All the same from me although I don't think I ever met him. OTOH I may have encountered him at a NEC show some years ago

Hope he how gets to "eat" a few of those green bananas in the here-after!

OTOH, I'm now "suffering" a problem for which the NHS can't be held responsible: SWMBO has determined that she wants to watch ALL of the Beeb's Coronation broadcasts - so I'll have to sit through at least some of that!

Don't get me wrong and classed as a "republican" who wants the RF gone ASAP - I'm not, having seen what some countries with elected presidents appear to be like, I think having a non-elected (and with no direct political affiliations or power) hereditary head of state is probably a better option in most cases! OTOH(2) I also really don't "get" all the adulation and fawning that seems to go with the way that "many people" appear to view the RF and some of its more prominent members!

Whilst I am generally happy with the NHS, quite a few times in the last 3 years I've had to "go private" in order to get treatment that was urgently needed because I was in severe pain (right knee joint replaced, arthritic bone spur in left shoulder joint causing excrutiating pain, and then longterm spinal damage pain - which is now considered too bad to treat at all) that was urgently needed because there was no sign of any imminent effective treatment (often said to be "not bad enough yet") from the NHS.

Only usable with lenses with deeply recessed rear element, but a cracking converter, and much better, IMHO, than the 2.0 version - I had both but sold the latter!

To be relatively "fair" to Hermes/Evri, we've had occasional bad/downright and repetitive awful service from DPD ("Dreadful Parcel Deliveries"), UPS ("Useless Parcel Service") and Yodel ("Singing all the way to some other address") over the last few years (and not including what did or didn't arrive during the pandemic - but most things actually did arrive within a reasonable period during that)

FWIW, if you look cafefully at "See all buying options" in the top Right corner of the Silver K-3 III listing, you will see that it is sold by Amazon US, whereas most of the other K-3 III and K-70 are listed with just Amazon as the seller.

So I can cancel my £13/month BBC TV licence and use that tax/robbery for insurance. Been wanting to stop paying BBC for ages. [/quote]---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't see any "connection" between the two paras above - totally different issues!

PS: FWIW, I think the BBC licence fee is actually quite good value in terms of the quality of the programming they (mostly!) produce - certainly as afar as the "loadsof tripe" and adverts on many of the commercial channels.

My photo stuff (see below) used to be separately insured under a specific photo policy and cost well over a 100 quid a year then - but not for the last 4-5 years when it's been covered first by my SAGA, and now Nationwide, home contents policy for effectively less than 50 quid a year. So, now, this is a lot cheaper and there's no need to declare the major items separately (but a max of, IIRC, about £5K including any other miscellaneous losses)

In addition, because I have a Nationwide "packaged" current a/c for around £13/month, I've got a big discount on the main house policy, and also mobile phone/tablet insurance and LV Britannia Rescue breakdown and recovery cover! MUCH cheaper overall - definitely the "way to go"!!!

I've bought DSTE clones of both D-Li109 & D-Li90 batteries, and they've generally had decent capacities and worked quite well - unlike some other clones where short lives &/or swelling proved problematic.