KB - erm, it's one of our wholesale suppliers, ackshirley... Special offer of £109 +VAT which is around £128.10 (not got me calc'later handy!)... I went mad and bought two...

However, I know that the Sony Centre in Exeter is doing them for about £130 (+ P&P), and they had been doing them for £99 a few weeks ago. Maybe other Sony Centres are doing similar deals. Nearly 50 squid off the original price...

Simple answer is shop around, or ask me nicely and I'll do you one at cost - plus pigeon seed. Have to be a bloody big pigeon, though...

Ian - as regards mono v. stereo - it's purely down to taste. Being able to put 128 minutes continuously on one disk instead of 74 minutes... atmosphere isn't that important if you just want a reminder of the tunes.

'Horses for courses'!!