Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • johnnyfartpants
    johnnyfartpants Posts: 566
    briantrumpet said:

    orraloon said:

    There is a single starling sitting up on the aerial on my chimney going through its full repertoire of noise. I would not call it bird song exactly. But it is enthusiastic and it does cheer me up.


    I've got courting starlings opposite my house - the female seems very unimpressed, but given the male's attempts to get her attention, I'm not wholly surprised...


    I've got starlings nesting at the front of the house under the eaves. Sh*t everywhere!
    I'll have the swifts arriving in a few weeks as well for their annual holiday/nesting trip......always love to see them and they generally arrive the same week each year.......fantastically bizarre.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    Being a heavy, think back row forward, so yeah I work hard and struggle on the upslopes.

    What cheers me up is the combination of gravity and bodyweight.

    Example. On my normal route back to home village, 2km out there is a T and then a short sharp enjoyable down, nice end to cruise home. Today, got to the T, another slim clubbie rider went past, I started from stop, got into the mode, and blxxdy hell almost caught up with him by the bottom. Surprised me how close I got. See, heavy buxxers sometimes do better. #wellchuffed
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,315
    Are you fat 'Loon?
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,323
    Seeing that "world class" pitchers ain't all that...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WYC8jySsio
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151
    The scorchio prediction for next week.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,315
    It's been stunning up here for over 2 weeks.
    I see it's wet daan saaf :)
    Ha ha.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,323
    pinno said:

    It's been stunning up here for over 2 weeks.
    I see it's wet daan saaf :)
    Ha ha.

    If only you had the temperatures to make that sound enticing.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151
    pinno said:

    It's been stunning up here for over 2 weeks.
    I see it's wet daan saaf :)
    Ha ha.

    It's been sunny down eearrrr for a couple of weeks now, so I'm glad to see the rain to be honest. The garden needed it, the ground were crackingI tell thee!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    pinno said:

    It's been stunning up here for over 2 weeks.
    I see it's wet daan saaf :)
    Ha ha.

    Sun returns tomorrow and then around 20 degrees all week. Scots would have to stay indoors 24 hours a day in those conditions. Oh.....
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Getting an email to say the Jigsaw puzzle I'm getting made from one of my photos has been dispatched. I haven't done a Jigsaw in decades and I'm looking forward to it far more than I should be.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,315
    pblakeney said:

    pinno said:

    It's been stunning up here for over 2 weeks.
    I see it's wet daan saaf :)
    Ha ha.

    If only you had the temperatures to make that sound enticing.
    Though true, I mitigate this with long John's and thermal underwear.

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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    Pross said:

    Getting an email to say the Jigsaw puzzle I'm getting made from one of my photos has been dispatched. I haven't done a Jigsaw in decades and I'm looking forward to it far more than I should be.

    Link please
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    https://www.photobox.co.uk/shop/photo-gifts/photo-jigsaw

    I've gone for a 1000 piece of this photo


    Delivery is due in a few days which will be just over 2 weeks after ordering
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151
    Watching 'Harry's Garage' on Youtube.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,813
    focuszing723 said:

    Watching 'Harry's Garage' on Youtube.

    Ooh, what’s in Harry’s garage?
    I’m cheered by the way Piña is cheered at having better weather than the south, shows how much better it is down here :D
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,396
    veronese68 said:

    focuszing723 said:

    Watching 'Harry's Garage' on Youtube.

    Ooh, what’s in Harry’s garage?
    I’m cheered by the way Piña is cheered at having better weather than the south, shows how much better it is down here :D
    https://youtube.com/channel/UCIB5XXHNAWWzTOw6guIMYCg

    He founded 'Evo' magazine so he has decent taste in cars.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Finally getting out for a run after a 6 week break recovering from what I suspect was a stress fracture.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,315
    Stevo_666 said:

    veronese68 said:

    focuszing723 said:

    Watching 'Harry's Garage' on Youtube.

    Ooh, what’s in Harry’s garage?
    I’m cheered by the way Piña is cheered at having better weather than the south, shows how much better it is down here :D
    https://youtube.com/channel/UCIB5XXHNAWWzTOw6guIMYCg

    He founded 'Evo' magazine so he has decent taste in cars.
    He might have decent taste in cars but he's sooooo boring.
    Have a look at Chris Harris on cars and the other presenters on 'The Drive' channel' FZ.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,396
    pinno said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    veronese68 said:

    focuszing723 said:

    Watching 'Harry's Garage' on Youtube.

    Ooh, what’s in Harry’s garage?
    I’m cheered by the way Piña is cheered at having better weather than the south, shows how much better it is down here :D
    https://youtube.com/channel/UCIB5XXHNAWWzTOw6guIMYCg

    He founded 'Evo' magazine so he has decent taste in cars.
    He might have decent taste in cars but he's sooooo boring.
    Have a look at Chris Harris on cars and the other presenters on 'The Drive' channel' FZ.
    True, but I'd be happy with his car collection. I do watch a fair bit of Chris Harris on youtube, like this:

    https://youtu.be/n4XUTu2lzTo

    He's got a good taste in cars as well :smile:
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,345
    Beth Porch on BGT tonight. She is just the most amazing young person, came up through the Devon Youth Jazz Orchestra (which I help run), has come through major health problems with a smile, trained as a paediatric nurse, and has the voice of an angel, with nerves of steel. And writes songs to bring more than one tear to the eye.

    https://youtu.be/4oL1IlbjS_8

    Maybe not trivial...
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151
    Nope. I like the bloke and his videos. I find just sliding a car round a track every time boring. The fact he uses his cars on adventures and collects memories is interesting to me.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151
    Yep, something to make you smile Brian.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151
    veronese68 said:

    focuszing723 said:

    Watching 'Harry's Garage' on Youtube.

    Ooh, what’s in Harry’s garage?
    I’m cheered by the way Piña is cheered at having better weather than the south, shows how much better it is down here :D
    Ha, yeah. Looking forward to the Sun now.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151
    Stevo_666 said:

    veronese68 said:

    focuszing723 said:

    Watching 'Harry's Garage' on Youtube.

    Ooh, what’s in Harry’s garage?
    I’m cheered by the way Piña is cheered at having better weather than the south, shows how much better it is down here :D
    https://youtube.com/channel/UCIB5XXHNAWWzTOw6guIMYCg

    He founded 'Evo' magazine so he has decent taste in cars.
    Yes, a good story (CH podcast). He had some balls to jump into something he didn't know and give it a try.
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    briantrumpet said:

    Beth Porch on BGT tonight. She is just the most amazing young person, came up through the Devon Youth Jazz Orchestra (which I help run), has come through major health problems with a smile, trained as a paediatric nurse, and has the voice of an angel, with nerves of steel. And writes songs to bring more than one tear to the eye.

    https://youtu.be/4oL1IlbjS_8

    Maybe not trivial...

    Yes, she was good. A talented and likeable young lady.
    The mrs likes to watch it. Out of all the talent shows I have been subject to over the years, it is by far the most watchable.

    I think they have made a big switch to focussing on successful acts too which I think is a good thing.
    Much as the car crash acts are funny, it does feel quite exploitative and I feel this is something they have recognised. The couple of no’s I’ve see have been for people you feel can take the rejection and they haven’t been humiliated.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    Nicked shamelessly from another place (the Tim Vine Joke Appreciation Group)

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    Kenneth: "Everybody Hz"
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Curb.

    Just love it so much.

    Latest series is right up there with the best.
    _
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,345
    edited April 2020
    morstar said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Beth Porch on BGT tonight. She is just the most amazing young person, came up through the Devon Youth Jazz Orchestra (which I help run), has come through major health problems with a smile, trained as a paediatric nurse, and has the voice of an angel, with nerves of steel. And writes songs to bring more than one tear to the eye.

    https://youtu.be/4oL1IlbjS_8

    Maybe not trivial...

    Yes, she was good. A talented and likeable young lady.
    The mrs likes to watch it. Out of all the talent shows I have been subject to over the years, it is by far the most watchable.

    I think they have made a big switch to focussing on successful acts too which I think is a good thing.
    Much as the car crash acts are funny, it does feel quite exploitative and I feel this is something they have recognised. The couple of no’s I’ve see have been for people you feel can take the rejection and they haven’t been humiliated.

    I know it's all manufactured entertainment, but it's nice to know that such a genuine young woman is able to shine here. I don't think it'll change her one jot. After all she's been through (the CV19 has been one of her lesser trials), it's good to see her bounce back in such a big way.

    All that said, you'd never get me watching the show. ;)

    Not least as I haven't got a TV :)
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    OK, so we've fallen for it and got Disney+.
    So far Bompetta (10yo) hasn't watched anything but I stayed up a bit too late last night watching Avengers movies I haven't seen... :*
  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    bompington said:

    OK, so we've fallen for it and got Disney+.
    So far Bompetta (10yo) hasn't watched anything but I stayed up a bit too late last night watching Avengers movies I haven't seen... :*

    Yeah we did the 7 day free trial and kept it going. As well as the classic Disney stuff there some class films from my childhood like "Adventures in Baby Sitting" and Tron to watch.
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