Greetings and welcome

Hello, I've recently taken on the Admin position for this group as LT changed some of their policies and wanted a "currently active" poster for each active group. This isn't a hugely active group, but all of us Pratchett fans like to know there is somewhere to go and share our love of the Discworld.

I want to welcome anyone who stumbles by here, don't worry if you've forgotten your luggage, I'm sure it will catch up eventually.

Please feel free to introduce yourself, share a bit of your fandom with us, or anything else you want to share about Discworld.

I'm trying to think of something lovely from the series to offer you for food, but all that comes to mind at the moment is Rat on a Stick...

>1 MrsLee: Hmm, rat on a stick or dwarf bread or cabbages from the plains? I'll have whatever Nanny Ogg's having.

>2 spiralsheep: LOL, I will toast to that!

Allow me to raise my pint of Winkles Old Peculiar to you and suggest a Shepherd's Crown Pie.

>4 igorken: With Wow-Wow sauce on it?

I've got to talk to Sam Vimes to find who offers the best boots...

>4 igorken: Perfect, I clearly need to read in Discworld again to refresh my food memory. :)

>7 MrsLee: Might a suggest a look through Nanny Ogg's Cookbook? You'll find recipes for slumpie, Dwarf bread, dried frog pills, C.M.O.T. Dibbler's Sausage Inna Bun, and Nanny Ogg's Perfectly Innocent Porridge with Completely Inoffensive Honey Mixture Which Shouldn't Make Anyone's Wife Laugh.

>8 amanda4242: I have that cookbook! Been awhile since I read it though.

A special welcome to TheTolkienist and Bookworm_Mel, who joined us in January!

Oh wonderful, an excuse to revisit discworld! Actually I did that this summer but still interested in chatting about them, and about the author. I first discovered Pratchett when I found Good Omens and was hooked (and hooked on Gaiman). Took me a while to find the books, not realizing they were publised first in the UK. Found a treasure trove of titles whle I was there.

I love the witches, and any book that includes Death, Commander Vimes, and Lord Vetanari. Still frequently reread Small Gods, Soul Music, Lords and Ladies, and The Truth, which would certainly be a good read again right about now

Welcome Petroglyph! I hope I spelled that right. Way past my bedtime, but I wanted to welcome you to the group!

>12 MrsLee:
Thanks! I'd been "watching" this group for years; I thought it was finally time to join for real.

hey so what am I chopped liver? (a new special from Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibble) :) Oh and I just found another rabbit hole that I really don't need but am sucked in nonetheless:

https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page

>14 cindydavid4: I think Petroglyph got a special welcome from our admin because they just joined as a new member. :-)

My personal rabbit hole is:

http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Main_Page

I'm planning to join the group re-read of the Watch part of PTerry's Discworld series for Jingo, The Fifth Elephant, and Nightwatch.

>14 cindydavid4: What you are is a Very Valued Member since 2016! :) I will have to fall down that rabbit hole another night though. Can't keep my eyes open tonight.

>15 spiralsheep: Thanks, your rabbit trail will have to wait too, but thank you for sharing it!

I'm rereading the Watch sub-series of Discworld after watching the BBC's attempt at it. I knew it wasn't matching what I was remembering, but thought that reading Guards! Guards! again would clear it up. Not so, they seem to have used parts of at least the first 3 books and then wandered off in a random direction. I decided to come check out this group for other readers comparisons.

>17 SF_fan_mae: Welcome! There is a thread started about the TV series, The Watch, and I just finished rereading Guards! Guards! For the same reason you did. It also has a dedicated thread. I hope you will feel free to wander around and leave comments as you see fit. :)

Hello. So I've decided to re-read my way through the Discworld this year, in publication order. I've just finished Guards! Guards! and am heading in to Eric next.

>19 Tane: Welcome! Glad you are here. Please feel free to start a dedicated thread if you wish on books we haven't done as yet. If you don't wish, feel free to post any comments or observations where you see fit. :)

I'm doing a lot of rereading this year, sort of alternating between some of my favorite authors. At the moment I'm focused on Tolkien, but Pratchett might jump in there at any time when I need something a bit lighter.

Welcome to dogwizard!

We seem to be adding one member a month here. Can we keep it up and have an even dozen at the end of the year?

Welcome ScottTalbotEvans! Hope you enjoy the conversations here.

Hello to noonanlm! Thank you for joining us. :)

Nice to have you, CarltonC!

Welcome Northernstar! We look forward to hearing from you. :)

Welcome Malkin71, thank you for joining us!

IrationalDM and Cynfelyn (I may not have spelled those correctly, sorry) thank you for joining us! Feel free to add to any conversations here, we are a quiet group, but nice. :P

DulwychPlayer (did I spell that correctly?) welcome and thank you for joining us! Sorry for the late post, I haven't been up to the internet much the past couple of months due to a death in the family.

Welcome Loki504, I think. Not entirely sure, does one welcome Loki? It's a chance I will take, because I sure don't want to be on his bad side. ;)

Glad to have you Perkinhob!

Welcome Lunarsong!

welcome everybody! tell us about your fav pratchett read!

>28 MrsLee: just saw this; my sympathies to your family

Hello, Haara, happy you have joined us!

>33 cindydavid4: Thank you.

Several new members this month, please feel free to introduce yourself here and tell us when your love of all things Discworld began. Old members are welcome to do this as well. ;)

Hello there. Just stumbled on this site and I have started to put my library in it. Huge part of it is Terry Pratchett of course.

>36 Diedrich_Peterse: Welcome! So glad you found us. Hope you enjoy LT as much as I do.

Welcome! What are your favs? After reading his bio I decided to do a reread of my favs (witches, Death, Tiffany Achling, in his honor

I feel a bit remiss as the fearless leader here. Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year! May you have happy new discoveries of Discworld, or cozy revisits this year.

Holy Wood is still sending out the clicks. :)

We're starting a group read of Discworld: Death in the 75ers, if anyone wants to join in. Kicking off with Mort this month (Feb 2023) and reading one every other month.

Back shortly with the link ...

ETA: The Link

>41 humouress: Thank you for letting us know. I do so enjoy rereading the Discworld.

>41 humouress: Thanks for posting that, Nina. I was going to, but you beat me to it! I always love the DEATH books.

>42 MrsLee: >43 ronincats: You're welcome!

July 28th Good Omens 2 premiers! check out the trailer

I have been remiss about welcoming new members here. I am happy there are still folks who love the Discworld finding us.

Please feel free to read some of the older threads and add comments, or start a new one if you wish!

I am dealing with some health issues. Is there anyone in this group who would like to join or replace me as administrator of this group?

whats involved

Well, mostly just monitoring to see that things remain civil, and welcoming new members. LT lets the admin know when there are new members. If you want to be a very active admin, you can try to post new topics for conversation now and then, but as you see, I haven't done a lot of that. The admin can change the photo and group description and possibly more, but I never explored all the options. Oh, I think an admin can help people change the title of their thread if they make a mistake.

LT offered up the position for this group a few years ago because the group was about to go dormant. That's when I volunteered. As admin you can resign or pick a co-admin to help.

I'll take it on if no-one else. I'm already admin of the dormant Bookstore Tourism group.

I can help out if nec, I just didn't want to get tied into something

>46 MrsLee: I might as well be It, then, either jointly with you or on my own as you prefer. Either way I think what needs to be done is for you to drop a note to staff asking for me to be appointed. (I became admin of Bookstore Tourism because the original admin, who created the group for commercial reasons, had been removed, and I asked to be appointed because I thought the group was worth preserving.)

>51 haydninvienna: I will see if I can figure it out. Thank you!

Invitation sent! I did this on my admin page. Hopefully I spelled your name correctly, let me know if you get it. I will let you have the position, and if you want a co-admin, it sounds like >50 cindydavid4: is willing with reservations. :)

>52 MrsLee: Looks like you did! Check the group page — I am now a joint admin. Feel free to resign if you so wish. I'll call on cindydavid if I need help, but I don't expect it to be a high-pressure job. As you mentioned above, there isn't much need for admin action.

{{{Hugs}}} and best wishes for your health issues too. (I know about those from the GD, of course.)

And from me as the new admin: welcome TasDave, geekmoose, klmoll, TheReadingKitty, tnilsson, H-Worblehat, catseyegreen, sisyphus_happy and Spence65.

New member! Welcome Pompy!

Another new member! Welcome Hatanu!

And another! Welcome bijou.venus!

And a twofer new member: welcome imagists!

I'm a long time Pratchett fan and excited to see this group. I'll work my way through some of the topics as I can. My favorite Discworld novel is Small Gods and my favorite non Discworld is Nation.

>59 elorin: Welcome! I look forward to your responses to threads as you work your way through.

Interrupting the official welcomes thread to say Happy Hogswatch to all (also Merry Christmas, if you celebrate it).

Happy Hogswatch! We just completed the annual viewing of Hogfather.

I thought I'd officially welcomed elorin, who has been around for a while, but it seems they have recently joined: welcome lorin!

And another new member: welcome bobbyl!

And just to show you how on the ball I am: welcome rainkatt!

>64 haydninvienna: Thank you! I've adored Terry Pratchett for years and still miss my yearly book, so will be lovely to be part of this like minded group :-)

Welcome Priya_Sanghamitra!

And still they come! Welcome PapaPoncho!

Welcome coolgarra!

And still they come! Welcome Impertinent, Bram-Kaandorp and neissja!

And welcome misadarkcrow!

Three more new people! Welcome ker0, elbee53 and gamesbook!

hello!

And welcome cfa413!