Of course if I was smart I'd write this in such a way as to be applicable to WoS as well as the Club but theres no way to do this if one wishes to give specific appreciation to whom its due. Anyway its lazy and perhaps unappreciative to try and get out of writing for both when the two sites have given me so much friendship, advice and entertainment. Each is unique and deserves its own plaudits.
Sarge has been my most consistent companion on the Net for the longest time and has given me much advice and a welcome audience for my serialised adventures and thats not the half of it when I think of how many things he has sent me from fountain pens to electrically operated turnouts and Lionel manuals and so much more even mouth organs my favourite instrument.
We first encountered each other at the Model Train Journal which was a refuge from the bad blood that spoiled so many train sites, until it too, became polluted alas when its founder passed on. You wouldn't think something as interesting as model trains could give rise to so much bad behaviour of the 'my brand is better than yours' variety; well not unless you're a Sinclair versus Commodore computer enthusiast.
Which brings me to the next member of our triumvirate, Private 9th class Fred (aka Moggy to you Wossers) who has been very helpful indeed with my various Sinclair based enquiries, more hardware than software oriented perhaps? He also adds his humorous speech balloons to Sarge's cat pictures and has sent me some great GWR video links too though he's not a train nut himself.
Paul who posts under the alias of Healey (and has yet to tell me if that label has any connection with the Austin sports cars like the Sprite or my favourite the 3000) is another old MTJ member who doesn't contribute as often as the rest of us but is welcome when he does.
Alex is the last but not the least of my contributors, he's also my oldest friend and about the only reason to regret leaving England, trains are what brought us together as boys, trains and motorbikes. Alex has done far more than me to try and keep all the family connected, by default if not by design but we don't seem to have much in common anymore and I hope he's okay.
All of the above plus any lurkers from wherever, I wish you a very happy new Year which I sincerely hope will be better than this one was for we three founder members sitting in the Club barm sipping the grogs of our choice and reminiscing about the good old days even if we know they really weren't!
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