Little things that we LIKE!

Liking is more fun than hating.....

I like dark chocolate and Port.... at the same time!
I love me dumb fluffy useless girly mutt, Terry
Oysters.....YUM!
Lamb chops......More YUM!
Autumn
Ride on lawnmowers and their ability to foster contemplation of the universes mysteries.... Hell I must have had too much Port again!
Redgum
Winter is cool
Dishwashers
Fishing
Triton Superjaws
Cordless drills
'Zip" ties
Leather
Boats of all sorts
Bloody Marys
Grandchildren

Hells Bells, my like list could go on forever..... much more fun than hate lists!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Oh, and I loves youse all too ;)

Being grumpy
Scowling at young people
Road raging at lunatics
Most of the James Squire range
Those little chocolates shaped like shells - but not the cheap ones from the $2 shop
Wrestling with my son cause I'm bigger than him and can beat him
My shed

Dunno, a couple of things come to mind.


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Getting off a Jetstar flight.

P

Women
Quality tools
a deserted beach in the early morning
beer
red wine
beer
not having to go to work
beer

The Frank Black and the Catholics album I'm listening to right now. LOUD...
and beer.

Hitting one straight down the fairway.
Trying something new and having it turn out right.
Getting green lights all the way to work.
Spirit brushes.
A well-restored old Holden.
A long hot bath in my newly renovated bathroom.
Bill Bryson books.
Beer gardens.

Craig :D

Sitting in the early morning sun with a long coffee and reading the Herald cover to cover
Completing the cryptic X word
A coldie at the end of the day
Completing something

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Completing something

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:eek: :eek: :eek: I didnt' know that was ENJOYABLE!!! I must try!!


Starting something!

P

Shooting down the road at 160kms in me ute, and not a cop in sight.:eek: :D


Al :o

Re-discovering Leadbelly's music after nearly 50 years. (My brother used to play and sing things like "Midnight Special" and "Pick a Bale of Cotton" when I was a kid).
Good red wine.
James Squire's IPA
Little Creatures' Pale Ale
Laughing at something that my young bloke also gets - without needing an explanation.

My Labradoodle (not too little)
Country music
Coke
Ozwinner
Canadian Ice Wine ... mmmmm..
The Salmon Hole
Adelaide Rosellas
Pancakes with Maple Syrup
Woodwork
and Coke ... did I mention Coke! :D

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Getting off a Jetstar flight.P

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OK Peter, what is it with you and Jetstar? Come on, out with it.

The magpies warbling in the morning from the tall trees and the blue wrens scuttling around while I have my morning cuppa.

Logging onto this exquisitely run BB, and enjoying the friendly banter and earnest advice.

The kookaburras in the gum trees taking the **** when I go for my morning walk.

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Logging onto this exquisitely run BB, and enjoying the friendly banter and earnest advice.

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What? What? I've been missing something.

Richard :D

I really like arguing and being generally difficult

rain on the roof
chocolate
caffeine
sleeping and dreaming
being dirty from work
overdriven guitar
spontaneous affection from my children
clouds

and other stuff

nice idea for a thread, it was good to stop and think about it...

Rus.

My Wife,
My Kids,
Getting out of bed (at the caravan), going out side and looking at the view. :D,
Coke,
Chocolate,
Wood turning,
Anything the doc says I should not have,
Sitting on the tractor all day having fun eh! I mean working,
..x, ;)

Fish & Chips
My kids running out to the truck yelling "Daddy's Home" when I back in the driveaway after a hard days yakka.
Fishing
A wallabies game and a six pack of Newcastle brown
A stanley No 7
Good mates
Mutton Chops...NOT bloody LAMB
Sleeping in my swag under a desert sky lit up by about a zillion stars
A new pair of jeans and an old pair of boots
A winner on the Melbourne Cup (sigh, that would be good)
Just plain fixing something to help somebody
The laughs I get out of the characters on this board
and my favourite, a dram of Chivas Regal Royal Salute;)

Cheers

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The magpies warbling in the morning from the tall trees and the blue wrens scuttling around while I have my morning cuppa.

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magpies so tame they walk through the workshop!

It seems we like hating things more than we like liking things.
(that hurts my head)
mick
confused and off balance

Wrong Mick, cause I really really liked squashing that little white ars3d bustard that bit me good today.

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Fish & Chips
My kids running out to the truck yelling "Daddy's Home" when I back in the driveaway after a hard days yakka.
Fishing
A wallabies game and a six pack of Newcastle brown
A stanley No 7
Good mates
Mutton Chops...NOT bloody LAMB
Sleeping in my swag under a desert sky lit up by about a zillion stars
A new pair of jeans and an old pair of boots
A winner on the Melbourne Cup (sigh, that would be good)
Just plain fixing something to help somebody
The laughs I get out of the characters on this board
and my favourite, a dram of Chivas Regal Royal Salute;)

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Simple things for simple folk please 'scuse me Squizz for the partial plagarism, but how you put it rings very true to me.................................

Shark'n chips (spot on mate)

My kids getting up early to wave through their windows in the morning & running out to meet me after a the long tiring battle we call work.

My Dogs(almost lost one a few weeks ago, Kids & me were devastated)

Any handtool I learn to use to effect

Good friends.

Good food esp Lamb chops with mint and garlic (not bludy mutton, grew up on that stuff)

Walking thru the bush with our best mates (our 2 old collies Reg & Bessiebear) Mum & the kids, dogs chasin the wallabies sniffin stuff and runnin around silly, kids doing much the same but also asking about trees and animals and the Missus pipping me to the answer( She's 3rd gen timber family).

My old workboots do feel pretty comfortable now that Squizzy mentions it(thanks for the reminder)

Winning anything

Helping people & knowing they will do the same in return without hesitation

The laughs & learning I get from the characters on this board.

A good strong cuppa at sunup with the wife on Sundays(don't drink much since the kids came along gave up on a few other chemicals over the years too)
these are a few of my favourite things

Can relate well to a few of you blokes -

The missus & kids
The aforementioned big welcome home
My 9 yo daughter getting up at 4.30 to have brekkie with her dad before work
A nice coffee
Dark chocolate coated coffee beans
Fish & chips on a Friday night
Reading the Sunday paper sitting in the sun
Woodwork tips, jigs, homemade ingenious ideas, etc
Having the Sat footy on in the shed
Losing track of time when watching a movie at the cinema
Going home to Orbost & running into people I went to school with
My footy team having a win
Reading a really good book
The woodwork show each year
Farmworld (field day) each year
Espresso poured over vanilla icecream
Home roasting coffee beans
The Sopranos

Great idea for a thread....................cheers.................Sean, glass half full :)

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It seems we like hating things more than we like liking things.
(that hurts my head)
mick
confused and off balance

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Nah, Mick, looks like most people like more things than they hate....

and if those trivial things are all we have to hate, things can't be too bad.

Life's great

'e's not so little no more but I think me lad's pretty neat :D

'is little sister is just perfect of course :D :D

Richard

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Nah, Mick, looks like most people like more things than they hate....

and if those trivial things are all we have to hate, things can't be too bad.

Life's great

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Perhaps your right, this thread is younger than the hate one. (I thought woodworkers were all as cantankerous as me. :) )
But I like playing with my 1.5 and 2.5 yr old kids and getting beaten at chess by my 9 yr old. Like good food, jazz,
and the fact that I'm not addicted to nicotine any more.
All my granfaters old planes, a few 50 yr old stanleys and about 20 old, old wooden ones. rebate planes witth timber threads. etc

I like convincing people that they were wrong and that I was right :)

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And I would like having friends

Grandkids
Making toys for grandkids
Making toys for me!
Walking around the WWW show all day, trying to work out who could be a U-Beaut forum member.
Sitting in a glider at 10,000 feet.
Having a whole weekend without anything that MUST be done.
Finishing a project and having a brag.
Good mates.
Logging on here each night to read the latest madness.

Aren't we lucky that so many people can have so much to be happy about.
Cheers
Graeme

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Simple things for simple folk...

My Dogs(almost lost one a few weeks ago, Kids & me were devastated)

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I took Shop Dog (lab) to a working bee today. Her first big outing. She ate soooo many sausages, and ran around with so many kids, that at the end of three hours I found her upside down under the ute with her feet in the air.

Yeah, dogs - I like my dog too.

Tell me though, am I the only one that thinks Labradors are a life-support system for a stomach?

When SWMBO comes home on friday nights, as she leaves every sunday to go to her chefs course.
Why... she brings me hungy jacks which I love and cant get in my hometown!

Positive people with a smile on their dial.

(I didn't even look at the "hate" thread 'cos I fix broken things for a living & listening to people grizzle & moan kind of wears you down.)

Swordfish steak done on the B-B-Q & laid on a pile of mashed parsnip with green beans & a bottle of good red on Friday night.

A beer by the dam at sunset watching the platapus.

Sitting beside an open fire.

Sticky date pudding with warm caramel brandy sauce & icecream.

The smell of sawdust.

Music.

that'll do for now....:)

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....I found her upside down with her feet in the air.

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Sounds like a girl I once knew :D

• Hitting the perfect golf shot..just spent last week in Portugal playing...only hit one..but Wow!
• Roof down on the little Roadster, country roads, nice weather, thats real enjoyment
• My kinda music
• Hearing my wife laugh
• Good Chinese food
• Satisfaction from a job well done
• Watching and listening to the birds in the garden especially during the nesting season
• The company of special friends and happy people
• The smell inside a delicatessen
• A large cappucino

beejay1

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Time with the Cheese and kisses
Tim Tams (esp the new Black Forest and Chili/choc varieties)
Jatz and cheese
A cold beer
just messing around in the garage/workshop
Thunderstorms
Playing a round of golf wth my young blokes
Not sure if I agree with the perfect golf shot - That's the only reason I go back; 1 good shot in 200 and you're hooked.
Oh, this BB's not bad either :D

Cheers,
Peter

Feeding the horses ans having them nudging while waiting for a feed,
The dogs, and the kids I suppose,
The purring of my espresso machine in the morning,
The luxury of croissant and black coffee one morning a week,
Dropping in and annoying once a week or so on my way into town,
A good shiraz,
A good Chardonnay,
A good properly made beer,
Fishing,
Fly tying,
A decent movie with a bit of action and intrigue,
Finding a good book,
Watching coppers booking dickheads on the highway.

I feel the urge to keep this thread going because I believe there must be more good things to post than in the bad things thread.:confused:

Anyway I do have so more:

My dog when he comes back with that ear to ear grin after chasing a cat up the street
Those really unbelievable bad (you had to be there) things that sometimes happen to you, and are bad at the time but cause people to roll about on the floor laughing (including yourself) when you later recite the story (with embellishments of course).{we had a thread like this once}
Corned beef
The smell of freshly cut jarrah
A tropical downpour, (standing in it)
The strike of a barra, and the bend of the rod.
Kangaroo Paws ( ....the flowers you idiots:rolleyes: :D )
The stories my daughter makes up and tells me
Old photo albums
Going back to my old primary school and marvelling at how small it is.
Knocking up a bit of a tome and having others enjoy it.
Hiding under the blankets with my kids at night reading "The Muddle Headed Wombat" "Snugglepot & Cuddliepie" "Blinky Bill" or "The Magic Pudding".
Mallee roots in the fire.
An old piece of timber dressed up and used in a new piece of furniture.

Cheers

The special midges that Squizzes daughter makes!

P
:D