A complaint about this website!!

[Steve Edwards]

When I first discovered this website I explored it over a period of time and then posted a couple of questions which were answered in great detail. However; I did say at the time that I'd think of some more questions to ask before we visit Tobago this, but to my great annoyance everything I could think of was either already in the info pages or had been covered in the forum so I've nothing left to ask.

You should consider that us folk from 'oop north' like to have something to moan about but this website is so good I can't think of anything.

Seriously though, thanks for a great website and some fantastic advice, I even won a weeks car hire through the Competition so discovering this site was one of my better moves and I now can't wait to explore Tobago with my four kids.

We go this Saturday and I'll let you all know how we get on when we get back. Cheers all

[Steve Wooler]

Hi Steve

Well knowing what a bunch of moaners northerners are, I just had to make sure that they had nothing to moan about. And, being a moaning northerner myself, I guess I knew where we were coming from.

Seriously thought - to repeat your wise words - thanks for your kind words and have a brilliant trip.

And, if you can't find anything to moan about, then you're not trying hard enough!!!!

[Michelle C]

Hi Steve

From "oop north" to 'down south' (I'm from Margate Kent), , it would be hard for anyone to find something to complain about on here.

I hope you have a great time exploring, we will be flying on 23rd with our two so won't catch your stories till we get back and hopefully we will have a few to post ourselves.

Have Fun.

Michelle

[Lisa Keith]

Ok.... I tried really REALLY hard, and I've eventually got something to moan about!! I'm listed as 'Tobago Business', which means I don't get anything smart, cool, or just plain nutty written under my name!

So, it was a very lame complaint, but it was the nearest I could get! I aspire to be the equivalent of a Bude Cool Boy (or even Chilled-out Essex Girl!)... and all I get is 'Tobago Business'..... sigh.

All joking aside Steve - keep up the good work!

[Jane H]

Hi Lisa,

Set yourself a signature - and you can give yourslf one of those idiosyncratic designations! OK - it's not QUITE the same as MR Woolers little soubriquet - but it's all yours!

Jane (waiting to see if my description changes at 250 posts!)

[Steve Pitts]

My gripe is that I am unfortunate to be designated a 'Tobago Anorak'.

Personally - I can't think of a more inappropriate outer garment to be associated with, in a Tobago fashion stylee context.

I don't mind being called a Beach Bum, Tobagophile or Fishing Freak but I draw the line at Anorak

Anyone who didn't know me would think that I was obsessed with Tobago

Cheers
Steve Castara Pitts

[Tony G]

Steve,

I noticed a liitle while ago that you had changed from a groupie to an anorak. My commiserations. I thought at the time that this was not something that I would wish to aspire to. What comes next? Geek?

Methinks that Mr Wooler, the invisible controller, is testing you. These moaning Northeners have a dark and wicked sense of humour.

I know. I too am an exile from the industrial North.

Tony

[Brian Taylor]

was thinking to agree with lisa's complaint, also just beeing a business.... but I'd rather stay a business, than being an anorak... sorry for you steve p....

steph

[Bill B]

And yet again another topic goes off the deep end

Bill

[Brian Taylor]

good thing it was not such a serious one in the first place...

steph

PS: hello bill, hope you are both well and happy. look at your pics now and them and love them ;o)

[Jane H]

To Steve P,

Apologies! I think I may have been responsible for your current unwelcome "Tobago Anorak" designation. When I suggested the description to Steve W - I didn't seriously think he'd USE it!

Perhaps you can be appeased by the fact that getting to 500+ posts surely places you in the upper echelons of myTobagophiles!

Jane

[Steve Wooler]

Tee, hee, hee!

[Gisela Grell]

To all

Chief Anorak, Tobago Anorac, Bude Cool Boy, Tobagomaniacs and Tobagophiles...

I have to complain that this site makes you totally adicted!

I read in another posting that someone (was it Bill B.?) was asking if this site makes us acting like we do or we all stay on this site because we ARE CRAZY.

To say it clear: I love to be crazy about Tobago and I'm proud on it!

Cheers
Gisela
a.k.a. Shorty

[David Watkins]

About the eponyms,shouldn't Mr Tallet's be "The Harbinger of Doom"?

[Carol Townsend]

Gerald Durrell uses a quote iin his book "My Family and Other Animals";
"There is a pleasure sure in being mad, which none but madmen know." I don't know the origins of thiis saying, but believe it to be quite ancient.
So there ypu have it!
Carol

[David Watkins]

Carol,not Durrell or even "the Baird" but in my opinon the greatest English writer of all time,John Dryden.
David

[Jane H]

If we're going to get all literary like - I feel I must share the musings of one of our greatest poets, Spike Milligan :-

"I must go down to the seas again;
To the lonely sea and sky.
I left my vest and socks there -
I wonder if they're dry?"

Now don't let this take us back to Paul's unmntionables!

Jane

[Carol Townsend]

Jane,
I'm a Milligan fan too! How about:
"I left my teeth on Table Mountain,
High on a hill they smile at me."
David, you're quite an erudite sort of chap aren't you?
Ying tong iddle I po.
Carol
PS. What do you have to say, Bill?

[CaroleW]

"I must go down to the seas again;
To the lonely sea and sky.
I left my vest and socks there -
I wonder if they're dry?"

[Bill B]

Carol T,

Remember I'm from the side of the pond that considers "The collected words of wisdom from Homer Simpson" fine literature and whose illustrious leader's almost daily mangling of the mother tongue are affectionately known as "Bushisms." http://www.slate.com/id/76886/

Ergo, I won't try to add any quotes to this otherwise highbrow thread

Bill