Thanks everyone. This morning I woke up to find the flag was flying at full mast so I feel better today. You're right hd, Friday is dustbin day so I'll make sure I put it out before the bin men arrive. One less thing to worry about. My concern is that if the pressure gets to me by Friday (eeek it's Thursday today, that means Friday is tomorrow) and the wind isn't blowing the flag might be only at half mast and then W will think I've been making a fuss about nothing and... it doesn't bear thinking about... SD