Shirley wrote: ↑Sat Aug 15, 2020 11:46 pm
Think when I first joined the forum,
it felt like a family, ... Yes it's
definitely not the club that we joined.
A few years after my year in hospital, I spent two consecutive winters at
the original concept site in Northern NSW. I must have spent in excess of 100 hours doing volunteer work to improve the place, as well as sponsoring two trees. Helped out with specialised IT/AV/Event knowledge at a series of presentations, too.
Then the Board sold it to one of its own...
We visited
the site a few years later just to have a squiz. Plaques at both trees were being used as bases for potplants, and the permanent residents referred to the visiting m/homers area as "the
caravan park."
Original concept was completely gone. And I was censured for calling it "just another caravan park" on their forum.
Edit: Interestingly, I received a
"You are forbidden to view this page." message when I mentioned the aforementioned Northern NSW site
by name, and same again until I also removed a reference to a CP in the region with the town name and a
large '4' in its name.
(Replaced them with the words in italics.) 
I had visits from no less than 2 of the forum members (one a big wig)
Back then I don't think a lot of the forum members really liked females speaking up let alone saying coons
