miket
Well-Known Member
I have just looked up my profile and it would appear that I have been contributing since 2001 and have been boating on the Thames in my own right since 1980 and before that, as a whippersnapper on my parents boat since 1959.
I suspect my "posts" have significantly reduced over the last year or so as I find little about which I now wish to contribute. I periodically get sucked into discussions and later usually wish I had kept quiet.
Recent agressiveness from various other contributors I dislike. There is no reason for this. Boating on the Thames is our hobby and in most cases a love. The forum should be an enjoyable offshoot that allows other similar enthusiasts to benefit from discussion. We all get enough hassle from our work environment.
I am fortunate to be taking early retirement shortly and we shall be taking our boat to Holland and France for 2 years. Whilst retaining a keen interest in the Thames I shall be neither benefiting or suffering, from investment or lack of it.
I do hope this forum manages to avoid a steady degradation. Current indications do not seem good to me.
I suspect my "posts" have significantly reduced over the last year or so as I find little about which I now wish to contribute. I periodically get sucked into discussions and later usually wish I had kept quiet.
Recent agressiveness from various other contributors I dislike. There is no reason for this. Boating on the Thames is our hobby and in most cases a love. The forum should be an enjoyable offshoot that allows other similar enthusiasts to benefit from discussion. We all get enough hassle from our work environment.
I am fortunate to be taking early retirement shortly and we shall be taking our boat to Holland and France for 2 years. Whilst retaining a keen interest in the Thames I shall be neither benefiting or suffering, from investment or lack of it.
I do hope this forum manages to avoid a steady degradation. Current indications do not seem good to me.
