Quote from: MikeDunn on September 23, 2015, 08:50:39 AM

Quote from: Sprintex on September 22, 2015, 10:27:28 PM
As for anything else relating to that time I've tried my best to erase all memory of it! 

I cannot believe it's worse than your MLP !!! 

You think? Try emotional blackmail and physical abuse, as in beating you with any large heavy object to hand for the slightest disagreement. I was brought up never to hit a female, and I stuck to it even when I was being hit around the head with a telephone, heavy book, etc. Now you see why I try to blot it all out but it isn't easy.


Paul

Ouch  Not good, point taken ... 

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We're to afraid too tell her mother and my sister at the moment 

Keep stum 

weave
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave. When first we practise to deceive! 

How did I celebrate my last days of 'Freedom' before getting married?

In two possibly somewhat-unusual ways: By getting over a severe dose of Glandular Fever (no jokes please), and then undertaking some gold prospecting (seriously) in relation to a project which ultimately didn't eventuate.  Meanwhile my fiance was doing a 'last fling' bus tour around the country in the course of which she was literally ejected at speed out the front window of her tour bus when it went off the road and down a very steep embankment.  Thankfully she didn't suffer any injuries, although the bus was a write-off. 

We lead 'interesting' lives at the time (and still do BTW).

And if anyone is interested, we've been married for 39 years.

Thanks for asking.   

Quote from: Komata on September 24, 2015, 04:49:47 AM


And if anyone is interested, we've been married for 39 years.

Thanks for asking.

Well done Komata 47yrs for me. How long for others, might be enlightening to see if any correlation between length of marriage and wildness of pre-nuptual celebrations.

Quote from: steve836 on September 23, 2015, 09:21:27 AM
Hey Weave whats her mum's e-mail ? we'll save you the bother

fat'n'loud@nothotmail.co.uk 

She's alright really and likes cider so we have something in common.

Oops that went blue. Say nothing!

Quote from: Only Me on September 23, 2015, 12:26:53 PM

Quote from: weave on September 23, 2015, 08:52:58 AM

We're to afraid too tell her mother and my sister at the moment 

Keep stum 

weave

EEK!! I didn't know you were from the Fens, were you promised to your sister first then....lol  he he !

Yes, but to escape I swam round the coast to Hampshire with my webbed hands.

I call it my 'deliverance' although that's why I use Kato track as the other stuff is too fiddly.

The registrar thought 'Here comes the Bride' on the banjo was a nice touch though.

Quote from: steve836 on September 24, 2015, 08:21:05 AM

Quote from: Komata on September 24, 2015, 04:49:47 AM
And if anyone is interested, we've been married for 39 years.
Thanks for asking.

Well done Komata 47yrs for me. How long for others, might be enlightening to see if any correlation between length of marriage and wildness of pre-nuptual celebrations.

47 years is a long time, and strangely enough another owner/neighbour here who attends our weekly Quiz nights said last week that he has been married 47 years (actually he said 45 years but his wife quickly corrected him).

Around our complex it seems there are more people on their 2nd marriages than there are who have been married once for any length of time - seems to be the norm these days.

Don't know about wildness of pre-nupual celebrations - but I thought I did pretty well to  survive for 31 years as a bachelor before finally tying the knot, and it was pure chance only 18 months previously that had thrown the two of us together for the first time (a bomb scare in a local pub).

Perhaps it should be asked if there were any unusual circumstances that brought your future wife and you together, rather than how you celebrated your last days as a single man?

Tdm

Re: 'Perhaps it should be asked if there were any unusual circumstances that brought your future wife and you together...'

Ok, I'll bite: In a very few words, 'Knees' and a Chesterfield suite....' (and no, it wan't what some may think, BTW).

(And oddly, a hat, a coat, and a door were also involved - several in fact...) 

Buncefield Oil Depot going 'BANG!' in a big way in December 2005


Paul

I remember that ... got stuck on the M40 for hours 

I was parked up on The Embankment in London having my break and I heard it alright It was due to the explosion that some arrangements got changed and me and Clare ended up in the same pub


Paul

It wasn't an actual explosion that brought me and my future wife together - but the threat of one!

I was enjoying a quiet drink with my pals in a local pub when in rushed the Police to say that they had received a bomb warning, and everyone had to evacuate the premises immediately (it was a time when the IRA were actively planting explosive devices throughout England).

In the mass exodus and confusion I got separated from my friends and ended up in another nearby pub where the only free space was next to a young attractive girl with long hair I didn't know at the time - but who said she knew me because I had dated her elder sister at one time.

We got talking and one thing led to another and 18 months later we were married.

Quote from: Sprintex on September 24, 2015, 07:09:59 PM
Buncefield Oil Depot going 'BANG!' in a big way in December 2005

That was rather a dramatic way to celebrate your last days of "freedom" 

Hmm, so many jokes about a large bang, but. . . 


Paul