Things you get an utterly disproportionate amount of pleasure from..

[Amanda P]

[quote name='swee'pea99']I like the feel of crushing egg boxes before putting them in the recycling.[/QUOTE]

Ours get recycled by going back to the farm where the hens live. They wouldn't work if we stood on them first.

 

[Amanda P]

.. there is great satisfaction in darning a sock you knitted yourself.

Is that so? I would have thought the frustration over not having knitted it in such a way that it wouldn't need darning in the first place would outweigh the satisfaction of mending it.

<Re-reads sentence several times> Hm. I think that's what I mean.

It doesn't work that way with shed doors. There's no satisfaction in mending 'em, because you should have built 'em right in the first place.

There is, however, satisfation in using them once they're mended.

 

[Amanda P]

Ours get recycled by going back to the farm where the hens live. They wouldn't work if we stood on them first.

That "they" refers to the egg boxes, not the hens. Although come to think of it, they wouldn't work if we stood on them, either.

 

[Amanda P]

Oh, and Arch, why aren't you working?

Or have instructions to harangue over not working been countermanded now?

 

[Cranky]

A slow amble back from the pub on a dry winter's night, eating a hot bag of chips and sausage in batter, getting to the bottom of the bag just as I arrive at my front door.

 

[jay clock]

• tipping a whole load of peelings etc into the compost bin
• having all the washing in the spare room dried and folded into the basket BEFORE the next wet load arrives
• sex

 

[longers]

I used to have a job making a lot of stair parts among other things and turning a big fat spigot, fitting it in the newel you'd drilled and if it was a really good fit it would "pop" as you took it out again. That was good.

Very good

 

[Yanto]

West Ham and Wales winning
Listening to Springsteen

 

[yorkshiregoth]

Circumventing the restrictions that Apple put on the iPhone.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

Driving my car on a 2 lane road where the RH lane is for right turning only... only there's always some c*ck who thinks that it either doesn't apply to them or that they're too important to wait in the inevitable queue in the LH lane. So off they speed past everyone in the RH lane and then try to pull back into the LH lane further down... I do so enjoy watching them wait even longer as no-one lets them back in... you can actually see people making a special effort not to leave enough space for them... bliss...

 

[Dayvo]

No-one will probably admit to this, but having a really good and thorough clear-out of the nostrils!

 

[Arch]

Oh, and Arch, why aren't you working?

Or have instructions to harangue over not working been countermanded now?

I was at the Department filling in time between meeting a colleague (if I call her a colleague, it sounds less like we only met to drink tea and dandle her baby), and then seeing my supervisor...

This morning, I am really just about to start. Honest....

I suppose one can knit socks to be more robust - but I think industrial strength socks tend to use particularly robust yarn mixes. If I could afford real pure wool, they might do better, but most of my knitting is in acrylic. Also, my pattern is a fairly basic one, and I tend to wear socks to destruction...

Taking of eggs, the friend I met yesterday brought some eggs from her neighbour for me - they are so big, the box won't shut!

 

[Over The Hill]

Taking of eggs, the friend I met yesterday brought some eggs from her neighbour for me - they are so big, the box won't shut!

What about the poor chicken!

 

[Arch]

What about the poor chicken!

I'm trying not to think about that!

It's a free range chicken farm, and these are all the eggs that supermarkets won't take - sometimes because the shell has wrinkles or something or it's too elongated or too round, but these are just too big. Just goes to show how picky supermarket buying is - on the other hand, if they didn't reject them, I wouldn't get them for 75p a half dozen

 

[gratts]

Easing out a huge tonsil stone with a nice big knife.
I'm not sure much beats that for me