Definately one of the advantages of living in the UK, we may have crap weather but we dont get ugly ass spiders up our trouser legs

Even I would think twice about going anywhere near that thing

Nice shot Don but I think you should change your signature to read Don(the nutter)

I thought the background colour complimented the monkey quite well, I say leave it alone and dont monkey around with it

Thats a very generous offer Tel, I may just take you up on it if my current printer holds out long enough, I currently have an Epson R300 with a continous ink system, problem is the print head is not sealing when it comes to rest, resulting in the ink flowing back into the reserve tanks, must be about three or four years old now so not done too bad, thinks its cost me about £36 in ink so far

You do know theres a continous ink system available for the Canon i9950

"certain northern based soaps" ???? dont you mean ALL of them

The only believable thing about the north was Last of the Summer Wine, and that was a comedy

That Morecambe & Wise sketch was voted their most popular.

Its the B&W thats going to ruin your budget, for decent output you really need a printer with extra black/grey cartridges. There are plenty of printers out there below the £100 mark that will produce tremendous colour prints, many of which will accept re-fillable cartridges, continous ink systems etc etc. the problem with these of course is getting a B&W print without a colour cast. I'm not saying B&W prints are impossible on these printers but you have to take into account the number of wasted prints you turn out trying to get a print without a cast.

The Epson R2400 is probably about the best I've heard about (and high on my shopping list), unfortunately its double your budget

No, but I've seen a Pheasant on a bird table

Oh that brings back memories.....

Annoying my Parents
Annoying the neighbours
Fumbled Chords and buzzing strings, and strangely enough it would never make the sound I wanted it to

And I'm wih Galoot, you should have dusted it first

Whenever I see them its cloudy and miserable and getting a decent shot with a Bigma in those conditions is a waste of time

Nice clean capture, lots of detail and good B&W conversion but I think the mask spoils it