Ladies and SPO. Dipping into here for some light relief and cheering up. Last night, I went to visit the father of a friend of mine who is seriously ill. My own mother died fairly recently and it brought everything back to me. Just about held it together till I got home. Then today, probably the best colleague I've ever had in recent years left - in the words of Molly after Smurf's funeral "I feel so sad". Have to say, it was nice to get on here and see what you've all been discussing and to take my mind off everything.
Monopod's question about what attracts us to CJ/BA. Well everyone has expressed it so well and I have to agree with what has been said. Apart from his obvious looks, I like that he commands respect but can also be one of the lads. You know he would do anything for them. I've worked with managers throughout my working life who are great at the job but rubbish with managing their staff or vice versa. The two aspects of the job don't necessarily go together. These attributes would translate well into a job outside of the army for CJ. All that said however, it is partly the uniform that does it for me and I said that right at the beginning when I joined the first thread.
I really didn't like the restaurant scene the first time I watched it - in fact, I would go so far to say it made me cringe because it seemed quite unnatural - we'd never seen MD speak in that slightly different way and it was quite a shock to see CJ without his uniform - he looked so much less authoritative. Being on this thread and talking it over as much as we have, I can watch it quite happily now, but if I'd only seen that episode the once, I would have written it off in my head I think.
I have only once been on a forum before - a problem I had with a cat - and have amazed myself at how drawn into this I have been. I have never had a serious crush/attraction of this magnitude ever! Thank God there was nothing like this when I was a teenager.
I'm rambling a bit - put it down to a really bad couple of days!