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Super stuff Dedji!x I will make plans to be there!x I hope the films brings up issues such as drugs....sexual infidelity....intolerance and waywardness as our scene and Culture have endured! I will be able to relate to the same I have found whilst mingling around the Nations practising Muslim Community. Knowledge...2 way thing. Understanding of 'humanity' is what finds middle ground!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

Well done on your efforts on behalf of the film and scene Steve and all!x Cinema.....luv it. My ex wife's Uncle Albert was 'Eric the projectionist' at our old Victoria Cinema in the market square through the 60's/70's.....now the Marks & Sparks! As 16 1/2 year olds and into our 20's we took advantage of his 'hospitality' and my affair with such a night out began! I had always enjoyed collecting on Poppy Day as a Cadet too in the mid 70's....so many affections with the Cinema. Lump that in with my 'interest' in Northern Soul....i;d have been flabbergasted Sir if Cambridge's Cinema Management had taken any other tac! We is the seat of 'education'....globally!x Besides that.....none of the 5 Cinema Managers would ever get a 'free' limo for 'Opening' night launches.....or for personal holiday/stag/hen doo's...ever again!!!!!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ...educated @ Cambridge yaaa....Netherhall Junior and Upper...until expelled after 17 months! The 'streets' became my education....served me and my locality well!x If someone has info on the Edinburgh showing then please let me know.....a new found friend has invited me to a Diwali Dance night........i'd like to repay the compliment! He is a Muslim 'leader' up in Scotland arriving in 1972. He came to England...London...in '73 to search out potential opportunity. He was attacked...in his own words...by 'Skinheads wearing Fred Perry's!'.....! He has never returned to England and put all his efforts and commitment into Scotland....and feverishly into the YES campaign as a close ally to Alex Salmond. Indeed the Muslim Community were well represented at St Georges Square sporting Scottish flags.....to my surprise! I feel the need to assist him with his bad experience. Understanding each others Cultures....is key. I haven't seen the film or a trailer for it. I go to see it with him 'open minded'...and will discuss wotever it raises over a Chinese....I reckon!x @@ ~

TUUUNE Gary!x Indeed the Impalas is the stored link that is for Utube on me pute and I hear it perhaps 10-12 times a week...or the first bars of it!!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

Morning all!x Just returned last night from meandering around the Med for a well earned 'breakaway'...which meant from music too!x No personal phone...IT of any kind or 'news' of World or local affairs......I needed to get away....and have done successfully...or to my satisfaction! BUT...my life was taken over by 1 track.....throughout this escapism attempt!!!!!! It has also impacted several serious music involved folk and artistes.......simple as this..... We needed air tanks filled/bait replenished etc etc and so pulled in to 'civilisation' as you do. I was focused and wary of any outside influences......but it was my Grandsons 2nd birthday and so had him on my mind back in Blighty and therefore wandered into the below shop nearby to the Scuba place in Fornells...Menorca....to buy him a T-shirt and bits! Worst mistake of my whole 'holiday'...!!! .......there was an instant whistling in my ears as I walked in that I recognised......wtf.....???!!! I knew that ditty....and began singing along with the tune word for word as it kicked off......but was totally non-plussed and confused as to wot the hell it wos and why....why me now....here???!!!x I went to the counter and asked a very distinguished looking 'Senorita' .....'Ola.....wot is the music playing???!! She looked equally puzzled and reached for a CD case next to the till.....and explained it was left in an apartment her daughter rented out last year and she knew nothing except she liked the songs and had played it throughout this Summer to thousands of customers browsing! Her daughter thought it was more her age group music!! The CD from memory was greyish....'Simply Soul' on the front I think and I remember seeing the classic Betty Everett track 'Getting Mighty Crowded' on there and indeed knew al the tunes featured....including this....as should you all....!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRrD1boujT0 I was done in for the rest of my 'time out' around the Med whistling the tune in my head and then announcing loudly to all around or in solitude when fishing....'I WAAAANNNAA KNNNNOOOOOOWWWW....' randomly and still have done this morning before writing this....ARGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Impact label???...they ain't wrong!x @@ ~ I have a confession....and it has come back to bite me big time! I had the tune throughout the 90's and never played it once.......SOOOOORRRYYYY!!!!x I bottled it every time....or....it was in my section of roughly 10/15 that I would take each DJ spot that had the privilege of being in the running for the 1 or 2 spots reserved for MY choices as such during my spot....beyond the 'norm'! It sadly never made it to that top 2! It did me head in back then....and certainly has had the same impact 15-20 years later!! I have done what I can for the tune this time round! It is the only tune I mentioned to anyone music connected mogul whom I met around the Med...and I met a few along with their artistes many being current US and UK chart pi** toppers and so called 'DJ's who worked the drugs on Ibiza/Majorca and other fine cough 'party' resorts during this Summer! I told them to 'check it out' and announced immediately afterwards....END CONVERSATION re music!x They....is clueless anyway....u lot ain't so I thought i'd share it with you....an annoyance really when it comes down to it....but....not complaining....had my 'new girl' wiv me.....!!x Wore the shirt to the end of Summer Party for the Med organised by Barney Branson each year and felt it represented my personal interests directly....job done and enuff sed...I reckon!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X I have collected some super bits and bobs re wildlife and birds/fish....and yup archaeology etc during my 'sabbatical' which I will sort and put a paragraph or 3 up about in the Birds & Wildlife thread sometime this week!x Back 'on it' now and so no time to 'play' on the net or owt....off to Scotland on business till Friday and then Cornwall at the weekend so it may be early next week.....I have my priorities right again! Holiday over.....sigh. ......whissstle whistleee ..."IIIII WANNNAA KNOOOOWWWW.............sort of!x ....I would like to think the daughter will be 'raving' to the tune in some form next year at Ibiza.........thanx to her Mam....and a confused and irate 'Grandad/Pops' of Great Britain!!!!!hehe!!!!x @@ ~

Found this in a junk shop in Avonmouth this week...Gene Vincent on a mint British Capital!x I have heard several versions but this is 'it' for me!x Waddya think?!x https://youtu.be/y_sLMr4qjLc Here's Sam's version... https://youtu.be/Mu3tpDsBZy8 ...and as Elvis has been topical lately here's his effort... https://youtu.be/tsRFer7YcX8 ...and 85 years to the month later.....a nice version by Jimmie Rodgers spun by a fella who knows his stuff....I reckon!!x https://youtu.be/ck2abfraWu8 If I listen to Gene Vincent again....that's the one that makes me hairs stand up on me arm! Like Elvis does to many of you and the great Roy Orbison has been mentioned in the Elvis thread...and yup....they got 'Soul'.....and Gene singing this tune....fits the bill for me too!x A super find and will spin it at the Avonmouth Sports & Social Club 'opening night' as I promised them a 'party' to launch the new building when on business there this week...as you do!x They asked if I had any Motown and stuff........................YEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!x....But they will lurrrrve Gene when it spins early evening.....25p outta a junk shop 1 mile away......bringng it all together....and amazingly another UKIP stronghold...they is springing up everywhere I go.......pure co-incidence ure honour.......!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ...off to Menorca on business/pleasure and back in a couple of weeks....or not hopefully if the volcano kicks off...!x I will be putting up the Amber & Black #10 which features the U's away trip to Notts County.....and a super interview with Barry Fry at a U's v Boro' Youth game in whch he cry's like a baby at a rogue atr ours nicking all his youth players in a scam....!!!hehe!! Dead serious he is......and the culprit???....heads up a Dept in the FA today........LUV IT!!!!x It will be up tomorrow evening and I will get a friend to post the link in the thread I have for such purposes!x I've got some new Northern T Shirts made to my design....and will take some holiday snaps/DJ spot snaps wiv them on....!x.....yaaaaayyyy!!!x @@ ~

Sincere apologies for not seeing this...X I haven't had time to catch up with all the threads for weeks...and I had never seen it since frequenting the SS forums over the past year or so....X I didn't know...X MC was one of theeee 'lads' that always came over as we arrived at A/N's through the 90's and always encouraging as well as opinionated. I respected his opinions and pi**ed meself over many of them. You are all characters....it's why I love the scene and promote it wherever I go. But when you have all acknowledged him as you have.....then it is clear he was 'unique' among uniqueness. I felt that....and always looked forward to his greets. Thanx for the memory's Micky....and I thank all you Geordies who I had the privilege to meet whilst on the scene.....you all add a dimension to the scene I frequented in the 90's and do around the UK I find. Take Micky's spirit wherever you go and I believe his life would have been of use to us all...X True success is based on how many folks lives you impact in a positive way. Micky was clearly one of the most successful Soulies the scene has had...X My final thoughts go out to his family and close friends.....I feel for you...X Annie...I apologise!x Most of you Ladies of characters like Micky end up being 'widows' before your time!x...U know wot us fella's are like!x I don;t recall meeting you and sorry if I did and have forgotten!x I remember you here and now....you have a 'family' that obviously is here for you and yours on the scene. A man's life is spent providing security and warmth for his family....in theory. Micky has done his best...and done well with it as all the accolades present...enjoy your future Annie among your own....X LUV SOOTY X R.I.P Micky....naaaa bo**ox.........do ure thing mate.......it sounds too calm up there for my liking!x @@ ~ ......aaaawwwwaaaaaay theeee laaaad....X

He does read it Pete.......X Get well soon Ian...X Winners never quit...and quitters never win. You epitomise that mate...x Yup...and oddball....and like me Ian....the world...and scenes...need us...X Have a smooth recovery and a pleasure to know of you and have met you....X LUV SOOTY X ...the good.... https://youtu.be/gKtReivY750?list=UUzdEGZLeRkfvIw3TDiAnhKw ...and mad...of Ian Levine.......LOVE IT & YOU MATE!!!x https://youtu.be/VvM1Xup37MU?list=UUzdEGZLeRkfvIw3TDiAnhKw

It was waiting for me....the camera and the tune i;d bought off of Ebay! I don;t buy tunes off of their....I really really prefer to find them and then I have an association to go with each tune as such! But...I ain't had time for boot sales lately and i;m sure i;d find it...but couldn't wait!!x £5...mint...RCA British. First time outta the bag and as it started on here....I think it fitting to share the first spin of it in here too!!x The camera....errr....not all me skills are behind it or indeed have any technical nouse....and don;t want any either.....but it's an underwater camera...,...dunno what i;m doing wrong......?!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X Excuse me 'Shack'...I weren't prepared....!x https://youtu.be/VXXhq2ENDbo

Len or Dave Vanner had Jeanatte in the mid 90's and it was at The Embankment I first heard it and that piano launched me off my seat then....and still does. I think the copy's back then were about £400. I got mine for £250 in '99....wol but mint grooves!x Turley I heard for the first time ever when going to Kings Hall with the Togetherness DVD's before Xmas....2013! FANTASTIC tune....for the uneducated or newbie.......dunno which I class meself. as....just Sooty does me!x I managed to get a copy in February this year from the States for £225. It is the most i;ve spent on a tune of any kind this year and perhaps for the past 3 since acquiring The Professionals That's Why I love You which has been a want since 1993!x Clueless as to why these records have reached the price they have on Ebay....but......it's a buyers market!x I ain't selling tho'......!!!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

Nina Simone....I have it and have played it at every wedding/disco/party I can recall early evening/afternoon reception time....must play tune really....same as 'I just wanna make lurrrrve to you' Etta James which i;ve got away with later in the evening at party's....same kinda tune/genre for me! But....I would never have played Nina or Etta at a nighter..........but Fallin....Connie Francis......i'd dance too on any dance floor and would have spun it at my peak in the 90's at any venue I frequented......before it got famous on the ad....and would have had it away....I reckon!x Jazz? Like Pete....I struggle to get excited about it....or the type that Jazz shows play that I see when flippin! I did watch a documentary a few months back about Etta James which followed her in her later years doing concerts......I thought she was just brilliant every song. Dunno if it was Jazz......cos I really don;t know what Jazz is....I like Nina.....but think I don't like Jazz.....! I suppose it's like Northern....there's pop and there's hard core! Nina I put in the pop Jazz perhaps....and I bought it?!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X https://youtu.be/Ff9vZj2xg2g?list=PLta4LxHj-oIVrSwTTEhKQSF5esVNGzEe5 Jazz...?...Soul?....dunno.......but i dance to it every time I spin it.......hmmmm...............Northern does that to me.......!!!x

Nice to see you ain't lost any of your wisdom Andy!x LUV SOOTY X

Super stuff Pete!x I do believe I have this tape...from Paul Donnelly or someone at Peterborough gave me it several years back......or I ended up with a copy! I will find it!x The Tams Hey Girl I found real interesting as I didn't know it had been played at the peak of the scene as such! As a late comer to the scene in the 90's....from an active perspective....then I classed it as 'club soul' tune so to speak! However....Max Rees from Cambridge in 1993 as I started out said buy a copy from him...for £3! I asked why...he said play the B side! I did....and played it at Winsford....Blackburn and 100 Club to mention a few....and it went down great everytime.....and many used to come ask hat the hell it was!!!x I like both sides....but can see the impact back in the day of the A side.....and hope my efforts with the B kept this terrific piece of 20p Boot Sale vinyl....alive!x Thanx for your efforts mate much appreciated....consider me stimulated!!!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9ivKIESED0

...u have done me right....!x I do not listen to music FULL STOP. Not on the radio in house or in a vehicle....and haven't since 2000. The only time I hear music is when I play it. However Pops.......the CD's u sent me.....well.....I confess to being educated.....wonderful stuff!x I am now learning how to keep me needle on them without it sliding off. Thank you for being you Dad..........!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

...that's my Paaa...!!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

I will add...I have never gone after a tune because of its money tag or owt. I used to follow Butch at the 100 Club regularly....he'd leave me with a £grander+ every time to follow.......the most successful takeover I had after such an occasion was with the first ever spin at the 100 Club of Fats Domino's If You Don't Know What Love Is.....which I found the day before for 50p......absolutely rocked the joint! So...I collect 'tunes'.....nowt else! I have only bought about 30 specific tunes in the past 10 years or so of 'value'. I don;t drink so possibly save £50-100 a week?? £3k a year? £30k in 10.......but have only spent about £4k on tunes in the past 10 years! I collect from Boot Sales....and it either hits...or misses....and I get by on that! I stopped using money to please me back in 1990 really.....had a life changing experience in 2000....and since I am easily pleased i;d say!x LUV SOOTY X 1995.....I'd heard it for the first time in a record shop in Brighton day before.....bought it for 50p.....went out to get in me car to go home.......car stolen!!! It;s all I had and the clothes I stood in!!!! I got home Saturday lunchtime....the record never left my side since walking out of the shop until I took over from Butch.........It filled the floor....but I din;t care if it didn't........job done!x Can you believe how 'attached' I have become to it.....??!!!! Worth??? Priceless!!!!!x @@ ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kL863eLCQE

I've read this thread...and put forth my feelings. I collect all kinds of music across the board. Northern has always got me up to dance...I can't not......nowt else does that to me. But....as I alluded to it in my Best Boot Buys latest comment.....EVERY record is a 'memory' to me irrelevant of the groove or label! I can tell you where I got every single record in my entire collection. If I sold any of them.....it would be like parting with your wedding photos or summink....assuming it was a happy marriage of course!!! If they were just records with good tunes on em worth a few quid.....i'd sell em without worry.....but very few of mine are of that ilk! So I can't do it........!x Trophy.....that's it....each tune is a 'trophy'....a happy memory of an individual or situation that came with the tune! My ex Mrs will tell u I still pine for me Boxing losers 6" shield awarded to me in 1967 Newham...Middlesborough! I was 6/7 and walked into a punch in the eye as soon as the bell went.....job done over and out just saw black patches humming in front of me eyes! I got a medal.........me Ex threw it out in the 90's.........listen to me 20 years later.......!!! Imagine that happening to all me individual 'trophy's....!!!! NEVERRRRR!!!!.....not now I do me own cleaning anyways up!!!hehe!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

Got a 'retreat' in the hills of South Elkington when on business that way...I go regular....would luv too anytime Swifty!x LUV SOOTY X

Popping into Ilkeston today CodfromDerby en route to Scotland....to collect this....no 'luck' wiv it....just Labouring Under Correct Knowledge!!!!x The fella wanted £400....i offered £250 and my company for an hour! He went for it last night! I was inspired to 'invest' because of the good fortune I had had as you rightly point out....yup....i'm a 'sod'....but happy one.!!!hehe!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuwKTXBHZU4

Hi folks!x Been too busy for boot sales the last few months but managed to get to one in Louth today! Scruffy fella with few boxes of LP's....box of records without covers and about 10 on a pile all in covers. I looked at the box of loose 45's.....Ken Dodd and Harry Secombe popped up so same old same old......then what I was dreading...Rolf's Two Little Boys....which has always made me hairs rise on me arm since being a kid. The dread is the conflict in me head still. I wanna play it on a sunny day along with Sun Arise....awesome stuff. I threw Gary Glitter stuff easily.....Jonathon Kings stuff never made my collection so no dilemma....but Two Little Boys? I mean I have played the grooves off 2 tri-centre Great Balls of Fires and Jerry was a self confessed peedo....but we all dance to it still if u know wot I mean! Suarez bites....goes to Spain and is a hero. Different cultures different rules. I was born in Hull which has been designated the City of Culture....but.....stick 'culture' up yer ar*e...too limiting and restricting methinks! I think I put my 2 tunes into me personal favs for when i'm on me own chilling. I digress....no apologies. Anyway...after thinking those thoughts as I flipped thru the tunes.....i started to come across some 'funny' songs! Stuff for Xmas and Halloween and the like! I got loooads of it....so was keen! Jeff....the scruffy fella who was happy with it...said they came from his Uncle who had collected music hall funnys and the like. He then said if I wanted them.....about 20 of the ilk....he'd take £5 for the lot! Job done....and he added the 10 or so in the little pile next to the box as they were all the same....I hadn't got round to them! Well....just got home.....and among the Charlie Drake and Bernard Cribbins demos....Goon classics and a couple of Mary Poppins songs on studio copy's.....I found this......never heard it....and yup......happy with my first Boot Sale for aaaages.....meant to be....I reckon!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X https://youtu.be/Fr2i4R19TTU My real happy tune...or piece of vinyl among it all is this on the copy u see here!! I had a British copy...mint and had it for yeeeeears love it and pet it often when reaching for an odd tune on a sunny day....but never did I think I would find a white demo...weren't looking!......well chuffed!x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nCLVvpA7gI

.....it was a 'tester' as such Swifty!x Seeing as it has been received with the seriousness it deserves then I will add this......as a Journalist...I discovered Special Forces had indeed put 'sets' of Badgers around perimeters to deter and detect rogue elements in defence camps globally to include Iraq and currently Afghanistan. Better than a guard dog I hear with no maintenance requisites and they have a knack of discovering pipe bombs too!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X On a more local note....I have witnessed regularly a Starling feeding on the bread I chuck out on my patio....and then feeding a tubby Thrush the bread!! The Thrush just sits there next to the bread....the Starling gets a mouth full....goes to it and transfers it into the Thrush's mouth!! Been so interested in seeing it I ain't got round to photographing it yet!!x Lazy little bu**er the Thrush....sits right next to the bread and does nowt except wait for the Starling....what's that all about....I mean there is no mutual co-existence required like ants/aphids etc etc...is there?!x

Hi folks!x I have shared my love of our wildlife and Countryside in here before. I was enjoying keeping up with this thread until January.....then got busy and leisure time such as it takes to read such delightful stuff.....dis-appeared!x I have tho' during my sabbatical witnessed many creatures out there! I have just clocked 55,000 miles scurrying around our Kingdoms as far as Inverness down to Portpatrick across to Berwick and the entire Coastline around England and Wales as well as every driveable road across the Yorkshire Moors....The Dales and Lake District. It's the most 'intensive' coverage I have ever done of the UK. In the 80's/90's I was doing on average 1,000 a week on business. I used to spot number plates and lorries to pass the time! For the past 10+ years i've shuttled up to 8 folk when cruising the Countryside and haven't had my focus on erm...the road and my external surroundings really! But...back on 'it' this year and I was stumped after the first week! Reason being is you can't do the number plates like we used to be able....and i've found my eyesight ain't what it was 20 years ago to spot a colour scheme and name that lorry firm from a mile away!! So....I was bored....and kept driving.....and then began to realise how many badgers....were 'freshly' deaded around the Country!!!! It has become my 'tick' as I plough through 400 miles a day on average.....except today.....streeeetch!!! Luvly!x So...2nd week of January I started to make a mental note of how many badgers I see dead. I can only say it as i;ve seen it.....and the figure is on average....25 a day.....in a random 400 mile trip through the lanes/highlands and valleys of the UK! I know they are cleared....I had to go to Westbury near Bath 3 times over 2 weeks.....different badgers each time! Same can be said Natonwide i;ve noticed! I don't know what my 'survey' sez....but that seems pretty more a better 'cull' than anything the Govt has come up with where necessary....shirley??!x I am ignorant about the Badger debate but that's what i;ve found out....and shared it here where i thought it may be appreciated!x I look forward to catching up with the thread soon!x LUV SOOTY X This pic accompanied an article in which the British Forces were accused of releasing man eating Honey Badgers around Basra in 2003 as a security measure...!x @@ ~

Blimey....! Just looked at me last bit I added in this thread...and it was nearly 6 months ago....!!! This is the first tiome I have logged on...or looked at the site since I last spoke in January too.....so sorry all for not replying to the messages stacked in me box and stuff...I have been busy...and am continuing to be for another 3 or 4 days and will pop back after then to share some joy here and there ok!x I've popped in early because I found this about 6 weeks ago in a junk shop in a friends barn in a village called Birch Cross near Stafford...! Took it home....and was so impressed I shared the tune with a few media friends ho were visiting same day! Just sat in me office after returning from Glasgow and bu**er me the tune comes up on 5 Live as a backing track to a horse racing article they is doing.....which me mates assist with! Sounded awesome....and fitting to the article! It inspired me to share my delight....and I also thought it a fitting tune......considering our last 'meet' in here....!x Love......whatever happens....the music can't leave yer.......some monkey......sigh...X @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X I will answer the messages etc when me business priorities are finished next week!x Have I missed it in here? Yes. Do I need it? Nope. But...we'll start again and less....is more.....i've proved it since being away.....and will share all when i pop back!!x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMn3nPx5h-Q

...interesting comments!x The last piece of vinyl I bought before losing me freedom in 1979 was a tune by M...Pop Musik! It was 'unique' and I personally haven't come across it since but the copy I bought had a double run in groove...! You never knew if you was gonna get the A...or B side 'M Factor'?! No good for DJing but it was a 'coup' to promote the B side....and M as a collective were 'Soul' based folk in their youth!x Ahead of its time and yes I remember singing along to it on the radio whilst putting knock n nail play sets sets together in nick for the kids quite happily!! Was frustrated to not hear the B side tho for a year!!!x Decent 'pop music' and fitting tunes for the thread I reckon...!x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GieHr2CbPxk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q5qaXkinpQ @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

....the aftermath of Xmas is.....Bubble n Squeak!x You've never been poor Dean have you?!.....or fortunate.........I luv the burnt bits personally!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

To you and yours and to all Mike....a happy festive occasion.....and I mean all whom frequent this forum.......! Honest!x LUV SOOTY...N AB'S XX ..short enuff ...for now....Winnie?...!x I'll be back.........be happy!xhehe!x @@ ~ ...perfected it Pete S....I caught up.....tis others behind now.....it'll be alright.........!x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl45xkUtzMc THANK YOU to all who have emailed/pmd and text regarding receipt of your DVDs for Xmas!!!x Forgive me for not replying but take it from this post we are all pleased it went as planned!x As for some of your sincere concerns raised about comments made in this forum whilst I was away.......(hehe).....they will be addressed to suit those who have had a say after this Arab baby's birth is outta the way......i'm in labour always on Xmas Eve and its good to take deep breaths before any excitement......so off to relax and do me Xmas shopping....as usual xmas eve for 30 years....the only time I go into town shopping.....and I see the same faces each year.....maaad that............!x Xmas begins for me today....I will have a happy one and I genuinely hope you all have one too..........MERRY XMAS....!!!x ...Peter99.....bah humbug......hehe...!x @@ ~