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!