well I'm not a fan of the A-Z books.

over the time I was gigging. bloody hell - 30 years now I come to think of it. I bought hundreds of the buggers.

1) they are ecentric - you need a different one for Leicester city than all the little towns round leicester. Ilkeston - they couldn't decide whether it was Derbyshire or Nottinghamshire.

2) in the county ones - which admittedly had everything - the writing was so small - I needed reading glasses to read them, even before I needed reading glasses.

3) the pages you were using tended to get screwed up and you would spill coffee and jam on them - particularly on motorways!

SATNAV - an invention whose time has come. And I wish it had come a few years sooner! Anyway, what's so great about thinking?