iPod shuffling 3 great tracks in a row on the ride home.
Foals - My Number -> Ripperton - For all The Wrong Reasons ->New Order - Crystal. Happy pedaling 🙂
Dropping the first big fart of the day on the heated leather seat in the car - highly recommended.
Recovering a stolen [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/stolen-on-one-macinato-blue-exeter ]bike![/url] 😆
A clean exit.
Dry socks.
Also- that moment when you take your kneepads off after a summer ride and just scraaaaatch.
Home: The heated towel rail, especially after a post night ride shower.
Work: A nicely dressed set of knots on a y hang.
Being right, when others are wrong.
A really good cup of tea.
A nice pie.
A certain young lady, but that's bittersweet as I'm a week away from being on a different continent to her.
A text off a girl I met a few weeks ago is most certainly putting me a fab mood these last few days. 🙂
When a long standing concern in your life is over. The first few weeks and maybe months when you wake up and remember, then tense up cos it's how it's been for ages, then remember that everything is ok now and relax.
It's like waking up everyday thinking that it's Monday and finding out that it's Saturday.
Curry and beer with mates .
Clas Ohlson - £7.99 Sunglasses Clip-Ons ... this one for my far east travel next month ... 😀
Is it in fashion?
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Walking along the street, cute girl coming the other way. Eyes meet, give her a smile, cute shy smile back. Think about smashing her back doors in until it happens with the next cute girl walking the other way. Good mood/ lazy lob-on all day 🙂
Seeing a dog with its head poking out the window of a moving car, preferably with its ears flapping a bit.
The smell of rain after it's been dry for ages
Getting a nice smile from a yummy mummy.
Today it would be the sun looking like a red traffic light this morning, that first cuppa, catching a glimpse of Mrs Zip and realising just how gorgeous she is, looking at the lights of London from Epsom Downs, kashima plushness on the downhill , the ease of converting my rear hub to 10mm qr and finally Franziskaner Weissbier.
Not bad for an average day.
[i]The smell of rain after it's been dry for ages[/i]
+1
The dog being so excited just that you've got home/ just woken up/ sat down on the couch next to it. Even when you're really pissed off, it's hard to stay annoyed when something's so pleased to see you.
A bright sunny day without a cloud in the sky. Summer/ winter/ somewhere in between, doesn't really matter once the sun hits your face
Watching United win in Europe to finish top of the group, and through to the knock-out stages
😀
Bouncing boobies 🙂
Watching United win [s]in Europe to finish top of the group, and through to the knock-out stages[/s]
FTFY 😉
Inquisitive calves in fields, I think they're as cute as anything.
The second half mile of my commute has me wander along the edge of the Thames in Abingdon.
Mist rolling off the meadows on to the river backlit by the sun and then an eight plows out of the mist.
Magic. And +1 to dogs in cars. And cats and laser pointers.
Pretty much covers it fella! Just thought I'd embellish it so sound slightly less relieved. Phew 😉
Heading out for a pootle round the town/forest/riverbank with "Tobe's", he's only got short legs so runs out of [i]Ooomph[/i] after 5 miles but he goes nuts when i turn up on my bike (he belongs to good friends but he thinks he's my dog) and just loves a bike run. Not done much proper biking this year as i rarely get a day off and on the rare occasions when i did have a day to myself i i choose to take him out rather than go on a proper ride as i swear he grins the entire time we are out - puts me in a good mood 😀 .
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And here's one of his reindeer costume from last xmas, this year he has an elf outfit.
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A cold Erdinger;
A successful repair job with no glitches;
The companionship of my mental Springer!
My two headed cat..
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1. Threads like this, reminding us of all the positive things in life (usually the most simple)
2. Time with good friends, just having a good chat
3. Autumn riding - the colours and the light make you sooo glad to be out in it, instead of in a car/house/train
Great thread. 😀
Soma, the dog in the reindeer outit is wonderful, best thing I've seen in ages!
emsz - Member
iPod shuffle when it plays the right songs in the right order.
I always have my phone or pod on shuffle, and it makes me smile every time I get several versions of the same song, by different artists, back-to-back, best one was three versions of one song, followed by two of another.
Autumn light
Watching a red kite flying
Hearing a skylark singing it's little head off on a warm sunny day
Hearing swifts screaming as they chase each other on warm summer evenings
Watching the wind ripple corn or grass fields
He gets dressed up quite a fair bit as my mates have a 5yr old son who is going through a superhero phase at the moment so he gets to dress up as Batman and the dog gets to be Robin 😀 , i'll try and get round to theirs to take a pic of his new Elf costume......for a Jack Russell/farm collie cross (possible?) he has the patience of a saint but he does grumble and sigh a lot.
Seeing the birds on our feeder.
Going out for a ride/walk and spotting some wildlife that has no idea you are watching it.
When mr bh gets onto my side of the bed on a cold winters night and warms it up for me, while I'm faffing with beauty creams and such.
Sitting in the dentists chair when he diagnoses my latest denture disaster and the brain numbing pain just slowly drifts away, bliss. Roll on my 9.10 appointment tomorrow.
My daughters laugh.
And the way my girlfriend arches her back just 'so' without even realising she does it.
when you're out in the country on a bike or walking and you say hello to a person and they say hello back. Ok, any random stranger saying hello, wherever it is, is always brightening.
The time of the year when you first smell freshly cut grass, a sign that spring/summer is on its way
Spotting a Barn Owl hunting on my way to work
Dancing with my colleague like loons probably for no apparent reason, or after a 'win' over something/ someone. neither of us can dance .
Biffy Clyro ( early stuff ) played at a slightly too loud level whlist shopping , especially hateful xmas shopping. makes it less painfull.
When a work colleague randomly announced "there's a big box of donuts in the coffee room. Help yourself. I decided the weathers been crap for a while so everyone needs donuts"
Nice gesture, cost him only a few quid and cheered up everyone's day.
Getting into fresh bed linen after a hot shower.
Finishing a cold night shift and climbing into a warm bed just as everybody else is getting ready to go outside and scrape ice off the cars before heading off on their morning commute.
Some great suggestions on here! Mine would have to be listening to waves crashing on a beach while you lie under canvas, knowing that tomorrow will be another fine day with no work to worry about, only the size of the swell or which trails you'll be riding!
Drifting off to sleep after a strenuous bike ride.
MrsOath texting pictures of OathJnr when I'm having a shit day at work.
Putting on dry trousers after a wet commute and warm shower, and the smug feeling that your colleagues are all soaked having not cycled in.
Watching the dog chase around with his two lurcher "mates". Bloody hell they're fast.
My granddaughters first go on her Islabike Rohan.
Her face on Christmas day.
A dry trail (roll on spring).
Riding to and from work every day.
The dogs.
This:
Yesterday, walking back to Avebury along the Herepath, just crossing the Ridgeway, and I see a red kite, and at the same time a short-eared owl hawking across the field in the sunshine, then as I'm taking my boots off in the car park at the pub, see a rather soggy folded fiver lying on the ground by my car. A good afternoon, brought a smile to my face.
A double yolk egg
