Being spontaneous, and a bit romantic!

[Gemini]

I'm all for a bit of surprise and romance in a relationship. OH surprised me with a lovely night away for our 1st anniversary in April.
I was thinking today that it was a long time since I had surprised her with anything.
So, I have booked us theatre tickets for tomorrow night, and booked a table at Ask restaurant just around the corner for 6pm, before the show.

Do you like to arrange little surprises for your loved ones, and do you like to be surprised?
For a holiday I like to know to plan and have the pleasure of anticipation. For a day or night out I like a surprise once in a while

[Oma]

Brian is romantic he often surprises me with a few days away or buys me something I have been looking at , I don't like holiday surprises I like to plan what I'm taking with us , He gave me a surprise birthday party although I said I didn't want a fuss I'm glad he did it was wonderful

[Nanto2girls]

Many years ago, I wanted a new cooker and we had looked at one in a shop. A few months later we decorated the kitchen,but hubby never mentioned the cooker.
I got up one morning and there was the said cooker installed in the kitchen. He had been and bought it,had it delivered to his friends house,and they installed it one night after I had gone to bed, and I never heard a thing.

[ZIZI]

Husband does do little surprises like next week we are going to a spa hotel for two nights. One night was my birthday treat and after the last week with the kitchen he upped it to two nights. He isn't really a big surprise person to be honest. We talk too much......

looking forward to the couple of days away, in fact cannot wait.

[Pearl5]

OH will book tickets for Theatre Royal and City Hall, and throw in a meal, if its a surprise he will tell me to keep dates free, he would book a few days away but tell me, i don't think i could cope with a full on surprise on the day, because i need to know in advance what i am going to wear..... if it was a few days away or holiday i would have to know so i could sort out what to take

I do like surprises as long as i know in advance....

[Grauntie Mag]

I'd just love a surprise....any surprise. I can't remember any surprises like him booking anything. If I didn't instigate visiting places we'd never go anywhere. It's my birthday soon and if I don't suggest something it will just be another day as far as OH is concerned. After 43 years though I'm used to it. 🙄

[Daisy]

GM - much the same here. OH did organise a surprise party for my 60th, but, not knowing I wasn't dressed appropriately and didn't have chance to change. But it was still wonderful. Other than that no. And I have to be honest here - I did a surprise party for his 60th, but haven't done anything since.

[Plantaholic]

No surprises here, not a family thing, i prefer to look forward to the treat.

[Gemini]

Plant, I think I do too on balance. OH likes a surprise though

I need events to look forward to in life - long and short term, big and small, as long as it is something nice.
OH on the other hand is happy day to day without having to be looking forward to something all the time. I would rather be like her, but I'm not!

[ZIZI]

When it was my husband's 60th I wanted to organise a surprise party and went to see various venues. I didn't tell him about it (of course) but one day we were sitting here and he poked in the arm and said "if you organise a surprise party I will walk out" so I didn't and instead we took the two boys to Chessington for the weekend and met the family for lunch on the Sunday. I don't know how he knew what I was up to although I must say I am an incredibly bad fibber as in I cannot keep a straight face and I might have let the secret out myself!

[Daisy]

I completely forgot - the DSs and I organised a surprise for OH's 70th last October. It was the flight in a WWII Spitfire, and it all back-fired when the flight was cancelled the day before because of technical problems! The hastily re-arranged 'surprise' was ok, but not what we had planned. He finally got his Spitfire flight in June, and Plant and Gem have a point. By then he knew he was having the flight and spent several months looking forward to it. I was just sad that it wasn't the whole family occasion we'd planned.

[Glammanana]

My hubby hates surprises he even threatened to walk out of the hotel bar last year when we where in Mallorca celebrating his 70th birthday if it was mentioned by the dj bloke,but he does surprise me sometimes in little ways I will go in the fridge and find my favourite choco bar or he will take poppy for a walk and bring back fresh flowers.

[Daisy]

Oh dear - that's something else I'd forgotten. OH brought me some flowers a couple of weeks ago. He noticed they were reduced to £1 a bunch, got 2 bunches and then noticed there were some more reduced to 30p a bunch so got 2 of those as well! It was just after I had been looking after various neighbours' cats and they had also given me flowers. Our house looked like a florists for about a week!

Glamm - I wonder if your OH would really have walked out!