville)
269. Being able to see the moon during the day. (Deborah Farr)
