I Googled 'Good Deeds' and found more than 3 million results. A lot of sites with names like Do A Good Deed A Day and Random Acts of Kindness, sites where you can post your good deeds, and, strangely, a chiropractor and numerous dentists offering prizes for doing good deeds!! (A computer and/or free braces..) Chiropractors? Dentists?

And I thought you were meant to expect nothing in return!

Well, that's what I was told..

This is getting too complicated - I think I'll just keep it simple and keep my good deeds to myself.


Charles Lamb 1775 - 1834

'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.'

I don't have much under this category, do I? Does this mean I don't do many good deeds?
 
Or does it mean I am modest about them as we were taught to be when we were young!

I pick up litter from the shore path - does that count? But I am actually having difficulty thinking of other recent good deeds. I guess a good deed is something over and above ordinary kindness and neighbourliness. It's going that extra mile - for someone else. Or perhaps being gracious about doing something you don't really want to do. Or putting someone else's need before your own?

I'm not quite sure what a good deed is really....