<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Dear Peter,</div><div><br></div><div>Congratulations, It sounds like you have found paradise; it doesn't get better than that!</div><div><br></div><div>Enjoy and let's keep in contact.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards</div><div>Juan </div><div><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 27.06.2017, at 20:19, <a href="mailto:peter.allan@stfc.ac.uk">peter.allan@stfc.ac.uk</a> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi folks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I was talking with Chris Perry yesterday and he mentioned that you were asking after me at the recent CMC meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">This is what I have been up to since I moved away from the CCSDS family.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">You will recall that in July 2015, I was asked to become the acting director of the Hartree Centre, STFC’s supercomputing department for industrial applications. This was going to take
all of my time so I had to give up my involvement in space programmes at the time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Later in 2015, I decided that I would retire in late summer 2016 and so I did not apply for the permanent post of the director of the Hartree Centre. My decision was based on the fact
that there were so many things that I wanted to do outside work that the only way I could find time to do them was to retire. After my time as the acting director of the Hartree Centre, I moved back to space activities at RAL between May and September 2016
and I retired in the middle of September 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I now do spend more time playing golf, I have taken up croquet, I am doing more electronics, amateur radio, and computing projects, and my wife and I seem to take some sort of a holiday
most months. I am also catching up with some projects around the house that were “on hold” for far too long. I am still going to RAL one day per week (typically) since I have a position as an Honorary Scientist with STFC. This lets me “use the facilities”
and I am working on a couple of astronomical research projects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I have fond memories of all the work that we did together and what we achieved. I was even wearing my CCSDS tee-shirt last week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">All things considered, life is very good.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Peter Allan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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