"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , Fed Up Lurker
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I am interested and do plan to do some closer examination and comparisons
sometime. But do have loads of other things on the same 'to do' list. :-)

Understood it is a case of having priorities Jim.
I just got the Sept HFN+RR issue, your self authored software looks
interesting,
I might give it a try out.


I don't think Jim is talking to me anymore, I think he finds me too
annoying and maybe strings have been pulled?

You do seem to keep repeating your worries about "strings".

They are not "worries" as such, it happens and we know it.

But I've not detected anything like that myself.

emm........

I reply/respond to what people write when I have a chance and when
I'd like to make a comment or response. If I don't respond it is because
either I was busy/distracted/forgot or I felt there was nothing I wanted
to say.


I've grabbed your attention, I have faith in you to follow it up, no rush.


FWIW I live a long way from London and the SE of England. I belong to the
AES but never go to any meetings. I don't know most of the people who may
well get together 'down there'. Indeed, a number of the first names you
have mentioned here (or in emails to me) are either people I've never
spoken to, or I simply don't know who they are! :-)

.....Pants on fire


As I've said, I just take a hobby interest in audio these days,

That is just fine, it's we hobbiests who know what we are doing!

and that extends to my writing about it.

Amazing coincidence, my hobby is writing about it too, but I like
to be confrontational and a touch of attack can be fun, you should
try those approaches in your column sometimes....

So I guess I am simply 'out of the loop' for any string pulling, smoozing,
pals acts, or other backstage stuff. Not encountered anything like that
with the few people I know these days, anyway.

Phew! Have I got some tales to tell you ... in email though.


FWIW I spend as much time gardening as I do on music/hifi/writing
during a lot of the year.

We used to have gardens in the SE, long gone now....

This isn't the right group to chat about it, although I do recommend it.
Lovely mix of enjoyable activities and appreciating the sights, scents,
and sounds of a garden.
One particularly nice thing about our garden is an unexpected side-effect
of my wish to try
and get 'flowers all year round'. This is that we get lots of bumble bees.
I only found out after I'd been gardening for a few years that bumble bees
don't store honey to the same extent as honey bees, so rely on being able
to find flowers for a much longer portion of the year! I also didn't know
just how many varieties of bumble bee there are until I started looking.


Genuinely, it sounds perfect.

One bush we have I call "the kazoo bush" because at this time of year the
bees vibrating the flowers sounds like a kazoo orchestra. Also nice to
have blackbirds following me about to leap on any insects I uncover for
them.

That sounds blissful, but here in London we have a problem with urban foxes
which are getting a tad brazen, beautiful animals but the problem is humans
who feed the foxes which now approach anyone who stands still and beckons,
as the foxes now correlate friendly humans with an easy food supply.
You are probably aware of the horror stories of night time attacks etc, of
foxes intruding into residential properties in search of some grub.


And no, I *don't* listen to music in the garden. No 'portable music
player'. I listen to the *garden*. That's where I'm off to, now... :-)

I don't listen to music on portable media players either, and just thinking
about that as a subject, I realised I now rarely listen to music in the car
either these days. (VW with self rigged Pioneer + JBL)
I'm out of time and have to go
Cheers.