Lol - Misha, Tedz, Thanks for the votes, but somehow I don't think the powers that be would stand me for more than a week ;-) Yeah Brian, I too remember that time or two when a few people went at around the same time (hell, still got the photo's I lifted from the thread!), but this one seems more acrimonious than then, and (unusually) this time there hasn't been a clamour to get to the hotseat. Tv, thanks for the greet ;-) I've had fun reading through your posts! I see you are one of the ones that sticks around and posts no matter what the climate - good!! It's people like you that hold the forum together when it hits that little icy patch! I don't know what threads have been deleted (if any) and therefore there's probably a couple of things I missed by not being here. S'got me interested though. I might hang around in the shadows a while ;-) (",) btw Tedz, did ye hear the aaful newz aboot Broon? Thiv awnly gone and shifted the brewin ov it ower the Tyne tiv the Fed brewers in Gatesheed!!! man, I'll so miss the smell of the hops driftin thru the toon..... that smell was the essence of Newcastle for me...