The Sandwich in exile - week two.

The photo above was taken by me last Sunday afternoon during the brief but very pleasant break in the current cold weather. It shows a couple of Dutch bulk freighters that regularly moor on Erith Pier - click on the photo for a larger view.

Following my Sunday morning sojourn to my Mum’s to publish last weeks’ blog update after losing my broadband connection - which turned out to be due to my wireless router. It was transmitting OK, but it had become completely deaf to the fibre optic connection linking it to the outside world. A BT engineer visit on Wednesday morning swiftly rectified this with a replacement router, though this lasted barely 24 hours before it too died; at the time of writing I am once again without an internet connection, and am for a second week running posting this from my Mum's computer. BT intend re - visiting on Monday afternoon. I will have to come home from work at lunch time, and just hope that the engineer turns up as booked.

When I returned to Erith last Sunday afternoon, the weather was unusually sunny and pleasant for the time of year, so I decided to go for an extended stroll around the town with my camera; it had been nearly a year since I last took any local photographs, and I was aware that there had been a number of changes that deserved documentation. Mindful of the story concerning the Aleff Group, and their plan to renovate and convert the former Cross Keys pub into a new corporate headquarters for their Anglo American management consultancy, I thought that I would walk along the Thames path on the section that cuts between the side of Erith Playhouse and the side and garden of the Cross Keys. I wanted to see how the renovation work to the building was progressing. I was quite disappointed to see very little evidence of any external improvement to the building. The previous owners had run the place into the ground over a period of many years, and the resulting neglect is most evident to the rear of the structure. The windows, though covered with anti vandal metal shutters, could clearly be seen to be in need of replacement, as the frames were rotten. The cold water overflow pipe looked like it had been dripping for possibly a couple of years, and there was a bright green streak of algae growing along the path of the dripping water . The former pub garden is very overgrown and in dire need of some serious attention. All in all a rather sad looking state. On Wednesday I contacted the Aleff Group, and got a very friendly Email from their Chief Executive; he informed me that renovation work on the Cross Keys is actually scheduled to begin in the next couple of weeks. The first phase will take approximately two months, and once this is completed, a skeleton staff will move into the building before phase two begins. When this is completed, the building will be renovated and modified to suit its’ new role as the HQ for the multinational organisation. Chief Executive,  Doctor Julian Hilton also wrote in his Email that he has been very pleased with the welcome he and his team have received from passers by when they have been visiting the Cross Keys site. The Maggot Sandwich will be getting a tour round the building once all of the renovation work has been completed; I hope to get photos as well. Anticipate an extended article on the Cross Keys and its’ new occupants sometime in late Spring / early Summer.

Prior to my Email conversation, the Aleff Group appeared to be a bit of a mystery; being charitable, their website certainly has a retro and homespun look. To be honest, until I did some research on them, I was half of the opinion that they were a dodgy front for some dubious fraudulent organisation. After a bit of online digging around, I came across the following: “The Aleff Group was founded in 1992 at the suggestion of the European Commission (DG XII and DG XIII) Its initial charter was to act as a mechanism for taking leading edge research and development in science and technology into the market. It has developed into a small group of operating companies dealing with consultancy, training and capacity building, project management and technology transfer. It also comprises a property company and an investment company. Each company operates on a standalone basis, but has a single ownership and management structure. The Group is privately held. It is headquartered in London, UK. It has US offices in Lakeland, Florida, and Atlanta Georgia, and an office in Ifrane, Morocco. In addition to its core staff of management, finance and IT professionals, Aleff Group retains an international team of specialists consultants. It also has long-term collaboration agreements with a small number of specialist organisations in both the public and private sectors." Well that explains that then.

The much awaited 99p shop opened on Monday this week - see the photo above, which was taken last Sunday, just as the owners made their last minute preparations for the opening the next morning; it is located in the old Pound Town unit on the corner of Bexley Road and Cross Street. Compared with Pound Town, the new shop is much better lit and not nearly as airless and stuffy. The amount and variety of stock seems a lot higher too. I had a nose around the place on Monday afternoon after travelling back from a business trip to Watford (here there be dragons!) I was impressed with what the new tenants have done with the space; I hope that they make a success of the venture. One of my local contacts told me that the previous Pound Town shop moved out not because  the business was not profitable – quite the opposite, apparently they were doing very nicely indeed. The reason for the move to their new location in the old Peacock’s shop in Crayford was that the landlord who owns the Erith shop would not extend their lease – something that seems rather strange; although I don’t know if there were any extenuating circumstances. As far as Erith’s value conscious shoppers are concerned, at least another shop offering even better low cost goods has now taken the same site, so for them, it is pretty much service as usual.

Here is a bit of fun. Maggot Sandwich reader the Rev created this spoof publicity poster - all rather "Bleak Expectations" I think!

Another couple of technology anniversaries this week; the first will surprise many. The Light Emitting Diode(LED) is fifty years old this week. I think most people think that they only appeared in the mid 1970’s, famously in early digital watches and calculators. In fact they were created in 1961, and came to market (in the USA at least) early in 1963. Several companies were working on developing the technology in parallel – GEC, Texas Instruments, and IBM all did work in the field, and the final patent was registered to GEC. Early LED’s were quite dim, and only available in red. They proved very popular, as they (and are) far more efficient that incandescent bulbs – they have an efficiency rating in excess of 90% and have a life expectancy of 100,000 hours. Other colours such as yellow and blue became available in the mid 1980’s, although they were still relatively dim, and were not commercially viable to produce until the 1990’s. The ultra bright LED’s that are nowadays starting to replace conventional domestic light bulbs were something developed by Hewlett Packard, although once again these turned out to be prohibitively expensive to manufacture in quantity. It is really only in the last ten or so years that multi coloured, extra bright and sufficiently cheap LED lights have become available, and they are rapidly beginning to dominate the market. Industry sources say that it will be less than a year that all car headlights and indicators will be exclusively LED. They are also getting progressively brighter – the latest types can generate 250 Lumens per Watt of electricity – an astonishing figure. This almost certainly the death knell for the universally hated fluorescent “energy saving” bulb. The slow to start up, not as long lasting as claimed and poor light quality mini fluorescent bulb is dodo technology. It is not nearly so efficient as LED, it contains harmful chemicals such as Mercury, and has a relatively short service life compared to LED. I have LED lights in my kitchen – both in the ceiling as down lighters, and above the work surface as multi coloured concealed mood lighting. The are brilliant – on instantly, silent, cool, energy efficient and good looking. They are still slightly more pricey than fluorescent lights, but the hugely longer service life more than compensates – you would get through thirty or forty (or possibly even more) fluorescent bulbs for the life of a single LED, not only that, but the far higher efficiency would have saved a packet on your electricity bill at the same time. Personally, I tend to leave the kitchen multi coloured mood lighting on at night – if I come down for a drink in the early hours, it saves blinding myself switching on the main lights, whilst being bright enough to see. The power consumption of the mood lighting is roughly equivalent to the output of a nine volt dry cell battery, so it is a very cost effective option. 

I was queuing to pay for some shopping in Morrison’s midweek, when a lady with a toddler approached me. “Are you Arthur Pewty”? She asked. I confirmed that sometimes I was. She then told me that her husband (who was sitting in the cafeteria with their other toddler) was a regular reader and great fan of the Maggot Sandwich, and once I had completed my shopping, would I go and have a word with him? Flattered, I agreed and shortly popped over for a very pleasant natter with Tom, who is an Erith local who has been following my inane ramblings for a good couple of years. Getting recognised in public is a bit of a novelty; it does happen on the odd occasion – mainly at public events like the Alexander Selkirk day, where I got collared by a handful of people. The experience, which I have found to be productive and congenial does make me wonder why a small but significant number of people seek fame at almost any cost. The rise of reality TV (which itself is a misnomer; it is about as divorced from reality as you can get) has left some people under the impression that appearing on television and in public is the peak of possible achievement. Of course, television does not seek to kill the golden goose by dispelling this myth. Personally – with the occasional exception as described above, I am more than happy to retain as much anonymity as possible. Not being on FaceBook, LinkedIn, Twitter or other social networking sites does enable me to have rather more control of my online profile than can be said of most people. You won’t find any embarrassing photos of me, or really get any clear picture of my interests and habits apart from that published via the Maggot Sandwich – though I would say that when I have done searches on a number of locally related subjects,  photos I took sometimes years ago for the blog do turn up. I have also noticed that if you Google “Arthur Pewty”, this blog now comes up at the top of the list, above Monty Python, where the name originates. The power of persistence.

During the few days I was without broadband, I spent more time listening to my JRC NRD 345 communications receiver. I have had the excellent since I bought it new in 1997 and it has given me countless hours of listening pleasure. Recently it has been rather neglected, as reception conditions on many shortwave bands have been unusually poor. I did stumble across a radio station I had not previously encountered at the weekend. Anglo Dutch station KBC Radio – who broadcast on 6.095 MHz on shortwave, using a hired broadcast transmitter located in Holland are an oldies station featuring archived programmes from broadcasting legends Wolfman Jack and Emperor Rosko amongst others. Rather than the usual shortwave music pirates, KBC Radio are legitimate, and are sponsored by the Dutch equivalent of Maplin. If you have a shortwave radio, try tuning to them during daylight hours at the weekend; they are definitely worth a listen. I have added them to my regular favourites, though in my opinion, the best music station on shortwave is still the excellent Laser Hot Hits on 4.026 MHz, 24 hours a day. As previously mentioned, they are rather suffering from poor propagation conditions for much of the time at present.  Check out their website here, as you can stream them online in high quality stereo if you are not a masochist like me who likes to listen via “real” analogue means via old fashioned AM radio.

Nowadays people are so used to using the web to assist with their personal and business requirements that it seems long ago that services such as Gmail and Google Docs were not around. Back in the 1980’s when most computers were stand alone units, and even with a modem you would be hard pressed to communicate with anything other than a simple bulletin board.  Big businesses had embraced computing almost from the get – go; most famously in the UK by the Lyons tea shop chain using LEO (Lyons Electronic Office) – the world’s first range of business computers. On the other end of the market, very few small and medium sized companies thought that they would either be able to afford, or indeed would ever need a computer, let alone lots of them. In 1979, the very first “killer app” was created. A “killer app” is defined as a piece of software which is so compelling and revolutionary that people will buy a particular computer than runs the application, just so that they can use it. An example of this was “Elite” for the BBC Micro – as many copies of “Elite” were sold as there were BBC Micros sold, and that was even before the game was ported onto other 80’s home computers. But I digress; the first “killer app” for small and medium businesses was also the first micro computer spreadsheet program, called “Visicalc”. You can read all about Visicalc by the people who developed it here. Visicalc was a pioneering piece of software, but it was pretty limited in its’ capabilities, and was soon overtaken by other business packages which had more power and flexibility. The most significant of these was a package called Lotus 123, which is possibly the single most influential piece of business software ever created – even web based office applications such as Microsoft’s Office 365 and Google’s Google Docs use much of the model first established by it. Lotus 123 was so called because it integrated a (for the time) powerful and flexible spreadsheet with a database and a graphics program. Back in 1983, it sold for £495 ( a huge amount of money, and more than some of the computers it ran on) Lotus 123 packed more commands and options than the competition - it automated tedious charting, detailed spreadsheet manipulation and allowed you to calculate formulae using rows and columns instead of just row and column order. Unlike the rival applications on the market, Lotus 123 wasn’t hard to understand or difficult to use. There were jargon-free prompts, explanatory messages, and fail-safe mechanisms in case of mistakes. Lotus 123 was the first program to make full use of the IBM keyboard enabling commands via the F and slash keys. Lotus 123 packed a tutorial package and context-sensitive help – You can read more about it in a contemporary review here. Lotus 123 is thirty years old this week; it scarcely seems like it. I once used the software to track and record structural steelwork building progress,  when I was a trainee quantity surveyor for Cyril Sweett and Partners, now known as Sweett Group, just before I decided that construction was not actually for me, and I ran away to sea to join Radio Caroline. That, as they say is another story.

I see that the London Borough of Bexley is due to get its’ fifth senior Police officer in four years. The current incumbent, Chief Superintendent Victor Olisa is moving on to a new position as the chief of Haringey Police, after less than a year in his current role in Bexley. According to the interview that he gave the News Shopper, the decision to move was not his, but was imposed by senior management. This can be interpreted in a number of different ways. Either they are moving him away from Bexley, or they are moving him to Haringey. If they are moving him away from Bexley, what is the reason? If they are moving him to Haringey, then is this because of the ongoing Mark Duggan enquiry. What special qualities can Victor Olisa bring to that distasteful situation? I don’t know. One thing that has been suggested by one of my informers is that the Police forces in Bexley and Bromley are going to be combined under a single unified command. This seems to have been reinforced as an announcement has now been made that Victor Olisa's replacement is to be Superintendent Peter Ayling - the plans to integrate Bromley and Bexley would appear to be reinforced,  as Ayling is only a Superintendent, not a Chief Superintendent like his predecessor. This would indicate that he will effectively become second in command to a Chief Superintendent in Bromley. Time will tell. This would make a substantial cost saving, not only with the loss of a senior officer’s salary, but possibly by the closure of a Police station. Does this potentially mean the end of Bexleyheath nick? I don’t know, but I suspect that it remains a possibility. The loss of the only remaining police station in the borough would be a politically risky move, and something to be resisted if it ever came to pass. The trouble currently is that there is so much that we don’t know, or has yet to be decided.

Did you know that a giant, 50 metre wide stone asteroid will pass astonishingly close to the Earth on the 15th of February? The asteroid, fetchingly named 2012DA14 will be the biggest object passing the closest to the planet since records began in the early 1990’s. The asteroid will pass inside the orbit of many satellites, and is predicted to miss the Earth by approximately 3.5 times the radius of the planet – a hair width in astronomical terms. If it did hit the Earth, it would make a hell of a bang equivalent to around a two megaton nuclear device, but would not be big enough to wipe out all life on the planet. NASA have said that “the impact of a 50 metre asteroid is not cataclysmic, unless you happen to be underneath it” – not exactly the most reassuring news, I have to say. All of this activity coincides with the launch of a privately financed project to mine the asteroid belt for minerals and rare earth metals. Film maker James Cameron, along with Google executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt bankrolled a company called Planetary Resources. It plans to send small and cheap robotic probes to nearby asteroids to survey them prior to possibly mining them for raw materials. The (theoretical) beauty of asteroid mining is that the valuable minerals and metals tend to be distributed in a fairly even way throughout the body of the asteroid, unlike on Earth where they tend to be hidden away, very deep underground. How the cost of launching and maintaining a fleet of robot mining spacecraft would be offset by the sale of the mined material is not yet clear. It is apparent that a huge investment with the possibility of little or no return is possible. Still the chaps at Google have exceedingly deep pockets.

The ending video this week is a warming and wholesome winter vegetable pie from bonkers web based cookery teacher Titli Nihaan. I think that it is high time a television production company gave her a TV show - I am sure that she would be a great success on the small screen. Do leave a comment below.

T.W Records.

The photo above shows some anglers, fishing off Erith Pier recently. Erith Pier is the longest pier structure on the River Thames; it was built as a commercial pier which took the giant rolls of newsprint from the Scandinavian paper mills that used to be shipped over to Erith, then stored in a large warehouse on the Europa Industrial Estate in Fraser Road, before they were taken by lorry up to what used to be Fleet Street for use by the newspaper industry. Nowadays that has all ended, and the pier was refurbished as part of the building of Erith Morrison's - it has won a couple of civic awards, and is now a popular place to walk on a nice day. The fishermen always seem to be present, whatever the weather or time of day. You can sometimes see their tilley lamps at night - many have small tents, portable gas stoves and all the home comforts - it can get bitterly cold in the middle of the night. Rather them than me!

Channel 4 and E4 series Misfits starts its' fourth season this evening at 10pm - the superhero comedy drama is really not very much to write home about in my opinion (not that I am in the target audience). It is filmed in and around Tavy Bridge in Thamesmead, although I doubt that this will be the case for much longer - most of the older parts of Thamesmead are currently being demolished to make way for new developments. The whole dystopian "Clockwork Orange" look and feel of Misfits will soon be no more - what this will mean to the development of the show I do not know.

I was sitting in my home office (where the Maggot Sandwich updates get born every Sunday afternoon) when I heard a soft “pop” and the light above me went out. It was a “long life” domestic energy saver fluorescent bulb. It certainly was not long life, lasting for approximately 1,200 hours, instead of the 8,000 hours it was rated for. It was meant to have the light output of a conventional 100W bulb, but struggled to rival an asthmatic glow worm. It also needed a written application before powering up. Clearly the fluorescent energy saving bulb is not the solution to power reduction that it was touted as – the technology is pretty feeble by any decent benchmark. I have had enough of them – I am going to bite the bullet and invest in some high output LED lights. I already have them in the kitchen, and I am very happy indeed with the results. The LED lights come on to full power instantly, they have a very blue / white light with almost no heat, and they have a guaranteed working life of ten years. They also consume less power than fluorescent bulbs – around 9 watts for the equivalent lighting to a standard 100W bulb. At present they are a fair bit more expensive than other bulb technologies, but the extended bulb life counters this – all in all they should work out a lot cheaper in the long run, and save a fair amount of electricity to boot.

There is a fascinating and complimentary article on the Bexley Times website regarding long established independent record dealer Cruisin’ Records in Welling. I recall visiting the shop in the 1980’s – it held a bewildering variety of stock, from pretty much every musical genre; at the time it leaned towards jazz funk and soul, and I can recall hearing adverts for the shop on several dance themed pirate radio stations at the time. Erith used to have an independent record shop, which was part of a small chain – T.W Records was located on the site of the cab office on the junction of Pier Road and Cross Street. It was a strange place, managed by a person of (to me anyway) indeterminate gender. I never really worked out whether they were he or she, or perhaps somewhere in between. They were not exactly unfriendly, more distant and uninterested – well, that was my impression anyway. The shop was on split levels, with most chart singles and albums on the lower tier, and the more obscure genres, along with a couple of slot machines, and the cash desk were on the upper tier. What anyone who ever visited the place always recalls is the ceiling, which was remarkable – giant purple plaster stalactites hung down, almost reaching head height when you were on the upper tier – they had been there for as long as I could recall. Who put them there and why, was beyond me, until I received the following Email from fellow local archivist and photographer Dave on Wednesday morning:- " It's me in the photo (see above - click for a larger view), one of a series of photos taken around Erith (my hometown) for my then band Speedy Needle and the Acid Drops. It was taken just a few months before we discovered punk - by the summer of 77 the flares and hair had gone and I had formed a new band R21. TW records was a regular hangout on a Saturday and we new the staff really well they ordered in the punk singles as well as what was then some fairly obscure reggae that we were into (Culture, Prince Far I, Dillinger etc). The purple stalactites were a hang over from when the shop was a trendy mens boutique - which was opened by the then Chelsea football team. I can't remember what it was called but I am sure it will come back to me!" T.W records also had a shop in Bexleyheath, near the clock tower, where the Furze Wren is now located, as well as a third in Plumstead High Street, though I never visited that branch. The Bexleyheath shop also housed a small cafe, that constantly seemed busy, though I reckon some of their customers nursed a cup of tea and a bacon sarnie for hours. It was a much more conventional looking shop, but both the Erith and Bexleyheath stores had one thing in common – it was widely known that they were both chart return shops. They had special tills that monitored record sales that fed into the weekly record chart. It was meant to be secret, but pretty much everyone – including the record company sales reps knew which shops were chart return, and always made sure that rarities, picture disks and other items desirable to collectors would make their way to those outlets. I recall that the Erith branch would often have large promotional displays in the window, which were left lit up at night, the glow from these would reflect off the purple stalactites to give an eerie atmosphere – very surreal stuff. A pity that the shops are long gone – but at least Cruisin’ Records are carrying on the tradition. Here is a clip from a musician who would have most definitely been stocked by T.W Records, had he been around during their heyday - Joe Bonamassa, blues prodigy and cited by some as "the new Eric Clapton". See what you think.

I have a YouTube channel, mainly as a result of an experiment I carried out in DVD ripping and encoding a couple of years back; I don’t really use YouTube for much other than looking for interesting things to embed in each weeks’ blog update, and the casual scoot around that most people do from time to time. One thing I have noticed is a craze for people to upload video of themselves eating ridiculously hot chilli peppers, most notoriously the Naga Bhut Jolokia and Dorset Naga variety. The willing participants generally do well for the first thirty seconds or so – most Naga chilli varieties start off as slow burners, but soon their intense spice kicks in. Chilli “heat” is measured using a unit of measurement called the Scoville Scale. Tabasco red pepper sauce gets a Scoville rating of 2,500 – 5,000, whereas the Dorset Naga comes in at nearly 1.6 Million on the scale – that is the difference between a bonfire night bottle rocket and a Trident ballistic missile! Why people are not only masochistic enough to subject themselves to the sheer agony of such foolishness is beyond me; to then film their discomfort and upload it for the world to see is yet a further mystery to me. For some reason the worst offenders are the Brits and the Americans – it seems a uniquely Anglo American matter. You can see some of the most discomforting footage here. Personally I have tried Naga chilli paste – Tony in the Robin Hood and Little John is a fellow pepper head, and he purchased some online from India. I tried it on a recent lunchtime visit to the pub. I took a tiny smear of the paste on a piece of buttered bread. Yes, the sauce was incredibly hot, but it also had a fruity, spicy, complex flavour – it is possible to enjoy such peppers as long as you use caution and only use a tiny amount – too much and you would figuratively blow your head off. Just why the YouTube wallies do what they do is utterly beyond me. Despite extreme chilli silliness, the Robin Hood and Little John offer a superb and varied selection of home cooked "proper pub food" - you can see their excellent menu by clicking here.

Bluewater shopping centre markets itself as a slice of the West End in North Kent, and to be honest, when it first opened, it did feel rather special. I visited Bluewater last Saturday afternoon, and the atmosphere feels subtly different. For a start there are a surprisingly large number of vacant shop units – all skilfully covered by brightly decorated hoardings, but empty nevertheless. Secondly the store population has shifted. When the place opened, Bluewater boasted that never again would a man accompanying a woman on a shopping trip be bored as the woman tried on garments in a number of clothing outlets, as the shop distribution was planned so that next to every shop primarily designed to attract women would be a shop of more interest to a man. The thinking being that the woman would go into one shop, and the bloke would go next door to look around and wait for his other half to finish her retail therapy. This is now no longer the case. There are now vast swathes of clothing and shoe shops, cheek by jowl with each other, and actually very few male oriented shops at all. I would imagine that market forces have been at work – admittedly my observations were rather unscientific, but I did notice that there were approximately two women for every bloke visiting during my time on the premises. Saturday afternoon during the football season may be not the best time to conduct demographic research on the behaviour of shoppers, but since Saturday is the most busy day for retail, it may be telling. I detest large crowds, and quickly found Bluewater going from somewhere vaguely irritating to somewhere to be actively avoided. I have no idea if the same thing applies in Lakeside, as I have not been there for a number of years; I used to find that Lakeside was generally a better shopping experience though.

There has been much talk in the local press (both the News Shopper and the Bexley Times) regarding the potential new ferry between Thamesmead and Beckton. Local MP Teresa Pearce has been quoted as saying that “I’m concerned about the new ferry service because I don’t think it will be free. The Mayor’s office haven’t confirmed if it will be and I’m afraid the cost of it might be shifted onto residents.” There is also concern that the opening of a ferry East of Woolwich would mean the end of the historic free ferry service there, and drive heavy traffic through a rather sleepy part of Thamesmead, which is very close to the location of the Gallion’s View nursing home – whose residents in their twilight years do not deserve noisy and polluting traffic going past their door. In reality we could do with a tunnel from Thamesmead under the river to the Essex side, in a similar manner to the Gillingham tunnel on the River Medway, which is a fine piece of engineering. The cost and local disruption mean this option is very unlikely to happen – a ferry is far easier to implement and run economically. I do fear that any new service will be for profit, and the long standing principle of a free ferry will be lost – for the first time since the fourteenth century, although this would require an act of Parliament to happen, and many people / politicians would regard this as a poisoned chalice – local people are likely to have long memories regarding any politician that supports the end of the Woolwich Free Ferry.

It has been reported in the national press that just for once Parliament has had a debate on a subject close to my heart; I have been banging on for as long as I can recall about the utterly exorbitant price of razor blades. An eight pack of razor blade cartridges can now cost in the region of £22 - a huge sum, whatever your benchmark might be. In real terms the price of blades has increased by 1000% in the last three years. There can be no justification for this - other than the manufacturers and the supermarkets are conspiring to rip off the consumer - raw materials and assembly costs cannot have risen so much in the last three years. In any case, the matter has been debated in a parliamentary early day motion raised by members of the Northern Irish DUP party. Whether their efforts will have any benefit remain to be seen.

The video this week is a fascinating piece of local history; a professionally made documentary about the story behind Erith Yacht Club - a real reflection on the history of the whole area, and well worth a watch. Let me know what you think.