Thanks all - I am having a night mare. Ive always drunk straight out of a pressure barrel before and Im sure if I'd started brewing including bottling - I would never have taken the hobby any further. I think this really is a two man job. The pipe keeps sliding out the bucket - there's water everywhere, beer everwhere - Ive wasted so much, and although I started dunking the siphon tube (which is too short) to fill it up, I gave up when I lost my temper and started taking mouthfulls of sanitiser, beer, water and you name it.