Mrs Fenn and that crying child incident revisited.

[AnneGuedes]

No Anne  ...  there is a  strangely uniform and determined effort to be particularly vague and  'forgetful'   about that night   (  Tuesday 1st of May  )  by  all  the tapas group 

It's there in the rogatory interviews

I really think that they had the clear idea that saying the less would be the best.
It's not even certain that Mr McCann was really interested in the aerobic quiz, though he invited the lady at the table.
Are you suggesting, like Jeanne d'Arc, that something happened on that night ? That would explain mainly the amazing ignorance of the sailing episode. But there are some technicalities that aren't bypassable.

[pathfinder73]

No Anne  ...  there is a  strangely uniform and determined effort to be particularly vague and  'forgetful'   about that night   (  Tuesday 1st of May  )  by  all  the tapas group 

It's there in the rogatory interviews

Yes this was meant to be the Quiz night but no one can remember what night it was. I will have to look into Chaplins to see where it leads (Chaplins Quiz night was on TUE).

[icabodcrane]

I really think that they had the clear idea that saying the less would be the best.
It's not even certain that Mr McCann was really interested in the aerobic quiz, though he invited the lady at the table.
Are you suggesting, like Jeanne d'Arc, that something happened on that night ? That would explain mainly the amazing ignorance of the sailing episode. But there are some technicalities that aren't bypassable.

I don't know who  Jeanne d'Arc  is Anne   ...  but yes,  I think something significant happened to Madeleine on Tuesday 1st of May 

Not that Madeleine  'disappeared'   on that night  ...  just that something significant occured then

[Benice]

No Anne  ...  there is a  strangely uniform and determined effort to be particularly vague and  'forgetful'   about that night   (  Tuesday 1st of May  )  by  all  the tapas group 

It's there in the rogatory interviews

What nonsense.  The group could only reply to the questions they were being asked.   There is nothing odd about them not knowing exactly what they did on each day of the holiday - as they had no idea that it was ever going to be important - so had no reason to make sure they remembered.   

Could you give a detailed description with exact times etc of what you did every minute of every day last week?  I certainly couldn't.

[pathfinder73]

A long since discredited forum myth.

I will look into it first before calling it a myth. If Fenn was correct in that they never checked for over an hour then they were probably somewhere further away from the apartment. So I will follow this Chaplins lead to see where it goes.

[AnneGuedes]

I will look into it first before calling it a myth. If Fenn was correct in that they never checked for over an hour then they were probably somewhere further away from the apartment. So I will follow this Chaplins lead to see where it goes.

I think that Benice is right and it is a myth.
What isn't a myth is that on the 1st the McCanns said they came back home at 23.
If so, it's not their return that mafe Madeleine (no, it can't be the Oldfield baby) stop crying.

[AnneGuedes]

What nonsense.  The group could only reply to the questions they were being asked.   There is nothing odd about them not knowing exactly what they did on each day of the holiday - as they had no idea that it was ever going to be important - so had no reason to make sure they remembered.   

Could you give a detailed description with exact times etc of what you did every minute of every day last week?  I certainly couldn't.

I agree with that. All days were different from their normal UK days, but those PDL days were all alike.
The exception though concerns what happened after they came back from the beach. Those events must have frozen in their memory.

[AnneGuedes]

I don't know who  Jeanne d'Arc  is Anne   ...  but yes,  I think something significant happened to Madeleine on Tuesday 1st of May 

Not that Madeleine  'disappeared'   on that night  ...  just that something significant occured then

Jeanne d'Arc is a member of this forum, she posted a few times and you told her you were interested in her opinion, by which I presumed you knew her out of the box blog.
http://unterdenteppichgekehrt.blogspot.pt/p/theorie.html

[Sherlock Holmes]

I don't know who  Jeanne d'Arc  is Anne   ...  but yes,  I think something significant happened to Madeleine on Tuesday 1st of May 

Not that Madeleine  'disappeared'   on that night  ...  just that something significant occured then

Joan of Arc, icabod. Went through a rather rigorous and unpleasant trial where she was quizzed in an inquisitorial manner.

Oh how I have missed Anne here on the board!

[Sherlock Holmes]

Jeanne d'Arc is a member of this forum, she posted a few times and you told her you were interested in her opinion, by which I presumed you knew her out of the box blog.
http://unterdenteppichgekehrt.blogspot.pt/p/theorie.html

How fascinating, Anne - I thought this was another of your historic allusions!

[AnneGuedes]

Well hello, Anne! This isn't a boring event!

I just bet, after having a look..

[icabodcrane]

Joan of Arc, icabod. Went through a rather rigorous and unpleasant trial where she was quizzed in an inquisitorial manner.

Oh how I have missed Anne here on the board!

oh dear  ...  how mortifying  !   


I'm so used to references being being made to posters on other forums that I immediately assumed it was the  username of  someone well known amongst  the  'old guard'   that I would never have heard of

I'm sorry for making that assumption where you were concerned Anne  ...  I should have known better

edited to add  ...  LOL   ...  I'm not really cut out for this forum business at all,  am I   

[AnneGuedes]

How fascinating, Anne - I thought this was another of your historic allusions!

And in a way you could, because I wrote that name the way it should be written and not like Jeanne d'Arc writes it (she didn't like my observing this, she said the computer didn't accept ', therefore she wrote Jeanne d Arc.. which hurt my eyes, if I may say).
I try to find a possible concordance of times between Jeanne d'Arc and Madeleine and all I find is that the British let her down.

[Sherlock Holmes]

And in a way you could, because I wrote that name the way it should be written and not like Jeanne d'Arc writes it (she didn't like my observing this, she said the computer didn't accept ', therefore she wrote Jeanne d Arc.. which hurt my eyes, if I may say).
I try to find a possible concordance of times between Jeanne d'Arc and Madeleine and all I find is that the British let her down.

Probably many more if we examine things.

Both Catholic 'martyrs' ?

[AnneGuedes]

Joan of Arc, icabod. Went through a rather rigorous and unpleasant trial where she was quizzed in an inquisitorial manner.

She wasn't quizzed aerobically, for sure, the purpose was to burn her as a witch. I love Leonard Cohen singing.. I love your solitude, I love your pride.