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Sophie Hall's avatar

Love all the above and have loved finding this substack!!!

I am also cheersing to changing tubes and the tube you need is just pulling up as you get to the station 😍

Also cheersed recently when my toast popped up and landed on the kitchen counter perfectly, Wallace & Gromit style. In the words of Leon Jackson in 2007, there can be miracles if you believe.

HNY, Stevie!

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Dave Nattriss's avatar

Not only tube changing, but when you get on a random carriage and it turns out to be exactly the right one to line up with the exit on the platform of your destination. Cheerses to good trivial fortune 🥂

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Stevie Martin's avatar

oh YESSSS

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Stevie Martin's avatar

HNY!! And 100% yes to the tube changing. When i lived in london I lived for this moment. Buses even more rare but when it happened…. WOW

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Hayley Dunlop's avatar

Ooh yes the optimum commute is well worth a 🍻

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Martin Higgins's avatar

Cheers to achieving the ideal balance of concentrated juice and water and thus creating the perfect drink. O, what a feeling.

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Stevie Martin's avatar

YES oh boy yes

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Sara's avatar

A fully enclosed floor to ceiling, soundproof public toilet is a gift from god. Also, I’d like to cheers to -“Buying a bin for a really narrow nook in your bathroom and finding out that it fits in said space with such perfect precision it makes you gasp.”

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Stevie Martin's avatar

I feel this deep in my soul. ELECTRIC. Congratulations and cheers xx

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Hayley Dunlop's avatar

The shopping centre in Brighton. Just saying.

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Jen's avatar

When you find the exact item you need for a fancy dress costume in an op shop

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Sophie Littin's avatar

We call the meandering time between Christmas and New Year, the Christmas Gooch, or just The Gooch. Cheers to that...

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Stevie Martin's avatar

cheers to your gooch ❤️

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Dave Nattriss's avatar

Cheerses to this year's Merrineum 🍻

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T WITH TESS's avatar

Cheers to when you throw out a random date like Thursday 16 Jan and your impossible to coordinate group of mates are all amazingly free. No need for annoying WhatsApp poll or Doodle Poll that everyone fills out and then totally ignores / overrides nearer the time. Cheers to when you discover you have already downloaded the car park app, and the password actually works and your vehicle is already registered. Joy of Joy. Cheers, cheers, cheers.

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Stevie Martin's avatar

I feel these cheerses deep in my core deep in my soul

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Sian Meades-Williams's avatar

Tea at the perfect drinking temperature. Always feels like I've won at the day, instead of gulping down the rapidly cooling shambles I have usually left myself with.

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Stevie Martin's avatar

Love this - yes! And I’m not great at making tea so when I achieve the correct shade without leaving the bag in for too long CHEERSCHEERSCHEERS

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Ros Barber's avatar

Stevie, I’m new to you and you made me laugh out loud more times than anything I’ve read in a year. Cheers!

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Stevie Martin's avatar

Ohhhh this is such a lovely comment. I’m so glad!!! Happy new year and cheers!

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Sarah Fenwick's avatar

Having a hectic day. Finding leftovers in the fridge. Cheers!

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Stevie Martin's avatar

Currently having broccoli soup with a side of spag bol. CHEERS! Xx

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Vaila black's avatar

when you put your winter coat on and find paper money wrapped in a receipt!

also when the duvet duvest and doesnt loose the edge to edgeness the next night!

Cheerses all round

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Stevie Martin's avatar

my nanna used to put cash (like £2) in random coat pockets so she’d forget and find them and get excited. Maybe I’ll start doing this.

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Vaila black's avatar

Imagine the suprise happiness in the future! excellent plan -your nanna was a genuis.

Also I once found enough street money (10ps etc) to buy a box of weetabix

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Hayley Dunlop's avatar

"I'd really like an Elizabeth Holmes-style black polo neck for that secret running joke I'm doing."

*Walks into charity shop. Immediately sees not one but TWO black polo necks. Buys both*

🍻🥂🍻🥂🍻🥂🍻🥂🍻🥂

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Stevie Martin's avatar

Oh excellent!!! Did this with an coat in 2010 and still think about it. Gigantic cheers

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Amelia's avatar

2024 is the year of heatless curlers for me. I bought them on a whim and am absolutely infuriated at how good my hair looks. It is dangerous, having hair this good, that accessible. I am too powerful. Welcome to the heatless curl 🙏

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Stevie Martin's avatar

Oh my god ok I’ll report back!!!

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Grace Browne's avatar

Ooh do you have a rec for a certain brand??

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Amelia's avatar

I impulse-purchased Kitsch! No research; there might be better out there??!

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Grace Browne's avatar

if it's working for you, I trust your opinion hehe -- thanks sm!!

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Phili Rose's avatar

Cheers 🥂

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Phoebe Gander's avatar

Cheerses to being on a long haul flight and realising with absolute elation that there is an actual empty seat next to you when the cabin doors close. This happened to me when travelling from NZ to Doha with my 7 year old, it was a 17 hour NIGHT FLIGHT and meant she could lie down and sleep which she did for 10 straight hours. Yes I wept with joy whist drinking G&Ts and watching movies like it was an actual holiday. Cheers indeed!

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Bernadette's avatar

That's amazing! I had this once flying to Canada, two seats free beside me so I could lie down like it was business class but a million pounds cheaper, it was epic.

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Gina Martin's avatar

Why would you buy them I have spares just like the foundaysh situaysh

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Dave Nattriss's avatar

I think that Tesco (in particular) have made Clubcard so integral to their pricing now, that it feels like while you may save up to 50% on the regular prices, those regular prices have been put up higher to compensate. They're just desperate to have everyone's (big) data, and to keep us coming back. Which in general is fine with me, but this is just another marketing technique.

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