Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

Had a strange but rather funny email yesterday!

I subscribe to an alert service offered by a department at Lancaster University, that keeps you informed of any possible sightings of the Aurora Borealis in the UK. They give amber and red warnings of the likelihood.

Anyway, I got a red alert yesterday for sightings being possible for the whole of the UK, (which was unusual, as it's usually only in the more northern areas), so I thought, yippee! I might see it!

Then when I got home late last night, not having seen it, despite clear skies, I found this email!.........



QUOTE:
Dear AuroraWatch UK subscriber,

We apologise for the earlier false alert (issued 13:25 UTC today) which was caused by University staff mowing the grass on a sit-on mower and creating a local disturbance to equipment at our Lancaster site. We’ll work with the facilities team to try and avoid an incident such as this occuring in the future!



For more information please see
http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/aurorawatchuk/2016/08/23/red-alert-cancelled/

The AuroraWatch UK team
http://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/
UNQUOTE

I thought this was so funny, and it was good of them to be honest!
The graph reminded me of the stock exchange graph on 24th June! :rotfl:

Thinks........should we start worrying about the grass being mown near the nuclear attack warning equipment? :rotfl:

bugslet

PasturesNew wrote: »

BBC1 about to start - Heirhunters

"Mysterious loner who left £000s in his house...."

I got a letter from Finders a few weeks ago, I may be in line for som inheritance. I doubt it though - I don't have any relatives that would have left me something.

michaels wrote: »

Sounds lke my DW - I say don't buy any more junk till you have got rid of some first because all the storeage is full to over-flowing. So she buys mroe storeage but of course the rooms are already full to overflowing.....

You'd like my place, all I do is chuck stuff out ( apart from some clothes, that you know, I'll fit into once the diet starts;))

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Just found out friends daughter (13) has been diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Puts a lot of things into perspective

It does indeed. One of my drivers had leukemia in his thirties around 20 years ago, he's doing just fine now.

Pyxis

bugslet wrote: »

I got a letter from Finders a few weeks ago, I may be in line for som inheritance. I doubt it though - I don't have any relatives that would have left me something.

It could well be a relative you've never heard of.

That happened to me, aeons ago. An intestate case. It turned out to be a second cousin, or something, of one of my parents. No-one had ever heard of him before!
I think my share was £200 after fees, which was a nice sum in the 70s!

Pyxis

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PasturesNew

bugslet wrote: »

Finders

I watch Heirhunters (on this week at 11.45am BBC1) - although this lot is repeats it appears, I'd certainly seen yesterday's before.

"Nobody that left me anything". The thing is, many people that end up on the lists have something about them that meant they were unknown to the remaining family.

e.g. If your grandfather had been married previously, wife died in childbirth, child brought up by a maternal aunt; child married and had kids ... and the last one of those has now died.

The stories often involve single mothers too.

Or, somebody ran away ... and was never heard of since, they had a child ...

From memory (I stopped watching when I realised I'd seen it before) was a bloke who had lived in his parents house all his life; he'd had a brother who'd died as a child. Parents had died, he'd stayed in the house. He ended up dying in a house fire aged nearly 90.

I think his parents were lone children, so they went to his grandparents and found two lines had died out and there were two lines left. They hadn't even heard of him.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

That happened to me

Now so much stuff's online, have you done any research to find out more about them? I'd be intrigued as to fitting them into a tree and seeing what I could find about their life. Court cases, war service, addresses, are their old houses still there, gravestone... the works!

Old newspapers are searchable too, to a degree for free... you might spot he was in court for not having a light on his bike

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Now so much stuff's online, have you done any research to find out more about them? I'd be intrigued as to fitting them into a tree and seeing what I could find about their life. Court cases, war service, addresses, are their old houses still there, gravestone... the works!

Old newspapers are searchable too, to a degree for free... you might spot he was in court for not having a light on his bike

One day I probably will!

The trouble with my tree is that I could only get back to the 19C and then two major lines disappear into Europe! (Different countries!) The remaining British lines are female.
It wouldn't be easy.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

It wouldn't be easy.

Sticking to England .... that furren stuff would only be confusing .... it is a lot easier as more's online/easily found.

Wait for a free FMP weekend if it's England - you get the best parish registers coverage AND the newspapers.

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

QUOTE:
Dear AuroraWatch UK subscriber,

We apologise for the earlier false alert (issued 13:25 UTC today) which was caused by University staff mowing the grass on a sit-on mower and creating a local disturbance to equipment at our Lancaster site. We’ll work with the facilities team to try and avoid an incident such as this occuring in the future!
UNQUOTE

I thought this was so funny, and it was good of them to be honest!

PSML

Thinks........should we start worrying about the grass being mown near the nuclear attack warning equipment? :rotfl:

Very probably - considering that the US defense systems have gone into full alert a few times because of such mundane things as - the moon rising

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

PSML



Very probably - considering that the US defense systems have gone into full alert a few times because of such mundane things as - the moon rising

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

What about low-flying seagulls? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: