Porty person bagging

[Gedge]

[Guest]

[wangi]

[Dadaist]

[wangi]

[Dadaist]

[mr magnolia]

[bellybabe]

[wangi]

[mr magnolia]

[Dadaist]

[bellybabe]

Aha - see, now you're confused - I'm Bellybabe, not Beach Babe. The crucial difference is that Beach Babe copes with Dadaist ALL THE TIME!

But thank you for your recommendation. I hope to have cycling offspring by then, well, one cycling and one stabilised!

Yay - a magnolia bud. I love babies. When they're other people's. Congratulations!

[mr magnolia]

hmm, I see its all too confusing for me too - I shall have to read more carefully in future...

[Guest]

You're confused - I'm still in a state of shock! God knows what the casual lurker makes of all this. I think we need a big 3D Venn diagram to sort it all out.

As if I haven't got problems of my own, trying to sort out 5 generations of Williamsons. And they expect me to go back to work tomorrow.

[Beach Babe]

[wangi]

[Gedge]

I for one am one of those people who don't know that many people in Portobello but like the idea perhaps not of stopping to talk to every other shopper but at least be on nodding terms with a few. I've lived here a couple of years and realise that the people I know are existing friends who happen to live here.

Seeing that the "person bagging" idea has been welcomed with such wild enthusiasm by so many people (okay, mild interest by one or two) here's a suggestion to take the idea a bit further.

How about if a simple discreet badge or other sign was produced that forum users could wear when they were out and about. I could therefore have a few people to nod at, I could try and guess who they are, I could stop and talk about portie topics if I/we so desired. Anonymity could be preserved if desired cos noone neds to divulge their online name.

Smart idea or what?

[Dadaist]

[Guest]

I stood next to another forum member at the bus stop the other day. I didn't break cover as I don't think s/he knows who I am.

Of course, maybe s/he didn't break cover because s/he thinks I don't know who they are.

[ecm]

What a dilemma!

[Epykat]

[Poppy]

Alex, 'ecm' thinks it might have been me at the bus stop? I hadn't realised who you were vis a vis this forum. Three folk from one government department [sorry 'agency'!] on this site. Scary.

Of course, if was not me and you don't know who 'ecm' and 'Poppy' are you are going to very mystified by this post. Shades of the Dadaist's thread re weird co-incidences?!

[Dadaist]

I had a weird co-incidence today. I bumped into my sister at the Blue Bean and we all had lunch. I had a wonderful black pudding roll which set me up nicely for my driving lesson.

Reading that story back - it's not all that weird, given that we both live in Porty and it's a cafe we both go to.

[Guest]

[Guest]

[bellybabe]

[Poppy]

We are watching you!!!
The Agency!

[Poppy]

Alex, re not knowing 'ecm' is - tee hee!! If you guessed who I was from my nickname - which is only ever used at our top secret agency [!] - then a few discreet enquiries should reveal the four ladies who still work there who started there together 26 years ago! Try CPF numbers on SIP!

CPF and SIP - that'll add to the confusion!

[ecm]

If our beloved Agency goes the same way as Scottish Natural Heritage under the Executive's relocation of Civil Service jobs then there should be enough of us Porty People to start up our own Forum from Lewis or wherever they send us!

[Guest]

You realise that this is incomprehensible to most of the forum..? (But no more so than Dadaist's "Weird Coincidence" thread.)

[wangi]

SNH, hmmm... Fine mess there. I'll let you guess where mrstb wangi works.

[Gemini]

Loads of chances for 'Portobello Bagging' at tomorrows Ceilidh!

8.00pm Porty Town Hall.

[Porty]

[Gemini]

[Epykat]