On a recent weekend, a cheerful woman behind the bar threw her weight into pulling an old-fashioned tap to draw free five-ounce samples of room-temperature oatmeal stout from a cask.
It was an unseasonably warm and beautiful day, and I like to think that as she stepped off the curb she was in a cheerful mood, thinking about the weekend ahead.
Those hours spent remaining cheerful while dining opposite Steve Coogan's wet-weekend-in-Ancoats face on The Trip to Italy are certainly paying dividends.
The Tour Makers are the Olympic-style volunteers who will point riders/spectators/visiting dignitaries in the right direction, answer questions and remain cheerful at all times over the Grand Depart weekend.
SERVICE Even when understaffed and overworked (weekend evenings), the crew manages to be cheerful and efficient.
A more cheerful looking Rosberg said: "It's been an awesome weekend.
A leisurely weekend brunch is when the staff's cheerful incompetence feels the most appropriate, and the Highliner offers solid Bloody Marys, good, thick-cut bacon, and, idiosyncratically, a tasty farro salad spiked with crisp bits of cauliflower.
With box office takings up 15% on the previous weekend, cinema owners had reason to be cheerful – just as long as they don't think about the equivalent frame from 2012, which saw the arrival of Skyfall.
Ms. Pollard, a cheerful woman whose nickname is Tootie, said she spent weekends with relatives to get away from Sunnydale.
Add this to the mounting sense of panic over the eurozone debt crisis with emergency talks being held amongst finance ministers over the weekend and there's little reason to be cheerful.
