mitzipurr

I have just seen your first member...

Whilst walking into Chiclana from Pago las Deshillas an elderly man ran off into the wasteground with a piece of paper in his hand - expect he got caught short??

mrsjdr

Ooooooh what an idea ! Just one rule though....Do not let Keith join, he will have his box brownie out, would hate to see those pics on the forum

jonsol

You will probably soon get a few members swinging, sorry hanging, around

brisca

Whilst I see the moderators point of view and their reasons for moving threads. I’m not talking about any specific thread here but I feel somewhat differently about the forum. I see the Spain forum in more of a village pub type light. It’s my local, I pop in most nights for a drink. Everyone is very friendly and I view most people as my friends. There are some who don’t mix much with others but that fine. We get strangers who pop in from time to time looking for advice about what the village is like and maybe do we know how the local system works, any good builders? Some stay for a while, some become regulars in the pub and join our circle of friends. Some move to our area, some just come down on holidays.

I don’t go to other pubs much as I prefer the company here (and don’t like the company there)

I value the advice more of my friends and the people I know.

I know whose advice I can rely on and who’s a bit dodgy in that department.

I ask the advice of my friends 1st then if nobody knows I might go to a specialist shop or another village.

Whilst the mods might feel the topic is not relevant to the Spain forum it might be relevant to the Spain forum users. Let’s face it at the end of the day if its not relevant or uninteresting it will get no replies and soon fall off the 1st page.

Just as an example the “Being Hacked” thread had absolutely nothing to do with anything Spanish really. Yet mrs teapot posted it here. Now I know if I was in her shoes I would have valued the advice more from people I know, rather than posting it the lab and being told by total strangers that I had nothing to worry about.

On the other side I can see the point that if the forum ends up just being idle chit-chat about nothing Spanish then people will come in and leave again because its not what it claims to be.

So do you get my drift?

Anyone else feel the same?

Discuss!



Mr Brisca



PS I expect Sam will see it differently as usual!

crispy

This forum is a support systems set in place for peeps who are thinking about, who want to or who have already made the move to Spain. We are here to suport anyone who has problems or needs advice or who just wants to share something with us. I for one would always come to my firends here in this fourm than go any where else. I keep an eye in the lounge and there is no way I would go there with a problem I feel completely out of my comfort zone in there. I am a creature of habit and It takes me a long time to trust peeps and I have trust and faith in all my friends here, even those that p**s me off and make me wanna shout. to you all.

Of course we do have the Forum Village thread that we could use more often for un-related Spanish topics. What do you think.

jdr

Eeeerm, read rule 12. ;-)

derbyflan

If this is a village, then Smarties will have a Bacardi and coke Myfanwy

rugbymatt

Right, since we all want a place to talk about crap basically, me included, why dont we just keep it here?

That way it saves jdr having to remind us things, (hint hint) and stops threads being moved.

Its pointless saying you want another sub forum if this thread is never used, if it proves popular then at least the Mods can see it would be a good idea, no?

Lionda

Well I for one have taken comfort from sharing my experiences with my friends on here. Without whom I would have had quite a few sleepless nights. I know exactly what you mean Mr B.

Lionda

Good idea Matt - now we can all chat away without upsetting jdr

Hey - and less of the crap It's good to talk

jdr

I have merged the threads to help.

rugbymatt

Thanks jdr, it makes sense having somewhere to talk nonesense but I bet it wont get used.

Mitzyboy

On another forum I was on it got very chatty, much like the forum village but completely accross the forum. Lots of threads went off topic, and eventually people in general started to complain that it was no longer a forum but a chat room. A lot moved away to other forums. I'd agree, if you are happy to chat then you need to contain it to one area, but not lose useful info for everyone else. Not everyone will check the forum village, and if you have people asking for advice on there and being replied to, many people may miss out on valuable info that they might have otherwise seen by the topic heading.

Ka Ora!

Having just enabled the village for broadband communications my wife and i stopped at the pub one day to have a quick pint and noticed a house for sale rumor has it it was where andy pipkin and his estranged mother lived and in this house their was murder most horrid anyway we liked the look of the house figured a put a paint would cover up the blood stains and purchased it what sealed the deal for us was the lovely pub and the fact that the village now had ADSL.

jdr

Has anyone seen how big the carp are getting in the village pond since the automatic feeder was put in ? HERE