The Land of Grimney - The Illustrated Adventures of Cora Pearl, aged 12

Here is something new. A chance for members to share their best and worst memories!

Bad memories... Yes, this is a good one.. Years ago I had a girlfriend, and I replaced her old banger of a car worth about 120 quid with a KA worth about 2000, I decided to buy it for her on finance...

Anyway, I was halfway through the payments when she decided she wanted to end the relationship. (she'd got someone else lined up)

We went to the local pub where she told me I was weak, and that I needed to accept the relationship was over, then she left me there, driving off in the car I was still paying for! Nice touch!

So I was in a bit of a state, still paying for the car, whilst she was telling me to move on and to get a knew life, all the time she was still driving around in the KA

Eventually, I snapped and things got very nasty! She would not return the car, and when it was returned it was dented (this happened before though) She would not return the documents so I couldn't return the car to the finance company, and had to keep paying monthly! Eventually she relented, but by then I'd really got very angry with her and hired a solicitor to chase her down for the whole cost of the finance I'd paid!

However, eventually I relented and withdrew the claim. Still, I suppose I had the last laugh because when I was teaching, I found out that her new boyfriend was two timing her with a friend of one of my students, he liked teenagers! Sometime later a friend of mine met her whilst speed dating!

I have no grudges against her now, and don't hate her either, that kind of feeling makes you weak.

It was all very tragic, but it could have been worse! Some of her family and a friend of hers have actually said sorry to me, so that helped.

Anyway that has got the ball rolling!

God! What a nightmare! I hope you gave her hell on earth, I would have chased her for every penny, she sounds like a right... Best not to swear as the site is child friendly

Made me laugh that your friend met her speed dating

I hope he told her off! Although I wouldn't waste my breath on someone like that unless I'd got halitosis!

Anyway, great website! I've really enjoyed everything on here.

I hope you all keep up the great work!

I did give her hell Morcini, but on reflection hatred saps your strength and makes you a weak character. I'm quite happy to forgive her now, however she is unable to forgive me, although that is not my problem, she is the one with all the problems.

Forgive you??? Eh? Don't get it. Forget her forgiveness, whatever you said, or did she deserved it! If I was buying someone a car, and they dumped me the way way she dumped you, she wouldn't have driven off in the thing, makes me fume I can tell you!

I had a girlfriend who did exactly the same to me! She got what she deserved tho, what goes around and comes around. She was a vile person. Fortunately I'm happily married now. My take on it is this, could have been worse u coulda been stuck with her your whole life. Plenty of decent girls out there, I've got one! A diamond in the rough

Good: Without a doubt, my best memory is the day my little girl was born. The birth went very smoothly and I was so proud. My life made sense at that moment. I had a wonderful wife and a beautiful daughter and things were about as good as I could've hoped for.

Bad: A little over two years later, my wife was lying on her death bed, dying of cancer. I sat with her, holding her hand. I don't know if she knew I was there or not because she wasn't opening her eyes any more, let alone speaking. The sound of her breathing slowing to a stop is fresh in my mind. I don't want to forget it though. All of the memories, good and bad, are interwoven so if one was to go, they'd all have to go. Learning to live with it is all can do.