It has been quiet around here, but at least when it's quiet it's not because someone's stormed off in a huff, and everyone else is all 'blimey'. 

It feels more like a companionable silence, less animosity.  I'm not really interested in a forum that only really gets animated when it's riled - there's enough 'potential energy' building up elsewhere [Dubai I'm looking at you] for me to seek refuge by dipping in to safe, familiar havens. Don't think UKD needs a whipping boy.

A shame really, that facebook has subsumed most other mini fora, I don't know if the filter mesh on fb is discerning enough to collate and bring together random UKD style 'rough diamonds'.  I'm looking for a facebook venn-spider hybrid 'ooh you'd like them' diagram I guess. Or something.

  guess you get out what you put in.