Small things that make you smile - Page 43

Metal Goat · #**1261** 1st October 2016, 02:02

Living in a country where "you are so beautiful and white" is a thing. The Chinese person I was with ended up chatting to them and later tried to explain to the men who said it that where I am from, it is not usually a case of the more pale you are, the more beautiful you are and instead people actually want to become tanned. These three men just didn't believe her, it sounded so crazy to them. I forgot how much I enjoy compliments about my appearance. I just need to lose a ridiculous amount of weight and then I would be popular in this country. There's nothing like men complimenting your physical appearance to make you smile. Oh how I need validating. What a world we live in.

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Olly. · #**1262** 1st October 2016, 16:31

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Originally Posted by jam

Olly's been on my to do list for a while.

Hell yeah

db838 · #**1263** 6th October 2016, 10:48

Bacon sandwiches

Metal Goat · #**1264** 6th October 2016, 15:08

Even when my cat sleeps away from me (i.e. Not on top of me) she rest her paw on me. She never sleeps without touching me. God I love her so much.

Edit: fixed gigantic pic. Couldn't do it on my phone.

Jam · #**1265** 8th October 2016, 12:48

My daughter woke up from her afternoon nap saying, "Daddy im not a giraffe".

Indigo_ · #**1266** 8th October 2016, 12:51

^ What did you reply with?

Jam · #**1267** 8th October 2016, 14:02

^ I don't know now. I opened the curtains and gave her a hug.

Indigo_ · #**1268** 8th October 2016, 21:44

^ Aw!

That is too cute.

Metal Goat · #**1269** 9th October 2016, 00:08

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Originally Posted by Victoria Lucas

This would be better posted in the 'Small things that make you bawl your eyes out because it's close to your time of the month', but I was playing hairdressers with my son and asked him 'so what is your name, sir?', and he replies 'erm...mummy!', I laughed and said 'your name is mummy?!' and he says 'and Oskar...Oskar and mummy are the same!' and grins at me.

Just why, child.

That's just so so adorable. Don't let him grow up!!

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newbs16 · #**1270** 9th October 2016, 08:41

When you feel like you could crumble but you give it a go anyway

Metal Goat · #**1271** 9th October 2016, 09:52

Starting my new unit on myths. I'm starting off with Greek mythology. Gonna act out Theseus and the Minotaur. Do a conscience alley activity for Pandora and her box. They've just created their own mythical monsters. Gonna write a diary as Persephone in the underworld. Hercules and his labours and Perseus and Medusa haven't yet quite been planned but it's gonna be awesome. And I nearly forgot Icarus. We need to squeeze him in there. Then we are gonna move on to different constellation myths, get some Egyptian Gods in there and then go for some Roman myths with Romulus and Remus. At the end they're gonna write their own myth. I bloody love this part of the year. It's my favorite. I wish we could just do this all year. What is better than mythology? Not much.

Indigo_ · #**1272** 9th October 2016, 11:26

^ We're practising our hand-eye co-ordination and fine motor skills by picking up pom poms with a pair of tweezers. We're definitely teaching different age ranges

Jam · #**1273** 9th October 2016, 11:55

^I never did any of those cool things at school. The most exciting thing we ever did at school was grow some cress on a bit of cotton wool.

Metal Goat · #**1274** 9th October 2016, 12:25

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Originally Posted by Tiger_Lily

^ We're practising our hand-eye co-ordination and fine motor skills by picking up pom poms with a pair of tweezers. We're definitely teaching different age ranges

Pahaha. At least your kids will use that skill forever. If you ask my kids about Ariadne in 10 years they'll probably think it's an STD.

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Originally Posted by jam

^I never did any of those cool things at school. The most exciting thing we ever did at school was grow some cress on a bit of cotton wool.

I think we made bread go mouldy. How times have changed.

Indigo_ · #**1275** 9th October 2016, 14:22

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Originally Posted by jam

^I never did any of those cool things at school. The most exciting thing we ever did at school was grow some cress on a bit of cotton wool.

We still do that. I grew them in egg shells last year and they drew a face on the egg to make a cress head

Jam · #**1276** 9th October 2016, 14:47

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Originally Posted by Tiger_Lily

We still do that. I grew them in egg shells last year and they drew a face on the egg to make a cress head

Please tell me you named the egg head Cresstopher Eggleston.

newbs16 · #**1277** 9th October 2016, 16:21

I met my forum bestie this weekend

Indigo_ · #**1278** 9th October 2016, 16:52

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Originally Posted by jam

Please tell me you named the egg head Cresstopher Eggleston.

There were 30 of them, so we didn't name them

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Originally Posted by newbs16

I met my forum bestie this weekend

Hope it went well

Olly. · #**1279** 9th October 2016, 18:24

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Originally Posted by newbs16

I met my forum bestie this weekend

Ooh well done

newbs16 · #**1280** 9th October 2016, 19:40

Thanks everyone

newbs16 · #**1281** 9th October 2016, 20:06

Thanks both

Oddity · #**1282** 10th October 2016, 00:08

^ Did he spoil you with his new found riches?

Metal Goat · #**1283** 10th October 2016, 00:20

Thank you Biscuits.

Nice one newbs. Did you have fun?

Omar Little · #**1284** 11th October 2016, 23:13

Something that made me smile today. One of my young nieces said “Diolch yn fawr” (thank you very much) after I opened some Play-Doh for her. (I had to ask her what it meant though as my Welsh is practically non-existent.) No one round here speaks Welsh either. I’m not patriotic at all, but I do quite like the Welsh language. And she's such a sweet kid that it sounds all the nicer coming from her.

newbs16 · #**1285** 13th October 2016, 04:01

^^ I did have a nice time

Metal Goat · #**1286** 15th October 2016, 01:25

I went to bed early last night cos I was tired from seven days in work and when I woke up my husband had sent me messages. He was in the next room all night and then in bed next to me but cos our sleeping didn't match up he messaged me on wechat. Now I want him to wake up so I can cuddle him.

newbs16 · #**1287** 15th October 2016, 03:09

^ He sounds very caring

Generation Erm · #**1288** 24th October 2016, 15:31

Feeding the ducks. I've found it way more enjoyable since switching from bread to peas and sweetcorn cos you can scatter them over a wider surface area so they tend not to fight over it like they did with bread which left you feeling bad about any ducks that didn't get any.

Ajax Amsterdam · #**1289** 26th October 2016, 01:36

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Originally Posted by Generation Erm

Feeding the ducks. I've found it way more enjoyable since switching from bread to peas and sweetcorn cos you can scatter them over a wider surface area so they tend not to fight over it like they did with bread which left you feeling bad about any ducks that didn't get any.

Ahh yes. I love feeding the ducks and swans.

I'm with you on the sweetcorn and peas thing too. Bread is the bird equivalent of junk food and can actually cause a problem in birds called Angel Wing. Although they'll stuff their beaks with bread, it actually offers them very little nutritional value at all. We buy big bags of frozen peas and sweetcorn then thaw it out. They love it and get lots of nutrition from it. Also, we buy a 15k bag of bird seed from Home Bargains. It's only £3.99 and the ducks and swans go crazy for it. Good quality nutrition for them too.

Oddity · #**1290** 31st October 2016, 23:27

My cat sleeping. She's gone a bit overboard with the winter coat and now she snores