What has happened to GN just lately?

That's what it is, Stansgran cabin fever. All that excitement over the Christmas holidays for a couple of weeks, then back to auld claes and parritch and the same boring routine.

I think that's it stands gran .

Sorry stansgran

I didn#t 'anounce' myself when I joined! I suppose its a bit late now

stansgran I agree with your comments about taking umbrage at others' comments and the fact that there is a 'cabin fever' feeling about!.

I did get concerned that I had inadvertently upset someone enough to make them sign off GN. But I cannot dislike someone I do not know..only disagree with or dislike what they say.

Movedalot it's never too late. Welcome from me!

Thanks when

Thanks petallus I did wonder.

Well all the things you miss when you go to work on a Saturday

anno I take it all back. absent i apologise now and see that you too are indeed a 'very sensitive plant'. I had been very wrong in my assessment. Mea culpa. Now let's all be friends and move on.

I got something right! (jumping up and down emoticon)

Am I being dense (again)? What phoenix?

I'm not sure what you're taking back, Kali but am happy to move on and get things on an even keel. Cheers!

You said I was a tad tactless to refer to Absent as a TOB.

Well, whenim said I did at 12.15!

I think I'll be a reader not a poster in future. As am worried I may be one of those guilty of "inconsequential posts"

nina you only have to look at my ramblings about coffee machines, underwear malfunctions and cat vomit to see that I could almost take "inconsequential posts" as a specialist subject!

Room for all, surely!

Bring it on nina not a problem
phoenix you are always highly entertaining

Kali I had to scroll all the way back to see what TOB stood for. I did wonder.

I didn't want to cause offence all over again Faye hence the initials. I didn't actually mean to cause offence in the first place as when my son referred to me, affectionately I thought, as a TOB and I was quite tickled.

Ah, OK, Kali. You should hear what my DS2 calls me - affectionately, of course!

You are not offensive Kali, just not a walkover.

Glad you notice I never initiate an argument

Kali No one person can initiate an argument. It will always take two or more. My point being that people joining or engaging in an argument are making a concious choice to do so.

If anyone is not comfortable with an argument or the way discussion is going the best thing to do is just to calmly walk away. Rather than "losing face" by this you are then depriving the other person of their audience and any attempt, or percieved attempt to wind you up.

Do not worry about having the last word it isn't worth it. You are then the one to leave the situation with your dignity intact.
Night all.

It is not just about having the last word Nelliemoser, you can't leave with your dignity intact when what you have written has been continually misinterpreted.