Sometimes when we take a stroll down another path & while discussing certain aspects of an issue we stumble into another aspect of life that opens a complete set of new doors. We should at every opportunity be broad minded enough to see the topic change as generally a positive thing where we gain another bit of information that we did not have before. Fish & chips may not be the pinnacle of discussion & indeed for the thread "owner"a step he/she would not rather have. I follow all lifeboat threads if possible & was following this particular thread too. Apart from learning a little bit more about a lifeboat I also discovered that in New Zealand anyway you get one great meal if you order fish & chips & in the end what could be wrong in that information, as an afterthought nobody anywhere match the British for fish & chips, & yes I have eaten them out of the News of the World or the Sun, Mick B.