Guest - I don't usually respond to anonymous 'guests' but I'll make an exception, just this once. It was not a suggestion of anything - it was a question pure and simple, a request for information. You don't know me or anything about me, but if you did you'd know that your suggestion that I'm a racist would be grossly insulting if it weren't so ridiculous. Fortunately Azizi has answered eloquently and constructively, and thanks for that Azizi.

Martin, thanks for your charming response - you were a bit slow off the mark but, as usual, you didn't let anyone down. LMAO.

And to anyone else who may have felt offended by my assertion that Mumming's strictly British, of course I'm aware that it exists in other countries - my comments were a tetchy response to Martin's inference that anything non-American is worthless. That's all.