[lettie]

Hi Dotti,

I joined Accyweb in 2004, it was a way of keeping in touch with my friend who emigrated to Canada. She told me about this forum so I thought I'd take a look. Initially I think it was aimed at Accringtonians living/working abroad as a way of keeping up with what was going on at home. Like a lot of forums, it soon attracted lots of members.

I met my current partner on here, he was working in China at the time we'll have been together 17 years this year. We used to have regular member meet ups in the Stag and other local pubs. It was great getting to know some of the other members, especially as online personalities are sometimes very different to the face to face personality.

In the early days, most topics centred around having a laugh and local issues, sport, jokes, music etc. Things very soon got political and some members started posting a lot less, myself included. I used to love reading the blogs and doing my own blog. I also loved it when we had virtual pets and the Accrington Web currency 'Ackers' that we earned from posting in the forum. These were used to buy pet food in the virtual shop so that we could feed our pets.

I do still log on now and then, just to see what's happening but unfortunately my life got a whole lot busier so I don't get as much time now.