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Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)

Hi,

John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.

I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.

With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.

I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.

If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.

I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.

I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.

Thank you
Darragh Sherwin

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02 Jul 2013 22:02 - 02 Jul 2013 22:03 #1 by jwm (sean sean)
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My mate told me this tonight while i was havin a beer and i nearly choked. He is starting to assemble the bits and pieces to start another tank, all the bits stored in his spair room, he has a cleaner that comes in once a forthnight to do housework and ironing. Monday morning she arrives and starts her work, bout twenty mins later she calls him upstairs complaining she cant work his hoover, she is standing with the outlet of his FX5 :) :) :)

john

A person who surrenders when he is WRONG, is HONEST. A person who SURRENDERS when not SURE, is WISE. A person who surrenders even if he is RIGHT, is a HUSBAND.
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02 Jul 2013 22:04 #2 by Q_Comets (Declan Chambers)

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02 Jul 2013 23:29 #3 by Stem12 (Stephen M)
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:laugh:

Brilliant!

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03 Jul 2013 11:43 #4 by bmcg38 (Brian McGrath)
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when my son was a bit younger he found a ' toy ' in our bedroom .. came down holding it wondering what it was .. told him it was a back scratcher ( the mrs wasnt best pleased )

Thankfully there was no visitors in the house at the time

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03 Jul 2013 11:49 - 03 Jul 2013 11:50 #5 by Jim (Jim Lawlor)
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when my son was a bit younger he found a ' toy ' in our bedroom .. came down holding it wondering what it was .. told him it was a back scratcher ( the mrs wasnt best pleased )

Thankfully there was no visitors in the house at the time


Waaaaay too much information
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03 Jul 2013 11:57 #6 by LemonJelly (Johnny Cowley)

when my son was a bit younger he found a ' toy ' in our bedroom .. came down holding it wondering what it was .. told him it was a back scratcher ( the mrs wasnt best pleased )

Thankfully there was no visitors in the house at the time


Just until he's a teenager and that memory comes back. Therapy anyone? :pinch:

"The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life; your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you.They're freeing your soul."

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03 Jul 2013 11:58 #7 by bmcg38 (Brian McGrath)
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when my son was a bit younger he found a ' toy ' in our bedroom .. came down holding it wondering what it was .. told him it was a back scratcher ( the mrs wasnt best pleased )

Thankfully there was no visitors in the house at the time


Waaaaay too much information


you lead a sheltered life jim .. haha

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03 Jul 2013 11:59 #8 by bmcg38 (Brian McGrath)
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when my son was a bit younger he found a ' toy ' in our bedroom .. came down holding it wondering what it was .. told him it was a back scratcher ( the mrs wasnt best pleased )

Thankfully there was no visitors in the house at the time


Just until he's a teenager and that memory comes back. Therapy anyone? :pinch:


or asks can he borrow it .. that be worse

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03 Jul 2013 12:28 #9 by LemonJelly (Johnny Cowley)

when my son was a bit younger he found a ' toy ' in our bedroom .. came down holding it wondering what it was .. told him it was a back scratcher ( the mrs wasnt best pleased )

Thankfully there was no visitors in the house at the time


Just until he's a teenager and that memory comes back. Therapy anyone? :pinch:


or asks can he borrow it .. that be worse


Well this thread didn't take long to reach a decidedly uncomfortable turn!

"The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life; your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you.They're freeing your soul."

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03 Jul 2013 12:56 #10 by bmcg38 (Brian McGrath)
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plenty of time for it to get much much worse

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