It was lovely, Harry - see my post in The Cafe.
I was honestly disappointed at the no-shows but everybody who did turn up was - well, lovely! There will be another meeting. Maybe it will grow from here.
Jezzay.
The inaugural meeting of the Norwich Book Club took place this evening against a backdrop of extreme weather.
Apologies were read for Finns (unfortunate shift change), Rogerthedragon (again, the demands of work) and HarryJones (but boy did he try hard!)
My heartfelt thanks go to Flapjackboy, Marathon5, Herandhim and, of course, Poohbear and friends for coming and I know we all had a lovely time. There was a remarkable amount of discussion about books too!
I won't attribute books to bringers but they were :
'Midnight's Children'
'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime'
'Wayward Women (A guide to Women Travellers)'
'Between Males'
'Something Dangerous'
'Scandalous Risks'.
Draw your own conclusions guys. What would YOUR appropriate book be?
The more observant amongst you will have noted the low turn-out and given that I had about 30 intending to come it was a tad disappointing. Their loss, of course, but they need to know I reluctantly turned people away once I thought there were enough coming. Shame. I won't next time.
But to those non-attenders who were just too worried or shy to show - "Please come next time. We are all lovely, genuine people who had an enjoyable chat over a pint in a pub. I SWEAR nobody passing by would have guessed we were other than a genuine book club. You single girls would have felt totally safe. I did."
So the next meeting will be in about a month's time. Unless, of course, those of us who have just met decide we can have enough fun without the rest of you!!!!!!
Jezzay.
PS.
Pins! We want Swinging Heaven pins please.
It's really happening. Tomorrow!!!!
I've got my tweed skirt all pressed and best brogues polished.
Please be there or I shall feel very silly.
Jezzay
This won't go down well with pet-haters but it's hard to describe how awful it was when I had my dog. She was absolutely terrified and used to shake violently for hours on end. She'd try to dig through the floor, hide in corners and was totally inconsolable. For the traditional 2 or 3 days round Guy Fawkes you can just about cope. But when it goes on for a month your heart bleeds. It's like living in a war zone. I just wished I could find a way of letting people know how much distress they were causing.
I think the shops could help by restricting the periods of sale.
Jezzay.
Two of the early bookers have said they haven't got details of the meeting even though I have a copy of what I sent to them in my Sent Box.
So please- anybody expecting to hear from me who hasn't, get in touch AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
Sorry, Adeymull, but I've 'closed' it to single guys now to keep the proportions almost sensible. Watch out for any future meetings.
Jezzay.
I'm not concerned about the spelling but I would certainly buzz him on 'repetition'.
"20 yr old whants to give multiples to older women Hi my name is ben im 20 ,clean,cut,toned, love long sex sessions ...."
"older women wanted for fantastic sex sessions Hi my name is Ben im 20,clean,cut,toned love older women like to have a long sex sessions ...."
"20yr old whants older women for long sex sessions Hi my name is Ben im 20,clean,cut,toned love older women would like to have long sex sessions..."
"older women wanted for 20yr old Hi my name is Ben im 20,clean,cut,toned love long sex sessions ...."
"Horny 20yr old whants a older women to have long sex session Hi my name is Ben im 20,clean,cut,toned ,live in manchester..."
"Any mature women whant a horny 20yr old toyboy Hi my name is Ben im 20 and love long sex..."
"older women whanted for horny 20yr old Hi im 20,clean,toned,cut,willing to travel,love long..."
I'm really not sure if this is appropriate to the Forums. Isn't it an ad?
I did try telling him that older women aren't great on the 'long' bit of 'sex sessions' but to no avail.
Jezzay.
Very very cool!!!!!
Jezzay
Following advice previously on here I switched to Mozilla Firefox ages ago and that has proved 99.9% better than Outlook. I don't even go to my account direct from MSN Messenger because that causes problems.
No dodgy email for ages. No porn-browsing or looking up naughty-knicker catalogues. That's why I posted. I'm fairly sure it was a SH entrant.
BTW - I don't think Ad-aware catches everything. XoftSpy found loads more than Ad-aware did.
But it's definitely OK now.
Jezzay.
Did it once. A friend who once had a partner who spent a lot of time in the States so he got good at it. He dropped his voice - got seductive. Just described what he would have done had we been together. It was hot and I had the window open, a breeze blowing over me, and just the novelty and eroticism of it turned me on. Mutual self-pleasuring is what it was. And very nice too.
Jezzay.
It's often a mood thing I think. Sometimes you're in the mood to chat, to contribute. Sometimes you just want to be quiet. Absorb what's going on without sticking your head over the fence.
Sometimes - wrong time, wrong subject, whatever - a post gets a load of unkind responses and that puts people off posting.
Don't judge people by the amount of posts they contribute.
Jezzay.
Hello - I'm back. Ran Xsoftspy (after paying for it.)
I was already very clean and haven't looked at anything other that Swinging Heaven, WOMAD and the Radio Times in ages. (How sad does that make me!) So I'm certain the spyware came in through SH.
Be warned. As I say it's never happened before so our defenses may have been breached.
Jezzay.
Something's happened. I was happily browsing Swinging Heaven, adding to the odd post, and suddenly I'm getting pop-ups - links to porn sites etc - and then loosing my connection to the site. This has NEVER happened before on Swinging Heaven and look how long it is since I joined.
Help needed.
Jezzay.
Me too but that's OK isn't it? Sometimes you just need to express something you're feeling and once you've expressed it it feels better. Right?
Jezzay.
Coz I'm booked in - 20th Sep.
And I have to look 5 years younger than I am. Help.......
Jezzay,
A while back I was in a pub with my mate whose background is nursing and this had come out in conversation. Suddenly an attractive young man was at my side saying "So - are you a nurse too?" And I thought - bugger it - "Yes, I am." Unfortunately he was better acquainted with the local hospital than I and as my conversation stuttered to a halt he said "You're not a nurse, are you." "No," I said, "I'm a computer programmer but I thought nurse had more pulling power." "You're right!" he said and walked off.
I swear this is totally true.
Jezzay.
PS I have my first speed-dating event coming up. Will report back. What should I pretend to be?
There is a side to this single guy stuff I haven't seen discussed yet. It's a sort of syndrome I've noticed which I could call "Right here - right now!". Very often I have had contacts with single guys who want to meet me. Meet me now!!! "Can you get to Macclesfield by " Me : "No but I have some free time this weekend." Him: " ". ie nothing.
So one minute there are all these guys responding to your post or ad but because you can't leave within the next ten minutes you've blown it, apparently. And then, suddenly, after some weeks you get :"Hello - remember me? I'd really like to see you. Can you get to..." and so on.
So I have started to identify this pattern - "am randy - want woman - she can't come - best wank then - don't want her now".
Am I right? Anybody else come across it?
So my advice to the single guys is be patient. Accept she has a life to lead. Keep in contact and be prepared to plan.
Jezzay.
Hello everybody again,
I've just sent out PMs with the venue but I lost my broadband connection right in the middle and everything went to hell.
So if you're expecting to hear from me and don't, please PM me.
I can't believe this is actually happening!
Jezzay.
Me too.
I've got nothing to do. I want to party with lots of people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jezzay.
PS Anybody want to partner me to Liberation? Or anywhere really. Mmmnnn thinks.... I've just broken the first rule of dating : 'Never sound desperate.'
It's Thursday. Sorry, Harry, but I'm going for the girls. (Well, not personally you understand, but to get results for more people it seems like a good idea).
But don't worry - I'm happy to set up another date very soon after. So we can get Marcuso along.
Fabio!!! Do you ever get down our way????
I've picked a pub and PMs will go out very soon.
THURSDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER. We're about to put Norwich on the SH map.
Jezzay..