Happy ?

[funkylyn]

How about a new thread to say what little things have made us feel happy today ?

Come on...just for fun....take our minds off any doom and gloom around

For me, its looking at my four little Poms spread out fast asleep on their favourite sheepskin rugs and cushions, on their backs, with their little paws up in the air, smiles on their faces and not a care in the world......

(cos I make it a rule to never discuss politics, bankers or the recession with them lol )

.......never fails to lift my spirits

What has made YOU happy today ?......it could make us ALL smile for a while.......

Lynda

 

[muckymits]

Another day same old s***

 

[funkylyn]

You really are not entering into the spirit of this Dave......this is supposed to be a HAPPY thread.......stop being a grump and think of just one tiny thing thats made you happy today.......god....there must have been SOMETHING !!!

After all.....it IS your birthday......

Lynda

 

[muckymits]

Was up at the crack of dawn to take daughter in to hosi, ungodly hour is 7.00, need to run her home tonight after her op. But pops in to the shop for a bit natter and light relief and find Powacycle have sent me not one but 2 devil bikes to fix and I want to go play with my own bikes!!!!!

some birfday

 

[funkylyn]

Well, yes, I know it hasnt been good so far.......but.....listened to any nice music or saw any wildlife on your early morning trip ?

Maybe the devil bikes might be easier to fix this time

And your daughter is fine now.....

Come on......try harder.....no more angry faces......SMILE ......yr a long time dead !!


Lynda

 

[muckymits]

Just for you Ive jammed a coat hanger in my mouth

so HAPPY ok?

 

[funkylyn]

LOL.....thats better

God..... its sometimes like 'pulling hens teeth ' with you men.......anyone else care to share their

' happy moments' today ?

Lynda

 

[timidtom]

Just posted the Gift Aid claim form - now day-dreaming about a new school! (might in fact pay a teacher's wages for a year but I can dream!)

 

[flecc]

Nothing today. Quite a few good memories of previous happy incidents, 50/50 human and wildlife related.

 

[funkylyn]

There you go then Flecc.....so at least the memories have made you happy today

If I could take wildlife pictures like you....I would be happy too

Lynda

 

[flecc]

If I could take wildlife pictures like you....I would be happy too

Lynda

Here's a happy wildlife story then, one concerning woodmice which are cute creatures with young that are impossibly cute. Unlike housemice, they have large ears and hop kangaroo fashion. I get them in my home occasionally, after the birdseed, but am usually able to locate one that gets in and expel it.

However, on one occasion there was one chewing into my seed bags which I was unable to find, so to avoid the inconvenience of the damaged bags I started leaving out small amounts of sunflower seed. It soon became apparent that the amount of seed eaten was feeding more than one mouth, so I had a thorough search to locate a nest, but again drew a blank, so I bought a humane trapdoor trap making sure that held the only accessible seed. Sure enough, one morning there was a trapped woodmouse which I took into the woods to a safe spot where I released it with a small starter stock of seed.

The next day I was working on a bike in my bedroom cum workroom when a baby woodmouse came hopping out from under the bed, hopped right up to me and stared up at my face. This was weird, they are normally instinctively frightened of humans. Satisfied, it calmly hopped on through the flat to where I'd reset the trap and sure enough, click, it was caught. So I popped it into a lidded bowl with some sunflower seed and carried on working. Shortly after, yet another baby woodmouse appeared from under the bed, hopped up to study me, then hopped off to get the seed and got trapped. Finally a third and final one repeated the whole performance so there were three in the bowl now, all of which I took up to where the mother was released and left them with plenty of seed for a few days.

Following that I pulled out the bed and thoroughly searched the area, skirting boards, carpet edges etc but could find no nest. Some while after I renewed the bedroom carpet, and to shift the divan bed tipped it on it's side when I saw a small hole in the base underside fabric at the head end. What the mother had done was hopped up and gnawed her way in, building a tiny nest inside the base with the stuffing material.

Of course that explained why the young were so tame with me, they'd grown up active at night just under my pillow area so were completely acclimatised to my smell. Click photo to enlarge:

 

[funkylyn]

Now thats what I call a really nice, happy happy story

Lynda

 

[smudger1956]

Riding my bike to work, and even happier riding it home tonight.................

 

[jerrysimon]

Wow clearly I have been missing out on a whole other side to you guys/gal.

Having suffered from deep depression quite a few years ago (just to keep it cheery), I have learnt that happiness is often over rated. It comes and goes. I much prefer the idea of continual contentment. By that I mean acceptance and remaining in calm state whether experiencing feelings of either happiness or sadness.

What a load of waffel, but then again its been working for me since I kicked depression into touch

Regards

Jerry

 

[GT3]

Puncture 3 or 4 miles into commute this morning. Fit the new tube I carry. Lasts a mile. Repair hole, lasts 1/2 mile. Decide something is profoundly amiss and start working out quickest route to the station. I'm 12 miles from the office, on opposite side of city centre, it's 8.00.

Car pulls over, it's a colleauge I hardly know, 'can I help?'. We strip bike, fit it into his Panda, bike dropped off at his home. He'll take it and me home tonight.

Visit LBS over lunch, they have correct wheel, tube and rim tape and a 700 x 38 Schwalbe M+ (which are shown as out of stock at all the on-line retailers) for £75.

Yes, happy.

 

[flecc]

I much prefer the idea of continual contentment.

What a load of waffel, but then again its been working for me since I kicked depression into touch

Regards

Jerry

Not waffle Jerry, I think contentment is probably a better choice of word and target to aim for, happy somehow implying a slight "high".

 

[funkylyn]

Wow clearly I have been missing out on a whole other side to you guys/gal.

Having suffered from deep depression quite a few years ago (just to keep it cheery), I have learnt that happiness is often over rated. It comes and goes. I much prefer the idea of continual contentment. By that I mean acceptance and remaining in calm state whether experiencing feelings of either happiness or sadness.

What a load of waffel, but then again its been working for me since I kicked depression into touch

Regards

Jerry

I like your idea jerry......Continual Contentment......I think that would make me happy......I will try it and see

Lynda

 

[mike killay]

Well, I have just come in from a ride. Didn't go anywhere particular, spent some time trickling along a country lane that I have known since a boy (a LONG time ago).
Saw things I have never noticed in all the times I have howled along it on motor cycles, sped along it in cars and campervans, but at 8-10mph with the throttle just open it was a new world. Because it is hilly, I never saw these things when struggling long on an ordinary bike.
Birds, a rabbit, tiny wild trout in the small stream.Plants and flowers I cannot hope to name.
I rode into a holiday caravan site, past the barrier arm, no one questions an old guy on what appears to be a bike. These are semi residential caravans, so I admired the little gardens that the owners have constructed, saw holiday makers having lunch on their wooden decking, avoided a crowd of 5 year olds on their bikes with stabilisers.(Obviously future coffee bar cowboys)
Got barked at by a dog, mooed by a cow, got worried by a herd of wild horses who were on the road, but they let me through without problem. Got onto the common and the main road. Saw a mad woman waiting at a bus stop in the middle of nowhere, she was dancing wildly (Honestly, I am not making this up), so I rushed past her. I reached the airfield which rejoices in the name of Swansea Airport and saw some sky divers. Then I rode home with a tail wind and made good time.
Yes, I enjoyed it.

 

[mike killay]

Ps. If you want to see some of my journey, the bus stop is at Google Earth street view
51 36'09.05N
4 03'41.97W

 

[funkylyn]

Saw a mad woman waiting at a bus stop in the middle of nowhere, she was dancing wildly (Honestly, I am not making this up), so I rushed past her.

Yes.....I saw you.........b***** man.........I was just trying to tell you I had a puncture...........

Lynda