I am putting this on a seperate thread...

Oh Dear! I joined Gransnet so that I could meet intelligent mature people who I could share the joys of grandparenthood with.I don't know what has gone before,but having just read this thread,it seems to be a bit of a school playground slanging match.

I am sitting outside, for the first time this year , at this time in the evening. It is peaceful, no one to disturb the equilibrium and I can see two swallows which does make a summer and two buzzards circling. So relax and enjoy what you have.

My Dad is bigger than your Dad!

Thanks Anya. Good of you to respond even though I have no idea what you mean.[confused}

I'm going to tell my Mum on you!

What did GNHQ say, soontobe? Obviously they didn't delete the thread, or post a comment on it.

At 7 am?!

I bet they loved that!

I reported the thread for all the reasons Brendawymms well articulated. I make no apologies for that.
It is horrid to see.

bloody toffee nosed rubbish

"If you have to resort to insulting those with whom you disagree then it seems to me you don't have much confidence in your ability to present a coherent and sensible argument."

That was the part post that got me riled up this morning. And it was that I was answering in my OP.

Perhaps this thread will just fade away or vanish up it's own .......

Ana you've cut me to the quck...

wanders off to eat worms

And finally (I think) and at the risk of alienating everyone on GN including GNHQ, no one on GN is the centre of my universe

But I'm sure you're all the centre of someone's

I'm saying nothing...

See, I said this thread would go on and on and I was right. I must be psychotic

Grrenfinch you once said you felt your posts were often ignored so I'm replying to you. The answer is 'yes and no'

PPS i agree about the walnuts.

PS jingl you were right to start a new thread and not muck up the other one.

I really don't understand where all this vitriol is coming from. Yes, there was some sarcasm but if that is the same as bullying then I really don't get it. In fact my posts were the kind of comments i would make to friends, about themselves, and they would likewise reply in the same vein, as Ana did. Perhaps some really need to 'grow' a pair. Or perhaps my friends are not so 'up themselves' they can't laugh at their foibles?

Bullying is, as an example, starting a thread with the sole purpose of 'getting at' one particular person I think most would agree. I didn't see anyone shouting 'bullying' when that happened to me. Indeed at least one of those spouting righteous indignation today was the worst offenders.

Thanks for those who PM'd me to let me know about this 'storm in a tea cup' as one person put it.

I'd like to think this will simply die a death but something tells me it will go on and on and on ......

I've just sent for a sample on Kindle as I'm always looking for ways to be soothed.

I'm reading Phil Rickman whose books are set just about where I'm staying at the moment, on the Herefordshire/Welsh border.

I'm reading Gareth Malone's book "Choir". So soothing.

Would love to be in that neck of the woods right now. Have to wait till end of August though. Sigh!

It's lovely thanks jbf.

The cottage is great. Thanks for the cottage company info BTW.

How is beautiful South Wales petallus?

BTW, soontobe I am annoyed that you took it upon yourself to report the Tunisia thread to HQ. What were you trying to achieve?