However, on 4th June, you said
before leaving for a while and becoming a moderator on the justcanals forum.
So, which is it, Mark, are we too serious, or not serious enough? Or maybe there's a different reason for your little hissy fit. Let's see...
On June 9th, you said (on the justcanals forum)
"I plan to pull the pins soon and start the long trudge to the Fens..."
and on Friday morning, on the same forum, you said
"...Still on the GU at moment but pulling the pins today."
So, it seems you're off on an extended cruise anyway. Nice of you to stop off here to make your first post of the month. Bit histrionic, don't you think, flouncing in purely so you could flounce back out again in a huff. What was the purpose? Perhaps you were hoping that some of the people who unhappy with aspects of this forum might follow you out and join justcanals instead?
On Friday, purely by coincidence, we also received our first posts for some considerable time from the justcanals site's owner, Sam. Seems he's going away this week too. Maybe you're bothered that, with Sam away, it will just fall to bits and we'll all forget about it. Has that happened before, by any chance?
Don't get me wrong - you're perfectly entitled to start or join another forum if you want, and good luck to you. It's the apparently devious, manipulative and, on at least one previous occasion, downright dishonest way that some people seem to like to do things that I find most offensive.
It's up to each person reading this to make up their own minds what they think about this; I've just presented things the way I see them.
Or, to put it another way,