h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Another from me:
Being Single, with Adult Children on Their Own
Not a but an

Watching someone on a roll, talking and waving smileys about in the air like an Italian.

jugglers who juggle and keep from telling jokes, or even opening their mouth to talk atall

A job well done makes me smile.

Well-placed typos make me smile. In today's email: "I guess I'll meat you tomorrow."

Happy people make me smile.

Not having to attend meetings at work-and hot cups of -make me smile

hi all
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what makes me smile is watching the idiots on my cctv cam, going past the house, and skidding
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not the fact they are skidding, but if the used the bottom road, they would get to the side street they want just the same lol
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jim

Youtube it?

hi
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cant do that lol
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the cam is to my spare tv, i dont use a pc at home, its a pity.
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the only way would be to tape onto vhs, the spare is a combi tv/vid.
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the binmen have just, nearly hit the fence lol, it skidded to the side. jim

I gotta get one

hi loft,s, walker
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mine is a colour one, cost me £30, and just fits in the 21 pin scart, and the transformer on the mains, i use mine on the window upstairs,(inside) but as a mike as well and can go outside, usually under the guttering, the higher, the better. jim

Hi Jim C : that all sounds great - what i need do first is move somewhere with a bit of action - it is a bit quiet round here only the cars whooshing by, and the morning and evening rush; still: great bit of kit.

hi loft,s,walker
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i live on a large estate,
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(google link on my space)
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you never know when something will happen, in the past ive had windows broke by kids throwing at the windows,
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if you old and dont get about as good, the halagen light and cam make then think twice now lol.
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and now my lodger/pain as left for good, im on my own, and wont take the little horrors to notice when the motorbike shed as gone lol jim

Yea! we had to fit a CCTV camera after our windows were put in 8 Times!!
We even managed to film one thug actually doing it on one occasion, yet he got off with it, with a Warning!

Yet the police, (who had been of no help to us at all, over our 9 months of hell) had the cheek to ask us for our video tape, when there had been a stabbing incident in our street in the early hours on the morning

(we found our later that our Bast**d of a neighbour had been paying the local junkies £20 a time to smash our windows, all because we put in a complaint about his non stop barking dog)

Smudger.

hi smudger
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a few years back, even if you caught them on cctv, it you hadnt a time and date on it, the police wouldnt take much notice,
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as the we now have a real police watch on the estate, instea of the useless security ones, the area is patroled day and night,
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at least 4 times from 5pmish to when i go to bed after 12 midnight, i see a pair of them go past the cam on the tv monitor.
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i havent even had one snowball thrown at the window, jim

'In the car driving back home I suddenly thought why not start a thread where people can say what has amused them and pass on the smiles and happiness in this bleak time so how about it? Come on people what makes you smile?'

I didn't want to reply to this without giving it some thought. That might seem like a silly amount of consideration for a rather small question, but for me winters are a real drag; I become incredibly lethargic, and I find it very difficult to rouse myself into any kind of action.

It was horrible when I realised that, in the depths of winter, I couldn't think of very much to make me smile at all.

I'd have ignored this thread, usually. But there was so much cheerfulness here that you forced me to think. What does make me smile?

So thinking of the summer, I thought of a few things:

Lighting my first fire of the season in the woods, making a brew over it, and waiting for the kids to arrive.

Picking up a cricket bat for the first time that year, with the smell of ageing linseed playing about my nose, and picking imaginary mud off the ball before my first bowl.

Watching something I've planted start to grow.

Sharing a bottle of wine with a good meal outside my favourite riverside pub with the sun setting over Dartmoor and curlews in the river.

The sound of a young owl in the woods at night.

Going up on the moors on the first day it's nice enough to go climbing and driving up the hill just past Poundsgate. No need to go climbing; that alone is enough of an adrenaline rush.

Jumping in the ice-cold river at Spitchwick and letting my ills get washed away.

A long walk along the coast on a hot day, followed by a warm pint in the shade.

That's enough for now. I thought of many more, actually, all summer-related, but I don't want to spend all night typing.

But you got me thinking. There are plenty of things that make me smile in the winter, too:

Gleaming stars in crystal-cold nights.

Walking into a pub soaking wet from rain and the landlady starting to pour your pint before you order.

Cuddles on the sofa.

The weird shapes frozen puddles make in the right light.

Snowdrops.

The smell of something you've cooked that took so long that you wouldn't have bothered if it had been warm outside. Particularly home-made soup.

Bringing the rabbit in because it's so cold outside and having her lick you with affection to thank you.

Having a party and building a fire to sit around; bringing out the guitar to write a few songs with everyone sat in woolly hats shouting out lyrics.

In short, Opti, I'm glad you reminded me that there's plenty to smile about in winter as well

hi skanky
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in these days there isnt much to smile at, but when you think of things like, going to see a friend, or just getting out, knowing at anytime you wont be able to anymore. you have to smile at what you have
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my lodger after 8 years as gone, so i started with a smile, and them a cheer inside, if i could get on the roof(fig speaking) ide put the flags out. but i just smiled. and sighed.
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when i go to bed at night, and then get up in the morning, look out of the window, i smile at the day, good or bad, because i did get up one more day.
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the other day i went out and slipped on the snow, i didnt say, damb, i smiled as someone helped me up, and remembered the days when i was a kid and fell down laughing. a smile cost nothing, there ar people that cant smile anymore jim

Skankyrich ...just reading those made me

Its quite easy for some of us to stress out. I should know I'm wanting a transfer but my company isn't helping. Thus I'm without my bf (who didn't even phone me yesterday!) for longer.

reading a good book and the great buzz when you've reached the end

writing

researching

Shaun the Sheep

filling the washbasin with warm water and letting my hands soak in it

Those are just a few things that spring to mind