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Let's all think about we actually like for a while
i like threads about things i hate
Riding my bike(s)
Getting a bottle of wine and some nibbles and watching a film, lying on my bed, with my dog
When I do a job (bike, car or caravan) that I wasn't sure I could do properly, and it comes out right
I like it when my friends are happy
Loads of things really, but this will do to start
Boobies!
a really good argument.
ah, hang on.
"dutch-oven"-ing the GF
brown paper packages tied up with string...
When a front mech goes straight on and cabled without any buggering about for hours on end.
I like those jumpers that SAS wannabes wear. You know, the woollen ones, crew neck and patches on the elbows and shoulders. Preferably in black.
Also, french cigarettes, fish and chips, Mitchell and Webb, and my kids.
reading threads that make me laugh rather than cringe.. so far so good!
Sitting in my back garden in front of the chiminea with a beer and/or whisky
i very much like whiskey, when drank in the company of sexy, artistic women who have husky voices
Sunsets
15:30 on a Friday
Beer
4 day weekends back to back and 3 day weeks
Books
Simple things make me happy
Sitting in my back garden in front of the chiminea with a beer and/or whisky
Why would you have one in these in your garden, you sick bastard.
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Watching reasonable questions and points of view being made on STW then degenerate into personal insults and unholy rows totally out of proportion to the seriousness of the subject!
I have a mental picture of Chipps and Mark sitting in their office with their heads in their hands, like Dr Frankenstein, wondering what this monster is they've created...
Oh and I like buying, fiddling with and riding bikes 🙂
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Perfect.
Making my 7 year old son laugh. Yes, I like that.
Making my 17 week old daughter smile and hearing her goo and gaa.
brown paper packages tied up with string...
What a coincidence, for they too are amongst my favourite things. Along with BFO knives.
Farting and smelling it.
good lyrics, Movies that make me want to jump around the room making laser noises, those days when you are a biking god, sunrise, bad tattoos, people doing unexpectedly good things. Ice cream.
realman - that treet root picture is from avebury isn't it?
anyway things I like - the smell of cut grass, the first draught of cold beer after grafting in the sun, the sound of snow crunching under foot and geting hugged by my boys when I get home from work 🙂
No, from google.
And if you want a list (in no particular order)
Drinking, mates, bikes (all of them), riding bikes, fixing bikes, talking about bikes, badminton, boxing, tennis, almost all other sports, girls, being young, sunny days, sleeping, eating, music, doing stupid things and getting away with it, maths, learning new things, cats (dogs are stupid), living in a country where the worst worry for most people is how crap 11 of us are at kicking a ball around a field and plenty more things.
what I really used to love was my childrens 'breast milk breath' when they were babies - don't know why really, was just one of those 'all's right with the world' things.
The girl who works in support in the office. :S
Sunshine on my back.
The sound of my kids playing without any fighting.
BBQ food on a hot day.
Finding a tennner in a pair of trousers I haven't worn for a while.
What do I like?
I like being around my dogs, my wife and I taking them for a run when we are on our bikes, I like the odd beer, I like the odd glass of wine, I like lamp.
hippies
I like lamp.
Mmmm, I burnt my tongue.
For the first time in my life ... my job 8)
Shame it's only for three years ...
(Past jobs have ranged from OK, through tolerable, to downright hellish).
Getting post, wine, a lager shandy after a hot bike ride, the feeling when you're really pushing yourself(last night - not much time so a continuous 1000m climb on the road bike) and you realise you're fit enough to cope with it without too much knackerdness, the smell of rain and friendly cats.
Mrs North
Hardback books
Eggshell interior woodwork paint
Sunlight lighting up dust during the afternoon
5pm after a really hot day
The sound of silence
That joyous whoosh on hearing some extraordinary music for the first time
No chain feeling when riding the bike
Homecooked food
I could go on....
In no particular order...
My girlfriend, the stepkids, Marin Wolf Ridges, Specialized Enduros, Maxxis tyres, Hopback Summer Lightning, English Electric Lightnings, real ale, epic fail, the North Downs, Todmorden, Snowdonia, lock on grips, Hope and laid back journalism.
English Electric Lightnings
My mum used to build the nose cones for those
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the view from the top of Highstreet
watching people slide their way down a slippery downhill
getting a corner just so on either my mountain bike or my motorbike
and.....
The english electric lightning is a very fine thing to like indeed. Was or maybe still is the fastest climbing aircraft on the planet something silly like 20kftpermin. Blimey.
MKCHRIS and Toys19
My old man used to design bits of them!
Cool. Cool Thats a good reason to be an engineer.
My wife
My children
Having a golden, brown suntan
Growing exotic plants
Being on holiday
Working up a sweat on my MTB
Lager
Sex
Not having had a cigarette for over 4 months
-Blandford Fly.
-that warbly not-quite-clucking noise hens make to each other.
-the Geordie accent.
-that smell when its been hot and then it rains on the pavement.
-Hot Wheels toys 😳
Seeing my 6 month old daughter laugh.
-the Geordie accent.
Whey Aye!
I like dogs with that dopey look on their faces as they stick their heads out of a moving car's window. Always makes me smile.
Riding a bit of trail I've ridden a few times and it just clicking, that moment when you feel like no one can beat you at that moment. Got that in Wales on Dreamtime on CyB last week. I rocked. 🙂
Ice cold milk and Bourbon Creams (proper long thin ones not the squarish ones).
An expertly cooked steak and chips.
The smell of sleep.
Salvation