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03/02/18
« on: Saturday, 03 February, 2018 @ 02:27:16 »
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Hannah Hauxwell obituary
Yorkshire hill farmer who became a TV star with the 1973 documentary Too Long a Winter

Hannah Hauxwell, who has died aged 91, was living a harsh existence as a hill farmer in the Yorkshire Dales, without electricity or running water, when the 1973 television documentary Too Long a Winter turned her into a national celebrity. She was first seen leading her cow into its shed as a blizzard raged at Low Birk Hatt farm, 1,000ft up in Baldersdale. Two members of the film crew shielded the camera from the snow with their sheepskin coats while another held the tripod steady by lying flat in the drift.

Hauxwell had lived in this remote spot next to the Pennine Way from the age of three and had farmed the 80 acres of the holding alone since the death of her uncle in 1961. She often saw no one for weeks at a time and lived on £5 a week. Once a month she collected a parcel of food basics from the nearest road, one and a half miles across fields, and she received two chickens a year. On the farm she had just the one milking cow and two calves. Although she was then only 46, her hair was white.

Hannah Bayles Tallentire Hauxwell, farmer, born 1 August 1926; died 30 January 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/feb/01/hannah-hauxwell-obituary

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Re: 03/02/18
« Reply #1 on: Saturday, 03 February, 2018 @ 13:55:22 »
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eBay drops PayPal as first choice for payments

EBay is to drop PayPal as its main payments processor in a move that it says will benefit sellers and buyers.

People buying items on eBay will be able to pay without leaving its website, and sellers will have lower processing costs, the online giant said in a blog post.

EBay has signed an agreement with Dutch firm Adyen to process payments, but buyers will still be able to use PayPal on the site until at least 2023.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42905465

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Re: 03/02/18
« Reply #2 on: Saturday, 03 February, 2018 @ 18:11:37 »
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Hannah Hauxwell obituary
Yorkshire hill farmer who became a TV star with the 1973 documentary Too Long a Winter
The Documentary was really good I remember watching it .She was a lovely lady .I thought she had been dead a long time and was surprised to see her age as from the film you imagined her to be a lot older than she was. A lovely Yorkshire character.!
Hannah Hauxwell, who has died aged 91, was living a harsh existence as a hill farmer in the Yorkshire Dales, without electricity or running water, when the 1973 television documentary Too Long a Winter turned her into a national celebrity. She was first seen leading her cow into its shed as a blizzard raged at Low Birk Hatt farm, 1,000ft up in Baldersdale. Two members of the film crew shielded the camera from the snow with their sheepskin coats while another held the tripod steady by lying flat in the drift.

Hauxwell had lived in this remote spot next to the Pennine Way from the age of three and had farmed the 80 acres of the holding alone since the death of her uncle in 1961. She often saw no one for weeks at a time and lived on £5 a week. Once a month she collected a parcel of food basics from the nearest road, one and a half miles across fields, and she received two chickens a year. On the farm she had just the one milking cow and two calves. Although she was then only 46, her hair was white.

Hannah Bayles Tallentire Hauxwell, farmer, born 1 August 1926; died 30 January 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/feb/01/hannah-hauxwell-obituary
A lovely lady .A true Yorkshire Lass. I thought she had died a long time ago as she looked so old in the documentary, much older than she really was.
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« Reply #3 on: Saturday, 03 February, 2018 @ 22:25:41 »
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Fireplaces polluting homes, experts warn

Researchers at Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University have warned that excessive use of fireplaces instead of other forms of heating creates dangerous pollution inside homes, saying that microparticles in closed spaces can exceed maximum safety levels set by European authorities within just two or three hours of lighting a fire.
http://www.ekathimerini.com/225477/article/ekathimerini/news/fireplaces-polluting-homes-experts-warn

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Re: 03/02/18
« Reply #4 on: Saturday, 03 February, 2018 @ 22:34:29 »
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Hunter knocked unconscious by dead goose falling from sky
‘These birds weigh anywhere from 10 to probably 14 pounds... so, if they hit you on the head, it’s going to definitely cause severe damage’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/hunter-goose-unconscious-dead-falling-sky-easton-maryland-a8192596.html