Sue Allen ~ you are so right. In 2001 I was driving up to Launceston here in Cornwall, went round a corner and there was a pyre in the field on my right. I just cried. The smell of roasting meat with a backtaste of horn, bone and hair, the distinct smell of disinfectant across the countryside, the lorries piled high with bales of hay for the pyres and the army patrolling the minor roads stopping you from going through never really leave you. The other thing that happened was that it hit the tourist industry badly in that, although there was only one outbreak in Cornwall on the Devon border, many people stopped coming down for holidays as they had to drive through Devon and had a strange idea that they could catch it by driving through an infected county. As you said, let's hope this one is just that ~ one. Thoughts are with all farmers at this time.