Ok - thanks @MakingMoneyHoney they are staking now and gaining weight, took a couple of days but to be fair I think I accidentally suspended my virtual machine for a few hours which can't have helped!
Front page of Bittrex too! I got impatient so I bought some from the sell side, bad trading I know 
- still holding out for some dumps though as if I get twice the coins at half the price I'm sure that's worth a fair amount of staking time...
I've been sending coins from the exchange in blocks of 50, is that working out for everyone or do you use bigger or smaller inputs?
Thanks

ok time to stake till we have more GoldPieces than Smaug