katisha

Hi

I just got an email from Greg, asking if I'd like to introduce myself. Sorry I couldn't reply to it, Greg: apparently I'm not allowed to send private messages because I haven't posted enough.

I'm Mary Constantine. I joined the original forum as 'katisha' ages ago, at the suggestion of Seamus Coogan, then a couple of years ago I joined the new (now old) version under my real name. I was at the 2015 conference at the Mercure.

When you reverted to the original forum, the first time I tried to log in I was offered both ids, but my password for Mary C didn't work so I signed in under katisha.

Everyone here knows far more than I do, so I don't contribute much (or indeed anything), but I do enjoy reading your topics. And congratulations to Bart on the Lancer award!

Mary

Thanks Mary. I appreciate the introduction. Sorry if I have blown your cover! Never occurred to me that Katisha was actually you. 

Hope you can make it again this year. Bigger and better is the plan (he said wishfully!)

No worries Greg; it wasn't meant to be a cover: I just couldn't log in under Mary C. 

I'm one of the '50% chance' responses for this year's conference. I'd love to go and see you all again, but I've sworn a dreadful swear never, ever to go to Sydney outside April-August because it's so stinking hot and humid. I'll have another think about it between now and then. 

I suppose you, being a Queenslander, will be packing your winter woolies and ugg boots for the occasion because it's so damn cold in Sydders…

katisha wrote:No worries Greg; it wasn't meant to be a cover: I just couldn't log in under Mary C. 

I'm one of the '50% chance' responses for this year's conference. I'd love to go and see you all again, but I've sworn a dreadful swear never, ever to go to Sydney outside April-August because it's so stinking hot and humid. I'll have another think about it between now and then. 

I suppose you, being a Queenslander, will be packing your winter woolies and ugg boots for the occasion because it's so damn cold in Sydders…

I've read before that I'm a banana bender, but it just ain't so.

From Newcastle (NSW) originally but did spend 10 years in Darwin - most people get Ross River Fever up there, but not me - I got the JFK bug.

We moved to the Central West of NSW for family reasons in October, 2005 and have been here ever since. Our first stop on arriving was to buy Ugg Boots.

I did go to Melbourne once from Darwin. Was the first person from NT to get on Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Alas, I didn't live up to the sizzling 100% accuracy I had in the telephone audition that got me on. I could be seen in the background when it aired... as the one cussing...   Absolutely froze on that trip... 

50% is good. It's something to work on!

Apologies Greg; no idea why I thought you were a Queenslander: it says "Orange, NSW" quite clearly...

Funny the places we catch the JFK bug, isn't it? I caught it about ten years ago, at A Jack the Ripper forum, waay down the bottom, in the Off-topic/Other Mysteries section. I think I must be of a rather morbid turn of mind.

Before that all I 'knew' was that JFK was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald from a bookshop in Dealey Plaza, which I imagined as something like Werribee Plaza or Woden Plaza (i.e., a giant suburban shopping mall) 

Bad luck about Millionaire.

katisha wrote:Apologies Greg; no idea why I thought you were a Queenslander: it says "Orange, NSW" quite clearly...

Funny the places we catch the JFK bug, isn't it? I caught it about ten years ago, at A Jack the Ripper forum, waay down the bottom, in the Off-topic/Other Mysteries section. I think I must be of a rather morbid turn of mind.

Before that all I 'knew' was that JFK was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald from a bookshop in Dealey Plaza, which I imagined as something like Werribee Plaza or Woden Plaza (i.e., a giant suburban shopping mall) 

Bad luck about Millionaire.

No apology necessary, Mary. I wouldn't mind living up there... love the tropics, hate the cold.

The JFK downunder version: 

JFK shot from Dymocks in Werribee Square by Lee Harvey Oswald as played by Russell Gilbert.