I know it's standard practice for retailers to use £699 etc.
but where kits are concerned it would be a lot clearer if
you rounded up by a pound to £700

After a night on the beer I can't get my head round all the
99's ........ Sorry Chris

UUUGGGHHH!!!!

I saw a tanker (wagon) with 50,000 gallons of Fosters Lager
on it yesterday...... wouldn't drink it if they gave me the
whole tanker full

Has anyone noticed Windows XP has changed the times on
photographs uploaded to their PC?

Seems to be a Windows Feature!

It was just the narrow side of the car park, so it was
permanently blocked off! Can't be done on every
car park due to wind forces.

It's possible that the Car Park hadn't been designed for
taking pictures from and he stopped you for your own safety

Think I'm joking?????.... The loading of cars is much
lighter than a lot of spectators so it is correct to make
sure that it is only used for what it was designed for
i.e.as a Car Park

A few years ago Liverpool Council realized that if say the
Queen came to a certain part of Liverpool, spectators would
stand in a multi-storey car park so they blanked it off with
hoardings

See here link

+ Some ex and current employee opticians in this thread: link

I'm not 100% sure but I don't think Seiko are connected to Hoya
so the spectacle lenses have been separate since 2004.

The Seiko companies are listed here: link

There's loads of stuff on Google about it including
customers talking about it on Moneysupermarket etc.

Specsavers have actually sold Zeiss lenses with the Pentax name on them, but it's usually more budget stuff.

There was a tie up between the original Pentax and Zeiss for many years on the opticians side and a company called Pentax Carl Zeiss. Most of the Pentax Japan stuff was re-branded as Seiko in recent years.

Some info here: link