... one every site who feels the need to give new people jip?
Sunshine, you handled it brilliantly. You explained yourself, offered to rectify things if you had overstepped the boundary.
Second that. Well done. Don't lose your rag or do anything beneath you, chances are the PC knows all about them anyway and what they are like.
My next door neighbour is an old goat who has tried to make my life miserable and even to get the other plotholders to ignore me. But he's finally given up because I just carry on. He says I don't belong there, and I don't fit. The other old boys he was trying to get on side all think I'm slightly barmy I know, but they like the fact that I'm different. They laugh at me, but it's all good natured. And when my greenhouse was stolen, and my pears pinched all of them rallied round.
We get a bit of that on our site. There's plenty of the old school (male, working-class bigots) who are dying to see the newcomers fail. I keep smiling and saying hello to them, and then ignoring them. Really they should welcome us as we keep the site going - without newcomers it would empty out and then be sold off for flats. But that's life - the nasty ones help you to appreciate the nice ones, and we very quickly worked out who we wanted to invite for a cup of tea.