@tom83 mostly, yeah. Though there's a few 3rd party models and some models for other games too. My efforts are largely documented here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/thinkingengine/collections/72157718889203854/
Going to a Madness concert - yes we were that close.
Thank you! It really started clicking with me during lockdown I think. I like having a physical, finished thing at the end of the process (and something I can play games with), it's displaced video games and watching TV as an evening activity and I think that's part of the reason.
We're fostering a guide dog. When I come downstairs in the morning, she wags her tail so forcefully that she actually twerks.
We’re fostering a guide dog. When I come downstairs in the morning, she wags her tail so forcefully that she actually twerks.
That is wholesome as hell.
Being at a conference in a massive conference centre that is also hosting a Supernova Cosplay "thing". So funny watching the different groups of people.
watching nature especially little owl streams on yt.
exhibit a
the smell of my dogs paws.
Biscuits!
Getting to the top of a climb somewhere and having a few moments to myself
That one beer while cooking dinner.
Not logged in to post for ages, logged in especially just to reply to this because it is a great thread!
Coming home to my dog who is just so happy to see me is number 1!
These just creep up at random times and depends on the situation but sometimes just being out in the woods or mountains and the weather is great, the view is great and I just suddenly totally overwhelmed by how fantastic life is and sit and watch for a while in a happy mode. *usually involved a good sunset
When a top song comes on on shuffle from my teenage years that I've forgotten about
Sometimes just seeing random people happy in the street
Doing a thing I didn't know I could do and it working! For example, fixing my car (I'm definitely not a mechanic), tiling my bathroom (I'm definitely not a tiler) etc.
Tickling Hatter's wife.
Fridays, especially a day off work Friday (like today). Planning on retiring from work in a few months, nothing wrong with my job or anything but like most sane people think I'll prefer not working over working. Will miss the Friday day off work feeling though when every day is a day off work 🙂
I'm in almost exactly the same situation as @Feed above. Fridays are great and make me happy anyway, but every day being a Friday will be greater. I've even posted the forms off today to the pension company, so there's no going back now.
Also - waggy-tailed dogs always make me grin a bit.
Listening to my late teenage daughters giggle and squeal in the lounge whilst playing mario kart on the new to me Switch. So much better than sat in their bedrooms.
Seeing a rare bird eg hen harrier out in the wild, or any wild creature in its proper habitat. We’ve seen otters a few times, but once, an animal came quite close and stared for a few seconds in my direction, then gone back to water. Wonderful.
This thread.
My 6yo son having just learned to read sitting and reading comics to his little brother.
I think the best description is being part of the community. Saturday morning routine involves grocery stall and butchers. Just chatting to the staff and other shoppers gives me, as that guy from Quadrophenia would say, an enormous sense of wellbeing.
And dogs vigorously wagging their tails. I don't even have a dog.
I went for a trail run last night with the dogs we all had fun.
But the thing that made me weirdly happy was being able to stand in the buff to cool down.
Checking a chronically shabby ambulance at the start of my shift, only to find that a mystery colleague has folded and stacked the blanket store perfectly.
Shopping for a new bike. The perusing of the images and then trying to imagine the ride and what it will look like in the collection. Oh, and the three year old telling Mrs BB that “Daddy has to get a green bike”. How can I possibly let her down, that would be bad parenting.
Fitting headset cups using a threaded rod style bearing press.
Watching an Archimedes Screw lift water.
When the Christmas decorations come down and the room looks really minimalist and uncluttered.
Fitting headset cups using a threaded rod style bearing press.
God yes, the very antithesis of watching some yahoo walloping one into an aluminium frame with a block of wood and a hammer.
My happy is seeing a car driving along while a dopey-looking mutt hangs their head out of the window. I'm sure it's all sorts of unsafe but it makes me smile every time.
In the possibly climate-change-linked absence of any frost or cold weather, I’ve still got a lot of flowers in bloom in November. I’ve just popped out on this typically grey, drab day and as I walked back up my path there’s still plenty of colour in the front garden. Made me smile 🙂
Mountains
That feeling just after you get over a cold when you realise it's gone and you can get back on your bike without risking a coughing fit (or have a beer without waking up feeling like death!).
