Is this any help?

Yes. Roksan Xerxes, Audiolab 8000 Pre/Power, B&W speakers. Most of my music is on vinyl. We also have a beermat player for Mrs Oggy's Irish tunes and the Stereophonics.

I think colour will vary with angle of perception.

Stefan - if you want horror stories go to the american Pentax site. Everyone there who has ever had an SDM lens has been killed by it and those who have more than one have had multiple deaths. It seems that when they go critical, they can take a whole state out.

Put me down for four deaths please.

They also come up with gems like"the index mark (?) on a polarising filter should be pointed toward the sun---or was it half way between the sun and the horizon.

I would consider finding myself on a level playing field a failure to plan.

(Shamelessly robbed from a top aircraft design chap I have the privilege to banter with occasionally )

This may be worth considering.

I reckon this is one of the few rules of the road they have about right. The number of wrecks on the road has been cut right back.

The only problem is with dodgy garages who use it as an invitation to print money. A former work colleague of mine had his car fail on its shock absorbers. Unperturbed he pointed out that the garage had installed them the previous year and they had a three year warranty. They were immediately retested and of course passed.

I was blackmailed by my employee at the time to take a car test at The age of 31. The bikes were around long before Mrs Oggy so she knows not to push the issue. She is not happy on the back and suffers from claustrophobia in her crash helmet, but when she found me looking at a single seat Ducati 916, she was not happy.

Yup - I came to that conclusion too, so I gave up horses and took up motorcycles instead.

Final washup -

This morning I got a call from Barclaycard saying that they had agreed to the purchase, but asking me to confirm the last three transactions. That seems fair enough to me.

I still have not heard squeak from barclays the Bankers as to why they refused the original transaction.

I have been waiting for a package and I was beginning to wonder when Mrs Next Door arrived clutching a parcel.

There inside, small but very perfectly formed was the 35Macro LTD.

Time to go and play...