A note from the administrator.
I have had to close the forum to new members. Registration is shut. I'm sorry for it - but I can no longer vouch for who comes through the door.
You may also find that certain older topics are no longer where you left them. I have, with great reluctance, removed a small number of threads and posts from this forum. I did so at the written request of a firm of solicitors acting for the landowner, who hold that the material touched on matters they would prefer were not aired in public.
I have complied, because I am one man and they are not. I want it set down plainly, here, that I did so under protest, and that I do not accept the grounds. Nothing removed was untrue. Nothing removed was anyone's business to suppress.
But I will not delete this board. What is left here stays, and you may read it for as long as I can keep the lights on. I have locked the doors; I have not burned the house. I have kept copies of everything. I would ask, gently, that those of you who hold anything of your own do the same.
E. Selwood
I have had to close the forum to new members. Registration is shut. I'm sorry for it - but I can no longer vouch for who comes through the door.
You may also find that certain older topics are no longer where you left them. I have, with great reluctance, removed a small number of threads and posts from this forum. I did so at the written request of a firm of solicitors acting for the landowner, who hold that the material touched on matters they would prefer were not aired in public.
I have complied, because I am one man and they are not. I want it set down plainly, here, that I did so under protest, and that I do not accept the grounds. Nothing removed was untrue. Nothing removed was anyone's business to suppress.
But I will not delete this board. What is left here stays, and you may read it for as long as I can keep the lights on. I have locked the doors; I have not burned the house. I have kept copies of everything. I would ask, gently, that those of you who hold anything of your own do the same.
E. Selwood
I dont know who else to ask
I have been a long time deciding whether to say anything in this thread, and I am still not certain I should.
I will say this much. I do not believe you are hysterical, any of you. I have kept this forum fifteen years on a principle of citing what you can and not reading mysteries into gaps, and I hold to it. But I have had my own dealings of late, which some of you know the shape of, and I have learned that a man can be perfectly reasonable and perfectly correct and still find the ground moving under him.
Keep your records. Keep them somewhere that is not only here. Be courteous to these men and give them nothing, not because you are guilty of anything but because you owe them nothing. And Sam, do not go back up there with your children. I would not forgive myself for having said anything less plain.
I find I do not have the tidy ending I usually try to give a thread. I am sorry for that. I will leave it open.
E.S.
We retrieve what we can from the teeth of time. (after J. Aubrey)
I wasnt going to come back to this but I dont have anyone else who would understand.
The same vehicle, or one just like it, was parked on our road on Tuesday. Not up the down. On our road, outside the school, two of them sat in it, and they were still there at pick up. I told myself it was nothing, school car park, anybody can park. But my eldest asked me in the car why that man keeps looking at us and I had to say what man love and pretend I hadnt seen him.
I have stopped using the byway. I have stopped a lot of things. I keep thinking I am being mad and then I think about Nan going quiet and Bill keeping off his own land and I dont know any more.
Is anyone still here. It has gone so quiet on here. Please tell me I am being daft.