Asking for your help ladies

[Gemini]

Thank you Mimi.Indeed I do have your address, I see it in my little book

[Gemini]

Right ladies, after very slight delay of a year, LOL, the postcards are being prepared!

Please let me know if you are willing to take a few anyone.

Nan2, Glamma, Zizi, Plant and Mimi, you all kindly offered last year, are you still willing to take some?

[Daisy]

We don't want anyone to feel under any kind of pressure, but we really would love some more members and give us all the opportunity to make more online friends.

Our original concept that this Forum should be a friendly, polite and supportive place is still our aim, and always will be.

[Nanto2girls]

I'm still willing to take some Gem.

[Glammanana]

Hi Gems Yes I will take some as promised I will send you my new address as you know I moved in April to my lovely little bungalow I can't remember if I have given you the new address or not.

[Plantaholic]

I can take some Gemini I wouldn't like to give them to friends who might join. what do you suggest as a method of distribution?

[Qwerty]

It’s a difficult one for me admin I’m not sure I want others involved in my social world that I know, as we talk about so many things, of course talking to members who don’t know me is fine but on a personal level I don’t want my friend or neighbour knowing all my info. I am sure that all members here have no one that they know on a local level apart from our meet ups on this site but will gladly take some but not to people I know, is that being selfish , I know GRU can’t survive forever like this but I love the fact that no one knows me and I can be myself

[Gemini]

No problem at all Qwerty, we understand! It's not selfish. You should do what you feel is right for you.

Thanks to the ladies who can take some.
Plant, you could maybe put one up in a newsagents, post office or some other noticeboard, You may be able to leave a few anywhere you go where ladies of the right generation go

With our usernames and not naming our GC or where we live*, we shouldn't get recognised anyway, unless someone knows us very well.

*I do mention where I live, but will stop doing so if we get more members!

[Gemini]

I know GRU can’t survive forever like this but I love the fact that no one knows me and I can be myself

Qwerty. We, Daisy and myself, love this tight knit friendly little forum too We can continue as we are for some time, probably years. However - some members although they come here very regularly, never post. We are not sure why this is, we are sure they have valuable things to say! Others have periods where they don't visit the forum for some time. This leaves a small number of die-hards, our lovely regulars who post most days, start new threads, wish members a Happy Birthday, and really keep this forum alive.
So, to allow for those who drift away, or never post, or who take long absences, we need a few more members to keep our community lively
Neither Daisy nor I are looking to create a big impersonal forum, so don't worry !

[Clover]

My way of thinking is similar to Qwerty's though I can see the other side of the argument I will willingly take some postcards and put them around various places under cover of darkness

[ZIZI]

I no longer really have any sort of work/social life with my own age group. I just go where I am sent and have meetings. Happy to take some cards but nit sure where to put them.

[Nana]

I feel the same as Qwerty. I feel as tho' I'd be out of my comfort zone if/when this opens up to 'strangers'. On the other hand, if the other Granny place hadn't been open to everyone I wouldn't have met you all & GRU has been/is a lifeline for me. Sorry I can't do postcards.

[Daisy]

Gem and I really understand that the fact that your family and friends are NOT on here is a huge bonus for many of you. We certainly wouldn't want you to jeopardise that. What we are hoping for is that the cards would be picked up by people you don't know, and maybe live many miles from, who would enjoy the same kind of benefits we all get from GRU.

I shall drop some off at various community centres (not in my village).

Nana - please don't apologise - there is no pressure on anybody. You make lovely and much-valued contributions to the forum just by being here. xx

Gem is right - there's a critical level which keeps the conversations on here fresh and lively. We wouldn't want to get to the stage where we didn't recognise members because the forum was too busy, but if the active membership goes too low nobody will want to visit us!

We don't envisage hundreds of new people clamouring to join, but if we can get an occasional new member on board it would be lovely. We certainly won't allow the type of posts we've all seen elsewhere, and our Terms and Conditions make it clear the naughty step will be used if necessary! (at the bottom of the screen - "TS and CS" if you want a read!)

[Gemini]

I totally echo everything Daisy says there

[admin]

We have postcards now, and will send them to those who have agreed to have them (if they still want them!) in the new year