What's making you smile today?

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Steve NordRunner Nov 2022 12:01pm, 29 Nov 2022 2,300 posts	0 Steve NordRunner You have point, Raemondo, but over here (Norway) even fizzy drinks machines are contactless so I use my Garmin to pay (which never leaves my wrist 🙂). I don't think I have used a note, let alone coins, since … before lockdown, anyway.
Raemond Nov 2022 12:58pm, 29 Nov 2022 9,828 posts	0 Raemond Yeah, vending machines in Belgium and NL are mostly contactless now too, it's just the good old fashioned coin meter on the washer and dryer that I'm aware of. I suppose the commercial launderettes may also still take coins, but I haven't checked. Other smiling news: we've managed to book our number one pick sexy science celeb for an event we're putting on next year. The whole team is doing little victory dances about it.
Sigh Nov 2022 3:54pm, 29 Nov 2022 17,935 posts	0 Sigh In our road, I am this week's 'binfluencer' (first person to put the bins out, thereby reminding neighbours which one is being emptied so they can follow)
LazyDaisy Nov 2022 8:32am, 30 Nov 2022 37,312 posts	0 LazyDaisy Following on from last week's 'dressing up as Christmas presents' by the sopranos in choir, last night they came as a Nativity scene They found the beards a bit of a hindrance
lammo Nov 2022 8:54am, 30 Nov 2022 11,681 posts	0 lammo Wow, great to see somebody else has a duck money box, i was given mine when i was born by my great gran, full of 50p's (the largest coin denomination at the time). Mine looks more like the Birmingham version. It had a ribbon round its neck, not sure where it is now, i'll have to have a think and a look. Thanks for the good memories
Steve NordRunner Nov 2022 9:23am, 30 Nov 2022 2,305 posts	0 Steve NordRunner lammo there also appears to be a line under the name Leonard, of Hong Kong. Hereis is a rather nice one complete with the knitwear and a christening cup. ebay.com
lammo Nov 2022 12:25pm, 30 Nov 2022 11,682 posts	0 lammo Thanks NordRundeer🦌, i don't think mine has such a long neck, but i'll have to find it first
Eynsham Red Nov 2022 12:44pm, 30 Nov 2022 9,242 posts	0 Eynsham Red The irony that I’m signed up to Telephone Preference Service, which theoretically should mean that I don’t receive unsolicited phone calls (but I do) and received a call this morning from somebody from the National Call Blocking Service who apparently stop spam calls. I politely said goodbye 😀
Groundhog Nov 2022 3:24pm, 30 Nov 2022 5,021 posts	0 Groundhog Diogenes 's phone joke on the previous page - nobody seemed to notice, so here I am.
Diogenes Nov 2022 3:44pm, 30 Nov 2022 74,711 posts	0 Diogenes Thanks Groundhog I reused it in a blog where it received greater attention.