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  1. Don't go down that road - it can cost you your life... This policy would have saved at least 2 lives some time back. Its been my pleasure to have visited the offices of the German Air Accident Investigation folks (BFU) in Braunschweig a few times, along with a group from my flying club - a former club member is one of the accident investigators. Following a lecture which included in-detail analysis of a particular crash (such as AF447) we would be led into the "wreck-hall" where the sad remains of numerous types of aircraft from airliner to hot air ballons were resting. One particular heap of metal was caused by CO poisoning due to the heat-exchanger corroding & letting exhaust gasses into the cockpit. The tragic thing was, the owner had perviously had an electronic CO-detector fitted but had it removed "because it was always sounding alarm".
  2. The trouble is that insurance companies don't think the same way as their customers. Although its no help I assume that pre-Brexit there would have been no problem - at least some level of cover would have been automatic.
  3. My son has a Volkswagen ID.3 as a company car & is VERY happy with it & says its great fun to drive. During the Summer months it will charge from the solar panels on his roof (recently built house).
  4. I have Handbrake installed on my PC - its a tool frequently recommended on the Adobe Premiere Elements user forum. I have used it when I accidently changed the setting on my CamCorder to Dolby 5.1 & had to use Handbrake to convert the video clips to stereo audio.
  5. I guess about once per week there is a report in the local paper about a bomb being found & defused. Usually this is whilst clearing land for some new building. (I live on the outskirts of a town just outside Hamburg - to the North-West).
  6. HEM

    Opportunity

    When I knew her she had white sails...
  7. Which would be about that time that my aunt & a teacher colleague must have bought her (Nancy). See the second post on this thread:
  8. HEM

    Opportunity

    This sounds very much like the boat my aunt Brenda & a colleague (both teachers in the Manchester area) owned back in the 1960s / 70s. They regularly took groups of girls for sailing sessions, based on Malthouse broad. Said to have been "the tallest mast on the Broads", Nancy was supposedly the prototype for a new Broads class that was never further developed. IIRC the transom has "Nancy" and "Southgates Horning" on it. On one of the sails "Nancie" was written in small letters. I sailed with them several times. I started a thread on the subject a while back but got no response. My aunt Brenda celebrated her 100th birthday on the 3rd December 2022 - for which we flew to the UK to be with her. She passed away exactly one month later - her funeral was last Tuesday.
  9. There is a bit more snow at Crater Lake Visitor Centre (Oregon, USA)... We've been there twice - but without snow (or only very little)!
  10. The figure is supposed to be that of Mrs. Barrable & her pug William. Coot Club was the first AR book I read - at the age of 10. A tatty hardback version was in our classroom library.
  11. Some little while ago there was a TV program over 'ere about one of the Swiss mountain cog railways. The locomotives are either powered by coal or oil. Apparently they are under pressure (or even ordered?) to use wood pellets instead. Trouble is that they would need 4x the amount of pellets by volume & the bunkers just have enough space for coal for one trip. So there is a problem...
  12. HEM

    Brrr!

    I'm glad it was the 2nd - 4th December when we paid a flying visit (literally) to the UK for my aunt's 100th birthday on the 3rd. Although the Manchester / Liverpool area isn't really known for much snow (I used to live there). Said aunt spend numerous sailing holidays on the Broads back in the 1960s / 70s.
  13. Ferranti Mercury? The prececessor to Atlas. The Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell installed theirs in 1958.
  14. I joined the German branch of Sun in April 1998 & stayed through the acquisition by Oracle until retirement age (just under 20 years), ending up in global remote hardware support. Previously I'd had about 10 years as Sun system administrator. My brother was Sun employee #10 in the UK.
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