Tony

You aren't being heavy - no waaaaaaay are you.

Why do folk think that little girls should look like mature women ?

You can do as I did - Right click on the pic [ I did the last one ] Download to your Photo prog [ iPhoto in my case ] then ask the programme for details about it

I got a K20D using Elements 7 Shutter 1/500 , f 3.5 , Focal Length 160 ISO 400

Unfortunately it doesn't tell me what the actual lens was.

I'm not too happy about this case either .

But then I had to deal with a young girl who at the age of 16 finally found the courage to report what had happened to her aged 9 . I was working at the time and the normal procedure was to report this to Social Services who would instantly take the child into care . Since it wasn't a family member, this didn't seem appropriate and I rang the head of Child Protection - who actually agreed with me and said he would handle the case for me. I was sent a wonderful female cop [ from the Female and Child Unit } who really knew her job , and in my presence [ the girl refused to be questioned unless I was there ] she established what had happened - no leading questions and the 'interview' stopped when the girl said " if it happened to me now I could become pregnant "

We arranged that the girl would stay in the family house , and to prevent her being whisked away [ which we thought likely ] the family were told that I would collect her every day , and should the father refuse to allow her to come to School Uniformed Police Officers would be there within minutes .

The whole case collapsed when the Social Worker insisted on questioning her on her own and I found afterwards when I asked xxxx how she had got on that certain words were put to her in questions that until then she didn't know [ otherwise she would have told the Cop and me ] and she was then able to use them . These words were technical /legal / medical . The Cop and I had been very very careful to let her tell the story her way and we had questioned as little as possible - we both believed her implicitly - her description of her abuser's face after the event left us in no doubt.

Why have I brought this up ? Well my understanding is that there are questions being asked about the questions used in Court by one of the legal team, which some have indicated may have been leading questions and caused the little girl to change the way she gave her story .

Mr Spider ,

If your wife reads here, you are living very very dangerously

May I enquire as to what sort of floral tribute you would like ?

I see we are back to our favourite topic again

hmmm - think the seller has spotted that now

That's not good

It appeals to me more

May I make a suggestion about # 2 ? If you intend to keep it try cloning out the piece of metal that looks as if it's in uncomfortable contact with her

Hooray - saw some sun today though we do now have some grey clouds of the slightly worrying look

AND I've now got my e-mails working properly again

Not yet - but you have to remember our weather has been somewhat dire .

As a result a day or two with temps above 20 is very unusual