Thanks Jules.

That is the max operating height - so with the centre column up I assume? What about with just the legs extended and the centre column not used?

I've thought about it a few times believe me .

Forgot to add the house is in chaos. Heating men arrived at 7.15, and started work. Took time off for breakfast at 8.30 and have been going at it ever since. They even turned down coffee .

Luckily it isn't too cold today, but if they don't get done today I can always light a fire.

We have a free homepage from our ISP, plus we have another website from a different host, which costs us €60pa for the hosting service an €10pa for the web name. Excellent value and big enough to host a forum and house our photos.
Oh and free space on the company's web attached to his e-mail address.

How tall is it without using the centre column?

Interesting links Mike, thanks for those.

I wouldn't mind a shorter lighter travel pod but this doesn't look to be it.

I use TNT - they are our main mail service (and one of the contenders to take over Royal Mail). Provided you get someone who knows what they are doing they are fast and efficient and fully trackable. If, like I had with the K5, you get someone who is a total airhead, they are slow, untrackable but still very reliable - it was only untrackable once it arrived in the UK because they don't have a contract with Royal Mail.

Which also explains why Private Eye often arrives two weeks late,via Geneva .

The likes of UPS here are very much business oriented.
One of them won't even accept address labels printed on an inkjet printer - they say their machines can't read the bar code .

I don't answer the door at 10 o'clock at night, even with an external light and a husband at home.

We've just had a minor panic, well a major one actually, to clear out my husband's glory hole of an office/music room. The heating engineers phoned this afternoon to say they are coming tomorrow morning (at 7.30 :shock to replace the old radiator, which no longer works, plus three in our living room which date from the year dot.

Major task clearing his room, we had to empty and move three bookcases, to give access to the underfloor space, plus move all the guitars and amps and other stuff.

Guess I'll be sitting in the cold tomorrow.
I hope they can get it all done in one day, but I know this house - nothing is ever simple, largely due to the botch job the previous owner did on it.
25 years on and we are still correcting his botches.

When you change lenses remember to first turn off the camera and then learn to remove and replace the lens with the body pointing down. It takes a bit of practice, but is worth doing.
It won't completely prevent dust bunnies but it will reduce their number.

Be very careful with a blower that you don't touch the "sensor". And again do it with the body facing down so the dust falls out, and doesn't just move to somewhere else in the body.