The White Boar's Head: Student Union Bar at the University of Milton North

[DumSpiroSpero]

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I really really can't believe that there are people out there who actually believe that RA would marry them as soon as he's met them

Me neither I'd be willing to play hard to get for at least 6 months first

A girl has her pride, after all, eh Spiro?

Well that just goes without saying Spiro!! Having married my first and only boyfriend I like to forget the Trekkie incident! I would certainly like want/beg for some wooing first!

I wouldn't, Spiro. If he did all the things on my list AND Twigs' list especially the throwing over the shoulder bit then I'd be up the aisle with him like a shot . Never mind that he could actually be a homicidal-maniac, if he tidied up the mess afterwards, I'd put up with it .

LordD and I would almost never argue if he did all the things on my ideal list. They are the tiny things that drive me ::sorry in advance, Maud:: absolutely BATSHIT because he can not/will not do them, no matter how many times I ask. I then get wound up because I feel he's being inconsiderate and end up exploding about something completely unrelated out of pure frustration.

RP, I often wonder if bringing back National Service might improve matters. Military training seems to make men much more domesticated.

Having married my first and only boyfriend

Oh, me too!! (I have no Trekkie incident to speak of, unlike some people )

Ah RP - I married my first and only proper boyfriend too :)

Wonder if I should have held out for RA - he can't be that much older than me?

Wow three of us - RA must attract the dedicated sort!

There aren't many people I know in RL like us - we're a special breed! Were you your respective DH's first girlfriends too? (iyswim?)

It's ironic, too that all these things are perfectly do-able. We're not expecting them to be ab,le to fly through the air like Superman. Although that would have been useful for poor dear Lucas

Do you remember the bit where Gizzy tried to throw Marian over his shoulder, and she sort of somersaulted away. Stupid girl.

I wonder what the things are that we do that drive men batshit. Surely there can't be any though, we're perfect.

Nope definitely perfect here

Oh I'm so glad it's not just me - I sometimes feel a bit about it. No, am not his first girlfriend.

I didn't marry my first boyfriend. But don't tell MrM that, will you?

Of course I am perfect. Nothing I do could possibly drive him batshit.

If Gizzy threw me over his shoulder a la Marian, I'd be steering him into that manor house and up the stairs, not somersaulting away!

Fantasy Guy may have done that once or twice

Mum's the word

I was DH's first girlfriend - we met at uni so in America we would have been 'college sweethearts'

Not quite like High School sweethearts but its not my fault if he lived 130 miles away!

I think you are probably right Lady D. Did you watch any of that Sandhurst program? It really hammered home quite why the colonel is quite so obsessive about orderliness when you see the sgt Maj. shouting that your sheet is not folded completely to 90deg or something equally minor! and having your whole room ransacked and then given 30 mins to tidy it back up to inspection order!!! I have to have some patience at times I have to say but mostly I'm very happy with him the way he is!! I didn't even iron until 2 months ago hence why I'm not intimately aquainted with TDVHBECMO or whatever he's called Only started now as felt guilty as I don't work and have some childfree time during the day now DS is 4.

& - I very much imagine that I'm not my darling colonel's first - let's just say I was the one who tamed him from the gin drinking, womanising, smoker that he was

As for national service, I truly believe that hose riots wouldn't have happened if we still had it! But let's not get into politics!!

My dad was in the RAF and he's very tidy and domesticated, his own dad was too so I suspect it was drilled into him from a young age.

I am attempting to instill tidiness in my children but with LordD's example not matching my message I think I'm fighting a losing battle.

I did get my own back today though. I blitzed our bedroom and threw every single item of LordD's that wasn't in its assigned place into a big pile down his side of the bed. Passive aggressive and childish? Yes. Extremely satisfying? Definitely .

Massive I would think everything on Lady D and twigs' lists are what annoys the colonel about me!! I should have been a man!!

I think the orderliness is all to prepare them for accepting orders at all times and remaining in control!

Right he's back - best pretend to put Dc o bed!!

I know what habits of mine drive Mr S batshit. Unfortunately we have neither the time or the space for me to list them all here.

Oh and twigs - I'm rather proud that he's my first proper BF IYKWIM? Only daily v occasionally do I wonder what it would be like with Lucas, John, Giz.... someone else!

Also feel I should stand up for the colonel's manliness and say he does no cleaning!!! Hates mess, seems to ignore dirt?!. I'm the opposite!

I blitzed our bedroom and threw every single item of LordD's that wasn't in its assigned place into a big pile down his side of the bed.

Mr S does that to me from time to time - usually with all my books, newspapers & magazines & down my end of the sofa. He doesn't seem to get that if he would only agree to buy a decent bookcase they wouldn't be stacked up in little piles all over the house .

Oh dear, Spiro. . Stick with Fantasy Richard/JP/Lucas/Guy, they'd never moan!

Hates mess, seems to ignore dirt

I have one of those too!

Spiro are you seeing the benefits of our academy commune? No men except the perfect, ideal Man!

Having read an interview with the Man in which he owns up to piles of books & papers everywhere & being lousy with laundry, Lady D, he probably wouldn't and if we were both lousy with laundry, which I am, we'd have to spend a lot of time naked...

Oooh, I wonder if we could get some sort of Armitage Husbands thing going, a bit like Stepford Wives, gradually train them all up to be like the Ideal Richard and get them all looking the same too.......

Never mind whether real Richard is anything like ideal Richard

Same here Spiro - frequently get piles of stuff given to me which I promptly put back where I knew I could find them!