Why are there nearly always 4 guests listed? Who are these shadowy figures? Could they be sent by the panel compiling the shorlist to weed out anyone with feelings of paranoia? We need to know who you are! Step forward and be counted!! You don't think they could have been sent by she who will remain nameless?
*Gin continues to ramble and rock back and forth*

GPW... You either need to get out more - or nick my muse's lager! (If it's the latter, please leave name and number at the virtual bar)

Ha HA! We're now down to 3 guests!! See I'm not going mad at all. There are spies all around us. Beware! Beware!
What was that matron? Time for my medication? Are you sure this jacket's sleeves are meant to tie at the back?

One jacket on - and up to five guests... Hmmm... Paranoid yet?

Jay, as you are also a fellow "guestwatcher" is there no standard naval response to spies on deck?

BANDIT, BANDIT, BANDIT - ACTIVATE OPERATION THIMBLEHUNT!

(Is that the one you meant...)

We're now up to ^! Is there no end to this torment?

That should have said 6 and not ^...I think they may be intercepting my posts!!

8:26 am Friday 23 September...

1 member... 6 guests... It's a record!

Nope - 9.49am and there's nine!

Of course, we ALL show as a guest if we don't log in!

So it was a conspiracy after all!!! You were all taunting me by not logging in!

*gives gpw a slap*

Pick a corner, go and have a word with yourself, and don't come back until you've calmed down.

My nerves are getting more ragged by the minute! Damn TPTT! How many hours to go now?

176 ...

123 unicorn? P oxo zzz?

Where did I put my code book?

There are lots of new forum users joining all us 'old timers'.

Welcome to you all. Pull up a computer and join the fun.

"old timers"?

I suspect that most of the "new" people were there at the beginning of this long wait - but just submitted their entries and then got on with their lives.

Tick tock, tic tock...times running out!
Only 4 guests at moment (17.56)

Lewes, you're probably right.

...and then got on with their lives.
And missed all the fun and friendship!

Btw; did someone mention they were reading: Susanna Clarke's " Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" ?

Just added it to my pile of books ( I read 3 or 4 books at the same time - weird, eh?)

Someone sugested we start an on-line book group?

quote:

Btw; did someone mention they were reading: Susanna Clarke's " Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" ?

I picked it up in a bookshop the other day, sprained my wrist and put it down again.

I find big books a bit intimidating now - as Ive got older my concentration span seems to oh look a moth!

quote:

( I read 3 or 4 books at the same time - weird, eh?)

You're not weird Lewes (or at least thats not what makes you weird) I do the same

I have a slushpile and tend to go at a few at a time. Often one book grabs me and I ignore the others till its finished, and often I find a book six months later that I started but didnt realise I had never finished - sort of survival of the fittest.

Bought two books yesterday -

'The writers & artists yearbook 2006'

and

David Icke's 'Infinate love is the only truth everything else is illusion'


Any one beat that for a mix?

*squints at bookshelf*
Alain De Botton and...The Definitive Guide to Cascading Style Sheets...Howzat?

Very boring, me ... currently on Frankie Howerd's biography and Michael Caine's biography - again!

Anyone else want to own up to reading in the loo?

I do, simply because NOT to do something (other than what one is there for) seems like such an appalling waste of over a year of one's life (work it out - 20 minutes a day, live for 75 years).

quote:

Originally posted by Adman 1961:
...seems like such an appalling waste of over a year of one's life (work it out - 20 minutes a day, live for 75 years).

20 Minutes!?

If it took me 20 minutes I'd be checking myself into hospital!... I'm in and out mate.

I've always questioned this time on the toilet thing... Why go and then strain - why not just go when you need it, then it's no big deal?