Well, James Morris was kind enough to reply as follows:

Yes H. D. , you are on the list and we are still looking at November as a ship month, just running about 3 weeks behind. We will contact you at that time. Thank you for your order.

Hmmm.... right : I waited and it's now last day November, so time to inquire again. In the meantime
I had a great time at the Steorn virtual party - see the fallout on the forums http://www.steorn.net/forum/ : they're still talking about it and Babcat says it was a night he will never forget... we finally saw Crank as well. Root around in there if you want a picture of her.

My birthday came and went, then yesterday was Gerard's - Mark and I congratulated him...
We researched the old Chi Gung group - 2 members went to China and one became a CDU politician in Munster, north Germany. The chi worked well, it seems.