Hi zooropa, its cleared up a bit now so the cat has just gone out, its no going to be mutch fun for the kids or the perents if the weather stays like this, but it is supposed to be clearing for the weekend, if you can beleve the weather men, i go and have a look myself at one of the weather sats, if you are interested, use google and punch in eumetsat, its the one that has the meteosat imgaes about the third one down the page, i find its fun to try and see if i can do a better job than the met office, regards, raptor214.