My apologies to any senior members who have heard all this before -
I started with the AB when it first started, which was back in 2000.
Seven individuals were employed as writers to write three features a month for their section - mine was music - and to monitor and produce their section.
The powers that be decided in 2005 that the site was strong enough to stand alone without the attraction of our deatless prose, so our (paid!) contracts were terminated.
I stuck around and became a standard contributor like everyone else, and apart from illness and holidays, i have been on every day since then.
My profile is not constant - I had to re-name myself after a technical glitch, so it starts from part-way through my time on here, but I am, by default, the longest serving poster on the AB - a role I hold in very high esteem indeed!