Andy, its hard enough running things without trying to cater for everyones working hours. If we did that we wouldnt have any national races.Remember, the boys in the north start marking there birds around midday on some occasions.What about folk on backshift etc, we just have to make arrangements to suit the marking times. The other problem we have got is marking a day later in order to have one day less in the basket. Although, I personally am in favour of this, it doesnt suit the SNFC logisticly, because there are too many marking stations and too many deadlines to make. This may suit other organisations with only a couple of marking stations to pick up but the SNFC really struggle with it. jmo