Pippa Middleton has had a baby girl[smile]

Anniebach

I am getting to like the games threads !

Well that’s nice.

Not sad at all JaneJudge - people are fascinating. I do it all the time, I had no idea he was a teacher before Fanny mentioned it.

NellG

Anniebach

You fired the starting gun Lucca

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

No I think you’ll find it was Monica actually but never mind.

I wont let the possibility, even a distinct possibility, that there'll be some posters who will seek to use a thread I start for their own agenda, prevent me from starting one suziewoozie.

As has been posted here, we're happy for a GN who shares the good news of a new baby in their family so why not for the sister of Catherine?

I certainly don't think that starting this thread was a daft thing to do despite it attracting some rather daft comments.

I noticed on a social media page it said ‘Pippa’s delightful tribute to the Queen as she names her daughter’, or words to that effect.

How silly, I should think they chose the names because they like them, and Elizabeth is a very popular second name.

Nothing to do with Her Maj I’m sure.

Smileless2012

I wont let the possibility, even a distinct possibility, that there'll be some posters who will seek to use a thread I start for their own agenda, prevent me from starting one suziewoozie.

As has been posted here, we're happy for a GN who shares the good news of a new baby in their family so why not for the sister of Catherine?

I certainly don't think that starting this thread was a daft thing to do despite it attracting some rather daft comments.

ATM there’s always a risk that any thread could turn into a MM bashing thread and I take your point that posters shouldn’t take that into account when starting one. However, when it happens, just be honest about the fact it did and who did it without trying to shift the blame to others who responded.

Calendargirl Must have been a slow news day!

NellG

Calendargirl Must have been a slow news day!

More a usual ‘what we can write about to carry on distracting the masses from what really matters day’?

Smileless it was a nice thread to begin with. Any baby is happy news. Frank Lampard and Christine had a baby boy yesterday and I thought how nice he has a little footballer after having 3 daughters. I know nothing about Chelsea FC or football by the way. Then off I went to walk the dog.

Ladyleftfieldlover touched on a good point. In decades to come Pippa's children will be mere cousins to the king and Archie and number 2 will be as well. I think that kind of put things into perspective all round.
* Calendargirl* that media report should have read "pays tribute to GM Carole". Isn't her middle name Elizabeth?

suziewoozie

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

We've already done that one a month or two back.
"The Highwayman" and loads of others. Fond memories.

suziewoozy with respect may I explain ? Not everyone will
agree with your opinion on ‘what really matters’ , it is for each poster to decide, not you alone.

I am amused you post on threads you consider ‘doesn’t really matter so of no interest ‘

Annie I could be wrong, but I think that Suzie was referring to the press 'ignoring what really matters'.

Ellianne yes, that poetry thread was an excellent read

FannyCornforth

Annie I could be wrong, but I think that Suzie was referring to the press 'ignoring what really matters'.

Thank you - you’re right ( as nearly always ?)

Mine was a throw away remark, it was not meant to divert this thread from its proper course.

Ellianne

suziewoozie

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

We've already done that one a month or two back.
"The Highwayman" and loads of others. Fond memories.

Sorry I missed it

M0nica

Mine was a throw away remark, it was not meant to divert this thread from its proper course.

But it did. Supposing a ‘team Meghan’ poster had come on this thread and said something on the lines of ‘ Well I hope posters will be as delighted when MM’s baby is born’.? Imagine the outrage. Given the multiple opportunities we have on GN to fulminate about MM couldn’t posters just sometimes refrain from even more negative ‘throw away’ comments about her whatever the thread? It smacks of some sort of obsession

Don't accuse me of dishonesty suziewoozie?.

I have acknowledged that posts have been made by some to pursue their own agenda and perhaps you would like so show where I have tried "to shift the blame to others who respond".

Yes Ellaine "it was a nice thread to begin with".

I was going to post the same thing Annie. This thread doesn't matter and is of no interest' and you're still here suziewoozie.

And why wouldn't posters be just as pleased when the birth of M&H's baby is born safe and well suziewoozie.

"It smacks of some sort of obsession"; it certainly does.

birth of M&H's baby is announced, not born.

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?

Absolutely right, Mollygo

I've seen people offering congratulations to others on the birth of children to those they don't know in real life on some of the more pleasant threads.
This should have been a pleasant thread, Smileless.

Congratulations to Pippa and James Matthews on the safe arrival of Grace Elizabeth Jane.

Smileless2012

Don't accuse me of dishonesty suziewoozie?.

I have acknowledged that posts have been made by some to pursue their own agenda and perhaps you would like so show where I have tried "to shift the blame to others who respond".

Yes Ellaine "it was a nice thread to begin with".

I was going to post the same thing Annie. This thread doesn't matter and is of no interest' and you're still here suziewoozie.

I didn’t think I’d accused you of dishonesty but if it came across that way I’m very sorry. I think it’s clear what happened to start dissent on this thread but I realise that some will not want to see it that way. And as Fanny understood
my point was that the press in their coverage of stories decide what is to be of interest. And I’m still here not because of the initial ‘story’ but because it’s interesting how MM continues to be dragged into anything in a negative light.

Thank you suziewoozie.

vegansrock

Sorry got hair colour wrong - shows how few gossip columns I read. She’s still posh though.

She can’t help the family she was born into, any more than someone who isn’t ‘posh’. We have no choice as to our birth, but we do have a choice about being unkind, unpleasant and judgemental.