If you think there is petty bickering on here.......

Certainly seems more jollity, long may it last , not really very nice to be horrid .

or taking umbrage where none is particulary intended .

POGS you made me go and read it! I have commented that I don't think it is as bad as has been before so, like you, I hope it lasts.

And then I was proved wrong within minutes!!!

I hadn't read In The News.

I don't think it's just the Christmas spirit. Perhaps people are just tired of petty bickering generally?

Movedalot

I agree with you. I have felt G.N. has been different recently?. Perhaps it is the christmas spirit but I hope it lasts.

A friend said last week as she was weeping over the Christmas cards-several years into widowhood-she said she wished she had been kinder to her husband when he was there. I have taken this to heart in a big way. the red wine for the giblet gravy had gone AWOL and I was told I never knew where anything was etc. Found the bottle in the recycling box but went back in and was really sweet- we must have misunderstood each other-I wasn't making myself clear-I'd used it up on the spiced port'n prunes etc yesterday. It isn't as tho' M&S don't give away a bottle of wine free every week.........and theelder daughter has just sent two! cases of wine. I think she wants something.
So be kind NYR

Arguing in a rational manner is OK too. Disagreeing, even forcefully, is not necessarily nasty.
Shame about the grumpy young things, nanapug.

It seems to me that things have improved on GN recently although I haven't been on all threads. Is it the Christmas spirit coming out?

I don't think that because other forums are worse it gives anyone on GN a reason to be horrid, surely we are all old enough to know that kindness is a better way?