"Not to mention those of us who know all you do behind the scenes." -- Heheheh Pat you don't know everything I do behind the scenes thank goodness But I reckon you're an honorary Aussie if ever there was one. Janet, I found England very locked down -- felt great relief when we crossed the Severn into South Wales which DID remind me quite a bit of New South Wales and felt much less man-made, more natural and open. Though we did have jets serially cracking the sound barrier over Tintern Abbey; very poetic. I was shuffled a bit back and forth between England and Oz as a child, and while I felt at home in England I always hankered after Australia's wide-openness and sheer sparsity of population. Even back then England seemed so urban, over-populated and sort of edgy. Because of the odds -- yes indeed. The odds do concentrate one's mind.