LADIES OR GENTS AT HOME

[Kev]

as we all love our great hobby of metal detecting and go out on the early morning to hunt for our treasure, just wondering to here of everyone does your wife,husband,or partner or in my case lady friend take interest on what you find or when you talk detecting when you are back home with them! in my case my dear lady friend is interested what i find and when i do BABBLE on to her about detectingwales.com and all the things to do with detecting , but i wonder sometimes do i get on her nerves 

[altinkum]

the first thing my wife ask's is what's it worth and my kid's call me an anorak or a durr whatever one of those are

[Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan )]

a durr,  blimey i haven't heard of that either,  lol

Yes Kev,  when i first started out in the detecting world i was seeing someone and she was interested and said we may find some hammered  medieval coins along some old footpaths, hell, i didn't even know what they were lol,

 But,  when i did go out now and then she thought i was going out seeing someone else, lol,  ohh women hey,  she wasn't comfortable with it at all then,
Alan

[Chef Geoff]

the first thing my wife ask's is what's it worth and my kid's call me an anorak or a durr whatever one of those are

Don't worry Mike your not alone, I am also Durr. I have looked it up in the Observers book of Neanderthal children and it's Teenish for "God Dad your so boring", usually followed by the educated observation of "what ever".

Chef

[Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan )]

   ha ha, its all a learning kerb  we learn so much history from it,
  when i was on a ralley a few years ago a young lad was detecting,  he said he's learned more history by detecting than ever he did in school lol more interesting too,   actully he's on Mike Peggs Film , Down to Earth, the first one,
 Alan

[PHIL YNYSBOETH]

Dont be fooled Kev

Lady friends only pretend to look interested, i think they learn it from their mothers.
When you marry them its a differant story ! ,lol
When your talking to her about Detecting throw in an unexpected word see if she notices lol

Everyone knows all that women think about is shoes 

Ive tried to get the Miss,s into Detecting but shes just not interested.
I envy Detecting Couples i know we have a few on the forum and a few in my club RARE

[Richy]

My daughter, my grandaughter and my son-in-law are all into detecting but they're not fanatics.

My son-in-law has a camper and they go to Fishguard a lot as his parents have a caravan there, he takes the grandaughter on the beaches but they've only ever found modern coinage.

My wife? She likes it but I can't ever see her going 'tecting.   

[Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan )]

ha ha ha PHil  yeah,  their minds work in a different way to ours, you need to be a Philadelphian lawyer to work them out , their a spieces in their own Mate  lol, yeah, and often learn  from their mum's to keep the secrets going,
 ooooops i'd better shut up,  Jo has just come on, ohhhhh,  lol

[Tafflaff (Rob)]

My wife has already told me that , "She would rather have her eyes gouged out wit hot splintery wooden spoons, than listen to me talk about old rubbish I found in the dirt that people 500 years ago had the good sense to dispose of"   

That one hurt.

[altinkum]

hey chef i just took my 2 boy's up asda to get them a playstation game each aint it funny there was no fighting bitch fit's or stropp's on the way up or back within 3 min's of walking in the house it all kick's off. then i'm accused of favoring one over the other YOU JUST CANT WIN.   MIKE

[Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan )]

 lol  lol   don't it just say it all, ohhh dear , yah just can't win,  lol

[Chef Geoff]

I don't think they learn it, I think its instinctive.
I have three daughters and from the age of about three, they could put their head on one side and say , in that sing songy voice "Dady", and no matter how hard I tried, I could feel all the will power and resistance draining out of me, and they even took over my voice box, all I could say was yes.

A dangerous breed.

[waltonbasinman]

My missus is fine and actually reads this forum quite regularly. Needs a bit more effort with the finds though. I get the usual what,s it worth, but shes fine and knows we all need our own space now and then. Best non detector find I ever made.

[hedgehog]

My missus is fine and actually reads this forum quite regularly. Needs a bit more effort with the finds though. I get the usual what,s it worth, but shes fine and knows we all need our own space now and then. Best non detector find I ever made.

  That's really sweet Paul , what a nice thing to say!
Trying to understand what talking about detecting is like to most women, can only think on the shoes theme; if they start talking about shoes my mind goes , lah, lah , lah , lah is it over yet? 

[DIGGA]

HI THERE   NOOOOOOO   THE MRS HAS ABSOLUTLY NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER IN DETECTING  .............   USUALLY TAKES THE MICK OUT OF THE THINGS I FIND AND BRING BACK ...................   SHE WILL SOON CHANGE HER MIND  WHEN I BRING HOME A HUGE HOARD  OF  RARE GOLD COINS ...............  MY ANSWER WILL BE ,,,, SORRY YOU HAVE NO INTEREST   SO   THIS SHOULDENT INTEREST YOU  ........................ WELL I MIGHT GET HER A TWIX OR A MARS BAR  IF SHES LUCKY