""As for Mr Jim Lawes, you have recently posted some great photos on the site but the majority of Brentfordians are fed up of this"" (Kevin Farnan)""Why dont we re-name the site "THE JIM LAWES APPRECIATION SITE "...MY GOD !!! Anyone would think that he is the only man in Brentford able to put photos on the site. I must admit they do become a bit "tedious" at one point he could not post anything without a photo attached. Maybe it was his new toy !!!"" (Mark Welland)ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooWith the Ward elections over, I suppose in some ways there is a new beginning...but I doubt if this fiery Forum will now become a place of peace and tranquillity! Mark's and Kevin's postings linger in my ears..I'm a sensitive soul..but I do agree that one can overdo picture postings...even if they were meant to stimulate interest in Brentford and its Forum..and encourage debate and add some colour to the scene...and even if I do live in TW7!! It has been disappointing..that given the opportunity...Mark has not made one further contribution to the Forum...suggesting he belongs to more unfriendly groups lingering on the touchline...hindering perhaps the friendly contributions of others. (Come on Mark..when are your messages of wisdom arriving or even some pictures?) ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooThank you for all your compliments on this thread and on the TW7 Topic too...my children will be amazed..and my previous bosses too! We all like appreciative responses... but a line must be drawn..otherwise my head will get bigger still!oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooMy earlier withdrawal from the Forum..as some of you may remember..was also because Sarah,Simon and myself had posted excessively.. some 80 New Topics out of the 200 available to view from the index. In my view these excesses spoilt things. Many topics were naff..and some serial posters in my view,added little joy to one's visit to the Forum...by adding so many new Topics..when existing Topics could have been used.ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooThank goodness,during the past two/three months more new contributors have arrived on the scene. But it has been sad to see postings about The Piano Museum, or Brunel's 200th, or the Brentford Festival and many others get little response from here...perhaps there has really been a boycott of the Site by some.oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooIt has been difficult not to have responded to some of the policital postings...and I don't think I would have survived the kind of batterings that Cllr Phil Andrews and his Group have suffered from some of the more excitable contributors.I'm delighted that the ICG have again won the support of the electorate in Isleworth South, that must mean something!! and I'm also pleased that Isleworth North (Osterley and Spring Grove) voted to retain the capable Barbara Read and friends for the Conservatives. Congratulations also to Caroline Andrews,Jonathan Hardy and Shirley Fisher for that astounding result in winning the Syon Ward seats.With the talented and hard working Ruth Cadbury, Matt Harmer,and Andrew Dakers representing Brentford..and well done to them..the new Isleworth and Brentford Area Committee should be essential spectating at their meetings. Let's hope that the New Committee(6 ICG...3 Conservative...2 Labour and 1 Lib Dem) will mix well and produce an inspired innings.oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooI'm Chiswick born..pre-war and lived there loads of years..so attend legitimately that Forum. I have connections in Ealing too..work and family..so I venture to that Forum also..It's an especially friendly Forum.Wandsworth Forum is for testing pictures. And Brentford Forum is just down the road..the Isleworth and Brentford Area Committee governs TW7 and TW8 ..so there are mutual matters of interest.I'll hide my camera for the moment. This posting is to trim this thread!
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