I bought from these people: http://www.brunelmicroscopes.co.uk/ http://www.brunelmicroscopes.co.uk/ They have some good pages on choosing a microscope. There

I bought from these people: http://www.brunelmicroscopes.co.uk/ http://www.brunelmicroscopes.co.uk/ They have some good pages on choosing a microscope. There are sites dealing with amateur microscopy that have many pages of advice on setting-up and using microscopes, and on staining and slide preparation. I don't blog, at least not at the moment.