Today's our tenth wedding anniversary.
The missus has been going on about how special it is and how rare and how we must make an extra-special effort to celebrate it.

Taking the hint, I went and splashed out on a sparkly diamond bracelet, flowers and dinner at an expensive restaurant, using the money I had been saving to buy myself a new flat-screen telly.

She presented me with a box of chocolates*.



* Admittedly, they were yummy and she let me have them all to myself, which is unusual.
( argyleblanket The man on the roof works for me, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 18:52, 9 replies)

My sympathies.
Mrs Hatred is occasionally prone to saying she has no money before either buying more shoes or another lovely but ultimately frangible item.

Did you spend all the telly cash or is it a recoverable setback?
(Leonard Hatred briefly did some work on, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 21:05, closed)

I see it as an investment.
Hopefully I'll have ranked up enough brownie points out of this to get not only the telly but a new sound system as well.

A couple more months of low-def telly won't hurt.
( argyleblanket The man on the roof works for me, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 21:14, closed)

That's the spirit,
Besides you might get a better pressie next time- this was my engagement gift;

(Leonard Hatred briefly did some work on, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 21:24, closed)

I keep
promising myself i'm gonna try one of those clamp things that holds the vinyl down...

Does it make a huge amount of difference?
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 21:51, closed)

If the record has any warping
then yes it does as the arm and cart have to work far less hard to track it. The Michell, Clearaudio and SME ones are the best.
(Leonard Hatred briefly did some work on, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 21:55, closed)

So...
...are they any good for jogging with? I reckon it'd look way cooler than ipod.
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Thu 26 Feb 2009, 4:49, closed)

How do you burn to vinyl I wonder?
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Thu 26 Feb 2009, 9:15, closed)

It scares me.
Putting a recond on my brother-in-law's gyrodec, with £400 of re-reshaping on the stylus, super virgin audiophile vinyl and a heavy clamp.
It was just a disaster waiting to happen...

Yours is nicely bolted to the wall I see?
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Thu 26 Feb 2009, 10:49, closed)

It's me!
Well, I'm not your missus, clearly! But as a female I regularly berate my other half for present giving...

This Valentine's - an M&S (wooo) luxury hamper - box of chocs, roses, pink bubbly.

He got a card.

Don't feel alone, we all do it!
(Psyche finishes work at the end of June! Yay!!!, Thu 26 Feb 2009, 13:05, closed)