Well done cats! - do you know I was almost convinced by Belmont, Mike, and yourself that I could put away my passport and visa form when I saw a delightful program on the TV - something along the lines of "Let's justify the force helicopter/Camera/Action" - or something similar.

It showed a police helicopter being used to target(-geddit?) gun crime, and had some thrilling footage of the chopper co-ordinating a ground team (suitably codenamed "Sabre", or "Stromtrooper" or something similar)to descend on some camouflage clad miscreants with high powered rifles with,(gasp!)silencers fitted, who were suspected of bumping off Bambis in a park.

It was a textbook operation, all filmed with the helicopter's high-definition, image stabilised, onboard camera with the perpetrators, -faces clearly identifiable-, being made to lay their guns on the ground (in a tidy row so they all fitted into camerashot) by armed police.

It was a shame that if your concentration slipped for a second, you would have missed the commentator at the very end, grudgingly admit that it transpired that this had in fact been a properly authorised culling operation.

The message to Joe public was clear - anyone out with a rifle in the countryside is up to no good.

Come on BASC and BDS, - where's the outraged complaint about this propaganda? I would be more than happy for you to use a little of my annual subscription to fund this.

Anyway, - anyone care to recommend one of the more gun friendly colonies? - with any luck, pinching a loaf of bread should get me there as I can't afford the ticket.

PS - I hope you have noted that I have now learned to type 'policie' - er 'poilce', no, dammit, 'poclie' - oh - what the hell...