Halloo ! Sorry to hear about your computer, Wendy - hope you will soon be able to get it sorted out. My webmail system was down all day yesterday. They did, at least, put a little notice up on the screen saying that the system was being upgraded....but now that the so-called upgrade has happened, complete with "smileys" and all sorts of other stuff, it is working so slowly that I've started using an alternative address.

That was a lovely song from you Nick and your wife and friend. I'd never come across "esnips" before - that looks like a nice little site - Is it easy to load things onto it ? I'm going to look into these Zoom recorders, too....Ohh, the things you can learn from sitting at the kitchen table !

Talking of places to record that have good acoustics, Jerry & Co., when my father died some years ago, my daughter and I tried various places to record her playing the flute and my reading something to be played at his funeral. (We didn't know whether we could trust our emotions to be OK doing it on the day). The very best place of all (which we used) was sitting on the toilet seat in the bathroom, which, my father having the humour that he did, we felt totally happy doing without any fear of it being "irreverent" !

- jeanie