Sylvia, I was born and brought up in Bristol, not too far away from you there in Cheltenham (lovely town). We have it a LOT hotter in summer here in Japan (up to 95 to 98 degrees, with 100% humidity!), but the winters are quite mild. If you like stitching panoramas, you might enjoy my article on Panoramas (it's in the "Articles" section of Usefilm with links from both the main and community pages). One tip for printing panoramas; use roll paper. Then you can print the full width of the paper and have the photo just as long as it needs to be... It's great watching them slowly come out of the printer, growing longer and longer! I use 4" rolls for most, and 8" rolls for the ones I hang on the wall myself or for other people. All you need is the roll-feed adaptor,which came free with my Epson photo printer.