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Trivial things that make you happy - Part 2 - The Happyning

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,278 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    A big plastic box of fruit salad all cut up and in the fridge to be eaten . Watermelon , mandarins , apple , strawberries and grapes . Oh joy


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,185 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    TH that presentation is over anyway for now :D I got a round of applause as well :3.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭erica74


    When they swarm like that it's called a murmuration I think so maybe you'd call it murmuring?

    I absolutely love watching starlings.

    Oooh interesting, new word filed away now :D
    It's weird because I've lived in the house for 10 years and this is the first time we've had starlings, we have every other type of garden bird. My favourite is swallows, I love the way they fly around and actually look like they're just messing and playing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    A big plastic box of fruit salad all cut up and in the fridge to be eaten . Watermelon , mandarins , apple , strawberries and grapes . Oh joy

    Enjoy! I can no longer eat that so enjoy it for me!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    erica74 wrote: »
    Oooh interesting, new word filed away now :D
    It's weird because I've lived in the house for 10 years and this is the first time we've had starlings, we have every other type of garden bird. My favourite is swallows, I love the way they fly around and actually look like they're just messing and playing.

    Love the swalllows too. They ARE playing. Full of life and joie de vivre . At one house I had they used to swoop in and out of the door. DUCK!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Graces7 wrote: »
    Love the swalllows too. They ARE playing. Full of life and joie de vivre . At one house I had they used to swoop in and out of the door. DUCK!

    They heard us! Went to sit at the back a while and they were skimming my head.They say that when swallows fly high it means good weather. When low. rain is on the way


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Graces7 wrote: »
    Small, sweet happiness watching a race ... To see which flowerbud opens first, the poached egg plant or its nasturtium neighbour in one of the big pots. I knew these great healthy plants when they were seeds! Awww... Nothing quite like growing flowers to make you feel at home ...

    The nasturtium is winning!

    Did not plan it, but the container patch (no real soil is colour themed to white and gold. Just worked out the way with the seeds I had .. nasturtiums, poached egg plant, yellow gladioli, a yellow rose, marguerites..marigolds...

    Uh UH! Here come the cats, yelling for food.. happy family..
    ....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭KatW4


    TH that presentation is over anyway for now I got a round of applause as well :3.

    Well done!!! :)

    I'm sitting outside reading a book and eating my dinner. This weather makes me so happy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,423 ✭✭✭Harleen Quinzel


    The top 40 of the 90’s.
    Currently rapping along to gangstas paradise by coolio.
    Memories :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,342 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Sitting out with friends this evening


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  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,185 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    TH Had a great day at my sisters, my nephew is getting so big, he's 10 weeks old now :eek: he's really alert smiling mad, I was feeding again and I was pretending to drink his bottle at one stage, well you should have seen the cross look he gave me, as if to "That's my fecking bottle boi, what are doing" :D he fell asleep in my arms again :3 and I was nearly dozing off myself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭TG1


    Worked really hard to negotiate some targeted email campaigns with a third party provider while on a day off last week.
    Got them up and running and came in to 8 applications over the weekend.
    It will never be recognised in work as the powers that be don't believe in online sourcing but I am delighted anyway, as I know that it worked and am taking personal satisfaction from applying my expertise to a problem!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Comfortable bed.... critters all fed and crashed.... What more could I ask?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,278 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Kind , nice people .They are all around us and just do kind things every day .The media focus on bad people and bad things but the vast majority are just nice and getting on with things .
    My shopping bag tilted and spilled a few items on the ground , two young lads passing stopped to pick them up and hand them to me with a smile .Nice lads made my day


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,185 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Graces7 wrote: »
    Comfortable bed.... critters all fed and crashed.... What more could I ask?

    A cup of Barry's tea? :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    A cup of Barry's tea? :pac:

    yeurrrrrrrrkk!

    No tea enters this sanctuary,, Unless it is Lyons to be sent to Irish folk in Canada


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,705 ✭✭✭Mountainsandh


    TH at petrol station ladies here in rural South East. I've a serious appointment this morning and the smile and the chat was so welcome. This is such a lovely feature of lesser urbanized Ireland, how warm and friendly the people are.
    When I go back to France I always approach shop people with the irish default friendly attitude and then often feel a little awkward as few French "commercants" respond in kind.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭SirChenjin


    TH at petrol station ladies here in rural South East. I've a serious appointment this morning and the smile and the chat was so welcome. This is such a lovely feature of lesser urbanized Ireland, how warm and friendly the people are.
    When I go back to France I always approach shop people with the irish default friendly attitude and then often feel a little awkward as few French "commercants" respond in kind.

    Hope all goes well.
    It's amazing how a friendly smile or a bit of chat can help at the right time.
    I hope it is something that will always be a part of us in Ireland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Lucena


    TH at petrol station ladies here in rural South East. I've a serious appointment this morning and the smile and the chat was so welcome. This is such a lovely feature of lesser urbanized Ireland, how warm and friendly the people are.
    When I go back to France I always approach shop people with the irish default friendly attitude and then often feel a little awkward as few French "commercants" respond in kind.


    Fairly miserable shower, the French.



    Why did I come to live here?:: :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Lapwing chicks on springwatch. Too cute:)
    Lapwing-with-chicks.jpg
    First-Lapwing-chick-of-2014-_2D00_-Richard-and-Shirley-Pope.jpg


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    Went to Tayto Park the other day and convinced myself to go on this insane ride that goes way up and turns you around like a rag doll. I was never so happy when it stopped and I was able to get off that ****ing thing :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    TH at petrol station ladies here in rural South East. I've a serious appointment this morning and the smile and the chat was so welcome. This is such a lovely feature of lesser urbanized Ireland, how warm and friendly the people are.
    When I go back to France I always approach shop people with the irish default friendly attitude and then often feel a little awkward as few French "commercants" respond in kind.

    Mayo is the best for this. When I was still living in Galway and house hunting, I could tell when I had crossed into Mayo from the kindness and friendliness.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,705 ✭✭✭Mountainsandh


    Lucena wrote: »
    Fairly miserable shower, the French.



    Why did I come to live here?:: :o

    Ah now I wouldn't go that far... Sure aren't I nice and friendly and French ? :D:o
    But there's a lesser proportion of friendly faces in shops that's for sure.

    Whereabouts are you ?

    TH my meeting went well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Lucena wrote: »
    Fairly miserable shower, the French.



    Why did I come to live here?:: :o

    When I was trading at street markets, the tourists would flock round and you could easily detect the French by the lost looks on their faces at the strange English,, I speak fluent French and the sheer joy and relief on their faces when I greeted them... I found them so friendly


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Happy in a way that all my big pots etc are full to overflowing with seedlings and plants bursting into blossom,all grown from seed. But wish I had more room to plant more

    Maybe happiness always has that element of longing..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 398 ✭✭Herpes Free Since03


    Lorelli! wrote: »
    Went to Tayto Park the other day and convinced myself to go on this insane ride that goes way up and turns you around like a rag doll. I was never so happy when it stopped and I was able to get off that ****ing thing :)

    Next time I'm taking my daughter to eurodisney you can come too...I've actually never seem a grown adult pee themselves on a rollercoaster!
    :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,210 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    Lorelli! wrote: »
    Went to Tayto Park the other day and convinced myself to go on this insane ride that goes way up and turns you around like a rag doll. I was never so happy when it stopped and I was able to get off that ****ing thing :)

    I learned a lot about myself in tayto park - mostly that I am a bit of a chicken.

    My TH is a nice swim in a lake on a hot day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,386 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    erica74 wrote: »
    Oooh interesting, new word filed away now :D
    It's weird because I've lived in the house for 10 years and this is the first time we've had starlings, we have every other type of garden bird. My favourite is swallows, I love the way they fly around and actually look like they're just messing and playing.

    I read an article about crows once and apparently they are known to fly just for fun, all other birds fly with purpose!

    My TH this evening, Icebergerz in the evening sun after a long day driving


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,386 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    Lapwing chicks on springwatch. Too cute:)

    Let's hope they don't get eaten, like the blackbird fledgling! I know it's nature's way but they got me all attached to the little fella :(


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  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,185 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Poochie05 wrote: »
    I read an article about crows once and apparently they are known to fly just for fun, all other birds fly with purpose!

    My TH this evening, Icebergerz in the evening sun after a long day driving

    Icebergerz you say :pac:, nyom nyom .


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