Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.

[Felix]

Being in a small town has been great but the Broadband has been shocking, 60Meg if you were lucky. Along comes Virgin and not only half price but..............

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[Sadlonelygit]

Almighty thump on the front windows just now, we know what that usually means ......dead bird.
Except this time a very dazed and confused peregrine falcon was sitting on the ground. By the time I'd found my phone etc he'd decided to foxtrot oscar to higher ground!
Still nice to see so close up!

[Jody]

Took the hound out for a walk this morning and picked up some fresh figs and blue cheese from the market.

On the way home I had my message read out on the radio

2 wins for me before 9 am !!

[Horse]

Almighty thump on the front windows just now, we know what that usually means ......dead bird.
Except this time a very dazed and confused peregrine falcon was sitting on the ground. By the time I'd found my phone etc he'd decided to foxtrot oscar to higher ground!
Still nice to see so close up!

We had a woodpecker gradually wake up on the decking after headbutting a window.

And a pigeon left this print:

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[ChrisW]

Getting to the end of a bloody lovely holiday.

[Yorick]

This made me chuckle.
Whenever I was in M&S or Waitrose, the staff had a little bit of haughtiness about them in their posh uniforms. I'd imagine they'd not want to mix with the riff-raff at Lidl & Aldi.

But the staff at Aldi & Lidl earn more

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[Yorick]

Just saw this brilliant reply on FB

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[Docca]

Friday I went to an Ibiza classical night with my wife. I did nearly 40k steps.

Saturday I couldn’t walk.

Sunday I went to Mudeford. With the dogs. I went to the New Forrest for the first time.

Tonight my wife and daughter are at Wembley for Taylor Swift. I’m so happy I don’t have to go. I don’t care for her music

[Count Steer]

Coffee = Medicine

Coffee can be good for you. Huzzah!

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[Wossname]

Huh. Count how often phrases like “seems to”, “has been associated with”, “may help to”, “has been suggested to” etc are used for each of the supposed benefits.

Pseudo research which people read and quote so often that they end up believing the rest of the claims and convincing others. BsMP. A bit like “up to 90%”, when it’s actually 5%. Grr.

I think I’ll have a coffee, see if that helps…

[gremlin]

Huh. Count how often phrases like “seems to”, “has been associated with”, “may help to”, “has been suggested to” etc are used for each of the supposed benefits.

"Sixty percent of the time, it works every time"

[Count Steer]

Huh. Count how often phrases like “seems to”, “has been associated with”, “may help to”, “has been suggested to” etc are used for each of the supposed benefits.

Pseudo research which people read and quote so often that they end up believing the rest of the claims and convincing others. BsMP. A bit like “up to 90%”, when it’s actually 5%. Grr.

I think I’ll have a coffee, see if that helps…

It's tricky being definitive with these things as it's impossible (pretty much) to eliminate all the variables. There is a danger of ending up with 'clever girls have big feet' science. But, I'll go with the general research trend and stick with my daily grind of half decaff (Swiss water method) and half 'fully leaded' beans.

More support for a cup o' java...

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/ ... od-for-you

[Yorick]

Best birthday prezzy ever today.

For last 2 months my dog Elvis has been up and down. Lots of internal problems.
But the vets here are amazing and lots of visits, tablets and injections have helped.

We used to walk 6 or 7 miles a day but recently it's dropped right down. Most was 2 or 3 miles but some days only 400 yards.
A few times he was so unwell we thought we were losing him

Buy today my puppy is back. He was pulling on his lead and just wanted to go. So we did the usual 4 mile walk taking in the beautiful sea front. So happy to do this again as I thought it was a thing of the past.

Welcome back puppy boy

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[weeksy]

GCSE Results day...... The boy did well He can do the courses he wanted for A levels.

[gremlin]

Best birthday prezzy ever today.

It's always heartbreaking to see an old, confused animal shuffling along, barely able to register its surrounds and losing control of bodily functions and mental capacity...but enough about you, good to see Elvis up and looking perky.

[Ian]

Been there and lost ours recently so I'm glad to hear Elvis has perked up
Happy Birthday !

[Yorick]

A while ago we were on Fuerteventura and saw a house with a map of the islands on the wall outside.
I instantly loved it and have been planning to cut out marching island shapes and make a map on the wall.

Today Penny just gave me these islands made out of volcanic lava. Absolutely stunning. So now planning their exact relative positions to mount them on the wall.
Happy boy here

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[Yorick]

A while ago we were on Fuerteventura and saw a house with a map of the islands on the wall outside.
I instantly loved it and have been planning to cut out marching island shapes and make a map on the wall.

Today Penny just gave me these islands made out of volcanic lava. Absolutely stunning. So now planning their exact relative positions to mount them on the wall.
Happy boy here

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Wanted to get it exact. So printed a map out and drew gridlines on it.
Then upscale the lines onto the wall. Then I knew exactly where to put each island

Next step is to paint over the red lines ;

Then Pen's gonna paint blue sea around each one

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[gremlin]

Be good if you could back light them, but looks like a bit of a ball ache given the size, etc.

Looks good, mind. Pen done well there.

[MrLongbeard]

Then Pen's gonna paint blue sea around each one

Nah, leave it as it is it look good, adding blue paint will look like you've left painters tape up