the HOFIT: October 1999

Wednesday, October 20, 1999

My Dish Days

A typical installation in Somerset (1989).

Tuesday, October 19, 1999

Looks nice at the back of a pub near Bristol. Got soaking wet doing that one, too!

Monday, October 18, 1999

In a back garden in Bristol. Quite neat, I thought.

Sunday, October 17, 1999

A nice little motorised 90 cm dish on another rainy day near Gloucester. This is the last one I did (1990).

Saturday, October 16, 1999

Friday, October 15, 1999

An Amstrad at Cranham.

: Name: Greybeard

After forty years working in the engineering support of medical equipment, and in new hospital projects both in the design office and "at site", I now consider myself semi-retired. Following army service in Hong Kong, UK, Germany and Saudi Arabia, I worked in Saudi Arabia (a further four times), Nigeria, Jordan, Oman (twice) and the UK Health Service. My earning skills have included hands-on installation, repairs, maintenance, inspections and technical support of medical equipment. Together with advising on biomedical engineering generally, planning equipment layouts, producing equipment listings, writing specifications, and assisting architects etc. These days I live as simply and cheaply as I can, and (as far as possible) on my own terms, keeping my hand in by repairing or refurbishing medical equipment or doing inspections and maintenance work, sometimes for charity groups. But what I enjoy most is developing computer software, as a quirky and obsessive coder happy to be immersed in thorny problems for months at a stretch. "Free as a bird", and without any permanent address (generally moving on from time to time), I still jog as often as I can.

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