Welcome to the forum. I totally agree about patches, utterly useless!
Oh, one other question, Pete. As you're a UK based vaper, how is the classifieds here for UK based vapers? I also joined the Planet of the Vapes forum, as it's UK focussed, whereas here seems to be mostly North America based posters, but this seems to such a welcoming space, that my gut says I might hang out here more often. (not to bash PoTV; I haven't posted in their new members section yet, so maybe it's really friendly too)