...one and all, for all your very kind emails/postings... I WILL be replying to each and everyone of you with personal emails as I'd hate to cause any further problems with threads...
If you'd care to let me have your personal email address Gordina and Helen R. then I will respond to you privately, as I am now doing with ALL most kind emails... Love to you all Jacci.

Jacci, OF COURSE you can have my email-address.

By the way, I am also in a German plant forum. They have subdivisions there, one for roses, one for trees, climbing plants, wildlife etc. One section is called "chat at the garden fence" for all sorts of topics that don't fit in anywhere else. All new posts appear at the end of each thread. If you refer to something further up, you have to quote. Also, they have private mail. The disadvantage was that I had to register with them but I only had to log myself in with my password once.

It might be a good idea to have subdivisions like 'Facts about Michael', 'News' (if somebody spots him on TV or learns that he will be in a new play or something with him is released etc.), 'Michael's Work' (discussing anything released so far) etc. There could also be a kind of 'creativity corner' for people who like to take his work further and make up some stuff of their own.

Gordina

EXCELLENT suggestions, Gordina. Thank you very much!

As a matter of fact, we will be moving to a new forum style very much like that on Monday, although I hadn't decided on all the categories. I'll add them.

Thanks for the praise, folks.

Gordina