Hello Mr Borg,
Welcome to E-Budo.
I am the moderator of this forum and it is a rule of the Forum that you sign all your posts with your full name. The easiest way to do this is to add your full name to your signature, which can appear below all your posts. You undertook to keep the name rule when you signed up for E-Budo.
I can see Carolyn Hall's greetings as 'domo arigato'. However, I cannot read your own Japanese script and I have Japanese language software in my computer. It does not work with any of the text encoding settings I have here.
Best wishes,
Peter Goldsbury,
Forum Administrator,
Hiroshima, Japan