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When I visited the Lake District in July 2003, it was during a hot spell. A friend and myself decided we were going to tackle Skiddaw - and to be fair, as the temperature at the surface was 26 degrees, we were just wearing tee shirts. At the start of the climb, until about maybe halfway up, it was very hot - in fact it was roasting under the baking Sun. But otherwise absolutely optimum conditions. Not sure if you know Skiddaw, but there is one particular stretch of the pathway we used, which is extremely steep, then not quite so bad. Any rate, from feeling as though we were going to collapse with heatstroke, it suddenly began to feel much cooler as we rounded a bend into a shady bit. At the summit, I would estimate the temperature to have been about 16 degrees only. A good 10 degrees cooler than the surface. The Sun was still just as hot, but as soon as you were in the shade, much much cooler - and that was in the height of Summer. The mountain sheep are tame and wander up to you, presumably expecting food.

I don't think the idiot was even wearing a top as far as I remember. People don't seem to realise the massive temperature drop that occurs as you climb, even to 3000 feet. The inevitable wind speed increase would mean the wind chill would have been pronounced. No wonder he got hypothermia.

He should definitely have to pay for the time of the emergency services. Irresponsible moron.

"pyx" - what does that stand for? I assume "coa" is coat of arms.

Bugger Doctors

Freeman 96:- (couldn't get all 4 images onto one post) Very pleased with both coins. More Freeman boxes ticked.

Received the Freeman 1 & Freeman 96 won at the recent LCA today:-

Can't see the image - but the link shows a china tea set.

It should theoretically work the same as a PC in that you have a photo stored, then when wanting to attach a pic to a post you make, you'd click "choose files", and it would take you to your photos - in your case on an i pad. The only problem might be that it regards the pic as too large. Try it and see. I've had numerous issues with attaching pics, but eventually managed to get round it in a very convoluted fashion. When I get a coin I want to show the forum, I photograph it using my Google Nexus 7 tablet - it actually takes quite a decent pic. If I try to attach it straight from my tablet it is too large. But if I e mail it to myself, and then save it on my PC, it will immediateloy transfer the photo to my post - how weird is that? Must re-size it automatically. The only other thing you could do is save your picture to tiny pic, or another image hosting site, copy the "image" (IMG) link (ignore any others), and then paste that directly into your post. It will change it from link text into a photo. That always works. Where's Matt when you need him - he was ace at this sort of thing.

There's a really good one by a forum member here, "Red Riley", although he's not posted for some time. Real name of Derek Allen, and the book is "Grading British Coins", copyright 2009. It's at the top of the page but here's an Amazon link anyway. It's a very useful text.

I think they must be absolutely inundated with lot winners trying to pay. I gave up in the end yesterday as the number was either engaged or no answer. Managed to get through and pay at 9:40 this morning. Not sure if it's just Semra that deals with all the calls, but it's always the same person who takes my payment when I ring (foreign sounding lady) ETA: Just been really sneaky and bought another one. Checking the realised prices against the catalogue, it was apparent that lot No 1018 - the UNC1879 Freeman 96 - hadn't been sold. Another Freeman type I hadn't got. So paid £350 plus juice for that, postage being combined with the Freeman 1. It's one I'd wanted, and I saw it in the LCA listings, but elected not to bid at this stage, as that can sometimes attract more bids. I'd noticed that Dave Craddock had also got an UNC F96 up for £500, but thought if the LCA one didn't sell, (and I had a feeling it wouldn't), I could then nip in and get it at the lower estimate. Otherwise I might have bought Dave's (unless he's already sold it, which is a possibility). Nice day's work. Well pleased with an LCA outcome for once

My PC wouldn't show beyond the first of the 3 pages last night. Tried again this morning and it was fine. Some sort of glitch.

Did anybody get anything? I managed to win the Freeman 1, Lot No 1005. Been after one for ages.

Another favourite of mine, Simon & Garfunkel, America

I wouldn't buy such a high value coin from e bay. Too risky IMO.

Bad luck, John. I'd love to have seen Newcastle put away Chelsea today, but it wasn't to be. Maybe at St James's.

Maybe it's me not getting the correct perspective, but it doesn't look as though there's anything for additional drawers to slot into? The side look smooth. Got to be something to hold them in place, surely?

Yes, I did once encounter the same thing on e bay. 30 seconds to go and previous high bid was £120. I then bid £301.50 with 8 seconds to go. I then paid £301.50. Someone had bid £300.00 with zero seconds to go ! Coin was probably worth £225.00 or thereabouts. Slightly annoying, but as ever with coins, it's swings and roundabouts. But it doesn't happen often. Usually there will be an intermediate bid midway between the previous highest and my very high one, which is the final determinant.

Fantastic news Pete. Had no idea what you were going through. Now you can move forward. Nice one mate

Another one from 1997, and one of my all time favourites - Bittersweet Symphony from Verve. That image of Richard Ashcroft bumping into everybody along the street has become almost iconic.

Much of the music from the last 30 odd years, I now find irritating and inane, so I'm not going to post one of those. Instead, I'll post one that contains thoughtful lyrics. Roger Whittaker was played a lot when I was still at home with my parents, as my Father is a huge fan of his. This one I grew to really like "I don't believe in if anymore"

More than I anticipated, Bob. But I should already have known that such a coin with its attendant extreme rarity would command a very high price.

Not scrolled down fully to see Bob's reply yet. But I'd guess at £5k or thereabouts.

Fantastic. What did you get for it, Bob, if it's not an impertinent question?

I bet most would give their eye teeth to get hold of an 1877 narrow date.......