I'm with you Barry, make that say 250 tons, barque or barquentine rigged and we could accommodate a good number of retied 'Catters. Perhaps we could finance it by offering cruises around the Carribean to filthy rich American capitalists, and then hold them to ransom, as opposed to outright revolution. Actually with our pooled expertise in computing :-), syphoning off the odd million ot two from electronic transactions could be the best option.

If we are going to be land based, I'd like a garden too, but I do enjoy seasons, so somewhere that has a good cold winter and warm summers please.

By the way, am I the only one for whom the word "Pinewoods" is meaningless? explanations gratefully recieved.

Pete M