According to my account, I've been a member here for four years and three hours. Earlier on I'd noticed it was three years and fifty two weeks--that's like being five feet twelve. I suppose the 'puter decides it's four years when the same time of day is reached as the original enrolling time.

Goodness, four years, I was young and innocent then - now I'm old and innocent, ho hum.

In that time, I started off as a blogger, although I had stories elsewhere, Erin offered me author's membership and I played around with an idea about someone falling off a bicycle - sadly it's never taken off - too outlandish for this establishment and no one would ever read it, would they? I mean, superheroes and magical transformations are practically de rigueur, so somebody who was just transsexual and wanted to live a normal life as a woman once they picked up courage - in about episode two million and seven - wouldn't go down terribly well here, would it?

Well instead of pulling the plug on the idea, I listened to Bonzi who squeaked pitifully at my suggestion to stop writing the story. I promised him I'd continue it, then discovered he was squeaking because I was sitting on his tail. However, I was brought up to believe that one should never break a promise to a child, so I had to honour my promise to Bonzi, hence episode 1300 of EAFOAB tonight.

Somehow plot lines continue to form and for some reason it's become something of a feature of the site, can't think why. Somehow my total portfolio here runs to about fourteen hundred items, much of which is you know what.

My thanks to Erin for her indulgence and support, not only with the daily postings but also helping to set up the archive. Crikey, an archive of my ramblings - oh well, it may be useful for someone's degree thesis in a hundred years time.

My thanks to Ben and PS and Holly for running the archive and the summaries, which I've found really helpful in recalling previous bits and pieces--like names and so on. In thirteen hundred episodes I've used a few names for characters so a list of them is really useful.

Thanks to all my readers, especially those who comment, vote or PM me, for the mostly positive feedback I get, it's been worthwhile spending thousands of hours writing.

Finally, my thanks and remembrance of my friend and editor Gabi Bunton, whose birthday would have been on the 25th of this month, the loss of whom I still feel. She improved my writing and although we didn't always agree on her suggested changes, I learned quite a bit, especially, about, the use, of unnecessary, commas,,, We also laughed rather a lot.

That's it folks, I assume you want me to continue for a bit longer, so unless I fall off my bike, I will for a while.

Angharad.