PeeDee is retiring

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Hello all,

After nearly 12 years and 940 blogs written I have decided to call it a day.  I have enjoyed helping out 225 along the years and hope it carries on for many years to come.

For the users – thanks for all those comments and interesting discussions!

For the bloggers – even though I’m not writing any more blogs I will be leaving the Crossword Blogging Utilities up and running, so feel free to email me if you need any help.

37 comments on “PeeDee is retiring”

  1. That’s an impressive figure, PeeDee and I congratulate you on a stellar job!
    I’ve only been solving (and so reading your blog) for a couple of years but in that time, your blogs have been an enormous help to me, especially when I was starting out.
    You’re unfailingly patient, gracious and tactful when things get terse here (!) but above all, your style is always thorough yet cheerful and positive and for this reason, Wednesdays won’t be the same without you.
    I wish you all the best and hope you enjoy your newfound leisure time (growing roses, sky?diving or ballroom dancing?!)
    Hope to read your comments here in the future.

  3. Peedee,

    I hope like many sportstars, your calling it a day is short-lived and you will be back. Know that you are going to be missed, quite a bit. Enjoy your hiatus. Thanks for everything.

    Regards,
    TL / Mahesh

  4. Best wishes for the future PeeDee. You’ve done a fantastic job as a blogger and have been so helpful to many of us over the years. I’m particularly impressed that you’ve done this voluntarily year in year out and along with the other bloggers you’re the reason Fifteensquared keeps going.

    Plenty of zeroes on that golden handshake cheque from Fifteensquared will be your earthly reward but it would be nice to think you’ll be more amply rewarded in a higher place, even that’s a vain hope!

    Enjoy your well-deserved “retirement”.

  14. Shame to see you retire – let’s hope you come back. But if not, well done for all the help you have provided (and time you have put in) over the years. Great job.:)

  16. Thanks for getting me started on the right foot with my fledgling blogging efforts. The software is very helpful. Best wishes in your future endeavors.

  17. Thanks for all the blogs and patiently
    taking time to answer questions from some of us less experienced solvers. Now you can simply solve crosswords for the fun of it.

  18. Thanks PD. I’ve found your blogs very helpful as the explanations have been so clear. In the days when we were Snowbirds for a few weeks, our drive south of the border took us through the PeeDee country of South Carolina, and lovely memories flooded in whenever I saw your name at the head of a blog.

  21. Thanks, PeeDee for your immaculate blogs and your always helpful responses to our many questions and comments. You will be missed.

  23. Thank you PeeDee for your sterling service. I have missed you more recently from The Guardian blogs but always enjoyed your thorough, careful, patient and helpful explanations and comments.

  24. Thanks for your contributions, PeeDee. The site appears to be going strong and we owee a lot to those who have patiently laboured to make that happen.

  25. PeeDee, I think that I must have joined the blogging team before you, although I haven’t been anything like as prolific as you. But I will always remember my gratitude when you first made your blogging utility available, as it made creating blogs so much easier. I have had to trouble you many times over the years to help out with technical problems, but nowadays everything seems to work smoothly.

    Enjoy your retirement!

  26. Enjoy your well-earned retirement PeeDee. I’ve enjoyed your blogs and interactions on the minutiae of clues. Always sensible, clearly argued and informative posts from you. Thanks.

  27. Thanks PeeDee for everything you have done for this website and especially for many interesting discussions.

  29. You’ve made a big contribution to the success of this site, PD, and your blogs were always prompt and informative – thank you.

  35. Bless you, PeeDee – one of the (almost) unsung heroes of our addiction. Thank you, thank you for all those hours you’ve dedicated to this site and it’s users, most of whom you will never know!

  36. That’s some impressive service you have put in PeeDee. Many thanks indeed. Hope you enjoy your retirement.

  37. Thank you PeeDee for the blogs and your extra-curricular duties in responding to questions raised as a result, I hope you will still enjoy solving and maybe even commenting from the floor in future, but all the best whatever is in store for you.

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