....good - sent that email off....you see, dear reader...it is all because I know what my parents are like...along the lines of...if they cannot be bothered to come to Clacton, then they do not really want to see me, at all (see previous notes upon 'all of that' i.e. they can go to London/Edinburgh festival but a bus trip down the road, from manningtree is 'too hard' etc etc)...it is all about 'common courtesy', at the end of the day..."happy families - keeping up appearances" replies MI5 ONLINE....go figure: