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1 minute ago, pH said:

Val Doonican was post-1922 😛.

That must have been why Mum could get his records.

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4 minutes ago, figworthy said:

 

Rumour has it that hospitals think that cake is a Bad Thing.

 

Adrian

Perhaps it depends on the cake!  The one we took over to MiL’s on Sunday contained no flour. 

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19 minutes ago, pH said:

Try Irish records before 1922 - though things are apparently getting better.

During the 1960s my Mum bought quite a few Val Doonican records. 

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22 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

And they are supposed to be a British airline

I thought they were Spanish…

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2 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Anyway by the time I need that sort of establishment it will probably have a long waiting list.

The waiting lists can move quite quickly.  My Mum rang me and told me there was “one of those black private ambulances” in her  sheltered accommodation carpark. Her next comment was “they are dropping like flies round here “. That was my Mum’s last phone call to me.  The image of her looking out of her window remained on Google for quite a few years.  

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12 minutes ago, polybear said:

Stop yer whingin' - I let you live didn't I??

My brother had to have the remains of a big toe nail removed. The nurse told him to look away and yanked it out. My brother said he assumed she told him to look away so she could apply some local anaesthetic . She said there wasn’t usually any need! 

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44 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

I think Paneers do look fine in LT livery.  I have a Caramac version, actually two now I think about it, 4mm and 7mm scale versions!

I do have a red LT pannier but I bought that years ago. The new acquisition is a model of a crimson lake steam powered GWR vehicle. 

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54 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

visited Basildon hospital on Friday f

The signage there isn’t that great. Fortunately (or perhaps not!) when I have to go to Basildon the departments I need have their own buildings so easy to find. 

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9 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said:

Efrem Zimbalist, jr. His father was a great recording star in the acoustic record era.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efrem_Zimbalist

 

Juniors name remained lodged in my memory but I never bothered to find out why. Thank you. I wonder if I will ever get a chance to demonstrate my knowledge. We don’t go to pub quiz nights but I am sure I  would enjoy them, though one that was on in a local pub where we went for a meal had some rounds where I  would have scored zero. 

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49 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

Happy Birthday to Midland Red Dave, may your singles never be compounded.  Or anyone mention the Midland used to paint their locos green.....🤡

My latest ex GWR model is in a rather attractive lined crimson lake livery. 

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27 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

sometimes wonder if the UK would be better off building Euro-style (and quality) apartments

There isn’t much non green field building land round here. Most developments now are flats or apartment buildings where a small business or a couple of bungalows with big gardens previously occupied the land. There are two sorts of apartment buildings “executive development “ and “retirement”. Executive means near the railway station with communal gym in basement. Retirement means alarm pull cords and a communal lounge area. 

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24 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

orthopods

I think I may have once confused arthropods and orthopods. Fortunately the person I was speaking to thought I was being amusing rather than stupid. 

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7 minutes ago, The White Rabbit said:

but it can happen. 

Well even space flights with multiple redundant systems can go wrong. Once our Waitrose order van was crash damaged and the order was delayed but I wouldn’t criticise them. 
I think if @zarniwhoop is able to order his white asparagus from Ocado it will be despatched. It could of course be snatched from the air by an aggressive gull as it is carried to the  front door…

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38 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

Today sees the celebration of my Sunset Strip* orbit of our closest star so I am being taken out for lunch with some friends near Oswestry. I may be some time.

 

* 77 for those not old enough to recall such things.

 

Best wishes to Beth and hopes for a swift recovery.

 

Dave

Happy birthday.

I can remember the TV series but I suspect I was in the room while my parents watched it rather than actively watching it. I  do remember the theme tune and also being intrigued that one of the actors had Jr after his name despite being an adult. Isn’t it odd what gets recalled.  

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The technician from the solar power installers has been and gone. Nice chap, explained why he was replacing a couple of items in the fuse box , checked all our voltages and made sure our inverter had all its updates. 
We had  a chat about car chargers and air source heat pumps and he was on his way. 
Next big excitement of the day will be the food arriving at midday.
Tony 

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3 minutes ago, The White Rabbit said:

Fate being an a*** and it's the same risk as with any of the online order suppliers... 

Though because Ocado use huge depots instead of local supermarkets to fulfill your order we have found them to be very reliable. The only problem we had was a robot error that packed frozen Yorkshire puddings instead of frozen croissants. With Ocado if you can order it, it gets delivered. Waitrose substitutes are things like perhaps an ordinary cucumber substituted for the organic free range, ethically sourced cucumber we of course order. 

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Evening all.

The Moderna vaccine after effects have gone now and I feel normal (well, normal for me) again.  I went out and gave the garage another sweep so that the solar power system  technician doesn’t get bits of pink foam on his clothes. He will only be here for 30 minutes checking everything is ok.  The pink foam was from some scenic carving for the model railway layout in the garage. It doesn’t spread as much as the bobbly expanded polystyrene but it can still be messy.  Access to the batteries and inverter was still as it was when we had another battery fitted recently so I didn’t need to move much and there is nothing stored near the inverter and batteries . As the inspection is only 30 minutes I don’t think the roof panels get inspected. I assume if they haven’t fallen off and are generating the correct voltage they are ok. 
Tony

 

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1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

Thoughts?

Aditi’s Mum lives in a 2 bedroom penthouse flat. It is on the third floor of a purpose built building. It has a very large main bedroom with a spacious en suite. The lounge dining room is huge. The kitchen has plenty of workspace and enough space for a table for kitchen meals. There are roof lights so rain noise is higher than in a normal building and pigeons tap dance on them too. The managing agents keep the communal garden neat but seem to leave the external maintenance longer than I would like. The second bedroom and main bathroom are adequate  and there ismamroofmterrce where MiL can have a few plants. For someone with limited mobility when the lift is faulty (not often but lack of spares had caused long repair times. Parking is in dedicated spaces in an underground car park. 
Is  the proposed view from the garden apartment nice?  Is it next to a busy road? 
 

Aditi was looking at some properties (just out of curiosity, we are not moving) in Northamptonshire near her brother. One of the properties in the “offers over £1 million” section  didn’t appear to have a kitchen sink, just a half depth butler sink in the dining room attached to the  kitchen! 
We made a decision some time ago that we will stay here. It is easy to maintain and there would be no problem installing things like  stairlifts if we became less mobile. We had all the soffits and fascias replaced with upvc when they started to rot.some years ago. 
Aditi’s Mum and Dad bought the Enfield penthouse as their property in Nottingham was too big (both house and land) and incredibly expensive to heat. Aditi’s Dad died before they moved. Aditi’s Mum missed living in Nottingham but would have found it difficult to stay there without considerable support. 
 

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12 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

As long as it does the job they can use whatever they like. I did know someone who tried to do it himself with cotton buds and made a right mess of his ear that ended up needing hospital visits so maybe that won’t be an option though.

 

Dave

It will be a mini vacuum  cleaner. Then a wallet extraction…

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I had my Covid booster(Moderna) yesterday.i woke up this morning not feeling at all well, but the symptoms match those commonly reported following the vaccine. I don’t usually have side effects after Covid vaccines but i think this is my eighth so I must be due for some. The headache went after a couple,of paracetamol and the generally yucky feeling is easing. Nothing planned for today so no great inconvenience. 
Tony

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18 minutes ago, TheQ said:

Swmbo's opinion is as he's old, try him on some different pills the vet is offering, but not go for anything more upsetting to Ben..

Robbie had a good final year. The parathyroid calcium problem probably caused the spinal pain that limited his rear end movement. But after gabapentin was prescribed he was like a new dog for a year. The vet did say be prepared, it will stop,working. He had been bouncing about a the park a couple of days earlier. He was 13. 

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9 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

Off to the pharmacist shortly to have an earwax removal job, which will be only the second time I’ve ever needed it. Old age I guess (tomorrow will be my Sunset Strip birthday).

 

TTFN

 

Dave

It is all high tech now, no syringes.

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2 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

for instance, we have a partially blocked radiator that needs attention but so far it has taken four months for him not to attend.

Years ago before we had the new boiler our old system was a bit prone to clogging. So,I thought I would take the big radiator from the lounge and flush it in the garden. It was only as it was coming away from the wall that I realised just how heavy a large double radiator was. Also no matter how well I thought I had drained it there was still some sludgy drips escaping. It isn’t a problem now but I am not doing that radiator again. Perhaps a smaller one, but the cleaning and sludge management routine seems to make anything more involved unnecessary. 

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46 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

when I attended they were green with purple lettering,

Were those not the Suffragette colours?

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26 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

I hope you got a nice bono biscuit and a fresh bowl of water afterwards.

He had to go to the animal hospital for overnight monitoring the first night after the operation and be monitored at the operating vets surgery for a few days. The nurses said he was such an observant dog , he knew where the treats were stored and stared until he got one. He had so many bloodtests he learned to put his paw out so they could take blood from his leg. He had negotiated this I think by making it quite clear they were not going to take it from his neck. I think this was because he really didn’t like the syringe up the nose for kennel cough vaccine. He really was a good dog and was always happy to go to vets apart from the kennel cough.