John Bicker, No I'm not going there again, although it did generate some excellent posts. As for the UK, most of everything is metric here although we have held off Brussels from making us use Km instead of miles for distance for the meantime. Unlike the rest of Europe, we Brits slavishly enforce all the Eurolegislation that Brussels spouts (or should that be sprouts?). Maybe we should take a leaf out of the French or Italian book and just say we are complying whilst in fact completely ignoring the rules.