Maybe I was a little hasty to jump on that, the tone more than anything else seemed rather ungracious to me, but maybe that's just me - apologies all round.

Yep, I am in Scotland, but lived in the United States for several years, so can (usually) pick up on slang from either side of the pond - sometime humor (or humour), even self-deprecating, can come across differently from that intended on the page. My bad!