So glad you responded Bees...
You are right, I loved this thread, and it should be resurrected/rejuvenated/resomethinged.
I think maybe what put people off was trawling through to get to the end...not realising the "shortcut" method.
WHICH...I will attempt to explain...oh dear here goes...
The thought of over a 1000 posts is daunting granted...
Skip to page two...
Look at the "header bar" it should read...
http://www.crosswordsolver.org/forum/15502/offset/10
Change the "10" to 1190 and it should bring you to the latest comments.
Hopefully...
John of Arran may still be around, as I suspect Celadon is too!
Love to them both.
p@