Welcome Sean!
Where are you? Ireland, since you are pricing things in Euros and with your name. Dangerous assumption I know .

SRS will have a great price for the K5, but you could also look at Dutch shops for instance, better than French ones. Lowest price I've seen here is €1112 not including P&P.
But if you can afford to wait the price will drop more. I suspect there will be a cashback deal in the new year too.

So the postman came today with a package. Addressed to me.
Funny I thought, I haven't ordered anything. Oh maybe a birthday present??

So I open the package. Yes a birthday present, but not mine. My son's. His wife ordered it and paid for it, using their address, in a completely different town to us, at the other end of the country. And yet it was delivered here.

I phoned him and told him I had his present, and he was going to phone the shop and give them a bollocking.

I ordered something from the same shop last year, so I am in their database, and they sent it to the wrong person.

Luckily it came to me, and didn't go to some total stranger

He'll have to wait even longer for his present now as he is back sailing for the next two weeks and I won't be able to get it to him.

At least he is an equal opportunity spammer. He has an identical post on the other forum.

Many forums have sections closed off to non members, but I've never heard of one closing sections off to members who aren't contributors. I'm not sure I like that idea much.

We could have a review section maybe - not a huge database but an area to place your review on a piece of kit. You could then compare those reviews, from people you "know" with those elsewhere on the web.
It would be a good idea to not allow comments on reviews though, to avoid arguments and things getting nasty if people don't agree with it.

It's an abbreviation of Gwyneth which is my middle name. I only use that name here, my username of choice was already taken.

Thanks everyone for teh birthday wishes.

Just back from a delicious meal. I had sashimi to start, and wild boar for mains. No pud. Too full! He had Dutch shrimps to start, and dikbil tournedos. All really good, and best of all we could walk to the restaurant, and stagger home again


Dikbil is fat bum in Dutch and refers to Belgian blue-white cattle, which are a cross of a Durham meat cow with a Belgian milk breed. result is an enormous beast, with wonderful meat, born, raised and slaughtered in my town.

: Tony is a hypocorism, just as Aussie is.

Get in line there Don - Northern England, Hampshire, Scotland and the Netherlands are all in front of you .

You think you have a long wait - I put my deposit down on 21st September .

Thank you everyone .

Still waiting for my pressie. Come on Pentax .

Went out for lunch with my husband and he's taking me out tonight too .

The kids are all working so I won't see them, which is a shame. Still we saw them all on Sunday, and two out of three lots may come round in the weekend.