Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

orraloon

Stevo 666 wrote:

thistle (MBNW) wrote:

A shrew running across 2 lanes of motorway at full tilt yesterday morning and not getting squashed.

He was probably going to see his flat mate.

Badoom. And tish.

pinno

PBlakeney wrote:

From last night - Cycling fans running alongside the race.
And failing.

..and Lopez slapping one bloke around - without recourse despite Roglic getting fined for being pushed.

pinno

Robert88 wrote:

Pross wrote:

I've now done some research and it is apparently trying to defend its territory against its own reflection. Thick as s**t! It is also supposedly a harbinger that someone in the house is going to die so just in case, it was nice knowing you all.

You should start an eschatological thread before you go. Something to remember you by.

He should simply wander around, replete with sandwich board stating: 'The end is nigh' and in small print: 'A sparrow told me'.

pblakeney

Pinno wrote:

PBlakeney wrote:

From last night - Cycling fans running alongside the race.
And failing.

..and Lopez slapping one bloke around - without recourse despite Roglic getting fined for being pushed.

It is more fun when they simply fall over, or into each other. A bonus 100 points for a gendarme.
Interfering with the race (however accidental) deserves more than a cyclist's bitch slap, and isn't trivial.

pblakeney

A female dog being censored.

cowsham

Getting a 40MPH tail wind to our campsite tonight -- our mountain bikes were loaded beyond they're weight limits with all our gear but still felt like we were on electric bikes.

rolf_f

orraloon wrote:

Watching bumble bees getting well stuck in to the flowers of Allium nectaroscordum, pretty bell shaped flowers and busy bees. Lovely.

Rescuing the third I've found in my house the other day (number two I found in the toilet bowl!)

Clearly starved (at any time bumblebees are about 40 minutes from starvation; keeps a lot to keep those motors going) I picked him up and put the comatose creature onto a flower in the back garden (all being replanted for bees and butterflies) and he was instantly back to life stuffing his face. Once he seemed to have used up one flower head I let him crawl back onto my finger and put him on the next!

haydenm

I got stuck in a traffic jam leaving the office last week, along the same bit of road where I usually see dancing-bus-stop-lady. I'd normally put this in the other Trivial thread but this time I was listening to 'Ice-T 99 Problems' quite loudly when I saw a very very old man shuffling along on the other side of the road. I thought I'd better turn it down a notch but when he got alongside my car he stopped, his face lit up with a massive grin, put his hand to his ear and gestured to me to turn my music up. Who knew a man in his 80s would be such a gangster rap aficionado! Made my day

pinno

Rolf F wrote:

orraloon wrote:

Watching bumble bees getting well stuck in to the flowers of Allium nectaroscordum, pretty bell shaped flowers and busy bees. Lovely.

Rescuing the third I've found in my house the other day (number two I found in the toilet bowl!)

Clearly starved (at any time bumblebees are about 40 minutes from starvation; keeps a lot to keep those motors going) I picked him up and put the comatose creature onto a flower in the back garden (all being replanted for bees and butterflies) and he was instantly back to life stuffing his face. Once he seemed to have used up one flower head I let him crawl back onto my finger and put him on the next!

I like that.
Animals (other than pets) can and do sense your motives.
I caught a mouse in a humane mouse trap once. The bait was Dark Chocolate Kitkat.
The Mouse had struggled to extricate himself from the trap as the trap was no longer up against the skirting in the middle of the floor and the mouse was covered in sweat.
I went and released him outside on my workbench.
He/She didn't run away but squeaked at me and then proceeded to clean it's fur and then squeaked at me again. Both times, looking straight at me.

pblakeney

Rolf F wrote:

Rescuing the third I've found in my house the other day (number two I found in the toilet bowl!)

Accidental choices of phrase.

Pross

Listening to the football earlier on the radio and hearing the change in sound from when England 'scored' their second to when it was ruled out by the VAR.

bompington

There's something I've always loved, to the point of slight obsession, about sun shining into unusual nooks and crannies in the house: possibly set off by my childhood home where a narrow shaft of sunlight used to shine from the north west, through the kitchen, into the adjoining living room on just a few midsummer late evenings.

The last couple of mornings the sun has been blazing into our north-facing kitchen when I've got up at 5am, something that can make me feel refreshed even at that time.

Then the thermometer on the study window was reading over 10° by 6am, and the forecast is to stay fine, so it was short sleeves today!
OK, so it was a bit chilly in some shady spots - local online weather stations were still showing 3° at that time - but it couldn't wipe the smile off my face, even while hauling myself up and over Tullybaccart for the long way to work.

pinno

Yes. at this time of year, for a brief period, sunlight is hitting parts of the inside of the house that for the majority of the year, never sees.
I can sit in the conservatory with my morning coffee and it's warm in there very early.

capt_slog

Rolf F wrote:

orraloon wrote:

Watching bumble bees getting well stuck in to the flowers of Allium nectaroscordum, pretty bell shaped flowers and busy bees. Lovely.

Rescuing the third I've found in my house the other day (number two I found in the toilet bowl!)

Clearly starved (at any time bumblebees are about 40 minutes from starvation; keeps a lot to keep those motors going) I picked him up and put the comatose creature onto a flower in the back garden (all being replanted for bees and butterflies) and he was instantly back to life stuffing his face. Once he seemed to have used up one flower head I let him crawl back onto my finger and put him on the next!

Put a drop of strong sugar solution or runny honey in front of them, it's great to watch the level drop as it's going in. easier too than trying to find the right flower.

Oh, and almost certainly a 'she' not a 'he'.

pinno

Strong sugar solution plus lemon juice. They go mad for it.

keef66

Pinno wrote:

Yes. at this time of year, for a brief period, sunlight is hitting parts of the inside of the house that for the majority of the year, never sees.
I can sit in the conservatory with my morning coffee and it's warm in there very early.

I was up just after 4am for a pee (the delights of getting older), and noticed a strange orange glow coming from the back bedroom. Bloody hell, the sun gets up early at this time of year.

awavey

I was fascinated by how some bumble bees were attending foxgloves in a pub garden last weekend, it was interesting as theyd land on the flower as youd expect, disappear right up into the bell/trumpet, and then sort of half fall back out sideways as it appears they cant walk backwards

Pross

Singing today for a wedding where guests included Geraint Thomas and Chris Hoy (amongst numerous other top sportspeople).

pinno

It's a beautifully still, summer night, there's a half moon and the owls are hooting.

crispybug2

I had a job for today that would have involved me working outdoors all day, it was cancelled and put back a few days on Friday afternoon. So it was great to be woken at five thirty this morning by the sound of massive rainfall hitting my window and realising that I won’t be working in that!

mr_goo

Saturday lunchtime. On my Jack, sat in a sunny quiet pub garden with a pint of Orkney Dark Island and a book.

orraloon

Getting close passed...

...by house martins. Pair of them swooping in repeatedly at about head height, fast as. Lovely to watch. And took out some of them bleepin' insects as well.

pinno

orraloon wrote:

Getting close passed...

...by house martins. Pair of them swooping in repeatedly at about head height, fast as. Lovely to watch. And took out some of them bleepin' insects as well.

They try every year to build a nest on the upper part of the house and fail. I even put a strip of wood up for them but they never use it or pick other locations.

At this rate. i'll end up with an external Dado rail all the way around

pblakeney

orraloon wrote:

Getting close passed...

...by house martins. Pair of them swooping in repeatedly at about head height, fast as. Lovely to watch. And took out some of them bleepin' insects as well.

Had that happen once with a pheasant.
Not so pleasant.

pinno

I get bats flying around the front lights of a summer evening. They're good company.

rjsterry

PBlakeney wrote:

orraloon wrote:

Getting close passed...

...by house martins. Pair of them swooping in repeatedly at about head height, fast as. Lovely to watch. And took out some of them bleepin' insects as well.

Had that happen once with a pheasant.
Not so pleasant.

The pheasant did well to get up that high.

pinno

rjsterry wrote:

PBlakeney wrote:

orraloon wrote:

Getting close passed...

...by house martins. Pair of them swooping in repeatedly at about head height, fast as. Lovely to watch. And took out some of them bleepin' insects as well.

Had that happen once with a pheasant.
Not so pleasant.

The pheasant did well to get up that high.

They are bred (at the expense of other game birds/Guinea Fowl) to be fat and slow so that drunken city slickers dressed in Tweed with an 8 feet spread of shot, can actually shoot them.

pblakeney

rjsterry wrote:

PBlakeney wrote:

orraloon wrote:

Getting close passed...

...by house martins. Pair of them swooping in repeatedly at about head height, fast as. Lovely to watch. And took out some of them bleepin' insects as well.

Had that happen once with a pheasant.
Not so pleasant.

The pheasant did well to get up that high.

It managed to maintain an elevation of 5 feet (or whatever my head height is on a bike) until it had the sense to go to the verge. As an addition, Seeing a peacock fly surprised me, but that was more a controlled slow fall.

robert88

Hearing the book I ordered last month is being sent. I'd forgotten all about it..

In May I paid the seller in New Delhi just over a fiver (P&P incl.). Three days ago DHL sent an email with tracking details saying it had just been received for shipment. Today it's on its way and they give an estimated delivery date 17 to 20 July.

I guess it's coming by sailing ship - it's too big to put in a bottle.

Matthewfalle

bloke on supermotard today

bumbling along at 30 mph

open face helmet

wayfarers

smoking a fag


#coolas.