Thanks, Judy; it's kind of you to say so (and it's great to hear from you). But really, I get so frustrated trying to take pictures of beads. If I could just get one whole bead in focus, all at the same moment, I'd be a happy man! Anyway, these are probably my last posts for a while; next week I'm off again to Southeast Asia for a few months - Vietnam first of all, then Thailand of course, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia... No doubt I'll have some stories to tell when I get back.

All the best,

Will