Joe,

On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:05:33 +1300, IVP wrote:

> > Joe,  (whatever happened to Jinx? :-)
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> Ooooh, touchy subject

Sorry!
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>...
> Last I heard he was living with an imaginary family up the road. I
> later found the Lique behind the couch. One of several, I suspect.
> So, probably best all round

Ah, Mornington Crescent - haven't had a good game of that for a number of y=
ears.  Or, indeed, a bad game...

> > I just occasionally look at the current topics to see if there's anythi=
ng
> > interesting
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> Gosh, I'm interesting

Yes.  Or trying to air-condition an aircraft hanger with a couple of icecub=
es and a pocket fan, is...

>...
> Seeing the UK news lately I'm guessing mittens are the minimum
> for you lot. Boy that's cold over there this year

Yes, it has been a bit brisk.  6" of snow on Saturday evening did for the h=
alf-marathon the next morning, where I was supposed to be helping with comm=
unications. =20
Luckily we got the stand-down in time not to have to get up early!  That's =
a point, is there an NZ-equivalent of RAYNET (UK) and ARES (USA)?  That's R=
adio=20
Amateurs (Hams) who volunteer to provide comms in emergencies, and do so at=
 community events like charity walks, runs, cycle and horse rides, etc?

>...
(2400W, 20m^2)

> Thanks, that's some good indicating. The two in the shop I tried to
> get a look at must be fairly big then, because that enclosure is a
> measured 30m x 30m x 3m, or 2700m^3. But is your living room
> really that small - 5m x 4m x 1m ? Lot of Japanese furniture ?

:-)  (measures) It's 2.5m high, 3.7m long, 3.1m wide, less a chimney-breast=
 of .38 x 1.25, so I make that about 27.5m^2, so I was un-exaggerating a bi=
t...

It's a small 3-bedroom semi- built in 1937, just before the war, and it sti=
ll has cracks in the ceilings from when the Luftwaffe tried to bomb the Han=
dley Page aircraft=20
factory, about a mile away.  So in the way of houses built then, the rooms =
are pretty small, and it has 9" solid brick walls, so pretty naff when it c=
omes to options=20
for insulation.  So I'm wearing an Arran sweater, and tapping my feet to fe=
nd off frostbite.

>...
> > (gizzajob, someone!)
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> http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/02/man-steals-glacier-for-desi=
gner-ice-cubes/

Blimey, some people will nick anything!  Couldn't he have made his own by p=
utting bubbles into ordinary icecubes?  They'd never know, I'm sure.  I won=
der if the=20
evidence will still be there when it comes to court?  ("Police were unable =
to produce solid evidence of the theft..." :-)

> I hear they're running out of coal in Newcastle. Off you go=20

My sister lives near there, and they don't use coal fires these days, it's =
all gas.  Not so easy to take there and sell from the back of a lorry, unfo=
rtunately!

Cheers,

Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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