*shakes your hand*

Pleased to meet you.

Yours sincerely, Jamie (your replacement as HJ's pain in the a***)

Hi HF - welcome back. I remember you from times past, but not as a thorn in the flesh, just as one of too few girls who contribute. (Isn't HF meant to mean Heroic Female?).

I'm one of the moderators now: we're more easy-going than our predecessors (although Jamie may not agree!). Don't go away again: not having anything useful to say has never deterred people from contributing....

but who else would I remember? Hello to anyone who remembers me.

Do you remember me Sarah? Long time no hear.

So few names that I recognise from the heady days when I was posting every second minute.

That's because a lot of people are now having fourplay instead - me included. (Shhhhh! I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it.)

None of us at HJ have a problem with other forums: HJ doesn't like them to be named to ensure advertiser loyalty. There's no competition, and as Unthrottled has spotted I post on others as the mood takes me, although I don't have much time. I occasionally post on the Skoda forum (as Zdenek Fibich).

Newcomers may wonder, but in February last year our webmaster left and started a new forum, which many of our regulars joined (and I rather like the way you got away with it above, DD). I think things have settled down: our motoring section is more of a place where people come to talk about their cars or ask advice about motoring matters, whereas theirs is a cheerful chatroom, and none the worse for that. This section is gathering pace as a chat shop too, helped greatly by people like Bobbin, Unthrottled and Jamie (when he's being succinct).

As long as the various forums co-exist, and there are no snide remarks about them on here, or about us on other forums, we'll all do fine.