2010 Conference

[packers stem]

Hello Maria,

As we saw last weekend, I think Ripperologists are a pretty decent bunch of people to communicate with, imho!

best wishes

Phil

And it's not something you can have a chat with your friends and neighbours about as they'd just think you're mad.
It's so easy now with the web ,in the eighties i used to get my mother to read all my ripper books after me just so i'd have someone to talk to about it all

[mariab]

Hello Mr Carter,
yes, I've noticed myself that Ripperologists are extremely decent people and very intense communicators.

To Parker's Stem:
Also the tomatoes are 1 month old, but inexplicably they look like fresh from the market!! (All this due to the fact that I was away from this apartment for 1 month, came back last night, and today was too lazy to go fetch groceries.) And we used some of the basil leafs, as we're definite risk takers.
So, if you never hear from me again ...(you'd probably experience intense relief!)
I'm off now, gotta tend to my guests (victims?).

[Suzi]

Ooooooooooh this time last week!!!!
Was PURRFECT!!!!! and oooooooh the triumph!!

Got some great pics too!- check out my fb!!!.....safer! x

[Natalie Severn]

Wescott wrote:
Trevor probably had every cougar in the place on him. Lucky he got out alive!

I just hope you weren"t secretly "cougar"ing up to Trev Suzi!
Sometimes these photos have been a tad revealing!

[Suzi]

I just hope you weren"t secretly "cougar"ing up to Trev Suzi!
Sometimes these photos have been a tad revealing!

'Er Don't recall that Nats.........the cat did it- I was remarkably restrained! LOL x IMHO

Hey Maria- what's an 'intense communicator'??

[Suzi]

Hello Maria,

As we saw last weekend, I think Ripperologists are a pretty decent bunch of people to communicate with, imho!

best wishes

Phil

Yes we are- if you get us at the right time of day!

[Natalie Severn]

'Er Don't recall that Nats.........the cat did it- I was remarkably restrained! LOL x IMHO

Are you talking about Dids? Dids behaved beautifully throughout....must have been sneaking drinks then....

[mariab]

Hello everyone,
I'm still alive (surely to the disappointment of some people) after the little impromptu dinner party with the 1 month old food yesterday (by the way, the pasta came out rather splendidly, so it's good to know that tomatoes can hold up to longer than a month in a fridge!), only I was unable to find the VCR tape with the Tim-Roth-as-a-jailbird-and-Julia-Ormond-as-a-dentist-working-in jail-love-storie-British-movie, but we looked up online and it's called Captives, and I might order it as a DVD. We ended up watching a really cute Eric Rohmer film, which made me realise that I already miss Paris (??), plus I'm completely disoriented in my own apartment, I was going for the wrong cupboards in the kitchen and stuff.

Suzy wrote:
Hey Maria- what's an 'intense communicator'??
Hi Suzy,
I'm afraid that a very bad example for an intense communicator is my unbearably silly gabfest above. However, most Ripperologists manage to gab for hours on end with substance and knowledge. (And obviously I don't consider myself yet a Ripperologist, just a wannabe/newbie with a launching addiction to casebook.)
By the by, I was honoured to meet Diddles, as it's obviously a rite of passage in Ripperology, and an absolute requirement before meeting Rumbelow, Begg, Fido, and SPE. I hope Diddles has recovered from his hangover from all the wine I kept giving him on the side (from my “pay 2 glasses, get 1 bottle for free“ deal), and I just don't know who the other, bigger friend of Didddles was and how he got invited to the conference, but I thought it was very cool when at some point he was dancing backstage to Kate Bradshaw's karaoke from outside the window – but I think Trevor Bond was responsible for that.

[mariab]

Natalie Severn wrote:
Dids behaved beautifully throughout....must have been sneaking drinks then....
The drink sneaking to Diddles was me. I had far too much wine in my hands to deal with, after that crooked deal at the bar...

[AmmanValleyJack]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHYAHAHAHAHAHAHA. even though i was smashed by this time last week ive just remebered that diddles dancing outside to Miss Bradshaw's singing hahahahhahahahahahaha. Ive just actually laughed out loud for the first time in about 3 yrs. comedy

[mariab]

Yeah, I think whoever had the idea (I think it was Trevor) of having him dance OUTSIDE of the plate glass window was a complete (Ripperological) genious...
But actually it wasn't Diddles, it was his bigger friend with the aggressive paws. Who was that dude and how did he get in? (I'm pretty sure it was not Diddles, 'cause Diddles was with me at the table and I was feeding him wine on the slide, when I suddenly saw the other creature dancingagainst the windowpane.
I'm just back from going out and, even on a Saturday night, Berlin is almost depressively QUIET compared to Paris and London. (But maybe because college is still out until November.) I thought it would be relaxing, but it was like “Huh? Where are all the people? Has a nuclear holocaust been going on?“.

[tnb]

Not guilty I'm afraid Maria, although I would love to take the credit as it was a great moment. I think it was either Andrew or one of the smokers, Mark or John perhaps. Then again 'Diddles mark 2' (was he called Tiddles, or did I make that up?) was spotted having a very intense whispered conversation with Laura P at the Bell on Friday so perhaps they were plotting...

[AmmanValleyJack]

yeah it wasnt Trevor, im sure you were locked in a conversation about the merits of Bobby Moore at that point cos i remember just looking up and pissing myself at the dancing cats

[mariab]

It was not Trevor, I think it was Andy (Firth). It fits with one of the smokers, since they were often stepping out for a smoke. (Am I thinking too much like a Ripperologist here?) I'm pretty sure it was not John Bennett, as he was singing himself at some point during the background dancing. I'm sorry I missed that intense whispered conversation with Diddles and Laura P at the Bell on Friday.
What I don't very much get is, I'm almost positive I saw the “Where the wild roses grow“ murder ballad-duet with Nick Caves and Kylie Minogue in the karaoke book, but when Colin said we can sing it, I spent the better part of an hour looking for it in the book, but I just coulnd't find it anymore! (???) But yesterday I located the VCR tape for Captives on my shelfs (the jailbird-dentist British-movie with Tim Roth and Julia Ormond) which we spent so much time unsuccessfully looking for the other night, so I hope I'm not losing my mind here.

[Suzi]

http://nathenamin.wordpress.com/2010...2010-a-review/

here's my review of my first ever conference.

one of my last memories before the drink dismantled my mind was of Suzi changing that Diddles character? wats the story behind this? Does he have a wikipedia page?!!

Yep!!!!!
Yep that is Tiddles...Did's alter-ego (nicer!) Don't know who had their hand up his bum leading him astray but we'll find out!!! Great wheeze tho'! Talking of wheezing has anyone else been I L L with 'the disease' (Sort of mega flu thing) since the Conf??? Off work me and on anti-bios me!!!.....groan.....had it last year too....aaagh!!! Hmmmmmm Got loads of pics on my fb too (including the great Laura /Tids one!) but don't know how to do the link thingy here to them!....More lemsip 'n stuff here.....