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Heating? Oh yes! Most essential! ?I have a heater with an integrated timer, so when I go up there in the afternoon, it’s nice and cozy. I also get visitors, such as a hibernating wasp a couple of weeks ago; luckily, it was not a queen and was quite easily persuaded to use the door!
Regards
Susan

On 29 Feb 2020, at 12:44, zuiko via Groups.Io <zuiko@...> wrote:

Thanks, Susan, it is airy; we had it refurbished in 2014, at a cost four times our original estimate (!), but as soon as the walls and roof were uncovered the builder and surveyor found that the roof plate had moved as the walls had lacked support. ?So, as well as the new insulation and boarding and walling they needed to brace the walls with a grid of timber matrices and a huge steel beam. ?You can just see the beam going up the wall next to the tall radiator. ?Oh well, but at least selling the house, if we ever do, should be easier with a more modern Annex.

Do you have heating in your cabins? :-)

Chris

On 28 Feb 2020, at 16:42, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:

That looks lovely and airy, Chris. ?We had two cabins made and installed but Harvey doesn’t use his very much. Mine really exists to take the place of the fourth bedroom we had in our last house and which was originally used also as part of our business admin. I had a Windows PC in there with Quicken 6 for Windows on it. ?We now use Easy Books for our household accounts - which are no longer audited! ?:D
Regards
Susan



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Yes that’s the right term, Susan, cockpit. ?It was very cramped, but the rear cockpit wasn’t much better and, as you mention, they had no ejection seats. ?In the event of an abandonment being required they had to swivel their seats forward (they normally faced aft) and release their seat harnesses before opening the lower hatch and bailing out. ?If the aircraft was too low they didn’t make it.

This chap, Bill Ramsey, flew Tornados at the same time as I did, having flown his first tour on Vulcans (something I was desperate to avoid!). ?Even the Tornado had a better view out than the Vulcan, and that wasn’t much to write home about. ?


My tour on F16s was a delight in that respect: you sat on, rather than in, the aircraft, with your knees higher than normal because the seat was reclined at 30?:


Halcyon days!

Chris





On 28 Feb 2020, at 16:34, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:

I’ve only seen photos of the Vulcan cockpit (is that the right term?) and it looks incredibly cramped. ?I have the idea that only the front two seats have ejectors!! ?

I loved seeing XH558 in the air at the Dawlish Air Show and sometimes look up the footage of Vulcans on YouTube especially ones that feature the “howl”! ?My favourite excerpt is the one showing the test pilot doing a barrel roll and, I gather, he was told never to do that again! I can watch that over and over….
Regards
Susan


On 27 Feb 2020, at 22:57, zuiko via Groups.Io <zuiko@...> wrote:

It looks great, Susan! ?I’d love a hut like that.?

I understand that the Vulcan is aesthetically pleasing, but I’m very glad that I never had to fly it, sitting in a cave, as it were :-)



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Thanks, Susan, it is airy; we had it refurbished in 2014, at a cost four times our original estimate (!), but as soon as the walls and roof were uncovered the builder and surveyor found that the roof plate had moved as the walls had lacked support. ?So, as well as the new insulation and boarding and walling they needed to brace the walls with a grid of timber matrices and a huge steel beam. ?You can just see the beam going up the wall next to the tall radiator. ?Oh well, but at least selling the house, if we ever do, should be easier with a more modern Annex.

Do you have heating in your cabins? :-)

Chris

On 28 Feb 2020, at 16:42, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:

That looks lovely and airy, Chris. ?We had two cabins made and installed but Harvey doesn’t use his very much. Mine really exists to take the place of the fourth bedroom we had in our last house and which was originally used also as part of our business admin. I had a Windows PC in there with Quicken 6 for Windows on it. ?We now use Easy Books for our household accounts - which are no longer audited! ?:D
Regards
Susan


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That looks lovely and airy, Chris. ?We had two cabins made and installed but Harvey doesn’t use his very much. Mine really exists to take the place of the fourth bedroom we had in our last house and which was originally used also as part of our business admin. I had a Windows PC in there with Quicken 6 for Windows on it. ?We now use Easy Books for our household accounts - which are no longer audited! ?:D
Regards
Susan


On 28 Feb 2020, at 11:59, zuiko via Groups.Io <zuiko@...> wrote:

She seems very pretty, that Marie lady :-)

My office is tidy (ish) only because it’s in our Annex which forms our 4th bedroom, for family visits etc . . . ?I have to keep it tidy otherwise I’d be in constant trouble.

The silver trophy was my grandfather’s, a shooting cup that he won in 1947, but the competition was first held in 1905 and the trophy presented by the Kolar Gold Field Mining Board ()

He was a colonel in the Indian Army in the Second World War, a junior officer in the Royal Flying Corps in the First. ?I think that he was instrumental in winning over my future father-in-law who was very impressed that my grandfather had designed a stamp for Ghana which was catalogued in Stanley Gibbons as proof.


His name was Harold Stevens.

Chris

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On 27 Feb 2020, at 22:58, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:

My excuse at the moment is I have been doing a Marie Kondo tidy up round the house.


?My husband did his half of the “office”cupboard and ditched a lot of old paper work. I’ve not been so good on my half but mine is the area with software and extra bits like exterior CD burner and exterior HD caddy and cables, manuals and how to books.

But I did sort some old Mac group club mags I’m going to donate to club museum, and some old belly dancing literature going to keeper of records of dance group.

I am also doing a tidy of my iMac Pro HD as I go too — with the aim of updating much as I can to 64 bit. Marie Kondo said not to file more than 3 layers deep - and she has a point. I think I file too deep in some places so I am sorting that.

I have tidied my makeup drawer - I have ten large bottles of very posh perfumes, umpteen products from Boots ( brought down to Oz for me by friend).?

I am generally simplifying the house interior. I won’t pretend I’m fashionably minimalist because not in my nature. But it can look good for visitors in ten minutes :-)

Jude


On 28 Feb 2020, at 1:59 am, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:

?Oh my, Jude, you *are* a very tidy person! I must take a photo of my “den” in a garden shed, to show you what “untidy” really looks like! ?:D
Regards
Susan

On 25 Feb 2020, at 01:48, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:

Does make my iMac Pro seem a little understated don't you think. ?My office is tidier than hers :-)?<IMG_9044 copy.jpg>



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I’ve only seen photos of the Vulcan cockpit (is that the right term?) and it looks incredibly cramped. ?I have the idea that only the front two seats have ejectors!! ?

I loved seeing XH558 in the air at the Dawlish Air Show and sometimes look up the footage of Vulcans on YouTube especially ones that feature the “howl”! ?My favourite excerpt is the one showing the test pilot doing a barrel roll and, I gather, he was told never to do that again! I can watch that over and over….
Regards
Susan


On 27 Feb 2020, at 22:57, zuiko via Groups.Io <zuiko@...> wrote:

It looks great, Susan! ?I’d love a hut like that.?

I understand that the Vulcan is aesthetically pleasing, but I’m very glad that I never had to fly it, sitting in a cave, as it were :-)

Chris (photo tomorrow)

C M I Barker | Gamlingay


On 27 Feb 2020, at 22:44, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:

?Well, here it is, my very casually furnished hobby room:
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The desk came from a charity shop, as did all the other furniture and most of the pictures. The calendar on the left of my iMac is from the Vulcan to the Sky Trust.
Regards
Susan

On 27 Feb 2020, at 15:59, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:

Oh my, Jude, you *are* a very tidy person! I must take a photo of my “den” in a garden shed, to show you what “untidy” really looks like! ?:D
Regards
Susan

On 25 Feb 2020, at 01:48, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:

Does make my iMac Pro seem a little understated don't you think. ?My office is tidier than hers :-) <IMG_9044 copy.jpg>




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She seems very pretty, that Marie lady :-)

My office is tidy (ish) only because it’s in our Annex which forms our 4th bedroom, for family visits etc . . . ?I have to keep it tidy otherwise I’d be in constant trouble.

The silver trophy was my grandfather’s, a shooting cup that he won in 1947, but the competition was first held in 1905 and the trophy presented by the Kolar Gold Field Mining Board ()

He was a colonel in the Indian Army in the Second World War, a junior officer in the Royal Flying Corps in the First. ?I think that he was instrumental in winning over my future father-in-law who was very impressed that my grandfather had designed a stamp for Ghana which was catalogued in Stanley Gibbons as proof.


His name was Harold Stevens.

Chris




On 27 Feb 2020, at 22:58, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:

My excuse at the moment is I have been doing a Marie Kondo tidy up round the house.


?My husband did his half of the “office”cupboard and ditched a lot of old paper work. I’ve not been so good on my half but mine is the area with software and extra bits like exterior CD burner and exterior HD caddy and cables, manuals and how to books.

But I did sort some old Mac group club mags I’m going to donate to club museum, and some old belly dancing literature going to keeper of records of dance group.

I am also doing a tidy of my iMac Pro HD as I go too — with the aim of updating much as I can to 64 bit. Marie Kondo said not to file more than 3 layers deep - and she has a point. I think I file too deep in some places so I am sorting that.

I have tidied my makeup drawer - I have ten large bottles of very posh perfumes, umpteen products from Boots ( brought down to Oz for me by friend).?

I am generally simplifying the house interior. I won’t pretend I’m fashionably minimalist because not in my nature. But it can look good for visitors in ten minutes :-)

Jude


On 28 Feb 2020, at 1:59 am, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:

?Oh my, Jude, you *are* a very tidy person! I must take a photo of my “den” in a garden shed, to show you what “untidy” really looks like! ?:D
Regards
Susan

On 25 Feb 2020, at 01:48, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:

Does make my iMac Pro seem a little understated don't you think. ?My office is tidier than hers :-)?<IMG_9044 copy.jpg>

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My excuse at the moment is I have been doing a Marie Kondo tidy up round the house.


?My husband did his half of the “office”cupboard and ditched a lot of old paper work. I’ve not been so good on my half but mine is the area with software and extra bits like exterior CD burner and exterior HD caddy and cables, manuals and how to books.

But I did sort some old Mac group club mags I’m going to donate to club museum, and some old belly dancing literature going to keeper of records of dance group.

I am also doing a tidy of my iMac Pro HD as I go too — with the aim of updating much as I can to 64 bit. Marie Kondo said not to file more than 3 layers deep - and she has a point. I think I file too deep in some places so I am sorting that.

I have tidied my makeup drawer - I have ten large bottles of very posh perfumes, umpteen products from Boots ( brought down to Oz for me by friend).?

I am generally simplifying the house interior. I won’t pretend I’m fashionably minimalist because not in my nature. But it can look good for visitors in ten minutes :-)

Jude


On 28 Feb 2020, at 1:59 am, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:

?Oh my, Jude, you *are* a very tidy person! I must take a photo of my “den” in a garden shed, to show you what “untidy” really looks like! ?:D
Regards
Susan

On 25 Feb 2020, at 01:48, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:

Does make my iMac Pro seem a little understated don't you think. ?My office is tidier than hers :-) <IMG_9044 copy.jpg>


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It looks great, Susan! ?I’d love a hut like that.?

I understand that the Vulcan is aesthetically pleasing, but I’m very glad that I never had to fly it, sitting in a cave, as it were :-)

Chris (photo tomorrow)

C M I Barker | Gamlingay


On 27 Feb 2020, at 22:44, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:

?Well, here it is, my very casually furnished hobby room:
<P1010423.jpeg>

The desk came from a charity shop, as did all the other furniture and most of the pictures. The calendar on the left of my iMac is from the Vulcan to the Sky Trust.
Regards
Susan

On 27 Feb 2020, at 15:59, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:

Oh my, Jude, you *are* a very tidy person! I must take a photo of my “den” in a garden shed, to show you what “untidy” really looks like! ?:D
Regards
Susan

On 25 Feb 2020, at 01:48, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:

Does make my iMac Pro seem a little understated don't you think. ?My office is tidier than hers :-) <IMG_9044 copy.jpg>



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Well, here it is, my very casually furnished hobby room:

The desk came from a charity shop, as did all the other furniture and most of the pictures. The calendar on the left of my iMac is from the Vulcan to the Sky Trust.
Regards
Susan

On 27 Feb 2020, at 15:59, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:

Oh my, Jude, you *are* a very tidy person! I must take a photo of my “den” in a garden shed, to show you what “untidy” really looks like! ?:D
Regards
Susan

On 25 Feb 2020, at 01:48, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:

Does make my iMac Pro seem a little understated don't you think. ?My office is tidier than hers :-) <IMG_9044 copy.jpg>



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Yes,
I'm worried about my father, he's nearly 92 and has breathing difficulties. There is still much to be found out.The cases of people who were cleared and then tested positive later is particularly worrying. I'm not going out as much as I used to and avoiding crowds. Maybe it can be stopped by isolation, or slowed until we get a vaccine.
John

On Thursday, 27 February 2020, 15:55:51 GMT, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:


We are both in the older category and, really, all we can do is avoid too many crowds and just hope!
Regards
Susan

On 26 Feb 2020, at 10:59, zuiko via Groups.Io <zuiko@...> wrote:

John

Harbinger, indeed! ?But do you mean 2% of the whole population, or of those infected? ?

Chris

C M I Barker | Gamlingay


On 26 Feb 2020, at 00:14, John Miller via Groups.Io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:

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Dear All,
Don't want to be the harbinger of doom, but the Covid-19, Coronavirus is taking hold. I would really like to be wrong, but I'm guessing, this will be like the 'flu outbreak of 1918. Probably about 2% fatalities, which would mean about 300 million, give or take.
Take care of yourselves
John


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Oh my, Jude, you *are* a very tidy person! I must take a photo of my “den” in a garden shed, to show you what “untidy” really looks like! ?:D
Regards
Susan

On 25 Feb 2020, at 01:48, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:

Does make my iMac Pro seem a little understated don't you think. ?My office is tidier than hers :-) <IMG_9044 copy.jpg>


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We are both in the older category and, really, all we can do is avoid too many crowds and just hope!
Regards
Susan

On 26 Feb 2020, at 10:59, zuiko via Groups.Io <zuiko@...> wrote:

John

Harbinger, indeed! ?But do you mean 2% of the whole population, or of those infected? ?

Chris

C M I Barker | Gamlingay


On 26 Feb 2020, at 00:14, John Miller via Groups.Io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:

?
Dear All,
Don't want to be the harbinger of doom, but the Covid-19, Coronavirus is taking hold. I would really like to be wrong, but I'm guessing, this will be like the 'flu outbreak of 1918. Probably about 2% fatalities, which would mean about 300 million, give or take.
Take care of yourselves
John


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It's not going to be the end of the world, but it is going to be substantial. I know a lot of my friends are worried about their parents who are in older years. My father is 92 & I am worried about him. Bronchitis, breathing difficulties run in our family.
John

On Wednesday, 26 February 2020, 14:40:57 GMT, John Miller via Groups.Io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:


Of those infected

On Wednesday, 26 February 2020, 11:03:39 GMT, zuiko via Groups.Io <zuiko@...> wrote:


John

Harbinger, indeed! ?But do you mean 2% of the whole population, or of those infected? ?

Chris

C M I Barker | Gamlingay


On 26 Feb 2020, at 00:14, John Miller via Groups.Io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:

?
Dear All,
Don't want to be the harbinger of doom, but the Covid-19, Coronavirus is taking hold. I would really like to be wrong, but I'm guessing, this will be like the 'flu outbreak of 1918. Probably about 2% fatalities, which would mean about 300 million, give or take.
Take care of yourselves
John


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Of those infected

On Wednesday, 26 February 2020, 11:03:39 GMT, zuiko via Groups.Io <zuiko@...> wrote:


John

Harbinger, indeed! ?But do you mean 2% of the whole population, or of those infected? ?

Chris

C M I Barker | Gamlingay


On 26 Feb 2020, at 00:14, John Miller via Groups.Io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:

?
Dear All,
Don't want to be the harbinger of doom, but the Covid-19, Coronavirus is taking hold. I would really like to be wrong, but I'm guessing, this will be like the 'flu outbreak of 1918. Probably about 2% fatalities, which would mean about 300 million, give or take.
Take care of yourselves
John


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Way too tidy! ?

Chris

C M I Barker | Gamlingay


On 25 Feb 2020, at 01:48, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:

?Does make my iMac Pro seem a little understated don't you think. ?My office is tidier than hers :-)
<IMG_9044 copy.jpg>


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John

Harbinger, indeed! ?But do you mean 2% of the whole population, or of those infected? ?

Chris

C M I Barker | Gamlingay


On 26 Feb 2020, at 00:14, John Miller via Groups.Io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:

?
Dear All,
Don't want to be the harbinger of doom, but the Covid-19, Coronavirus is taking hold. I would really like to be wrong, but I'm guessing, this will be like the 'flu outbreak of 1918. Probably about 2% fatalities, which would mean about 300 million, give or take.
Take care of yourselves
John


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Well, it wasn't so bad back then, but now we are looking at around 2% mortality rate. It's not something to panic over. It is basically a strong 'flu outbreak, but we have no vaccine. It seems to spread pretty easily, and before people can be identified as carriers. There are cases were people have been transmitting this around for 27 days & tested negative in this time. I think we are looking at something like the 1918 "Spanish 'flu" outbreak. Hopefully a lot less.

On Wednesday, 26 February 2020, 01:39:54 GMT, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:


I thought long and hard about getting on a plane for my cousin’s funeral and decided to err on the side of caution. The girls arranged a webcast of the service for me so I stayed up late down here in Australia to view as the service went on.?
Australia has announced today its plan of action on the virus. ?I don’t know about the PM being in charge though. I wasn’t impressed by the way the fire event went down and he was absent in Hawaii.

Jude




On 26 Feb 2020, at 10:14 am, John Miller via Groups.Io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:

Dear All,
Don't want to be the harbinger of doom, but the Covid-19, Coronavirus is taking hold. I would really like to be wrong, but I'm guessing, this will be like the 'flu outbreak of 1918. Probably about 2% fatalities, which would mean about 300 million, give or take.
Take care of yourselves
John


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I thought long and hard about getting on a plane for my cousin’s funeral and decided to err on the side of caution. The girls arranged a webcast of the service for me so I stayed up late down here in Australia to view as the service went on.?
Australia has announced today its plan of action on the virus. ?I don’t know about the PM being in charge though. I wasn’t impressed by the way the fire event went down and he was absent in Hawaii.

Jude




On 26 Feb 2020, at 10:14 am, John Miller via Groups.Io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:

Dear All,
Don't want to be the harbinger of doom, but the Covid-19, Coronavirus is taking hold. I would really like to be wrong, but I'm guessing, this will be like the 'flu outbreak of 1918. Probably about 2% fatalities, which would mean about 300 million, give or take.
Take care of yourselves
John


Hi

 

Dear All,
Don't want to be the harbinger of doom, but the Covid-19, Coronavirus is taking hold. I would really like to be wrong, but I'm guessing, this will be like the 'flu outbreak of 1918. Probably about 2% fatalities, which would mean about 300 million, give or take.
Take care of yourselves
John


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Remember Moore’s law, but it may be getting a little stale now.
Hugs Jude & Peter


On 25 Feb 2020, at 01:48, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:

Does make my iMac Pro seem a little understated don't you think. ?My office is tidier than hers :-) <IMG_9044 copy.jpg>