[Felidae Ryl]

Hi everyone. Some here may remember me as Feliciradeya. I know I recognise a few names still, but it's amazing how many people have moved away from Cats, or are just lurking

I decided to change my name as the old one was so long and unpronounceable. I still love Cats and last saw it when the UK tour was in Wimbledon November 2006, I think? I'm not sure, but they were all great - touring made all the casts I saw closer-knit as a tribe which really showed, plus I loved the new steel drums and electric guitars in the fast part of the Ball. Stuart Ramsay was friendly at the stage door despite some manic groups of hormonal girls.

I still have my Jellicle Dancers website up along with my George and Victor shrine and two performer sites (the hub for all of them is http://www.jellicledancers.com/home). If anyone's got a site with more than the basic generic content (I have a cut-off point or I'd have a thousand links) then please let me know so I can take a look and link to you. Non-Cats sites related to theatre are good too.

[Peritombry]

Hey welcome back!

I haven't had the chance to see a tour yet which is rather depressing.

[Rumblepurr]

Hello again, my dear...

Still here... still adding to the novel... or is it an encyclopedia by now...?
IF you wish, it is still there...

Rumblepurr
The Writer Cat.

[Belle]

Feli! Welcome back! The recent UK tour really were spectacular, weren't they? I did miss the immersive staging of the New London, but other than that, loved the show just as much as London!

[Moongewl]

Hey there! Welcome back!

[Mungostoffelees]

Feli feli feli!!
Yeah some of us oldies are still here but just rarely check here these days!
Whereabouts are you now in the UK?

xx

[Vladdi78]

Feli? Your nick rings a bell, but I'd lie if I said I remembered every detail.

But good to see someone around I somewhat "knew" ages ago. *gg*
BTW: I used to be Munkustrap, but after a long absence the account was deleted and someone else took it. But my webpage is still online ( www.munkustrap.de - the oldest one if I dare to say), it just needs a "facelift" so badly!

[Peritombry]

Ohh I remember that site. I could make you a new layout if you like. I'm a little busy at the moment so I don't know how fast it'd be. But I could make one.

[Vladdi78]

yayyyy, someone remembers!

Feel free to drop me a line or two, ideas about a new design are highly welcome. I somehow feel as if I reached a point where I can not make the design any better - sort of a dead end. At least I know that I'll have to correct some typos and links, but that won't be enough...

No need to hurry, though, I have plenty of work at home, i.e. fixing my "fun car", building some furniture (or at least finally finish it), go out for a ride (when the weather stays that good)... But the next winter is coming, so I'm sure it'll be done this year.

[Mungostoffelees]

Vladdi: I think I vaguely remember you and your website also, take it you were here wayyyy back to the old layout of the forums on dial up with the ridiculous load speed and when the site used to jam!?
I've had various nicknames too like Lulubelle among others (but Mungostoffelees/Stoffey for the longest), I've been around here for about 9/10 years now; just sort of vanished for the last 2 or 3 and lurked on a rare ocassion like now when saw this thread!

I've actually wanted and started trying to get back in touch with all the old gang from here a few years back, used to be awesome atmopshere and banter here then, its seems to have somewhat died since; not the same.
Maybe we should start like an old members thread/sticky that could be up to attract us lot on the rare ocassion people slip in like us; see who we catch hold of!

-Stoffey

[Mungostoffelees]

-I've lost track of who the mods are etc now? Mrs.J? Still a round? Carb? Poss to have the sticky I suggested? Or do I have to beg. I'm British I don't beg...but I do know how to que...in style!

-Which you probably won't find funny/get unless you are also a Brit and reading this...I'll just go back into my black hole now....

[Peritombry]

*is amused*

I'll see what I can come up with for the design.

[Rumblepurr]

[Mungostoffelees]

I'm in multiple ques so you'll have to wait Rumble!

You haven't experienced the UK until you've been in a good queue, there's nothing like waiting around for long, extensive amounts of time often when you don't infact need to, but you're British and far too polite to actually inquire about the situation.

Honestly, I'm ON FIRE in a line.

[Toxic]

[Vladdi78]

[Mungostoffelees]

I dunno Londoners still queue on occassion its just more aggressive queing; shuffeling feet, tutting, and looking to see whats happening. Aggressive queuing...careful you could DIE!
London is made up of more than just Brits though so you lose the over-polite ridgidness of us!

You mean who saw it live on stage? Yeah me, 19 times total so far.
13 times in London (including the very final awesome eveing show that my friend and I won tikets for!) and then 6 times on tour in 3 diff places.
Not enough!

[Mungojerrie_rt]

I saw the Tent tour in 2000 once.
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u276/Mungojerrie_rt/Mistoffelees01-1.jpg

Ignation's Musical Society Production in March/April 2007 twice.
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u276/Mungojerrie_rt/MungojerrieRumpleteazer02.jpg

Harvest Rain Theatre Company Production in September 2007 once.
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u276/Mungojerrie_rt/DemeterBombalurina01-2.jpg

Will see Ipswich Orpheus Chorale Production on the 11th of October. Can't wait!

[Vladdi78]

[Vladdi78]

[Peritombry]

If you haven't seen Londoners queuing you're probably lucky. XD

[Vladdi78]

I saw Americans queueing for a ride at Disney Land (or Disney World?) - one hour or more just for 2 or 3 minutes fun. I thought that's already enough, but visiting the Sears Tower in Chicago topped it all. One hour queueing for taking the elevator to the top, having a 3-minute-outlook onto Chicago (boooring!) and waiting another 30 minutes or so to get back to the ground.

I don't think Londoners could beat that! *g*

[Peritombry]

Oh it's not just the waiting time. We get people pushing and shoving and sneaking in front og each other... it's like watching a small army of little kids.

[Vladdi78]

Sounds pretty much like the season's sales we had over here some time ago. One could think the warehouses blew everything out for free ...

And I still don't know what happened to Love Hearts and Refreshers!

[Peritombry]

I still see them occasionally. But the words on love hearts are modernised. I think there's one that says "text me" now.

[Vladdi78]

uhm - I don't read them, I usually eat them. I tried to give my GF a special one, but she pushed it back and snitched one with the flavour she likes (red I think). From that point on I never tried to send her a special message again! *g*

Hm ... I think we're terribly off topic right now

[Mungostoffelees]

Love hears are still around yes, refreshers are in bar form but I haven't seen the sweets for a while.
But I dunno, I don't eat sweets or chocolate cos' I'm a good girl!

[Vladdi78]

Welllll ... I wouldn't bet on that good girl thing, mainly because I don't know you at all.

I eat chocolate every day - and yet I managed to loose some weight. It always depends on whether you eat ore than you need or not.

[Mungostoffelees]

I eat a v low fat diet generally.

Haha you eat that much chocolate and don't put on weight? That's ridiculous!
The average choc bar if plain e.g. dairy milk has roughly 250 calories in it, more if you get something with a toffee/nougat centre etc in. That's half of what your meal-time calorie consumption should work out as.
Doesn't it make you feel sluggish? Can't stand choc-leaves you feeling sick & slow/sluggish in my experience, not worth it even if it does taste nice!
Plus even if you don't gain actual weight from it it can still add inches to areas of your body.

But then are you male or female, I didn't look. Women tend to gain weight easier, especially with choc!

[Vladdi78]

I didn't say that I eat much chocolate, I just said I eat chocolate every day. But I'm not eating a whole bar or so, just some pieces that would have about 100 calories in total. Plus I do sports every day (Volleyball, horseback riding, jogging, inline skating) and do not eat that much in genereall. And I try to avoid too much fat where possible, but sometimes you need fat (i.e. when cooking meat or so) otherwise you could eat paper as well. Seen from a analytical side: I need roughly 1.800 calories just to keep up the body functions, to this you have to add what you burn during sports. Considering the facht that I'm eating about 1.500 calories a day (including choc) I wouldn't say that this is ridiculous.

After all: I looooove food, and sometimes food needs a certain amount of fat to taste delicious. It's the portion that decides whether you gain weight or not.

The dosage makes the poison, as Paracelsus said 1500 years ago.

... and now I definetely am convinced that we are totally off topic! *g*

[Mungostoffelees]

You are very energetic thus it wouldn't go on you no, and a few pieces ah I see! -yeah that wouldn't do much! I thought you meant a choc bar per day-whole one!

Also proper dark 80% coco chocolate is VERY good for you if you just have a couple of squares a day etc, helps with a lot of things.

Off topic, what are you talking about...its totally relevant...so how many calories in rumpleteazer?

Women food discussion over. Men get very bored when we do this!

[Vladdi78]

Actually, I am a man ... or am supposed to! *lol*
How many calories in Rumpleteazer ... I have to admit: no idea. But it would be enough for both of us.
BTW: a chocolate Rumple? Or a real one?!
Or did I miss the point? *g*

I think I couldn't eat a whole choc bar at once. Maybe over the day - but as you can guess I have so many activities that I "loose track" of any open choc bars or pieces. And as a matter of fact I do prefer the dark choc, as the cocoa taste is more intense. *yummy*

[Mungostoffelees]

So...we've done queing, chocolate and calories.

Global warming anyone?

Rumble if you were pushed to choose which is better: a biro or a highlighter?
No, I'm kidding...

So, yeah Feli wooo!!!

[Rumblepurr]

[Mungostoffelees]

[Vladdi78]

You guys (or gals?) lost me ...

[Rumblepurr]

[Mungojerrie_rt]

*Takes deep breath*

Chocolate!

I can eat a whole Cadbury family block in 10 minutes and still want more.

Country slang is fun. I managed to confuse someone at my uni the other day with the word 'togs'. They don't have it in Canada. They call them swimwear/bathers/whatever. It led back to our argument about whether it is a pacer or mechanical pencil.

It's a pacer people!

[Mungostoffelees]

[Mungostoffelees]

[Belle]

You better not channel that Awful woman at me! I HATE her, patronising self-righteous smug-faced cow... I want to reach through the TV, slap her, then force feed her chocolate eclairs until she's sick! I don't care if she's right, she's so bloomin annoying!


Sorry, no, I don't have any useful contribution to the conversation... just needed to get that out there...

[Rumblepurr]

[Akeyla]

[Vladdi78]

*gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!*
I just slept 7 hours ... 7 HOURS!!!
And I missed a whole conversation! *gasp*

Paint Shop? Corel Draw? Folks, that's lame! I got Photoshop, that'll beat it all, so I shall declare myself as the best one. You may bow down now...

I really have to improve my English skills - lost quite a lot during the past one year, as I had no need for English during the past months (not required in the new position I have been for a year now). Yet I do remember a redneck conversation me and a cousin of mine listened to in Dallas. We just saw a movie with Shaquille O'Neill - it was ok, but he definetely should stick to Basketball. However, there were two rednecks in front of us - we didn't understand every word, but we understood "yeah, man, this was the best movie I've ever seen, I swear to God"... but it sounded as if he's gotten 2 lbs of chewing gum between his jaws... guess it was only funny at that moment ...

[Vladdi78]

[Vladdi78]

[Felidae Ryl]

Crikey, what a thread this has turned into! I was worried when I first saw it had spilled from 6 posts to a 2nd page, thought an argument had brewed. But a discussion of chocolate, if a thread I've started is going to turn into anything, that's a great topic to change it to.

Thank you to all of you welcoming me back. It's great to see you're all still here too and haven't lost the love for Cats or the fandom. It's been great getting back into hobbies I'd left for so long. And new ones, too, come to that. I've been learning to play the saxophone for a few years and now the flute too (clarinet's waiting in the wings). I just got a Cats music book for flute and can play Memory which sounds lovely if I say so myself.

Vlado, I think you gave me my name, you know. I seem to remember signing up for a forum or chatroom, though I may be mistaken regarding whose site it was on, but I was given the name Felidae then.

I also dislike Gillian McKeith and think she needs to find herself better-fitting jackets, though so does Cameron Mackintosh and for different reasons. His make him look shorter and hers seem to be buttoned too tightly or in the wrong place.

I wish I could quote Deanna Troi "I never met a chocolate I didn't like" but I don't like the dark stuff much over 70%, the 85% is far too bitter. Everything else, I'm there as long as there's no mint or coffee added.

So, what have I been doing since I was here last? For the most part, failing to be a primary-school teacher. I finished my Spanish degree and after a year interning with a theatre company (still love seeing Tanya Franks on telly), temping and summer camp I went back to uni, but left my first school after 5 weeks due to massive stress. Volunteered in another school and applied for newly-qualified teacher posts again, had a great interview for my borough pool so got loads with individual schools and ended up near to where I'd done my better training practise. Still, even with somewhat nicer kids and better support, put me in front of 25-30 kids and my personality changes, not pretty. Managing kids' behaviour and teaching maths and science badly all got too much.

Last summer I decided to follow an idea I'd had before and spent 3 months training to be a make-up artist, only to find I either felt very stressed keeping up and achieving perfection or very bored hanging around holding a blusher brush. Felt bleedin' pointless.

I finally realised that I should follow what I should have taken further 5 years ago - working on my web design skills and getting into IT. I'm off to a careers fair today in the hope of an IT or design company being there, just got my CV polished at last, have had it hanging around almost-done for over a month since I went to some employment seminars run by a local charity. That was very helpful stuff.

Still in London with the mummy and daddy. Too much in and out of work to have got any further on that front. Mum's in Nigeria teaching 45 people to be real-time verbatim shorthand reporters and my dad's having his cataracts done soon. Here we go with the health issues... the cat's got an overactive thyroid and wakes me up every morning for food as her pills aren't on the right dosage yet (one a day not enough, but two a day too much and she put on even more weight, she's always been a fluffball). Her sister on my avatar died at the end of March. She was such a babe.

Blimey, O'Reilly, that was long enough. Hope I'm that interesting to read about, but I always did like to write. Been years since I wrote a show report, but I am still working on stories and might even get an old fanfic off the starting blocks again (could Tugger really be Victor's brother?)

[Vladdi78]

[Akeyla]

[Vladdi78]

[Mungostoffelees]

[Vladdi78]

[Akeyla]

[Mungostoffelees]

[Vladdi78]

[Vladdi78]

[Akeyla]

[Mungojerrie_rt]

The German is doing my head in. It's weird to see a sentence that you recognise about every third word in. Thus, I will quote songs in German!

Die familla sagt dann; Diese schreklische Katz!

(I'm sure I've stuffed up there.)

I believe that those alphabetical numbers go up to E, and that's huge.

[Vladdi78]

[Mungostoffelees]

Yeah, see, I was being sarcastic...they're not actually Z. That would just be SILLY.
But I do have 56.

Technically they can go up to K and so for extreme cases, but the more normal cut off point is F. I know a few with Fs.

[Vladdi78]

[Mungostoffelees]

[Vladdi78]

[Peritombry]

...Que?


*cough*

I think my favourite episode is the one with the moose.

"Hellooooo I am speeking Eenglissshh."

[Vladdi78]

[Mungojerrie_rt]

[Mungostoffelees]

[Mungojerrie_rt]

The dry sarcasm that only the British were supposed to understand.

[Vladdi78]

... and I still have no clue whether 56 is big or not ... :-/

[Mungostoffelees]

Mungojerrie_rt: excellent!

Vladdi: I said I had 56 breasts-thus was kidding! 56 is not a measurement...well technically a woman could have a 56 width bust/chest measurement but that would be huge!

[Vladdi78]

... hmmm ... I feel we reached a dead end here ...

[tinasattler]

yes i do remeber you welcom home sis

[tinasattler]

valdo welcum home my dear sweet friend i have mised you so bad wer in the world have you bin

[Vladdi78]

Ah - littlgriz, right?
I do remember you. I think we met in NYC when CATS was supposed to close the first time back in June (?) 2000.

Basically I have been in Frankfurt, Germany - and during the past 3 years I spent some time on horsebacks. A lot of things have happened since then - but I still do remember you. You are one of the very first one that were hanging around on the webboards we had these days.

How are you doing? Anything new over there?
Do you meet a lot of "old fellas" nowadays?

*Vlado*

[tinasattler]

[Alonza0]

I'm so glad you're back! The Shrine to George and Victor is my favorite site, I was so depressed when I couldn't find it for a while. Welcome back!

[Felidae Ryl]