Hello there Tom. Well having been one of many who now doubt started reading this blog after seeing the bit on the BBC web site; I feel I should indulge you with some info about me. After all, I have just read every post of yours from June 2003 to the present day. Started on Monday and just finished! You must have a very good host to handle all the traffic! Oh and don’t worry about my time, my current job is a joke! I'm 27 years old. Born in Ashford general hospital, West London. Spent the first nearly three years of my life living in Staines. Right at the end of one of the, then, major runways for Heathrow. By the time I was 2 years old, the only plane that disturbed me in the slightest was a Concorde on take off. The up shot of which is that I can now sleep through fire alarms, and other VERY loud things that most people find painful to hear. After that I moved around. A lot. Father was in the Royal Marines. Eventually ended up in the University of Hull, where I tried and failed to get a degree in Analytical Chemistry and toxicology. However I did meet Henna there! A Finnish girl whom I now married to and live very happily with, along with our 14 month old daughter Helena, in Tampere, Finland. I too once had a blog. And as I was not working, but studying (Environmental Engineering, and no, please don’t ask L), I felt that as long as I told the truth then no-one was going to bat an eye lid at it. My dedicated following of less than 10 readers a week never said anything. And then I wrote about a relationship and a factual error made by a teacher all in one post. And ended up one step short of the courts, emailing search engines asking them to remove from their cache my already deleted blog. Oh and showing someone who I considered to be a liberal minded academic, that I had indeed deleted every single posting I had ever written from the hard drive of my computer. And I have never written another blog again. I have photo blog for far-flung friends and relatives to see my little family, but that doesn’t count. The moral that I picked up was that Finn’s don’t like to hear the ugly truth from non-Finn’s. A fact that has since been told to me by several people whom assumed “everyone knows that!” Well as I say, “Assumption is the mother of all ****up’s!” My wife understood where I was coming from, but 4 years in the UK has allowed her to develop a rather “thick skin” and a sense of how misguided many of her countrymen can be. Well enough about me. Your blog is more that outstanding, it’s been so funny I have literally fallen off my chair with laughter at one point. I have felt the immenseness of the deaths that you have tried to prevent and have marvelled how on earth you can be blessed with such an awesome younger brother! Mine is the polar opposite. Please keep up the great work, can’t wait for the podcasts, can listen to them and then maybe fall off my chair with laughter in my lab! Also you have instilled in me an urge to restart “The ranting’s of a Brit in Finland”, my blog may yet rise again!