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Great things that happen.

HugalHugal Shipmate
in Heaven
We all need some positivity at the moment. What are the great things that have happened to you, big or small.
I will start. We are at Hanada airport flying home after a great holiday in Japan. Premium Economy is over booked so BA bumped us up to Business Class.
What is your great thing

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  • SojournerSojourner Shipmate
    That’s hard to beat. Safe travels home.
  • SparrowSparrow Shipmate
    The barista at my local coffee shop gave me a free pastry with my coffee yesterday.
  • SandemaniacSandemaniac Shipmate
    We've just been sent free tickets to see Miss Saigon tonight, friends can't go as their kids are poorly.
  • Sicut CervusSicut Cervus Shipmate
    We are travelling and on Thursday I dropped the motel door key card at a restaurant and when I went back it was still there. Black card on a black floor helped.
    Today the car started to give messages about needing more petrol, but we made the 50 ks on the Hay plain to the next petrol station.
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    I have a working washing machine! I was given a washing machine (the lady who owned it was moving to live with her daughter), so I contacted a plumber who had done work for me before, and he said he'd come round....
    Two months later, I asked another plumber I know - he gets his plumbing supply parcels delivered to our shop, because we're always there to take them in - and again, he said he'd come round....
    This didn't really matter, because the launderette is just up the road - but then their boiler blew up! So I really was stuck.
    I wrote a pathetic little note and stuck it on the latest parcel - and, bless him, he came round the next day and sorted everything out!
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    Small things every day. We only moved here three years ago but feel so settled with so many lovely friends.

    Blessed indeed.
  • Graven ImageGraven Image Shipmate
    I have been ill, and my dear daughter-in-law has come to stay with me for several days and has been a second set of eyes and ears to my doctor visits. We were able to gain her access to all future medical records. I feel so much better having someone knowledgeable to help me make medical decisions. As an added blessing, I enjoy her company.
  • Lamb ChoppedLamb Chopped Shipmate
    My son and I had to go get the Christmas tree on our own, as Mr Lamb is helping a friend who had a major car accident. We needed a small tree that could fit on the table, and I had doubts about the one we chose, but when we got it set up, the top came to within an inch below the ceiling. So thankful. I really didn't want to get the saw out!
  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    We may be on the move early next year and there's a plant in our garden that is of great sentimental value to me. I was planning to take it with us but it looked as though it had died. However, when I looked at it yesterday there were some tiny new shoots just showing above the ground after all. I took this as a positive sign.
  • Gill HGill H Shipmate
    Our local Facebook Hub is often a source of useful info, and most posters on it are decent people.
    Recently there have been posts about a couple made homeless through no fault of their own. Within days, people have found them a caravan, warm bedding, a TV and covered their immediate needs. Someone has offered to deliver them a cooked Christmas dinner. Others are looking for work for them.
    Of course there have been a few negative posters, but the vast majority have supported this couple. I am so glad I live in a community where people are made welcome.
  • CathscatsCathscats Shipmate
    That is so lovely @Gill H
  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    I’ve been invited to Christmas Eve dinner with one friend and his mother, and to Christmas Day dinner with another friend and his mother. 🥰
  • SparrowSparrow Shipmate
    edited December 22
    Gill H wrote: »
    Our local Facebook Hub is often a source of useful info, and most posters on it are decent people.
    Recently there have been posts about a couple made homeless through no fault of their own. Within days, people have found them a caravan, warm bedding, a TV and covered their immediate needs. Someone has offered to deliver them a cooked Christmas dinner. Others are looking for work for them.
    Of course there have been a few negative posters, but the vast majority have supported this couple. I am so glad I live in a community where people are made welcome.

    We have a fantastic Whatsapp community in my area, just a few streets in suburban London. It was started during lockdown as a way of helping people who needed prescriptions collecting, shopping done etc, and it has grown to so much more. Need a recommendation for a builder, plumber, ask if anyone has seen your missing cat, finding dropped keys, can anyone lend a child's Halloween costume, or warning that the area is being targeted by car theft, and so on. It's brought together a suburban community where in so many cases nowadays people generally don't know their next door neighbours. We even have street parties for special events like the Coronation or the VE day celebrations.
  • The RogueThe Rogue Shipmate
    Lamb Chopped wrote: »
    My son and I had to go get the Christmas tree on our own, as Mr Lamb is helping a friend who had a major car accident. We needed a small tree that could fit on the table, and I had doubts about the one we chose, but when we got it set up, the top came to within an inch below the ceiling. So thankful. I really didn't want to get the saw out!

    Years ago a friend's family did end up with a tree that was too tall and they cut off the top and set it up in the bedroom directly above.
  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    The Rogue wrote: »
    Lamb Chopped wrote: »
    My son and I had to go get the Christmas tree on our own, as Mr Lamb is helping a friend who had a major car accident. We needed a small tree that could fit on the table, and I had doubts about the one we chose, but when we got it set up, the top came to within an inch below the ceiling. So thankful. I really didn't want to get the saw out!

    Years ago a friend's family did end up with a tree that was too tall and they cut off the top and set it up in the bedroom directly above.

    I’ve seen a tree cut in half with each half decorated as if it’s passing through a pair of circular portals, one blue and one orange, from a video game called (shockingly) Portal.
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    One of my recurrent joys is the discovery that the interior length of my car (a VW GTI) is almost exactly the same as the height of the ceiling in my house. As a result, any tree that can't fit in the car, by definition, cannot fit in the house. This year's version was particularly good. It slid into the car comfortably, and when set up in the house had about 2 inches of clearance.
  • Stercus TauriStercus Tauri Shipmate
    Basically the same car here and yes - it will take an 8ft tree, or a 9ft one if the tree and the front seat passenger are reasonably flexible. It was only 7ft this year, so it was easy.
  • CactusCactus Shipmate Posts: 15
    Someone gave me their shopping trolley when I didn't have a coin to unlock one . (I was at the supermarket for the last big shop before Christmas) I almost wept with gratitude
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    Cactus wrote: »
    Someone gave me their shopping trolley when I didn't have a coin to unlock one . (I was at the supermarket for the last big shop before Christmas) I almost wept with gratitude

    Useful tip should this occur again and there be no saviour available - a round headed key works rather well.
  • Gramps49Gramps49 Shipmate
    This is a great tiding. We had neighbors move in a couple of years ago. Mrs Gramps greeted them with some homemade banana bread. They thanked us, but after that, we really have had little contact. I have spoken to them a couple of times when they are out in the yard and I was walking past. A couple of weeks ago one of their trees fell in our back yard, taking out a shed and cutting off our electricity. The neighbor immediately came over and exchanged phone numbers. We have filed claim for the shed and the electricity has been restored. He and his wife came over, and helped clean up our back yard. While a major part of the tree fell in our yard, and, technically, we could have kept the wood, we told them they could have it. They heat by wood, we don't. As I had said elsewhere, I had a back procedure done yesterday. When we came home, we found a small tin of cookies on our deck table. We thought we might have a secret Santa some where in the neighborhood. This morning, I got a message from this neighbor saying the cookies came from them. I immediately replied thanking them for the cookies. We are thinking about inviting them over for New Years dinner now.

    Interesting how calamities can bring people together.
  • LydaLyda Shipmate
    That is a great tiding! Have a very Merry Christmas!
  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    I survived Christmas day with the fambly without a melt-down. We went to the local COE 8 O'clock church service which proved to be .... wait for it .... 1662 BCP! Wow, PTL! Managed quality time with grandchildern. Now home with lots of loot. Time to put Bach's first Christmas Oratorio on the HiFi ....
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