Topic: The small things in life that make you happy

[Son of Spion]

St. Trinian's girls are the best 😂

I did find them rather attractive when I was younger. 

[reddebs]

I did find them rather attractive when I was younger. 

We did our best to emulate them and I'd have loved to have been one in the film's 😊

[liversaint]

Finding out my mum and her band supported Depeche Mode and Talk Talk in the early 80s.

That’s brilliant. Talk Talk are much under-rated.

[Tesco tearaway]

Finding out my mum and her band supported Depeche Mode and Talk Talk in the early 80s.

Wow! Brilliant that mate

She must have some great stories to tell 

[Nobby Reserve]

She must have some great stories to tell 

Probably not ones for her son's delicate ears 

[Crosby Nick]

Probably not ones for her son's delicate ears 

You saying she just couldn’t get enough?

[Ray K]

You saying she just couldn’t get enough?

She shouldn't have to tell him anything. It's her life, don't you forget.

[Son of Spion]

She must have some great stories to tell 

Nah, just blasphemous rumours.

[So… Howard Philips]

Unblocked the drain outside the kitchen using a proprietary cleaner without any need to call in Dyno Rod.

[So… Howard Philips]

I did find them rather attractive when I was younger. 

My daughter (born in the year of our first European Cup win and officially middle aged as she does well in Radio Two’s Popmaster quiz) saw one of the original St Trinians films and was quite shocked at the tolerated ogling of young women in gym slips and stockings by middle aged men - Not me, the film cast.

[liverbloke]

olivia colman's voice

now posh voices usually grate on me like the worst lazy scouse accents - but man oh man does she do something for me 

gonna get my girl some elocution lessons pronto

[AlphaDelta]

The horror on the face of someone in the office today who must have naively opened one of those orgasm videos.

We all dread being that person and feel their anguish, but how it brightened my Thursday morning up no end.

[Crosby Nick]

The horror on the face of someone in the office today who must have naively opened one of those orgasm videos.

We all dread being that person and feel their anguish, but how it brightened my Thursday morning up no end.

Haha. Not that that’s happened to me but that sheer panic where you feel yourself burning up instantly and your pulse go through the roof…

[AlphaDelta]

Haha. Not that that’s happened to me but that sheet panic where you feel yourself burning up instantly and your pups go through the roof…

Hahah its the stuff of nightmares, I think I'd resign on the spot if it happened to me!

[Son of Spion]

Reading through the 'Wolves Away 1976' thread on here just now. 

[reddebs]

Making this year's Christmas cake 😊

[liverbloke]

Making this year's Christmas cake 😊

save some for me - as long as it has a marzipan layer and icing though 

[reddebs]

save some for me - as long as it has a marzipan layer and icing though 

Nope sorry. 

Lots of brandy though and it'll have more added every week till Christmas 🫣

[rowan_d]

Get to spend Christmas with my nephews and niece for the first time in about five years, and have a full week off instead of just two or three days

[So… Howard Philips]

Nope sorry. 

Lots of brandy though and it'll have more added every week till Christmas 🫣

My dad used to make our Christmas cake around now as well, laden with sherry and rum from a recipe he learnt in the Navy.

Amazing the things a nineteen year old Royal Marine learnt in the heat of the Mediterranean campaign in between landings and shore leave in Naples.

[reddebs]

My dad used to make our Christmas cake around now as well, laden with sherry and rum from a recipe he learnt in the Navy.

Amazing the things a nineteen year old Royal Marine learnt in the heat of the Mediterranean campaign in between landings and shore leave in Naples.

Food is very important to naval crew so I'm not surprised. 

This is a good old Mrs. Beaton recipe that I've used since leaving home many decades ago but the feeding it a teaspoon of brandy every week till Christmas, I learnt from my mum.

Nobody ever complains about it being dry ☺️

[mikeb58]

When you receive a kind, unexpected gesture/present.

This one went an awful long way, because it really cheered me up when I needed it most.

I have 3 lovely friends, I do them little favours when I can, I don't ask or expect anything back in return, they are my friends and I love and value their company.

As a thank you, a few days ago, my friends surprised with a lovely present, a pair of Skechers footwear. They put lots of thought in what style to chose, something easy to put on and with a good grip to support me after my up and coming knee op.

Can't thank my friends enough!

[pascoli]

Opened my front door today to a garden full of geese.... My daughters were like little kids again stood in the middle of them feeding them bread.

[reddebs]

Went to my rental this morning to meet someone pricing up some work for me and seeing how beautifully clean, tidy and well loved the flat was was lovely to see 😊

I'm so happy that she's loving living there and also managing to keep it warm and comfortable.  That's a huge relief for me.

[reddebs]

Watching how the National Trust has a secret nurseries/laboratory propagating trees, shrubs and plants that they have in all the parks, woodlands and gardens they look after.

Some of the trees are being reproduced from parents that are over 2000yrs old 😯

[bradders1011]

Them UAE sportswashing bastards losing and that baldy Catalan try-hard losing his shit.

[AndyInVA]

Nope sorry. 

Lots of brandy though and it'll have more added every week till Christmas 🫣

Ive tried that with a full bottle of brandy being fed into over the December period and I could barely taste it and it cost a fortune.

[reddebs]

Ive tried that with a full bottle of brandy being fed into over the December period and I could barely taste it and it cost a fortune.

You need better brandy 😜

[liverbloke]

just passed a school and the lads were shouting at me to get their ball for them

at first i thought 'there's something not right here - is the ball covered in shit or superglued to the pavement' but the nice bloke inside of me thought maybe just possibly they had actually genuinely kicked the ball over the fence and couldn't get on with their game of football between lessons

so i picked it up and they were shouting 'thank you' 'aw that's great' 'yes he's getting it for us' etc so i threw it back to them and they continued with 'have a nice day' and 'that's brilliant' etc even the girls who were watching the boys playing shouted over 'thank you'

made me feel good and a bit guilty at the cynic in me

[Son of Spion]

just passed a school and the lads were shouting at me to get their ball for them

at first i thought 'there's something not right here - is the ball covered in shit or superglued to the pavement' but the nice bloke inside of me thought maybe just possibly they had actually genuinely kicked the ball over the fence and couldn't get on with their game of football between lessons

so i picked it up and they were shouting 'thank you' 'aw that's great' 'yes he's getting it for us' etc so i threw it back to them and they continued with 'have a nice day' and 'that's brilliant' etc even the girls who were watching the boys playing shouted over 'thank you'

made me feel good and a bit guilty at the cynic in me

You were wise to be cynical.

When we were kids we filled a burst casey with rubble then asked a passing fella to boot it back to us.

He wasn't a happy bunny. 

[liverbloke]

You were wise to be cynical.

When we were kids we filled a burst casey with rubble then asked a passing fella to boot it back to us.

He wasn't a happy bunny. 

you little tinkers 

i remember a gang of us super-gluing a 50p to the pavement and would watch from behind a hedge as people tried to pick it up and then try and prise it off the floor - y'know, we'd most probably would've put the videos on tik tok nowadays 

[Son of Spion]

you little tinkers 

i remember a gang of us super-gluing a 50p to the pavement and would watch from behind a hedge as people tried to pick it up and then try and prise it off the floor - y'know, we'd most probably would've put the videos on tik tok nowadays 

 

I'm just glad there were no camera phones around when we were kids.

[Tesco tearaway]

you little tinkers 

i remember a gang of us super-gluing a 50p to the pavement and would watch from behind a hedge as people tried to pick it up and then try and prise it off the floor - y'know, we'd most probably would've put the videos on tik tok nowadays 

We used to love doing the 'purse on a fishing line' trick 

[So… Howard Philips]

you little tinkers 

i remember a gang of us super-gluing a 50p to the pavement and would watch from behind a hedge as people tried to pick it up and then try and prise it off the floor - y'know, we'd most probably would've put the videos on tik tok nowadays 

We went one further. We soldered a screw to a 50p piece and hammered into the pavement outside one of the pubs on Great Crosshal Street and spent the afternoon watching those leaving the pub scrabbling around on the floor.

[sheepfest]

A morning spent batch cooking for the freezer listening to music drinking fresh coffee. 

[reddebs]

Roast pork with crackling ☺️

[rob1966]

Took my lads the Ajax game, first time they've experienced a last minute winner. We're 306 row 65, they love it up there, they were getting hugged, backslapped, the lot, they were buzzing.

Youngest was 12 in September so took him the Legends game v the Mancs, his Ma came too, sat in the Kenny lower, near the Anny Rd, her fucking face when YNWA came on😂 It was her first defeat at Anfield, it wasn't her first time in the Kemlyn , she was in the Upper for the Forlan game and her first away was boxing day 1985 when they beat us, she was in the away end that day.

[sheepfest]

Roast pork with crackling ☺️

My favourite but my other half hates pork. Thinking of disguising slow cooked pork as chicken to see if I can sneak some in!

[Nitramdorf]

Roast pork with crackling ☺️

Do you watch Stanley Tucci searching for Italy? In last weeks show he was in Umbria and pork is eaten on a massive scale there. He had some pork and crackling in one scene and I could almost taste it. It looked amazing.

[I've been a good boy]

Having Monday off which means not having to go into the office and listen to shit banter all day.