Message from the doghouse

Gracesmum George has already asked after Grace twice this morning. He is a mini fox terrier and already has a girlfriend who lives down the lane. They have already run away together and had to be brought back. She is a Labrador, I suspect he likes the big girls.

absent I can't see how anyone could get you and Greatnan mixed up but sometimes I have thought you and JessM are the same person.

Thank you POGS - "using" Grace as my mouthpiece was meant as a harmless bit of fun as I was trying to retain my sense of humour while feeling as if I had been slapped down for stepping out of line!! Nice to hear from you - I thought you had beeen very quiet recently!

nightowl

Thanks to you too.

gracesmum

I also meant to say I thought your OP was charming and refreshing in it's light hearted approach. Hope you are feeling better and now accept you had nothing, by the sounds of it, to have felt remotely guilty about.

Welcome back POGS I was wondering where you were!

I blame the weather, Nelliem. not!

bags jeni Interfacing? Sewing stuff on this thread?

Gransnet forums seem to have entered an altogther new level of surrealism!

Nanadog

How kind, thanks

Hi POGS nice to have you back

gracesmum

Just returned to GN after a break away and I cannot believe you would have upset anyone. Always rational to me and simply like most people just want to engage in chit chat.

It's a pleasure Movedalot.

Oldgrey yes, a happy memory, we must organise something again for early 2013. Gracemum are you going to organise us all again?

Thank you once again absent for your elucidation.

Jess a feeling of 'hiraeth'.....I think W. Anglesey is where I would most like to be today!
Gracesmum not sure what all this is about, but I simply cannot imagine you would ever do (say or write) anything inappropriate.
Movedalot same goes for you..... having met you lovely ladies (and all who got together in Brum. A super group!)

butty bias binding on needlecord might look a bit odd, OK on cotton. Much easier though, you are right.

Movedalot On some thread JessM replied to Greatnan concerning a post that I had written. Jings wondered why the two of us were being confused with each other and Greatnan pointed out that we have a lot in common so she didn't mind. JessM added that she too has family in New Zealand so the three of us make a little group of godzone grannies. It's not anything serious or important.

Greatnan You've lost me! You mentioned Alison once before to me but I still don't get it, do you think we are the same person? Did she question your comments too? Sounds a touch paranoid to me.

Now what did Alison once say to me........oh, yes, 'if the cap fits.....'

Greatnan where did the idea that you and absent might be one person? I can't see that anywhere. Who is trying to disguise their style? Who is a doppleganger? I think you make be making veiled references but they are too veiled for me to work out! Please could you simply spell it out rather than leaving so many of us wondering who you are talking about? As said before, I am just a simple soul who tells it as it is.

What about going a simpler route and using good old fashioned bias binding?

jeni, interfacing is thin (usually) fabric which is completely different from the fabric you're using for the garment. Forgive me if someone has already told you this. The thread got me in a tangle so I gave up reading it a bit back.

It'a also different from the lining.

If you go to a sewing shop and ask for fusible interfacing they'll know what you mean.

I wouldn't use the 'self' fabric (what the dress is made of), but it might be OK. Possibly too thick though.

How's it coming along?

I thought for just a second that glassortwo wrote 'absent and Greatnan were the sane person'

You haven't met some of us in person!

Saw an interesting Russian play today 'The Promise' set in Leningrad which included the line 'easier to be brave in the written word than in person' and thought how applicable it was to Gransnet.

greatnan you and * absent* the same person

hee hee, NZ-linked Grans are dopplegangers, we should start a coven with our supernatural powers.
Nice to see you again movealot

It has been a lovely crisp Autumn day here and I went for a two hour walk in the pine forests on the mountains above Lake Geneva. There was a wonderful sunset - red and pale blue bands in the sky, and the snow capped peaks turned pink. As I drove down the mountain the lights were beginning to twinkle in the valley below and there were just a few wraiths of mist and a full moon with a halo. Magical.

Ceesnan - did you not see my - you are allowed to say anything if you add that! Jingle uses it a lot.

I love the idea that absent and I might be one person - it would take a very accomplished author to write in two such distinct styles. Still, we are hoping to end up as close neighbours when I emigrate and we certainly share a lot of our views. It is actually quite hard to disguise your style, especially from people who are used to reading and judging written work, so it does not need anybody to be 'outed' before we spot the doppelgangers.