OOC: Merry Christmas!

OOC:-
 
Well. It's about time for my traditional address to the group. It's a bit like the queens speech, only far more profound and much more eloquent. Plus, I'm far more important than her maj.
 
Blue Dwarf hasn't been at it's most active this past year, people have been busy with their real lives, me included, but despite this, the big blue still feels like a second, virtual home on the internet for me, I can go away, and when I come back it's still there, as I remember it with the kettle on. I enjoy Dwarf as much now as I did when i joined in 2001, and whether I'm posting or whether I'm not, I can read new posts, or the old ones and still get the same feeling as I did back then. We've created something good here over the years, and it's only right to treat the group with the respect it deserves and read the old stuff often, to preserve what it is we've put together.
 
And that's really down to you guys, you all make it what it is, and it really is amazing how at home you can feel among people you've never met, just from reading text on a screen.
Ok, we may not exchange presents, we may not sit down together to eat a turkey that's too big for us all to eat, then sit down afterwards to get drunk and play monopoly on Christmas Day, but I like to think that we're still a family, even I am just the "grumpy drunken uncle" that no-one really likes!
 
So to all of you my friends, have a bloody great Christmas, enjoy yourselves, relax, and have fun. You all bloody deserve it.
 
Andy / Jay.