I've decided to try haloscan comments, blogger only tells me sometimes if people have commented, so i only reply to some people, or I never find out that there is a new comment on an old post etc - hopefully this will work - it means that I lose my title picture though...seems it doesn't gel with the Haloscan spell, so we'll see, if the comments work better it is worth losing the banner - but if they don't, I've saved the old template!