PUB TALK

PUB is a SAD person (ie. suffering with seasonally affected disorder), so struggles through winter by looking forward to spring, and the summer events, rides, and renewed acquaintances. Now all that looks gone, or probably gone, for 2020 and all she has to look forward to is next winter. Boo. That is the pessimistic view, but more optimistically the dire forewarnings of the ill effects of enforced isolation are not worrying her unduly. As a single retired person (with fixed income) PUB hasn’t yet noticed much difference (but sympathises with those out of work). Originally Government requested that she should not leave the house for three months, and also exhorted for no stockpiling of food. PUB was expecting to be very, very slim by the end, but now supermarkets are providing special old folks hours on certain days (‘old folks’, PUB … does not compute, does not compute).

However, the lack of events or shows in the near future will cut off the supply of news and pictures, so that subject matter will have to come from closer to home for a while, such as from the workshop. For example Frank’s K2F magneto is successfully resuscitated, as will probably have been revealed in Tales From The Shed. It had been intended as an illustration for readers of a complete recondition, and probably the fitting of an EasyCap, but turned out to have been rebuilt some time ago and needed little doing to it. If it