5 pet delights, In contrast to room 101 Options

[inigo]

Just for a contrast, I wonder what people's five favorite things are (but whiskers on kittens and brown paper packages tied up with string etc etc aren't allowed! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) )

Some of mine are
1)aubergines
2)baroque trumpets
3)that scent new babies have,
4)Autumn
5)Hot bath+ good book+ glass of red+ unlimited time
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[jazzycat]

Good idea!

A random five, and in no particular order:

Chocolate
Spring flowers
Sunshine
Ducks
The sea

[corenfa]

1. My current state of good health
2. The company of people who really "get" you - whether old friends, family, or simply people who "get" you even if you haven't known them that long
3. Nice food. Doesn't have to be fancy, could be just a really good cheese on toast when you really want cheese on toast.
4. Bach (probably on someone's room 101 list (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif))
5. Cats (probably also on someone's room 101 list)

[DaisyChain]

1. The smell of freshly mown grass.

2. Singing lessons

3. Beethoven

4. Charlie (my cat...with you on that one, corenfa! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) )

5. White chocolate. (Though have given it up for Lent).

[viola-mad]

1. Violas (obviously)
2. My sister (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
3. Chocolate
4. Relaxing
5. Trying to stifle a laugh at something inappropriate

Actually, it was harder to keep to 5 on this one than it was on the Room 101 thread!

[DaisyChain]

5. Trying to stifle a laugh at something inappropriate

I do this too! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Actually, it was harder to keep to 5 on this one than it was on the Room 101 thread!

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[Susie]

1. Sheepdogs

2. Fungus

3. the seaside, preferably with rockpools, lots of time to spare, and not too many people on the beach

4. Allegri's Miserere sung well

5. being at home with no worries about having to do something for some-one else (eg on snowy days, no one expects you to go out and do things) so you can just potter

[gwyntdi-enw]

1. New lambs each spring

2. Spring bulbs flowering

3. Rainbows

4. Autumn leaves

5. Dartmoor


If I could have six, cheese would definitely get a mention!

[Lee King]

1. Sustainably sourced and ethically farmed meat and produce

2. Pianos and absolutely everything to do with them

3. The sights sounds and smells of Christmas

4. People who don't judge on grounds of creed colour or nationality

5. John Lewis

[barry-clari]

1. Clarinets

Which of course you'd expect me to say, but there isn't an instrument that can compare really, is there? The most versatile woodwind instrument there is.

2. Fruit

All yummy. All of them. I don't so much go for 5 a day as around about 25 a day (IMG:style_emoticons/default/yay.gif)

3. London buses

Not the current breed of boxes on wheels, the lovely sleek graceful Routemasters etc. of old. I have models of these, but I want a real one of my own (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

4. Scrabble

Quite simply the greatest board game ever invented. If you don't know your gu from your gi, or your lox from your lex, you haven't lived. I give it a triple word score and a 50 point bonus (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

5. BBC 4

Proof that some TV channels have both class, entertainment and interest in abundance. Come on BBC, give it more money! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[ansatz496]

Trying not to post much in the cafe, but this thread is just too irresistible (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) My top 5:

1. Understanding a difficult or elusive concept well enough to explain it to someone else
2. Dark chocolate
3. Relaxing with close friends or family with whom I can be entirely myself
4. <insert current favorite composer> This can vary hourly, but Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms and Debussy are regulars
5. Being part of an orchestral performance that comes together well, particularly the climactic or especially quiet, delicate moments

[anacrusis]

A much nicer thread, this one (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Soaringly beautiful music, well played, in a good acoustic (and if it's Bach, so much the better).

The trusting snuggle, with no ulterior motives, of a small child.

The company of a kindred spirit, whose presence is so comfortable that one doesn't have to fill the gaps with talk, but whose conversation is absorbing and stimulating if one is talking.

The joy of a job well done, be that music played as one hears it inside, wallpaper applied without wrinkles, the making of a loaf of bread which vanishes in a trice, or a consultation at work in which it is evident that the patient leaves feeling better than when they came in.

The moment in laughter when one no longer knows if this is laughing or crying: all that is certain is there will be achy muscles the next day....

[heslop01]

1. Adele {Laurie Blue Adkins} <3 - Yes i'm a stalker fan (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

2. Being in choir

3. Feeling instrumental music through the sounds (thanks to some modules i've done at uni.)

4. Feeling vocal music through the lyrics I hear (thanks again to sound tech. and meaning in music modules)

5. On course for graduation in July (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)

[Tenor Viol]

3. London buses

Not the current breed of boxes on wheels, the lovely sleek graceful Routemasters etc. of old. I have models of these, but I want a real one of my own (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Bizarrely, driving to work this moring through the country lanes of Aston Juxta Mondrum (only England could have village names composed of a mixture of Anglo-Saxon and Latin (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) ) Going the other way were:

a) a Bentley open top on a test drive from the Crewe factory (fairly common sight)
b) a London Routemaster bus (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)

[liseypeasy]

1. Someone else having done the washing up of their own initiative
2. Steaming plate of beef in red wine and lightly spiced casserole with mash and veg on a cold day
3. Long, open landscapes, big sky and dramatic mountains (with autumn leaves and sunsets and a lone fiddler on the horizon playing a longing, wistful lament to golden days gone by added bonus)
4. Anything that waddles as a matter of course (just walking babies, small but chubby dogs, ducks, etc)
5. Ballet