YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011

[Gunilla]

Ah yes, Morris dancers. Thanks Anthony, I had forgotten the name.

[fermi de Sousa]

An Australian win at the World Cup!
I've just read it here, so it must be true: http://www.gardeningworldcup.com/
 
Too much construction and not enough garden for my taste, though
cheers
fermi

[Anthony Darby]

Not all black in the gardening world then?

[Martinr]

The fox got the rabbit

[Anthony Darby]

Go the All Blacks!

[daveyp1970]

Congratulations to the All Blacks superb win.

[Maggi Young]

I think the New Zealanders will be very happy with their win and making happy celebrations... on the other hand, our French forumists will likely be shrugging their shoulders, and then cheering themselves up with a great lunch!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Congrats to our friends from Down Under !! 

[David Nicholson]

Go the All Blacks!

He's sold out on his Yorkshireness and now he's sold out on his Britishness too

[David Nicholson]

I think the New Zealanders will be very happy with their win and making happy celebrations... on the other hand, our French forumists will likely be shrugging their shoulders, and then cheering themselves up with a great lunch!

.... or worrying how much of their savings it's going to take to prop up the Euro, again!!

[Anthony Darby]

I think the New Zealanders will be very happy with their win and making happy celebrations... on the other hand, our French forumists will likely be shrugging their shoulders, and then cheering themselves up with a great lunch!

.... or worrying how much of their savings it's going to take to prop up the Euro, again!!

Not so long ago it was almost 4 NZ$/£. Now it's less than 2! Those merchant bankers, who caused the problem, are still grabbing in increasing proportion of the pie, but, thanks to them, the pie is getting smaller and smaller. Alas, this corporate greed seems to have been British government policy for over 30 years. Also, as a Yorkshireman living in Scotland, I never really felt I could be British as I was always treated as English. When I first came here in 1963 aged 10 I was beaten up for being English! The hatred people felt was alien to me, who'd just moved from Loughborough, via Huddersfield. My best friend in Loughborough was Scottish, my best friend in Huddersfield was Russian. By the time I hit Stirling I had a broad Yorkshire accent, having lived there a year! I was greeting by my class "mate" with "where d'ye come fi?" "Sassanach!". At the Scotland v England match I wore a Scottish jersey and hat and was sad when they lost. Who knows, in a year or two we may retire to France?

[Lesley Cox]

Go the All Blacks!

He's sold out on his Yorkshireness and now he's sold out on his Britishness too

Hey, we're British too!

[Anthony Darby]

Absolutely, Lesley.

[alpines]

With apologies to the photograph copyright holders and Mastercard...but I couldn't resist it.

[ranunculus]

WONDERFUL