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Moving
I saw Phil Hart's note about moving and though I'd add mine. Yesterday Heather and I left our home of 19 years.
We didn't go far - only 3km as the crow flies - but we've seen the last of sodium vapour street lights lighting up the yard, huge trees, major road works, and the north-west rail construction site being 200m away.
We have much better eastern and western horizons. South and north aren't too bad if a few degrees higher. No chance of M31 now unless I build an observatory on the garage roof.
Now we are down to the last 50 boxes to unpack and I can go round to Mum's to fetch all the cameras and astro gear that I didn't trust to the removalists. My caution might have been unnecessary as they did a great job. They had to use one small truck to shuttle stuff up the steep driveway from the bigger trucks that couldn't get around the curve.
This is the third time the company have moved our stuff and I can't recommend them highly enough to anyone around Sydney. They're not cheap but they've been in business a long time and know how to keep customers happy. Rather than making this an advert, you can have the name on request by PM.
The one annoying loss? There's no ADSL here and no NBN, so I've had to switch to Bigpond cable. I'd been perfectly happy with FirstLink -> AlwaysOnline -> IfTelecom. Gary Kopff and I had - unknown to each other - been using the same provider since the 1990s and I'm sad to leave. At least they will continue to manage our email accounts for us.
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