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...

Loads!

This thread has had me crying.

Can't listen to tragic stories/news about children. Anything to do with kids realy will start me crying.

I have had to stop reading the news, haven't read it for ages but the other night randomly I decided to read the main paper of the saturday guardian, dh came home to find me tearful. So many horrible stories.

Was always useless this way but very bad since dc. It can be quite embarrassing sometimes!

Oh yes also Wires by Athlete and The Little Prince:

"Nothing's perfect," sighed the fox. "My life is monotonous. I hunt chickens; people hunt me. All chickens are just alike, and all men are just alike. So I'm rather bored. But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Other footsteps send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music. And then, look! You see the wheat fields over there? I don't eat bread. For me, wheat is no use whatever. Wheat fields say nothing to me. Which is sad. But you have hair the color of gold. So it will be wonderful, once you've tamed me! The wheat, which is golden, will remind me of you. And I'll love the sound of the wind in the wheat..."

The Green Mile. All of the executions,particuarly John Coffey's when the guards are crying.

And when Percy stamps on Mr Jingles.

Daddy - my Daddy! I have always really looked like Jenny Agutter - tons of folks have commented on it. That scenen in the film would always make my DAD cry whenever he saw it. He's now been dead 13 years and it has me in floods every time.

Oh and the bit in The Shawkshank Redemption where they explain how Tim Robbins escaped.

i'm glad i'm not the only person tearful over daft things

i always well up when watching football and a team scores and you can see all the fans hugging and cheering, something about that moment of shared joy and big hard men embracing!!

i also get tearful everytime i see ds is grown up already and remember that little boy he was has gone..and realise my two dd's are growing so fast too..aghhh i can't write anymore!

The Pogues "Fairy Tale of New York" has me welling up. DH had worked for Kirst MacColl and got on really well with her. He was so upset when she died.

The Cancer Research ad got me every time. The version that had the bride getting ready on her wedding day and her father says she looks beautiful was really hard for me because my dad died when I was 19 and the advert was on when I was planning my wedding.

"Wires" also reduces me to a complete mess.

Shockers, is this the song you mean -

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MROVvcmSyeI

If so I know exactly what you mean. It was around after I'd miscarried dc1 and the words really struck a chord in me, Even now, 8 years later and with my two gorgeous boys, it makes me remember that time when I ached for my lost baby.

Also the film Gorillas In The Mist; I saw it when I was about 14 and have never been so upset by a film before or since. The beauty of the 'animals' and brutality of the humans was just unthinkable.

THe bit in Northern Lights when the little boy Tony is found in the shed and he's so confused because he's lost his daemon - feck, I can't even think about that without getting a lump in my throat. And when they nearly sever Lyra and Pantalaemon (sp), that bit was so traumatic and amazingly written.

Off for a sob in the corner now..

The end of the Railway Children and the bit in ET near the end when he is dying and Drew Barrymore is crying. It was the first film I got taken to see at the cinema and I think DB is around the same age as me, sobbed then, sobbed ever since.

Shakespeare in Love at the end when they say goodbye.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, watched it for the first time last week and DH had to take DS from me as I was crying so hard.

Oh, and the bit in Love Actually when Liam Neeson is carrying his wifes coffin and has to adjust his grip

On the way home from work at a certain part of my journey I always see an old man walking his dog (for about three years now). During the winter he is wrapped up with a coat and cap on and the dog has a little coat on as well.
Anyway earlier this year for about two weeks there was no sign of him and I got really worried and used to have tears in my eyes driving past the spot. But then one evening he was there again and I was so happy!
How sad am I? I don't know him at all, I do know the house he lives in on the main raod. he is a lovely Grandad type of man, complete with tweed cap.
Dh thought I was a bit crazy when I arrived home one evening and was delighted because he was back walking again!

Anyone remember the movie 'A World Apart'? I must have seen it years ago on TV, but it made me cry more than any other film I've ever seen. It's a true story set in South Africa about a girl whose anti-apartheid activist parents are absent/in prison. And there's a bit about their black maid living apart from her children I seem to remember.

And remember that film 'The Killing Fields'about Cambodia? The only time I've ever been at a cinema when a film ends and the audience just sit there in stunned silence, then applaud.

On a less political note: the song 'Why?' by Annie Lennox.

Notyetamum I was going to say the same thing about goodbyes and reunions at stations and airports. Gets me every time.

Rockinsock I've just realised my dad used to sing the same song! A lovely long-forgotten memory has just been renewed, thank you.

I also cried at Up when he went through the book and found that she'd added photos from their life together and thanked him for the adventure. In the end, their adventure was just being together and loving each other always.

I remember once DP asking me what happened in the last ever episode of friends, and I was telling him about how the apartment was all empty and one by one they left their keys on the table and just couldnt help welling up!

what happened t the baby whale, i cant stop thinking about it now...poor little mite.
definately Marley and me, i watched it when i was pregnant and cried so hard i destroyed one tissue and the kind lady sat next to me gave me a spare.
the one that really gets me is when dp sings " father and daughter" by Paul Simon to dd, im having a little cry now just thinking about it, it5s the line "there will never be a father who loves his daughter more than i love you" we used to sing it together when i was pregnant and im sure dd was conceived to that song

just remembered wen i used to go and visit my mum who worked in a nursing home and she took me round to meet some of the oldies, we walked into a room and there was an old chap all dressed up in his sunday best, my mum asked him what he was doing and he said he was going out for lunch with his daughter, he'd got hiis days confused though and it was the following week and he only saw his daughter twice a week.
the worst one was an old couple in there, they'd been married since they were teenagers and she had gone blind, he would sit next to her bed and stroke her hand all day and talk to her. She died about 2 weeks after I went in and her husband died the day after, there was nothing wrong with him, he just died of a broken heart.
sob

JCB - Nizlopi
"I'm with you" by Avril Lavigne
The cbeebies summer song

and any telly where they are crying.

My excuse is I'm pregnant but I've been a lot more sensitive since being PG with DS1.

I cried at UP in half term.
Any children singing- especially in church.

hat woman - thought u meant chocolate brownies

YANBU, that's really sweet

this is guaranteed to make me cry.

And this.

you really must listen to it www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqR24ODVlcE

sob

Oh my god I am weeping having read all 8 pages of this.

Agree - tragic stories of kids suffering get me everytime but the less serious things that make me cry are pretty much like everyone elses. Agree about Brokeback - was pregnant when I saw it and blubbed right to the end of the credits and all the way out of the cinema to the car and home! DH was mortified.

Someone mentions when the Ingall's dog dies in the Little House on the Prarie books. I wept at that when I read it as a kid and it still made me cry today!

Watched Goodbye Mr Chips with Robert Donat when I was pregant and wept at the end. His wife dies in childbirth and later when he retires from the school and all the boys cheer him on, So sad.

A few weeks ago a lovely old lady started chatting to me and was asking me about ds. She said he looked like a handful and I said he was but I wouldnt be without him for the world. She said "I can see that" and gave me the kindess smile I have ever had from a stranger.
We chatted somemore and then we said our goodbyes as I was waiting for dh. As we left the car park, I looked back at her and she was struggling to get down the path with her 2 sticks. Made me well up at the time and even now, it makes my eyes prick.

I could tell she was a dear lady and keep wondering if she had a nice family to take care of her.

Oh my god! someone else wells up at the exact same bit of Peepo as I do!
Had a friend over and she read our copy to her ds, and she ALSO welled up. Made me feel less of a fool