The
Tinderbox:
Is Swiping
Yes To Mr
or Ms Right
Lighting
An Eternal
Flame?
Adrian Morgan
If I didn’t have you
someone else would do.
Tim Minchin
...I agreed that what really matters is
what you like, not what you are like...
books, records, films - these things
matter. Call me shallow but it’s the
f***n’ truth, and by this measure I was
having one of the best dates of my
life.
Nick Hornby - High Fidelity
My wife and I met back in the ‘old
fashioned times’ as my five year old
daughter says.
Twenty odd years ago, we met
through a mutual friend and hit it
off. I’m really not sure why, given
our taste in so many things was so
different back then and continues
to be now. Our music tastes are
contrasting to say the least - at
that time I liked Nirvana, The Dead
Kennedys and Pink Floyd. My wife
liked Black Box, Madonna (whom she
shares a birthday with), and Ace of
Base. Even now, my all-time favourite
film is tied between Apocalypse Now,
2001, A Space Odyssey and Blade
Runner (the Extended Director’s Cut)
and my wife hates all of the above.
And yet, we are still together after 22
years so something must be working!
Statistically, we are onto a good thing.
Both sets of parents are still together
and we have made it through the
seven year itch three times - she does
keep mentioning long service leave,
but I think that is a joke.
Maybe.