I bought a new stereo in september. When I was looking around I wanted a CD player, tape and digital radio combo, preferably in a mini hi-fi system with good speakers. However such a device is not made 9which seems a bit daft to me). Grrrr. So I just bought the stereo and will wait for a digi-radio to get cheaper. My bro has one though, so I might pinch it when he's not looking (in the evil-little sister way of doing things!).

[Btd]The one I saw at Boots was £99, so how much is the Classic FM model? Is that the one at WH Smiths?

Yup - reduced to £71.

Personally I'd want a hi-fi separate digiradio, cos although these retro-style portables are all well and good I don't understand why you would want a high-quality, distortion-free digital signal piped through a three-inch speaker.

rab] This one has line out on the back (I checked before buying) - so I can (and will) use it with my seperates. And the speaker isn't bad at all!

What countries are we all from on this place? I sometimes detect language/ideas from the other side of the pond, and I find it all very interesting.

USA. Although I try to use the British spelling when I think about it.

Why, I'm in London. Where are you, ZK?

UK - Statford-upon-Avon.

[Bm] Kicking about a messy student flat in Birmingham :)

Kicking a dog about in a messy house in Bucks!

UK also..Birmingham also..Sutton Coldfield exactly

[AP] (ignoring the obvious rspca-needing overtones) You just told me it wasn't that bad! :)

Kicking about in a small, scruffy semi in Herts. [Angus - where are you in Bucks? I'm just 500 yards from the county line, sheriff]
[Chalky] It's a laptop on the kitchen table. Very handy for grilling sausages while I surf, although there's never anything interesting left in my fridge. Sometimes I take the laptop upstairs to watch DVDs in bed :o)

[Pen] Does that mean that it is used as an electric frying pan cum hot water bottle? How often do you need to wash the bedding?

[Dujon] It only really needs doing if I fry fish.

When I was small, I read a book in which a character declared that mangos should always be eaten in the bath, because of the mess. For years, eating mangos in the bath has been my idea of utter decadent pleasure. But I have since revised this to watching DVDs in bed on a laptop, which I now do frequently and with enormous satisfaction.

[Pen] *Urrgh!* ... ;-) [Pen & Breadmaster] Without mentioning names, there are some who frequent this web site who worry me!