Bis, I've given your offer some thought and I've PM'd you...fact is, guilt at handbag shopping rather than sourcing azafran's spoiling my enjoyment of my purchases ::)
I'd always thought that one needed to grow masses of crocuses too to farm a small yield....you saying this is an Urban Myth, C, to make us all pay OTT prices rather than growing our own and bankrupting the importers? :o ;D