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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Welcome back Jeff - glad to see you have returned.
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Thanks John hopefully it works out this time and I can contribute a lot more
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Hi Jeff welcome back good to see someone local to myself I live in loughlinstown meself
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Hi Craig cheers man was that you a few weeks ago on the TV getting married
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Hiya Jeff, long time no see are you till up in loughlinstown?
Wazz the story bud haven't seen yeh in ages,
I'm still in loughlinstown but I moved house I'm up beside the hospital now much better up here love it
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Nice and handy being beside the hospital incase one of the fish jumps out of the tank

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Yeh I'm up here since October, no more chancers trying to scale my side wall, we had a few attempted brake ins which was a bit stressful for both the family and the dog, I think the dog thinks he's in retirement as he gets to sleep more now
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Yeh I'm up here since October, no more chancers trying to scale my side wall, we had a few attempted brake ins which was a bit stressful for both the family and the dog, I think the dog thinks he's in retirement as he gets to sleep more now
No way! bloody scum, I would of thought up there would of been alright?
But thinking back now there was loads of that going on.
One of my neighbors was watching Eastenders when some dude walked into the kitchen! Seem him did a u-turn and ran out the front door....Animals

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Yeah Jeff that was me alright
Was hoping to see you get married in the shark tank

Deffo would have been the quickest divorce as ur misses is not a fish lover


Looked like a good day though fair play bud
It was a good way for me to put a face on you, next time I see you around ill introduce myself

Oh.... Congratulations
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The wife actually loves fish they just wanted that angle for the show.
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cracker,
Yeh I'm up here since October, no more chancers trying to scale my side wall, we had a few attempted brake ins which was a bit stressful for both the family and the dog, I think the dog thinks he's in retirement as he gets to sleep more now
No way! bloody scum, I would of thought up there would of been alright?
But thinking back now there was loads of that going on.
One of my neighbors was watching Eastenders when some dude walked into the kitchen! Seem him did a u-turn and ran out the front door....Animals
Lots of it still going on their was 21 house's in that estate and 19 of them over 8-9 yrs were all broke into, some just to get the keys of the fancy cars, the only two they never gained access to were the two that had the same German Shepherd dogs, proper shepherds big lads, so Deffo believe our dog was the saviour of this terrifying experience that no family needs to experience, I went on a stupid mad one for mts. Staying up late, leaving the dog in my mams house during the day and parking down the road PRAYING they would try my house again, they are total scumbags
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Yeah the wedding probally wouldn't of happened then hahahah.
The wife actually loves fish they just wanted that angle for the show.
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Craig
Ah, good twist!!
Yeh deffo think she wouldn't have liked that anyway, I would have been paro as well size of them, their beast's in that tank
But I'd say you would have been chasing them around the tank



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Yes Jeff, thats my tank
Fair play to yeh it's beautiful
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Something fishie going on here
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