[Peter D]

Guys, thanks for your kind words & commiserations !

The exercise was a salutory lesson in checking everything - again & again !

I was just lucky that it was an 8' run to a brick wall, not a 100m run down a hill to a school crossing !! Naturally, I am now totally anal about parking the car on a slope - handbrake on, in reverse gear, wheels turned to the kerb (trust me, I have even thought about wheel chocks !).

Mark, the painting delay is simply another manifestation of my intimate relationship with "Murphy" - I rang the painter 2 days after he got an order for 2 x show-class hotrods !

Thanks & Kind Regards,

Peter D.