Cliff
Member
This has been an interesting read. I too used to visit the forum several times a day and thoroughly enjoyed the topics and the amazing knowledge of many of our members. I occasionally contributed posts and feel I made some good friends who shared a common interest. Several times I met up with a few of them at various Duxford Airshows .
I was, as we say in the UK a bit of an aviation/military "anorak" so went to many shows and exhibitions. But life changes, I stopped flying when I retired seven years ago. Private flying is far too expensive in Europe and to watch others fly when I couldn't became upsetting so I distanced myself from all things aviation.
I still loved my jacket collection but I could no longer buy and sell as I once had. New jackets (the ones worth buying) became far too costly for me, and I suspect for many others. So of course good second hand jackets became less available as well.
At around the same time some members on this forum started voicing opinions on other member's jacket related business plans & developments which I felt became personal and at times down right nasty. At the end of the day I came to this forum to share a hobby not to listen to others take on the world. So my visits to VLJ started to fall away until I only visited around once or twice a month and even then rarely posted.
I hope this forum will live on, it's been a good place for me. . It will change and evolve into something different to what it was. New members will join and older ones will take a back seat or fade away. I actually find myself visiting more often than I have in the recent past. It's life, its the way it is.
Happy Leather Hunting !
I was, as we say in the UK a bit of an aviation/military "anorak" so went to many shows and exhibitions. But life changes, I stopped flying when I retired seven years ago. Private flying is far too expensive in Europe and to watch others fly when I couldn't became upsetting so I distanced myself from all things aviation.
I still loved my jacket collection but I could no longer buy and sell as I once had. New jackets (the ones worth buying) became far too costly for me, and I suspect for many others. So of course good second hand jackets became less available as well.
At around the same time some members on this forum started voicing opinions on other member's jacket related business plans & developments which I felt became personal and at times down right nasty. At the end of the day I came to this forum to share a hobby not to listen to others take on the world. So my visits to VLJ started to fall away until I only visited around once or twice a month and even then rarely posted.
I hope this forum will live on, it's been a good place for me. . It will change and evolve into something different to what it was. New members will join and older ones will take a back seat or fade away. I actually find myself visiting more often than I have in the recent past. It's life, its the way it is.
Happy Leather Hunting !
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