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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.

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.

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.

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.