Society Website Summit

[Pippa-Stef]

Same! But I'm still registered there and still recieve the threads, mainly because I can't remember my Yahoo login, to change things!

BTW Love the Picture Barney

[Moonraker]

Can a female be a right-hand man?

Hmm...depends! It is a common misconception that man can only be male. The word man is the stem of mankind, and can also be found in a non-gender way in human, chairman and indeed woman. One of my major grumps is this ridiculous way in leaving off the man suffix to appease feminists and the ignorant. The worst case is chairman. As with human, it doesn't necessarily denote a male person (although traditionally the role of chairman has been male). Apparently these women (wow - they've got men in their name now) would rather be called a piece of furniture than have any reference to man in their titles. Yet theses same women are more than happy to take the male forms of words such as actor, author and indeed guy (rather than gal).

Enough to make me manic.

[Keith Robinson]

Keith looks as though he's been told off for driniking all the ginger beer!

Yes, I do look a bit frowny here, don't I? I was probably deep in thought trying to work out how Barney manages to type with those big paws of his. Or does he put a pencil in his mouth and peck the keyboard with it? It's still a mystery to me. But it didn't seem to matter once I'd had some more of Nigel's 6X beer.

I have to say, though, that Nigel and Jane's garden was an excellent setting for a Blyton Website Meeting, even though we hardly discussed websites at all. Nessa and Lily enjoyed themselves too. Thanks for making us feel welcome, Nigel and Jane! And thanks also to Tony for allowing Anita and I to peek into his house of adventure!

[Anita Bensoussane]

Glad you're home safe and sound, Keith.

I have to say, though, that Nigel and Jane's garden was an excellent setting for a Blyton Website Meeting, even though we hardly discussed websites at all. Nessa and Lily enjoyed themselves too.

Yes, Rough Hall proved an excellent place to spend a sunny afternoon and food always does taste so much nicer out of doors. Who could possibly talk about websites when they could be examining book collections, looking for frogs in the pond, playing hide-and-seek and eating cream meringues with raspberries?

Thanks for making us feel welcome, Nigel and Jane! And thanks also to Tony for allowing Anita and I to peek into his house of adventure!

Yes, thanks very much indeed. The whole day was quite an adventure!

Anita

[Moonraker]

It was an honour and a great privilege to open the grounds of Rough (that's a mediaeval spelling of Rowe) Hall to the great ambassadors of Enid Blyton. It was no mean achievement to invite and realise a gathering of the most important people involved with Blyton's work at Rough Hall.

Of course, centre stage went to the amazing Barney - it was a pleasure to entertain you, old boy.

Spitty that our Bangladeshi Ambassador couldn't make it, though.

Incidentally, noticing Keith's vacant looks, I next offered him Greene King Abbot, at 5% ABV, it made him much less focussed! Nessa managed quite a few pints of Abbot, with no side effects. They breed 'em tough in the deep South!

[Tony Summerfield]

And thanks also to Tony for allowing Anita and I to peek into his house of adventure!

House of Adventure! More like the Land of Topsy Turvy!

[Moonraker]

And thanks also to Tony for allowing Anita and I to peek into his house of adventure!

House of Adventure! More like the Land of Topsy Turvy!

More like The Secret Museum!

[Ming]

It's Tony's I Wouldn't Call It A House house!!!

[Anita Bensoussane]

House of Adventure! More like the Land of Topsy Turvy!

But what a gloriously thrilling riot of Topsy Turvyness!

[Lucky Star]

House of Adventure! More like the Land of Topsy Turvy!

Sounds like it should be at the top of The Faraway Tree.