Small pleasures?

[Bob]

12 hours ago, Rushies tash said:

Blagging an upgrade to the best suite in the hotel for Mrs Tash's birthday this week. Anyone on here who has children will know that, as much as you love them, any night you can grab away from them is bliss. Especially in a duplex suite. Cheers.

How did you blag it? I'm hopeless at that sort of thing, what tricks did you have up your sleeve?

[Rushies tash]

39 minutes ago, Bob said:

How did you blag it? I'm hopeless at that sort of thing, what tricks did you have up your sleeve?

 

I just ring at the last minute usually to ask for an upgrade if they have any. That's about it really. I make sure to say it's a special occasion (which, to be fair, it usually is) and that I've booked a decent room to begin with - it's taking the piss to book their cheapest room and then expect their best one (also, if you don't get upgraded, you've not really lost out). On this occasion, they didn't actually upgrade me when I rang, but on the day I went online and saw that their best room was still available after I'd checked in. I nipped back to reception and asked what they could do - and the girl on the desk was brilliant about it. I think if an upgrade is available, and there's no chance of the room getting booked out, they'd rather offer it and have a happy guest than leave it empty.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Meeting oddball strangers.

 

Took the dog for a walk today - an old boy played the call of a Dartford Warbler on his phone for me, then I had a brief chat with a woman who was happily sitting in a tree.

[sir roger]

Dogging has certainly changed since I was a lad.

[VladimirIlyich]

On 09/12/2023 at 11:00, ZonkoVille77 said:

 

You carry the genes of people who lived thousands of years ago. In that sense, life is everlasting. 

And I thought all they wore were Togas back then. Were Levi,Wrangler and Lee Cooper philosophers with early sewing machines?

[Champ]

6 hours ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

Meeting oddball strangers.

 

Took the dog for a walk today - an old boy played the call of a Dartford Warbler on his phone for me, then I had a brief chat with a woman who was happily sitting in a tree.

Have you got the Merlin Bird ID sounds app?

[Babb'sBurstNad]

1 hour ago, Champ said:

Have you got the Merlin Bird ID sounds app?

 

No. Didn't even know that was a thing. I'll see about downloading it though.

 

Always wanted to know a bit more about nature. Would be nice to be able to identify birds and trees.

[Bjornebye]

Just now, Babb'sBurstNad said:

 

No. Didn't even know that was a thing. I'll see about downloading it though.

 

Always wanted to know a bit more about nature. Would be nice to be able to identify birds and trees.

Or birds in trees 

[Captain Turdseye]

The forum made me laugh a couple of times today. Mostly at my own jokes, but you can’t have everything. 

[Jairzinho]

8 hours ago, Champ said:

Have you got the Merlin Bird ID sounds app?

 

I'm mildly addicted to that app. 

[Champ]

2 hours ago, Jairzinho said:

 

I'm mildly addicted to that app. 

You are not alone 

[Babb'sBurstNad]

When the postie delivers two parcels at once.

 

A little taste of Christmas in April.

[Tony Moanero]

25 minutes ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

When the postie delivers two parcels at once.

 

A little taste of Christmas in April.

What was in them?

[Pidge]

Hats?

 

In at least one of them, surely.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

23 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

What was in them?

 

12 minutes ago, Pidge said:

Hats?

 

In at least one of them, surely.

 

Well the joke's on you Pidge, 'cos they were actually bicycle parts.

 

A one piece crank and some MKS BM-7 pedals. Building an old-school klunker.

[polymerpunkah]

On 26/03/2024 at 14:31, Champ said:

Have you got the Merlin Bird ID sounds app?

D/ling that now, thanks.

 

[Jairzinho]

3 minutes ago, polymerpunkah said:

D/ling that now, thanks.

 

 

It'll be the healthiest addiction you've ever had.

[Harry's Lad]

1 hour ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

When the postie delivers two parcels at once.

 

A little taste of Christmas in April.

You have a postie?

We haven't seen ours in a fortnight.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

3 minutes ago, Harry's Lad said:

You have a postie?

We haven't seen ours in a fortnight.

 

Yep. We're even on nodding and calling each other "mate" terms.

 

Living the dream.

[Champ]

1 hour ago, Jairzinho said:

 

It'll be the healthiest addiction you've ever had.

I’m going to my son’s tomorrow. The range of birds he gets around his garden compared to ours is amazing.

 

Have I said that before?

[Jairzinho]

5 minutes ago, Champ said:

I’m going to my son’s tomorrow. The range of birds he gets around his garden compared to ours is amazing.

 

Have I said that before?

 

I left my phone in my parent's garden when I went to visit them a few weeks ago. About 15 different birds in ten minutes. 

 

When you get a red dot to signify something rare. .. 

 

 

[Elite]

Looking at a dog with the outside of your eyes and then looking back and forth on repeat.

 

Funny as fuck the confused look they give you.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Blowing into an inside-out rubber glove to make the fingers poke out.

 

I live an adrenaline-fueled life.

[Rushies tash]

The view of the Thames from Richmond terrace:

 

 

Booked a midweek stay for myself and Mrs Tash. As a surprise, managed to nab the same suite that we had for our wedding night. Cheers all xx

[YorkshireRed]

I’ve shared similar before, however..

 

Driving over to Keele earlier to pick my eldest up from University. I took my youngest with me for company, he’s seventeen. 
 

We saw a sign for Port Vale FC. I asked him if he knew which famous pop star supported them. He’d no clue, and when I told him who it is, he said he’d never heard of him. 
 

He 100% knows who John Lennon and David Bowie are. Absolutely knows who sung Horse With No Name. Doesn’t know who Robbie Williams is. 
 

I wasn’t a completely shit Dad.