Thanks for the confirmation chaps!
Later...
Just been searching around to see if I had imagined that there was ever any confusion and found the following from no less a figure than BEagle in
this thread :
I'm not sure why you bothered with a BFR if you held a Temporary Airman Certificate - the FAA told me that a BFR is NOT needed if your UK licence is kept valid.....
Which was followed by a response from
FFF as per the one above.
Now happy that I'm not going mad, and no longer in doubt about the need for BFRs!