Laughter

My favourite emotion is joy, laughter, happiness, that moment when something tickles you in just that spot and laughter erupts.

And I do mean funny here, funny as in "Haw Haw" not funny as in tragic-funny, like when something awful happens and there's always someone standing at the back who laughs aloud, no, not that. I mean comedy funny, funny joke funny, or the best funny of all, written funny.

I must share with you that written tome that had me in proper, aching stitches, and it wasn't any of the great classic comedy novels, it was a little paperback that I first discovered back in 1980 something. It is called "The Book Of Heroic Failures" compiled and edited by Stephen Pile, a tremendously funny man.

The book deals with episodes taken from the erstwhile Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain and deals with ordinary people, just like you and I who attempt things and fail miserably.

But wait, I did say I find laughing at tragedy unfunny didn't I? Well, it isn't the events within the book that are funny, it is the way Mister Pile reports them.

It is my most read book.