tells me that a lot of people still care about the forum and this is great.

I agree we go through lags for a number of reasons, the health of certain contributors, disillusionment with the state of PD research, and frankly at times there just isn't that much to talk about I guess.

We still have a number of people who care about our virtual community and I hope that we can retain our focus on the one theme that underlay all the responses and was summarised by Lindy better than I ever could:

"my habit of returning here was fed by the personal touch, and the feeling of communicating with real people who shared the same issues and triumphs over adversity".

Thank you fellow PD'ers for taking the time and trouble to care and one day I may even get the name of the forum right

Neil.