@Lula, you can call me whatever makes you comfortable.  M is fine, it is my name just heavily abbreviated anyway.  I just notice @tyme beat me to it, but if you don't tag me with the @ symbol before my user name then it may take me a while to see you reply.  When I'm tagged in a post I get an email that says someone has tagged me.  Feel free to put my tag at the top of any reply and then just refer to me as M for the rest of that post.  If you have any questions about this then feel free to ask away, we're all happy to help.

I agree, it is annoying when replying to a post that you can only see the message you are replying to and not all the previous ones.  I open the whole thread in another window so I can keep track of all the posts in that thread when I'm replying.  I did bring this up with the people upgrading this forum so maybe this will be made easier in the new version.  Again, if you have any questions, ask away.

The weather does seem very unpredictable at the moment.  BOM will forecast no rain, so i'll get surprised when it starts raining, doubt myself and recheck the forecast and it will say there "will be rain".  I think they make it up as they go sometimes.

Yes, I have mentioned here that I've always had trouble relating to people, to the point where I've only ever had a close relationship with one person in my life.  I used to ask a lot of question when I was young but quickly learnt not to, as it seemed to annoy people when I did.  So I would just try to figure things out myself which didn't help with relating to anyone because I had all these questions I couldn't ask, So I had a lot of doubts, so I didn't get very far with making friends with them.  I even started seeing a psychologist this year (first time ever) and was told I "over-think" things.  My response was "Of course I do, because I don't understand most of it and I'm still trying to work it all out!".  Even my partner gets frustrated when she's trying to explain something to me because I seem to think through things differently, so my questions seem out of the blue to her and she thinks i'm not listening.  I am, but I just process it differently.  I'm not sure she totally believes me.