THE IDEAL GROVE BABE

Come on guys....get it out of your system...now is the time......

Scratch the bean or noggin there and THINK back.....

When you headed down that familiar beaten path to the Grove....

were you full of optimism, hope, longing, lust. ?????.....

In addition to the whole "lad" thing going on with the mates and the music, the gear, the booze, the bikes, the artwork and the patches......

Had you hope in your heart and loins of finally seeing or scoring the perceived IDEAL GROVE BABE ?????

You might, as you were paying the weekly homage to the Grove, had a clear picture in your head of what an Ideal Grove Babe should look like, feel like, sound like and what she SHOULD be wearing ?????.

You would have had to have role models of course....

Stevie Knicks, Kate Bush, Rosie Vela, Judie Tzuke, Chrissie Hynde.....even Maire Ni Bhraonain from Clannad who was quite the hit at Lisdoon in her day......

Did you ever find her ?????

We are waiting to hear, at least I am !!!!!!!!


ME

Edited by Mins

Susanna was pretty hot okay..but I reckon in those days...it would have been Stevie Nicks that all self respecting male rockers would have drooled over..hehehe!!

Of course I met my ideal Grove babe at the Grove...and I wasn't the only one

How about you Mins? Did you meet Mr. Perfect at the Grove?...

The weather is absolutely awful here today..a real day to sit in and play on the puter all day...

Oh..that's what I have done

My wife of 7 years (isn't that a bit young?-ha ha) went during the very same years as me,drank in the Nep ( and sometimes Bruxelles),lived in Artane and would occasionally be seen in St.Annes with a bottle beforehand and certainly up at the mound on Sunday afternoons.

Do you think we met EVER during those years? Nope.

She worked in the Hotpoint customer care desk (where I am a service engineer) and she was in charge of giving me calls to go to. We met through work. We moved in exactly the same circles back then and never clapped eyes on each other. How mad is that?

Monring Floydman,

I wonder how many times you actually saw each other, passed each other by etc!!!!

How weird is that. You guys were obviously meant to meet eventually.

What a great story Floydman - I married a guy 8 years my senior also a grove head from a different era and we sometimes sit in the kitchen after din din drinking a bottle of vino and exchange grove stories  - some great times I must say.

My wife is six years my younger than me. never went to the Grove but knew all the music (- older siblings went.) Got talking about led Zeppelin..... twenty years married.

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Hiya Taylor,

Yes, this site brings back some fantastic memories that I'd forgotten about until somebody mentions it. ie certain songs, certain clothes etc

< name="AdsSignaller">if(document.body){document.body.off_complete = "yes"; window.status = "off_end"; window.status = ""}   Thank you Hayseed Dixie - powerful stuff altogehter - that just about sums it all up!! Grove Babes aren't just ideals or memories but lasting feelings. Weren't we, and aren't we, so lucky??