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HAPPINESS & LAUGHTER

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Rhiannon · 12/06/2001 20:52

Just to brighten things up a bit, what makes you really happy and what makes you laugh?

A nice sunny day for one

Two clean kids just out the bath with washed hair and in clean jamas ready for bed!

Laughter has to be Father Ted, Gimme Gimme Gimme, the toilet scene in the film Dumb and Dumber. Jo Brand is funny.

The Simpsons make me laugh everytime just watched the one about Lisa giving Bart and Homer leprosy by painting them with cereal and green paint. She told them the cure was that they had to clean the house as it was the dirty house causing the spots and Homer said "the cure sounds worse than the disease"!

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Bron · 16/06/2001 14:01

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Lizzer · 16/06/2001 15:52

Alexsmum, that brought a tear to my eye about the pregnancy test. Not that I was ever in the same situation with mine (total-lovely-accident) but I can only guess the immense joy you must have felt in your heart at that moment, ahhh....(I think my hormones are on overdrive today, sorry!)

Eulalia · 16/06/2001 16:58

I don't know where to start... just now it is the long, long days and hearing the birds singing at 3am when the dawn breaks... then later sitting in the sun with a glass of wine.

My son giggling and enjoying being chased, snuggling up in bed with him, and the way he hugs your legs. Sharing a secret joke with my husband. Husband making the dinner (he always does it better than me). Never feeling complacent about him (after 11 years).

A long hot bath with a good book and glass of wine.

Food - all of it! Particularly olives, cheese, shellfish, Danish pastries, a good hot curry (not all in one meal!)

Playing very loud music in our new detached house (no neighbours!)

Generally it is knowing what things in life to value, and they need not be money or possessions.

As for humour. Anything black. Personally I find Graham Norton irritating, particularly his voice. The stuff on Radio 4 is good - did anyone catch 'The Sunday Supplement'? That had me with tears streaming down.

Oh yes, and of course ... sheeeeeeep!!!!

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Rhiannon · 16/06/2001 17:52

Bron - ooh err - there's not much room in our bed!

Eulalia is the Sunday Supplement the one with Tom Baker? If it is my husband loves it. I'm just getting in to Radio 2 at the moment but don't tell anyone.

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Rhiannon · 16/06/2001 17:58

Joe, a second home, when you're already on the coast? this sounds like a life of luxury. Tell us more.

I'd love a caravan, one with an engine but my husband won't entertain the idea! I think it's the idea of emptying the toilet that puts him off.
I'd love to pick up my little boy from school at 4pm and be off to the wilds off Suffolk, be hitched up (or whatever it is you do) by a lake by 5.30pm a for wild weekend of surviving in freezing temperatures and driving rain!

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Kia · 16/06/2001 22:10

I was watching my lovely boy's riding lesson today(he's very good and makes me feel 10 feet tall and a big lump in my throat) and he was riding one of the school's carriage horses for a session and every time the horse came past the audience it let fly the most almighty farts. There was a little girl next to me with her mum who had a fit of the giggles every time it happened that in the end it made us all crack up. It did my heart good, it was so innocent. PS I love the turbo lax scene in dumb and dumber too - its just my level I'm afraid.

Joe · 17/06/2001 07:41

Oh no I didnt put it quite right, we dont have a second home (although this would be very nice) we just spend our holidays and any spare weekends we can down in Newquay. We have just come back from a caravan holiday in Perran Sands and they sell caravans on their camp, my sister wants to go in with us and my brother to buy one, so who knows (if we dont move there first). The reason we go there is for the surf (but have fallen in love with the whole area), my husbands hobby. Unfornately, Southsea and Hayling Island dont have any surf (Hayling you can catch some small waves sometimes) and the water isnt all that nice. West Witterings is the only place really to go and Bournemouth but nothing tops Newquay.

Boo321 · 17/06/2001 13:59

After having had weeks of yelling and screaming at my two middle boys(9+7) it was so sweet this morning to find that they were downstairs making Dad a "flat egg" for fathers day!It was lovingly carried upstairs where everyone sat on the bed and ate most of it themselves.Just what you need on a sunday morning at 7.15 a cold fried egg and burnt toast.It was however a very heartwarming scene

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