Oh my!........
....I like that word Dave. "Thrutching" brings all sorts of mental images to the surface (some of which will need suppressing).
However comma it being Christmas Eve, not in the workhouse, and having for a heathen been to g'daughetrs carol Service this afterrnoon in Brizzle, and feeling generally benevolent, I wish you all a good Christmas and a better 2011 - particularaly to the all worried folks at ISK.
The Ancient Mariner