Message from the doghouse

Ok Glass Grannyeggs I might let you off this time!
This has been one of the more crazy diverse selection of posts on one thread. Its the time shifts in way the posts come in that makes it such fun to read.
It keeps us on our toes and provides some amusement though! I am still ing at it.

nellie sorry miss!!! being in the doghouse is my usual state so I am not surprised, I dont know about you grannyeggs (I have to stop and think everytime I type your name )

You mean we'll be in the doghouse nellie ?

Really grannyeggs glass do keep up! It is surely quite clear what this thread is about. I shall expect your written account of what has been discussed on my desk first thing on Monday morning or its a detention.

Both barmy.

Ok glass I have it too.Not sure what good it will do us, we now have it on two threads

Right I have found the right thread...dont ask....I am confused enough but here goes ........

grannyeggs when you changed your name I put my foot right in it and called you goldeneggs (dont know if you noticed)

It's a bit like tuning into The Archers after a few years months away - "plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose"

I have just returned to Gransnet after a few weeks of not logging on or occasional lurking. I haven't a clue what this thread is about, it has lurched from one subject to another and back again, Gracesmum in the dog house, The Alps New Zealand , dress making are only a few! I also see that name changing is frowned upon, I did it once, from Golden Gran to Grannyeggs, and I can't for the life of me remember why, it seems pointless now. Anyway what I am saying is, it's great to be back and see that nothing has changed. Gransnetters rock!

Oh! I thought it meant net curtains....

Strictly speaking, netty is a Geordie word for a loo. (Geordie = Newcastle, but I am County Durham.) They were always outside and not necessarily water-flushed. My bro-in-law always refers to the loo as the netty.

Use your imagination, JessM. What facilities do we have inside nowadays that used to be outside in the backyard?

still want to know what netties is/are????

Netties? What are they? Please translate northern dialect?

Yes JessM we have shops and a lovely Edwardian theatre. We even have indoor netties nowadays.

Yes we have a busy theatre that caters for wide range of tastes, also cinemas etc.
And a LOT of shopping, most of it mall based. Bit of a shopping paradise for the northern home counties/western east anglia/southern midlands or wherever we are. Not a mountain in site. Guess you've got shops in Darlington absent

I don't suppose many people would be happy in my bit of the Alps - my village has one little supermarket, one bakers, a post office, two restaurants/bars and, of course, a beauty and hair salon. There is a shop selling skiing and other sports equipment. I live about 3 kms out of the village - my block of flats is right on the crest of a mountain pass or col. It is a three minute drive to the nearest shop, or a 20-minute walk down a very steep road. There are large supermarkets within a 30 minute drive.
There are, of course, all the usual large French stores in the nearest towns of Annemasse and Thonon les Bains, but as I rarely shop for anything other than food I don't use them.

I don't know Milton Keynes, but I suspect that if you like to go out in the evenings, to cinema, theatre, or bar you will be happier there than in the Alps! Horses for courses!

JessM No it isn't. Remember we're all (that is three of us) in this together. There's no skiing in Darlington.

Ah - and it has "real snow" there we are then. Skiing is the link!

Come on, jessM- we have the snowdome - so that's the same, and don't we still have The Point? It could pass for an alp on a foggy day with the lights off

Perhaps Joan could nip over from Oz! Any more potential members of GN Down Under?

Seems we have more than offspring in NZ in common. Would never have guessed
Have to say that MK and the Alps have very little in common though. (Struggling to think of anything - internet connection? shops?)
Sigh. Maybe one day we will all be growing old (dis)gracefully in NZ and having a little NZ GN chapter meeting.

I am more than happy to be confused with jess or absent - but I am the one with many grandchildren and great-grandchildren! And there is a photo of me on my profile.

Faye I'm quite flattered by all this confusion but am a little worried about how Greatnan and JessM might be feeling. We really are three quite different people.

Oh, hello POGS Was wondering where you had got to! Nice to see you back.