Welcome, TRUBRIT

Subject: WELCOME, TRUBRIT
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 07:30 PM

TRUBRIT is a lady after my own heart, screaming her entry in CAPS. And she doesn't even have a problem with the infamous CAPSLOCK button.

She is a wonderful lady, a mischievous friend and a first rate real estate agent. Both Jacqui and I got our homes through her. Some of you met her at the Getaway. She of "She's stopped snoring. Maybe she's dead...GOOD!" And I who do not snore was not the target.

Deborah is a regular at my Song Circles and has been growing her collection of songs. I will let her tell you what she chooses about herself. Please welcome her.

SINS

Subject: RE: WELCOME, TRUBRIT
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 07:41 PM

Jacqui told me that caps were a no go-----I will remember next time!!!! It was so much fun to be around people who didn't think me insane for liking this kind of music!!!!!!! TruBrit is because I am British (get it?????) -- as Mary said I am a realtor and a good one......those of you I actually met will be getting nice to have met you letters....... We do a newsletter about six times a year that has nothing to do with real estate and everything to do with an English idiosyncrasy (? sp) like Boxing Day or Guy Fawkes day and you are on it if you receive my intro letter - let me know if you want to be off the mailing list and it will happen.....

Loved the Getaway, Loved the music, Loved the people - hated the snoring!!!!!

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: karen k
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 09:19 PM

TRUBRIT,
Sorry not to have met you at the Getaway. Missed it this year for the first time in a long time. Been threatening to get up to one of Mary's sings but something always gets in the way. Hope to meet you one day.

Welcome to Mudcat.

karen k

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 09:36 PM

So what...all the Brit ladies are moving to Portland? **bg**

Welcome, welcome...any friend of Sins is a... *sinner*....no, really I mean it, WELCOME to the Mudcat. Enjoy and don't mind the loonies. Ask Sins, I'm really not one of them.LOL

All the best,

kat

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: jacqui.c
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 09:39 PM

Kat - Deb IS one of the loonies- in the nicest way of course.

Didn't we tell you that we are taking back the colonies one by one? Deb has been here for many years though and married to a lovely American gentleman called Tom. i think it takes a special kind of guy to put up with us Brits but we're both lucky in having found a good'un.

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: Micca
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 02:28 AM

Hi TRUBRIT, Hi Debs, A Nice lady and a True Brit and also, and I am glad to say a Friend, Welcome

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 03:05 AM

Hi, Deb - I don't care what Jacqui says. You seemed quite sane to me. In fact, the ONLY sasne woman from Maine at the Getaway this year....
Welcome to Mudcat!
-Joe Offer, moving this thread to the non-music section-

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: Paul Burke
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 03:10 AM

As an English Brit I'd like to know what we do on Boxing Day (apart from hangover cures).

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 04:06 AM

Oh Paul, shame on you!!!

Well, now the traditional Boxing Day Hunt has been banned, you can go out Mumming with any one of several Mummers in the UK. I'm sure Herga Mummers will need a spare body if you're anywhere near London. Manitas has his own dress these days, but I'm sure we can fix you up with something if you need a costume!

LTS

Oh, and Welcome TruBrit from another snoring lunatic!

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: gnu
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 06:32 AM

Welcome. You're in good company with that crowd.

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: kendall
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 07:17 AM

What light through yon window breaks? Forsooth, 'tis another Brit I wean.
Welcome aboard Deb. (Don't feed the trolls)

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 09:01 AM

Boxing Day? An excuse to dine at Chez Deborah with Chef Tom serving. No fisticuffs unless Jacqui has one too many and tries to drive.
That's it, isn't it?

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: Tinker
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 09:03 AM

Welcome Deb --

YOu survived the travel, the crowds --well almost with a little self presevation resevation -- and are jumping further into the murky waters. Well Met.

Tinker

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: jacqui.c
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 09:07 AM

Sins - Jacqui's not the one who tries to drive having had one too many. I value my newly acquired license too much.

Fisticuffs is reserved for those who open all the salsa jars!

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 09:12 AM

Oh, I guess you mean Portland MAINE.

Well, welcome anyway. Too bad you chose to live in Maine.

Don't feed the trolls, and don't take stuff personally.

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: kendall
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 10:21 AM

Wuddaya mean too bad you chose to live in Maine? We have done right by her! Besides, she is allowed to return to the old country whenever she needs an accent transfusion.

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: Severn
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 10:36 AM

I don't recall meeting you at the Getaway, but I might have been either too busy riding the range or too damn sober to notice and remember. But WELCOME in all caps from some guy down in Maryland!

You seem to keep the best of company up there, and I look forward to crossing threads with you from time to time.

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 11:28 AM

No, Joe, she's a lovely loonie -- like the rest of us. (If I didn't keep my present level of insanity, I'd go crazy.)

Nice to have Deborah not only at Sinsull's gatherings but here at Mudcat!

(Wish she wouldn't schedule "her" events on evenings Curmudgeon and I can't make it, damn.)

I LOVE her newsletters! (and website) (And Tom's curry at least as much as I love Curmudgeon's curry!)

Linn (who has to go help her Tom with a two-person dinner problem.)

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: SussexCarole
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 12:05 PM

Deborah! Great to see you here on Mudcat and was a real treat to meet you & Tom on our recent visit.

Hope to see you next year
Carole & Andrew

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 12:15 PM

Welcome Trubrit. As soon as our ship comes in we plan to visit the mad mafia of Maine so hopefully that will include you.

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: Gorgeous Gary
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 12:29 PM

I wondered whose car that was...now I know! 8-)

Welcome to Mudcat!

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 05:35 PM

Welcome TRUBRIT. Hopefully I will get to meet you at some stage.

Rhiannon

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: GUEST,KT
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 05:40 PM

Welcome, TRUBRIT! I look forward to meeting you in person some day. 'Til then, see you around here, and enjoy!

KT

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 05:36 AM

OK, so everyone start working on Manitas and telling him how great Maine is and how you don't have to eat lobster there really, and how wonderful it would be to have a holiday in the States..... I'm doing the subliminal bit at home but it needs external input....

LTS

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: jacqui.c
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 08:05 AM

I'm over in February Liz - we'll have to get together and I'll do the Maine PR bit then.

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 11:04 AM

I read about Maine in Accordion Crimes... nuff said.

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: IWTATBM
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 11:53 AM

Welcome TRUBRIT and don't listen to the non-caps brigade, they're just jealous because their names seem so small and insignificant next to ours.

Also, you'll find a warm welcome on the 85 billion thread, do post.

Up the CAPS!

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: kendall
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 12:58 PM

Typing with all caps is easier than doing it right. LOL

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: jacqui.c
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 01:18 PM

Deborah did the whole of her first post in caps - always looks like shouting. The name in caps isn't a problem though - I have a close friend whose mane is also in caps......

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: IWTATBM
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 01:23 PM

OK, that's cleared that up then, thanks jackie.c. The cappers and lower casers are friends again and Mudcat harmony is restored!

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: IWTATBM
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 01:24 PM

jacqui.c - sorry!

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 02:40 PM

I pm'd Jacquie C and said the Welcome TruBrit thread had disappeared but she assured me otherwise so I checked again........I will have to get used to how incredibly active this site is. Thank you all so much for your welcomes.....as Jacquie says we will be hosting a song circle at our house on December 2 - love to see as many of you there as possible -- the house is infinitely expandable (Lynn and Tom - beginning to think you don't love me -- you ALWAYS come to Sinsull's and NEVER to me -- oh, all right, I've only hosted one gathering with one to come but that is two you never come to!!!!!) Just teasing - I know you will make one soon. I'll pass your kind words about the letters on to Tom - he is the author.

Georgeous - yes, that was my car. We realtors are not subtle -- any advertising opportunity is one not to be missed......my car is well known in Maine!

I feel very welcomed and very happy to be part of a group that doesn't think I am totally wierd for loving this odd music and wanting to sing it - voice or no!! Tinker, keep the pillow - if my experience of a houseful of teenagers is the same as yours, one can never have too many pillows!!!!

Happy day after thanksgiving to one and all.

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: ranger1
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 05:23 PM

Hiya Deb! Congrats for finally making the jump.

And Joe, whaddaya mean by that remark about Deb being the only sane woman from ME at the Getaway this year? What did I do to earn the loony designation (other than be seen in the company of Sinsull and jacqui)?

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 08:54 PM

Tami,
Before you take Joe too seriously, remember who was jumping around joyfully in a battery-operated blow up horse costume. The pot calling the kettle black.

Manitas,
I serve but do not cook or eat lobster. You can join me in a steak, hamburger, hot dog or steak 'n kidney pudding. Your choice.
SINS

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: Linda Goodman Zebooker
Date: 25 Nov 06 - 01:20 AM

Hi, TRUBRIT. I had fun talking to you at the Getaway. Very glad to see you here, as well.

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: Maryrrf
Date: 25 Nov 06 - 09:20 AM

Welcome Deb. I enjoyed meeting you at the Getaway! Glad you have joined Mudcat!

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: Barry Finn
Date: 08 Dec 06 - 01:34 AM

I some how missed you & this thread Deb. I'm glad to see that you're here. I wished I could've made it up north for the 2nd but it wasn't in the cards. It's nice to have another delightful Main-e-ack amongst us, we just can't have to many.
Liz if you do come over you don't have to eat the lobster but you do need to watch the rest of us/them tear into them. It's some site to behold. New Englanders forget their manners altogether & whatever table ware there was set out. They start with hands & fingers ripping them apart, pounding with fists on the shells that won't shred, pulling legs from sockets & sucking & grinding them til there's not a drop of meat or juice left, snapping the backs in half & reaching into their cavities to slide their inards out with their tounges. This is the ritual & it's done so the folks that don't know about lobsters won't try them. So when you do come over can I have yours?
I should've asked Deb, do you eat lobsters? I know Mary's a bit squimish about them.
Now I forgot how I came across this tread, anyway, glad to have found you.
Hopefully we'll cross paths soon.
Happy Hoildays
Barry

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 08 Dec 06 - 08:02 PM

Barry - thank you for the welcome! Nice to hear from you. The 2nd finished up being tiny, but that is ok -- it was there for them as could make it.

It took me 7 years of living in Maine before I could eat one, but I do eat lobsters. So when Liz comes over from the UK, I'll fight you for her lobster! I don't do too much with the innards and the tongue but perhaps I am still a novice.............??

So happy to have met you at the Getaway. Hope our paths will cross.....you can really sing!!

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: Barry Finn
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 01:15 AM

We can share Liz's lobster but she may want to try it after watching how it's done & I'll show you how to do the tounge & innards thing. You really have to be born to the New England coast to suck lobster with your tounge. Kinda of like Cindy sipping cider thru a straw.
Se ya soon & happy hoildays
Barry

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 03:41 AM

Welcome, TRUBRIT!

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Welcome, TRUBRIT
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 03:54 PM

Barry, well, if you have to be born in New England to really appreciate lobster in every possible way, then I labor under a slight disadvantage having been born in Egypt. Perhaps there is no hope for me? Perhaps that is why I discard the legs (? - are they legs??) disdainfully and eschew the green stuff. I'll await the lesson with bated breath - truly!

Liz - hope to be in England briefly in October of 2007 -- perhaps I can look you up? Smuggling lobsters in is probably not on the cards -- they are alive (til the fateful moment of the pot, of course) so it's a little bit unsubtle to stroll through the Green line at Customers -- carrying a brown paper bag with water dripping out (from the ice) and wriggling.....!!!!

Chanteyranger - thank you, too, for the welcome!