It turns out that leaving Nicky's phone permanently 'on' with the Flickr app running makes a huge difference to the speed at which photo uploading takes place. Having discovered this over the weekend, the massive upload task is now complete. The auto upload folder in Flick now has over 10,000 photos in it (for a total of over 25,000 stored in Flick altogether), and so the mammoth task of sorting and tagging can begin in earnest ...