Thanks for the welcome everyone. All is cool and Lynda sent me a very nice email and I emailed her back...
Securesparks, no, not short for anything, just pretentious..it started as a joke. My real name is Catherine but I was always known as Katie, then when I went to London and work on sites there was always some smartalec who would sing K,K,K,Katie swallowed a ha'p'ny...and then make up words with alll sorts of rude things that she swallowed as well...so I changed my name to Kate...and then my bank decided it wouldn't take cheques made out to Kate, then I thought if I could get the cheques made out to Miss C, and then folk were always asking why, so one day I got stroppy and decided I would go Gaelic..just to make a point really.. Caitlin is the Gaelic word for Catherine, and the shortening is Cait...at the time I was working for a lot of male interior designers who loved the Gaelic inference and thought it was all "luxxy"...so I kept it because people would have a problem job and they'd tell one another to call "Gaelic Cait"...as I said, I know about 5 words of Gaelic...but heck it brought me business so who cares.
Told you it was an LBS (Long Boring Story).
Oilman, my favourite person online is a moderator (not here) and I am very fond of a good few others...so I'm not going to slag em off...just got totally confused about what was going on.....still not convinced I know, but I'll go with it.
Zampa,
As I said in my post, I made it public briefly, took it off this a.m. I have enough spam to sink a battle ship coming through my site (which I set up wrong...should never have had a direct contact on the site but a "contact form"). Spam search programmes crawl these message boards picking up email addresses. I just would rather it wasn't public. Anyone wants to contact me they can do it, I'm not that hard to find...like most of the world on the net.
What I can't quite work out is how you bring up someone's profile if their name isn't in the forum index...so I haven't sussed if you can private message someone through the board, but I'm assuming not since Lynda couldn't...I'll get the hang of this yet.
Anyways..I'll see you guys around the site.
Cait