Tarts?

KP best described as a successful business enterprise! Gotta hand it.

PS, I've never been on a site before where the standard of spelling and grammar has been so high, congrats to all.

Oh pompeyguy (I assume you are a man?) that is a great compliment to everyone on this site. I think it says something about the very high standards of post-war education.

Not sure why you're on the "tarts" thread though!

Interesting to see the ladies views.

Hate to be pedantic pompeyguy but there should be an apostrophe after "ladies".

I'm obliged m'lord (GCE O level failed )

I meant to say GCE O level English failed, too busy thinking about the washing up, or at least loading the dish washer.

green I think that you left your fishnets wrapped around that lamp-post that we ended up wrapped around when we came home one night on the broomstick,it was somewhere just past the M62 or there abouts,I've got a spare pair if you need them ?

Oh don't start jack or you will be shouting at us as well as the radio . We do not always choose to show off our perfect command of spelling, grammar and punctuation on gransnet because it is informal communication. Also some people might be intimidated if they get pulled up on these things. We have a few timid lurkers who are nervous about posting. Come on we know you are there lurker grans. Come out of the shadows and play.

Got to have my nightly ration of alcohol early tonight, blood test in the morning, so no booze after 9.30pm, so from now on E&OE.

Hey Pompeyguy I'm married to a sort of Pompeyguy, ie an ex sailor. We lived in Pompey, in Southsea and later in a married quarter in Rowner, Gosport, when first married in the late 60s.

These days I could cheerfully chuck him back into the water sometimes though!! Come to think of it, he once DID get washed overboard, off a frigate in a storm in the North Atlantic. In March!. He got double rum rations and two weeks survivors leave afterwards.

As for being a tart - I wasted all those opportunities to be a very naughty girl back then. I was even an au pair girl for a while, but never got the sort of tarty life as depicted in popular culture of the time. Mind you, coming from near Leeds, quite a centre of fashion back then, I was in micro mini skirts before they had reached Pompey, so I guess I was a little bit tarty back then.

Oh well, it's not too late. I'm playing Rita of 'Educating Rita' in a U3A Performance Group's show later this year. I'll make her quite tarty!

joan on you playing Rita, I saw it not long ago in Liverpool so it was full to the brim with humour,Rita,Shirley Valentine and Blood Brothers are my guilty secret in life.

glamma, no need to feel guilty about Willie Russell! My mature (Access to HE) students just loved Educating Rita - had kindred feeling! The foreword he wrote to the play is all about his own education and how he learned as a mature student himself. It was well worth reading and discussing with those Access students. Joan - what a great part to play. She goes from tarty to quite conventional in the film.

Yes, I love Willie Russell, and read that foreword to the play. Rita and Shirley Valentine are such favourites of mine.

We are only doing part of the play, for our winter expo in August. The theme is 'Women in literature and history'. All sorts of other women, from Lady Godiva to Mae West will be featured. (We've got a bloke playing Godiva - in a long frock and a wig: some demanded he wear just a body suit, but I think we'd all get arrested)