Thanks again, both for editing the post and your kind remarks. Good luck to you too :)

My father joined a company straight from school, then retired from it a few years ago... So that would be 40 odd years. Even national service was done while still technically employed. But those days are long gone. I felt a bit of a fossil being with my last lot form 14 years - and that was technically two lumps of 7. Iain. I have now moved to Sweden for pillage and to steal their women - fair's fair, after all...