As it happens, she did get a reply from an aircraft in the circuit. I forbore to mention this because of course direct air-to-air communication is frowned upon, and I certainly wasn't going to use the handheld transceiver to set myself up as an a/g station.
And no, the original comment had nothing to do with MATZs (on which I tend to agree with the comments made, especially as I was ticked off for setting QNH on departure the other day rather than QFE...)
Tim