We have the Daily Mail, used to get The Times but found it excruciatingly boring. The Mail does have some rubbish in but it also has some good articles, a good mix of serious and more light-hearted stuff, which I think is a good balance instead of all tat like you get in some and the serious, boring Times. Has good sport section if you like sport and some good magazines with the Sunday version.

I just buy the DM on Saturdays, and would go along with that. I find the Sun, the Star and the Mirror far too trivial, although the first two often have a couple of good points, fnaar, fnaar (yes I usually buy Viz too, but going off it) Find the Times, Telegraph and “Gruniad” all a bit heavy-going, and the Express seems like a pale imitation of the DM. If you can make allowances for the DM’s “Little England” mentality and the fact they still seem to be pining for Maggie Thatcher, there is often quite a bit of interesting stuff to read.

Thanks for the replies, folks. Currently have a “Tiny” PC almost 12 years old, and getting infuriatingly slow, with a habit of just freezing for minutes at a time. Got a worrying feeling it may just pack up without warning. Thinking in the region of £300 for a new one; is that reasonable? Thanks again.

Sounds like a case of “six of one and half-a-dozen of the other” ie 1 bloke keen to get his photo + 1 bloke keen to get home to his family + 1 hot day = Boom! Put it down to experience,

Joined in 2005, but that same year I got married (relatively late in life) and since then my interest in aviation has had to take a back seat, especially since my 2 sons came along. My large collection of books, magazines, DVD’s etc is now in internal exile in the loft. Last weekend I flew on an Embraer 195 and was taken aback to realise how little I knew about the type. Once upon a time I’d have known so much more.

Hope he calls it Olympic II, because as we all now know thanks to our passing-by Troll, that was the real name of the ship that sank in 1912.

Soooooo looking forward to a 7 page “Hello” spread, 6 part TV series, book and DVD about what a private thing this wedding will be.

Just finishing “Charlotte Gray” by Sebastian Faulks. Found some of the scenes towards the end rather harrowing, but another superb book by the author.

Thanks very much for that. I will give it a go when we get there.