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Posted 28 Mar 2024 at 14:52

Wow , love all these stories. It’s like we are really getting to know each other. Rather than just what treatment we are on… 

I’ve known you a while now Lyn but that story was a big surprise πŸ‘. 

I bought my girlfriend a car for her 17th birthday … does that count πŸ€”. Dirty Gerty - the car not the girlfriend… 

Then i bought her a better car for her 18th.  A one year old Cortina Mk4 in bright red. 

Did I spoil her , yes I did and I don’t regret it one bit. Still married after 43 years now πŸ‘

Cant think what I’ve done that scared me the most πŸ€”… 

Cheers, 

Phil

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Posted 28 Mar 2024 at 15:06

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member

Cant think what I’ve done that scared me the most πŸ€”… 

Her reaction when you didn't buy her a better car on her 19th? πŸ˜†

We blokes do make a rod for our own backs. I made the mistake of buying mine Chanel No5 on our first Valentines. A custom she's never let me stop. 

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Posted 28 Mar 2024 at 15:13

Her reaction when you didn't buy her a better car on her 19th? πŸ˜†

We got married when she was 19 😁. Then I bought her a 6 month old MG Metro and then shortly after a brand new Suzuki SJ410 Jeep. 

Yes definitely a rod for our own backs.

Years ago when mortgages were 18% - remember that ? We struggled as we’d just bought a nice big house - eek. I sold my beloved RS2000 I’d had from new and bought a multi coloured old Nissan Sunny Estate and the wife refused to go in it 🀦‍β™€οΈπŸ€£ Can’t say I blame her actually, but I had in over 2 years just to spite everyone that hated it … 🀷‍♂️

Phil

 

Edited by member 28 Mar 2024 at 15:14  | Reason: Not specified

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Posted 29 Mar 2024 at 12:32

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member
My neighbour has a harley-ish motorbike, think it's a yamaha v-twin

Don't ever say that to a HD rider - they will beat you to a pulp! 

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

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Posted 29 Mar 2024 at 12:34

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member
Have you got any faults? (Other than not drinking?)

I smoke like a chimney and make a living by making grown men cry

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

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Posted 29 Mar 2024 at 12:36

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member
30 years ago he bought a Z200 which he rode occasionally and is going to be his retirement restoration project! It’s now officially a classic bike qualifying for free tax as it’s over 40 years old!

Brilliant - will be fantastic if he ever gets time to do it!  

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

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Posted 29 Mar 2024 at 15:36

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I smoke like a chimney and make a living by making grown men cry

A bit like a dominatrix?

 

 

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Posted 30 Mar 2024 at 01:26

Just putting it out there, for once and probably one time only the mighty Bantams finally won a game today, albeit on a sandpit pitch. Now up to the dizzy heights of 14 th in the 4 th division - Wiooppeee!. Can it possibly get any better than this?

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Posted 30 Mar 2024 at 07:10

Hi, Spongebob.

I've being reading your profile story. It's brilliant!  A reet riveting read. πŸ‘πŸ‘.Your last update was over a couple of weeks ago are you still continuing to recover and regaining your fitness. I presume, by the timing of your post here, your still struggling a bit with disturbed sleep. 

Although it probably means nowt to you; by reading your tale, and seeing how your coping, has helped me enormously.

Cheers pal.

Edited by member 30 Mar 2024 at 09:48  | Reason: Typo

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Posted 30 Mar 2024 at 12:24

Hi Adrian, 

I’m chuffed to bits that you’ve read my bio and even more so if you have found it helpful. I hadn’t realised that I’d written so much, I reckon you deserve a medal for reading it all 😬.

I was up late last night, overdoing it on the Hopp and vine 🍺🍷. We ended up watching an old Al Murray ‘Pub Landlord’ show. We found it so funny. So good to have a really really good laugh.

Yes, I’m due to put another update on. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks mostly taking stock of where I’m at. I guess most of us will probably spend a lot of time doing that. Mind you my conclusions are really that I increasingly feel like a really old git creaking at the seams, and still have the same symptoms I started off with and more.

It’s a glorious day here today β˜€οΈ I hope it is where you are too and that you are making the most of it.

cheers

Spongebob

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Posted 30 Mar 2024 at 15:38

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Mind you my conclusions are really that I increasingly feel like a really old git creaking at the seams, and still have the same symptoms I started off with and more.

It’s a glorious day here today β˜€οΈ I hope it is where you are too and that you are making the most of it.

My sentiments exactly, I feel like an old clapped out car.

Its a lovely day here, on the East coast. Had  4 or 5 bevvies in the back garden, life's not bad today. πŸ‘

 

 

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Posted 31 Mar 2024 at 20:45

Re Jethro Tull. I will let you know how it goes. They are my wifes favourite band and I have always liked them too. Never been to Symphony Hall in Brum so the sound should be good at least. Hope you all are having a good Easter. We have our family coming  tomorrow for a roast dinner so really looking forward to us all being together. Enjoy the rest of the Easter break.

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Posted 02 Apr 2024 at 15:11

Lovely story, we took her on a med cruise after GCSEs when she was 16 and she met a boy on the ship from Portsmouth, we got on really well with his family…so they kept in touch and visits were arranged, then two years later she went to Guildford uni (only an hour away from him) five years later they bought a house in Portsmouth, got married December 21 and had baby six months ago….they are both 30 this year and we are all cruising again (his parents too) to celebrate!

That is so lovely… isn’t fate amazing  πŸ₯° 

I met my missus in a Pub with her friend. They’d decided they should go out one night but was their first time in a pub on their own. I had called my mate that night as I was bored ( just got back from working in Germany) and we went to that same pub. Soon as I walked in I was OMG I have to get over to that lovely shy girl but my mate was a bit useless 🀦‍♀️.  Dragged him over eventually and after chatting found out they were only 15 ( nearly 16! ) 😳… And I was just turned 24… Turned out they both lived on Canvey like us so offered them a lift home. As we walked outside to get in my car the girls went to get in an old Morris 1000 next to mine. I said this is my car - I had a brand new Capri in white with brown tints and AllyCat wheels. Turns out my girl had told her friend that one day she’d have a boyfriend with a white Capri. 🀷‍♂️. Still together after all these years and with a few people saying it wouldn’t last. 

Phil

 

 

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Posted 02 Apr 2024 at 22:12

Well I agree with fate being amazing.

The girl upstairs

Cast your mind back to 1978 for those of you who are as old as me >>>>> πŸ’­. Thats supposed to be a dream!

I had met my future wife briefly  before we were together as we had mutual friends. I had no idea that she was moving in to the flat above mine and was surprised when I came back from work quite late one night ( I worked shifts in a childrens home then ) and heard her call out ' would you like to come up for a cup of tea'. Well I NEVER drink tea and had just been to the pub to get a couple of beers to have and relax with some music before going to bed.  As I did not want to be  rude I went upstairs and told her that I didn't like tea but would she like to share a beer with me. To my surprise she immediately said yes and rushed to get some glasses out. TBH I was a bit p****d off as I thought I was now going to be a bit short of beerπŸ˜†.  I was, as she had at least half of it  πŸ˜…. I actually thought it was great that she drank beer and we had a great evening together .So much so that within 2 weeks we were sharing my flat downstairs as it was much bigger than hers . We married in 82 and have been together ever since. Had some rough times mind you but who doesn't.

Come on you lot  there must be more stories worth sharing.

Jackson AKA Martin . There is a story behind that as well!! I will leave you in suspense!

 

User
Posted 03 Apr 2024 at 09:39

Love all these stories. Shows we are real people with history not just patients with PCa. 

Phil

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Posted 03 Apr 2024 at 10:11

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member
 within 2 weeks we were sharing my flat downstairs as it was much bigger than hers .

It's lovely when you can impress a lady with something much bigger than she's used to. 😁

Me and mine are both 'second time arounders'. We've been together 27 years. 

Jackson, I'll match your The girl upstairs, with my romantic The woman and the burning flotilla. (Sounds like a story about a lady an STD 😁)

Very early in our relationship, she invited me over to her place, for a romantic evening. She'd done a bubble bath with loads of scented tea lights perched around the edge of the bath. After a having a luxurious soak for a few minutes, I decided that a 'standing up cuddle' was in order.

As I stood up, I slipped on a bar of soap and lost balance. I instinctively grabbed out for the shower curtain, which pulled down the rail. I fell head first out of the bath colliding with the wall mounted bathroom cabinet. I ended up, wrapped in the curtain, face down on the bathroom floor, with the shower curtain rail nestled along the crack of my *rse. 

I looked at her. The tsunami I'd caused had washed most of the candles into the bath. They were floating around her like an armada on fire.

At least she was giggling and I did manage to make good the damage I'd caused.

I was and still am the Frank Spencer of the Kama Sutra. 😁

 

 

Edited by member 03 Apr 2024 at 18:40  | Reason: Typo

User
Posted 03 Apr 2024 at 10:33

I was and still am the Frank Spencer of the Kama Sutra. 😁

🀣🀣

User
Posted 03 Apr 2024 at 19:49


My story to marriage is not quite so exciting. Me and the future missus were both well into our 30s, both left high up on the shelf having both been around the block several times over. πŸ‘΅πŸ‘΄
Of course back in those days there was no handy online love matching instead it was a case of getting well blotto’d and then trying our luck down town at the night clubs.
In retrospect, I had absolutely no chance of finding a ‘match’ in a nightclub, where the girls were all ‘glammed’ up looking for their ideal debonair millionaire. How many of these beauties would be interested in a scruffy looking drunken bloke who likes footy, mountain biking, hiking and boozing?

Anyway, and so it came to pass that me and the missus met in a nightclub (we should call it the ‘Last Chance Saloon’), each of us both having made last minute decisions to go out and persuaded to do so by our respective mates, she was pi$$ed looking for a millionaire and I was similarly pi$$ed hoping for anything 😬.

I used to think that a good way to impress a girl was to whizz her around the Yorkshire Dales and amazingly this time it worked.
Then, not long after we eloped and got married on the Isle of Skye with my dog Oscar acting as best man (it was a November, all the shops were shut and we had trouble finding a ring).

I sent postcards to family, friends and work to let them know. My mum still not properly forgiven me.
And then we went on to have two kids in our40s! And we’re still together and very much still enjoy the odd glass or two.

cheers 🍷🍷

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Posted 03 Apr 2024 at 20:22

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Then, not long after we eloped and got married on the Isle of Skye with my dog Oscar acting as best man (it was a November, all the shops were shut and we had trouble finding a ring).

Me and my beloved met in 1997. Both divorced. My two lads were at University. She had a two kids, son aged 10, and 8 year old daughter. We got a house together two years later. 

We wanted to make sure before risking tying the knot again. So, exactly 15 years after the day we first met,  unbeknown to anyone other than ourselves; we got married at a nearby registry office. We didn't even have witnesses arranged, so I had to go to the next door, Health and Safety Offices and beg two employees to give us 20 minutes.

After the service we had a three day honeymoon, at a hotel near Whitby.

Okay, it certainly wasn't glamorous, but it was so romantic. We felt like a couple of naughty kids.

We kept our marriage secret for a further 8 years!  It was only when my dad became seriously ill with 'our disease' that we decided to announce it.

Our four kids couldn't believe we'd been so devious.

 

 

Edited by member 03 Apr 2024 at 21:10  | Reason: Typo

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Posted 04 Apr 2024 at 05:41

Ah, so this is where the insomniacs hang out!

 
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