All,
Thank you for your kind remarks. Have had double ration of "Baileys" in my coffee to celebrate. As you say, Ian, Slainte ! - or "Long may your lum reek !"
There is something else to celebrate, too: for a long time I used to note here that this, Cliff's magnificent Thread of ours, had (if you except the special cases of "Stickies" and "CapCom") the largest number of Posts and "hits" of any Thread on "Military Aviation" Forum. Then the upstart "F-35 Cancelled" pipped us before the 10,000 Post point, but only in respect of the Posts figure.
At time of writing, we have our noses in front again (if only by 1) on that too - which it is where it belongs IMHO.
Danny.