Guestbook

Hi Jude,

Sorry you couldn't make AGM and sorry to hear you've not been well. Hope you're feeling better and hope to see you soon.

Hi Ya'll,

I'd just like to say a huge thank you to Annie for Chairing the AGM and taking the minutes at the same time. Thanks a lot.

hi girls,
I'm sorry I couldn't make the agm and meal but have been quite ill and took a turn for the worse on sun evening. Its sounds like it was a great evening and was sorry to miss it. jude

Hi Gloria. You could email me on katealexandra@talktalk.net and join us. We are very friendly and have quite a few new members

glad to find a site for OL's enjoyed viewing this site

Thanks Kate for putting me in touch with Lisa again, Lisa call me soon. Helen x

Kate,
Great website. Really enjoyed checking it out. Hi to Annie and Helen. Long time no see looking forward to a catch up and chinwag xxx

Ha! you go girl..if you're not back by Monday we'll know what you're up to.
Have a fab time, love to Laurel x

Hi Y'all,

Well, I'm busy getting ready to go down to sunny Blackpool on Friday to L5. I'll be hobnobbing with the likes of Jennifer Beales, Laurel Holloman (swoon), Rachel Shelley, Janina Gavankar and approximately 1,000 assorted lesbians from across the Globe. The things you've got to do!!

Look forward to seeing you at AGM - if I'm not whisked off to LA by Laurel.

If anyone was going to ask that question, it'd be you Penny B!! It may have been a distant cousin of the actual bird as neither of the twitchers had a camera on them!!

Great editorial - was that the ACTUAL owl or a good look alike??!!!
Sandra and Helen hope you will make it to the AGM - we really are a friendly group and will wlcome you both!

Another great editorial. What a beautiful Owl. Looking forward to AGM and meal. See everyone there.

Come on Laura White!!

Great new editorial, Kate - love the owl pic! Maybe NEOLN also stands for: North East Owl Lovers' Network? Looking forward to the AGM and post-meeting nosh!

Hi Guys. Mesmacs address is on the home page. It's close to Greys Monument so if you can't find it ring me and someone will come out and find you
See you then
Kate

Sandra, the date and venue is on the calendar, kate will respond with the time, she has an email dist list for those interested in attending. Helen

Hi Helen
Yes be good if there are 2 newee rather than one
Do you know any details yet as I haven't heard back from Kate yet

S

oops..... does that show an over zealous degree of enthusiam? Hx

Hi Sandra, i've just recently contacted kate too and may go to the AGM, will be nice to know i'm not the only newee.. Helen

Hi Sandra, i've just recently contacted kate too and may go to the AGM, will be nice to know i'm not the only newee.. Helen

Hi Sandra, i've just recently contacted kate too and may go to the AGM, will be nice to know i'm not the only newee.. Helen

Hi
I emailed Kate about coming along to the AGM
Haven't had a reply just wondered if my email got there
Thanks
S

Hi Sandra, yes indeed you can join as long as you are a lesbian over 40, you'd be most welcome. You can email me with your contact details and we would arrange for you to come along to one of our get togethers. In fact we have an AGM coming up in November followed by a meal in town (Newcastle) My email address and phone number are on the Home page. Hope to hear from you soon. Kate

Hi
Just found this web site
Looks good
Is there any "joining" or anything
Cheers
Sandra

What a great day at Woodhorn yesterday! so many women - so little time to chat and I didn't even go round the museum!!
Shame i didn't know about the possibility of a pic - could have brought the camera!!
What about at the AGM??

Was good to see everyone today and meet some new people. Hope I can catch up with you all soon.

Love the pic. Yes, let's take one at Woodhorn.

Hi Kate,

Fab editorial as ever. I've a feeling Dongles are going to be proliferating. Your obviously not a real lesbian unless you have one. I'm off to PC World this very afternoon!!

Kate - love both the editorial and the pic. What a wonderfully positive picture they represent! Perhaps we could find a few brave souls to provide a Woodhorn visit pic, on Sunday?
Cheers

Hi Ya'll,

Just a reminder. Season 5 of the L Word starts on Living 2 tonight at 10.00 pm.

Hi Caroline,

Glad you enjoyed the night. Look forward to seeing you again soon.

To all of you I met at Kate & Annies last night, thankyou for making me feel so welcome. I havent laughed so much in ages! I look forward to meeting you again soon.

Another great editorial. I've sent an e-mail re your suggestions.

Thanks Penny for your lovely comments. I absolutely LOVE running the website but it's no good if no-one wants to use it so it's great that people seem to be enjoying it. Hope to do the new editorial this week so keep watching X

kate - this website just gets better and better - a delight to read and always makes me sad when i can't attend meetings for one reason or another!

Really enjoyed Sunday's visit to Howick Hall. The walk was lovely through beautiful woodland and the company was great. A warm welcolm to Debs. Nice to spend time with Kate, Annie an Aud and get to know you a little better and the lemon merange pie was just superb.

Hi Kate,

Thanks for adding the gig and the review of Howick Hall. I thoroughly enjoyed myself on Sunday and look forward to seeing everyone again soon.

Thanks Deb. It was lovely to see you again. I've put you on our circulation list and hope to see you again soon.

Hello to everyone I met at Howick Hall yesterday.A big thank you for making me feel so welcome. I really enjoyed meeting you all, you're a lovely bunch! see you again soon x

Great work, Kate, you certainly keep this site lively and interesting. Thanks for putting up the piece on the LBi Coalition, too.

Cheers Aud. It was an amazing, expensive and exhausting week, but just what I needed frankly, and we have 2 weeks in Bamburgh to chill out, relax and unwind. Come over for hot choc when we get back? x

Hi Kate,

Once again, great home page and great reviews. I had toyed with the idea of going to see Sinead, but money being tight I decided I wouldn't. I have to say I'm glad I didn't.

Looks like I missed an amazing night with KD, maybe next time I'll make the effort.

Thanks for looking after the site for us, It's much appreciated!

Thanks Guys for your kind comments. I was enormously moved by our first Pride and it's good to know everyone enjoyed it as well.

A brilliant write up Kate. It was a fantastic day and I really enjoyed it. Judging by the look on some faces as we walked down Northumberland Street I would say that more than a few would have liked to have joined in. Lets hope lots more join in next year.

For those fans of the L Word with Sky or Cable TV, Series 5, which was due to start this month, has been put back until September. Please note it will be on Living 2 this time.

Kate, a great report.

I've looked at the photos on the Sunday Sun site. Can it really be Newcastle? It could be Rio!

Obviously a special day. I'm so sad I missed it.

Thanks for a great report Kate. You have no idea how proud I was to be leading the first ever Pride parade through Newcastle. I have to say, I was so busy concentrating on keeping the band right that I was oblivious to much of the proceedings, but I too was overwhelmed by the support we received, especially at the Civic Centre.
The event in the park was excellent as well; I spent a lot of time helping at the Women4Women stall along with several members of Lesbian Line.
If anyone wants to check out some brilliant photos of Pride, look up www.sundaysun.co.uk and follow the links via the news pages to the gay pride gallery.
Here's hoping for many more days like last Saturday.
Kath

Thanks Aud, one does one's best. Your comments are much appreciated X

Hi Kate,

Great home page leader. You are funny!!

I was just about to e-mail to say that Marilyn and Jane Russell had had a long run and what should we have next. So good on you for getting it done.

Let's hope that Laura Robson is our new great hope. Dare we even think it!!

Aud

Thank you Suzy, I'll give you the tenner later!!

Wow - this website is great, most local organisations don't have such a well organised, easy to use and nice to look at site if they have one at all. Well done to your webmaster (mistress of course!)

Yes, I heard that. Excellent. Also her new single(that dates me) is getting a lot of airplay on Radio 2

Hi All,

Nice to see that Sandi Thom played London Pride at the weekend.

Aud

OOPs not sure how that happened.

Hi Jude.

Its July 12th. Info here www.northernpride.org.uk

hello girls, I'm probably bein a bit thick but when is pride?

Hi Val.

I love the Bangshees and if I lived in Newcastle would have joined them. I have done some of there workshops in the past and once played on stage at Pride with them.

Hi Pauline ... I haven't been to Pride for years but this year I hope to be there playing with the Bangshees (just joine them!) Sounds like it's going to be an eventful day!

Im going to be stewarding at Pride. So if anyone is going I look forward to seeing you there.

Good to see you at seahouses last weekend Jude. Been some years since we last met. Nice to meet Julie, too. As Kath says ... where were you when the Bangshees played in Sunderland?

Re: Kath's Sarah Waters question. Yes, I did see the show, very good it was too. I love her books 'Tipping the Velvet' and 'Fingersmith' and I enjoyed the TV adaptations although they were a bit galloped through, and (obviously) centred around the most sensational aspects of the books. I didn't Read Affinity because I don't like ghost stories, and I really didn't like Night Watch. I find that particular literary device of starting at the end quite irritating, and in the case of Night Watch, it was also depressing as one knew from the outset that the penetrating gloom of the story was never going to be relieved. I believe that her new book does not feature lesbians as central characters, which is a shame. Absolutely her right of course but, I would have thought that she has had enough success as a writer of lesbian stories, to not need to court the mainstream.

Re Julie Felix gig. I totally agree with your thoughts on this.

I enjoyed most of the cover versions she did and the Spanish songs were superb, but, like you, I had trouble connecting with some of the songs for whatever reason.

However, I think Julie seemed to be enjoying herself. and there was no doubting the affection the audience had for her.

Had a great time in Seahouses on Saturday, sorry we lost half the group after the crazy golf. Thanks to whoever thought of the idea! Julie, it was really nice meeting you at the weekend, come back and join us again sometime. it was also great to see you again jude, but where were you last night at the Bangshees gig in Sunderland?!

Er..there might be some suggestion of bias there Annie, d'you think??

Keep it up, Kate. This must be a leading contender for 'Best website in the Region' - if only somebody ran such a competition!

Kate - have to agree re the set on Saturday night, a real mixture, but the spanish songs stood out as a real treat. Lovely to see the welcome she was given, though, and I am so glad to have seen her. I still have very fond memories of watching her TV show - all too many years ago!
Will you have to re-write your leader for June, now that we've had a mini heatwave?

Thanks Julie. I didn't get to meet you because I was on the boat trip, but I'm glad you had a good time. See you another time maybe.

Hi.I came up from scarborough to stay with jude for the weekend and just wanted to say thankyou to everyone i met at seahouses on 15th june.You all made me feel so welcome.Thanks.

Obviously I meant 'see', told you I was tired. Thanks for your comments, much appreciated. I'm very pleased with how the site is developing

Link now in place, altho' text went a bit funny. Will sort it tomorrow when I'm not so tired after a day braving the wild north sea in a successful attempt to se as many Puffins as possible!!

Maybe women4womenuk.com could be added to the contacts list please. Neoln website looking very good though. Thanks for all your work on it Kate.

Did anyone see Sarah Waters on the South Bank Show last weekend? What is the consensus of opinion about what her best novel is? I still think Tipping the Velvet is excellent, though also like the Night Watch as well.

Just a little bit of news.

Yesterday (12th) in Norway a new law equalising gay and straight marriages was passed.

Aud

Hi all -
Do we have another Housing Group meeting planned? How about a final meeting just to round things off if anyone's interested?

Sue G

Thanks for the comments Women, keep them coming

See - kate - good as my word looked at site straight away!! Will put more hought into what goes into it!

Yet further developments! This looks really great. I will verify contact information before forwarding information on other meetings for the Campaign section.

Thanks for adding the new pages, Kate.
I'm looking forward to the Sandi Thom gig at The Cluny and will submit a review afterwards.

Sounds good to me.

Would everyone be interested in having the networking events listed, maybe in a separate section, to keep them distinct from the social side [which is our main purpose, of course]?
It would then be possible for people to follow up on things that interested them.

......and also films we recommend, such as Nina's Heavenly Delights and Gray Matters.

In Sisterhood

Aud

Hi Kate,

Love the photo of Leisha and KD.

I have to admit I've been as bad as everyone else when it comes to contributing to the site.

I think it would be sad if we lost it.

I'll have a think about things to add and maybe I could submit a photo at some point.

I'd like to have a music/gig section, so that we could post details of up coming gigs and artists we recommend.

In Sisterhood

Aud

a number of people have said that the Guestbook won't recognise the code. I have tried this several times and it does seem to work. I should point out that the codes are case sensitive so maybe that is the problem. Please do tell me what problems you are having inputting messages as I can report them

another test message

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Hi Kate, this looks really good. If anyone wants to add anything, how do we do this? Do you have to do it or can anyone do it? For example, the book group isn't on and neither is the Health afternoon. I also think it might be useful to have a history of the group, and some of the previous activities. Thanks such a lot for doing this - a real step forward! Lisa

Well Done Kate. Its brilliant.

Welcome to the new NEOLN website. Please add comments or contact us on kate.alexandra@virgin.net