PhilJ W

Goodnight all.

That half hour eyelid inspection turned into an hour and a half, but I feel a lot better. Now to catch up on the RMweb threads that I follow and then Farcebook.

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Shopping done and put away and now I feel knackered so some eyelid inspection is due.

Well Essex is one of the driest counties in the UK. Canewdon, just north of Southend is often in the record books as the driest place in the UK.

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. I've done it again, got the NY Times Wordl game in four tries, thats eight in a row. I have to go out shopping this afternoon as the hospital appointment meant I missed the Friday afternoon gap between the kiddies leaving school and the rush to get stocked up for the weekend. Saturdays depends as to what footie is on the box.

I've got a year of the tablets to go, only if they don't work will they resort to surgery.

Just as well that the school terror didn't decide to open the windows. 😁

As teak is now a threatened species and felling is banned so those restoring Gresley teak coaches are finding it difficult to source replacement panels. Fortunately the wreck of a ship torpedoed in 1917 was found in the Irish Sea a few years ago carrying a deck cargo of teak. Unlike other timbers teak is almost impervious to teredo worm and they had only penetrated a few inches. Most of the recovered teak has been turned into veneers.

The book that came out at the same time as the film was more accurate and described the pilot as Palestinian.

Morning all from Estuary-Land. I was peeing razor blades yesterday afternoon and evening, normal after the procedure I had at the hospital. This morning everything was back to normal however. Arthur Itis woke me up at :05.30 this morning but I went back to sleep for another couple of hours. The tablets I have been given are called Dutasteride. A vast improvement on what was done 35 years ago when my dad had prostate trouble when they put a micro Dyno-rod up the drainpipe to clear the blockage. It's now clear that a few things were due to the enlarged prostate such as urgently wanting to pee after sitting on a low seat for any length of time.

Goodnight all.

Much of the value of a property in the UK is in the ground it stands on. The ground is still there even if the property burns to the ground.

In the North Africa campaign they used quarter sized aircraft and tank decoys.

I got these for £4.50. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204729461209

Same here, my house insurance became due in February. They more than doubled the premium and put the rebuilding costs as £600,000, on a house that had been only recently valued at £300,000! It seems that they took one look at the postcode* to calculate their figures. I did no more than shop around and got a deal for less than the previous years premium for exactly the same insurance. *Some houses in this area are worth a million apiece or more.

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. They didn't find any cyst's this afternoon but I do have an enlarged prostate, fortunately no evidence of of cancer. I am now on a course of tablets and I have been told to come back for an ultrasound test in a years time. While I was waiting for the prescription I had sausage,chips and peas in the cafeteria, it cost all of £4. I was offered a picture of the inside of my bladder but I turned it down.

https://www.nme.com/guides/gaming-guides/heres-the-wordle-answer-for-today-3171240

My success with the NY Times Wordl continues, 7th successive 'win' and this time on the third attempt.

Remember that road tax and fuel duty now goes into the general taxation pot (and if it goes into road repairs it has to pay consultants first).

All he was doing was having a good scratch.

Oops, nearly forgot. @polybear when you go to Lisbon you will have to take a ride on the trams while you are there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Lisbon My understanding is on some routes they operate vintage trams, route 15 penetrates the older part of the city with narrow streets and steep inclines.

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Getting my stuff together for the hospital trip this afternoon. First of all I will have to book a taxi and specify an easy access as I have difficulty getting in and out of ordinary cars. First I will have to get the rollalong out of the car.

There are signs that the low pay/low tax mantra is beginning to unravel. To work it depended on a pool of unemployed but a combination of Brexit and covid* has made that disappear. The government has no control over what the private sector pays its staff but tries to put the squeeze on the public sector and those parts of the private sector over which it exercises some financial control such as the railways. So we now have the situation where supermarkets, who were once paying the lowest rates have been forced to raise wages whereas the railways cannot as they are being told by the government (who hold the purse strings) not to give and other staff drivers a raise. The drivers being a highly skilled sector gives them some leverage. *Brexit has removed a lot of people from the workforce (mostly from Eastern Europe) who were willing to work for the minimum wage and covid has and still is having a debilitating effect on those particularly at the bottom of the workforce who were more likely to be unemployed.

Goodnight all.