Thankyou kind sir

If you mean the one in Ammonyte's photo I would have said it was an ES335, very popular with Bluesmen.

Pete, maybe you should re read some of your postings. They do come across as quite agressive and angry at times, seemingly for no reason. You do tend to start off on a rant and things do then escalate. With your last thread you were bound to get some replies that would upset by suggesting you were going to get a Nikon as a second camera, instead of, as I think you intended, asking for advice on whether to get a second body, and if so what.
The problem with the internet is that we cannot see you or hear you, so we can only go by what you write. Your threads can be very exasperating at times. That some people respond to that in the way they do is to be expected to a certain extent, that others show the patience they do with you is to their credit.
Maybe if you were to take a deep breath before starting a thread, and were to think through what you want to say a bit more you would get better, more helpful responses. Your typing, spelling and grammar (a not e Pete ) would improve too, making your posts more readable. Read them through before hitting the submit button. Correct them, look at the tone of them, do they say what you really want to say? It will take you maybe a minute longer, but could save a lot of hassle fror everyone.

Wow! Well done!

We have one from Vosonics. It was cheap an it does what it says on the packet, and is fairly fast. But it doesn't have a screen so you have to trust that things have gone right with it. An ipod and adapter is a good idea. Or just some more cards.
Maybe you ahould wait until you get to Japan - electronics are more advanced and (possibly) cheaper there. Certainly when my son used to make his twice yearly trek to Tokyo to see his (now ex) girlfriend electronics were cheaper (about the only thing that was).

I have no idea what she is doing but the style police should be after her for those pink Crocs

So I can put my daughters-in-law in them?

Since the guitar idea is already taken, one from the shoebox......

I have an Arctic butterfly - that is what i used the one time I cleaned it. But i don't need to do it all that often.

I would have thought the K10d needed less cleaning than the Ds due to it's sensor cleaning ability but it seems that that is not the case?

It's till not bad enough for John to have to clean his sensor though. A bit of cloning is all that is needed.
Having seen the state of a wildlife professional's sensor I am far more relaxed about mine now.
I have cleaned mine once, when cloning began too take up too much time and didn't always work. There's dust on it again now but it can wait a while.