After what I can only describe as a harrowing, embarrassing and frankly desperate series of apologies from @Nicky Borrill, I have decided to lift the ban. Understand that this is through pity - mostly for myself - I couldn't bear to read another plead for un-banning and the humiliating debauchery that Nicky was throwing out there.
This is a family friendly forum, so I can't go into specifics, but the lengths that Nicky was going to debasing himself for this un-banning were, quite frankly, difficult to read. I'm not sure I'll ever get those mental images out of my head, and if I'm a bit quiet or distant for the next few weeks, it's a coping mechanism.
He acknowledges he's in the wrong, and knows that he should know better. I just wish I hadn't found out how far he was truly willing to go. I take solace only in the fact that it is our community which Nicky was willing to stoop that low for. We must mean the world to him.
Now... onwards into construction.