Noreen, view it as incarceration, and sleep easier in your bed!

Linda, good to hear ya! Runaway prize winner of the heaviest suitcase Oscar! We can't even take marmite to Holland, and you try an smuggle half the landmass of Cumbria to Oregon (as if Oregon needs it!). Some of my best friends are rock fetishists; even I have been known to lug the odd rock from the pile that remains where they hit down grandma's bothy in Sligo. I'll have a look at Laurents bits. Mrs Skipjack is gifted with lingua Francais, and I'm an eejit with them translator machines.

Brendy, my man!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks in advance and retard. Will enjoy researching what you've given me thus far. No trips planned to wonderful Norway, but I'm keeping my eyes on the cheapie airfares. Not your thing, I know, but I picked up a taste for Linie Aquavit.

Skipjack