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This was sparked by Mallet's Mallet. where 'Blood Brothers' has come up.

My daughter reckons this is the only thing that makes her cry (bar frustration at her old Mum of course). She went to see it as part of her GCSE Drama course and has been several times since, and never wears mascara.

'The Incredible Journey' is the one that sets me off. The original film, the newer film or even reading the last chapter of the book, and away I go.

I cry at loads of other things (happy and sad) too but that is the worst.

You forgot 'onions' and that bit at the end of Blackadder Goes Forth

I don't tend to cry at the drop of the hat, so I haven't voted.

Sometimes I want to cry with rage over certain things, like that very sad disappearance in Portugal recently.

I'm a rotten hypocrite - all tough and GI Joe outside, but a pushover for anything even vaguely sentimental .... perhaps I don't get enough cuddles?

I'm a sentimental whatsit... I cry at anything!

Great Plum wrote:I'm a sentimental whatsit... I cry at anything!

aaaaahhhh. (me too)

I know what Marty means by 'that bit at the end of Blackadder goes forth' but it doesn't make me cry though it does bring a lump to my throat.

I cry a lot at good and bad, happy and sad, but currently I am crying at Moulin Rouge, Shakespeare in Love, the bit at the end of Doofus and his Amazing Multi-coloured Mac (with Donny Osmond) when he gets together with his brothers. And I was nearly hysterical with emotion when we saw Billy Elliot in London. It's pathetic really. I can't watch Children in Need or Comic Relief as the interspersed clips of the needy set me off. And the news (or lack of it) of Maddy McCann has me sobbing into my apron. The waterworks (at both ends, actually!) only started when I had my daughter. My maternal something-or-other was released with a vengeance.

cj wrote:I cry a lot at good and bad, happy and sad, but currently I am crying at Moulin Rouge, Shakespeare in Love, the bit at the end of Doofus and his Amazing Multi-coloured Mac (with Donny Osmond) when he gets together with his brothers. And I was nearly hysterical with emotion when we saw Billy Elliot in London. It's pathetic really. I can't watch Children in Need or Comic Relief as the interspersed clips of the needy set me off. And the news (or lack of it) of Maddy McCann has me sobbing into my apron. The waterworks (at both ends, actually!) only started when I had my daughter. My maternal something-or-other was released with a vengeance.

Oh dear, I have to agree with this too. PM for you cj.

At my sister's golden Wedding Anniversary party, a guest produced - surprise surprise - an old homemade film of her wedding. There was my beloved father, all dressed up to give her away.. oh no, I'm off again... how I miss him still.

Munch

Angela Woodford wrote:At my sister's golden Wedding Anniversary party, a guest produced - surprise surprise - an old homemade film of her wedding. There was my beloved father, all dressed up to give her away.. oh no, I'm off again... how I miss him still.

Munch

Oh no, you've set me off now, and I didn't even know him!!

Angela Woodford wrote:At my sister's golden Wedding Anniversary party, a guest produced - surprise surprise - an old homemade film of her wedding. There was my beloved father, all dressed up to give her away.. oh no, I'm off again... how I miss him still.

Munch

I can sympathise with this. After my mother died I could (eventually) cope with looking at photos of her, until my brother showed me one I hadn't seen before. A video must be much worse.

Thank you MKM and cj - thank you!

I think maybe what made me suddenly cry at the Golden Wedding Party was that it was a much younger version of my darling father - unexpected because I had never seen him like that before, as in 1956. My sister is 20 years older than I.

I can manage not to cry at occasions for which I have prepared myself.

It's the unexpected which can be so afflicting. Difficult. I feel for you seeing your mother's photograph, Mary!

Munch

i cry at everything, sometimes someone just has to look at me and i will burst into tears, most recently it was the new take that video, the film crash and tweezing skin rather than hair when plucking my eyebrows. This does not show just how easily i cry! Ben thought i was going to dehydrate when watching red nose day this year from all the tears

Angela Woodford wrote:Thank you MKM and cj - thank you!

I think maybe what made me suddenly cry at the Golden Wedding Party was that it was a much younger version of my darling father - unexpected because I had never seen him like that before, as in 1956. My sister is 20 years older than I.

I can manage not to cry at occasions for which I have prepared myself.

It's the unexpected which can be so afflicting. Difficult. I feel for you seeing your mother's photograph, Mary!

Munch

Mitch (cinematographer son) put together a DVD from video clips for his Big Sis' 21st. He did a great job, but overlooked the fact that during one clip of Jess eating my potted lemon grass (I had thought that the dogs were decimating it) my Dad's voice could be heard in the background - this had been Mum and Dad's last visit to Oz before his death

Airports make me cry - to some they are surely places of excitement and the gateway to exotic destinations, but to me they are places where you say goodbye to people. I always take a Lemon Essential Oil soaked tissue with me - amazing stuff, a good sniff drys up the tears like magic. Just have to be careful not to get it into the eyes ....................

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