Re: knowing folk\conference\ transfers was guilt

[Guest guest]

Lesley wrote:

>I don't get to any coffee events except for Liz G's in Edinburgh,

>where I also met Sue W, who came up to Edinburgh for coffee!!!!

Not *just* for coffee, I hasten to add. I also had another agenda as

Bill Hatton and I had been corresponding for ages and I stayed with his

family who were brilliant and we had a fab time :-)

And I learned how to put Steffi to bed - in that week she learned a

routine that has barely been broken!

>But I am looking forward to meeting more e-groupies at

>conference..........my identification T shirt transfer arrived today!

Me too! I remember 'this time' last year (i.e. pre-conference weeks)

Sam and I knowing we were both going and this list being quite embryonic

with only a few dozen subscribers... We had never met then either

although I can hardly believe it now. In fact Sam, how often have we

met, in real life, since? Three or four times? Maybe five. And yet I

*feel* I know Sam and many others on this list better than I know the

mums and toddlers in my own coffee group. Sad but true.

At parties if you're introduced to someone and conversation doesn't flow

well it can be difficult to back away. On both sides. I often enjoy

being on the peripheral of good conversations at parties and listening

to what other people say without having to offer my own opinion because

someone else is putting it more eloquently than I could. This is how I

sometimes feel about this list. And sometimes I feel I get the chance

to put my oar in first. But whichever way it swings, I get the chance

to 're-say' or re-type it before it goes.

Please everyone, relax, enjoy and eavesdrop. No-one will ever hassle

you for your opinion.

--

Sue

[Guest guest]

In article , Sue Woollett

writes

>Me too! I remember 'this time' last year (i.e. pre-conference weeks)

>Sam and I knowing we were both going and this list being quite embryonic

>with only a few dozen subscribers...

Yes - I remember Conference last year and meeting fellow onelist

(egroup) subscribers ( I think there were about 25 or so of us then) -

it was great.

Well done everyone - I hope to meet many more of you this year.

--

Debbie Slater

A/N Teacher, Co-Chair, Aylesbury & District Branch NCT

[Guest guest]

> And I learned how to put Steffi to bed - in that week she learned a

> routine that has barely been broken

How? Emma is driving me nuts at the moment. She absolutely refuses to go to

sleep. *Please* tell me how it can be done.

Helen

[Guest guest]

Sue wrote

>

> I often enjoy

> being on the peripheral of good conversations at parties and listening

> to what other people say without having to offer my own opinion because

> someone else is putting it more eloquently than I could.

This is me too, I'm always the one on the edge of 2 groups listening to both

conversations. I'm sure other people think me rude. That's one of the many

great things about this group you can listen to all the conversations

without having to respond and nobody minds.

Also, to those of you who said that everyone seems to know everyone else and

you don't - don't think that when people say " all come round to coffee " they

only mean the people they know, they don't. Last year I hosted the first

NCT group coffee get together and opened my house to countless people I'd

never met before except on this list. Looking back that was probably a

really stupid thing to do but it was great fun. so if someone is holding a

get together which you can get to do go.

Cerys Byrne

Basingstoke Branch Chairman, Membership Secretary & Exp Reg holder

Mum to 1/12/95 & Kieran 31/12/98

[Guest guest]

Cerys wrote:

> Last year I hosted the first

>NCT group coffee get together and opened my house to countless people I'd

>never met before except on this list. Looking back that was probably a

>really stupid thing to do but it was great fun.

Yes, Cerys, you must have been nuts ;-))

And then you got accused of poisoning Sam's children. How ungrateful

can anyone be? ;-)

I do remember being utterly gutted I couldn't get there although I can't

remember why now.

--

Sue

[Guest guest]

>> This is me too, I'm always the one on the edge of 2 groups listening to

>both

>> conversations. I'm sure other people think me rude> Cerys

>..Me too! And I thought I was the only one.....

>Barbara

>

no me three!! i was like that at cerys's first do...trying to keep up with

it all! i always think people think i'm nosey (i wonder why!)

angi

[Guest guest]

> >> This is me too, I'm always the one on the edge of 2 groups listening to

> >both

> >> conversations. i always think people think i'm nosey (i wonder why!)

yep this is me - very nosey too

[Guest guest]

* >> This is me too, I'm always the one on the edge of 2 groups listening to

> >both

> >> conversations. i always think people think i'm nosey (i wonder why!)

yep this is me - very nosey too

--------------

And me.................so who's doing all the talking???????

Lesley