Galanthus Events 2009

[Martin Baxendale]

Just for a laugh I'll be cunningly disguised as a middle-aged bloke with thinning hair so none of you will recognise me.

[Anthony Darby]

Just back from Old Trafford.  Cream to the top etc. I'll be at the Gala, look for flying goggles and white silk scarf.

My son will be jealous. He was watching it on the box whilst supposedly doing his French homework. Mind you, he has had lunch in the directors' box (not sure where to put the apostophe because there might be only one director?)

[steve owen]

As long as Bobby Charlton still sits in the Directors box I don't mind who the others are. And as long as expensive foreign imports are grafted onto a spine of local ex-youth team players, United will outlast the synthetic teams like Chelsea. Remember Blackburn in the season when Jack Hayward bought them the League championship? Name a London youngster in the Arsenal team. Similarly snowdrops; some of these fancy expensive new drops need to be added to a garden that already has Magnet, Arnott, Atkinsii and Hill Poe. Form is temporary; class is permanent.

[Anthony Darby]

Similarly snowdrops; some of these fancy expensive new drops need to be added to a garden that already has Magnet, Arnott, Atkinsii and Hill Poe. Form is temporary; class is permanent.

My sentiments exactly. I have all the above, so need someone to drop some of these expensive types so I can add them to my garden.

[David Quinton]

Name a London youngster in the Arsenal team.

I'll give you four for starters  :

Henri Lansbury
Gavin Hoyte
Jack Wilshere
Kieron Gibbs

Plus Jay Simpson albeit currently on loan at WBA.

I grant you that only Jack features regularly but all have featured for the first team this season.

I think that your misconception is that you believe that Man Utd are full of local youngsters with a sprinkling of foreigners. I see that Gary Neville was the only Manchester born player in the starting 11 yesterday and you could hardly call him young!

I think that we should stick to Galanthus on this thread as it could get very nasty otherwise!

David (Galanthophile and Gooner!)

[Anthony Darby]

Anyone for tennis? Andy Murray was playing tennis with his mum just down the road between Christmas and New Year. I remember when he was wee and lived next door to a friend. He claims to have encouraged Andy in his tennis, especially one Sunday after a dinner party at a mutual friend's house - I think it was the night Vivienne and I announced our intending marriage - or did she tell me(?). Anyway, his suggestion to go to the local tennis courts ("stop hitting that ball against your garage door, I'm trying to sleep! There's tennis courts round the corner")  seems to have worked.

[steve owen]

Name a London youngster in the Arsenal team.

I'll give you four for starters  :

Henri Lansbury
Gavin Hoyte
Jack Wilshere
Kieron Gibbs

Plus Jay Simpson ...

Can't see any of this lot in the Snowdrops book. They certainly don't play football. Do you suffer from any other delusions?

[Maggi Young]

Okay, enough already with the football stuff........

 I'm not listening to this football stuff......

so stop winding eachother up.....

and .....

 why don't you go outside and play.....

 

 .... thank you   

[Luc Gilgemyn]

 

After all lthis is the friendly forum... isn't it Maggi ?? 

[Maggi Young]

After all lthis is the friendly forum... isn't it Maggi ?? 

 It is, indeed, Luc, and we need to ensure that with certain guidelines .....


suggestions.....



  and regulations...........

or action may need to be taken..........

[David Quinton]

It would appear that I am the one to blame here so please accept my apologies. What I thought was a bit of friendly banter appears to have been taken the wrong way. I have sent Steve Owen a PM to say as much and hope that this will be an end to it.

Sorry for any embarrassment that my post may have caused.

David

[Luc Gilgemyn]

 
Maggi,
I believe your collection of GIF's is inexhaustible !

[steve owen]

 
David/Maggie

No umbrage had been taken. I had obviously misread from all the incidental badinage on non-galanthus matters from the Hero aficionados that these threads had a wide tolerance of galanthus-related comment. So happy to go back to concentrating on galanthus safe in the knowledge that everyone else will do the same. Re Mark's post today on another thread; is it possible that other readers stay silent precisely because they fear offending protocol?

[Maggi Young]

I do believe that this Forum is about as liberal as one might find anywhere, but I felt there was a sign that this football "conversation" was taking a sharper tone, so I was moved to don my referee's shirt and step in.
 I would imagine that any chance of keeping any thread precisely to the stated subject matter is miniscule.....  that doesn't even happen when any digressions are strictly plant related... it just doesn't happen that way..... it is what makes this place so like a meeting of frends.... but I'm the fat lady here, charged with keeping things within certain bounds.... and I've just been singing.... so its over... that's all folks! (no gif for that, Luc... copyright issues!!)

[johnw]

I too made a beeline for the Monograph to look up 'Henri Lansbury'!

johnw