The Sigma 70-200mm F2.8 is also a cracking lens, but even heavier than the 24-70mm

I use this, and find although heavy can produce some excellent results.

Serial no. 3856 mine is clear, appart from the two sensor cleans I had too do, very dusty for a camera only 3 days old and used once.

Unfortunately, I am not surprised.

AVG has had some problems of late, I started the thread above. Many users have had issues now with AVG becoming a bit of a system hog. I ditched it for Microsofts security essentials, available HERE. It runs without any issues on my Acer laptop with 3G of ram.

Welcome to the forums my friend.

Well no delivery and back to work tommorow, dam weather. Still worth waiting for, here is a statement from the parcelforce website.

2nd December 2010

Adverse weather

The fresh snow falls in already affected and some new areas, along with the freezing conditions we currently have across many areas of the UK, is again severely impacting deliveries and collections in these worst affected areas. This now covers all of Scotland, the North East of England, areas of Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Essex, along with much of Kent, Surrey and Sussex in the South East of England.

Our drivers are out delivering in the areas where it is safe and possible to do so and we are obviously making every effort to keep any disruption to an absolute minimum. However, there were some areas yesterday and again today where it was not possible to undertake any deliveries at all. Furthermore, the closure of Gatwick airport will mean that some export traffic to non-EU destinations will be subject to delays.

Our commitment is to provide the best possible quality of service for the parcels we have already collected. As a result of the prolonged severe weather conditions that we are experiencing, we are focusing on delivering these parcels as soon as possible. While we understand how important it is for your parcels to reach customers quickly at this time of year we will not be able to accept any additional collections that have not already been scheduled for the remainder of this week.

Whilst there are clearly some areas where it is still possible to collect parcels as normal, our focus is on the parcels that we currently have on hand and to make sure that we put all of our resources available into delivering these as quickly as we can. We are continuing with our normal scheduled collections wherever it is possible although the timings of some may be affected.

Find details of the worst affected areas.

The safety of our customers, the general public and our employees remains of paramount importance. We would like to thank you for your continued patience and understanding during these continued difficult conditions and again apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Microsoft security essentials has been excellent for me.

Important for users of AVG
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/02/avg_auto_immune_update/

DOH still waiting, been in all day now, really bored.