[badjez]

I've always enjoyed the research aspect more than just 'collecting'. Unfortunately today too many people want the instant gratification and aren't prepared to put in the hard yards. Like so many other areas of society some expect someone else to do the work for them: be this picking up their rubbish, providing them with benefits, or carrying out basic research.

Most good public libraries can give access to K&K (albeit inter-library transfers) and many other reference books. It is so much easier to sit back, switch on a pc and ask Uncle Google to connect me to a forum where someone else has already done the work for me.

I support Peter's view.

Stephen

PS does anyone recognise this ww1 Commando badge worn by my brother in the Napoleonic wars?