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Title: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: Valdasteve on November 24, 2008, 05:31:31 AM: guess what! all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique it's unbelievable! For all you possible new addicts out there, please don't be put off by the clique! You won't see them anyway and meanwhile you will have one of the best laidback totally relaxing holidays you could possibly find anywhere in this world. If you want somewhere totally rural. authentic. relaxing, with just the right amount of tavernas and no horrid noisy bars around, then go to Arillas and you will not be disappointed!
Title: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: Ang on November 24, 2008, 01:41:16 PM: Guess we are a clique Valasteve....just a group of people who share the same interest some less or more, whats the problem with that?We all still log on during the closed season and chat about Arillas or many other topics and hope that new members have a very good overview of Arillas, yes we may be an eclectic mix of characters but then thats life.
Ang
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: Eggy on November 24, 2008, 02:01:12 PM: Valdasteve

Good Post! - Just what we all need to keep these fingers working in the Winter.

The biggest beauty about all "Forum Addicts" is that they never bother or interfere with anyone's holiday and you are quite right in saying that you may rarely see them.
( Even I hide away sometimes , especially if it's my round )

But.... A good desciption of Arillas.
( Wait till your posts go from 13 to 130 - 2/3 weeks maybe? )

Cheers
Negg
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: Paul D on November 24, 2008, 10:05:16 PM: Valdasteve. Welcome to the forum. Good post.

Eggy, good reply!
Best Wishes Paul D
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: Valdasteve on November 26, 2008, 03:37:04 AM: And best wishes to all of you! But I still think you're a clique! Perhaps if I'd been there as many times as you all apparently have been, I'ld be as cliquei too. But you know, or perhaps you don't that in many ways you may well be putting some people off from visiting this wonderful piece of heaven. I really wasn't too sure about Arillas after I read all the "in- isn'it wonderful" stuff on the site. You begin to wonder if it's real or inhabited by really cliquei folk who just want to talk to each other and sing each others praises. But maybe that is your aim. Too many people could spoil the place after all. Still wouldn't want to put anyone off visiting this low key countryfied village, if that's what they're after. No better restaurants anywhere and no better relax anywhere. Yammas I guess I should say to you all.
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: sharonF on November 26, 2008, 10:43:22 AM: if clique is french for friendly supportive bunch of people then i am glad to be part of a "clique". I personally dont give a stuff about your opinion and thank god i would never meet you there.
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: angiem on November 26, 2008, 01:26:46 PM: Quote from: Valdasteve on November 26, 2008, 03:37:04 AM
But you know, or perhaps you don't that in many ways you may well be putting some people off from visiting this wonderful piece of heaven.

Good point Valdesteve.

I met some people in the summer who said they didn't dare become forum members for fear of upsetting people on the forum and then bumping in to them in Arillas.

I think the forum can be a bit intimidating at times.
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: martin-w on November 26, 2008, 06:19:57 PM: Hi All,
I think that this website and the forum does what it was intended to do. It keeps friends in contact throughout the year, keeps up to date the goings on in our favorite resort and airs the views of those that know it well. I fail to see where this 'clique' label has come from.
The forum provides an extreemly well run site for members and guests to get and exchange information and to support each other through good and bad times. Everyone is welcome to join in.
Valdesteve, thanks for your input and welcome!
Yammas,
Martin.
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: Eggy on November 26, 2008, 06:24:18 PM: Sharon
It's only me who gets the jelly babies then?
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I love any posts that contain well worded constructive critiscism or the "Food for thought" posts, such as Valdasteve's" which should make us all take a step back and give the comments therein some serious thinking.
I remember last year when it was suggested that the photos I posted, of the changes going on in Arillas, could be spooling the suprise for some people.
Good point and made me think about it.

For all we know, people could be thinking this is like an ex-pat community in North Corfu so no new members should be frightened of putting any constructive comments here. So c'mom, any more new forum members with an input, go for it.

One thing I know Arillas does need, and I have heard this from a few worried appt and
Taverna owners, is the need for more younger people. There must be many families who would love Arillas as it caters for all ages. I would hate to think families are being frightened away. Children are the future here, as in most resorts.

Or as Martin W has just said. The forum keeps friends in contact etc etc. Maybe we should not be looking at things too deeply. - But still food for thought!

Fingers to keyboard people.
Cheers
Negg
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: briant on November 26, 2008, 07:05:06 PM: Hi Eggy,Could you clarify the statement(Arillas needs more younger people)to what age group are you refering?.The reason we switched to Arillas 5 years ago was because of the way Sidari ,Agharavi and other Corfu resorts had been BLIGHTED and thats not to strong a word,by the beer swilling ,foulmouthed,obscene T shirt wearing,jet skiing paragliding young people..Because Arillas has non of the aformentioned is the reason we like it.And before you get the impression I,m a Head up my A... stick in the mud I,m ex Merchant Navy and Regular Army (Paras) so I cant believe the local business owners can be serious in their comments,best regards Brian
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: Ang on November 26, 2008, 07:13:57 PM: Eggy very well put, but its a forum and members old and new have a right to make any comments they so choose as like members have a right to challenge and maybe disagree, diplomacy is all well and good but if some one wants to push up above the parapet then what ever.

Now on the need for younger customers to Arillas which is what you say the business community of Arillas would like,that's a good question for debate,with the current UK economic climate and the same in Europe its going to be a difficult time to attract these new families/ customers as the money is just not there. There would need to be a very good USP.Yes Arillas is a safe place an area of outstanding beauty with a community that holds dear its roots.

Arillas has to decide on who.what, when and how to attract that customer profile,some of the retailers have identified their markets and I believe they will do well.
Anyway why do they think that the younger market will make them more money, its fact that the grey pound is still far stronger in the uk than new money.

I deal with such like businesses on a daily basis and belive me its hard in the uk at this time and will be so for the next 18mths.

All just my opinion
Ang
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: tracey&peter on November 26, 2008, 09:22:53 PM: We have been going to Arillas for 10 years now and have been a forum member for as long as it has been running and I would not class myself as being part of a "clique" we go twice a year and you know I have only ever seen one or two of the forum members out and about - to be honest I dont go looking for them - Arillas is a lovely place with such friendly locals and thats what we go for not to go around looking for people to talk to!!

I think some of these postings are really uncalled for and it is sad that people feel such a need to impose their negative thoughts on us all - but hey ho each to their own - you sad people whoever you are
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: riggers on November 26, 2008, 09:49:39 PM: This person/persons must get out of bed really early to impose these negative thoughts on us all. Well i do own up to having a drink or 2 while in Arillas if i happen meet forum members (big deal). My choice, i do as i please.

yammas (am i allowed to say that ???)

riggers....
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: Ang on November 26, 2008, 09:58:24 PM: Riggers you earned it so enjoy, if you meet a few arillas forum members you get along with then thats a bonus, its always you and your family's choice afterall its your holiday.
Ang
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: kes on November 26, 2008, 10:25:55 PM: Seems to me that Eggy`s comments on younger people...has been mistrued...
I am sure he meant younger couples & young families,and not gangs of marauding huddies (re 18-30 club) which is obviouly required when all us Silver surfers have bit the dust..(ha ha ...I know I dont mean everyone).
I`m not sure what the breakdown is on age groups...but I certainly don`t think Arillas is turning into a retirement Village...I think we have seen an increase in younger families over the past few years...and rarely see any bad behaviour..(apart from myself that is)...Also maybe the owner of the business in Arillas has got it wrong..its a fact that the middle to older generations have more disposable income..and I would think probably spend more on Alcohol & food than the rest put together...(0pen to debate)

Re Valadasteve`s comments...

I think he has a good point in that people visiting the forum could be put off..but it is a members forum just like many others...and open to all even those with negative and dispariging comments....which is what gets a good debate going...it can get very cosy in here at times .......
As for bumping into forum members I think I have probably met maybe half a dozen over the past 7 years....Or maybe they have just avoided me...!!!!!!
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Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: Eggy on November 26, 2008, 10:31:38 PM: Hi Briant
By younger people I mean the "up to" 15 ish year olds who come with parents and grow to enjoy Arillas.
( And then , maybe take over from us, when we can't get the wheelchair on the plane )

Maybe the young couples, "in love" for the first time, who don't want the beer and throwing sun loungers in the pool but just to enjoy the place & each other's company.
Or the responsible teenagers who respect other peoples space and just want to enjoy.

Local business owners don't want a Kavos but just a nice reminder occassionally that Arillas will continue to flourish for all.

Ang
All constructive and non agressive comments have to be welcome on a forum or it becomes one sided. So I agree with what you say.

All us forum members aren't getting any younger and Arillas will need fresh blood to survive. Surely if Man utd, for example doesn't continue to scout for younger players then Man Utd will soon be forgotten.

I hope this post comes out the way it's intended to. Sometimes, when re-read, they can be so different.

On a lighter note - RIGGERS - A drink or two? When was the last time you had a drink or two? - I always lose count when you're about.
Cheers
Negg
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: justphil on November 26, 2008, 10:54:57 PM: Jen and I have met many new people we otherwise would not have, and who are now real friends, by being on the forum. Real people for whom we hold great affection and respect and who return those sentiments. We have also met a significant number in Arillas who didn't even know the forum existed and found friendship with them. It is inevitable that people of like mind who have much in common will naturally congregate and help each other in any way they can.

In all enterprises of this size there are cliques. But usually more than one. Some have positive aims and others negative. In our daily lives we all have cliques - we have a circle of friends with like minds and in effect exclude others from it.

I feel that those who know every brick in the road, every nook and cranny of Arillas and give their time and effort on the forum to answer questions, post reports and use it to maintain established friendships and foster new ones are one of the positive ones.

And of course there is the clique who want to undermine it and suggest those who are prominent on the forum are somehow spoiling Arillas for others. The logical outcome would be to disband the forum. Never!

I have always maintained that every forum member should be allowed to express their views without fear of retribution. Done diplomatically (which certainly applies in this case as recognised immediately by Eggy) and without personal comments this is an important aspect of it.

Have read a lot of wisdom on this thread.

Phil
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: justphil on November 26, 2008, 11:14:35 PM: Sorry folks but windbag has some more thoughts on the age of holidaymakers (which seems to me to be another subject.)

In our time there we have met many young people in Arillas, Greek and tourist alike. Have even posted pics. They were inevitably having a very enjoyable holiday / life and we have never seen any trouble caused by them. These are the majority of young people generally and not the extreme few who damage everything they go near.

To quote briant Arillas is not
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BLIGHTED and thats not to strong a word, by the beer swilling, foulmouthed, obscene, T shirt wearing, jet skiing, paragliding young people

Heaven forbid we attracted armies of the few to Arillas.

But Eggy is right - the image of kes' blue-rinse
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retirement Village
would be all too easy to portray on the forum and more importantly in Tour Operators brochures, or on social sites like Facebook etc. I try do my bit, working as I do with College students, to promote Arillas as a destination for a great summer holiday. Some have taken me up on it. On another thread TerryW says let's do our bit. It is important.

Phil
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: annie on November 26, 2008, 11:37:06 PM: I have been going to Arillas for the last 5 years and my soon to be 16 and 13 year olds love it. As a parent when my children reach an age when they can travel on their own Arillas is top of their list and they want to take their friends. They have met a good group of youngsters all 12 - 17 and they all behave with dignity. Some of their parents now have holiday homes in Arillas and they look forward to meeting up in the Summers.Long may it continue. Hopefully in the future when they are in relationships of their own they will return bringing new busines to Arillas
Annie
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: riggers on November 27, 2008, 12:39:59 AM: Well i don't really know how to reply to this again, I am not an educated man but i know when someone is taking the .... . Now come on don't we all give our bit to this forum ? I have read loads of posts saying how we have helped the newcomers. We all LOVE (ARILLAS).

Negg i have had less than 1 or 2 honestly:)

Guests> Us members give the truth about Arillas. (pure magic and relaxing hols)

riggers........
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: justphil on November 27, 2008, 01:43:26 AM: riggers you are just as educated as any of us. And in all the right subjects. Lot of sense in your post - we all help the newcomers and put very few off.

You said it all
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Us members give the truth about Arillas. (pure magic and relaxing hols)

look forward to those two with you and Sue next year. Or three, or four or... unless we meet Egg - then bets are off....

Phil
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: martin-w on November 27, 2008, 01:10:04 PM: Hi All!
I have read all the comments on this thread and there are some good points raised.
I think I have said this before on another topic, that this website is unique in the way it serves both residents and visitors to Arillas. I can't think of another website that is dedicated to any other resorts I have been to in the past.
Last time I was in Arillas I had a long chat to Dimitris and he agreed that there was a need to get younger folk interested in the resort because the likes of me (60 this year) need 'replacements' for the next generation to enjoy its friendliness, beauty and tranquility. We were all 'young' once, and we weren't yobs and hoodies! We just need to keep 'the conveyor' of new visitors running. The area by its very nature will sort out who likes it and who doesn't. I met several people in May who said it was too quiet and they went to Sidari every day! I also met several newcommers from the U.K. who felt as I did on my first visit and appreciated it for its relaxing quiet qualities.
I think Arillas is more family oriented and will stay that way. Those who like the 'Kavos' element are already catered for elsewhere on Corfu.
Yammas,
Martin.
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: angiem on November 27, 2008, 01:29:23 PM: Quote from: martin-w on November 27, 2008, 01:10:04 PM
The area by its very nature will sort out who likes it and who doesn't.

I agree Martin.

There will always be people who arrive in Arillas 'by mistake' i.e. not suited to Arillas or vice versa. But they won't be repeat visitors, will they?

As for attracting a younger element, we meet young families every year, there for the first time and already hooked.
I don't think there's anything to worry about.

Angie
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: Melissa on November 27, 2008, 01:42:42 PM: I think the regulars on this website make it what it is, sorry if this offends, but Im a younger visitor on this website and feel like I have been made to feel welcome by all forum members and don't feel like theres a clique at all, just people who know eachother chatting and being friends. Everyone always offers loads of great advice and the pictures everyone posts and by talking about their experiences only makes me more excited to go to Arillas next year! Xx
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: sharonF on November 27, 2008, 03:39:50 PM: Quote from: Melissa on November 27, 2008, 01:42:42 PM
don't feel like theres a clique at all, just people who know eachother chatting and being friends.

Exactly! Guess what Valdasteve, there's your answer.
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: Valdasteve on November 27, 2008, 04:35:39 PM: Well I certainly seem to have started a debate which is surely healthy. Incidentally , the definition of a clique is "a small exclusive group" which judging by SharonF's original contribution certainly justifies my use of the word. Also, if you read Angiem's original reply, you will know why I started this topic - I too came across people who said that they didn't dare join this forum for fear of offending/getting in the way of, the regulars.
But, Eggy's, martinW's and other's comments absolutely support the view that not everyone wears the same blinkers and that being so, I may end up being a forum regular myself.
Once again, yammas to you all.
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: sharonF on November 27, 2008, 04:51:38 PM: What is exclusive about my reply?? I saw your post as an intention to wind people up, I ignored you at first then your reply after eggy & co's very nice polite replies saying you still think the forum is a clique, I took as an insult, nothing to do with being "cliquey". As is said, everybody is entitled to their own view, mine is that you're a wind up merchant, i'm just voicing my OWN opinion.
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: sharonF on November 27, 2008, 05:14:44 PM: That's it I'm done and gone. I have always logged on to the forum to cheer myself up and chat to the lovely people on here, now I feel I cant say anything because of the likes of valdasteve.

Been nice knowing you all, promise if i do see you in Arillas, i'll just be myself not "cliquey".

Sharon x
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: keefy on November 27, 2008, 05:35:39 PM: SharonF Don't go it will be a shame for you to leave...believe me I was once a "cliquey person" but the doctor gave me some antibiotics kept me off the drink for a week and I was cured. LOL

DON'T GO SharonF who will take the mickey out of me then.

I know I know I can see you all Forming a Queue to take the Mickey
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: Eileen on November 27, 2008, 05:42:29 PM: Don't you dare go Sharon. Do as I do and just ignore posts like these...it's not real life and not worth commenting on or getting our knickers in a twist for (well not mine anyway!!!). Please don't allow something like this spoil the fun that you get from this forum and what you have to offer it.

Eileenxxx
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: annemarsh on November 27, 2008, 05:57:43 PM: Perhaps it would be a good idea for us all to move on from this now.
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: keefy on November 27, 2008, 06:12:47 PM: annemarsh

I agree lets move on......but not until Sharon promises to come back can you persuade her please....
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: annemarsh on November 27, 2008, 06:17:41 PM: Quote from: keefy on November 27, 2008, 06:12:47 PM

I agree lets move on......but not until Sharon promises to come back can you persuade her please....

I'll try.

Come on Sharon, life's too short to deny yourself the pleasures of the forum, and others of your contributions!!

Anne
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: kes on November 27, 2008, 06:28:29 PM: Seeing as I have never personally met Terryw, JustPhil, (or his Liver) Eileen, BeckyB, sandyX, SharonF,.... etc etc...Am I missing out on something? ...can I still join The Clique.....!!!!
Sharon .... Keep on Posting....
Just imagin if we could do, in as the clip below to people who upset us.!!!
(Only Jesting of course)
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Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: keefy on November 27, 2008, 06:35:45 PM: Kes like your little slap thingy.....can you reach into SharonF pc and ask her (very nicely) to come back to this forum. She is being missed already....
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: justlynn on November 27, 2008, 07:03:35 PM: Melissa, you put it so well. I found this the most welcoming website ever when I first joined - it was not exclusive at all, and still isn't.

Sharon, please come back. We shall all miss you so much otherwise!

Lynn
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: TerryW on November 27, 2008, 09:45:15 PM: Don't you dare stop posting Sharon!!!!!

Keep cliquing with that mouse, we need you because you are a great Cliquer.

There you go Valdasteve, we care about each other, as well as being in "your" defined clique.

I think you missed out the main part of the definition of "Clique"

"a close group of friends or coworkers with similar interests and goals, whom outsiders regard as excluding them"
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: riggers on November 28, 2008, 12:21:31 AM: Yes Please come back Sharon, i won't be able to give you some stick on Monday when we beat you again. :) i hope :D

Riggers............
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: Eggy on November 28, 2008, 01:05:37 AM: Sharon

Just picked this up and I'm a twinge Rat****d because i've been out darting.
Bottom line is you don't just pack it in and neither does Valdasteve. How would the houses of Parliament cope if the "Here Here's" or even the "where where's" and the low gutteral sounds of dissagreement all vanished? Does the leader of the opposition say:-
" Sod this - I'm going up the pub " Maybe we could turn the HP into a snooker hall?

Value all comments and make your response well. That's all there is about it.

Losing valuable members is not what the forum is about.

It's 1pm here now and has taken me loadsa time to type this. ( Correcting errors etc )
So, next year I look forward to you and Valdasteve arm wrestling with the winner giving me a bag of Jelly babies!

Be well everybody
Negg
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: riggers on November 28, 2008, 01:30:20 AM: You are such a nice man Negg (do you work for the AA) .

There is valued customers and there is others. (well i know who i would choose)
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: martin-w on November 28, 2008, 12:15:24 PM: Hi SharonF,
I hope when you have had time to think you will come back. We will all miss your contributions. You are an addict like me and you will miss your daily 'fix'.
Had a smile today when I noticed the comments above the names loged on. 33 guests and 4 'users'. Thats all of us that are 'hooked' on the site!
Come on, get typing. When are you next in Arillas?
Martin.
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: JohnTheRef&Dot on November 28, 2008, 01:02:13 PM: Sharon, Where are you going to Go?
Theres only one place to go, you will be lost on another forum

By the way, Eileen never gets her Knickers in a twist,
(http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/4176/images3vk3.jpg)
She fell over puting them on the first time she did.
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: keefy on November 28, 2008, 01:05:52 PM: Folks it seems Sharon has not come back YET can someone else get in contact another way.....or is this forum the only way (and I hope not).
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: BeckyB on November 28, 2008, 01:12:43 PM: I PM'd her yesterday afternoon Keefy, I'm hoping that she might get some sort of alert that goes to a private email address telling her she's got mail - that happens to me if I get a message from another Forum member - fingers crossed anyway :-)
If anyone else can think of anything - or has a number that they can call or text her - that might be a way?
What do you think?

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE COME BACK TO US SHARON :-)
BeckyB xx
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: Eileen on November 28, 2008, 01:15:41 PM: Hi Keefy,

Sharon is taking a few days break for now. You better watch out...she will be back to tease you with a vengence. ;-)

Quote from: JohnTheRef&Dot on November 28, 2008, 01:02:13 PM

By the way, Eileen never gets her Knickers in a twist,
(http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/4176/images3vk3.jpg)
She fell over puting them on the first time she did.

...LOL....The question is....did I attempt to again.... ;-)

Eileen.xxx
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: Sandy x on November 28, 2008, 01:19:04 PM: I've jsut emailed Sharon so hope she will respond.
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: sharonF on November 28, 2008, 02:57:46 PM: Really dont know where to start, except to say, A MASSIVE THANKS TO ALL OF YOU.

This coincided with a horrendous day at work and I lost the plot. Was going to stay off for a few days but have had pm's and been told to look at these posts and am overwhelmed, my heart feels like its going to burst out of me, lol.

You're all totally right of course, I shouldnt have let him bother me so much.

You have all totally restored me and I thank you with all my heart.

Lots of love to all of you

Sharon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: Sandy x on November 28, 2008, 03:24:04 PM: Welcome back on board Sharon!
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: Erja on November 28, 2008, 04:55:03 PM: Yeeiiiii! Good to see you here Sharon. This is what I had to say about the matter couple of days ago: http://karelianblonde.blogspot.com/2008/11/more-forum-insanity.html
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: Eggy on November 28, 2008, 05:07:16 PM: Quote from: sharonF on November 28, 2008, 02:57:46 PM

my heart feels like its going to burst out of me, lol.

Sharon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sharon
You don't think it's got a date with Phil's liver , do you?

Take it easy in that job. I'm sure we've all done it. Stress at work and. sometimes you need that "pressure release valve".
( I used to get home sometimes and batter a piece of wood with a hammer! )

Negg

Negg
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: riggers on November 28, 2008, 05:17:46 PM: Welcome back Sharon :D

Erja your blog is so funny :D

riggers....................
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: martin-w on November 28, 2008, 06:02:43 PM: Welcome back Sharon!!! Youve just made my day!
Martin.
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: justphil on November 28, 2008, 06:24:23 PM: And the same from us Sharon. We would have missed you totally. You always brighten up this virtual world, and it would have been so much poorer without you.
love
Phil and Jen
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: Baldy Barry on November 28, 2008, 06:32:20 PM: Erja , great analogy with "the sandbox " !
Now I'm gonna nick your bucket and spade !
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: justphil on November 28, 2008, 06:47:45 PM: We took that in September Barry. It now contains a certain digestive organ.... oops my cover is blown...

Well said erja luvver.

Phil
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: Eggy on November 28, 2008, 06:54:43 PM: Quote from: annemarsh on November 27, 2008, 05:57:43 PM
Perhaps it would be a good idea for us all to move on from this now.

A wise suggestion from annemarsh here. Maybe the time is now.

Then...... We can all be poised waiting for the next subject up for debate.

Sharon - Don't suppose you can buy just red/black jelly babies then?

Cheers
Negg
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: MaryH on December 06, 2008, 02:08:28 PM: I think it was a little insensitive to post such a comment saying Arillas addicts are sounding like a clique. I think sometimes it is best to keep some thoughts private because it wasn't really constructive. I too posted something I should have kept in my head on this site and regretted it after. So what if most of the time forum members say "nice" things to each other. Better than negatives as words written can seem more abrupt than said face - to face cause you can't see the persons facial reactions or body language. Any enough of me rabbiting on. Hope this forum stays, as it should, where friends, virtual or otherwise share a common interest and love of Arillas and share little bits of each other’s lives.

Take Care
Mary
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: justphil on December 06, 2008, 02:14:05 PM: Exactly Mary. Without it I would not have made so many dear friends. The only ones excluded do it to themselves. Welcome back after your little delay.

Phil
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: MaryH on December 06, 2008, 02:22:45 PM: thanks Phil
I'm glad I'm back after my "security" hiccup. In future I'll be more carefull of my password choices and where I save them which will be like the originator of this topic should have kept thoughts, in my head.

Anyway have a great day and take care

Mary
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: DronnyDave on December 23, 2008, 03:24:42 PM: I'm a little slow catching up with the some of the discussions that have taken place over the last few weeks. And having read all the messages on this particular thread i certainly don't want to start it all up again. But,

I would like to thank all of the regular posters on this forum. I am like the majority of people, I have two weeks away in the middle of summer. We save for most of the year to have two weeks of fun in the sun.
Forums like this one help to answer the many questions that people have when they are booking a holiday.
A good friend of mine went on holiday with her family and as soon as they arrived her husband said "ooh we've struck lucky with this place" at which my friend exploded. It's not down to luck, it took her weeks of research on the internet, asking questions on forums like this. Luck doesn't come into it. She didn't speak to him for the first week of the holiday.
So thank you to you all, I may have asked some daft questions but who cares. You answered them politely and Without your input and help and advice i may never have gone to Arillas. And that would have been my loss.
So please, clique or not, keep up the good work. And I hope that wherever I choose to go next year that I find a forum as friendly and helpful as this one.

Merry Christmas to you all.

Dave.
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: TerryW on December 23, 2008, 04:23:14 PM: A Very Merry Christmas

and

A Happy New Year

Dave

Thanks for the comments
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Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: justphil on December 23, 2008, 04:25:12 PM: Like I said before - no-one is excluded from this forum unless they do so themsleves. Thanks Dave, and Merry Christmas. Maybe see you for real out there next year.

Phil
Title: Re: all you Arillas addicts are now sounding so much like a clique
Post by: Chris & Mark's mum on January 20, 2009, 01:16:22 AM: I think this clique discussion is so strange. Surely, if you look at any sort of forum it is "cliquie"?

I spend a lot of time reading all the comments on the site (but I have just read this topic) and I love the way the friendships have developed between members........Surely that's not cliquie???????

We are coming back to Arillas in June 09 for the 3rd time but we don't spend our time searching out members to chat to them. I recognised a few of them and we got a smile from John the Ref & Dot on the sea front one day....(Ha!Ha! I recognised them but our photo is a bit deceptive.....!!)

This forum is a perfect balance between advertising beautiful Arillas and being a social website. If people don't like that, well don't get involved!!!! But don't rip it to bits......No-one is forcing anyone to join and read the forum messages......

Don't know why I have got uptight about this subject.......

Keep up the good work all you cliquie folk! I for one, love it!

BTW - It was this forum that made us want to come to Arillas in the first place!!!!!!