How did you find your future partner for life?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

Wow! Great pictures Reece.

I can almost hear The Eagles, Elton John and The Bee Gees in the background.

I was thinking more in terms of John Denver and Brokeback Mountain

[Reece]

Originally Posted by Vendor

Ok! Thanks for that,interesting

How about some background/pictures of your life!
and Jim how about a picture of you in uniform!

Originally Posted by jimbuna

I was thinking more in terms of John Denver and Brokeback Mountain

Yes and Abba, Doors, Cat Stevens etc etc

[Feuer Frei!]

There's some great success stories here, great idea by Vendor to post this thread. Kudos, m8
Sadly i cannot join in as i met my future partner but alas, we are no longer together, and i do not yearn for anyone else.
She gave me the best thing in life, ever!
2 beautiful children!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Reece

How about some background/pictures of your life!
and Jim how about a picture of you in uniform!


Yes and Abba, Doors, Cat Stevens etc etc

Hang about...but I know I've already done that on some thread or other

[Jimbuna]

Here ya go...pick the bones out of that



This was my intake at the end of ten weeks basic training prior to the passing out parade at RAF Dishforth.

I'm the good looking one wearing trousers

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Reece

How about some background/pictures of your life!
and Jim how about a picture of you in uniform!


Yes and Abba, Doors, Cat Stevens etc etc

No Abba,never,but of course I would could upload some pictures to the backs of long -term,but it must be scanned first, and then be reviewed ,uniforms can be arranged

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Here ya go...pick the bones out of that



This was my intake at the end of ten weeks basic training prior to the passing out parade at RAF Dishforth.

I'm the good looking one wearing trousers

Is this 1900 century,

[Reece]

Originally Posted by Vendor

Is this 1900 century,

Well Jim, how about a bigger hint!! and don't say the guy with a hat!!

[Herr-Berbunch]

Aww, I don't think the Four Word Story Game will ever be the same again now, Reece! Where is the story of the homosexual midget parties, the sheep? Disappointed - very!

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My story? A friend arranged to meet a girl, and her two friends, with two of his friends (see where it's going...), in a bar in the Dolphin Hotel, Cleethorpes (to save Vendor time!) in September 1993, just a few weeks before I was due to join the Air Force. Nothing was expected, but all three girls were beautiful, and we hit it off. My friend who arranged it, went out with his girl for about four years. My other friend went out with the other girl for only about a year. I went out with Eve for about 2½ years, I did join the Air Force and I think the culmination of constant travelling to see each other and the fact I had a wandering eye (but only eyes!) didn't help. Then in 2002 I got my own PC, and joined Friends Reunited, where Eve got in touch. Met up again in 2003 just before I went to Iraq and when I got back home in that August she'd left her husband so we moved in together. All was going great so in 2007 I faked a heart attack () and got her to agree to marry me - in fact I agreed to her!

I'd woken up one morning with a tightening of the chest, went downstairs to make her a cuppa to wake her up and had a shooting pain down my arm, profuse sweating and still this chest tightening. I got back up to the bedroom and she woke up and looked at me a little worried - I told her to get dressed and drive me to the hospital, which she did (after seemingly taking forever to choose something to wear and driving at/below the speed limit 95% of the journey . So eventually I was all wired up and had Eve on one side and my mother on the other when a nurse asked who was next of kin - they each looked at the other expectantly! A couple of hours later I got moved to a ward and Eve returned saying that Gretna Green could fit us in in three weeks time which coincided with our planned holiday to the Lake District. All I'd done, apparently, is strain a muscle in my chest when I'd been moving some domestic appliances the previous day.

So fifteen friends and family came up to the Lakes with us and saw us get married, then we decended on a local hotel for a meal which when they saw it was for a wedding they pulled out all the stops and gave us a great time!

The best bit is we didn't cater for 100+ people we didn't really want there, nor did we have a wedding photographer telling people where to stand whilst the others slowly got bored. The week, including the holiday for four and the wedding, dress and suit cost us less than £1000.

On the following Christmas Day we drove up to join my parents in the Lakes for a couple of days, my wife said she thought she might be pregnant. My response wasn't favourable (two step-kids was more than enough!), and test after test came back negative - proof enough? No, she insisted and eventually one came back positive. I barely spoke the rest of the time there and it took up to the first scan a few months later for me to even begin to admit she might be pregnant. I eventually came round and Heidi was born September 2008 and now is the center of my universe

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Vendor

Is this 1900 century,

Jim, which one is Robert Peel?

[Reece]

A very rugged but mellow end to your married life story there Herr-Berbunch, yes we had 2 children, both married and they have 2 each, Jen and I are very happy, but my how time flies!!

Scan those pics Vendor!!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Vendor

Is this 1900 century,

Cheeky bugga...about 1990 IIRC

Originally Posted by Reece

Well Jim, how about a bigger hint!! and don't say the guy with a hat!!

I'm not sitting but standing.

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

Jim, which one is Robert Peel?

That was actually a nickname we gave to one of the two Drill Instructor sergeants

Damn!!....I should have done a Vendor and stretched out to three separate posts

I've a few comical ones which I'll post later but not the one of me brandishing an MP5 because I wasn't firearms trained at the time and my buddy who was and gave me his weapon to hold was just out of camera shot and was 'sh!tting bricks' for years because we told him he was in the picture

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

I'm not sitting but standing.

And you're not a scouser, so that doubley not you in the tracksuit!

I think middle row, 'tache left hand side.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

And you're not a scouser, so that doubley not you in the tracksuit!

I think middle row, 'tache left hand side.

Looking at the photo?

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Reece

A very rugged but mellow end to your married life story there Herr-Berbunch, yes we had 2 children, both married and they have 2 each, Jen and I are very happy, but my how time flies!!

Scan those pics Vendor!!

I'll make it,