I'm a fledgling duck who flew over here from the UK about a month ago.
I came across SF about 4/5yrs ago and bookmarked it. I was housebound after an op for a while and found this and another forum but didn't feel I wanted to join in then - just because I didn't feel I had anything to contribute. Bit of a 'been there, done that' type of feeling.
(At one point one forum I became so addictive to, I swore I wouldn't be like that again - dashing home from work and turning on the computer. Vegitating on my bum for hours. I swear that's how I picked up piles

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I really enjoy reading what others' lives are about, especially this one with folk from all over the globe, where you all live (and where I wish I lived too), the differences in lots of things and how things differ from the UK. Some great characters I've spotted too, even tho' I'm not on here very often.
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I'm really rather flabbergasted at the mo. (That's the polite way of saying WTF)
This thread made me think back to when I first started on forums. The year was 2000 - that's 23yrs ago and 7 forums later.
(It's nudged so many lovely memories too of the members I knew/still know, the meet ups, a couple of relationships, shared interests .... all of that. Fun times.

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