What Age Do You Think George Orwell Was When This Photograph Was Taken ?

I first read 1984 when I was 14, and it had the effect of making me seek out and read pretty well everything Orwell wrote, including his letters and especially his journalism. Whatever his merits as a novelist, he was certainly the most endlessly facinating 'journalist' of the 20th century As a youth, I was thrilled to learn that Orwell had in fact written 1984 while he was staying at a remote farmhouse on the Isle of Jura (an island you can see from the main road between Campbeltown and Tarbert). Below is a photograph of the farmhouse. No electricity, no gas. Just paraffin lamps, and puffin salad for every meal. Orwell subsisted primarily on chain smoking very strong roll-up cigarettes, and tea which had to be so stewed that the teaspoon would stand up in it. No wonder 1984 is so cheery, huh? The answer to the question is - 43 years of age George Orwell died of tuberculosis aged 47. (the photograph of the farmhouse I pinched from a website, but I can't remember where it was - other than it's obviously by some chap called Charlie - I gratefully acknowledge it as his work)