Annabel,I am in no way looking for a squabble and I cannot see how you can judge the tone of what I am trying to put across, exchanging mails as we all know, can be misconstrued if the tone is perceived in the wrong context, which it clearly has been done here. With regard to your reference to clique, I am a new contributor to this site and am just familiarising myself with fellow contributors, of some I know a little about and others nothing at all. I don't think that in anyway constitutes a clique on my part anyway. I just like to be fair and do tend to go on the defence to a fellow subscbriber who is being unjustly slated. My reference to your presumptious manner was that you assume we are a clique, I've never even met Simon and only so much as swapped maybe one or two posts with him. With regard to shouting, I never accused you of shouting I used a turn of phrase 'shouting the odds' so apologies for that. You obviously have a good opinion of Simon as you have stated that in your response, I just can't understand why you can't see that all Simon is trying to do is to return this forum into some kind of normality in order that we can continue, yourself included, to share views and have debates in a jovial manner. You don't have to enter into a thread and comment if it irks you so, why not start a thread of your own inviting others to join in an exchange of chatter. Just received this really naff joke if you're interested - Man goes to the zoo. The zoo only has one dog. It was a Shitzu..
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