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A chance to exchange notes on the little everyday things that cheer you up when you're down, or make an ordinary day into a better one. Winning move unaltered.
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Sending messages from the smartphone by selecting the first word proposed. Needs to be seeded with a couple of words and often ends up in an infinite loop, but there is a certain disquieting quality in it.
[Raak] Or Sitting on a lonely hill and listening to the noise. Both are equally soothing, IMHO.
(Raak + Phil) x 10 = sitting on a very high mountain and listening to both. I highly recommend Switzerland for the purpose.
(Phil) Reigate Hill is not that lonely but the racket from the M25 should make up for it.
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[Rosie] I was thinking of Lowbury Hill, on the Berkshire/Oxfordshire border, where most of the noise comes from skylarks.
[PPRR] I did it on our back deck this afternoon. Tractors and buzzards. Peeeuw peeeuw.
(pen) There's no answer to that. Were the buzzards all called Leighton?
(pen) I misread your post, substituting the first person plural for the first person singular. It's Phil's fault - you know what he's like.
[Rosie] Typical. And in answer to your question, I doubt it. They're Dutch ones.
[Rosie] I would try to deny it, but nobody would believe me.
Lebkuchen Yes, it's getting near Xmas and the moreish little buggers are in the shops already....
Taking part in huge games of Werewolf. The card game, not the idiotic LARP.
Each of the first few sort-of-words uttered by one's grandchild. He said "ready" yesterday, when we were playing the "ready, steady, sit down" game I invented.
Hidden textAnd yes, I have surreptitiously trained my grandson to sit on command :)
(Phil, via revelation) Command. Is that a family word for the potty? Best of luck, mate.
Running for a train, and catching it. I am so glad to be getting home around 1am rather than 2am.
Tangentially: Being better at running 5km than I expected. I'm aiming for 26 minutes on Saturday morning, and 25 mins by February.
Staying on a sporty theme : shooting 4 handicap points better at archery simply by holding the bow a tad differently. Nifty.
Padding across a cold marble floor in thick fluffy slippers. Ok, my bathroom floor isn't actually marble, the tiles just look like it.
Padding across a marble floor with underfloor heating in bare feet. Ok, ours are porcelain tiles, not marble either.
Eeeeee you two are lucky to 'ave floor! We only have sandpit filled wi' bits of broken glass.
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