To issue a siren and sound a klaxon for those of us that once played together across the boards

[Hullygully]

Perhaps I am...but where are they now?

Come hither lamented playmates and fill my heart with joy and laughter.

I actually wrote that song but it was nicked off me.

Fuckers.

I've been a few names, but mainly I've been wasting spending time here since 2002. I found mn about a month after ds was born in the February.

Fuck, that's a lot of wasted time!

TOTP was fab, a launching ground for the young 'uns.
I think there is a place for it now, Mum's and Dad's can say what shite todays music is and the kids can laugh at them us for being old fogeys.
What's not to love?

Too much bad history with the dodgy djs.

Noooo, new TOTPs, new DJs, different format, just new bands and new music.
Be great, might bring new music to us old 'uns if it's on at 7.30 as per usual and the kids can boogie in front of the telly for our amusement while we moan about the quality of the music.
was better in my day

Oh my oh my. I am so happy to see the names on this thread. I have been here 7 years and recognize most of the names here, although I have name changed so no one will know me.

The only one noticeably absent to me is Shiney. Where is she??

Hully did you mean did I used to be Shirley?

Gawd woman, what's the matter with you? ShirleyKnot and FN were never the same person. Whatever they've been putting on your Readybrek in that care home to keep you quiet has also messed with your memory.

I think that was two separate questions Fell.

And yes Hulls, I fucking well did and I fucking well am.

Oh how lovely, let us build a campfire and sing songs of joy and the night.

Hello Hully I'd been wondering where'd you'd been!

Haven't read whole thread yet, will do so tonight, this is mostly a placemark to get it into TIO.

PS It's DeepRedBetty as was btw, you can add that to your spreadshits o spreadshitting ones.

Long time no see!

Oh shit UsedToBeShirley of course - so sorry, I didn't see you up there.

Make sense now, of course. I had a brief crisis of confidence for a moment there, and I almost cried out 'Don't you know who I am Hully? After all these years? did I mean so little to you that you could mix me up with someone else?'

Anyway, crisis averted. As you were.

How lovely. Lovely folk.

Time for a celebratory Caipirinhahaha I'd say, Pag.

I think a verse of Kumbaya might be in order soon. Or one of those Vera Lynn songs.

We need to stamp out that little upstart Twitter and then we might stand half a chance of getting all the decent defectors back. How DARE they all be over there enjoying themselves when they are needed here, the bastards?

Perhaps we could stage some sort of a coup and overthrow the current regime of dullness and make everything right again. That tapeworm thread was definitely a step in the right direction as was the Coat Peg thread, which was excellent. I don't know who CorusKate is, but I think she and I would get along. She has her priorities right.

(pokes head round thread)

((waves))

Hello Lovelies.

So nice to see some old faithful nn's.

I miss mn of old....

Ooh I was just about to ask if Pag was still around!

Hello me old mucker. [kissyface]

You have to all promise not to be too funny or too clever or too interesting though. I don't want to have to go through all that addiction nonsense and self-imposed rehab all over again. I am not yet suitably recovered and cannot be trusted around too much funny.

Hello gorgeousness

Oh Fids - I'm forbidden from opening the caprinihahahahaha bar until October. I can only do it on holiday. Dh gets massively arsey if I mumsnet after about 9.00pm. I can't even argue. Mn makes me a dickhead. Who wants to go to bed with a dickhead.

But October is hols and I have to share with dd. she doesn't mind . Good old dd

It was so much smaller back in the day - you could open a thread and recognise most of the posters. Or open a spoof thread and recognise the posting style if not the name and act accordingly. And spoof threads are so different from trolling..

Not if you're THICK they're not

Hello lovely ol Pag

So many old but eternally youthful faces. Happy place .

Toddlysmegs is fine, bar the wonky teeth. She had a blast in A&E. I am exhausted. Turns out getting to A&E and getting seen in the paediatric A&E is bloody impossible when an England match is on. Took hours.

Consequently I'll just lurk today, as I'm liable to take offence at the smallest thing. Like 'hello', 'good morning' or 'Mrs Wibble's buddleia is looking resplendent'.

How utterly lovely to see lovely peeps

lovely

I shall lurk also as am off to Alton Towers today

Alton. TOWers

please handyholdy, o ancient mumsnetters of the yore. It's fucking 5 hours in a car

Good news on Toddlysmegs. You would have thought that they would try to rush you through asap under the circs rather than keep you there for hours. Last time I went with DS we managed to go to the minor injuries unit and he was whisked through their children's section very quickly.