PT glad to hear it! I was going to suggest JAJ on my last post

Well PT, I'm sure that everyone on this board will agree that youve done and are continuing to do a great job in keeping this forum going in a straight line, and that can't have been easy ! This forum provides a huge amount of value to the members and it's thanks to the unpaid effort of people such as yourself that we can use this as a place to share information and meet new friends.

I'm picking up vibes that maybe you yourself think that it's time that you handed the baton onto the next runner. The tone of your comments suggest that you feel that you want a well deserved break from the moderators role and this seems to me be to a very fair and understandable position to have reached.

Maybe you can let someone else take on the lions share of the day to day work while still keeping some involvment by posting every now and then. It would be sad to see you totally lose touch with us all...

I hope the new Mod continues with your laissez faire style. I would hate to think that this place could become like *****:scared:

Peter good luck in sorting out your issues.

Ditto from me.

To be fair to him, we maybe shouldn't tar all the Deadside ***** Mods with the same brush. Ol' Gray seems OK.

That's just another way of saying that I've been slacking off :-D

Not to worry, I've worked with JAJ as moderator before, so I would think he'll do a fantastic job here.

Thanks. Shouldn't take too long. I guess I'm going through what every migrant would go through now - those of us who have done it would nod our heads in agreement.

I figured I need a break too. But I won't be away too long.

Good luck to all those waiting.

Peter

Peter,
Maybe its time to use the forum like the rest of us do, as an immigration support tool, rather than as "work"!!!
Yep, its stressful, but stick with it. Hope things work out for you,

Peter it is very hard migration isnt it, a bit like being in free fall. I have gone through so many emotions since we arrived in nz in jan as has my hubby ... elation, extreme exhausion, shock!, guilt for dragging our kids out here, hope, misery, suspicion, anger sometimes, back to elation and right now a lack of confidence. I would hate to have the task of being a moderator aswell I think you deserve a break just for a little while minest

I see no probs with the way this site is moderated....the last thing you need is 'thought police'.

Keep up the good work ptlabs, but if you do go I hope your successor can keep the good ship BE on an even keel.

Hi peter, Just looked in, I don't do it often.

Hope you are well, I think you've done a great job to stay wit the
site for so long.....it gets very samey after a while....

anyway let me know how you go on.
Cheers

Mash....

Hi Peter,

I don't get on the board much these days, so have only just seen this. I hadn't even heard that you had finally migrated!

First, thanks for the great work done. Like a good soccer referee, you have been there in the background without taking over. An excellent balance, and one that can be very hard to acheive.
Second, good luck in Sydney. We arrived 8 months ago and love it - I'm sure you will too.

A couple of background questions: When did you migrate? Where are you living in Sydney? And where were you from originally, and what other ports have you passed through en route to a new life in Sydney?

Excuse the stickybeaking.