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Couldn't agree more. Tonight we all came outdoors and clapped for the health care workers, on my street, and I had a 20 minute conversation with my next door neighbour about various topics - the longest conversation we've ever had. Previously just "Morning, how are you". Social distancing was observed, although as we both live alone, and have both been locked down for nearly 3 weeks, I don't think there was much chance of one of us infecting the other. As I've got some ASDA and Tesco delivery slots already advanced booked, I asked her to let me know if she needed anything, and I could add it on to the order. My sister has become a volunteer for the NHS. I think this crisis is actually bringing people together (albeit at a distance) in a spirit of mutual assistance where possible. Even before the lockdown I'd stopped seeing my girl friend as she is on immuno suppressive medication due to RA, and she lives with her elderly Mum, who also has health issues. So they are both highly vulnerable. Now we keep in touch by phone.

It's well documented that one of the weaknesses of George V pennies prior to the late 1920's, is the poor or weak strike on so many. This typically results in either very poor hair detail, or the breastplate very weak or absent. I've been trying to obtain as many as possible which have decent examples of both. I've now obtained a 1916 penny, which is not a recessed ear type, but does have a decent breastplate and good hair detail. Proves that if you're patient, you can obtain good specimens. I've now got well struck up examples of all the period 1911 to 1927, with the exception of 1913 Freeman's 175 (poor breastplate and hair) and 176, (very good hair but poor breastplate). It's quite unusual to get such a good non recessed ear specimen for 1916.

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No 3 - the best three I can come up with so far are "unreasonableness", "declassification" and "discontentedness", all with 16. They are in the dictionary. That's obviously using just lower case. There's probably longer better ones.

Cheers things up a bit. For the sake of people's sanity, we do need the odd diversion from Covid 19 now and again. Especially stuff that bears no relation to it. The news is dominated by coronavirus, virtually to the exclusion of everything else. Not that there is much else.

Temperature - the (then) October maximum temperature record was broken in March (Cambs) on 1st October 1985, when 29.4 degrees was attained there. This was broken on 1st October 2011, when 29.9 degrees was reached in Gravesend.

No 4 anybody?

1/ What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters? SOLVED 2/ It occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in an hour. SOLVED 3/ A cowboy rides into town on Monday. He stays three days, then rides out of town on Monday. How? 4/ How was the October record set in March?

Done some digging, and although it looks dry on the surface, it's still like a bog underneath, making the soil heavy to turn. In fact, I thought I could hear it squelching as though there was water underneath. I'll post a photo like you've done Blake, when I've finished. Too ashamed at the moment. Anybody re-wilded their garden? It's a great excuse not to have to do any work in it.

Mine not especially wonderful to be honest. After all the rain followed by dry weather, parts of it look like a dried up lake bed. I've done some weeding, however, and am actually going out again soon to do a little digging, as it's now a bit cooler than earlier in the day. Had to try and fix a fence panel as well. I hadn't realised as it was hidden behind a tree so couldn't be seen from the window. Not sure when it happened, but it was kind of warped into a bow shape and had come out of its moorings. Neighbours never said anything, and I did try a contractor for a new panel to be fixed, but they're not operating because of Covid 19. However, after a bit of effort on my part, I did bodge it back into some semblance of position. Had to kick the lower part to get it reslotted into the concrete post. All good fun.

One only.

Wow - I thought when I paid £54 for mine, it was a bargain. Neat capture. One for Richard's rarest penny site anyway.

Definitely a F76, Blake. Quite apart from other pointers, look at the taller helmet plume. It's a surefire giveaway. Is it yours?

Looks as though Mal had two accounts and there are more details about the CD on the thread page immediately previous to this one.

Woofers, sub woofers or tweeters?

If you can't get the CD, Richard, you might like to know that Mal Lewendon is a member here. He's never posted anything, and was last active in 2016. But it might possibly be worth messaging him, as personal messages are also sent as an e mail to the member. link to Mal Lewendon's pre decimal page ETA: I tell a lie - one post, about halfpennies here

That 1861 Ka is very obvious when you look at it, with the "trial" 1 standing separately, just to the left of the main numeral 1. Also, as you say Ian, it's been catalogued, which lends an extra cache. Interestingly enough, in March 2019, I bought Lot 1253, a variation of a F33A from LCA for £240 hammer, which is described as 8 over wiry 6. It's an 8 over 6, but it's not the well known 33A, which is essentially a F33. This is the Gouby AA (D + d) shown on page 41. This is actually a 2 + D or an F18. Not brilliant pics, but the "wiry" 6 is visible.

Agreed. There are so many numeral variations and overstrikes of varying type, that it would be virtually impossible to catalogue them all. Moreover, any one "type" that you findmight be unique in the sense that it's the only one known. This renders them relatively unattractive to most collectors. Obviously the well known overstrikes such as the F30 & F33A and the 1865 5/3 are a different matter. There is a definite market for them. I can't see any evidence of a 6/G either - although I can see a 6 + G

We've probably all experienced this scenario. Colleagues know you're a coin collector, so every now and then one will bring you some in to ID and value. In this case someone brought me an entire tin of coins, all of which were worthless, with the possible exception of this one. I had no idea what it was, as it's outside my speciality, but it looked as though it had potential and I told her so. She asked me to take it away and see if I could positively ID what it was. From brief research at home, it looks like it might be a spade half guinea from 1790, but the obverse just doesn't match pictured specimens at all. So I'm wondering if it's a fake. The reverse looks a lot better than the obverse. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

One of maybe two possible reasons that I can think of: a) the hair of each barber must have been cut by the other. Therefore the logician favoured the barber with untidy hair as he cut the hair of the neatly trimmed barber. In that case the untidy surroundings, lack of shave and unkempt clothes are red herrings. The other possible reason, b) is that the logician favoured the untidy premises and unkempt barber, on the basis he must be a lot busier than the other guy, because more popular, giving better haircuts.

I knew my way was too cumbersome and detailed.

For a few seconds I was slightly thrown between the dog trotting and running, but had to assume that the dog would be doing a constant 5mph at all times. But it was always ever about the total distance/time run by the dog, whether in a straight line or back and forth. I calculated as follows - maybe more cumbersome than some. 7:15 to 8:15 1st man covers 2 miles 8:15 to 9:15 1st man covers another 2 miles making 4 miles in total. 8:15 to 9:15 2nd man covers 3 miles 9:15 to 10:15 1st man covers another 2 miles making 6 miles in total 9:15 to 10:15 2nd man covers another 3 miles making 6 miles in total Therefore the two men are parallel at 10:15am Meanwhile the dog started out at 8:15 moving at 5mph. At 8:55am, he catches up with the first man having by that time covered 3.33 (recurring) miles. The first man having also covered 3.33 miles by 8:55am Between 8:55am and 10:15am the dog continues to move at a constant speed of 5mph. As a result, he covers a further 6.66 (recurring) miles. Effective total distance covered by dog = 10 miles

Neh - it doesn't work. I never imagined for one millisecond that it would. The physics are that ice in water with an ambient background temperature above freezing, will be in a melt process immediately, and will be contracting in size all the time. The contraction itself will render another body sticking to it, implausible. Salt will merely accelerate the melting speed. For the string to stick to the ice, there has to be further refreezing, and that is impossible in such a situation. If I'd put the glass in the freezer (at minus 20 degrees), the string would have stuck to the ice cube after a fairly short period, with or without the salt. I tried the experiment as per the video (don't know what they did, but I strongly suspect it wasn't as it seemed), and the water was from the cold tap. The ice was ice, the salt was salt, and the string was string. The background temperature was 21 degrees.

10 miles as already stated.

Step 3 - pour the salt in, and Step 4 - after a minute pick up the string As you can see, it didn't work.