[Rosie] Actually, since you still have an Acorn machine, you know all that already.

[nights] Luddite!    ;-)

[Rosie] I saw in my local paper today a couple of paragraphs indicating that Russian meteoroligsts will be fined should they get 'it' wrong. That'd spark up your whatsits!

(Darren) Certainly do. But I used to POKE my Spectrum unmercifully. :-)

(Dujon) The perfect way of ensuring useless weather forecasts. Russian weathermen will now say there is a risk of everything but everyone will soon learn to ignore them, thus being caught out when there actually is a risk. So it's an absolutely brilliant idea. I think we may have more than a trace of it here. Have a look at my earlier posting.