I have just been dumped and I don't know whether to sob or to celebrate.

If you have a prejudice against big ears you are probably thinking that I am lucky to be shot of him. But he didn't have big ears at all. (They were one of his best features actually.:**:

The title of this blog comes from something my sisters and I used to say following a dumping. We would gather around the sob soaked sister offering hugs with lashings of wine and chocolate. "I will survive" played repeatedly as tales of the wrongs "the b*stard" had perpetrated were tut tutted over. Of course there is nothing wrong with you" we cried in unison. "You are too good for him" we advised. "He doesn't deserve you" we tried. But if all else failed we would bring in the big guns ..... "There are plenty more fish in the sea". (After three bottles of wine this one tended to do the trick)

The sinned against sister would wipe her eyes with her snotty sleave, give a reluctant smile and slur "He had big ears anyway" The room would expand with laughter and the world would be a better place in the morning.

That was thirty years ago, 'I will survive' has lost its grooves and my sisters have more serious issues to contend with. So it's just me and Dido sharing a glass of Sauvignon Blanc.

I have no need to list his faults, they were over ridden by my heart. Suffice to say that I will never forgive him for throwing away a five year friendship with a two minute phone call.

Of course there is nothing wrong with me. No, he really didn't deserve me. It's true, I am too good for him ..... and he had big ears anyway.

Sparky x