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The OS Doorstep - a helpful and supportive thread in these tough times

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  • MAR you are naughty, but I love your posts. I don't know how he can be grumpy with a wife like you!!!

    Candlelight x
  • kezlou
    kezlou Posts: 3,283 Forumite
    Lol mar I just shove food in his gob and hes happy haha
  • I do read this thread from time to time.
    Just popping in to wish you all a Happy New Year x
  • mardatha
    mardatha Posts: 15,612 Forumite
    Well this was food related Kez. I asked the ratty sod to cut and peel a turnip for me because I find them too hard. :D
  • grandma247
    grandma247 Posts: 2,412 Forumite
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    Mar its called brain shrink, :)link here and there are loads of others.
  • mardatha
    mardatha Posts: 15,612 Forumite
    Ooooooh finally- the reason! Thankyou! :D:D:D
  • Mrs_Chip
    Mrs_Chip Posts: 1,819 Forumite
    It's a lot easier if you start off with a less than perfect specimen :D. OH never was an oil painting, never had muscles or much hair, so the decline into middle age has not seemed so shocking!

    He can still be a miserable git though, it seems that comes as part of the general package. :mad:
    Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures
  • bluebag
    bluebag Posts: 2,450 Forumite
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    mardatha wrote: »
    Can somebody tell me how/why you can meet a gorgeous man, tall and charming with lovely black hair, dressed in black leather with a really nice bike....
    ... and then one day wake up beside a ratty, crabby, grumpy old bald sod who never stops moaning and drives you MAD? :mad::mad: Just tell me how that happens! :rotfl:

    I think it called transubsstantioning, it seems to occur in humans at the age of 2, 15 and again at 45.

    Great negative changes in attitude and physical appearance occur, some seem to resolve but others sadly are permanent.
  • burtha
    burtha Posts: 903 Forumite
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    Glad I popped in for 5mins..... mines a bit bigger round the waist these days and on his days of he would make a good stand in for the little bloke on last of the summer wine ! But still would not swap him .......anyway better get my bum into gear and get myself to work (2nd job) ...only a few hours today, so not so bad. X
    £223/ £250 GC
  • Ches
    Ches Posts: 1,120 Forumite
    mardatha wrote: »
    Can somebody tell me how/why you can meet a gorgeous man, tall and charming with lovely black hair, dressed in black leather with a really nice bike....
    ... and then one day wake up beside a ratty, crabby, grumpy old bald sod who never stops moaning and drives you MAD? :mad::mad: Just tell me how that happens! :rotfl:

    I think I live with his brother.:eek:
    Mortgage and Debt free but need to increase savings pot. :think:
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