Thank you all for the encouraging remarks and Re. the gun, my good lady wife thinks I should leave it as it is. If I had taken up Xstitch a few years earlier I would have concentrated on some of Birmingham's older buildings. I have the software to turn a photo into a pattern, colour or greyscale but they would need to be on the large side to be effective and at age 76 with not good health it is too late to start now. Thank you all again.
Stitcher