This is exciting, I've met a gamekeeper

[Confortableorwhat]

I don't know why it that feels exciting, but the way it came about...

I'm doing a long distance trail on my own and having a marvellous time enjoying some solitude.

This evening I'd booked a table at the pub where I'm staying, but when I went down for dinner (not before!) was told the chef had a family emergency and they're not doing food. [Shock]

So I went to the only other restaurant in town to be told they didn't have a table, unless the man at the bar table didn't mind sharing....

He's lovely. About my age, an interesting history, good conversation and, I don't know why this tickles me, a gamekeeper.

He's gone to the loo, but conversation is easy and wine is flowing....

Ah OP glad you had fun, even if it was just for one night! A friend of mine met and fell in love with a local gamekeeper... She's now shacked up in a lovely gamekeeper cottage on a huge estate, free rent, lots of adorable dogs and her fourth child on the way 😅

Sell the story to Hallmark so they can make a twee Christmas movie out of it.

@Confortableorwhat

Sounds lovely

Enjoy unexpected way things have worked out for you today in that regards,

I really like olde worlde traditional pubs like that,

Is it olde worlde style pub 🤔 you're at then?

Good and refreshing to hear a positive story post thread on here too

Exactly what I thought.

This so needs to be a movie! I’m invested!

Me too...Both loners and disliked people- One used to blast squirrels out of trees to upset passersby- he did lose his job for this.

Yuk. Ask him his stance on why gamekeepers feel it's ok to massacre hen harriers will you.

Not called Mellors by any chance....

FGS @Confortableorwhat all I we want to know is DID YOU SHAG HIM? I've skipped the other comments and just read your posts and need closure!

So you've only just met him and he's already giving you his very complex life story. Hmm I'd be a bit guarded.

We did talk about football. I'm quite a fan and he's .....a former professional footballer. I forgot to mention that 🤣

A former professional footballer?
Really?.🤔

I know but what fun 😆

A professional footballer turned gamekeeper? I'm guessing "yes" 😁

And to think I invested time in this thread 😂

isnt vinnie jones a gamekeeper now?

bit older though 🤔

I'm now picturing Vinnie Jones in The Gentleman!

I'm picturing Nobby Stiles in Carry On Gamekeeping.

He was much more that than Seth Armstrong 😆

My story of meeting him and what he told me is true. Whether anything he said is true is another thing entirely.

Quite! At least you had a nice evening!

He wasn't dressed in tweed though. Regular youngish for his age, well presented middle aged man casual dinner clothes. Jeans and a checked shirt.

@olderbutwiser I came back to this thread this morning for an answer to this question

The story of his complex personal life would break your heart too 😆

Are you Nancy Warren? Will he turn out to be a Vampire Game Keeper?
Will you open an Estate Agents (because book shop and knitting shop are already a 'thing')in the village and have lots of vampire volunteers?
Will there be a murder on the estate and although the VGK is very intense with a smouldering gaze you just know,in your heart, that he's innocent?
And the landlady of the pub will tell you that the VGK is obviously recovering from a broken heart because he just sits in a corner and reads at night. All alone.
And then you'll be terrorised by a ghost as you convert a qwerky shop to your Estate Agency but it turns out there's a valuable painting hidden there?
And the ghost is actually a nasty woman had designs on the VGK but knew about the valuable painting?
And at the end because you bought the property everything inside is yours so you own the painting?
And the VGK knows another vampire who values the painting and you make a mint.
And you don't have to worry about a mortgage or anything?
And the VGK is falling in love with you because you are plucky, resilient but attractive and vulnerable?

I’ve read a lot of those type of books in the past and really fell for the twee lifestyles. Reality of course is nothing like that and those books have long been gathering dust 😁

Not Jeremy Clarkson then 😁