이것은 제 시아버지 피터 래드클리프의 삶을 기념하는 행사입니다. 그는 2021 년 2 월 15 일 92세에 잠깐 병을 앓다가 세상을 떠났습니다 

 

 전형적인 기술 전문가. 그는 특히 전염병의 마지막 해에 평생 동안 살면서 기술을 사랑했습니다. 우리는 그를 영원히 그리워 할 것입니다.

 피터와 그의 아내 페기는 영국 요크셔 출신이었습니다. 그들은 70 년 전 3월  New Mill 근처의 Lydgate에서 만났습니다. 그녀는 18 세의 재봉사 였고 그는 마을의 새로운 바비였습니다. 그들은 1954 년에 결혼했습니다.

 그들은 1956 년에 캐나다 옐로 나이프 (Yellowknife)로 이주했습니다. 피터의 동생 인 존은 그곳으로 이사하면 직업과 집을 제안했습니다. 

 

 그들은 리버풀에서 몬트리올로 항해하고 기차를 타고 에드먼턴으로 간 다음 피스 리버를 통해 옐로 나이프로 날아갔지만  형제, 직업, 살 곳을 찾지 못했습니다.

 그러나 그 후 30 년 동안 피터와 페기는 캐나다 북부에서 놀라운 삶을 살았으며 세 아들 데이비드, 스티브, 마이클을 일하며 키웠습니다.

 

Peter는 처음에 Yellowknife의 Giant Gold Mine에서 분석가였습니다. 1958 년부터 1986 년 은퇴 할 때까지 그는 누나 부트를 포함한 노스 웨스트 준주에서 CBC North의 통신 시스템을 유지했습니다.

 1986 년 래드클리프 가족은 은퇴하고 피커링 근처에있는 요크셔의 시골 마을로 다시 이사했습니다.

 지난 3 월 Covid-Pandemic이 발생했을 때 Peter는 기술로 전염병을 통제했습니다. 그는 최신 정보를 유지하기로 결심하고 끝까지 자신과 아내를 돌 보았습니다.

 91 세의 Peter는 이미 온라인 기술 탐색에 능숙했습니다. 그는 수년간 식료품과 상품을 온라인으로 주문했습니다. 다른 사람들이 동시에 일을 시작했을 때만 전염병이  문제가되었습니다.

 상점에 필수품이 부족하기 시작했을 때 Peter는 필요한 것을 얻기 위해 거의 매일 줄을 섰습니다. 몇주의 노력이 걸렸지 만 결국 몇 달 동안 걱정하지 않을만큼 충분한 화장지를 구했습니다.

 얼마 지나지 않아 상점은 빵을 안정적으로 공급할 수 없었습니다. 페기는 빵 없이는 살 수 없었습니다. 경미한 기억 상실이 시작되면서 그녀는 아침에 요크셔 골드 티와 함께 토스트와 잼을바르는 습관을 유지해야했습니다.

 피터는 해결책을 찾았습니다. 그는 몇 년 동안 사용되지 않은 차고에서 가족의 오래된 빵 기계를 찾아 냈습니다. 며느리가 이웃에게 선물 한 기계로 빵을 만드는 것을 보았을 때, 그녀가 했던 것보다 더 좋은 빵을 만드는데 도전했습니다 

 그가 익숙해 졌을 때 그는 새로운 최신 Panasonic SD-2B2512 빵 기계를 주문했습니다. 피터는 빵 만들기 기술을 완벽하게 하기 위해 반죽의 크기와 양을 조정했습니다.

 그는 어느 날 아침에 빵 이모티콘과 함께 자신의 빵 사진을 이메일로 보냈습니다. "이것은 믹서에서 혼합하고 반죽 한 다음 4 시간 설정을 사용하여 더 많은 반죽과 요리를 위해 제빵기에 넣었습니다. Peter." 빵은 화려했습니다.

 그는 아침 새벽에 빵이 구워 지도록 기계의 시간을 정했습니다. Peggy는 신선한 수제 빵의 향기를 좋아했습니다. Peter는 건포도 빵과 시나몬 롤을 포함하도록 베이킹 레퍼토리를 확장했습니다.

 피터가 스카 버러에있는 쇼핑몰에서 희귀하고 "안전하게 마스크를 쓰고 많은 위생 소독제를 쓰고 ,페기를 잠시 잃었을 때, 문제에 대한 그의 해결책은 물론 또 다른 기술이었습니다.

 Peter는 Peggy를 위해 새롭고 밝은 카나리아 노란색 iPhone을 즉시 주문했습니다. 그는 그녀가 필요로하는 숫자로 그것을 프로그래밍하고 그것을 사용하는 방법을 가르쳤습니다.

 Peter는 기술적 인 혜택도 받았습니다. 그는 3 개월에 걸쳐 양안 백내장 수술을 따로 받았습니다. 수술은 큰 통증없이 안구 뒤쪽에서 작동하는 기술적 인 경이로움이었습니다. 유일한 불편한 점은 집으로 운전할 수 없다는 것입니다.

수술 후, 피터는 그 앞에 몇 마일이나되는 푸른 하늘을 볼 수있었습니다. 그는 왜 더 빨리 수술을받지 못하는지 궁금했습니다. 그는 독서 외에는 더 이상 안경이 필요하지 않았습니다.

 

 장거리 시력이 개선 된 그는 브론테 자매의 고향 인 요크셔 무 어스에서 다른 가장 좋아하는 기술 장치 인 Honda Acura를 타고 Peggy를 데리고갔습니다. 그는 또한 그녀가 가장 좋아하는 패스 타임 중 하나 인 7 월에 그녀를 영국 장미 정원으로 데려갔습니다.

 올해 1 월까지 Peter와 Peggy는 화이자 백신을 두 번 맞았습니다. 둘 다 기뻐했습니다.

 FaceTime은 전염병 기간 동안 순수한 기술 축복이었습니다. Peggy는 iPad에서 우리 얼굴을 보는 것을 좋아했습니다. 그들은 둘 다 그들의 아들, 며느리, 그리고 그들의 할아버지 세 마리의 강아지가 격일로 "거실에서 그들을 방문"하는 것을 좋아했습니다.

 비디오 및 오디오 품질에 대한 Peter의 날카로운 눈과 귀는 우리가 FaceTime에 가입 할 때마다 빠른 속도로 시작되었습니다. 그는 비디오와 사운드의 약간의 결함을 알아 차릴 것입니다. 비디오 프레임의 모든 새로운 개체는 그가 댓글을 달기 위해 그의 눈을 사로 잡을 것입니다. 30 년 동안 CBC에서 그를 위해 일했던 사람들도 그에 대해 이렇게 말했습니다. 92 세의 나이에도 그는 비트를 놓치지 않았습니다.

 Peter는 온라인에서 많은 독자였으며 영국, 캐나다 북부, 브리티시 컬럼비아 및 한국의 뉴스를 샅샅이 뒤졌습니다. 그는 한국어를 조금 이해하기 시작했다고 생각했습니다. 케이팝 아티스트들은 그를 당혹스럽게했고 성별과 나이가 왜 더 젊고 여성스러워 보이는지 궁금해했습니다.

 그는 또한 오래된 기술의 대가였습니다. 모스 부호에 능숙한 Peter는 수십 년 동안 전 세계의 친구들과 신호를 교환했습니다. 사랑하는 친구가 다른 신기술에 놀라움을 금치 못하고 있다는 사실을 알고 있는지 궁금합니다.

 우리는 Covid-Pandemic이 우리의 세상을 바꿀 것이며, 기술은 미래에 더 큰 역할을 할 것임을 알고 있습니다. 하지만 시아버지 인 Peter Radcliffe에게 기술은 그의 친구였습니다. 그는 그것을 수용하고 가장 실용적인 효과를내는 데 사용했습니다. 그는 전형적인 기술 전문가였습니다.

 

Peter Radcliffe (1928-2021): A quintessential technology man

 

This is a Celebration of the Life of my father-in-law, Peter Radcliffe.  He passed away after a brief illness, on February 15, 2021, at 92. 

 

A quintessential technology man. He lived and loved technology throughout his life, especially in the last year of the Pandemic. We will miss him forever.  

 Peter and his wife Peggy were from Yorkshire, England. They met seventy years ago next month in Lydgate near New Mill. She was an eighteen-year-old seamstress, and he a new bobby in town. They married in 1954.

 They emigrated to Yellowknife, Canada in 1956 at the invitation of Peter's brother, John, who offered them a job and a house if they moved there. They sailed from Liverpool to Montreal, took the train to Edmonton and then flew to Yellowknife via Peace River to find no brother, no job or a place to live.  

 But for the next thirty years, Peter and Peggy made a remarkable life for themselves in Canada's North, working and raising their three sons, David, Steve and Michael.  

 

Peter was an assayer at the Giant Gold Mine in Yellowknife at first. From 1958 until his retirement in 1986, he maintained the CBC North's communication systems in Northwest Territories, including Nunavut.  

 In 1986, the Radcliffes retired and moved back to Yorkshire's rural village near Pickering, where they have lived ever since.

 When the Covid-Pandemic hit home last March, Peter grabbed the Pandemic by its throat with technology. He was determined to stay on top of it and take care of himself and his wife. Which he did, till the end.

 Peter, at 91, was already skilled at navigating technology online. He'd been ordering groceries and goods online for years. It only became a Pandemic problem when everyone else started doing it at the same time. 

 When the stores started running low of essential goods, Peter virtually queued up every day to get what he needed. It took him weeks of effort, but he eventually sourced enough toilet papers to not worry about it for months. 

 Soon, the stores couldn't reliably supply bread. Peggy couldn't go without bread. With the onset of mild memory loss, she needed to keep to her habit of a toast and jam with Yorkshire Gold tea in the morning.  

 Peter found the solution. He dug out the family's old bread machine from the garage that hadn't been used in years. When he saw his daughter-in-law making bread with a machine gifted by a neighbour, the challenge of making better bread than she beckoned.

 When he got the hang of it, he ordered a brand new state-of-the-art Panasonic SD-2B2512 bread machine. Peter adjusted the measurements and amount of the kneading to perfect the art of bread making.  

 He proudly emailed a photo of his bread with a note one morning, complete with a bread emoji. "This was mixed and kneaded in the mixer and then dumped in the bread machine for more kneading and cooking using the 4hr setting. Peter." The bread was gorgeous.

 He would time the machine so that the bread will be baked at the dawn of the morn. Peggy loved the aroma of the fresh homemade bread. Peter expanded his baking repertoire to include raisin bread and cinnamon rolls.  

 When Peter briefly lost sight of Peggy in rare and "securely masked and plenty of sanitary lotion in the car" jaunts to a shopping mall in Scarborough, his solution to the problem was, of course, another technology.  

 Peter promptly ordered a brand new, bright canary yellow iPhone for Peggy. He programmed it with numbers she needed and taught her how to use it.

 Peter received technological interventions too. He underwent cataract surgeries in both eyes separately over three months: A technological wonder that operates on the back of the eyeballs without much pain. The only inconvenience was that he couldn't drive himself home. 

After the surgeries, Peter could see the blue sky for miles and miles in front of him. He wished he had them done sooner. He didn't need glasses anymore except for reading.  

 With his improved long-distance eyesight, he would take Peggy for a drive in the Yorkshire Moors, the Bronte sisters' home country, in his other favourite technological device, Honda Acura. He also took her to English rose gardens in July, one of her favourite pass times.   

 By January of this year, both Peter and Peggy received two shots of the Pfizer vaccines. They were both pleased. 

 FaceTime was a pure technological blessing during the Pandemic. Peggy loved seeing our faces on her iPad. They both loved that their son, daughter-in-law and their three grand dogs "visited them in their living room" every other day. 

 Peter's sharp eyes and ears for video and audio quality would kick into high gear each time we signed onto FaceTime. He would notice the slightest deficiency in video and sound. All new objects on the video frame would catch his eye for him to comment on. People who worked for him at CBC during the 30 years said this about him too. Even at the age of 92, he did not miss a beat.    

 Peter was a prolific reader online and scoured the news from the UK, Canada's North and British Columbia and South Korea. He thought he was beginning to understand some Korean. The k-pop artists puzzled him and wondered why they looked younger and feminine for their gender and age. 

 He was a master of old technology too. Proficient in Morse Code, Peter exchanged signals with friends from around the world for decades. I wonder if they know their beloved friend is up in the clouds marvelling at other new technology.

 We know that the Covid-Pandemic will change our world, and technology will play an even larger part in the future. But for my father-in-law, Peter Radcliffe, technology was his friend every day. He embraced it and used it to its most practical effect. He was a quintessential technology man.