On a related note, just a quick message to all those people making the following and many similar calls
"ABC joining non-standard base runway XX"
"ABC joining right downwind runway XX" (when the circuit not specified as being a right hand circuit)
Just because you tell us you're joining non-standard, or that you're joining on the wrong side of the circuit doesn't make it legal. For the sake of a couple of seconds, do the right thing and join the circuit correctly. Its where all the people doing the right thing expect you to be.