Have a great time Sarah and friend. No tsunamis this time I hope!
LC
Welcome MandH to your newly refurbished home.
You keeping your old name in your Sloganizer, then?
LC
Congratulations the both of you!
Looks like you'll need a BIG venue to fit all of us in, lol. Any room for me 'cause I'd like to be there too?
All the best.
LC
Congrats NN. That's some bollox! :thumbup:
LC
Muff is the drug (Roxy Music)
When a man muffs a woman (Percy Sledge)
LC
Congratulations to you both. :thrilled:
Regards
LC
Have a great evening, Judy.
LC
Congratulations to the both of you! :inlove:
Regards
LC
Welcome to SH Stef + Jan.
I assumed you meant a swingers style club in Leicester. There's not much in that department I would recomend to tell you the truth. Individuals from SH organise parties and small socials of their own or larger socials called 'munches' around the country, including the E. Midlands. However if you are looking for places to go dogging then maybe the dogging forum would be your best bet.
Good luck.
Regards
LC
It's taken me hours to read through all the posts and take in everyone's points of view, my head hurts! Some excellent points raised and the new management would do well to take these on board, if they want this site to continue to remain a success.
Many have spoken passionately because they feel that this is THEIR site, as they have contributed much and invested their time and selves over the past. Mark was one of US and being taken over by strangers is going to take a lot of building trust and confidence. IF the new owners are prepared to listen to the community that has evolved here, then this site will continue to be a success. Otherwise it will just become another swingers site. What they/we have here is something unique, something that can not be bought (especially us lot), so I hope they do realize that, or are at least beginning to!
Elliot, Martin and co may well interface with us here and come to love us, but I wonder how they are going to explain to their superiors (I gather they belong to a larger group), what they have only just discovering themselves about this site. This is more than just a slice of bandwidth and a prime piece of internet real estate they have here. It's a whole community of people that make up this site, which makes it such a success. Lose us and their investment wiill be worth a whole lot less.
I welcome the new guys just as long as they treat us with respect. However, I am concerned that while Elliot, Martin and St3v3 may be the friendly face of the company, those that they work for may not have the same sense of loyalty to SH, if you see what I mean. I get the feeling that at the end of the day/year, it will be up to company accountants that decide the utlimate direction SH will take. I dearly hope this will not be the case but I have my concerns. So I ask the new guys to make sure those who have a more abstract interest in this site, at your company, gain an understanding of what they have here! An opportunity to build on something that is already great i.e. the people and the ethos that we have developed. Value our opinions and our sensibilities and things should work out fine.
I guess Elliot and co didn't have much of a clue about this place when they 'joined'. I believe it's only just beginning to sink in for them, lol. Let's face it, I think most of us ambled into this site thinking it was 'just another free site' and then realized we had just tapped into something much more significant. So no problem in understanding their suprise in finding what we are about and what go's down here, lol. We've all been newbies, so give them time to settle in and get used to our ways. I just hope that they will come to love this place as much as us and will want to nuture, protect and preseve it as much as Mark did.
Ok, I'll stop rambling now.
Regards
LC.
24: You never see Captain Archer's dog cocking it's leg in the corridors. I've always wondered where that pooch did it's business in such a confined environment.
LC
I'm finding that blogging is a great way to surf the net and find all sorts of stuff and is an evolving internet phenomenon. It started out as people logging links to things they found elsewhere on the net, hence 'weblog', but has devloped into a whole other thing. First we had email, chatrooms and forums, then messenger type services, now it's blogs. It's become a new way of interacting with other people and gaining insight into others lives or their interests. It's also become a powerful tool in the business world for companies to promote their interests in new ways. There are around 100 million blogs in existence at the moment and thousands of new blogs are created every day! That's a lot of stuff!
Welcome to the Blogosphere. :thumbup:
LC