On Oct 22, 2005, at 19:01, Anne Toney wrote:
Queen Mum?
in response to David's:
what on earth do you call a dowager bloke???
Love it <g> But since we can only have one Queen Mum and we're all "royals" (I'm a Duchess, thanks to another old-timer's spellchecker, which, unable to deal with "Duvall", suggested "ducal" instead <g>)... Maybe "Arachne's ancien regime" (if that's the correct spelling - Dominique?) would work? All noble, all scheduled for the chop? <g> Alternatively, " Arachne's TOBB" - Tough as Old Boots Brigade? Given just a twitch to the pronounciation, "tub" offers itself... :)
As for Shirley's:
And what qualifications do you need to be an Arachne Dowager?
2 possibilities: A) joined April '95-April '96, which would give us just under 100 people. or B) joined before the "Arachne '98 in Nottingham" event, which Pat Hallam (now of Roseground) had organised for us. There were only about 200 of us then, but we still made a good showing there, and it was great fun putting faces to names; I still have the photo of the entire group...
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