Sushi? Saki? Asahi beer? I'm away next week so you can have those ideas for free .

Will do my best to ignore him, though if he's still priapic it could be difficult . (nearly said hard :blush

I don't have any limiteds so he's out of luck here too.

We regularly meet a guide dog pup in the woods. She is in love with Timber but since she is on play time that is OK. Once she has her jacket on again we ignore her.

If you import something from abroad by post you will pay any taxes and duties due on it, and get a receipt.
If you buy something abroad and bring it back with you you declare it, pay anything due on it and again get a receipt. Even if there is nothing to pay you an ask for a receipt to that effect. It proves you have legally imported the item.
Sigma can, and often do, ask for that receipt.

This doesn't apply to goods traded within the EU. In theory at least you have a two year guarantee on anything bought within the EU. Theory and practice can be very different however.
But beware of the likes of Pixmania - who trade within the EU but often with grey imported goods.

If you have paid all the duties due on a lens Sigma will honour the warranty on a lens. They know where a lens was intended of by it's serial number. If you can prove you have legally imported it it from the country for which it was intended you are OK.
Pentax are (or at least were) the same.

Isn't that where they got the name Pentax from? Combining pentaprism and Contax?

Whelmed I am happy for you. I hope you get to enjoy your new K-5, and don't miss the lens too much .

Have fun!

It one thing blasting Led Zep over speakers at home, quite another having them blasting straight into your ears.
My son is a sound engineer and has to look after his hearing but he knows of several colleagues who have damaged hearing from headphone use, or from engineering rock concerts where the dBs are seriously bad for your health. I'm sure you have experience temporary hearing loss after attending a concert - I know I have. Engineers and crew are subjected to it daily, and though now they have special ear plugs, in the past they didn't.
There is not a DJ in the world without some hearing loss either.
And most of Led Zep are probably deaf as posts now too .

Seriously I think it is a good thing. Hearing is delicate and easily damaged. Once damaged it can't be corrected. Tinnitus is a truly miserable condition to have - it stopped Jeff Beck playing guitar for many man years for instance, and made my father's life a misery- always noise in your head even when it is silent around you.

I've seen better from you Simon. Not the photos themselves which are lovely as always but the PP is all wrong. They have the feel of early colour postcards to me, very unnatural colours.

The EU is introducing a limit to the dB am MP3 player can produce, in an attempt to protect the hearing of European yoof. link

Google is my friend .