to well up at this (plus your own welling up confessions please)

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I'm taking some Brownies to an old people's home to sing some carols and Christmas songs. dds and I have just been practising Winter Wonderland. for those of you not intimately acquainted with Winter Wonderland it's really quite a gorgeous 1930s song, with lovely instrumentals, about a young couple in love, gallivanting (innocently, of course) in the snow and then day dreaming about their future by the fire. and yep, I'm struggling to get through it...just thinking of my lovely dds and the other lovely Brownies singing and the lovely old people reminiscing...

Oh my word, thought I could get through this thread without blubbing. Got as far as the second post about the little old man with his soup and cat food...

Ditto to:

• In the Night Garden theme tune
• Christmas carols (partic. In the Bleak Midwinter)
• Lion King (when Mufasa dies and baby Simba crawls under his paw

Many, many pieces of music set me off. Too many to name but two that stick in my mind are 'Ave Maria' - had a soloist and organ play this as I walked up the aisle at our wedding, and Eva Cassidy 'Somewhere over the Rainbow'.

My most recent blubfest was watching the closing credits of the moving Knocked Up with all those cute baby photos and the accompanying song 'That's my daughter in the water...'

Just thinking about my DD in school plays makes me well up, she's only 10 months old FFS...

Blubfest this week: ds2 has t1 diabetes and went to Downing STreet to present letters from children with T1 to Gordy. sniiiiifffffff!!!!! Also a bursting with pride moment. He asked such good questions to researchers at guys hospital and suggested that they could 'suck out the killer cells and put good ones back'. Lovely researchers said what a good idea and that they'd have to think about it a lot.

I'm such a cry baby
Not long ago me and DP were watching some program about bears, and there was a bear mum with two cubs (boy and girl). Girl cub was getting weaker and weaker and couldn't follow, so she laid under a tree, and eventually died. I was so upset, DP had to turn the TV off

(It's my first post btw)

Yes clevercircusflea, I watched the bear prog too & it really made me sob (so much so ds stopped bf to look at what was wrong with me!) it was the pitiful noise it was making, heart wrenching....

Oh God clevercircusflea, you've reminded me of a bit in the Blue Planet where the polar bear has been swimming round the increasingly small number of ice floes in the arctic for months on end with no food, just trying to survive the worst of the winter, and then in desparation it tries to catch a baby walrus (ugly buggers at the best of times) but gets attacked and in a similar way doesn't have the energy to fight back and just lies down in the snow and dies

Am now sitting at work trying desperately not to burst into tears- this thread is so sad!

Old men/women with old dogs is v sad - you just know that one of them is going to end up alone at some point.
Another vote for when the ant dies in Honey I Shrunk The kids (am quite pleased it's not just me - no-one else I know seems to get sad at that bit)
Puff the Magic Dragon
When Topthorn dies in War Horse (and at the end, obviously)
Two Little Boys
The Mighty Celt (where the man deliberately kills the dog)
When Dobby dies in Harry Potter
Wilfred Owen's poems
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote

Lots of stuff, basically...

SuperflousBuns I sobbed my heart out when Max died too (watched it about 4 times!) I still can't listen to 'about you now' after Steph sang it at the funeral

Oh gosh, ASeahorse, I saw War Horse this week and have just gone all the way through this thread to see if anyone has mentioned it! The bit that got me was when Joey finally pulls the plough. And then later when he pulls the ambulance.

Oh God....

well for a start, this especially the music.

Many films, including:

• The Constant Gardener, where he says 'I know all your secrets now, Tess'
• Finding Neverland, cried constantly from about half way through (only time I have ever cried in the cinema)
• Atonement
• Gladiator
• The Lion King
• Four Weddings and a Funeral when that guy reads 'Stop the Clocks' by W H Auden

If anyone dies in Spooks

When David Cameron's son died and all the opposition front bench were choked up (I don't even like any of them), and Gordon Brown made that speech about losing a child.

This thread, obv

Out of Africa just on Sky Drama and yes, am in floods as per usual. It doesn't seem to matter how many times I see it.

can someone ppplllleeeasseee tell me what happened to the whale???

Cried more on this bloody thread, than about anything before!
Christian the Lion..and that Aeromsmith song
and Pamelat "Grandma ok mummy" floored me.

In the book I Am David, where the dog gets shot diverting attention from David

And yes, Christian the lion - the bit where he starts coming down the mountain, slowly at first, looking a bit puzzled, then recognises them & picks up speed & hurtles at them. Gut-wrenching