Well, it looks as if this thread has had one useful result - a likely gig for bill sables on August 1st. I wish all threads were as productive.

I think the bottom line is it's unwise to assume that everybody knows where we are geographically, still less that talk as if we were all living in the same part of the wolrd. So, for exmple there are times when some programme we've seen on Television is worth commenting on, but it's not really sensible to do that in a way that assumes that we all have the same television schedules.