New members, Welcome!

[Papa's new wife]

Hello Leigh *waves madly*

Always lovely to meet a new member, and the long post is YAY! The more about you the better. It's always fun reading about fans and what else they're into. A lot of us have such similar tastes, it's like we're fated to be League fans

[The Medusa]

Thank you for the welcomes, everyone; now to reply to each thing you've all posted.

That was a lovely detailed post, nice to have an eye for detail hehe! Anyway let me be the 1st to welcome you to the forum Leigh, sounds like you'll fit in round these parts.....especially with Tracy with your love of Steve! Medievalist eh? That sounds like interesting work. What kind of writer are you?
Oooh almost forgot i'm Becky.

I fell into being a Medievalist by chance; my advisor/lecturer at uni was running a Medieval studies module and when he went on sabbatical, he asked me to take over running it for a year because no-one else would do it, and I'd sat the module the previous year. I loved it so much that when I chose to do it for my PhD. The History dept then learned of this and asked me to do a lecture on the Medieval period for the year one compulsory module and it went from there.

The writing part came about when talking to my gran one day. The stories she told were so fantastic and out of this world that I was inspired to take some of them and develop them into a very weird and dark novel. One of my friends stole a couple of chapters last year and sent them to an agent and he loved it so much that he signed me to his books. He pimped it around a couple of publishers but was rejected so we decided to re-edit and re-write some parts so he can try other publishers.

I suppose you could call my style realism with urban fantasy, the fantastic/comic/grotesque element is there to stop the realism from being too, I'm going to hate myself for using this word, gritty. There's only so much one can write about the perils of growing up in a generic town with a dysfunctional family without it becoming tedious.

I've just put the kettle on - brew?

Hiya, Hazel. A brew would be lovely, thank you; no sugar.

Get sat down if ya like!

Thank you, I'm all sat down and nice and comfortable. My shoes are under the barometer

Hello & welcome

Hello, and thank you for the welcome

On the business side of things, as it's mah job, please take a minute to look over our forum guidelines if you have not already done so.

Hiya The guidelines have been read and duly noted.

Most of our forum members have at least an anachronistic bent, if not a downright obsession. I suppose that's only natural, being Gents fans, and all.

From this alone, I think I'm going to like it an awful lot here.

Who is your fave Doctor of all? Im a Peter Davison man myself.

Hello My fave Doctor has to be Colin Baker *runs* His portayal had style, flair, and a fair bit of moral ambiguity. He really grew on me through the BF audios though.

He was great as Daddy, but the Jed Hunter/Ned Huntem :Laughing: wig just does something for me...

Hiya Tracy. I see the appeal of that wig, yes.. sorry, where was I? My mind tends to wander when it comes to anything Steve related. It doesn't help that I tend to be attracted to men like him :Laughing:

South of Boldon and North of Seaham, eh? I could probably have a guess being from the North East myself, but I'm more familiar with Peterlee/Durham/Newcastle/Sunderland/Shields... giz a clue? Seaburn? (probably hopelessly wrong).

You're not hopelessly wrong at all! I live in Roker, right next to Seaburn. It's all the same really, apart from that there are more local nutters here than Seaburn (I'm most likely one of them).

A lot of us have such similar tastes, it's like we're fated to be League fans

Hiya, and thank you

I've noticed from my lurking that our tastes are similar; my friends think I'm nuts for loving Hammer and Amicus films and drive-in movies. In fact, there are a lot ofthings that my friends think I'm bonkers for loving and it's so refreshing to find a place where there are others who like the same things I do. From my reading of old threads here, I squeed when I found a link to a website that sells 70s film soundtracks. I emailed the link to a friend and he replied "Only you could get so geeky about such a thing as this!".

[Son of Tubbs returns!]

Who is your fave Doctor of all? Im a Peter Davison man myself.

Hello My fave Doctor has to be Colin Baker *runs* His portayal had style, flair, and a fair bit of moral ambiguity. He really grew on me through the BF audios though.

Yes, he is very underated. In fact he is probably the best of all the Doctors to do the Big Finish audios. You heard Medicinal Purposes? I thinks its brilliant!

Well I look forward to many Doctor Who conversations with you!

[SailorEarth]

Hi Leigh, welcome to the forum I'm sure you'll like it here

[Tracy]

You're not hopelessly wrong at all! I live in Roker, right next to Seaburn. It's all the same really, apart from that there are more local nutters here than Seaburn (I'm most likely one of them).

Roker, ooh I was close!

Now I'm thinking about fish n chips...

[a1tiptop]

I've never met a medievalist before! That sounds quite sexy! What a brilliant job.

Welcome!

[Crash Test Bunnie]

Greetings!

I'm new to these parts - please don't hurt me!!! I only discovered this forum yesterday! I've posted messages on the 'thisisalocalshop' forum before now as 'Rachel (not depicted here)' but haven't done so for absolutely agggeeesss as I've been a tad busy in the real world these past few months, so I doubt anyone remembers me lol.

Anyway hello, my name is indeed Rachel, I'm a theatre/art student form sunny Torquay (Agatha Christie's hometown no less!) not that it means much - the place has gone downhill somewhat since those days...although there is a rather fabulous fish & chip shop in Babbacombe...

I digress.

I discovered the league about 3 years ago when during a conversation about orange juice (don't ask), my sister spontaneously burst into a terrifying Pam Doove impression. She tried to explain but in the end decided that it would just be easier to lend me the DVDs. Since then the world has not been the same lol...

[miss denton]

Hello *waves*

[MrsBeasley]

Hello again

[Papa's new wife]

Hellooooooooooo *waves*
Lovely that you could join us!
we hope you enjoy the forum and it's silliness. We're very friendly and most of us have met many times, so we always like new people to join and hope that we can say hey and take you for a beer.

Now the boring: If you could just read the Forum Guidelines, then you can keep posting away and hopefully settle down with us in Vasey
http://www.lofg.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2067

[ChubbyTubby]

*chants loudly*
Fresh meat fresh meat fresh meat!

Sorry... hope I didn't scare you off

Ah you'll get used to us soon enough

Good to have you here xXx

[Beast]

Since then the world has not been the same lol...

I think we all know how that feels!

I applaud your sister for her spontaneous impression! Welcome!

[Tubby Little Titwitch]

Hello there Crash Test Bunnie! Wilkommen to the forum. Hope we don't scare you too much - it's all in good fun, I promise!

Look forwards to seeing you around.

[Crash Test Bunnie]

*chants loudly*
Fresh meat fresh meat fresh meat!

Lol, ah I'm not scared that easily! As long as I don't end up being sold as pies in Hilary's shop I'll be happy!

Thank you folks for welcoming me. It makes me feel all warm inside like I've just swallowed a battery. Oh god...did I just swallow a battery? Excuse me...

[DevilWalksInTheSand]

Hello crash test bunnie! *waves*