What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

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  On 13/12/2024 at 22:11, hairnet said:

Ahh jaysis

 

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Lovely Leitrim. 

[Remspoor]

  On 14/12/2024 at 17:30, comfortablynumb said:

I bought myself a hydraulic log splitter a while ago. One of the best tools I've got, not cheap, but worth it's weight in gold for the effort it saves.

Having said that, your logpile would last me about 4 days, three stoves take some stock...🙄

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It sounds like they are after you.

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[cobblers]

I love a good long walk and I love my dogs, but we've always had whippets which don't want to go the distance. A couple of miles and they wanted to go home, less so if it's cold!

About 16 months ago we lost my best whippet mate, and a couple of months ago we got this nobhead from a rescue thinking that she "was mostly sighthound":

A tiny, meek little thing when we got her, 4.2kg!

Turns out she was just hungry, not a sighthound at all 😂 DNA says she's mostly Collie, closely followed by German Shepherd, and some other stuff that's keeping her small. Nowt like any dog we've ever had, and absolutely not what we'd have chosen, but she loves to walk. Walk for miles!

We reckon she's 7 or 8 months old now so I can take her for a good mission:

This is her after 12 miles walking today - took her off lead out and about for the first time, and we did a couple of miles, she kept close by and was no bother.

Sorry to bore the non dog people, but I'm proper happy to have a new walking partner. 

[DavieW]

Chinese snooker player Lei Peifan is a Chinese Michael McIntyre 😄

 

[MikeR]

up and around like the milk choccy man last night at midnight ..

woke up to the dog barking , then I noticed some banging and shouting , it went on for a while , and so did the dog barking ...so got up 

so being brave I stuck my nose out of the front door to find her next door locked out ..in her glad rags .. she was not happy ..

her grown up kids were supposed to let her in , but had left the key in the lock as well as going to sleep ..

so got the ladders out , over the back fence like a PJ d ninja , in the back entrance , shoved her "useful" dog out of the way to open the front door   .

to put it mildly I have never seen a woman wake up her offspring in that manner before , I assume their life will be as interesting this morning ....

[MikeR]

  On 14/12/2024 at 21:55, cobblers said:

I love a good long walk and I love my dogs, but we've always had whippets which don't want to go the distance. A couple of miles and they wanted to go home, less so if it's cold!

About 16 months ago we lost my best whippet mate, and a couple of months ago we got this nobhead from a rescue thinking that she "was mostly sighthound":

A tiny, meek little thing when we got her, 4.2kg!

Turns out she was just hungry, not a sighthound at all 😂 DNA says she's mostly Collie, closely followed by German Shepherd, and some other stuff that's keeping her small. Nowt like any dog we've ever had, and absolutely not what we'd have chosen, but she loves to walk. Walk for miles!

We reckon she's 7 or 8 months old now so I can take her for a good mission:

This is her after 12 miles walking today - took her off lead out and about for the first time, and we did a couple of miles, she kept close by and was no bother.

Sorry to bore the non dog people, but I'm proper happy to have a new walking partner. 

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thats a good looking dog .   

[vulgalour]

  On 14/12/2024 at 15:04, vulgalour said:

Just popping in momentarily to report that I fixed the van's overheating issue and it didn't cost me any money just a few hours. I'm as surprised as anyone about this.  It was lovely that @Amelia had so recently had everything apart and installed lovely new parts, what a joy to work on since I wasn't fighting rusty parts and misery.

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Further to this, today it is not fixed again.  Just waiting for it to cool down to try a couple of things, good old cléon-fonte nonsense.

[andy18s]

  On 14/12/2024 at 21:55, cobblers said:

I love a good long walk and I love my dogs, but we've always had whippets which don't want to go the distance. A couple of miles and they wanted to go home, less so if it's cold!

About 16 months ago we lost my best whippet mate, and a couple of months ago we got this nobhead from a rescue thinking that she "was mostly sighthound":

A tiny, meek little thing when we got her, 4.2kg!

Turns out she was just hungry, not a sighthound at all 😂 DNA says she's mostly Collie, closely followed by German Shepherd, and some other stuff that's keeping her small. Nowt like any dog we've ever had, and absolutely not what we'd have chosen, but she loves to walk. Walk for miles!

We reckon she's 7 or 8 months old now so I can take her for a good mission:

This is her after 12 miles walking today - took her off lead out and about for the first time, and we did a couple of miles, she kept close by and was no bother.

Sorry to bore the non dog people, but I'm proper happy to have a new walking partner. 

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This is our Womble.

It's his 3yr "gotcha" day today when we picked him up from a local rescue.

The table he is under on day 1 is also in the other pic of him 1 year old.

He fitted into the rest of the pack very well and they all enjoy their walks 

[cobblers]

  On 15/12/2024 at 11:51, andy18s said:

This is our Womble.

It's his 3yr "gotcha" day today when we picked him up from a local rescue.

The table he is under on day 1 is also in the other pic of him 1 year old.

He fitted into the rest of the pack very well and they all enjoy their walks 

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What a beauty!

We're a little bit nervous that ours isn't as old as we think and that she's still got a lot of growing to do...

[Pieman]

  On 10/12/2024 at 18:11, chaseracer said:

To celebrate my not-quite-60th birthday, Domestic Management took me out to lunch; we decided on a carvery at a garden centre.  The full horror of the implications struck us as we ate, surrounded by the demographic typical of such places, and we realised that the inevitable next step was either a Saga cruise or a week at a Warner hotel!

I'm completely with Dylan Thomas on this...

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Hollybush?

[vulgalour]

  On 15/12/2024 at 11:39, vulgalour said:

Further to this, today it is not fixed again.  Just waiting for it to cool down to try a couple of things, good old cléon-fonte nonsense.

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Further to this, it is fixed again.  Absolutely the standard cleon-fonte nonsense.  Just had to twiddle my knobs and give it a thrashing for a bit.

[jim89]

  On 15/12/2024 at 13:34, vulgalour said:

Further to this, it is fixed again.  Absolutely the standard cleon-fonte nonsense.  Just had to twiddle my knobs and give it a thrashing for a bit.

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It is Sunday 😉

[andy18s]

  On 15/12/2024 at 12:26, cobblers said:

What a beauty!

We're a little bit nervous that ours isn't as old as we think and that she's still got a lot of growing to do...

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I'm sure she will grow out nicely to fill her boots.

Or just explode upwards.....lol

[chaseracer]

  On 15/12/2024 at 13:27, Pieman said:

Hollybush?

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Wolseley Bridge.  At least the name is vaguely shiteworthy!

[richardmorris]

  On 14/12/2024 at 23:18, DavieW said:

Chinese snooker player Lei Peifan is a Chinese Michael McIntyre 😄

 

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I hope their’s is funny, because ours is just bloody annoying.

[richardmorris]

  On 15/12/2024 at 13:42, andy18s said:

I'm sure she will grow out nicely to fill her boots.

Or just explode upwards.....lol

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I’m reminded of the Morcambe and wise special with Brutus the dog behind the curtains. 

[Andyrew]

 

[myglaren]

 

[myglaren]

[camryv6]

  On 14/12/2024 at 21:55, cobblers said:

I love a good long walk and I love my dogs, but we've always had whippets which don't want to go the distance. A couple of miles and they wanted to go home, less so if it's cold!

About 16 months ago we lost my best whippet mate, and a couple of months ago we got this nobhead from a rescue thinking that she "was mostly sighthound":

A tiny, meek little thing when we got her, 4.2kg!

Turns out she was just hungry, not a sighthound at all 😂 DNA says she's mostly Collie, closely followed by German Shepherd, and some other stuff that's keeping her small. Nowt like any dog we've ever had, and absolutely not what we'd have chosen, but she loves to walk. Walk for miles!

We reckon she's 7 or 8 months old now so I can take her for a good mission:

This is her after 12 miles walking today - took her off lead out and about for the first time, and we did a couple of miles, she kept close by and was no bother.

Sorry to bore the non dog people, but I'm proper happy to have a new walking partner. 

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The best part of walking is going with a dog 

[808 Estate]

 

[TataBobu]

  On 11/10/2024 at 17:52, andy18s said:

Not something you expect to find on Marketplace...

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Unrelated question, but what do you use for browsing Bulgarian tat? I tried cars.bg and olx.bg, and this doesn't look like either.

[hairnet]

  On 14/12/2024 at 18:09, 108 said:

Lovely Leitrim. 

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wasnt

neither was donegal or fermanagh

[maxxo]

it seems my bin is from 1993

which is the same year my XM was manufactured 

that’s wheelie good!

[High Jetter]

  On 15/12/2024 at 22:50, hairnet said:

wasnt

neither was donegal or fermanagh

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Don't dis Donegal...

[myglaren]

Not so much the joke but that Pinterest has taken to serving up all jokes in Swedish.

 

[Rightnider]

I take it you understand the joke? 😀

[myglaren]

  On 16/12/2024 at 18:22, Rightnider said:

I take it you understand the joke? 😀

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Yes, I used to live in Sweden, but Pinterest should not be aware of that.

[Wibble]

Watching my youngest son play the piano in front of hundreds of people at his school Advent Carol service tonight, certainly made me grin. Note perfect and a proud Dad🙂

[High Jetter]

  On 16/12/2024 at 22:28, Wibble said:

Watching my youngest son play the piano in front of hundreds of people at his school Advent Carol service tonight, certainly made me grin. Note perfect and a proud Dad🙂

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How old? I did stuff like that when a kid, nervous to start but repetition got rid of most nerves over time. Ended up semi-pro.