Thanks for the comments.
I am enjoying the scope and I certainly would love to get a larger one (kids are tired of me saying it
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Still the best scope is the one you use and the 70mm is set-up and easy to carry, great to use as a teaching aid too.
I had a cheap(?) 60mm refractor before that which I used for 20+ years until it eventually died - one too many trips to schools to show sunspots, moon, planets etc. Somewhere hidden in the shed is an 8" mirror blank that I had started to grind way back in high school.
The step up(!) from 60mm to 70mm, from 0.965" to 1.25" eyepieces etc is nice and good quality, relatively speaking, is cheap now.
I managed to revive the 60mm, mostly, and the kids use that as well as the 70mm. I liked the finder on the 60mm better (6x30) than the one that came with the 70mm (5x24) so moved that over. Means the colour coding is not the same but can't tell that in the dark
Enjoy your Christmas/New Year.