Mother's Day gifts?

Gmajen and Beasotted the comments are a plea for us all to be united and not segregated, as had been imposed on us by this surge of Oldie postings, some of which already exist on Gransnet. Oldies are most welcome here on Gransnet - we always show interest in new members.

If you reverse things, how strange would it be to have Gransnetters appearing on the Oldie and proclaiming we are Gransnetters not Oldies and therefore we will have our own special articles and threads which you can read, but will not be yours?

There's room for everyone. If I go on to the Grannynet site, I become a Grannynetter and have been treated as such, and welcomed. If Grannynetters come on here, they don't announce they are Grannynetters but become integrated members here. Wouldn't you Oldies like to do the same?

An artificial barrier was created when the Oldie Borum was introduced. I don't for one minute think it was intentional, but it created a division that was not wanted. Using Oldie headings perpetuates that division, and it isn't needed. We don't need to know people are from one camp or another - we're all Gransnetters on here. Let's all join in and enjoy each other's company.

Looking forward to chatting to you, whoever you are

Completely agree Carol

It seems to me that whoever is in charge of that sort of thing on the Oldie must have started with just a copy of Gransnet on their site, personalised it slightly so that the design blended in better with the rest of their stuff (reasonable for showing it to their readers ) and then could not leave well alone.

They clearly had access to adding topics/categories, which we leave up to GNHQ, so they added an Oldie Borum label (a bit cynical to assume from the start that it was going to be boring) and then when that looked a bit barren they added threads as they occurred to them.

I don't think they reconnoitered the threads that already existed, Perhaps they were not aware that all of our threads were going to be accessible, or thought that Oldie readers would only be interested in Oldie threads.

They jumped the gun launching it before GNHQ had told us what was happening, whatever. Lack of communication somewhere.

I've noticed quite a few new members recently. don't know whether or not they are from this link. If so they don't seem to be letting on, must have read the reaction posts. They are welcome whoever they are.

They certainly won't receive a negative response by saying they are with the Oldie, too. Anyone is free to join in, so let's all be friends and enjoy this great site without having to be segregated.

Carol Well said, Totally agree

Thanks! I feel much happier now - off to cuddle my horse!!!

It's another commercial Hallmark Holiday, isn't it? There used to be a churchianity thing called Mothering Sunday, but this Mother's Day thing is recent, surely.

My favourite Father's Day present is a trip to Sadler's Wells by myself