The Profile Substitute Thread

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DH takes ages to take a photo because he can't focus and it's a nightmare getting Peggy to sit still for longer than thirty seconds.

I agree, Lona, I think we can sometimes lose sight of the fact that the posters we're exchanging posts with are real people, not just usernames.

(sorry I'm not blonde, but I tried it once and it was a disaster... )

What a lovely thread, so interesting
Well I'm the oldest so far - 79.
And I managed to post a picture but lost it - I'll try again tomorrow.
I have 3 children, and a stepdaughter. 3 grandchildren, and 4 adopted grandchildren.
We live in France, for 14 years now.

It does. (being careful not to ignore Lona)

Fascinating isn't it? I think Luckygirl and Jings, and Ana are the most surprising for me but it all seems more friendly now somehow!

Oh well that didn't work... Let's try again

Well in for a penny.... Here I am with my daughter at her baby shower four months ago

How do you post a photo on the thread please ? Hope it's dead easy.

ephemeral, not ethereal

No, I haven't looked at it until now and I think it's wonderful.

Rapidly heading for 60, 1 Ex, 1 current, 1 DC with each, 2 GCs, was an accountant (v. boring) until my mid-life crisis, when I changed career and husband and became a gardener.

Love recycling, cashmere, preserving, reading, singing, language of any kind, hate waste, my next door neighbour, cat poo, men who talk to my cleavage and rappers.

Me last month with my girls.

No Gagagran I think this is a lovely and revealing thread.

I don't think I had any preconceptions about people's appearance, or if I did the preconceptions were very ethereal and evaporated so fast I didn't know I'd had them. So, no, not sad at all. It's lovely to see people's faces.

Some very very attractive Grans I am pleased to say. We deserve a better profile. I will post when I have use of my i-Pad but I am 78 so don't expect too much!!

You all seem so thrilled to see each other! Well I must be a real oddball because I wish we hadn't had this thread and these photos. My mental pictures of everyone have been shattered and I preferred it before when I could only imagine what GNs looked like. I actually feel quite sad now I know.

Am I the only one who feels like this?

Yes - several preconceptions have been blown out of the water for me too!

I've only ever had a vague impression of what posters look like in my head, but I must admit some of these photos have come as a bit of a surprise!

And Annsixty thought the same!

B* hell, my post about Luckygirl" crossed with *Indinana's by 3 minutes.

Age 66, busy year 1949 apparently. Also another one who has had a sapphire wedding anniversary this year. Ditto 1970! Live in NW Surrey. Retired teacher too. Begin to feel like a stereotype
What interesting photos, nobody looks as I imagined. But the same thing was true at the only meet up I have been to.
Photo right way up in thumbnail. Sideways now oddly.

OK! this is really really silly but Luckygirl looks nothing like I had imagined she would; but what I imagined her to be like I do not know!

Does anyone else have these pre-conceptions of how someone they have sort of got to know on here had this feeling?

Luckygirl you don't look anything like I imagined you! You're supposed to have short, wavy hair, mid brown in colour. And you definitely shouldn't be wearing glasses! I'm going to struggle to adjust my thinking here

I definitely took it as a compliment!!

I think I paid you a backhanded compliment there and I apologise (well sort of) ,you just didn't look like I pictured you. I feel 90 most days but probably look it!!

.....and I feel so old.......!

Of all the surprises I have had on this thread Luckygirl is the greatest and I don't know why. We all must have a mental picture but you look so young.