Clacton on sea

Yes, feistysmartlady you must be a clone of youngsaucygranny . Same writing style, same large chip on shoulder, same contempt for boring elderly ladies who meet up without checking the credentials of those they might meet and sometimes mention to their friends that they are more than 56 and have some aches and pains (you must be 57 by now. Have the aches and pains set in yet, dear?)

Sorry, I am not best known for my aggressive posts, and I don't often do this but as I am 74 and a half and have just brought home a heavy shopping trolleyful of christmas stuff from Tesco's, on the bus, and pulled it up a steep hill with the arm that I did not dislocate in a fall a month ago (the other one still needs a lot of painful exercises before it will have the strength) I feel qualified to be a bit cross at your posts on here and on the other thread.

Boast about being feisty or saucy when you have overcome an obstacle or two on your way to feistyness. 56 is no age. you are a spring chicken, of course you are feisty.

No wonder you are looking for online friends if you won't speak to anyone who has not been vetted. I don't think I would pass your high standards, so I suspect I would not be blessed with your esteemed friendship.

feistysmartlady are you also saucyyounggranny?

You both have clients that you service from home.

I'm a qualified medical hypnotherapist and I wouldn't dream of calling anyone stupid ( well, not without meeting them anyway?)

Not heard a credible hypnotherapist calling people stupid in public before. Just sayin'

A judgemental post critiscising judgemental posts ....?

Oh dear; that is your second very judgemental post, feistysmartlady. Yet you are accusing us of being stupid, without having "met" any of us on other threads, as far as I can see.

Well, how to make friends!

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She said the word get thee behind me.

Holland on sea / Clacton lady new to site. Well a big hello everyone. Are you looking forward to a nice Christmas?

Well said graces,mum! I live in Frinton sounds like meet up not like
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I have been to two meet-ups and thoroughly enjoyed both. I found lovely warm funny and friendly women and we had a great laugh as well as talking 19 to the dozen I would NEVER have bothered to "check them out" in advance in the way you suggest youngsaucygranny - and I assume they didn't check me out either ( I believe you said : "I would be happy to exchange details of age, hobbies, interests etc and see if I have enough in common for meets.") - if they did, I just hope I lived up (or down) to expectations. I'm afraid I just don't see where you are coming from - and I don't mean Essex ! This is a discussion forum and a place where we can and do have a lively exchange of views, ask for and offer advice and opinions, have a laugh at jokes or humorous situations and if a lunch or a coffee or tea produces potential friends - that is a bonus! Some members prefer to retain the anonymity of not meeting face to face and that is fine too.

For those of you with a CO postcode, I am going to be hosting a virtual local meetup for an informal getting to know you chat on the Colchester forum on Friday.

If you can't make it you can introduce yourself beforehand and take a look later.

I hope to have weekly local online chats with different subjects and on different days and times....these will also be advertised on our Facebook page.

I repeat

It might, but possibly without all contributors!

Sounds to me as though this meetup will never happen.

I'd like to be a fly on the wall - hope there are pictures of this meet up

Was it one of the Marx brothers who said he would not want to belong to any club which would accept someone like him? It may have been someone else.

The trouble with being over-particular about who you socialise with is that may turn out to be just as fussy and you end up friendless.

And you don't find out everything about someone from one meeting - or from a profile. I, of course, am young-looking, beautiful, intelligent, sweet-natured and multi-talented, and I have the written evidence to prove it.

So - this is not the place for you?

Yeah this is all confusing. I live Brightlingsea and am looking for friends too, but would not ever just meet up with just any person who wants to meet me and need to know they are abouts 65-75 and my types. Yeah like meeting up with a bunch of just anyones would not suits me. Too busy anyways and can go U3A Probus and stuff for that. Last year I put ads in local papers for friends and got loads of replies, but did not rush to meet them all, asked them questions and chatted on phone lots of times to be sure it as good idea first. Some of them were nutters, idiots and bores or way too young or too old and such. One old ladies wanted me go round her place and do shopping and cleaning for her! I work in a nursing home twelve hour shifts six days a week and take care of ma and pa and hubby and need to spend my time off best ways.

Freudian slip methinks ...

'Clients' ....'

Glad to hear that you know what you are doing.

As the people on Gransnet are not clients, but friends, and all the meetups I have been at have been with several people and in very public places, I have never bothered too much with checking out their credentials. Of course, most of them have been with posters who already knew one another from exchanging friendly views on all manner of subjects, just like people you would meet in other circumstances. If I had been advertising to meet a stranger with a view to close friendship and private comunications it would have been different.

I hope you find that Gransnet is what you are looking for, and are not disappointed.

Elegran. Thanks for the post but I do not need advice. And no thanks I do not meet up with people taking a chance - as you call it - hoping we have something in common. I would not take a day off work - unpaid for that.
I check out my clients carefully before I let them consult me, and most of them consult me by email and phone and cannot come to my office to see me. I am happy to chat on here when I am in the mood and have time and meet someone special and worth meeting if and when that comes - as the icing on the cake. I will do a profile.