After 4 months without work, I have rearranged my career (at the age of 61!) and managed to get enough freelance work to keep me going, thank goodness. Now that I have added Danish to my existing Swedish on the translation side, and Volvo Bus have seen fit to give me the job of updating service manuals I wrote 5 or more years ago, things are definitely looking up for me, especially as Volvo Truck are also interested in giving me the job of writing some of their electrical service manuals for new models in 2005.
It may be of interest that I learned Danish over a weekend! Well, enough to translate 6000 words into English, anyway.

OK, Mark12, but many flatbeds have negative and slide scanning facilities at not too great a cost – I have a Canoscan 8000F that goes up to 9600 dpi and IIRC it cost me around 400 quid. Since I use it for producing illustrated workshop manuals for Volvo buses among other things, it is easily sufficient for amateur purposes and doesn’t require a separate video board to be installed in the computer. I would recommend it to anyone and it’s a doddle to use. If I wasn’t on the other side of the North Sea I would call round with it under my arm to show you, Auster fan!

I’m back but I’ve been so busy lately I didn’t even notice the lack of Forum! Let’s hope Historic comes up tonight.

Not silly, but possibly devious, but then that’s only to be expected of the fair sex! (I have lots of experience of that, unfortunately) – anyway, this the kind of conversation that should be on a PM so I’ll shut up now and dust off a few more books in my pitiful library (expanded today by 6 bound Profile volumes found in a Gothenburg second-hand book shop that I bought myself as an early Christmas present).

“To err is human, to forgive divine”

Never mind, Anna, it certainly got our books dusted off, which I suspect was the whole point of the exercise!

Press Shift + Prt Scr (i.e. both at the same time), then open Word and press Ctrl + V (i.e. both at the same time.. That produces a screen dump of whatever was on the screen when you pressed Shift + Prt Scr.

Sqn Ldr Douglas Davie died on 4 June 1944 after escaping from a disintegrating F2 Meteor, from the injuries he sustained, i.e. he survived his previous abandonment detailed in #21. (Source page 131 of “Test Pilots” by the late Don Middleton)
IMHO Distiller was right in #2.
(Now I can go to bed in peace, Anna!)

Best wishes from dark cold Sweden, Daz!