Pippa Middleton has had a baby girl[smile]

This is a very varied thread!

It's very evocative, and I can see the association with PM Fanny.

Was he any good as an English Teacher?

The Frank Skinner?

Anniebach

You fired the starting gun Lucca

Just catch the next bullet in your teeth and spit the thing out, then take a bow

Yes, yes he was. He chose some odd books though. We were all girls (he was in his element) and his choices were a bit 'blokey' - Homage to Catalonia and Heart of Darkness.
But he also chose Equus which I adored and became a bit obsessed with Peter Shaffer, especially Royal Hunt of the Sun.
He was hilarious, but also very, very serious too. He was also my neighbour at the time.
I'm very fond of him inspite of some of the dodgy stuff that he's come out with.

Anniebach

I do think it was unnecessary to bitch a woman because some here was just speaking of the birth of a child and the child’s name.

Actually tbf Monica first brought up the D of S. After that all bets were off., although if you ask me ( which I admit you didn’t) starting a thread on PM after the deletions of threads and posts of several RF threads was hardly the wisest thing to do. Unless of course .......If someone would like a nice thread to cheer us all up, there’s plenty of possible topics.

Who??

There have been hints for a while that she was expecting another baby. The names are beautiful. Elizabeth is my daughter’s second name. But wow, Pippa’s two children have an uncle and a cousin who will be King one day. OTOH, another uncle and aunt and two more cousins, who they will probably have more fun with. Sorry, couldn’t resist!

Fanny Oh god, Heart of Darkness...my A Level nemesis! I can imagine him being quite engaging as a teacher, and he seems a nice enough bloke. I bumped into him outside our local shop once, I think he and his wife/partner were on holiday, and we just smirked at each other in that 'oh blimey, it's you' way.

Given how upset some people get over how we address her sister, shouldn't we be calling this person Pippa Matthews?

Congratulations to the family on the birth of a new baby girl :-)

Well I thought this was a nice thread to start which is why I started it suziewoozie, and still do despite some of the posts I've read.

I had no idea he had been a teacher my cousin lived in Halesowen for a bit, I always associate it with makro

I love that poem, I had never heard of it

suziewoozy the birth of a child has always cheered us up, well it use to

Smileless2012

Well I thought this was a nice thread to start which is why I started it suziewoozie, and still do despite some of the posts I've read.

Anything RF related is a potential risk.Monica’s post was unnecessary and as I said opened the gates. I looked at the thread before she posted and thought it was daft but wouldn’t have posted anything snide. . Once ‘let’s have another go at MM’ reared it’s ugly head, off it went.

JaneJudge

I had no idea he had been a teacher my cousin lived in Halesowen for a bit, I always associate it with makro

I love that poem, I had never heard of it

How did you know it was at Halesowen College, Jane?
Yes, it's a fabulous poem

Anniebach

suziewoozy the birth of a child has always cheered us up, well it use to

Another snidey unnecessary comment about MM did not cheer me up. That was what changed the dynamics.

Jane Judge It's lovely isn't it? I'd forgotten it until Fanny mentioned it - one of those poems that's like a time machine. Apparently J Hunter -Dunn was a real person.

We could have a new favourite poetry thread - come on Fanny do your job.

I thought it was just a piece of good news amongst all the cr*p at the moment. If any GN had posted that they or their AC or one of their friends, who we know even less about than PM, had just had a baby, could we have been happy without all the narky comments?

Or poems we remember from school etc etc

Strange how you read a thread that you wouldn't have posted on because you think it's daft susiewoozie and just because someone 'opens a gate' doesn't mean that others have to walk through does it.

Mollygo

I thought it was just a piece of good news amongst all the cr*p at the moment. If any GN had posted that they or their AC or one of their friends, who we know even less about than PM, had just had a baby, could we have been happy without all the narky comments?

Yes - this happens on various threads where GNers announce the birth of dgc. And people are lovely about such news.

I searched him on wikipedia, how sad am I? I'm quite fond of him tbh, I moved away from the black country 2 decades ago (my family are all still there, more or less) but there is nothing like the acerbic black country sense of humor

How great that Joan was a real person

Smileless2012

Strange how you read a thread that you wouldn't have posted on because you think it's daft susiewoozie and just because someone 'opens a gate' doesn't mean that others have to walk through does it.

I look at all threads when they’re started whether they sound daft or not ( apart from Games threads). The gate was opened, I’m surprised really you didn’t think it would be.

I am getting to like the games threads !