The Chinese lock down does appear to have had the effect of reducing air pollution drastically - I wonder how many lives that will save? It's an ill wind etc etc. From the Medieval Times of London "Black Death eliminates housing shortage" China pollution clears amid coronavirus slowdown
You just guaranteed that no one will be forwarding any birthday gifts until they have some assurance that it won't be part of the estate.
And on a more reflective note: Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
And there's me thinking you were English and would spell it Saltpetre. So I'm now wondering if it's a typo for Saint Peter. Tim
Depressing, I'm over 60 as well. It's beginning to look grim for WW2 Talk. Looks like the forum membership may be thinned out.
I have toyed with the idea of cataloguing my research/library/collection/legacy but I suspect that's more likely to kill me than coronavirus.
Will be in Salerno on April 1st! Has that being (April fools day) will i need a gas mask? I would not mind a extra week in Salerno! Others may not think so....
Saltpetre.....apart from school chemistry studies,I remember it much earlier as the curing medium for bacon sides.I had an uncle who kept pigs in the days of rationing and was a licenced slaughterer during war and afterwards.All pig meat production was tightly controlled by the Ministry of Food.However my father had access to uncle's "black pig" bacon sides which he used to cure on a marble slab using saltpetre...streaky bacon was the order of the day. Now said by the medical profession to be related to bowel cancer.
