Abysmal Ignorance, Don, Greg? Knowing John as I do, I would say that keen search for knowledge would be more accurate.

I admit to a fondness for Gilbert and Sullivan but that's as far as it goes, except for the last bit of Don Giovanni - them three basses hammering away.

John - I could play you a CD with the word opera on it that you'd love. It is, of course, Peter Bellamy's ballad opera 'The Transports'. Now if more opera was like that...