PeterBB

Congratulations to you both - sounds like you had a great day.

They had a period when they put ropes to stop people getting too close but that obviously did not work too well. On an occasion watching training in Hyde Park it was surprising to see the number of people from a certain well known eastern nation especially who got right in front of the riders to take pictures - lucky they don't get injured and it would be their own fault although am sure some of the press would blame the riders or probably the police.

Apart from the [roblem of insufficient new pharmacists ... Lloyds closing all their in-store pharmacies in S.........'s as well as others - typical when the owning company gets bought out by those just interested in money ...

Agree unfortunately about the horse. What about the RN 12 into 6 routine - came off absolutely brilliantly.

One of the reasons for this may be that there are/were some good and interesting training sessions being provided but that 'your section had to do' X&Y' rather than what originally appeared to be a choice. You can probably guess from above the 'enforced sessions' from already known trainer groups.

Surprisingly many memories of the Queen Elizabeth's coronation came flooding back while watching the coronation and personally some of the changes e.g. Lords not wearing all that regalia or perhaps not so may of them 'individually'' giving allegiance was a step in the right direction . Also liked the archbishops short but precise sermon and its theme. It seems quite general now that ministers 'read from the script' rather than just rattling it off from memory so re @iL Dottore was not totally surprised.

More recently the so-called 'Spanish flu' that was initially brought to Europe and thus the world via American soldiers in WW1.

Gulls swopping down and tasking ice-creams is common on Jersey. The kiosk owner has a notice to that effect on the kiosk and also tells customers to keep thewir ice-creams close to themselves. SWMBOalso lost an ice-cream in this manner.

As I see it because of the Australian Law there are now far too many crocodiles around as they basically have no predators other than man. In many many years time the result will be that no one will be able to swim or fish in rivers, ponds or the sea and most other marine/river life will be found in crocodiles because of it ... just a thought. HAppy birthday Stewart.

ERs is phenomenal in providing me memories so here's tree' 1 - a chance meetingabout 20 years or more ago "You taught me ny first notes on the tenor horn". someone wroking I believe at the foreign office; 2 In a then unknown town walked into a gym to ask ahow to get to to be greeted by "You taught me FAW at XXX". before telling her mates and giving me directions ; 3 working with the homeless at breakfast in a drop-in centre in anither West Midlands tcity a young XXX turned round when my voice was heard and also told ne that you taught me FA at XXX. And the 'You taught my Mum" Thank you @BoD for that reminder.

It is 'by invotation' that includes where you have to go and the time s available hence the current uptake is low but many are booked in the near future ... at least I hope so as although I responded as sson as received the arly dates and times were aready filled.

If it werein hand then the straw would not be needed!.

Just a couplre of photographs ...!

Agree with part 1 after all they had sailed 28000 miles before the mutiny because he kept a stern eye on things and of course the men were having a great time with the Polunesioan women and did not want to continue on the main purpose of the voyage. We all know of activists and of course the 1930s film painted him as such dire person and that has stuck. There probably was some truth in his manner (disciplinarian) but it must also be remembered that many men were lost at sea for various ailments and he had lost none. Historically look what happened to the mutineers ...

Have enjoyed the odd cruise but if the above came in there is no way that I would take another and it horrifies at present to see so many decks with minimal 'outside' space.

Looks interesting.

@iL Dottore I was aware that drug resarch and validation etc. was extremely expensive but not that it was approaching billions. As you can imaging knew about the effects of aspirin and emergency and call outs to assess paracetamol (OD) overdose were very common, including a referal for a student who turned up for class with a toothache post laboratory days who didn't 'look right' asked what and how much he had taken - needed a quick trip to A&E where they kept him in. Salicylate and barbiturate OD were very common in the 60s and early 70s and in those days were manual analytical techniques. Oddly in August 1973 we had the highest number of (positive) barbiturate OD results but for the rest of my career no further requests. Also remember the scan on an emergency admission barbiturate level OD that was normally fatal. In discussion with the requesting physician on the validity of the result it turned out that the admitted person had been on them for well over a decade! An oddity that has just come to mind was a paraquat OD that proved fatal.

Wish they would use some of that 'excess' on properly filling-in potholes instead of the 'put something in it today and a couple of days later its been knocked out'.

Antibiotics yes, NBG for viral infections. @iL Dottore presumeably the full SPEC-CTS as specified at the time has already been carried out on the former 'are they good/bad' as antibiotics by the Abx network 'reworking' to see if the gap can be improved. Big pharmaceuticals have to spend a lot on all of the above and of course the actual 'does it work appropriately' period is quite extensive. Reminds, must be many years ago now, that six 'guinea pigs' in London had a massive reaction to something that was on initial test and certainly for one of them at least became permanent . There does come a time e.g. something like paracetamol where the company has recovered the cost many times over so paying a lot for nicely packaged tablets vs the low cost actual working ingredients to which the converse is these extra profits are ploughed into the enormous expense of cancer drug research. Both are reasonable arguments. Aspiring of course has been on the 'approved list' since 1898. I'll leave it there as the next bit sounded like a rant.

Condolences to John @Two_sugars and belated birthday wishes to Dave @Dave Hunt with the hope that Jill's ankle recovers quickly. This end boiler turned round and old sink and cupboards etc.in utility removed and the latter safely disposed in the local 'HRC' as they 'sign' themselves'. Interesting that in this one - closest but more difficult to access for us - for most it is a case of driving up a 'road' slope and reversing in a very narrow space for most waste recycling with less common e.g. rubble at road level. Now for the builder and kitchen supplier to sort out everything else in the kitchen plus ... SWMBO insists but fitting it all in satisfactorily has/will prove to be a great improvement as said lady now rerquires two walking sticks to get around with still no sign of how much longer before the hip can be sorted - this itself a result of the lomg wait for first one and then the other knee to be sorted. Other fact of the day is that the Covid jab invitation has been received and actioned. Not good was being informed that the club secretary had a 'minor' heart attack, had a stent inserted and is back home to rest but has already said that he hopes to be back at the club Friday week!

Just look at USA, China and Russia as examples to see what an 'elected' HoS can be/do ... much better our, although inefficient, parliamentary system and the fact that we can criticise our politicians beyond reason without being clapped in jail or worse.

I suppose that they then complain that the signal is poor and that the company should 'do something about it'.

Lost me there @PhilJ Wjust heard a loud noise.

Thanks for the memory. Arriving in Vancover in 1967 I headed for the tourist office and the first thing heard on entering was from a rather large American in those horrible Bermuda shorts who actually said " Dumb thing parked the car and cannot find it". "What was ut and where have you been walking" were the next two questions he was asked. That was all I heard before someone asked if they could help - they were very helpful. 'Twas a great day and in the same weekthat I picked up a recogbnised music magazine and saw one of my photographs published in it - small world and Victoria a great place in the sunny weather.

The Qs response to the larger Fiat 500, saw a Mini Cooper yesterday that was almost the size of a large car. The other problem is car parking, aside from exorbitant charges, they are far too narrow for current day cars.