I've got a number of things I want to ask - mainly for a planned longish trip. Before repeating what's already available, I thought I'd do a few searches to see what's already been covered. When I atempt to do this, two things happen:

- I get a message saying as the search has less than four words, nothing will be found - even when I put in MORE than four words e.g. '12v Power Supply Socket for running gadgets'

- It sometimes performs a search, but instead of getting the expected list of threads/posts, it seems to take be to a list of links advertising products, like Maplins and the like!

Can anyone advise on what's happening and how I put it right? Otherwise, I'll just have to ask anyway and take the risk that it might already have been covered.

Thanks in anticipation .... Loopy