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Hi Peter - we have set up a solar panel charging a leisure battery, and are running an inverter off that, so we can charge laptops and phones, and run a portable wi-fi hotspot, so that side of things is pretty set up. One of the villagers has lent us a little farm building that has mains electric too, which we can use as long as we pay for what we consume and give her a little something for it - peppercorn really.. I like to spend the heat of the day (well over 35 C in the shade today!) up here, get a bit of peace and do some officey work. The place is surrounded by vines and fig trees so I am constantly munching nice things off the hedgerows! Here's the view from the office...

I would get on to DNW on Monday am, they might not have posted it yet! If you need to speak to Finch he is a great guy, very approachable and very helpful. Worth getting to know, he slips out DNW catalogues for free at the Midland Coin Fair if you ask him nicely (but dont tell anyone!)?. Jerry

Mike, you could have had Chris Finch Hatton ('Finch') of DNW bring it to the Midland Coin Fair , and collected it from there, you are apparently in Warwickshire so perhaps reasonably near you? Chris brings up my purchases, saves me a few bob over the year. Jerry

I fell for that one once were the postage for a few books was a good few quid from an auction but you still got what you wanted Mike . That Peck book is a big heavy thing but you only need one

I have seen before on DNW that a positive account balance has remained (incorrectly) after a previous transaction. Thus when you next receive an amount due, that previous balance is also included in the total.

Quite a while ago I did a small survey (sample size 65) of Victoria YH shillings looking at die axis rotation. The results were (roughly) normally distributed about a notional zero rotation with the range being approximately +/- 15 degrees. Histogram as below.

I bought the 1871 penny for a hammer price of £1,700. I've been in the market for a high grade specimen for quite some time, but this is the first time that I've seen a combination of condition attributes so pleasing to my sense of esthetic values. I'm glad to hear that Vicky agreed with my assessment of this coin's virtues.

Recent Sixpence purchase, decent proof example.