General Chat

I have met Gwynne in Kent she is lovely, when I have met people in the past at Meets I am often surprised when people will refer to something I had post on here and be like " eh excuse me" :D


I do so hope people showed you kindness whilst you was caring for Fred and certainly after his passing if people can show kindness at a time like that they should have no place in the human race. I shall never forget that one member was fighting a losing battle with cancer and had a stickie thread and someone objected and a member of GR admin removed it, the outcry and outrage on here it was quickly reinstated, how someone in the right mind ( that person was certainly not in the right mind) would want a stickie support removed is beyond me :-|

BC, Daff and Rose were my first contact with genes,
I built up the courage to talk to these ladies and had many
a good laugh with BC.
BC could take the banter and we would delight in talking
about some actors we drooled over seeing on TV, at one
point I called her a Cougar, she loved that :-D :-D

Happy memories :-)

Emma, how dare you besmirch the memory of the woman who was so nearly my step mother?!

Surely she had eyes only for Fred!

Sadly Sharon the great unwashed Seamus of the seaman's mission and Bert her Latin dancing partner was the 2 great loves of her life ;-)


Howaboutyer Emma <3

Sharron I was a No1 fan of Fred, so BC would have to get behind me
to get to him...do so miss your daily update on him :-D <3

BC would tell you she loved a bit of eye candy, well us older ladies
do. ;-) :-D

Hiya Madge, how are you keeping :-D <3

By the way lovely thread Madge :-)

I am good ,fair to middling thank you Emma and thank you <3

You played dirty though Emma. You plied him with alcohol and tried to buy me off with black bun.

BC, on the other hand, travelled, at her own expense, to the church fete, just to ride upon his bony knee about the stalls and attractions.

I didn't actually go to the fete and Fred never gave anything away in his life so I only have her word for it but you wouldn't lie about a thing like that would you?

It worked though Sharron, couldn't see an old man go
without his favourite tipple and you do like Black Bun.

Moi lie, Sharron, how very dare you :-0

I didn't mean you, Emma.

I meant Buttercup at the fete.

Oh that's OK Sharron :-)

BC must have gone to the fete, maybe got lost and turned
up at another one.

She did seem to have a very detailed knowledge of Fred's bony knees!

She was a wily old bird??

She was indeed!

She was indeed!

Ladies riding Fred bony knees at Fetes...the mind boggles. :-)

BC had a habit of sitting in peoples laps she was a terrible flirt :-D

Yes, mostly I miss the old days but there were some quite upsetting times too when we learned early on what trolling was all about. Never knew why they banned just John he was always one to go in with both feet until he remembered to think before he posted. I am sad that I never got to meet BC but we pm’d each other a lot and despite her own Iillnesd she helped me cope with son in laws final illness, loved her sense of humour, loved the GR pantomimes and I remember the tartan shopping trolley. Lemon Nelly is fine, see her often on face book. I suppose I miss Daf most of all, she came for lunch and we went shopping in Cheltenham and she spent an afternoon learning to use her new camera. I remember Diana as well, met her in Bristol. Do see quite a few on Facebook but somehow it is not the same as the old GR. However I have quite a few friends on here now and can still have a chuckle with them so not all bad. We were just lucky to be in at the beginning of the internet experience.

Hello All,

It was on one of Hayley's posts that Daff mentioned something and I too posted, then she sent me a pm.
We realised we knew each other many years before and hadn't seen each other since I took my son to her son's first birthday party, - there was just 2 weeks between them.
That had been back in 1970s, so we had a lot of catching up, when we eventually met up.
So I have a lot to thank Madge for.

In the early days I went to several group 'meets' I think the first was in Winchester, There were others in Isle of Wight, Newport in Wales, Coventry, Nuneaton,London and Nottingham. My family, all drivers, were great at ferrying me, a non driver to these.

I had a vivid picture of BC but was never lucky enough to meet her. I liked her sense of humour, which lifted the mood of the boards.

Does anyone remember the planned Christmas visit to the West Country to meet up with Olde Crone? All imaginary, of course, but such careful planning of the route to pick up as many members and their odd offerings to the festivities., as was possible. As we were to travel by dog sleigh, there was much discussion about luggage.