hello............
 

well now.. isn't that thread title just original

this is my very first post ( please hold your applause ) and the last forum I belonged to pretty much insisted that newbies posted an "introduction" post or face the wrath of old timers.

so here I am.

thats it. ( for now )

:o

:tinfoil:High grynch, I'm KRAZY!!!

sheeeeshh.... I'd be crazy too if I lived in Wisconsin. *hehehhhhhh*

You're up early, aren't you grynch?

are you an angry grynch?

no, not angry ( remember I don't live in Wisconsin ) and.. no... not early either...

*checking my cuckoo clock*... nearly 3pm



07-29-2011, 02:59 PM

ohhhh lookie... below my name "neophyte in training"

is that legal??????????????????




EDIT:.. guess not... I've been updated again... you kids are fast.

It's the afternoon, and you have a cuckoo clock. Are you in the Black Forest, grynch?

the Black Forest? ... I can see a couple of tree's but they are pretty green ( like me )


( black forest would be in Germany, I'm in Switzerland... s.w.Switzerland actually )

Oh yeah. Look, it says it right there in your location.

Well, welcome to the Cellar.

so... now that I've annoyed a few people right off the bat...
..
..
is most everyone here from the U.S.of A ?


EDIT... Glatt... truth be I just edited in my location... I think just before your post.. and yes my reference to cuckoo clocks and afternoon would leave normal people (unlike myself ) to believe Black Forest.

and thanks for the welcome

We're mostly from the USA, but we've got several from Australia and the UK and Europe. It's always good to have more, though.

thanks...

Welcome grynch.

My maiden name is from Switzerland...the frenchie part, though don't ask me where that would be.

I want to go there someday. Googling my name there are a lot of people there with the name.

Hullo grynch!

Allow me to extend a formal welcome from the Euro/Brit Dwellar contingent.

*waves from Yorkshire*

Hi grynch good to seeya.

good *morning* grynch.

so, given your geographical advantage over me, how was Friday?

hi monkey.. I live in the french speaking part of Switzerland ( geneva ) and I've just googled your name and I could find very few monkey's here.

( I did find "cheese eating surrender monkey" but they had a proper french residence )

and hiya Dana .... just to add to the confusion here...I am actually a Yank transplanted over here... however mrs. G is Brit.. from near London originally but lived in Huddersfield for awhile... donkey's years ago.

BigV... hell.... let me tell ya..... just go back to bed now... or like me start dreaming of that first vodka tonic ( in about 2 hrs. )

DanaC.. just noticed the tag under your name.... are you a proper Brit or a transplant Canuck'ian?

Hey! That's the American dating convention. Are you an ex-pat?

Welcome to The Cellar.

:lol:

Well, I said my maiden name. monkey is my married name. ;)

OK... hope this helps...

http://0.tqn.com/d/goeurope/1/0/1/5/...d_map_lang.gif

thanks.... the date format... unless I've not found how to change.. is set to standard American but yes... more recently I am American expat... living over here 11 years now

"deep breath"
originally Canadian ( born in N.S. ) American by law, married to a Brit and living in the land of Cheese.

gee..... I should work for the United Nations with all that going on.

:o

Thanks for that map. I'd never seen it laid out like that!

*grins* no, I am not a Canuck. That was just a play on the way my name sounds.

I'm a Lancashire lass, transplanted across the Pennines to Yorkshire. About a 20 minute drive from Huddersfield as it goes.

Dana.. ok... I've never been up that was but mrs. tells me it's God's country ( with the possible exception of Huddersfield itself !!!!!!!!!!!! )

it's a weird country this.... the germans don't like the french, the french don't like the italians.. and the italians don't like anyone.

( mrs. and I had a couple of days away at a mountain resort just recently ... just above the second "e" in Lake Geneva on that map... maybe 15 miles from the french speaking area and not a soul spoke french )

Where did you grow up in the states? What are you doing for a living in Swissland?

If and when you do piss someone off here, I will probably burst out into song. It's practically required.

Pete... I grew up ( as much as some will allow I have grown up ) just to the west of Boston

and were do I work?


umm.... don't tell..... I do work for the U.N.
( one of the lesser agencies )


ohh... and I can't remember sh*te ;) ... I nearly forgot to mention I'm so good at pissin' people off you better get your song ready.

Har! Hudd's ok. Fairly typical West Yorkshire town.


As to God's Country:

http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=15038

lovely.... but I see your Yorkshire Dales and I'll raise you the Cornish moors
( we have a cottage.. currently for sale... just off of Bodmin Moor )
http://www.britainexpress.com/zen/al...rlers-6354.jpg

http://www.cornwallinformation.co.uk...010/01/008.jpg

( not my pics by the way.. just 'nicked of the interweb. )

Regarding that second picture. Your wife's family name wouldn't be Baskerville, would it?

you can call me Beast

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...CORdqH0DOYKrCE

Ohhhh. That's lovely.

But those ain't the Dales.

That was just Shibden valley, at the back of our village. Where I walk my dog.

I'll have to dig out some pics of the Dales and maybe Bronte country as well :p

there I go.... iggggnerant American mode again... ;) ... I look forward to some pics and I'll try to get some of my real pics posted

meantime... if anyone wants to invest in a little holiday cottage

offers in the area of £220 K please..

Tumbledown Cott.

wow............that was a thread killer


:facepalm:

I want that cottage so bad I could eat it.

But want does not reality maketh so, thereto, and hereforth...well for one thing I can't convert to those poundy things and for another I don't have enough of those poundy things.

ok monkey.. here is the plan...

1) calm down
2) find out where you live now ( you are kinda confused by your description )
3) get a good job earn lots of poundy things
4) send them all to me.
5) repeat 4.

That plan is just crazy enough to work!

(I, for one, welcome our new Bosty Swissy Overlord.)

I want that cottage, too.

Monkey, maybe me, you, DanaC and Sundae could all go in to buy it? :)

grynch - you seem rich. Are you from Wellesley?

ohhh errr... thanks...

wait till I tell mrs. G... I've nevah been an overlord before !!! :sniff:

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...BZj1YcbcEb2Emo

Bri... sorry if I am sounding a bit snobbish... no, I am not rich, nor from Wellesley

( if you know that area I grew up in a lil town about 10 miles from there.. wrong side of the tracks )

That's exactly the sort of thing a rich person would say!!

;)

I'm just too provincial - I equate travel and ex-pat status to money. Maybe you got out just as the "W" years were commencing?

actually I did ok in the internet boom years... meeting, kidnapping, selling certain chatters into bonded slavery.

say, would you like a cuppa coffee ?

coffee?

If you're trying to lure me into bonded slavery, I'd rather have a hot chocolate as my last drink as a free woman.

I'd go mental without my hills :p

Beautiful landscape, but the sky is too big!

Don't fret. We'd go to Heptonstall ;) on the weekends!

chocolate?... I live in Switzerland for gawd sakes.. doncha know they keep all the chocolate under lock and key.

and on that note.. I'm outta here kids.... my chauffeur is waiting at the door

See?


Rich.

*grins* well, then that's alright.

Hello Grynch - I'm new as well, but didn't post a "hello" message. Might have been a break in protocol, but no has mentioned it so far. . .

It's not required :p

Relieved! ;)

Are you trying to tell me my first 25 posts have been fir naught ?!?

nice. lovely garden. but.... 5 foot beds? what am I a hobbit?

You selling cheap for a quick sale, or is that the price of property around there?

This place doesn't have an introduction thread. I am glad you started one for yourself though. Welcome to the forum! :D

I do not understand foreign real estate markets...

G'day Grynch-o!