| Wynonie Harris |
21-12-2005 21:54 |
Re: Perfect day.
My perfect day began at 8pm om Saturday, January 25th, 1986. I won't go into the whys and wherefores of how I got there, but I found myself at that precise moment knocking on a front door somewhere in the Greater Blackburn area. It opened and suddenly I was gazing into a pair of beautiful dark brown latin eyes. I heard a church clock striking somewhere in the distance and intuitively I knew that my life was about to change forever...
...I took her out in my car and we went for a drink in the only pub in the area I knew - the Fernhurst, opposite Ewood Park. I didn't speak any Spanish and she didn't speak much English (which was a good job really as the pub was filling up with Rovers fans returning from an away match and singing rude songs!). Despite the language differences, we managed to communicate somehow and the evening flew by. As we walked out of the pub I noticed that it was a wonderfully clear starry night. As I was looking up, she slipped her arm through mine and said in heavily accented English, "I like you very much."
It's almost 20 years since that day, but I've never forgotten it. We're still together and still very much in love and she speaks much better English now...but she still doesn't know what those Rovers fans were singing!
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