Trivial things that please you beyond all expectations

[Andy in Germany]

Today I cycled through a local village and passed the old school which is a very impressive building with high ceilinged rooms, now a kindergarten.

As part of the rebuilding some absolute legend had the brilliant idea of making a tube slide from the very high first floor to go around a corner of the building and into a playground in the garden. It even had portholes.

 

[lazybloke]

Pleased as punch tonight because my son has just had an easily achievable offer from his first choice of uni.

 

[Gunk]

Pleased as punch tonight because my son has just had an easily achievable offer from his first choice of uni.

My son has received an offer from Durham but it’s not easily achievable

 

[lazybloke]

My son has received an offer from Durham but it’s not easily achievable

That sounds better than the offer I received from Nottingham which was so absurd I could only conclude they hated me. I did okay(ish) at Leeds instead. Best of luck for the other offers...

 

[lazybloke]

Something that pleases me way beyond expectations is a well organised sock drawer, with no 'oddies'.
It needs a regular sorting out, at least quarterly: chuck out any that are: odd, old, worn, too thin, uncomfortable, etc.

 

[Jameshow]

Something that pleases me way beyond expectations is a well organised sock drawer, with no 'oddies'.
It needs a regular sorting out, at least quarterly: chuck out any that are: odd, old, worn, too thin, uncomfortable, etc.

Emptied a bed side table which has 5 drawers lots of stuff old cards, batteries ones Allen keys, cycling weeklys etc etc.
Thought this would make a good filing cabinet!

 

[lazybloke]

Emptied a bed side table which has 5 drawers lots of stuff old cards, batteries ones Allen keys, cycling weeklys etc etc.
Thought this would make a good filing cabinet!

Aka The old drawer of tat. I have one* of them too.

*Actually 10 of them. Plus that 6' cupboard i got from work. And those boxes under the bed. Oh, there's the loft, and the deepest recesses of the wardrobes.

I like to think i keep far less tat than my wife does.... But maybe i'm just better at hiding it.

 

[matticus]

I like to think i keep far less tat than my wife does.... But maybe i'm just better at hiding it.

The secret to a happy marriage.

 

[mistyoptic]

Awesome customer service from Cole & Mason.

I enquired about buying a spare part for an old pepper mill, which had been dropped one time too many. After a few back and forth emails, they’ve offered a replacement pair of mills under their “lifetime warranty”. I bought the original pair in 2006!

not that trivial but very pleasing

 

[matticus]

Awesome customer service from Cole & Mason.

I enquired about buying a spare part for an old pepper mill, which had been dropped one time too many. After a few back and forth emails, they’ve offered a replacement pair of mills under their “lifetime warranty”. I bought the original pair in 2006!

not that trivial but very pleasing

I've never heard of this fine corporation, but that does sound very pleasing.

 

[Gillstay]

Awesome customer service from Cole & Mason.

I enquired about buying a spare part for an old pepper mill, which had been dropped one time too many. After a few back and forth emails, they’ve offered a replacement pair of mills under their “lifetime warranty”. I bought the original pair in 2006!

not that trivial but very pleasing

A very rare thing. The only firm i know like that is Felco secateurs who refurbish them so well you cannot recognise they were yours. Under guarantee.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

I made a bird box over the weekend and put it up yesterday. Today I spotted a blue tit investigating it. Amazing how quickly they've found it.

 

[matticus]

Seeing whiteVanMan smash into a pothole as he sped into a flood across the road.
(the very same pothole had been reported on "Spotted" this morning, in a thread about the flood. This somehow made the incident all the more pleasing )

 

[Jameshow]

I made a bird box over the weekend and put it up yesterday. Today I spotted a blue tit investigating it. Amazing how quickly they've found it.

At the end of my long 20 mile run on Sunday a white owl flew in circles about 50m in front of me for about half a mile - amazing!!

 

[Chris S]

I've finally found a use for the mirror that came with my bicycle. I can use it to see what I'm doing when I shave the back of my neck.