Little things in life that make you smile

[r99c]

A bloke from my Dad's Hainault tube depot Super 6 mini-league being the guy who won the £250,000 on it yesterday, courtesy of Man City beating Chelsea 3-0 away after landing the previous five correct scores. Felt great sweating the game along with everyone else on his whatsapp group. Turns out he's away in Madrid for the weekend too... perfect timing!

[Gormalysis]

My 7 week old only waking up once last night after a period of barely sleeping.

A decent night's sleep is a wonderful thing, even if it may be short lived

[Happyhammer52]

My 7 week old only waking up once last night after a period of barely sleeping.

A decent night's sleep is a wonderful thing, even if it may be short lived

To give you some hope, ours was awful to week 9, and then slept through from 9 weeks to 6 months. I won’t go into the regression after that.

[Colne Dynamo]

Starting to make some really good challenge walk plans this year which is getting me excited. It's a great way to spend my 50th year on the planet. I have another go at the local 50k walk (South-east Nottinghamshire) on Thursday. In May I'm doing the Edale Skyline with my youngest lad, and the Yorkshire Three Peaks with my oldest. And then in June, I'm having a third attempt at the Welsh 3000s Challenge again with my eldest (I succeeded with my first attempt but failed the second). I'm now wondering if I could maybe squeeze in the Cairngorm 4000's Challenge in in July or August. It's put a spring in my step and I'm busy now researching and starting my preparations.

[vietnammer]

Taking the collar off me cat after watching the poor ****er struggle with spatial awareness and being unable to clean his bonce for 4 days. Tiny wound above his eye that meant trip to vets to ensure it wasn't infected (it wasn't after he'd had it for 4 days). Applying some kind of cortisone jollop with slight worry that he'll clean it off but it still looks scabbed up nicely (smaller that an old half p). It's recommended for 7 days but I couldn't stand watching his misery any longer. May have been a swipe from one of my other two (sister & mother) cos he plays a bit rough at times.
Added bonus is I'm convinced this is the same gear that the chemist gave me for a dry, itchy patch on the back of my hand, which works well. I can continue using the cat-jollop on myself after Soleyman's healed!

Also, also; finalising one of my pension schemes and finding it's worth £100 a month more than I thought All I want now is WHU to avoid relegation!

[Monkeybubbles]

#Unusual: During the nail trimming, one groundhog seems to have already accepted its fate… while the other panics with every snip. A scene as funny as it is totally theatrical.

[Tenbury]

[dasnutnock3]

This kid's frontside 360s:

[vietnammer]

Further adventures in subtitles: This morning's intellectual digest is Meg 2 - The Trench, in which Queen's Under Pressure is illustrated with 'um do ba de, boo be doo ba de' at the bottom of the screen.

[Gaz]

I love watching talented musicians do their thing.


However .... I should probably put this in the irritate thread. As I get older statements like "senior citizen amazes ..." tend to irritate me.

I was for a while spammed on youtube with videos of 'guitar dad' amazing his family, basically a bloke (likely younger than me) sat in his arm chair playing the back in black riff, the 'kids' were lapping it up. Good luck to them, I'm glad they are enjoying themselves but the implication is "look at this old man doing young man things". I'm in a pretty decent rock covers band myself, mostly in our 50s, singer is in his 40s, but one of us is in his 70s, there is life in us old dogs yet!

Maybe I'm just reading too much into it

[WHU Independent]

My cat has been crying a lot constantly and really bugging so much so it's been bugging me for a few weeks . Took him to the vets last last week and they did F all. They wanted to charge ne £375 for blood tests.

Today I saw him Pee light red on the floor -a sure sign of a water infection. He never pees on the floor, this is highly unusual, Back to the vets again and they diagnosed a water infection ( surprise!) . £100 later I''ve got meds, and quiet cat that is back to his usual ways.

[sendô]

Re people playing music at stations. There is a guy who busks at Oxford Circus station, plays the electric guitar. I've seen him there loads of times, every evening on my way home.

In all the times I've been past him, not once has he been playing a song. He's just picking at the strings making noise. I'm almost certain he doesn't know how to play.

[vietnammer]

Tembers: I would have stopped to listen to that guy!

Don't mind street musicians at all, though they can vary in quality to say the least. Walked past a bloke in The Moor, Sheffield the other day murdering Purple Rain and I couldn't walk fast enough. There's a bloke doing kind of soft reggae who is ok though.
Scene from the 80's sticks in me mind when there was a busker down Tottenham Ct Rd tube, nothing special but an underground employee had seen fit to record a public address message "Would the BEGGAR please leave this station. BEGGING is not allowed on the underground" ok 'doing his job' but it seemed rather mean.

[wolf359]

Sitting on the roof of St Peter’s Basilica reading about Bardy’s departure. Suns out and I’ve got an ice cream. Could be a worse day.

[btajim - mcfc]

Two job interviews this week. Thursday and Friday. I’ve also re-registered with a previous agency who are on the look out for me.

Confident I should get something soon. There’s loads out there,

[Johnny Byrne's Boots]

[bubbles1966]

BBC article about Rosenior and Chelsea

A leak before Rosenior's final match at Brighton remarkably seemed to come from Cucurella's barber.

Cucurella's barber ?

[S-H]

Cucurella's barber ?

Geezer's gotta earn money some how.

It's sure as **** ain't from cutting his hair.

[OFT]

Geezer's gotta earn money some how.

It's sure as **** ain't from cutting his hair.

I wonder how much it took to get him to. . . Coiffeur up the info

[bubbles1966]

"Ah, biscuits !!"

It seems to be something Bluey's dad says instead of 'oh b*llocks' or similar ....

Quite funny hearing little 'uns say it.