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My 15 year old 145k miles van just sailed through its MOT this morning.
Get in!
🙂
Hearing a young baby laugh.
You know it's a purely instictive reaction and is pure joy.
Just off the phone with the colorectal cancer nurse and she's informed me that 3 yrs post radio / chemo and surgery, they are pleased to say I'm in the clear. They'll maybe give me one more good solid probing in a couple of years time, just to be sure. But I'm all done with the close supervision and going back to the normal poop on a stick every 2 years type of screening.
Really quite pleased about that. I might just go out for lunch and celebrate.
🙂
Being outside. Just the fresh air and seeing some green is great but if you're halfway up somewhere with an amazing view then it's just an incredible uplifting freeing feeling.
Autumn... A stiff breeze and the rich colours everywhere.
Winter.... Fresh snow, seeing Orion & Sirius come back, hearing the mistle thrush shouting away.
Spring... Birdsong, sprouting plants and the general feeling of happiness and things coming back to life.
Summer... Warmth! Time to travel a bit and get out further than usual, spend more time outside with the kids
Getting "likes" on STW 😀
Cats in general and my cat in particular.
as @angrycat but dogs.
Finishing a MTB ride you really were not motivated to do because of weather/tiredness/whatever and having a pint in the pub with your riding mates. Double for a filthy winter ride and snatching a seat near the real fire in that pub.
An empty house in an evening.
I love my wife, I love my daughter but an empty house can be bliss! 🙂
Riding my bike in the woods.
Who knew eh?
Also the joy of taking my dog on a 'choose your own adventure' walk or just taking him somewhere new and enjoying his sheer wonder at all the new things he can take in. Pure happiness.
Winter…. Fresh snow, seeing Orion & Sirius come back,
Off at Uni are they?
Winter…. Fresh snow, seeing Rudolf & Prancer come back
Ftfy
Seeing photos of Stephen Lennon getting pepper sprayed in the face and being arrested.
And headlines announcing his conviction.
A little toddler comes with his mum to meet his dad off the train at Ilkeston station. You can see him waving at the train as we pull in, he toddles up to meet his dad giggling and laughing and be picked up, then waves goodbye as the train pulls away.
Makes me feel all warm and teary.
That and crushing your enemies and hearing the lamentations of their women, obviously.
Bees. Fabulous little things, hearing them buzz away in inside of flowers is glorious. @ahsat bought me a beekeeper introduction day and it was so good! Beautiful little things
Spaniels, springer or cocker, not fussed. The way they love life are up for anything and are slightly mad, but there’s no malice to their play or fun, they just love life. My in laws old dog Rita
Donkeys, no idea why just find them sweet
Mrs fazzini.
No idea why she picked me in the first place, or why she has put up with me for the last 30 years, but I'm grateful she did/does.
And also, this:
but an empty house can be bliss!
Cooked breakfast in the local caff, on a day off, with no defnite plans. Who knows what the day may hold, the potential for adventure and excitement makes me feel like a kid (before the crushing inevitabilty of DIY, household chores etc kicks in, obvs).
Drawing on a banana with a biro.
Just off the phone with the colorectal cancer nurse and she’s informed me that 3 yrs post radio / chemo and surgery, they are pleased to say I’m in the clear. They’ll maybe give me one more good solid probing in a couple of years time, just to be sure. But I’m all done with the close supervision and going back to the normal poop on a stick every 2 years type of screening.
Really quite pleased about that. I might just go out for lunch and celebrate.
Without wanting to be overly critical, I don't think this belongs in this thead - I'd say you're proportionally happy 🙂
Freewheeling downhill.......... Wheeeeee!
A quiet bike, only really noticed when your bike is less than quiet.
Things like squeaky saddles, or squealy brakes, grinding drivetrain or that cracking noise that you sometimes get that you cannot find the cause of. All these drive me mad!
the smell of my dogs paws.
Popcorn or Doritos?
Riding down steps in public places. I like to think I'm a teenage rebel again and not a fat middle aged dad who should know better.
Being outside as others have typed.
Oddly cleaning my house and having it stay clean is a joy
Donkeys are cool AF.
Often ride past the local donkey sanctuary and always stop to see them.
Here's yesterdays donk.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stu-b/54121273195/in/dateposted/
Also have a donkey sponsorship every year instead of a Christmas present.
That makes me happy instead of some tat I don't want.
Bobbling around town on the cargo bike, especially if I have my daughter on the back chatting away.
We've had it over 18 months and the novelty still hasn't worn off.
My wife's cackle when something's really tickled her, it's just the most lovely joyous sounds.
Went on a ride in the woods yesterday among all the autumn leaf fall. Early on spotted a tiny pink geranium holding on against the odds in the verge. As I continued I kept noticing single flowers still optimistically blooming, made me feel very happy
I am an awful electrician and solderer and have always resisted anything that might make me better at it ...so I just made up a new wiring harness for a car stereo (rather than spending like £8 for an ebay one) and it works and it means that having a stereo that works which would make me happy anyway is multiplied by the fact that it's basically a miracle.
Competent people don't get to feel this joy, what a waste.
My facebook feed is full of posts of former colleagues and friends sharing news of their promotions to Warrant Officer Class 1.
Incredibly proud of them for their achievement and the hard work and commitment it has taken to wear that rank.
Even better when I mentored few of them. some good hands to steer the officers into making sound decisions.
Competent people don’t get to feel this joy, what a waste.
I’m sure they do, but when they accomplish far more.
My things that bring far more joy then makes sense? Touching a warm dry stone wall. Seeing more than one robin on a windowsill. A cup of hot bovril on a cold day. A smile from a driver. Peanuts. Finding the dishwasher empty.
Watching Canal Boat Diaries on the telly box
@tom83 mostly, yeah. Though there's a few 3rd party models and some models for other games too. My efforts are largely documented here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/thinkingengine/collections/72157718889203854/
Going to a Madness concert - yes we were that close.
Thank you! It really started clicking with me during lockdown I think. I like having a physical, finished thing at the end of the process (and something I can play games with), it's displaced video games and watching TV as an evening activity and I think that's part of the reason.
We're fostering a guide dog. When I come downstairs in the morning, she wags her tail so forcefully that she actually twerks.
We’re fostering a guide dog. When I come downstairs in the morning, she wags her tail so forcefully that she actually twerks.
That is wholesome as hell.
Being at a conference in a massive conference centre that is also hosting a Supernova Cosplay "thing". So funny watching the different groups of people.
watching nature especially little owl streams on yt.
exhibit a
the smell of my dogs paws.
Biscuits!
Getting to the top of a climb somewhere and having a few moments to myself
That one beer while cooking dinner.
Not logged in to post for ages, logged in especially just to reply to this because it is a great thread!
Coming home to my dog who is just so happy to see me is number 1!
These just creep up at random times and depends on the situation but sometimes just being out in the woods or mountains and the weather is great, the view is great and I just suddenly totally overwhelmed by how fantastic life is and sit and watch for a while in a happy mode. *usually involved a good sunset
When a top song comes on on shuffle from my teenage years that I've forgotten about
Sometimes just seeing random people happy in the street
Doing a thing I didn't know I could do and it working! For example, fixing my car (I'm definitely not a mechanic), tiling my bathroom (I'm definitely not a tiler) etc.
Tickling Hatter's wife.
Fridays, especially a day off work Friday (like today). Planning on retiring from work in a few months, nothing wrong with my job or anything but like most sane people think I'll prefer not working over working. Will miss the Friday day off work feeling though when every day is a day off work 🙂
I'm in almost exactly the same situation as @Feed above. Fridays are great and make me happy anyway, but every day being a Friday will be greater. I've even posted the forms off today to the pension company, so there's no going back now.
Also - waggy-tailed dogs always make me grin a bit.
Listening to my late teenage daughters giggle and squeal in the lounge whilst playing mario kart on the new to me Switch. So much better than sat in their bedrooms.
Seeing a rare bird eg hen harrier out in the wild, or any wild creature in its proper habitat. We’ve seen otters a few times, but once, an animal came quite close and stared for a few seconds in my direction, then gone back to water. Wonderful.
This thread.
My 6yo son having just learned to read sitting and reading comics to his little brother.
I think the best description is being part of the community. Saturday morning routine involves grocery stall and butchers. Just chatting to the staff and other shoppers gives me, as that guy from Quadrophenia would say, an enormous sense of wellbeing.
And dogs vigorously wagging their tails. I don't even have a dog.
I went for a trail run last night with the dogs we all had fun.
But the thing that made me weirdly happy was being able to stand in the buff to cool down.
Checking a chronically shabby ambulance at the start of my shift, only to find that a mystery colleague has folded and stacked the blanket store perfectly.
Shopping for a new bike. The perusing of the images and then trying to imagine the ride and what it will look like in the collection. Oh, and the three year old telling Mrs BB that “Daddy has to get a green bike”. How can I possibly let her down, that would be bad parenting.