[Smile] What's something small that really makes you smile?

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#3373710 16-May-2025 11:25

Senecio:

Is a yakitori charcoal grill a necessity? 😄

Yes, after all the other grills have gone. When we have a barbecue party, I order a barbecue master with heavy equipment, I don't stand there myself (any more). Especially now that we have halved our sausage and meat consumption as well. By no means vegetarians, but en masse is not good. In the USA, it is now a staggering 123kg/year per head - and you can tell. I would like to go down to 36.5 kg/year and that is possible. 😎

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#3374607 19-May-2025 10:48

That simply ignoring uncritical contemporaries saves an enormous amount of time. 🙂

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#3375146 21-May-2025 07:58

Had a great laugh last night watching The Play That Goes Wrong at the ASB Waterfront Theatre in Auckland. It is such a nice theatre. Great cast, great acting, laughing the whole way through even though we had seen it before. The physical gags, the timing, the surprises, all done very well.

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#3375164 21-May-2025 09:46

While home with two sick kids yesterday (10 and 7), I introduced them to Doctor Who. It wouldn't be feasible to watch all 695 episodes of the original run before moving to the "Nu Who" that restarted in 2005 (let alone the "Nu Nu Who" that started with Ncuti Gatwa), so I've taken the approach of cherry picking some stories from each of the first seven actors to play the Doctor. We began with William Hartnell and "The Daleks." I had pre-warned them about the pace of story-telling, the black and white photography, and the fact that it's over 60 years old. But they lapped it up, and we're glued to the TV all the way through. We moved on to the first episode of "Tomb of the Cybermen" with Patrick Troughton, but my eldest proclaimed that she preferred William Hartnell over Patrick Troughton (which was a big surprise to me).

But a big grin on my face for having two kids who seem primed to be Doctor Who fans, and knowing how many fantastic stories they have to look forward to.

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#3376175 23-May-2025 17:50

I went through all the apps on my smartphone and rigorously tidied them up. It's worth it to see what data parasites you accumulate over time that you don't really need. 😁

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#3376630 25-May-2025 19:59

How much flavour and texture can be developed from flour, water and salt.

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#3376635 25-May-2025 20:58

Handle9:

How much flavour and texture can be developed from flour, water and salt.

Have you been eating the paste again? ;-)

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#3376890 26-May-2025 13:46

Left my car outside the house on Sunday morning and went out to check something outside in the afternoon to find my car had been cleaned top to bottom.

My Son did it, and his explanation 'you drive me around in the car all the time, this is my way of contributing and saying thank you'.

I am a very fortunate parent.

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#3377109 26-May-2025 21:28

Not really a small thing, but I am happy about my health values. To keep it that way, you have to do something active. Shovelling in and hanging out in front of the TV are not directly part of it. 😁

If you don't move with the times, you disappear with the times.

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#3377132 27-May-2025 08:22

Tinkerisk:

Not really a small thing, but I am happy about my health values. To keep it that way, you have to do something active. Shovelling in and hanging out in front of the TV are not directly part of it. 😁

If you don't move with the times, you disappear with the times.

Agreed. 50 years old and fitter than I've ever been. Use it or lose it.

Obviously I go to the extreme of that and do silly things like Ultra marathons and endurance MTB events, but hey, it keeps me off the streets and in far better health and fitness than I could otherwise be.

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#3377265 27-May-2025 14:53

geoffwnz:

Agreed. 50 years old and fitter than I've ever been. Use it or lose it.

Obviously I go to the extreme of that and do silly things like Ultra marathons and endurance MTB events, but hey, it keeps me off the streets and in far better health and fitness than I could otherwise be.

My running limit is 15km to avoid developing an adrenaline addiction and putting too much strain on the joints. The quantity makes the „poison.“ 😉

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#3379647 1-Jun-2025 12:25

Cats being evil.

We're looking after friends' dogs while they are overseas - a border collie and a handbag dog. They are scared of our cat who is always giving them the hairy eyeball. We leave the door open so the dogs can run in and out but as soon as they go out the cat plants itself in the door way so they can't come back in. Every single time.

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#3379648 1-Jun-2025 12:27

networkn:

Left my car outside the house on Sunday morning and went out to check something outside in the afternoon to find my car had been cleaned top to bottom.

My Son did it, and his explanation 'you drive me around in the car all the time, this is my way of contributing and saying thank you'.

I am a very fortunate parent.

Well that's happened to me exactly never times.

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#3379708 2-Jun-2025 02:54

Harvey Swinestein.

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#3380017 3-Jun-2025 01:09

Going to a store to get something for your home, being unsure if the item you've picked is the right one (colour, size etc), then getting home and coming to the realisation that you've made a great choice.

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