I'm just catching up with this forum after having been away throughout the holiday period and having been confronted, on my return, with mound of work!
Mr Morgan, what a lovely post, and as you can see, you have so many digital and real life friends on this forum. Trapper John has told me what a "super bloke" you are and your posts always bear this out.
As a lady in what I shall call "late middle age" with a ridiculously silly little green car which she understands nothing about whatsoever, this forum has been extremely helpful to me, and no one has been patronising. They just want to help. From the time I put the wrong batteries into my fob lock
to the helpful advice when the engine light came on the dash (02 sensor) and everything else in between, you've all been lovely. And no one swears! Well, occasionally they circumvent the mucky filter, but it's generally in good humour and not nasty.
I could feel like an interloper here, but I don't, not at all. Particular thanks to welcoming Trapper John, highly amusing Peter103 and MarkJ and all the others on the "Ban the person above you" thread, just to name a few. And some of the (clearly purposeful) "what causes this warm air to come out of my exhaust, is it okay" threads have me in stitches.
On a more serious note, to you chaps who have had the misfortune to lose loved ones recently: please be aware of a thing called "four month grief". It really is a thing. You'll be thinking things are starting to get a little better and you can cope, and then WHAM! It floors you. It happened to a me in 1999 and it happened to a colleague a few years ago. I sought medical help. My colleague resigned. I asked him to hold on to his resignation for the time being and spend time with his older relative talking things over for a couple of weeks. Thankfully, he returned with a different decision and stayed with the firm.
Happy New Year everyone.
