Niggles and smiles.

lovebeigecardigans have you watched all the Simon’s Cat cartoons on youtube?

Oh Wilma aren't they adorable? I thoroughly enjoyed that programme.

Daffs of course!

Reading the post about spitting -yuk- it reminded me about how quickly brand new pavements are ruined by by white/ great blobs of chewing gum.
?Dads in the coop £1 a bunch ( though I think they should charge more and pay the pickers a decent wage)

Kittylester...it’s my 6 year old granddaughter that I swear is grumpily hormonal ...her 11 year old brother is a very huggable boy! I dote in them both by the way. No niggles today as just swum 40 lengths and walked 4 miles. I stopped in the middle of road and announced to an unlistening world hiw GREAT i felt. At least I hope nobody heard me! 10, 000 steps...no probs!

All of the above niggles have made me smile as my husband does most of the same things. With some add ons, he is incapable of shutting any cupboard door when he takes something out. Never puts anything back where it should go back to but knows where I put it back to! Has no idea that the loo seat should go back down, think that’s universal with loo rolls being replenished. Which leads me on to a theory that I’ve had for years that ‘somewhere’ there is a giant brain and all men are plugged into it because they all do the same things!!
My smile is that mine’s still around and wouldn’t change that for anything plus the sun is shining today, I’m still in bed reading this and had two cups of coffee brought up to me.

luzdoh and Gypsyqueen13

My latest smile was watching the new Gordon Buchanan wildlife series that started tonight and seeing the little meerkats standing on their hind legs. I'd only noticed the larger ones do that before. ?

My niggle- when H leaves weetabix crumbs on workgroup every morning! But the biggest grumble is when I get asked what I've done with an item of clothing that is definitely not in his wardrobe, but guess what magic happens when I look in there, yes it's there all the time! My daughter calls it a typical 'man look'. It happens almost weekly in our house. Infuriating!
My smile was doing the rspb bird count and realising how lucky I am to have so many feathered visitors.

My niggle is the neighbour slamming her front door so loudly everytime she uses it.
My smile is spending an hour with my daughter today while the grandchildren were at school. I so love my grandchildren but one on one time with my children is so rare and very precious

A niggle, a couple of days ago, no charge going into my mobile phone. Was I going to have to get a new one?

Many smiles yesterday, when the charge cable I'd ordered turned up in record time and all was well again. No new phone needed.

luzdoh

My eyes seem to be a bit misty.
That sentence, those comments ? I feel for you and all those who have sadness locked inside. Please accept a hug and a smile from me. ⚘☺

Camelotclub: absolutely agree with your niggle !

So, what are we going to do about it ....

Niggle: the return of spitting in public - I thought this went out decades ago, but it's back! Some Professional sportsmen are really bad role models for it!

Smile: £1:50 pot of little daffodils in flower on my loo window sill.

A few days ago I hadnt done the small amount of ironing in the cupboard, DH came along and said " when are you going to iron my three shirts that I am waiting for" I said he has a wardrobe of shirts, and if he wants one that needs ironing he knows where the iron is!
Smile - I had my ears syringed yesterday and can now HEAR everything!

No DH to moan about, almost 5 years since I was widowed. However today's niggle was electrician turning up unannounced, I had a new gas boiler installed on Monday & company were supposed to contact me for suitable date for electrician, he'd come from Falmouth (Cornwall) to me in South Devon, he was lucky to catch me at home. Lovely man & although it disrupted my day at least the job's done.

My smile today was brilliant blue sky (a couple of heavy showers) & gorgeous Cream Tea with friends. Beautiful clear starry sky tonight

Sorry, silverlining, didn't read your post before I posted mine!

DH not emptying washing up bowl after washing a greasy dish in the evening so it's there for me to discover next morning - yuk! Emptying tablets out of their plastic blister packets to put into pill box then leaving all these empty blister packs a metre away from the bathroom bin...

Watching that beautiful, bright full moon last night - wonderful.

My DH does most of the annoying things mentioned - plus he goes shopping and buys things we don't need. Example today really wound me up - a large pack of dried pasta when the pasta jar is already filled to the brim. I think it's so annoying because we have very limited kitchen storage space.

Smile is a wren hopping about on our patio pots - a new visitor for us.

Smile - ending dry January with my lovely DH, great recorded TV, and a bottle of good wine!

Niggle is when people start every sentence with "So..."

Nice is banks of snowdrops outside a pub in a nearby village.

Gypsyqueen13 Thank you and much love. I am a coward. When these family anecdotes abound, as here and at my Church group, I just shut up and inside my heart sobs silently. I was widowed by suicide when I was 41. I know it is natural for people to have niggles and joys about their loved ones and long may they do so. We must not forget though that the married couple with children and grandchildren whom they see and with whom all goes well isn't the norm for everyone. Lots of love Gypsyqueen, remember to treat yourself to little joys and treats - days off from the house work maybe?

My DH can never use a tube of toothpaste to the end even though I use a fancy bulldog clip to keep it rolled up. Plus although he does put a new loo roll on the holder he always leaves the old roll by the sink still with a few sheets on it.

But the smile came on Tuesday when he washed the large kitchen/diner floor plus take down the living room curtains put them the washing machine and later hang them out. All while I was out having my nails done and a massage. Todays smile was he said he would take our lovely cleaner home which is a bit hard for him as she doesn't speak English and he doesnt speak Portuguese. All so I could go out to a coffee morning and on to lunch with a friend.

My niggle is going to the cupboard or fridge to find the cupboard or fridge Fairy (aka DD3!) has left the empty multipack of crisps bag in there or eaten the last yoghurt and left the packaging in there!!!
My smile for today was the enormous fat Robin Redbreast on my patio, seeing all the other birds off his territory. Perhaps he’s the crisp/yoghurt thief!

When DH puts empty milk containers and old newspapers on the worktop by the back door and never ever thinks to open the door and put them in the recycling bins!!!!

Watching two Robins in my garden eating the droppings from the fatball feeder which other birds are pecking at.It always makes me smile how they leave all the hard work to their feathered friends.