Hello, I am the poster formerly known as LTEC/ Cake/ LetThemEatCake
I've not been on Mumsnet a long time but my wornout friends have told me what's being discussed on here. Firstly, I am so happy to see that this thread is still going strong and making people happy so long after it was started (january 2010!!!!) but so sorry that various posters have experienced problems with privacy due to their openness and friendliness.
It's also really nice to hear that people remember me, thank you :-)
So, fwiw, and if anyone is interested. I went to ante natal yoga 6.5 yrs ago when pg with my dd. There I met a fellow Australian, let's call her A. We became friends and she often spoke of another Aussie she was friends with whose first name was same as mine,whose dh's name was same as my dh and who lived a few streets away from me. When A's ds was born, I went to see her at home, still pg with my dd, and there met the girl she'd spoken so often of. That girl was Marsha. We too became friendly, to the extent that I gave her a lift home that day, my dh and I picked her up to go to a party at A's house, she bought a present for my dd when she was born a few months later, she came to my house a couple of times, once to watch Australia get beaten by Italy in the world Cup 2006 :-(
A experienced problems with bfing and was slightly antsy with me about me bfing dd; Marsha was very supportive to me about my decision to bf.
Eventually we all drifted, A moved away, she and Marsha fell out (not entirely sure why) and I only saw Marsha a couple of times in passing, as we lived in the same neighbourhood (still live reasonably close and see her in passing occasionally, but I am usually in the car with my 3 dc)
Marsha and I both came to the A&W thread at the same time; I was always very (some would say stupidly) open about my RL identity. Photos and such. I am not sure about the point at which Marsha realised that I was 'me'. But despite the ongoingness of the thread, and various PMs that we had (discussing buying a pressie for Bunny's twins, discussing various mass meet up plans, me offering to use a discount for her to get a dress she seemed keen on) she never once divulged who she was. Privacy is all very well, and I totally respect that she did not use any knowledge she had about me against me, but I also think that to know who someone is and not tell them, even by way of PM, is pretty bad netiquette. If it had just been a chance encounter at the swings or a cafe or whatever, fair enough, but to be a guest in someone house and so on, and to not do them the courtesy of saying "hey, I know you..." ... I dunno, seems a bit wrong.
Marsha eventually PM'd me to say who she was before the MOAMU (last May, I think?). We saw each other that night, had a chat and it was fine. But weird, I will confess. And ultimately I felt a bit uncomfortable with the whole thing and decided to abandon LTEC/ Mumsnet and just hang out and talk clothes on FB with some of the ladies I had become good RL friends with. I am also lucky to still be in contact with other ladies on FB, like Fritzi with whom I met up last year when she was in town.
So there's the back story, to end any speculation. I hope whatever you A&W ladies decide to do with your thread, that you'll keep getting the level of friendship, support and general fabulousness that I get from Choo, Verity, Tracey and the others.