Things that make you smile/happy?

Frankie Lee said:
I know it’s hard sometimes but it’s best to just not take life to seriously. I’ve just been dragged around the shops looking for toys for Christmas and was totally fed up. To cheer myself up I raised the right arms of every doll and figure I saw. Going into Smyths toy store now is like walking around Nazi Germany.
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When I was younger I would go through the paper and draw on the faces of every picture.
 
swordtrombonefish said:
A few things...

Seeing the good lady in remission is the most important thing in my life right now
Music - always music
Remembering that I retire end of March
The dogs playing in the mud, despite knowing I have to clean them up
The end of every working day
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Best wishes to your good lady.

I’m also looking forward to retirement at the end of March, sure it will come around quickly

Plus, the music

👍
 
A fresh cold glass of bia hoi.
Sandwiches.
Writing something I'm proud of.
The boro scoring (and sometimes even winning).
The joy of others in my life. The closer to me or the larger the joy the better.
 
Playing better than my golf handicap.

Seeing plenty of sunshine in the winter.

More recently massaging my wife's back. As she tweaked what I think is called an intercostal muscle.
 
Dogs in general, but particularly mine.
They say more to you without words than anyone else in your life.
Love nothing more than going for a walk with my little lad off the lead, living his best life getting into mud, making it his mission to go in every puddle, beck, river or lake and all the while just giving me the odd look to check in.
 
As long as the kids have a smile on their face I've come to realise that is pretty much all I need.

The days were they are angry little sh*ts or have had bother at school and are upset etc these days become my bad days.

My happiness is pretty much dictated by them lot nowadays!
 
mercury_redstone7 said:
Going to bed at the end of the day and knowing all mine are all OK.
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Agree with this - thats the main thing.

After that I have a lot "Would be nice to have" things that would make me happier;

- 3 points for the Boro
- Few pints with mates
- A good meal out with the wife

etc, but not essential if the family one is ticked off.
 
MichaelDebeve said:
Agree with this - thats the main thing.

After that I have a lot "Would be nice to have" things that would make me happier;

- 3 points for the Boro
- Few pints with mates
- A good meal out with the wife

etc, but not essential if the family one is ticked off.
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I didnt want to sound like a Miss World contestant, world peace etc.

I agree with you, the simple pleasures as you have listed. Hobbies I have a few, plus holidays. Going on our first holiday for a while due to my illness. Now I'm in a good place and sorted, we are off to Centre Parcs Cumbria pre spring,12 + 2 dogs of us family, and the USA for 3 weeks in the summer same gang no dogs.

I need to find someone who will look after our dog properly in their home, I wish I could stay tbh.
 
I have just been reading an old thread from earlier this month and mercury_redstone7 talks fondly of his dad and how he would bargain with his dad to buy him items he wanted in exchange for him completing jobs around the house. It was the line I've pasted below that he wrote that made me smile. We take our parents for granted and sometimes don't realise what we have until they've gone.

mercury_redstone7 - I miss him everyday. He was a great Dad and employer, occasional dispute over prices but in the main he caved in.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
I have just been reading an old thread from earlier this month and mercury_redstone7 talks fondly of his dad and how he would bargain with his dad to buy him items he wanted in exchange for him completing jobs around the house. It was the line I've pasted below that he wrote that made me smile. We take our parents for granted and sometimes don't realise what we have until they've gone.

mercury_redstone7 - I miss him everyday. He was a great Dad and employer, occasional dispute over prices but in the main he caved in.
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I can picture him now, with a grey ICI coat overall on, more paint on the overalls -his hands and face than the door and window frame he was painting.

He was wanting to pop to the betting shop as he had a tip, but he knew when the old dear came home from work she would cut him in half if it wasn't painted.

£2 he said
nope £5
five bloody pound!
yep
No way five pound.
Well sorry but Wacky Races is on bye.
£5 done then !, but I want a cuppa tea and PEK sandwich making tomorrow as well.
 
Frankie Lee said:
I know it’s hard sometimes but it’s best to just not take life to seriously. I’ve just been dragged around the shops looking for toys for Christmas and was totally fed up. To cheer myself up I raised the right arms of every doll and figure I saw. Going into Smyths toy store now is like walking around Nazi Germany.
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I remember going in a Cookshop years ago and finding a basket full of audible egg timers. I set everyone of them to 20 minutes and made sure I exited the shop before they went off. Made me laugh anyway.
 
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