MOMENT OF PANIC!

[AllFramed]

I think it is quite simple; this is a forum; people ask questions; people offer suggestions; you consider them and take or leave them; no place for rubbishing anyone.

I always find everyone's input to my questions helpful as there are generally plenty of ways to skin the cat, for me, that's what makes it interesting.

[Tudor Rose]

As the one who started this post, can I say:

a) we found lots of the advice helpful and it has given us ideas we wouldn't have thought of;

b) some of the ideas made us laugh out loud - and that is another thing I love about the forum, it makes me laugh a lot;

c) the customer was driven by price to an extent as a collection had been taken to pay for the leaving gift, so I am now doing what a good daughter always should, and taking the crowbar to my Dad who is a dab hand at all things metalwork (retired metalwork teacher, very handy!)

d) we will hopefully post a photo of the finished article if I remember to take one before they pick it up.

e) we hope no-one feels they need to leave the forum when the ideas can be so helpful

So thank you for all the advice, hints and tips - we will take from it the bits we like and quietly ignore the bits we don't.

Tudor Rose