When you finish typing, Ctrl A to highlight the whole document, Ctrl C to copy it. Then, if you find you are logged out, it's still waiting for you on your clipboard to Ctrl V back into your fresh new field.

I had to learn that trick on MSN Groups where it was quite common to see a long post disappear into the virtual ether, wasting whole minutes of valuable argument time!

Anyway, back to the topic. I speak atrocious Hochschwitziduutsch, picked up by ear, having failed, repeatedly, to actually attend lessons I'd paid for upfront. After a long discussion with a very good Swiss friend last week, I've decided to forget speaking Swiss German until I've mastered my High German, and to do that I really need to put some effort in. My friend tells me I need to do an evening course. My wallet tells me otherwise. I've got books, of course, but I never look at them.

I learnt Greek by listening, and I'm crap at that, too.

I suspect that my friend might be right.

Bugger.

She's always right.