Best and Worst

Best:  Low cost, healthy and eco-friendly!

Worst:  Rain, punctures, scary drivers.  Having to cycle after a hard day at work.

Winter weatherr.

Best: hopefully get lots of snow

Worst: Just stays cold, dark, bleak and dreary

dictionaries

Best: help expand you vocabulary, are lovely for playing word games.
Worst: Aren't updated quickly enough.

Forums

Best: very very informative and fun

Worst: People misreading or overreading responses due to lack of 'body language', tone, etc

Judge Judy

Best - When she gets extremely irritated with people, that show is so funny sometimes

Worst - The re-runs.. I find that they show a lot of the really old episodes in the UK




British TV shows

Best: when there actually are some being broadcast. Yeah, Peep Show is back!

Worst: canned laughter and obvious gag set ups.



Christmas shopping.

Christmas shopping.

Best:  getting it done and over with, preferably online.
Worst:  just about everything.

Ok, where's the Ebenezer Scrooge smiley?

Having a real fire in the fireplace.

Best:  Nothing better than coming in from the cold and seeing the dancing flames and feeling the warmth.

Worst:  Bringing in more wood from out in the cold.


Fresh flowers.

Best:  So pretty and lovely smelling.
Worst:  When they die and the water they've been sitting in gets all yucky.

Indoor houseplants

Worst:  When they die and the water they've been sitting in gets all yucky.

So true!!

Best: When they are healthy and well tended they are a lovely addition to a room.

Worst:  When they are not well cared and dieing and people still keep them around.

Cable/Satellite TV

Best: Being able to watch Law&Order any time of day or night
Worst: The most annoying commercials ever aired.

(I didn't read back very far so forgive me if this is old hat)
Candles

Best: Being able to watch Law&Order any time of day or night
Worst: The most annoying commercials ever aired.

(I didn't read back very far so forgive me if this is old hat)
Candles

Best: When you get some that just smell amazing (fig, clove, cinnamon)
Worst: Cheap, sweet smelling ones, or the fact that they can get a bit messy.

Wrapping presents

Best:  Being finished.

Worst:  Trying to get the ends to look even and pretty.

A cloudy day.

Hmmm, the only best thing I can think of is if it has been super hot and sunny (not likely here in the UK) for days on end, then a cloudy day would be a nice reprieve.

Worst would be the blahs that can come from too many of them.

A good old fashioned American thunder and lightning storm.

Seeing one! (They weren't common where I grew up near SF, either!)
worrying about a surge frying your computer.

Christmas Carols