Blimey! 
Thank you all - more
I'm fine, just adopted an alter ego and have stepped back from dog stuff for a while. One reason is because of a fall-out with someone (not an MNer but someone who has read my posts on here in the past) who I don't really want following my every move and I'm pretty open here about other stuff, to do with the kids and so on. The other was that I was getting to the stage of falling apart with dog related stuff to the extent that my family life was beginning to suffer, to say nothing of my heart and an impending important hospital check up for illness, results to come in the next couple of weeks, was and still is foremost in my mind. Cancer ain't something a girl wants to experience again! That need to take a break thing happens from time to time for me. I'm pretty sure that others who do any sort of emotionally-involved thingys will agree, be that voluntary like mine or professional and be it animal care, teaching, medical, whatever.
That occurred at the same time as a bit of Val-having-a-pop-at on here, which I can take without tears but which made me want to be far ruder than even MN's swearing-permitting limits will allow I realised that losing it to that extent with anyone on this forum is not just out of order but would also do the dogs I champion no favours. It would also lose me the across the net "friendship" that I have with many of you and I value that too much to let it go because I've got arsey and let rip at someone. I guess that it just all happened at the same time, which was just unfortunate on my part.
Scaring myself with my bluntness honesty here, I got fed up with banging my head against a brick wall with lots of things, the anti dog/anti Staffie brigade, the "rescue dogs have no history" ones, those who accused me of thinking myself too important to sweat the small stuff about food or crates etc. Sure, I can do crate/food advice to the best of my ability, but so can virtually everyone else. Not everyone knows the law on pound dogs though or the way rescue works or what to do if, say, you find a stray. So, I thought I was most use speaking on what I know best, that's all. I know too that in the past I've been accused on MN of being a hypocrite for taking a part in the puppy threads despite advocating rescue so loudly (again, no big deal to me, I can take the criticism and argue back with the best of 'em but not fair on the dogs I try to help save), but try as I might I couldn't get my (probably weird!) logic over to some on here, so the term "bollocks to it all!" got employed!
I'm no big deal, there are thousands out there like me (though never enough of course so) fighting the corner of the rescue dogs and the Staffs and the like, and doing it much better than I ever could and honest, my ego ain't that big but... well, I thought sod it, so it kinda got to the stage where I thought that it would be better for all concerned if Val disappeared for a while for all those reasons, and, tbh, to see too if the few advice/comments I then posted would be taken more easily under a different name. Oddly... 
I couldn't keep quiet on dogs altogether though, as many of you have seen! :o
And when I saw emptyshell's post this morning, I just read it with tears running down my face. My getting the hump with personal comments pales into all insignificance in comparison. emptyshell, if you read this, stay here with us lovey, we appreciate and respect you.
Again, thank you all, I'm genuinely humbled. You'll see me here, and recognise me, I'll still annoy you all take part in the Doghouse. All I can say to anyone who doesn't like me, of course that's your right and I accept and respect that, if what I say doesn't suit then go ahead and argue (god knows, I do!) but please don't put the dogs I try to save at risk of dying any more than they are at the moment in the process.
And for the rest of you lovely, kind, thoughtful lot, just ignore me, I'm a grumpy old boot with too big a mouth for my own good sometimes! :)