Hi Spaw - glad you showed up - John in Hull thinks the MudCat is a chat-room - set him straight OK, with a PM.

But be nice, maybe he is recovering from a a stroke or something, (could he be drunk? not all the time?) I was led to believe that the Brits had a better school system than ours .... BUT.....given the stuff I've seen here lately, the "Brain Drain of the 50's" didn't leave much behind to reproduce.