Its refreshing to know that you are not the only one, thankgoodness for gransnet!

MrsJamjam...how hard you have worked and how envious I am of your holiday ..have a wonderful time and try to think of us at sometime during your 2 week break xxxx

I will raise a of retsina to you all

Great day here in the middle of the USA. finally coll after a few day of 100 degrees. This is my first day on gransnet . It is fun to read the forums.

Hello faith and welcome. If you have an addictive personality you'd best leave now or resign yourself to becoming a Gransnet junkie like the rest of us.

Have a good trip MrsJamjam

Thanks grannyactivist. I am afraid I do have an addictive personality!

have a brill time Mrs Jamjam where ever your going and whenever...
absoloutley !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! down here on Oswaldtwistle lancashire lol....... yuk!!

Welcome faith, I think you will find gransnet entertaining

Hello faith welcome to gransnet

Hello faith, nice to meet you.

Hi Faith ..pleased to say it is much cooler here in Scotland ..I really don't do heat !!!!! Welcome xx

Hi Faith. I'm aware of grans in Australia and on the continent but you are the first from the USA that I've spotted - sorry if I missed anyone! Welcome but be warned- GN can be totally addictive. To Mrs Jamjam - bon voyage!

Welcome Faith, there are only three of us so far (that we know of) from Australia and I think one from China, nice to see someone from the US. Gransnet is too interesting and last weekend when I had no internet access I have to admit I wondered what was going on on...
Have a lovely holiday Mrs Jamjam!!!

It would be sad, though, if Gransnet just became a place to share each other's whinges.

I appreciate we do have common feelings as Grans, and there should always be a place for mutual support, but we surely don't want to get too narrow in our subjects.

Hello faith! Good to meet you - be warned , it's hard to get off here, without just having to have a wee peek now and again (often)! jangly, do you not think that we're being quite careful not to become 'narrow'? What's your particular worry about how things may go? I don't think we share whinges. Don't you think it's a case of when worries/concerns bother us, that it's a good way to find out each others' slant on them?

jangly, having looked at the diversity of forums and threads, I can't imagine that we are ever going to risk becoming too narrow!

I did say there should always be a place for mutual support. I guess I don't want to see too many threads along the lines of "I'm hard done by by dil". But that's just me and I don't have to read them.

Just not too keen on smug and complacent. Sort of a group hug all the time.

Again, just me.

No you don't have to read them, or post on them, Jangly, if personal problems are not your thing. Which is not to say that sometimes a good answer is "Yes you are being unreasonable and this is why I think you are..." Rather than a chorus of "poor you"s.

I think people join this forum because they are, to some extent, a bit lonely or isolated (maybe they don't know other granparents for instance) and that it can be a solace for some or a place to let of steam for others.
I have noticed that the number of members is increasing steadily, after a bit of a slow period, and that the number of active threads is growing all the time. There are some that I never look at because they are not one of my areas of interest (e.g. sewing or crafts)
It was kind of cosy when there were just a few regular posters, but it is good to see it growing and getting more varied.
Yes it is addictive and i need to get on and do some other things...

Yes - I've already said that jess. No real need to repeat it back at me!

.....glass of or anyone......

biker make mine a large one

biker can I be greedy and have a bucketful please,I'm feeling rather stressed to-day,and a warm welcome to faith nice to hear from you

Thanks, biker, a wee snifter would be very acceptable!

for glassortwo (couldnt find large glass so heres 3 small ones lol....
looking for large! bucket suitable for glammanana ( just rooting under stairs for mop bucket!
for Annobel enjoy all

oh yes hello faith cheers