>> It took another 11 years to get my Kingdoms Arts and service awards.....at this >>rate a peerage when I am eighty might be feasible......... HA! 8 1/2 for the AOA; 15 years after that, my very first A&S award. (Of course, there were service awards between those two extremes, but still, 15 years for A&S is still somewhat, ummm, out of the ordinary.) Alban