Diversity

Lordy! Just read all 7 pages of this thread..sad woman that I am.. all I can say is that I am from a diverse family!

Family includes: English, Irish, Palestinian, Syrian, Goan, Jordanian, S.African, American, Scottish, Pakistani of whom some are Baptist, Methodist, Brethren, Muslim, Roman Catholic, C/E, Buddhist, Quaker, Humanist/Atheist, hetrosexual, lesbian, gay, celibate, educated to doctorate level, left school with no qualifications, living in lodgings (rooms) to owning more than one home, privately educated , state educated, ex-prisoners, lawyers, methodist minister, housing association manager, CAB volunteer, OFSTED inspector, PR & comms experts, artists, socialists, right-wingers, liberals, pet lovers, pet haters, travellers, stay at homes, babies to 90+ year olds, very healthy to very ill, people who knit, sew, crochet, DIYers, allotmenteers, swimmers, non-swimmers...the list goes on and on....

P.S. I do agree with GillT57

don't let soon drive you away galen, we need good sense and wit. As for you soon you can clear off as quickly as you like. I have no interest in contributing any more to this, and suggest we all leave soon to it.

Wow, Penstemmon with all that diversity we don't need anyone else at all!

Galen please stay.

And I thought my family were an interesting bunch!

Penstemmon Just read your list of denominations and you have missed out JWs. Can I fill that gap with a JW relative of whom I am very fond - she is a nice, funny, generous person, just like most gransnetters. We just have to avoid discussing religion in any depth.

Point. Missed. As per. Favete linquis soon.

Night night, everybody else.

Elegran I don't have any JW rellies, happy to adopt some! But all my others are lovely too! Some I handle with more of a 'kid glove' approach than others but on the whole we all get on well, despite all our differences we have enough similarities to glue us all together!

That is what relatives are about - and friends.

And GN ( when not being disrupted)

I went to a panto on Thursday with a JW. She is the GM of my GD's best friend and the four us went together. I had not met her before and she was charming and very friendly and loved the panto. Just a bit of diversion and reality really. I made my real point round about the the third post.

Galen. Don't go. Everyone will miss your " pearls" of wisdom. . And I'd love to hear about your upcoming cruise. Just for the sake of one rather unenlightened person who has really gone a bit too far this time with playground mutterings of reporting. Enjoy the Canaries, have a lovely time, and let us hear all about it too !

There will always be disrupters and nutters - best ignored - or joked about. Certainly not taken seriously for goodness sake! Life's too short.

Don't go galen - your nautical wanderings are the nearest I will ever get to a cruise - please don't deny me that ongoing vicarious pleasure!

Ok!
Hold this space for pictures of gorgeous meals, lovely waiters and ----me!

Quoting Lara:

"Just wanted you all to know we are around...and wishing this thread would disappear "

Right! How long can we keep it going for. Till Xmas Eve? Boxing Day?

And how could I forget -da dah- THE PEARLS
Now, decisions decisions, which strands to take?

Btw, I haven't got a clue what this thread is all about.

Galen - phew! jingl -

Don't extend it then, unless you can change the direction completely.for instance - how many different pictures of tree baubles can we post before Christmas? I shall go and photograph one of mine for a start. Back in a few minutes. Diversity here we come.

I have just seen there is a thread with the title, "Ancient Iranian pottery-making"

Just how diverse do you expect Gransnet to be?!

Night night Lara. mwah!

Jingle bell

First few of mine.....

Shall I take a photo of all my strings of pearls and let you decide which I should take? They are certainly diverse!