Wonderful Amos! Thanks all for your comments, I forgot the salt, umbrellas and new shoes on the table one, the cracks in the pavement and the horseshoe! Incidentally, I once bought a new pair of shoes and put them (still in the box) on the sofa (as I couldn't put them on the table could I?) whilst a made a pot of tea. My then new puppy, being a little Booger of a dog, before I returned form the kitchen, managed to make one of them into a Peek toe style. Now if I had put them on the table I suspect that my lcuk would have been better - the puppy (Hannah - now over the Rainbow Bridge, God bless her) couldn't reach up there! On the other hand, my mum caught her toe in a crack in the pavement, fell dislocated her shoulder and broke her arm in 2 places! Was that BAD LUCK or what! I laughed at the one about being out of the bathroom before the flush finishes, but I remember as a child, after a bath, I used to deperately rush to get out of the bathroom before all the bathwtater emptied out of the bath and it made that slurrrp noise but I think that was because I was afraid of the monster in the pipe that sucked the bathwater away!!! What a strange lot we humans are I wonder if animals are as silly as us! Better go, got to look for a fourleaf clover! Good luck always! Lucy