THE IDEAL GROVE BABE
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Topic: THE IDEAL GROVE BABE
Posted By: Mins
Subject: THE IDEAL GROVE BABE
Date Posted: 02-December-2006 at 19:06
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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 
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Posted By: Mins
Date Posted: 03-December-2006 at 16:49
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Remember Susanna Hoffs from " The Bangles" ??
ME
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Posted By: Hayseed Dixie
Date Posted: 03-December-2006 at 16:54
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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?... ------------- Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. - (Henri Cartier-Bresson) |
Posted By: Mins
Date Posted: 03-December-2006 at 16:58
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C. Ideal Bloke section and decide for yerself HD...
I already had a sneak peak at the Sing Out but peaked a little more, cemented and sealed it.... at the Grove. Weather bad here too... ME
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Posted By: Hayseed Dixie
Date Posted: 03-December-2006 at 18:15
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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  ------------- Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. - (Henri Cartier-Bresson) |
Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 03-December-2006 at 19:04
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It was some experience dring down today with the winds buffeting the carHad to slam on on one of the back roads when a large branch came down . At least I stopped in time. At home with a bottle on wine now - must go and get a glass.
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Posted By: Floyd
Date Posted: 03-December-2006 at 22:26
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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? ------------- There are three kinds of people in the world,those who are able to count,and those who can't... |
Posted By: freebird
Date Posted: 03-December-2006 at 23:34
| Flyoyman- sounds like that movie 'Sliding doors' with Gywneth Palrow |
Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 03-December-2006 at 23:56
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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. ------------- Lesley 25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car. Grove 1980-1984 |
Posted By: Floyd
Date Posted: 03-December-2006 at 23:58
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Morning Lesley...I'm just glad we did in the end... ------------- There are three kinds of people in the world,those who are able to count,and those who can't... |
Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 04-December-2006 at 00:30
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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. ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 04-December-2006 at 08:36
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My hubby's an aussie and has no idea what I'm talking about when I mention the grove. Sad. He didn't have anything like that growing up. ------------- Lesley 25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car. Grove 1980-1984 |
Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 04-December-2006 at 09:17
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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. ------------- A man must have a code |
Posted By: Taylor
Date Posted: 04-December-2006 at 11:41
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Yes Mins, looking back in hindsight there was, in my mind, an ideal Grove babe, and that's what kept me counting the days and the hours till the following Saturday or Sunday evening - and I actually got to dance and chat to her lots of Sundays way back then - Cecil's Kris Kristofferson slow number being one of my many favourites at the time - Irene had long blonde hair and a 'Shree' look - long flowing patterned Indian-like dresses. And she also smelt and felt great too. Don't know if it was Opium though. Met her again some years after my groving was over, she had gone on to be a primary school teacher (lucky kids) and I was already on my way over here. Ages but seems like only yesterday! The Documentary and the Grove Forum have brought all these wonderful old feelings and memories back again -- so thanks to you all!!! ------------- The Universe is a void full of infinite possibilities |
Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 04-December-2006 at 11:44
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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 ------------- Lesley 25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car. Grove 1980-1984 |
Posted By: Hayseed Dixie
Date Posted: 04-December-2006 at 12:58
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That is a lovely story Taylor....read that and just found these words demanding to be written down... so.... All those years ago and a passing glance at the girl I might fall in love with the way she moved the way she brushed against me when she passed those moments when eyes met briefly and I felt words form but never make it from my lips too young to know the power of alcoholic fortitude I stumbled on all too aware how unaware she was of me. So years pass and life weaves a path that I sometimes follow and sometimes resist and she is nought now but a distant memory brought to life by casual conversations a familiar scent or a face in a crowd I have loved since then watched children grow found happiness and sadness in abundance and every now and then she wanders by ethereal nameless just a vague feeling of youthful joy and longing another page in an always unfolding book. ------------- Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. - (Henri Cartier-Bresson) |
Posted By: Taylor
Date Posted: 04-December-2006 at 13:19
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------------- The Universe is a void full of infinite possibilities |
Posted By: Hayseed Dixie
Date Posted: 04-December-2006 at 13:20
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We sure are my friend..we sure are  ------------- Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. - (Henri Cartier-Bresson) |