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Reasons to be cheerful 2019 - the antidote to Curmudgeons' Corner

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  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Blimey! 4 stone - was giving up the booze the only change you made?

    My reason to be cheerful today - young people engaging with politics and activism :)


    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    giving up booze = giving up the crisps, peanuts, chunk of cheese/ pate etc etc which often went along with the booze.
    Devon.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Good point @LG_
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    That makes sense - giving up smoking often has the same sort of pattern (unless you replace the fags/ booze with food, of course). 4 stone is still an amazing amount!
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Reason be cheerful mk II - the school(s) being unexpectedly supportive of their striking students.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Agree about the engagement of the young, LG.  Let's hope they can get us out of the hole we've dug...

    Personal reason to be cheerful:  we're visiting our grandson (& his parents) tomorrow.   :)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    @Hostafan1 - I'm impressed!  Early days yet for me, don't know if I can keep it up.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    LG_ said:
    Reason be cheerful mk II - the school(s) being unexpectedly supportive of their striking students.
    Only because it gives the teachers a day off.  Most of the kids aren't interested in 'activism' or politics,  they just see it as an approved way to skive off for the day.  If they really care they will walk to and from school every day.
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Reason to be cheerful Mk III - none of the above is correct. The teachers don't get a day off, there are still hundreds of kids in school to be taught. In fact it inconveniences them quite a lot, so I found their supportiveness both surprising and heartening. I'm sure there are some kids who see it as a skive, there will always be opportunists. But from talking to many passionate, engaged and informed children I can assure you they mean what they say and deserve to be heard. There was a lot of integrity on the streets today.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    PS there are not many who live close enough to walk to school, but the vast majority get the train or bus. And that counts, I reckon :)
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
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