PhilJ W

Must be trying to outdo Gostude, he's got nine up for sale all identical and all at £90 plus £8 postage, dream on.

Goodnight all.

Give it some viagra?

Evening all from Estuary-Land. I gave the fridge a really good clean out this afternoon. Behind one of the drawers I found a (vacuum packed) packet of cooked meat (beef). It looked and smelt OK but I decided not to chance it so binned it. It had a best before date of November last year. I was clearing it out because the drain was blocked by ice, the package was near to the drain hole and was also covered in ice.

That's all I wanted to read after having an episcopy of my bladder just over a week ago. It turned out to be a prostate problem but at least a biopsy wasn't required. I was still peeing razor blades for the rest of the day however.

Members of my family lived in Victorian/Edwardian houses during the 50's and 60's and they all had coal cellars as you describe. My house was built in 1959/60 and has a coal storage shed attached (since re-purposed). It was only towards the end of the 60's that most new houses were built without an open grate. By then coal was being replaced by electric and gas heating which was not as labour intensive as an open coal fire. Coal as a fuel had been in decline since before the war except for the generation of electricity and one of the nails in the coffin was the advent of North Sea gas. The bulk transport of household coal by rail ceased to be viable well before that traffic ceased.

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Not done much this morning except pottering about. The weather at the moment is pretty dire but it's stopped raining for now. The forecast for the week ahead is looking good, by Tuesday we should have just a bit of cloud and temperatures in the mid to high teens. Next weekend, which is a bank holiday we will have a high pressure sitting over the UK.

Further to the above the hopper lorries operated from the larger depots and the smaller depots were closed. The pre bagged coal was often sorted and bagged at or near the pit head and delivered on wooden pallets (and often by road).

Towards the end of household coal deliveries the larger coal merchants used hopper lorries with a weighing and bagging machine at the rear. A few years later coal came pre-packed in plastic sacks delivered to local hardware stores or garden centres. Only recently has delivery and sale of household coal ceased due to clean air legislation.

This might help. https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/117554-what-sticks-to-really-useful-boxes/

Not a clinical trial as such but about twenty five years ago I had a rather nasty urine infection. I was put on a different antibiotic each week for four weeks. Some had a negligible effect on the infection if any. After the Fourth one I told my GP that there was an improvement after the third one so he put me back on that one and the infection cleared up within a week. The cause of the infection was one of the antibiotic resistant pathogens, I don't remember now what the name of the antibiotic was. About six weeks ago I had another urine infection and I was passing blood and one testes was swollen to the size of a grapefruit. I immediately called 111 as it was out of surgery hours and I had an emergency consultation with a doctor who prescribed an antibiotic (nitrofurantoin) that cleared the infection straight away. I was sent for a sound scan that revealed that I had an enlarged prostate (the PSA test did not show any cancer) so I was sent to the urology department for an endoscopy which revealed the swollen prostate. The urologist was very forthcoming about what was the cause, though I didn't take it all in but apparently its some changes in my testosterone. The Urologist has put me on a course of a drug called Dutasteride for one year.

Morning all from Estuary-Land. After yesterday's perambulations at the exhibition the arthritis was playing up a bit so before going to bed I took some co-codamol. The result was six hours solid sleep until I had a call-out from bladder control after which I went back to sleep for another hour and a half. Only the odd twinge from the arthritis this morning but a couple of Nurofen sorted that.

Goodnight all.

On the subject of steam into the blue era the VoR was just that. The locomotives were painted overall rail blue with no additions and looked rather drab.

Double groan.