A web log, an æthereal scrap-book if you will, with a somewhat vintage flavour. News items, occurrences, experiences, thoughts and opinions related to Victoriana through to Fifties Americana can all be found here.
No, not the 1962 stage musical. Not even the 1966 film adaptation. No, this is actually about a forum that I regularly frequent and the not-so-funny thing that has recently happened to it.
However, as the world sleep-walked ever further into the welcoming arms of Messrs Zuckerberg, Dorsey and Musk et al., so The Sheridan Club forum slowly declined from being a place of multiple daily, erudite conversations to a ghostly shell populated only by myself and one or two other stalwarts. Think of it now as the online chatroom equivalent of The Last Man on Earth . Thankfully the moderator/ site owner continued to pay the bills to keep the old place running, until a couple of weeks ago when things st