Please could the Silent Majority...

Just checking, you know how it is!

(The second bit was related to the fact that I only seem to start daft posts, nothing deep or erudite)

PS But I can be, given enough coffee and a following wind.

PPS And of course sufficient notice of the actual need to be erudite.

No to both, phoenix!

Am I in the "Silent Majority", or just the moronic one?

That many...?

I reckon 42

I wonder how many 'active' members there actually are...?
(And I don't mean just on the forum)

Aka You have to ask GNHQ but their last report was that it was in excess of 15,000 and that was some time ago.

You provide me with current membership numbers and I'll re-do the maths Absent

Welcome penguin. I wear pearls most days to work, but wouldn't dream of clutching them!! I'm not prone to the vapours!

absent Not necessarily, a lot may have left after all the contentious threads.

Welcome penguin

Good morning Penguin. Welcome!

Welcome penguin, I am still up.

Aka Gransnet membership was at 15,000 18 months or so ago. It must be much bigger than that now.

Typo 'were' (goes to prove the point about teachers!)

Oh...that's not all of us Penguin I counted 6-7 replies the other 14,993 either couldn't be arsed bothered, were having an early night or wear carousing in some virtual online bar

Thank you all for the warm welcome.

Teeth or pearls? Hello & welcome penguin

Rub them against your teeth - real ones fell gritty.

I reckoned she was ditching her old stuff as Charles was supplying the real thing!

Surely they wouldn't be faux if they were Camilla's. Perhaps they're really real. Don't you have to bite them to see if they squeak on on your teeth or something?

I have a lovely set of 'faux' pearls, No.2 son won them at a charity do. Camilla is a patron of that charity, do you think they could be her cast-offs?

Hi penguin and enjoy, I suspect you will

Nit entirely sure where my pearls are - last time I wore them a collective cry of 'Mother - you're not old enough to wear pearls!' went up from the DDs. That told me [grin[

Good morning, Penguin and welcome.

penguin - I think you're going to like it here. I suspect there'll be a virtual party or two coming along soon where you'll fit right in - watch out for an announcement.

Thankyou grannyactivist and Aka.
Phew, it's not easy to type and clutch pearls at the same time.
I was worried this was part of the initiation ceremony.