I use firefox also, but I have the IE Tab addon for it, so I just need to click on the icon to switch bettewen browser. Very usefull in cases like this.
It doen't open IE, just a new tab in firefox with IE embebed on it.
Yeah I agree with Dominique...send him a PM as that would be a good way to reach himPS - If someone sees Dyar anywhere tell him that I wouldn't mind chatting to him but I wouldn't like it much either.
......not sure he will be thrilled either but it's hard to say.....he's a little strange too 
) and another small article in the opinions section. I am guessing there wasn't much real news happening today! 
There are a few mistakes, like the petrol promotion bit but hey, it is still good promotion for the little blue guys.The stresses of buying a new house is enough to make anyone feel a bit blue.
But Rachel Webley's hunt for a new home was made more difficult because of one key deal-breaker - it had to have a Smurf room.
The 36-year-old's sprawling collection of Smurf-related items left her old pad in Cimla a little cramped. Click here to view our podcast from Rachel's home
So, she and husband Richard needed somewhere with a bit more space.
"When we were looking for houses, we purposely looked for one with a room big enough for me to keep my Smurf collection," she said.
"I've got thousands of things from small figures to large objects and they had to be kept in the attic in my old house.
"I think I've got around 2,000 and I have no idea how much money I've spent on them -which is probably a good thing."
Rachel first began collecting the blue cartoon characters in her late 20s after a petrol station promotion.
"They were giving away a small figures of the Smurfs when you spent a certain amount at the pumps," she said. "I got all the figures in the promotion and it just progressed from there."
Since then, music teacher Rachel has scoured the world, and the worldwide web, to add to her ever-growing collection.
It is now got so big, her Ystradgynlais home has an entire room dedicated to it.
Her collection covers everything from thousands of little figures, through to a Smurf telephone, and Smurf Cycle reflectors, as well as one thing she can take wherever she goes - a Smurf tattoo.
"I had a tattoo of a Smurf done for my birthday one year," she said. Click here to view our slideshow
"I'd always wanted a tattoo, and a Smurf playing the double bass made sense really."
But what is her most treasured possession?
"I'm a sports fan, so it would have to be a football Smurf," she said.
"It's so rare, there are only two in the world and I have not been able to find out how much it is worth."
But what does her husband of 12 years think of it all?
"He's really supportive," added Rachel. "He does not collect them, but he knows more about them than he would let on."
And it looks like Richard, aged 36, won't have any problems picking a Christmas present for his wife.
"I'm really easy to buy for," she added. "I'd love to get the Pixie Village this year."
...simply fantastic 
Maureen 
Only if Beckham is lucky because Rach is FAR cooler than he isFirst it was TV...Now newspaper...What will be the next?????Love affairs with David Beckham????
? Awesome layout too 
Staci I really should of got you to sign something last year for me......me thinks I already can't afford something signed now. 
Wow Rachel,Thanks guys.
Well everything is back in it's proper place after spending the day going back and fourth upstairs with armfuls of smurfs.
I had a phone call from our local newspaper earlier and did a quick interview for them and the photographer is coming tomorrow so I think there will probably be an article at some point next week.
David Beckham???? Nah.......... well not unless he was dessed up as Papa Smurf
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