Well, after FIVE hours have finally managed to get the scanner to work. The problem was, er hum, ‘windows installer’. *%*$!!

So, here goes for the first scan…I’m waiting…
….and waiting…
…ah, a noise like the rumbling from the innards of a prehistoric beast…

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And at last, this is what I’ve managed to do !

ps - Fallen Bastions was written by G.E.R. Gedye in 1938. It is an excellent history of Austria in the 1920s and 1930s - my current reading.