Westfield

[Robinia]

Will you be rushing off to the new shopping centre in Derby (I won't) or, if you've already been by the time you read this, what do you think?

[hippyhoppy]

I've just been and it's HUGE! I got lost a few times and it was tricking trying to get my bearings, but it is good with load of great new shops. You should go...

[Ice-Maiden]

Not yet - but hope there ARE some decent shops! Thanks Hippy.

[Robinia]

oh, was there just you there hippyhoppy? :o) maybe not many ABers are from this area...it sounded like bedlam on the radio, glad you lived to tell the tale!
I think I'll wait until it's quietened down a bit...knowing Derby it won't take long.

[Robinia]

YOU ARE HERE

.....shuttup moaning Vinny
...where's the cake shop?

[VINNY100_2]

Nooooo.. were spending 2 Weeks in a shopping centre? hang on a mo..is that a pub over there>>>>whoosh..(:O)

are other post has gone completely...who stole it ey..!

[Robinia]

it'll be that Spanish woman...she's in deep trouble when she gets back

[netibiza]

"Why is everybody always picking on me!"

I've lost me aviator, it's my 32nd Wedding anniversary today and nothings happening.

[DaSwede]

If it is you, Spanish woman, please make Ed put it back again sooner or later 'cos there's loads on there I haven't read yet.

Where's Vinny off to? Nevermind, we know the answer. More to the point, where's Charlie off to?

Shopping centres look the same all over the world...

Oh, congratulations Neti! And to your husband!

[netibiza]

ThanksKitalthough I'm not sure he knows!!!

[shaneystar2]

That looks like an exact replica of the Centre Court shopping centre in Wimbledon ..even to the up esacalator going straight into Debenhams !
Is that you dithering in the Body Shop Robinia ?

Happy Anniversary Neti ....it's mine soon ..Gawd ..35 years and the same man !

Is AB running smoothly now ? Or are they lulling us into a sense of false security .

It'll be all that pate and champagne that Jno's been stuffing ...it's snapped the elastic .

[marmoset1]

Can't believe I've found it! Thanks Neti , don't know what I was trying to do before. Oh CONGRATULATIONS too. Won't remind you which biggie we had this year! Now I have to learn how to do avators, put piccies on, do musical notes etc. etc.etc.. it's all too much, must just go and get a G & T....

[VINNY100_2]

OI netti4.. other womans husbands dont count,dont yer know...hehe..! quickly hides in ann summers..blimey wat they use that for then? (:O)

[Robinia]

oh, are we all filtering in?.....
yep, that's me shaney desperately seeking a Body.

Congrats neti...s'pose you'll be off wining 'n dining & leaving us all here in the burger bar...
was that Sheila's wheels thread insured? if not you'd better start flogging off your secret stash to compensate us all for two weeks of wasted literary masterpieces.

[jno]

oh that's right marmoset, you just ask neti how to change your aviator, she'll show you how to bring the whole internet crashing down

[Robinia]

whispwer.....yes, well there's no Past-ya-Primark in here but don't tell neti...let's all watch her running around in a frenzy trying to find it....

[VINNY100_2]

Oi I can see you netti...changing that aviator again..(:O)

[netibiza]

Yes. I seem to be the only one having trouble with the site still - and I cannot get an aviator at any price. No not celebrating tonight, did that on Friday, although I now have a lovely box of mixed ferrero chox. I didn't want to remind him, it's just so cold-blooded but I think he remembered what happened to him last time he forgot!!!!!

[DaSwede]

<loud sigh> I told you we shouldn't have brought Vinny here, he just doesn't get the shopping concept try as he may. Is that Jude and Maggie?!

...did I say I want my avatar. (Love yours, each and every one of them.) Envy! Envy! Envy! I still get the error messages no matter what I do - or I can't get in at all.

Last night I had a small chat over the phone with an old friend of mine who doesn't live here anymore. We only talked for four and a half hours, would have driven her husband crazy only I think he's given up, ha ha. (This wasn't the first time.) The funny thing is if anyone were to ask me what we had been talking about I'd hardly know what to say except "nothing, really". Ah isn't that a good kind of friend!

Anyway, she's just been to England, to a place called Stansted Hall (is it wellknown?) She's an "I'm a psychic"-person worse than you Robinia and they do them psycho classes there, he he. She see's dead people. First night they we're staying at a local pub in Stansted that's conveniently haunted or at least one of the rooms is and that's the one they got. And guess what - she heard footsteps! At a hotel! How spooky is that!

If you think I'm being sarcastic I'm not, I'm just pulling her leg about it and I do it to her face and we laugh about it and discuss it. I just can't get myself to believe in the survival of the individual personality, that's all. Now, souls and karma and the collective unconscious and synchronicity - that's another thing altogether. But footsteps at a hotel... I'm not spooked!

(PS Pull her leg to her face...? My friend the contortionist...) bye now!

[netibiza]

But I also heard footsteps when staying in the Slott in Stockholm and twice I looked and there was no one there, and our room was at the end of the corridor and the footsteps went past.