thanx, mike

i still like the old board best...but *as is* is the next best thing (perhaps your icon suggestions would help in the present climate :-)

kate, you, and i go back to april '98 when this board began (i came in a couple of weeks after you but still in the first month)...dano came in at the end of that year, amaranth came in the following year, uncle al sometime after that...

there may still be others around that are lurking or have changed their monikers, but...

i don't guess that gives us any special privileges, but it oughta (there oughta be a grandfather clause or somesuch, eh :-)

anyway...carry on, and enjoy your day (nov 5)...what is that...i don't recognize it as a general uk holiday...is that your bday...or your kiddos