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

[hatwoman]

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...

[FlyMeToDunoon]

Oh Broke back Mountain! The shirt in the wardrobe.

[redsofas]

i cry at rediculous things scince having children, old people yes, small children yes, animals yes, almost anything!!!! one thing that has always made me cry though is mr tom when the boy (cant remember his name) at the end sais "I CAN RIDE DAD, I CAN REALLY RIDE" just so cute!!!!!

[DoNotGoGently]

I agree with everyone who says that since having children they cry at everything. I am the same - my DH and DD think I'm ridiculous and DD now turns the TV over if the sad donkey rescue advert comes on as she knows it will set me off! As for films like Brokeback Mountain....

[boodleboot]

two words for you......

Watership Down.

[vezzie]

All the birth stories on here.

An old man in front of me at the supermarket buying a very small amount of value real food, and lots of pop and cakes (for his grandchildren, I imagined - thinking of him eking out his economy eggs and white floppy bread, one egg on toast a day for 6 days and on the Sunday getting a visit from his family and lavishing treats on them)

Did anyone else see that programme on BBC something or other about that unbelievably sweet, lost-seeming lad who had been in care and was living a very disorganised life in a council flat and was looking for a job and never had the right clothes for an interview and had lost touch with his family and thought his mum probably thought he was "just a mistake" and then - and then! - and then! - he was miraculously reunited with his brother on Bebo and he turned out to have lots of long lost relations and they gave him tea and cake and hugs? I bawled and bawled and bawled.

[Sassybeast]

Watching the new lottery millionaires on the news. Not sure how many of those are jealous bitter tears though

[Derv78]

Reading 'Guess How Much I Love You' to DD.
Watching 'Love, Actually' everytime, oh and Forrest Gump too. (Sad, I know)
Cried today at boss's father's funeral when my boss & his sister read a poem called 'He is Gone', which my mum recently had framed cos it made her think of my dad (who died 9years ago). Had to do yoga breathing to compose myself.

[chegirl]

I feel a bit bad now. What bit of UP makes everyone cry? My chin didnt even wobble. Am I hard?

[scotlass]

vezzies post

The Festival of remembrance at the Albert Hall when the widows walk down the stairs and across the hall looking so dignified and also when they show the soldiers coming home from Afghanistan and their kids running into their arms

When I think of how much I love my DCs

[vezzie]

Oh, here is a really ridiculous one: the story about Tom in Mousehole in Cornwall. Just can't tell it. Fall apart. I am not from anywhere near Cornwall, I have no local attachments to make it forgiveable.

[SuperLemonCrush]

The bit at the end of "Peepo" where the baby is going to bed and "he sees the landing mirror with its rainbow rim, and a mother with a baby just like him" with the daddy in the illustration drawn in his uniform - just about to go back from his army leave I always think... I always stumble and gulp over that.

[TigerLightsitandscarpers]

Up - the bit at the beginning about Carl and thingie's life together, esp when they can't have children.

And the bit at the end when he finds the book and she tells him to have an adventure on his own.

I wasn't expecting it to be anything other than a balloon adventure, these bits got me, but DS did say they were a bit sad but boring...

[chegirl]

Thanks tiger. In my defence DS talked all the way through (why I take him on a sunday morning when the cinema is empty). I am sure if I was concentrating I would have had a little sob.

[ShowOfHands]

Oh and DH sings this song to dd to get her to sleep and I hear him struggle not to sob towards the end...

From birth to five you're learning
From five to 10 you're playing
By the time you're 15
You're never wrong
But then you turn around
And it's all gone, your childhood

Now Daddy knows what he's saying
You're in my arms and I'm praying
That I'll be given the strength and time
To make yours just as happy as mine
Your childhood

Every morning
Your crying ends my sleep
I kid on I'm angry
But it's not a feeling I can keep
There's no light outside
I don't care 'cause I know it's true
That in our house
The sun shines out of you
You've got your mother's looks
You're a beautiful little girl
You'll break boys' hearts
All over this world
Then one day you'll walk out the door
And I know you'll break mine
You'll break mine

So you're trying to talk
Any day now you'll walk
You'll be running around
Make me act like a clown
'Cause I live and I breathe
For my little girl
Ouor little girl
The most important thing in this whole wide world
Now Daddy knows what he's saying
You're in my arms and I'm praying
That I'll be given the strength and time
To make yours just as happy as mine
Your childhood

[EightiesChick]

Oh, all sorts - films, songs on the radio, stuff about animals. Dates from before I had DS too but now it's worse over child-related stuff. If I want to have a good cry and get it all out I put on Eva Cassidy's Over the Rainbow. Does it every time.

Was just reading my freecycle emails and got choked up over a request for the free PG Tips monkey from someone whose grandson has lost his and is 'very sad'. (Don't suppose anyone here has a PG monkey they don't want?)

[Ponders]

Amandoh,

Oh yes, old dogs have me in tears too. Even worse when the old dog is being walked by an old person. I hate knowing that one of them will probably soon die and the other will be all alone. I start welling up in the street.

Oh me too, me too, 2 stiff old geezers limping along the street together....

And all the old men who dress up smartly, with polished shoes & smart clothes (& sometimes overcoat), whenever they go out anywhere. One of those secret millionaire programmes had a couple of old soldiers, blazers & berets & medals, who made me bawl

[fraggletits]

watching DD (4) watch The Wizard of Oz for the first time on Sunday. Haven't seen it in so long myself and when old Judy broke into Somewhere over the Rainbow I got a big lump in my throat! DD was mesmerised

Sunday was Rememberance Sunday too - cried all the way through the service. Especially the build up to the 2 minute silence and then the Last Post after......we watch it every to pay our respects

[fraggletits]

that's every year we watch it...

[GetOrfMoiLand]

The Bridges of Madison County. Makes me howl.

Poor Gordon brown running in the wood. He looks so beleaguered, I was quite upset. He is not a bad man.

Pictures of poor 21 year old dead soldiers. The phrase 'their families have been told'.

[shabbapinkfrog]

My DS1 (now almost 28yrs) would go fast asleep if I sang Danny Boy to him.

When his little boy was born (his first child, our first grandchild) we went up to babysit.

He was in the kitchen rocking his little boy in his arms and singing Danny boy but changing the words to 'Oh tiny boy......' I stood in the other room sobbing.

[GetOrfMoiLand]

YES to dear old men with old dogs shuffling along the street.

[GetOrfMoiLand]

shabba that made me well up.

Also, little ones getting all excited about seeing father christmas in his grotto, or queueing up to go on some godforsaken cjristmas ride in a mall and looking so excited. The look of joy on their little faces. Makes me wish teenage dd was little again, and I could relive her early childhood and remember how precious and transient it all was

[PoppyIsApain]

I don't tend to cry at anything, but Marley and me had me crying so bad

[DoNotGoGently]

And now I think about it the Abba song "Slipping through my fingers" get me evrytime. Anyone with a teenage DD will khow what I mean.

[ThatVikRinA22]

god ive just remembered one episode of House, the one where the bloke in a wheelchair had a dog that did everything for him...he was dying and the dog dyed with him. i sobbed like a baby.

and the programme Afterlife, the last episode. sobbed. but i had just lost a very close relative in a crash in my defence....