In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Darren Branagh
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Hi All,
>
>By Now, you all will have noticed my absence at the Hove Show -
>unfortunately this couldn't be helped for two reasons..
>
>Firstly, I was seriously snowed in!! About 10-12 inches of snow in places,
>and 2-3 foot drifts at my main gate. I'm been snowbound since last Tuesday,
>and only got the car out yesterday morning. I was without electricty and
>phone lines too.
He .. he .. advantages of living in the country :-)
I trust that you had a drop of good stuff to keep you warm ...
>Secondly, the foot and mouth crisis - its been generally frowned upon for
>anybody to make any non-essential travel to the UK from Ireland by the
>government.
Yes, it seems hard to track down where the source(s) lay.
Hopefully, we will learn a lesson from this, and have better practices
is place for the future.
>Apologies to anybody who expected to see me there, but I couldn't help
>it..... I had hoped to launch the Emulators CD there, but this will now have
>to wait until the QUANTA AGM instead.
The Emulators CD would benefit by getting a mention in a PC magazine.
Thereby alerting those we need to attract back to the QL.
>I am still without email, and am sending this from a neighbours. The
>electricity is back, but My Modem was fried during the on/off power cuts
>over the last few days. Wonderful, isn't it?
Ah ... worse still ... no modem !
( I always have a back up myself :-) )
--
Malcolm Cadman
