I am alive.

We are members of the animal world and we make very good grans. That's one of the reasons humans are so successful.

I do wish people wouldn't talk about the animals world as if we weren't part of it.

oh well yes, my default assumption is that members will be female unless they indicate otherwise because the overwhelming majority are female (I suspect). But no reason why a man might not think:
It's called gransnet. Which members of the animal world make good grans... ?well its a choice between elephants and orcas I think. Wolves possibly.
No offence meant orca and you have every right to maintain a smokescreen around your gender identity if you wish.

Ah, a light bulb moment has just occurred.

BTW, jess, are all male orcas brilliant matriarchs as well? #teasing

Matriarch would be assuming I'm female JessM!

I do like your name orca did you choose it because orcas are such brilliant matriarchs?

Ooooh, this is becoming exciting. ??first GN romance [heart emoticon]

PS just so you know I'm a lot older than you I think.

That's a date Frank. I'm going to be in the area over Easter I think. I know John Lewis and we could meet for a coffee in the little cafe there. How about I PM you nearer the time so we don't have all of GN there too?

Will you wear a carnation of carry a copy of the FT?

Plenty of parking in Solihull, John Lewis has a big car park.

Hi JessM

I am alive. I have been doing other things since yesterday and I am now going to meet a friend and have lunch.

Frank

Gransnet is turning into Blind Date !

Hi Orca

That would be ok.
I don't know Solihull town centre that well but I know John Lewis and could get there by train.
John Lewis is just a short walk from the station.
The other alternative is to meet somewhere where there is some parking a bit outside Solihull or even in Birmingham.
I think the Solihull trains come in to Snowhill and my trains come in to New St.
There are plenty of pubs between these stations.

Frank

Proves he's not real

Everything suddenly gone quiet ?

That would be great orca and you could reassure us all that he is alive and not the figment of our imaginations, or the doppleganger of someone rumoured to be the twin of someone dead.

You don't often get an offer as good as that, Frank!

I'm visiting a friend in Solihull sometime soon, perhaps we could meet up Frank and then I can assure everyone you're real and alive?

Never a twin. The world could not cope with two.

Hi ginny / Orca

No doubt I will solve the mystery at some point.
I am just wondering how many people I will meet face to face in the future who will think I am a twin of Frank or they may think I am a ghost.

Frank

Well I never Frank!

So many 'odd' things.

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I can remember hearing one of my ex teachers had passed away once. The person was in London for the day and I thought the person was reliable as he was now a headmaster at a Croydon School but he was a pupil at the school I went to.
My mother in law who was the ex headmistress lost contact with him as he moved on to another school.
I went to school in Birmingham.
About 3 months later I saw this teacher who was supposed to have passed away and he could see I looked astonished.
He had heard from another source he was supposed to be dead.
It was another teacher who lived near him with the same name who had passed away.
I managed to contact the person who told me the teacher was dead but he told me he had been told by an ex pupil who was a doctor and he had no way of contacting him.
Oddly enough I met 3 ex pupils in London over the next few months and they told me this teacher had died. I did correct them but they could not contact the people who told them.
Oddly enough about 3 years later this teacher did pass away but I did check with his son before passing the information to anybody else.

Frank