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# A list of wonderful things
* Unexpectedly seeing an owl
* Socks that are not too tight and not too loose
* Whistling and finding you've found the exact pitch that makes the bed harmonically resonate
* A baby squeezing your finger
* Putting on a coat you haven't worn all summer and finding money in the pocket
* Burgundy
* TV coverage of piglets
* Doing a poo that comes out so smooth that a quick wipe leaves the toilet paper unsoiled
* Finding a tabloid you would never buy -but secretly love- on a tube train
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:51, archived)
# Perfect list.
s'all.
(I helped save b3ta! ilovemy5dollarhorse All things considered, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:52, archived)
# i never see owls
:(
(I helped save b3ta! Sunshine Elephant, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:52, archived)
# There's a usually a barn owl on one of the roads near here
Although you hear it more times than you see it.

It's always a surprise to see, 'cause you never hear it when it's flying around.
(Astatine, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:52, archived)
# don't get owls round here.
plenty of squirrels though.
(I helped save b3ta! Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:54, archived)
# theres this wood near me
where all you see is bloody owls and the occasional badger.
(I helped save b3ta! The Doctor Why is it big and why is there grass?, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:56, archived)
# BADGER
(I helped save b3ta! Bitchpapa, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 1:00, archived)
# theyre feathers are specially shaped
to make minimal air turbulence and reduce noise
(I helped save b3ta! Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:57, archived)
# I see dead people.
(vork and burlap, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:55, archived)
# how lovely.
make a website:
www.listofwonderfulthings.com
(I helped save b3ta! Or is it?, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:52, archived)
# I like the sound of the poo one......
can I have one of those?
(Nelly, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:53, archived)
# I concur with most of those.
you could add "or a fox" after "seeing an owl".
(I helped save b3ta! Bitchpapa, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:53, archived)
# City foxes are a bit scary though . .
Mangy buggers mostly too . . .
(I helped save b3ta! Tabazan - Stoneage Dinosaur, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:55, archived)
# Better than the scabby cat next door

(Nelly, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:59, archived)
# Rather a few kilos of fox in the neighbourhood
than several kilos of rat.
(Astatine, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 1:00, archived)
# True . . .
The foxes around here are too lazy to go after rats though, they've found it's much easier to wait for you to put the bin bags out then it's fox party time . . the amount of rubbish strewn down our street on bin day is amazing .
(I helped save b3ta! Tabazan - Stoneage Dinosaur, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 1:03, archived)
# Don't the council
give you big enough bins?
(Astatine, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 1:04, archived)
# only posh places
get council bins.
mots of us just but black bags at the end of our drives.
(I helped save b3ta! Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 1:05, archived)
# Drives ??
That's a bit posh isn't it :o)

We're lucky to have a garden path round here !
(I helped save b3ta! Tabazan - Stoneage Dinosaur, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 1:08, archived)
# A mile from Sheffield city centre
ain't that posh.
(Astatine, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 1:08, archived)
# Trouble is we have those
wheelie bins now, so the Foxes suffer
(Nelly, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 1:05, archived)
# While driving out near Carron Valley...
...I turned a corner to find a family of three Highland Cows blocking the road.

The horns on the bull scared me a bit, but it was a fantastic thing just to sit and watch them for 10 mins until they moved.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:55, archived)
# really?
i honk my horn and aim for the calves.
(I helped save b3ta! Reverend Dan, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:58, archived)
# Those are soft southern cows though...
...these bastards are pissed up on Buckfast and will knife you if you mess with them.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 1:00, archived)
# are you trying to somehow convince me
that scottish cows are better?
(I helped save b3ta! Reverend Dan, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 1:03, archived)
# No...
...they are just alcoholics.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 1:04, archived)
# i see.
(I helped save b3ta! Reverend Dan, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 1:05, archived)
# I agree
seeing a fox is a thrill.

I saw fox cubs playing and biting each others tails once. It was magic.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:56, archived)
# Couple of years ago
I was walking home at two in the morning, and realised I was walking past a fox. Bloody great thing, four feet nose-to-tail, six feet away from me. I stopped, it stopped, and we spent five minutes staring at each other. Then I got bored and went home to bed.
(Astatine, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:59, archived)
# I assume . .
Not with the fox ?
(I helped save b3ta! Tabazan - Stoneage Dinosaur, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 1:04, archived)
# Nah,
I don't go for that kind of fox, as it were.
(Astatine, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 1:05, archived)
# similiar thing
happened to me - didnt leave me feeling in any way unsatisfied though.
(I helped save b3ta! Alfie, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 1:04, archived)
# It was two in the morning
and I was tired and slightly drunk. The first few minutes of staring at a fox are great. Five minutes standing there is overdoing it.
(Astatine, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 1:06, archived)
# Then Lord Poffington of Smetheswick arrived
and performed equestrian upon their spines.
(I helped save b3ta! hazzamon I've nothing better to do, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 1:04, archived)
# If all those things happened in one day,
there'd be no reason to live any more. It'd all be downhill from there.
(I helped save b3ta! Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:53, archived)
# taking off your shoes after a long day being dragged round the shops
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:54, archived)
# i
once walked under a low tree and looked up to the squawking i heard over head... i saw an falcon or some shit...
no joke... in the centre of a city or some shit...
(bazooker, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:55, archived)
# I don't understand
Was it a falcon or faeces?
And were you in a city or standing in poo?
You seem unsure.
(I helped save b3ta! Nikfuf Eetr Northern Midlander, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:56, archived)
# we get all sorts here...
Foxes damn near live in the garden...we've had badgers, doves, wood pigeons the size of footballs and, at one point, a peregrine falcon tried to carry one off - couldn't even lift the fat pigeon over the shed, so it dropped it on it's head and buggered off...
It's a regular David Attenborough documentary every night.
Foxes scream quite well too - get two of them having a row and it sounds like there's a murder going on...
Then again, the murders are pretty quiet round here - consideration for the neighbours :D
(Chad, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 1:44, archived)
# That's not my finger.
(I helped save b3ta! Baz Fuck off, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:56, archived)
# trust you
ho ho
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:57, archived)
# I always have trouble explaining to my girlfriend the strange autocomplete options that come up
after visiting this site.
(I helped save b3ta! Baz Fuck off, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 1:00, archived)
# harhar.
sick watermelon.
(I helped save b3ta! Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:58, archived)
# And also:
* Getting a couple of friends to go out with each other because they were being wet lettuces and wouldn't ask each other, then a few months later having drinks bought for you in thanks.

* Opening a window to let a wasp out, and it obligingly flies out first time.

* Waking up under a ray of sunlight.
(Astatine, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:57, archived)
# also.
throwing something at a bin from a distance and it going in after rebounding or bouncing about on the rim.
(I helped save b3ta! Bitchpapa, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 0:57, archived)
# Another magical thing
I was in the woods..a very small woods around a quarry. I was playing with my dog. We were racing up and down paths and I was trying to keep her from finding me. I heard her running on a path to the side of mine and at the point that they crossed, I jumped out to scare her and came face to face with a large deer. We stood frozen for a second and then it leaped past me and plunged down the steep side of the quarry, into the water at the bottom. It swam all the way across and climbed up the other side and ran into the woods once more.
( I also saw three baby foxes there once)
(I helped save b3ta! Artamnesia, Thu 20 Nov 2003, 1:43, archived)