TWO years ago this week David Cameron and Nick Clegg launched their coalition government in a sun-dappled Downing Street garden, at a joint press conference so filled with smiles, jokes and shared glances that it was compared to a gay wedding.
Going from one room in which you are on the verge of tears, or actually crying with the family, and minutes later entering the next room filled with smiles and excitement takes a strength few can imagine.
Four years later, he remains sweet and filled with smiles.
The next few hours are filled with smiles and stares, handshakes and questions.
But, for every uncomfortable moment I had, there were 10 filled with smiles and fun conversations.
I certainly hope a good time was had by all; filled with smiles, celebrities, back-patting and guffaws all going on while Americans are beside themselves with fear and panic about their country's economy.
Every time I saw this person, we would strike up a conversation that was inordinately filled with smiles, and after the third or fourth of these exchanges, I made a mental note to ask him out.
Will you please finish the sentence, 'The change in the world I'd like to see is...'.?" Though first flushed, faces immediately filled with smiles and people became ecstatic to have the opportunity to voice their opinion in the excitement of this political overhaul.
It is a perfect family portrait, filled with smiling, happy faces on a mountain summit.
"All Hands," a creative mongrel of a show with bursts of inspiration, is about a secret society of vague purpose, filled with smiling members.
Now he lives in an apartment filled with smiling pictures of him and his wife wearing leather jackets and sunglasses, their wide 70's-styled collars open.
