oooooh, thank you everyone....my new family!!!!!!! 1. MarkS - you DORK (oops, sorry, just been reading the thread on improper language) No I was NOT named after the very boring NZ mountaineer, my parents had never heard of him (his is two ells anyway)as I was born in Essex - and yes, yes, I saw the hiddeaous Essex girl/fridge joke. I might add here that it is very disconcerting to emigrate as a pre-pubescent then learn (many) years later that while you were away in a delightful antipodean land all others of your ilk had been reclassified as brainless tarts. When did that happen?? 2.Alison - no I have not met Billy the bus yet... I put NZ in my sign-on wondering if the mudcat's evil clutches had reached the southern Pacific yet. It was something to do with the Riverdance thread - I just wanted people to know Brendan Power is a New Zealander.

Anyway - feel free to carry on with the thread now...don't mind me. luv baby