[What Do You Think Of Fireamrs]

Long ago, Mrs Queen loaned me one of hers. I humped it around the parade square a couple of hundred times, and never got to use it for anything else. I was damn glad to get rid of it in the end. These days I just take the occasional pot at a clay pigeon.

I have never been in any situation in which firing a gun wouldn't have made it a hundred times worse, but then I'm a big ugly so-and-so and nobody bothers me very much, and I live in a fairly peaceful country. I am also a peaceful man.

I have just spent some time in Switzerland, which has one of the highest per capita rates of fireams possesion in the world; every fit man of military age has one, with very few exeptions, and yet they are a very peaceful, tolerant people, and their crime rate is very low. There is certainly something in the idea that it is people who misuse guns.

In my life I have as much use for a gun as I would for a chocolate teapot. It isn't worth the cost and aggravation to have one. I don't need one to defend myself - I keep a sword for that - and I don't need one to prop up my ego or my sexuality.

Generally I take a Catch-22 view: that the need for a firearm is evidence of a mental condition that should preclude ownership of one.

I feel quite sorry for people who feel they need to own a gun.

[Love 'em Or Hate 'em Obama Is The Next President]

Let's hope that Obama will be able to turn his best intentions into action. I am sure he has the goodwill of many of us outside the US, but there are people such as Putin and Bin Laden who would be nothing unless they could portray America as being an enemy. To a great extent the election of Obama will have "shot their fox", but they will soon find other ways to humiliate you. Good intentions do not go very far in forming a foreign policy ( we tried that with an "ethical" foreign policy. It lasted only a few months before reality returned) and it is usually limited by events.

Let us wish him the best of luck and hope to God no-one shoots him!

[Old Dog - Some New Tricks]

Thank you for your kind thoughts.

I will have to be more careful about my security. I left my plastic pants on the showerhead, and my GF came round. I had to nip in quickly and remove them to the airing cupbord with seconds to spare. Back I think to the old days of securing everything before "opening" in the morning.

I did have the meter reader come round the other day when I had my dressing-gown on over my romper. Fortunatley the DG covered the shape, and the romper covered the rustle, so I think I got away with it. He was more interested in reading the meter, anyway.

[Old Dog - Some New Tricks]

I think I have been DL since about age 7. I had a spell of bedwetting after my father died, and my mother threatened me with nappies. Unfortunately she did so within the hearing of my elder brother who promptly baited and humiliated me for the next few days. It was his habit to do so. I was so frightened that I stopped bedwetting immediately, and she never carried out the threat. I think I have had the "bug" ever since, and I now find it a useful alternative when straight sex is not available. At my age I find that is increasingly the case - I'm not as pretty as I once was!

I used to make various nappies, and also made plastic pants (possible with mattress protectors, PVC adhesive, and patience) until I got on the internet in 1997, when I started to buy on the 'net. I've tried disposables, mainly for convenience and concealment, but, being a child of those times, I am mostly into cloth. I live alone and so it is not difficult to do the laundry and to maintain secrecy, and I've quite an extensive stash acquired over the years.

I've recently tried making my own rompers, using a tee shirt for the upper part and stitching the pants onto them. These have been very succcessful, and I can tell you how it's done if you want to try it. As well as some elementary needlework, I've a range of skills which include photography and creative writing, and the relevant computer skills to manipulate both pictures and words.

I'm only into wetting, and usually only at night. I've worn nappies out-of-doors on occasions, underneath a Barbour jacket which conceals both the bulge and the noise, and I've made some road journeys "padded out", and used them en-route. I've never spoken to another DL directly, although I used to visit Lisa's shop in Dagenham sometimes - what a pity it closed! - I visited Emma in Manchester, and I've bought disposables over the counter in French supermarkets. I've also imported items on several occasions without difficulty, although I mostly use Cosyndry and Shop4pvc nowadays. I am not too anxious to meet anyone face-to-face, but I find the general information that I get from the net is very useful, and there is some comfort in knowing that I am not completely alone.

[Who Knows?]

I think my mother suspected, but she took the secret to her grave as far as I know. Otherwise nobody. Why tell them?