June 20, 2022 • 16 mins
In this episode, Suzanne and Simon discuss their failed romantic gestures and one of this episode's romantic gestures leads them into the great outdoors.
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Suzanne (00:00):
In this episode, we discuss our failed romantic
gestures, and we spend some timein the great outdoors.
Simon (00:32):
Hi, welcome to the romantic things podcast.
I'm Simon Davison
Suzanne (00:36):
And I'm Suzanne Davison.
Simon (00:38):
Okay, let's start this episode off with an update on
the app status.
The app was submitted to apple,uh, last week and we have gotten
some feedback that there aresome things we need to change.
Um, at the moment we've got
Suzanne (00:51):
Yay.
We got it to the apple store.
Simon (00:53):
Yeah.
So now we have more work to do there's, uh, three
bullet points that we need toaddress.
We've got a good handle on twoof them, but there's one, we
need some feedback on applebefore we can sort of move
forward or come up with a gameplan.
I would say that just based onwhat we know we needed to be
doing, um, we're we have atleast two plus weeks of work
(01:18):
ahead of us.
Suzanne (01:19):
It's like the money pit.
Yeah, two weeks.
It's always two weeks,
Simon (01:22):
Always two weeks.
um, that's how long it'sbeen money
Suzanne (01:26):
Pit movie, the money pit movie, by the way.
Simon (01:28):
Yes.
Yeah.
Uh, I wish we didn't have tomake those changes, but we do.
So, uh, it's all for the betterover the past weeks, uh, we've
been giving you a breakdown ofmy romantic gestures towards
Suzanne and minus my whisperingsuite, nothing skills they've
done.
I mean, they've been prettysuccessful, so I think that's
fair, right?
Suzanne (01:47):
Precious.
Yeah.
That was kind of creepy.
Yeah.
Simon (01:49):
Well did today, uh, Suzanne and I are gonna share
some of our biggest romanticfailures.
Mm-hmmunfortunately, uh, these are the
least successful things we didto our significant other there.
Suzanne (02:00):
Uh, I can think of a couple that I've tried.
Yeah.
do you want me to gofirst?
Simon (02:06):
Uh, sure.
Why don't you give us anexample?
Suzanne (02:09):
So I thought I was doing the most amazing thing,
um, by, uh, Simon, when hebecame a citizen of the us, I
brought him a Brightling watch.
Um, and if you know those, theyaren't the least expensive
watches on the market.
I gave it to him.
I even had it engraved.
(02:30):
Uh, it was beautiful.
Uh, he wore it for a day and hisarm broke out in a rash to the
point where he has never, everworn the watch again.
Simon (02:42):
Yeah.
I don't wear jewelry.
Suzanne (02:45):
I'm lucky to
get that wedding ring on your
finger and that's totally cuzit's like titanium or whatever.
Exactly.
And then you can barely feel it.
Simon (02:53):
Yeah.
You know, it, it was, I mean,the thing is if I were to wear a
watch, it would a brightly watchit they're I,
Suzanne (03:00):
I it's British it's yeah.
Simon (03:02):
I, I don't think they're British.
Oh, they are.
Oh, okay.
Sorry.
No.
Um, but they're uh, but they'revery nice watches.
Um, it just so happened.
This one was very heavy and alsobroke out in a rash, which was,
uh, nothing I could do.
Uh, I tried a few
Suzanne (03:21):
Few treatments with nothing.
We tried changing the watch band.
We tried changing everything.
Simon (03:27):
Yeah.
Uh,
Suzanne (03:29):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not good.
Not good.
All right.
Then my second one, which Ithought was going to be an
amazing, amazing thing.
I was at a street fair.
Um, and there was a booth therethat had art and Simon's is a,
you know, being from England isa huge lover of the Beatles.
And this painting was anAmerican flag collage with the
(03:54):
blue part of the flag, being allthe faces of the Beatles.
So it was like this combinationof me being from, you know, the
us and him being from England.
And it was supposed to be thisreally nice blending of our two
different cultures.
I brought it home and,
Simon (04:13):
Uh, you brought it home and then left.
So I had been invited outthat particular day.
I had been invited out to Lagunasec, the racetrack for, uh, a
motorcycle race.
And it was very hot that day.
And as a result, I drank a lot.
(04:34):
Uh, I drank throughout the day.
So by the time I got home, Iwas, I was definitely under the
influence, shall we say?
And I came home and I saw thispainting.
And from my perspective, I'vealways argued that if I could
paint it, it's not art.
And in this,
Suzanne (04:53):
It was not that bad.
Simon (04:54):
And in this case, I thought that I thought the
artwork I was looking at was notthe greatest quality.
So I immediately was like, ah,this is awful.
So when Suzanne called up andasked how I, how I thought what
I
Suzanne (05:08):
Thought, I thought of what I thought when yeah.
The
Simon (05:10):
Painting, what I thought of the painting, I was
unfortunately very honest andsaid, um, it's crap.
Suzanne (05:16):
literally it's
crap.
It is still hanging in ourhouse.
Yes.
Um, but not necessarily whereSimon has to look at it every
day, but yeah.
Two of my failed attempts atromance.
Yeah.
Um, so,
Simon (05:31):
You know, but those, those were good they're they
were all foundational as, as aresult of the artwork.
We have, we finally found anartist that we enjoyed together.
We've, you know, we've, we've,
Suzanne (05:42):
We definitely tried to pick out the art together, you
know, instead of me picking outsomething for us.
Simon (05:48):
Yeah.
I've only got one instance offailure.
uh, O only one instancethat I can remember, uh, should
I say, um, I had great plans formy proposal to Suzanne.
We had discussed the weddingband that she wanted.
(06:09):
Um, she gave me very clearinstructions that it was to be a
princess cut diamond with twotrillions on the side.
The setting was to be classic,but not too ornate.
Um, and it needed to look nice.
Um, so
Suzanne (06:25):
Yeah.
Needed to look nice.
Nice.
yeah.
Right.
Simon (06:28):
Nice.
A nice, a nice ring.
You didn't want an ugly ring,right?
You went in a nice ring.
Exactly.
You, you didn't want a goldring,
Suzanne (06:35):
For example, I didn't.
I needed what?
Silver platinum.
Yeah,
Simon (06:38):
Exactly.
So, so I had, I had theserequirements for the ring and,
uh, I thought, I, I need to comeup with some awesome way of
proposing that will match thiswonderful ring.
I spent a long time coming upwith the, the location that we
would be, that I would beproposing how I would be
(06:59):
proposing.
And it was all laid out andeverything was cast in stone
right up until the moment whereI actually had the rig in my
hands.
And that point, uh, I was, itwas a compulsion that I had to
give you the ring as quickly ashumanly possible.
What I didn't know on thisparticular day was that it was
(07:22):
the end of Suzanne's year end asa sales person.
And she was
Suzanne (07:27):
Just a little stressful.
Simon (07:28):
Um, yeah.
Uh, I was unaware of this andshe was on a call.
I think she was getting some badnews from, from the company as
well.
Uh, at this
Suzanne (07:37):
Particular you kept popping in and trying to
interrupt me.
Simon (07:40):
Yeah.
I kept, I kept jumping her late.
Are you off the phone yet?
And she kept shooing me away.
Like, no, no.
Yeah, go away, go away.
And I kept going back and like,oh my God.
I, I, I just was so Dr.
so compelled to, topropose to you.
I, I I've never felt anythinglike it, but then finally I
heard you got off the phone.
So I, I jumped around the cornerand you were like, you, you
(08:03):
swore at me,
Suzanne (08:04):
I go for blank sake.
What do you want?
Yeah.
Simon (08:09):
So I got on my knees and proposed immediately in the
office with the ring day of
Suzanne (08:17):
The day of, and I, well, I was surprised by, by for
any stretch of the imagination.
I was surprised.
Simon (08:26):
Never expected that one.
Huh.
Suzanne (08:28):
But no, no, not at that timing.
Um, I did say yes obviously, but, um, it could have been a
little more romantic and timingcould have been slightly better,
but it was yeah.
yeah, I will.
Yeah.
For, for Fs sake, what do youwant is how he got his yeah.
Start to his proposal.
(08:49):
Simon (08:52):
At that point I was committed.
Suzanne (08:54):
Yes, for sure.
Simon (08:56):
Okay.
Did we let these failures beatus?
No.
We kept trying to make the otherperson as happy as they could
be.
It's not always successful, butit shows that we care.
Right.
For sure.
Yeah.
So, okay.
Well, let's talk about the, theromantic things for, uh, this
episode, the first of which was,uh, I found very enjoyable, uh,
(09:17):
which is take your partnercamping.
Suzanne (09:19):
Yes.
Uh, which is something weactually do quite a bit, but
mm-hmm, it was niceto get away for sure.
Simon (09:25):
Wow.
Twice a year.
Suzanne (09:26):
Twice a year.
Yeah.
Real camping.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
We're stay multiple days.
Yes.
And it was great.
Yeah.
That was fun.
Simon (09:35):
Yeah.
Um, this time we went with, uh,friends, Ray and Aaron, we had
good time.
We had a, a fire pit with us.
So we had some, some somewhereto sort of huddle around in the
evening.
Uh, that was fun.
Good food.
Suzanne (09:48):
Yep.
Everything was good.
Simon (09:49):
Uh, we, uh, also brought our cats with us on
Suzanne (09:52):
Particular.
We did bring our cats with us.
They have their own littlecamping tent.
Yes.
That they stay in.
Simon (09:57):
Yes.
One of our cats isn't feelingtoo well at the moment.
So she's getting semi-regularinjections, so we couldn't
afford to leave her behind withsomebody else.
So we had to bring her with her.
So, um, we took our cats campingfor the first time and, uh, it's
definitely doable.
Um, it's doable.
and I, I believe theyenjoyed it once they got over
(10:18):
the initial, what on earth arewe doing here?
Kind of reaction.
Exactly.
Um, but yeah, that was good.
It was nice.
Uh, like I say, Huling aroundthe fire, but then coming back
to the, the sleeping and beingable to snuggle with you yep.
Was, was nice
Suzanne (10:36):
For sure.
Yeah.
Simon (10:38):
We've also got number two, when you see your partner
at a distance, blow them a kiss,
Suzanne (10:44):
Which is always nice.
You know, it's just a littleromantic thing.
Simon (10:49):
Exactly.
And this is a, a nice one.
This is a, you know, zeroeffort, zero cost.
Suzanne (10:56):
Uh, I always a good thing.
Super easy.
Simon (10:59):
Yeah.
Um,
Suzanne (10:59):
Do it often.
Simon (11:00):
I, I, I, I need to do it more often.
Um, cuz it is a nice, simplegesture that does so well.
Um, and then we had some funwith number three, um, take new
headshot of each other.
Suzanne (11:14):
I would not probably use this as a professional
headshot.
Well, I thought yours was muchbetter than mine, but
Simon (11:23):
Okay.
I didn't see them.
You didn't send me the pictures.
Suzanne (11:25):
Well, of course, because they weren't that good.
but we did it.
So what
Simon (11:30):
Are you saying?
Suzanne (11:31):
Yeah, yours was good.
Simon (11:32):
I thought, I thought the pictures I took of you were
good.
Mm-hmm yeah.
I can tell you're not,
Suzanne (11:37):
I must, I need some more Photoshopping.
I think
Simon (11:42):
No, there's there's no Photoshopping.
I I'm not paying for thesubscription.
Suzanne (11:46):
Okay.
All right.
You get what you get, what world?
Simon (11:49):
Yeah, exactly.
Okay.
So then we had just recently, uh, I was in the UK, um, for my
brother's wedding, um, which wasgreat fun and congratulations
again, Mitchell and Zoe, we had,uh, we had some good times and
it was an opportunity to donumber four, which is take them
(12:10):
to visit your hometown.
And in that case, for me, it wasa village, um, somewhere between
maiden head and SL in the UnitedKingdom called Burnham.
Very cute.
Um, yeah, it's a village, alovely little village.
Um, I was showing Suzanne allthe places I used to go hang out
and where I, where I worked,
Suzanne (12:30):
Where you got into trouble.
Simon (12:31):
Yeah, basically.
Yeah.
Um, uh, that's where it allstarted and uh, we had some
great food.
The, the peppers Indian cuisineon the Burnham high street, they
have the most amazing GL andchicken.
Suzanne (12:47):
What do you?
Butter chicken.
Oh yeah.
Butter chicken.
Uh, so for me Indian food is thebest in England.
I don't know.
It's just delicious there.
So I was happy to have Indianfood for sure.
Simon (12:58):
Yeah.
Um, it was very good.
Uh, I, I must admit I do.
I do enjoy the Indian food inthe UK.
Um, I'm not sure what it is.
That's different, but thatdefinitely seems to be
Suzanne (13:09):
Some kind of spices
Simon (13:10):
Are different.
Yeah.
Some different
Suzanne (13:11):
The water.
I don't know
Simon (13:12):
Something.
Yeah.
I'm not sure what it is, but
Suzanne (13:14):
Maybe it's like Guinness, you know, you
have to have the right water.
Simon (13:18):
Exactly.
But yeah.
So those a good chance to see
Suzanne (13:21):
Family.
First time family's beentogether in 10 years.
All of us
Simon (13:24):
Was it really?
10 years.
Mm-hmm wow.
Yeah.
So that was, that was good.
Fun.
Yeah.
The, the wedding was, uh, anexcellent event.
Uh, it was good to see everybodythere together.
Yeah.
It, it makes me proud to see myfamily and see what they've,
what they've grown up into overthese past years while I've been
away.
Suzanne (13:41):
Yeah.
Cuz you're the oldest.
Simon (13:42):
Yeah, exactly.
all right.
So let's move on to number five.
This one was really hard.
Be a good listener.
Put down the phone, pause the TVand look them in the eyes
Suzanne (13:57):
You did this,
Simon (13:58):
Right.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Um, so I tried very hard to dothis, but the only thing I
didn't do is pause the TV, but Ihave,
Suzanne (14:08):
Yeah, it's a tough one.
PAing that
Simon (14:09):
TV?
Yeah.
The TV, the big, the big eye inthe, in the wall.
Um, yeah, I can't, I dunno.
Uh, there weren't any, I don'tthink there were any instances
where we talked during a showthat would've warranted pausing
it.
Yeah.
But,
Suzanne (14:25):
Well, I guess the intent was there.
I did not notice this one.
So you may have to try it again.
Simon (14:30):
Yeah.
I, I, I'm not surprised youdidn't because I, I, I was very
mindful of it while I was tryingto do it because
Suzanne (14:39):
Look at me, I'm trying to.
Yeah.
That would
Simon (14:42):
Not.
But notice this small gestureI'm making where I'm putting my
phone down.
I, I, I, I, I, it's one where Idon't think you would ever pick
up on it.
So I don't think it's one that
Suzanne (14:53):
Maybe at like a restaurant or something where we
tend to be on our devices.
Maybe that I would notice youputting your phone down and not
picking it up.
Right.
That might be a better versuswhen I'm being entertained by
TV.
Simon (15:06):
Um, yeah.
Or, or just in, in and aroundthe house when, when we were, uh
, talking or, or just working.
Um, yeah.
I, I, I was putting it down, butagain, it's, it's only a
gesture.
Like I say, I think I would'venoticed not necessarily you.
Yeah.
Um, but it allowed me to focusmore on what you were saying
(15:27):
when you did answer, asked thequestion or said something.
So, I mean, I was able to focusa little bit more, even if you
couldn't tell that I
Suzanne (15:35):
Okay.
Well, that's, that's good.
Perfect.
Simon (15:37):
Yeah.
So, all right.
So, so of the five, which one?
Uh, which one failed, which onewas successful?
Suzanne (15:46):
Uh, well, I would say the last one failed, cuz I
didn't notice that you did it,but I, I do love the little blow
a kiss.
I think that's always a sweetlittle gesture.
So that would be my number one,number
Simon (15:54):
One.
Okay.
I, I, don't a give one second.
All right.
I think maybe should, uh, givesome of these things to try, um,
and get back to us, uh, atromantic things app@gmail.com,
Suzanne (16:06):
That's romantic things.
App gmail.com.
Simon (16:11):
Don't forget to let people know what you think about
this, uh, the podcast and
Suzanne (16:16):
Yeah, please share it, share it, let everybody know.
And uh, don't forget to beromantic.
Simon (16:21):
Exactly.
In this episode, we discuss our failed romantic
gestures, and we spend some timein the great outdoors.
Simon (00:32):
Hi, welcome to the romantic things podcast.
I'm Simon Davison
Suzanne (00:36):
And I'm Suzanne Davison.
Simon (00:38):
Okay, let's start this episode off with an update on
the app status.
The app was submitted to apple,uh, last week and we have gotten
some feedback that there aresome things we need to change.
Um, at the moment we've got
Suzanne (00:51):
Yay.
We got it to the apple store.
Simon (00:53):
Yeah.
So now we have more work to do
bullet points that we need toaddress.
We've got a good handle on twoof them, but there's one, we
need some feedback on applebefore we can sort of move
forward or come up with a gameplan.
I would say that just based onwhat we know we needed to be
doing, um, we're we have atleast two plus weeks of work
(01:18):
ahead of us.
Suzanne (01:19):
It's like the money pit.
Yeah, two weeks.
It's always two weeks,
Simon (01:22):
Always two weeks.
Suzanne (01:26):
Pit movie, the money pit movie, by the way.
Simon (01:28):
Yes.
Yeah.
Uh, I wish we didn't have tomake those changes, but we do.
So, uh, it's all for the betterover the past weeks, uh, we've
been giving you a breakdown ofmy romantic gestures towards
Suzanne and minus my whisperingsuite, nothing skills they've
done.
I mean, they've been prettysuccessful, so I think that's
fair, right?
Suzanne (01:47):
Precious.
Yeah.
That was kind of creepy.
Yeah.
Simon (01:49):
Well did today, uh, Suzanne and I are gonna share
some of our biggest romanticfailures.
Mm-hmm
least successful things we didto our significant other there.
Suzanne (02:00):
Uh, I can think of a couple that I've tried.
Yeah.
Simon (02:06):
Uh, sure.
Why don't you give us anexample?
Suzanne (02:09):
So I thought I was doing the most amazing thing,
um, by, uh, Simon, when hebecame a citizen of the us, I
brought him a Brightling watch.
Um, and if you know those, theyaren't the least expensive
watches on the market.
I gave it to him.
I even had it engraved.
(02:30):
Uh, it was beautiful.
Uh, he wore it for a day and hisarm broke out in a rash to the
point where he has never, everworn the watch again.
Simon (02:42):
Yeah.
I don't wear jewelry.
Suzanne (02:45):
finger and that's totally cuzit's like titanium or whatever.
Exactly.
And then you can barely feel it.
Simon (02:53):
Yeah.
You know, it, it was, I mean,the thing is if I were to wear a
watch, it would a brightly watchit they're I,
Suzanne (03:00):
I it's British it's yeah.
Simon (03:02):
I, I don't think they're British.
Oh, they are.
Oh, okay.
Sorry.
No.
Um, but they're uh, but they'revery nice watches.
Um, it just so happened.
This one was very heavy and alsobroke out in a rash, which was,
uh, nothing I could do.
Uh, I tried a few
Suzanne (03:21):
Few treatments with nothing.
We tried changing the watch band.
We tried changing everything.
Simon (03:27):
Yeah.
Uh,
Suzanne (03:29):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not good.
Not good.
All right.
Then my second one, which Ithought was going to be an
amazing, amazing thing.
I was at a street fair.
Um, and there was a booth therethat had art and Simon's is a,
you know, being from England isa huge lover of the Beatles.
And this painting was anAmerican flag collage with the
(03:54):
blue part of the flag, being allthe faces of the Beatles.
So it was like this combinationof me being from, you know, the
us and him being from England.
And it was supposed to be thisreally nice blending of our two
different cultures.
I brought it home and,
Simon (04:13):
Uh, you brought it home and then left.
So
I had been invited out to Lagunasec, the racetrack for, uh, a
motorcycle race.
And it was very hot that day.
And as a result, I drank a lot.
(04:34):
Uh, I drank throughout the day.
So by the time I got home, Iwas, I was definitely under the
influence, shall we say
And I came home and I saw thispainting.
And from my perspective, I'vealways argued that if I could
paint it, it's not art
And in this,
Suzanne (04:53):
It was not that bad.
Simon (04:54):
And in this case, I thought that I thought the
artwork I was looking at was notthe greatest quality.
So I immediately was like, ah,this is awful.
So when Suzanne called up andasked how I, how I thought what
I
Suzanne (05:08):
Thought, I thought of what I thought when yeah.
The
Simon (05:10):
Painting, what I thought of the painting, I was
unfortunately very honest andsaid, um, it's crap.
Suzanne (05:16):
It is still hanging in ourhouse.
Yes.
Um, but not necessarily whereSimon has to look at it every
day, but yeah.
Two of my failed attempts atromance.
Yeah.
Um, so,
Simon (05:31):
You know, but those, those were good they're they
were all foundational as, as aresult of the artwork.
We have, we finally found anartist that we enjoyed together.
We've, you know, we've, we've,
Suzanne (05:42):
We definitely tried to pick out the art together, you
know, instead of me picking outsomething for us.
Simon (05:48):
Yeah.
I've only got one instance offailure.
I say, um, I had great plans formy proposal to Suzanne
We had discussed the weddingband that she wanted.
(06:09):
Um, she gave me very clearinstructions that it was to be a
princess cut diamond with twotrillions on the side.
The setting was to be classic,but not too ornate.
Um, and it needed to look nice.
Um, so
Suzanne (06:25):
Yeah.
Needed to look nice.
Nice.
Right.
Simon (06:28):
Nice.
A nice, a nice ring.
You didn't want an ugly ring,right?
You went in a nice ring.
Exactly.
You, you didn't want a goldring,
Suzanne (06:35):
For example, I didn't.
I needed what?
Silver platinum.
Yeah,
Simon (06:38):
Exactly.
So, so I had, I had theserequirements for the ring and,
uh, I thought, I, I need to comeup with some awesome way of
proposing that will match thiswonderful ring.
I spent a long time coming upwith the, the location that we
would be, that I would beproposing how I would be
(06:59):
proposing.
And it was all laid out andeverything was cast in stone
right up until the moment whereI actually had the rig in my
hands.
And that point, uh, I was, itwas a compulsion that I had to
give you the ring as quickly ashumanly possible.
What I didn't know on thisparticular day was that it was
(07:22):
the end of Suzanne's year end asa sales person.
And she was
Suzanne (07:27):
Just a little stressful.
Simon (07:28):
Um, yeah.
Uh, I was unaware of this andshe was on a call.
I think she was getting some badnews from, from the company as
well.
Uh, at this
Suzanne (07:37):
Particular you kept popping in and trying to
interrupt me.
Simon (07:40):
Yeah.
I kept, I kept jumping her late.
Are you off the phone yet?
And she kept shooing me away.
Like, no, no.
Yeah, go away, go away.
And I kept going back and like,oh my God.
I, I, I just was so Dr.
I, I I've never felt anythinglike it, but then finally I
heard you got off the phone.
So I, I jumped around the cornerand you were like, you, you
(08:03):
swore at me,
Suzanne (08:04):
I go for blank sake.
What do you want?
Yeah.
Simon (08:09):
So I got on my knees and proposed immediately in the
office with the ring day of
Suzanne (08:17):
The day of, and I, well, I was surprised by, by for
any stretch of the imagination.
I was surprised.
Simon (08:26):
Never expected that one.
Huh.
Suzanne (08:28):
But no, no, not at that timing.
Um, I did say yes obviously, but, um, it could have been a
little more romantic and timingcould have been slightly better,
but it was yeah.
Yeah.
For, for Fs sake, what do youwant is how he got his yeah.
Start to his proposal.
(08:49):
Simon (08:52):
At that point I was committed.
Suzanne (08:54):
Yes, for sure.
Simon (08:56):
Okay.
Did we let these failures beatus?
No.
We kept trying to make the otherperson as happy as they could
be.
It's not always successful, butit shows that we care.
Right.
For sure.
Yeah.
So, okay.
Well, let's talk about the, theromantic things for, uh, this
episode, the first of which was,uh, I found very enjoyable, uh,
(09:17):
which is take your partnercamping.
Suzanne (09:19):
Yes.
Uh, which is something weactually do quite a bit, but
mm-hmm
Simon (09:25):
Wow.
Twice a year.
Suzanne (09:26):
Twice a year.
Yeah.
Real camping.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
We're
Yes.
And it was great.
Yeah.
That was fun.
Simon (09:35):
Yeah.
Um, this time we went with, uh,friends, Ray and Aaron, we had
good time.
We had a, a fire pit with us.
So we had some, some somewhereto sort of huddle around in the
evening.
Uh, that was fun.
Good food.
Suzanne (09:48):
Yep.
Everything was good.
Simon (09:49):
Uh, we, uh, also brought our cats with us on
Suzanne (09:52):
Particular.
We did bring our cats with us.
They have their own littlecamping tent.
Yes.
That they stay in.
Simon (09:57):
Yes.
One of our cats isn't feelingtoo well at the moment.
So she's getting semi-regularinjections, so we couldn't
afford to leave her behind withsomebody else.
So we had to bring her with her.
So, um, we took our cats campingfor the first time and, uh, it's
definitely doable.
Um, it's doable.
(10:18):
the initial, what on earth arewe doing here?
Kind of reaction.
Exactly.
Um, but yeah, that was good.
It was nice.
Uh, like I say, Huling aroundthe fire, but then coming back
to the, the sleeping and beingable to snuggle with you yep.
Was, was nice
Suzanne (10:36):
For sure.
Yeah.
Simon (10:38):
We've also got number two, when you see your partner
at a distance, blow them a kiss,
Suzanne (10:44):
Which is always nice.
You know, it's just a littleromantic thing.
Simon (10:49):
Exactly.
And this is a, a nice one.
This is a, you know, zeroeffort, zero cost.
Suzanne (10:56):
Uh, I always a good thing.
Super easy.
Simon (10:59):
Yeah.
Um,
Suzanne (10:59):
Do it often.
Simon (11:00):
I, I, I, I need to do it more often.
Um, cuz it is a nice, simplegesture that does so well.
Um, and then we had some funwith number three, um, take new
headshot of each other.
Suzanne (11:14):
I would not probably use this as a professional
headshot.
Well, I thought yours was muchbetter than mine, but
Simon (11:23):
Okay.
I didn't see them.
You didn't send me the pictures.
Suzanne (11:25):
Well, of course, because they weren't that good.
So what
Simon (11:30):
Are you saying?
Suzanne (11:31):
Yeah, yours was good.
Simon (11:32):
I thought, I thought the pictures I took of you were
good.
Mm-hmm
I can tell you're not,
Suzanne (11:37):
I must, I need some more Photoshopping.
I think
Simon (11:42):
No, there's there's no Photoshopping.
I I'm not paying for thesubscription.
Suzanne (11:46):
Okay.
All right.
You get what you get, what world?
Simon (11:49):
Yeah, exactly.
Okay.
So then we had just recently, uh, I was in the UK, um, for my
brother's wedding, um, which wasgreat fun and congratulations
again, Mitchell and Zoe, we had,uh, we had some good times and
it was an opportunity to donumber four, which is take them
(12:10):
to visit your hometown.
And in that case, for me, it wasa village, um, somewhere between
maiden head and SL in the UnitedKingdom called Burnham.
Very cute.
Um, yeah, it's a village, alovely little village.
Um, I was showing Suzanne allthe places I used to go hang out
and where I, where I worked,
Suzanne (12:30):
Where you got into trouble.
Simon (12:31):
Yeah, basically.
Yeah.
Um, uh, that's where it allstarted and uh, we had some
great food.
The, the peppers Indian cuisineon the Burnham high street, they
have the most amazing GL andchicken.
Suzanne (12:47):
What do you?
Butter chicken.
Oh yeah.
Butter chicken.
Uh, so for me Indian food is thebest in England.
I don't know.
It's just delicious there.
So I was happy to have Indianfood for sure.
Simon (12:58):
Yeah.
Um, it was very good.
Uh, I, I must admit I do.
I do enjoy the Indian food inthe UK.
Um, I'm not sure what it is.
That's different, but thatdefinitely seems to be
Suzanne (13:09):
Some kind of spices
Simon (13:10):
Are different.
Yeah.
Some different
Suzanne (13:11):
The water.
I don't know
Simon (13:12):
Something.
Yeah.
I'm not sure what it is, but
Suzanne (13:14):
Maybe it's like Guinness, you know,
have to have the right water.
Simon (13:18):
Exactly.
But yeah.
So those a good chance to see
Suzanne (13:21):
Family.
First time family's beentogether in 10 years.
All of us
Simon (13:24):
Was it really?
10 years.
Mm-hmm
Yeah.
So that was, that was good.
Fun.
Yeah.
The, the wedding was, uh, anexcellent event.
Uh, it was good to see everybodythere together.
Yeah.
It, it makes me proud to see myfamily and see what they've,
what they've grown up into overthese past years while I've been
away.
Suzanne (13:41):
Yeah.
Cuz you're the oldest.
Simon (13:42):
Yeah, exactly.
So let's move on to number five.
This one was really hard.
Be a good listener.
Put down the phone, pause the TVand look them in the eyes
Suzanne (13:57):
You did this,
Simon (13:58):
Right.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Um, so I tried very hard to dothis, but the only thing I
didn't do is pause the TV, but Ihave,
Suzanne (14:08):
Yeah, it's a tough one.
PAing that
Simon (14:09):
TV?
Yeah.
The TV, the big, the big eye inthe, in the wall.
Um, yeah, I can't, I dunno.
Uh, there weren't any, I don'tthink there were any instances
where we talked during a showthat would've warranted pausing
it.
Yeah.
But,
Suzanne (14:25):
Well, I guess the intent was there.
I did not notice this one.
So you may have to try it again.
Simon (14:30):
Yeah.
I, I, I'm not surprised youdidn't because I, I, I was very
mindful of it while I was tryingto do it because
Suzanne (14:39):
Look at me, I'm trying to
Yeah.
That would
Simon (14:42):
Not.
But notice this small gestureI'm making where I'm putting my
phone down.
I, I, I, I, I, it's one where Idon't think you would ever pick
up on it.
So I don't think it's one that
Suzanne (14:53):
Maybe at like a restaurant or something where we
tend to be on our devices.
Maybe that I would notice youputting your phone down and not
picking it up.
Right.
That might be a better versuswhen I'm being entertained by
TV.
Simon (15:06):
Um, yeah.
Or, or just in, in and aroundthe house when, when we were, uh
, talking or, or just working.
Um, yeah.
I, I, I was putting it down, butagain, it's, it's only a
gesture.
Like I say, I think I would'venoticed not necessarily you.
Yeah.
Um, but it allowed me to focusmore on what you were saying
(15:27):
when you did answer, asked thequestion or said something.
So, I mean, I was able to focusa little bit more, even if you
couldn't tell that I
Suzanne (15:35):
Okay.
Well, that's, that's good.
Perfect.
Simon (15:37):
Yeah.
So, all right.
So, so of the five, which one?
Uh, which one failed, which onewas successful?
Suzanne (15:46):
Uh, well, I would say the last one failed, cuz I
didn't notice that you did it,but I, I do love the little blow
a kiss.
I think that's always a sweetlittle gesture.
So that would be my number one,number
Simon (15:54):
One.
Okay.
I, I, don't a give one second.
All right.
I think maybe should, uh, givesome of these things to try, um,
and get back to us, uh, atromantic things app@gmail.com,
Suzanne (16:06):
That's romantic things.
App gmail.com.
Simon (16:11):
Don't forget to let people know what you think about
this, uh, the podcast and
Suzanne (16:16):
Yeah, please share it, share it, let everybody know.
And uh, don't forget to beromantic.
Simon (16:21):
Exactly.
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