Invited to contribute by GN then stopped in one's tracks?

I have my doubts yours was an exclusive invitation to contribute lillie, but if a thread is deleted for whatever reason, so be it.
No big deal, surely?
And "investing your time???
Surely you are now on holiday and are now enjoying shed loads of paid free time.

Lillie if you go on to 'Threads I'm On' you will see this under the thread you mentioned:
This thread has been deleted at the OP's request. (We don't normally delete whole threads but we will do so when it is to protect a poster's privacy.^

which is fair enough, it has happened before if someone has created a thread then got worried that someone in the family may read it and it could cause further trouble.
We have to respect that.

GN do send emails suggesting threads we may be interested in, I may or may not be interested in them. I tend to have a look at threads I contributed to (to which I contributed!!) in case someone has a different idea or some other interesting ideas.

sorry, that should have said:

GN said
This thread has been deleted at the OP's request. (We don't normally delete whole threads but we will do so when it is to protect a poster's privacy.

ps GN are always a bit behind with their 'threads of the day' Lillie shhh, don't tell them I said so.

I think it's unwise to invest too much time on posts Lillie.
Even if they are not randomly deleted by GNHQ, brevity makes them more likely to be read.

It's no big deal is it?

I'm not surprised that the thread was removed - the OP included her own name, GD's name, two UK locations, nationality of SIL, and exotic destination!

I think it's good that we can do that. I once asked for a post of mine to be deleted because I thought it gave personal details that could be identified. On the "war babies" thread.
GNHQ asked me why, then deleted it.