Any lady would absolutely love them Grizz. A million times better than any curse word from a shop. Proverbial cap doffed👍
A great example of why I (& so many others,) enjoy your threads Rian,
A home made, thoughtful gift can often far exceed the "value" of something purchased a great expense coupled with the obvious pleasure it gave you making them.
(Condolences for the loss of your friend.)
Thank you for your kind reply Alpina99
And yes, Dale will be missed by many.
I thought I would do a copy and paste from Garage Journal where I did the following reply.
Just to put people in the picture.
Morning from a chilly UK, unusually, I crawled back into bed after feeding the cats and making a cuppa tea.
New lady......hmmmm.....?
Met on Monday, via Plenty of Fish dating/introductory website, same place I met Nicola 10 years ago and Miss Katy in August 2015 as I put up a new wanted add at the weekend.
She approached me to find out a bit more on Monday, and an hour later we agreed to meeting up about 30 miles from here, as I needed to go to Darren's workshop anyway to deliver a generator and some gauges I had given him for a project he is working on.
Our coffee date lasted nearly 5 hrs (I had a days leave and she was day off as she works some weekends) really just a lot of chatting and getting to know each other.
We agreed to meet again, (woman's prerogative). which may be next weekend as both our lives are just that way.
The massive deal breaker though, is that she is hyper allergic to cats and we cannot just walk into a shop to buy a shotgun (to solve the cat problem) and actually had an allergic reaction when she got home, after giving me a goodbye hug in the car park.
So right now, I have a texting, talking distraction who may just stay that, and that is cool too.
She collected "Bad Taste Bears" in the past, and I like hem.
All I will say is that she has sent me a couple of pics to support conversations we have had by text or phone so far.
This one was after we realised the cat allergy will be a problem.
This one I will not go into....... suffice it to say, it was very very funny.
Miss Katy has been on consideration for some time sadly, my fault entirely.
She is a lovely lady, and I like her, but the relationship was never going to blow me away or see us retire together, sadly.
She is super nice and I like her, but I also like my 86 year old neighbour.
So we called it a day.
Thankfully with no malice from my side, and I am sure she will hurt, as I was never an curse word to her, and women often find that hard to understand, hopefully she will remember the good stuff and find a guy that suits her better.
There are some classy guys out there who are more suited to genteel pursuits.
She is way too upmarket from me, and the 100 miles commute over weekends, meaning nothing got done over weekends the last year plus, could now see me doing stuff I love to do.
Like fetching a L6 motor, gearbox and rear diff from Colchester on Sunday.
And loading my bike onto a trailer to go in for a repair as it's fuel injection system is blowing fuel out.
Hallo Peter, long time no see.
Trust you are well.
I totally agree with you.
At my age, I prefer a bit of thought in a gift to something I can pop to the shops for myself.
Hopefully she enjoys the bits, regardless of whether we become anything, which I doubt.
But she makes me laugh, a lot and has a sharp wit, which have missed for a couple of years.
That thing where you need to stay awake in case you get kicked with your own proverbial boots.
Update later on some other stuff.
