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

A thank you to Edmund

Anything and nothing - the weather, the buses, putting the world to rights
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Avebury_Janet
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A thank you to Edmund

#1 Post by Avebury_Janet »

A small thing, and overdue. I think we should say thank you, all of us, to Edmund Selwood, who keeps this forum running year after year out of his own pocket and his own time, for no reward but the love of it. He pays the bills, he tends the software, he fields the dull complaints, he keeps the old threads safe. He will be embarrassed by this and tell me to take it down. Do not, Edmund. A great many of us have found something here that we found nowhere else, and it exists because one retired schoolmaster decided it should and would not let it lapse. Thank you. That is all. Now you may be embarrassed.
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Marlborough_Nan
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#2 Post by Marlborough_Nan »

Hear hear. I would have nobody to talk to about the old things if it were not for Edmund and this forum he keeps going. It has meant more to me these last years than I would ever admit to his face, so I shall admit it here instead. Thank you, Mr Selwood.
just an old woman who remembers when the green had three shops.
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incomer_dave
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#3 Post by incomer_dave »

seconded, thirded, whatever number we are on by now. genuinely one of the best things about moving here, and it runs on one bloke caring enough to keep it alive. thank you Edmund.
An incomer, and not ashamed of it. Twelve years and still learning the place.
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E_Selwood
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#4 Post by E_Selwood »

You are all very kind, and I shall now, as threatened, be embarrassed. I will say only this. I keep it because the alternative is to let it go, and I have spent my life among records, and I know what happens to the things nobody keeps. They are not lost in some great dramatic moment. They simply stop being tended, and then one day they are gone, and no one can say quite when it happened. I am not willing to let that happen to this, while I am able. It is no trouble. It is a privilege to be the one who keeps the lamp lit. Thank you, all of you, for being worth keeping it for. Now. Back to the barrows.
We retrieve what we can from the teeth of time. (after J. Aubrey)
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