What happened to Mary Fisher ?

What a coincidence. I was thinking the same just before christmas. But I remember her for comments on mortar work, or was it Dry Stane Dyking.... Anyway, I do miss your comments, and hope you are well.

still with us ? I know she was ill from time to time.

the thermostat up to 12 degrees celcius etc.

Don't know this time - but she has disappeared in the past, only to re-appear later. Maybe she'll come back when she's good and ready.

I know that she has her detractors - who tend to make all kinds of unkind comments when she is mentioned - but I'm one of her 'fans' and certainly hope that she comes back.

Google Groups "oldhenwife" - appears to hang around elsewhere.

Ah, I do seem to recall that 'spouse' was unable to make a proper newsreader work after they had a new computer.

Having said that, you *can* access uk.d-i-y via Google Groups - however undesirable most of us would consider that to be!

and Ed Sirett last post to usenet that i can find 2009

I think she did pop-in a few months back

Anna Kettle ... web site still apparently updated

She did... I also spoke to another regular here who had spoken to her on the phone relatively recently.

Website's still active:

Richard Gethin, John Schmitt, Matthew Marks, Max Bone, Tony Bond, ...

And Mr Cheerful over in uk.rec.car.maintenance

Charles (Joe) Stahelin died in 2007. In 1998 he drove all the way down from Huddersfield to deliver the Triton Workcentre I bought from him back in '98. A real old gent. Obituary

I gave her a call last year when I needed some advice abut chickens.

Her detractors were mentioned and she laughed and said "I have more skins than an onion"

Ed Sirett cab be found on facebook, and has a website

Blimey, dunno if it's a sign I've been here too long, but I recognise all the names.

Google suggests my first post was 2000, and a reply to Ed :-) Sounds plausible although I've been on usenet for longer than that.

Darren - Feeling old

I think I was a bit after that on this group - it must be about 9 years ago that I needed help getting the bearings out of the washing machine. Big guy (did weightlifing or bodybuilding) who was (or had been) a washing machine engineer...

Last time I looked, my first Usenet post was 1983.

Lot of folk from uk.food.drink.misc (including Mary) are posting on the cuisine forum:-

There's a good chance it still will be :-)

Feb 1994 for me officially before that undergrads weren't allowed to post to groups outside of the university.

A couple of years before that unofficially (we had ways ;-))

Darren

Blimey, didn't realise some of you have been using Usenet for so long!