Yes...join Mudcat. You're wrong to say "I could become a member but you would still all be strangers to me". I've only been a member for a couple of years but in that time I've made so many friends here I can hardly count them all. And some of them have become people I would confide in, trust and I know would help me if I were in trouble. I've had people I've never seen come and stay at my house on several occasions and I've stayed at the house of a Mudcatter I'd never met, who is now added to the ever lengthening list of friends. There are some total prats on here, but they are definitely in the minority. I hate to paraphrase in such a tcky way but "Mudcatters are all friends you haven't met yet"

Love Lynne