Good news thread

[Growler]

What with all the doom & gloom on the sporting front, revelations about ancient kiddy-fiddlers, bent journos, coppers and other people in positions of authority covering up/suppressing scandalous events of various kinds, religious cranks running amok all over the middle east, and never ending stories of chavs & bogans doing what chavs and bogans do .......

a chance to share things that have brightened your day and lifted the spirits

[Growler]

My son is 23 today, and he has just graduated with first class honours in electronic engineering. He's got about a month off before embarking on his PhD ...... looks like he may become a real boffin  .

Since he's the first in my immediate family to even attend university, let alone graduate - I can't express just how proud I am as a parent.

[skully]

Congrats to your boy, Growls. Good times!!   

From my perspective, good news can be summed up in 2 words - Mitchell Johnson.



























Please, please, please don't let this woof him!!!

[Big Dog]

My son is 23 today, and he has just graduated with first class honours in electronic engineering. He's got about a month off before embarking on his PhD ...... looks like he may become a real boffin  .

Since he's the first in my immediate family to even attend university, let alone graduate - I can't express just how proud I am as a parent.

Well done. It all bodes well for the future.
(he should be able to afford to put you into a decent nursing home when the time comes)   

[horace]

my mum turned 88 yesterday....which is peculiar given I am 2 millennia older than her ...but let that rest...my mum has been through all manner of trying events but remains an avid learner - she is a pest at U3A and still has that ability to drive me bonkers

[skully]

MHR to your dear Mum, h. 88, that's a good knock.   

[embee]

Babby Assassin got "satisfactory" for everything in her pre-primary term two report

was also Auskick player of the week on Sunday

[skully]

What's her full forward right foot like?

[Red]

I'm on holidays!  

[Red]

My son is 23 today, and he has just graduated with first class honours in electronic engineering. He's got about a month off before embarking on his PhD ...... looks like he may become a real boffin  .

Since he's the first in my immediate family to even attend university, let alone graduate - I can't express just how proud I am as a parent.

Good luck to him; may he use his education for good!

[horace]

MHR to your dear Mum, h. 88, that's a good knock.   

thanx S....the old horrorheadess still scares the carp out of me and consumes the plonk like no-ones business

[skully]

Man, that is fantastic news for your future. I trust you have the alcohol-absorbing, long-living genes of your Mum?   

[horace]

phurt....these days given the state of cricket, Oz and the rest of ragtag humanity I only consume gin cut with a bit of kero....any more and I will resemble Lenins tomb

[Bradman]

My son is 23 today, and he has just graduated with first class honours in electronic engineering. He's got about a month off before embarking on his PhD ...... looks like he may become a real boffin  .

Since he's the first in my immediate family to even attend university, let alone graduate - I can't express just how proud I am as a parent.

Congrats but wouldn't he get more money quicker in the private sector or is boffinhood a decent earner nowadays?

[JGK]

My daughter turns 6 on Monday.

[horace]

good for her Mr K

[tricycle]

Not really new, but my dad was cured of stage 1 cancer earlier this year. Was lucky to get an early sign

[taipan]

My son is 23 today, and he has just graduated with first class honours in electronic engineering. He's got about a month off before embarking on his PhD ...... looks like he may become a real boffin  .

Since he's the first in my immediate family to even attend university, let alone graduate - I can't express just how proud I am as a parent.

Congrats I know how you feel. My youngest finished his B.Com Hounours with distinction last year. My eldest has a B.Com in logistics.

[Hass]

I fly overseas for the start of a five-week holiday in America and Europe tomorrow.

First stop San Francisco. The highlight of the trip is my cousin's wedding in Copenhagen. She's marrying a hot Danish doctor - it's Mary and Frederick Mk II.

Her brother is also getting married later this year and I will be in the bridal party. I'm a sucker for a good wedding!

[skully]

My daughter turns 6 on Monday.

Crikey, where does the time go??!! Next week you'll be lamenting her first "boyfriend" showing at the front door!!

[skully]

I fly overseas for the start of a five-week holiday in America and Europe tomorrow.

First stop San Francisco. The highlight of the trip is my cousin's wedding in Copenhagen. She's marrying a hot Danish doctor - it's Mary and Frederick Mk II.

Her brother is also getting married later this year and I will be in the bridal party. I'm a sucker for a good wedding!

Have a grouse time, H.  

[Brass Monkey]

I've got some good news... it's Friday!!! Yeah! Wooo!

[taipan]

I've got some good news... it's Friday!!! Yeah! Wooo!

And what is never better is that I have the day off.

[Brass Monkey]

I can't go that far. I'm dealing with the Israelis nowadays. But the good news is that they love me and probably want my babies.

[LeFromage]

I watched The Grand Budapest Hotel the other day.

It was super.

Good news for me.

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