With you there Sid, arriving home around 05.00 from a base in East Anglia is a regular feature of my life at present and about to be around 06.30, and, yes, I do live within 45 minutes. Thurrock's a non starter. Rochester is a great little foward operating base that could be developed into the real thing, but I'm not sure the people of Essex would wear Kent taking 'their' ASU away. TOWIE!