I have to shout about this, Nigel who lived just down the road "popped" off to Calgary a couple of weeks ago to compete in the World Championships Blacksmiths.  This competition is hard work - doing something most of us computer people never really experience - lifting a heavy hammer and beating red hot iron into the shapes required (horse shoes and many others) over a blisteringly hot fire for hours on end.  I'm not saying that we don't work hard, but this is physical endurance that you should not have to experience when installing SBS!!!

Anyway, so off went this Brit, where the end result out by a 3 mm would mean disqualification, and beat his way through many rounds to be ranked number 10 in the world!!!!!  I've seen the work Nigel does, from special shoes for lame horses to sausages on a BBQ and the result is always perfect.

His achievements managed to make BBC news - http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_6290000/newsid_6293700?redirect=6293726.stm&news=1&bbram=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1

I just had to tell everybody that we have one of the world's top ten best blacksmiths working right.

ttfn

David