Thank you, Katlaughing. That was an interesting thread. It leaves me exercised as to why, and how, the articulate, intelligent, cogent Catspaw of nearly 10 years ago has opted to regress into the 60-year-old foulmouthed adolesecent name-caller of today, who asserts [in italics yet, but I suspect that was becoz he wasn't quite in control of the Mudcat http or whatever it's called] that I must have my head buried in my fucking arse if I don't perceive everything from the perspective of over-here precisely as he does from that of over-there.

Thank you at least, for not, this time round, yourself denouncing what I said as 'fucking crap'. Mind how you go tho: I haven't forgotten you were one of those who once intervened in o·so·lady·laike offended tones in a quarrel I was having on here with a fellow-countryman who fully appreciated the force of the obloquy I chose to apply, which you greatly over-interpreted from a blinkered national perspective.

Happy New Year - Michael