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Hi Spinners! I’m feeling rather shy
about this business of introducing myself as I’m so very ‘green’. I got into poi about a week ago, made my own from a couple of tennis balls the dogs rejected and a pair of nylon knee highs that belonged to my late lamented Mum. I’m working through the online lessons (grateful thanks to HoP staff for these, since at present I don’t know any spinners in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne). Although I’m just getting started, poi is becoming a family affair. I was introduced to it by my son, Mags the Jedi. My eldest grandchild (his daughter Isabelle) can do butterflies and she’s only five years old! Needless to say, I can’t – yet. I’ve got really hooked on reading others’ threads, now I’ve got to come out of the woodwork and introduce myself, so here I am. Or as my customised car number plate says “YER I BE”. I was born in Devon and that’s how we say “here I am” in West Country talk. BTW, I really, really miss West Country cider! 
RosieMary
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Location: SW London, UK
Then this is your future talking to you! It is 11.52am by my computer on Wed 22 Feb!
I manage a large academic library and am up to my ears in Administrivia grrrrrrrrrrrrr
What do you do for a crust? (That's an Aussie expression)
RosieMary
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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever" ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Super Gidg!!!!
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Location: Portland Oregon USA
Written by: RosieMary
What do you do for a crust? (That's an Aussie expression)
That reminds me ... I need to go to the store for some bread.
I do as little as possible.
Officially I am considered an Engineering Change Order Specialist. It really comes down to project management, I just wish I made the money a project manager made.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
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I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
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Location: Wales
Hi RosieMary
Long time no see. Hows life treating you? When are we going to drag you back to the UK so you can enjoy the rain and cold
? I'm working on Gidg. I think before 2010 we migh have forced her to come over to visit us here
!I will nag and nag and nag until you give in and come..... Ask Gidg. She knows.
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Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
Yep, I know. Skully is nothing but an old hag ... ooops I ment nag.
We love you Skully!!!!!
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
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Location: SW London, UK
Written by: Skulduggery
When are we going to drag you back to the UK so you can enjoy the rain and cold
Hi Skully, I'm in the process of selling the house and applying for jobs. I think we're getting an offer today, don't know if we'll accept though. And I'm being interviewed by phone in a couple of days for a job in London, so I could be back 'ere long! Martin, the 'other half', won't get back until end October but I can start nest-building in UK for us in the meantime. I'll let you know what happens.
Written by: Skulduggery
I'm working on Gidg. I think before 2010 we migh have forced her to come over to visit us here
I do hope you can get that Gidgie person over, I missed her by a whisker here in Melbourne last year. Hey, Gidg, you sound a Really Important Person in your field, I'm impressed. But I do understand about money, we mere librarians, however technological and I am, get peanuts.
Written by: Skulduggery
I will nag and nag and nag until you give in and come..... Ask Gidg. She knows.
You can nag all you want, it's lovely to feel wanted!
to you all. RosieMary
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Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
Written by: RosieMary
... Hey, Gidg, you sound a Really Important Person in your field, I'm impressed. But I do understand about money, we mere librarians, however technological and I am, get peanuts.
I never thought of being an important person in my field. To me it's just a job. If I could figure out how to work for myself, keep my current standard of living and be able to travel like I want, I would be leaving that job so fast it would make their heads spin.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
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Location: SW London, UK
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If I could figure out how to work for myself, keep my current standard of living and be able to travel like I want, I would be leaving that job so fast it would make their heads spin.
Oooh yes yes yes yes!!!!!
I'd come with you...................
RosieMary
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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever" ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
The two of use, and other people of our choice, traveling the world together. It boggles the mind, I'm not sure that the world could handle it.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
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Location: Wales
Of course the world could handle it!
So RosieMary are coming back to the UK for good, or is it just a stop over until the rain drives you off to somewhere
?
Which ever it is it means I can get to meet you! Now all we have to do is work out how to get Gidg, Gabe, Valura, Taj, Arsn, Moon Pixie, Lightning, Kael, Bender, .... Blimey I think this list will get too long if I name everyone.... All we have to do is get all the other gorgeous non Brits over here at one time to have a GIANT HoP beach party!
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Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
Skully that would be soooo cooool. Unfortunetly we are not independtely wealthy so you will have to take us as we can afford to travel. *sigh*
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
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Location: SW London, UK
Hi there
Well, it seems I'm coming back a lot sooner than I expected, in three weeks to be precise. This is why I've been
So - I'll be on my way soon. Hey Gidg, UK is nearer USA than Australia, isn't it? So get on over. Skully, Wales isn't so far from London, where I'll be living, and I'm on the west side. Look forward to meeting somewhere sometime. Hooray!
RosieMary
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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever" ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
8,428 posts
Location: Wales
YAY! Thats so great. Let me know when you are settled in. I'll come down to London and see all the london spinners at the same time.
This means you'll be in london in time for the first Clapham meet of the year on the 1st of April?
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Fool
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Location: Cornwall, UK
Hehe. I love the way I find this out on HoP!
Cool, see you in three weeks then Mum. Hope the packin and stuff goes ok.
Before you come back, do me a favour and kidnap Bender and bring him over in your hand luggage so that we can force him to give us his skills. "I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift. We paid the cover charge of life, we were born."
Bill Hicks, February 1988
Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
Written by: RosieMary
... Hey Gidg, UK is nearer USA than Australia, isn't it? So get on over. Skully, Wales isn't so far from London, where I'll be living, and I'm on the west side. Look forward to meeting somewhere sometime. Hooray!
I don't know about closer but at least you'll be in the same hemisphere and compared to OZ and the US, everything in the UK is closer.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
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Location: SW London, UK
Hi Guys
I'm flat chat (as we Aussies say) getting ends tied up at work, I finish tomorrow (Friday 10 March) and then have two weeks frantically sorting out things. Gotta find somewhere for my man and two dogs to live for a few months until they can follow on.
Where in Clapham do they meet? Clapham Commonis very near to where I live there. I'll try to make it. Any idea of time of day?
Mags, sorry you found out that way. I've been trying to phone, MSN etc. but you've been "Away". But at least you know now. My only phone contact will be my former UK mobile number.
I want to get to USA sometime, I want to visit my favourite cousin in Baltimore as soon as possible. Are you anywhere near there, Gidg?
Oh dear, work calls, must run
RosieMary
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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever" ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Super Gidg!!!!
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Location: Portland Oregon USA
Baltimore? Maryland? Sorry RosieMary, but that is completely on the other side of the country. Maryland is on the East coast and Oregon in on the West. The only way I could get farther is if I lived in Hawaii.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
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Location: Wales
RosieMary the meet is by the bandstand on Clapham Common at about 3pm I believe on April 1st. There will be a whole lot of us there. I'm coming down from Wales and staying with Jon and Simian on the boat
I hope to see you there.I'll PM you my mobile number so you can ring if you can't find us.
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Location: SW London, UK
If I'd known, Gidg, I'd have booked a flight east across USA instead of west back to UK! Well, if I'd had time I would. But who knows......?
Skully, thanks for the PM, got it, will do my best to be there. I'll be the one with a blue nose and wrapped up to the eyebrows. I'm leaving weather in the 30sC here! See you soon.
Also, I'm going to be one of the "maturer" people around. Don't know if the poi will have got there by then, but. RosieMary
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Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
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Location: Wales
I'm one of the immature mature people you will find there. Worry not about poi. I'm sure there will be plenty to spare. I'm looking forward to meeting you.
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Fool
2,020 posts
Location: Cornwall, UK
Quick post to say that Rosie arrived in the UK yesterday, knackered from the 20+ hour flight from nostralia. Some of you lucky people will get to meet her at Clapham on sunday.
I have to wait even longer to see her! And she's me mum!
Ah well. Big up the Clapham posse (whistle crew at the ready
) "I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift. We paid the cover charge of life, we were born."
Bill Hicks, February 1988
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Location: SW London, UK
As Mags said, totally knackered, also migraine for two days, bummer. I'm hoping to be there at least for a while on Sat April 1. Have to go to Hemel Hempstead to see my daughter, so it may not be long. We'll see.
Bye for now.
RosieMary
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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever" ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
*runs in*
*runs out* Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
8,428 posts
Location: Wales
Gidg, we now have the lovely RosieMary in the UK! Yippeeeeeee! She's ours now
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Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
Skully Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
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Location: SW London, UK
Why are you two fighting about me? I'm no great shakes, but not having been in the States as a twirly person, it is Australia and UK that claim me. BTW, do you know what bus drivers in England call Twirlies? These are people with concession cards for buses which can only be used after 9.30am. If someone tries to get on a bus before this time, they are reputed to say "Oh, am I too early?" [twirly, see?]
Skully, I'm so sorry not to have seen you the other day. I decided not to cross the common after speaking to you. It came on rainy and windy and I was still feeling s**t. I pulled tendons in my foot (belly dancing is SO dangerous)
and the foot hurt, so I bailed out and went to Hemel Hempstead instead. We'll be sure to meet at some time though, now that I'm not the other side of the world. Mags says he might come up to London to see me the weekend after Easter, yeay! He can teach me some more twirls, I left my HoP DVD behind by mistake.Take care all of you.
RosieMary
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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever" ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
8,428 posts
Location: Wales
I'm sorry I missed you! I was all icky myself. So I missed out on all the fun too
Ah well there will be other times I'm sure.
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Fool
2,020 posts
Location: Cornwall, UK
Hey mama, nice to see your thread is on the first page while mine languishes on page 3...
I will try and get to london for that week, but it's gonna all hinge on money. Preferably I want to be in the smoke long enough to go to clapham on the sunday and especially Spitz on the tuesday... (It's the mecca for British spinning innit?
)...maybe I'll come up from wednesday to wednesday...love you
"I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift. We paid the cover charge of life, we were born."
Bill Hicks, February 1988
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Location: Preston, United Kingdom
LOL I dont really know why but im really amused to find a mother and son team on hop here lol. I think its so cool lol. Am I the only one? Oh well probably
*tips imaginary hat politly* Miss
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Location: SW London, UK
It is pretty cool keeping in touch with Mags on HoP. If I wasn't on HoP I prolly wouldn't know what that son of mine was doing from week to week.
We actually haven't managed to spin together since he taught me my first moves about two years ago as I've been in Oz. But now I'm Right Side Up, no doubt I'll be learning some more. And maybe meet some of the spinners over here.Hi Skully, hope you're feeling better. I am better except for the foot which goes on strike from time to time. It really was the belly dancing that messed it up. Maybe I should go back to the knitting!
I'll try and get to Cornwall before too long, I haven't had a decent pint of cider since my return. Back to work.
to you all. RosieMary
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