Gransnet 1st Anniversary!

I am the music man and I can plaay the trombone ooompah oompah oompah pah oompah pah oompahpahpahpah.........[GRI]

I am the music man and I can plaay the violin - vio vio violin...scrape-scrape twang!****(made that bit up )

I've only been a member for a short while but I'm delighted to find that everyone else is stark raving bonkers too! Oh, and I've won a book...It's good here...

I have several miles of bunting

pinksheep 'stark raving bonkers'...love it. Thanks for the compliment

Hi pinksheep - I guess that means you'll be taking part in the (virtual) anniversary street party? Your bunting will be very handy!

.... and my song, sung in my usual basso profundo:

'... theee old grey mare she ain't wot she used t'be, ain't wot she used t'be..'

Ariadne.... She's my rose my turtle dove,
She's the only girl that I adore....
or is it the other way around?
As for a street, I suggest the 'Promenade des Anglais' in Nice. We could all wear our best frocks and pearls!

What pearls?
Come to that, what frocks?

Well, I like an excuse to dress up! Fancy or otherwise!

pinksheep love the name welcome to Gransnet, your bunting will come in very handy for our party.

Do you think I could learn how to walk on those stilts you always see when there is street entertainment, only problem I can see is my fear of heights

glass...don't let a little thing called vertigo stop you having fun!

What an amusing lot you are! As for party turns, about 45 years ago my mean older brother (whole new thread there I think) so begrudged sharing his red leather rollerskates with me that I only got to use one. It was much too big for me and had to skate alongside a wall to break my fall. So if you're desperate for entertainment I could hook up with Greatnan and Chrissy for a 3-legged skate-tap...

Hello pinksheep and nanaseaside!

Isn't jeni the one with the pearls?

OGM I thought it was:

"She's my lady love
She is my gal, my baby love.
She's the only girl that I adore blah blah blah.."

ariadne wearing the single string I was given for my 21st as I type.

Have been in my virtual glory hole under the stairs and unearthed my comb afew sheets of izal toilet roll and some spoons.....repeat after me come,come,come and make eyes at me down at the ole bull and bush,am coming as a pearly queen wiv a pint of whelks in one 'and an jellied eels in the ovver...

Trifle, jelly and egg sandwiches for tea please. And those little sticks with cheese and pineapple on them.

I would like to join glass in three cheers for GNHQ, she summed it up so eloquently as usual and I wholeheartedly agree that this year has been fantasmagorical and everyone that I've met on the forums have provided me with help, friendship, support, advice and many chuckles.
Thank you GNHQ and all of you

Hip - hip - hurray....

Hip hip hurrah....

yoga can we have the cheese and pineapple made into hedgehogs

They've got to be hedgehogs

And Twiglets please

What were the sticks stuck into? Was it half a grapefruit? (To make them into hedgehogs, I mean!)

I think I used a potato wrapped in foil.

Sweet Katie Connor
I don't sup onner
Oh Kate
As sure as fate
You'll have to marry me
I've got a notion
Of jumping in the ocean
And courting all the mermaids
At the bottom of the sea.
This is sung at the end of a happy day when we are feeling nostalgic and topped with

glass We used a grapefruit also wrapped in foil.

Rock buns and coconut pyramids? That's probably all I could safely offer food wise but I'd love to join that party in the street..I could make GN flags to wave and newspaper hats!

your avatar maybe?

I think we should have a GN Anthem. Any ideas?