bluebottle Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 At the Northern General yesterday to see a vascular radiology specialist about the recurrence of the intermittent claudication in my right leg (that is, pain from arteriosclerosis makes me limp, I rest for a few minutes till the pain eases, then repeat the process). I'm down for an MRI scan in a few weeks. In the evening, I was at a shortlisting meeting to select candidates for our ward in the local elections. Besides our three sitting councillors, we had to list another three, including at least two female candidates. We were provided with profiles of all candidates, and spent an hour earnestly studying these before making nominations and having a secret eliminating ballot to agree the short-list. I always take my duties in these matters seriously, and, having carefully weighed up the choices, I voted for the three prettiest women profiled. Two of these got through, and I now look forward to the selection meeting next week. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emt_911 Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Morning all. The ER's are getting earlier as the week progresses. I just hope that it doesn't continue. A trip to the coast for me today Portsmouth then a quick detour to Gaugemaster before heading into town for the second job of the day. Have a good day everyone 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted January 5, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 5, 2016 Morning all. Will be off within the half hour and out into the bit of a snowscape that's built up since yesterday! I just hope it won't turn into ice land later… Have a good one, everyone… 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisf Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Good morning one and all and particular good wishes for those with distressing news One of my many indulgences is 'Round Britain Quiz' on BBC Radio 4. I follow the Welsh team because I know one of the members, David Edwards. In addition to being the first man to win £1 million on 'Who wants to be a millionaire' and a past Mastermind he is a fine singer and founded a short lived dance team, Izaak Walton's Compleat Rapper. Many of the abstruse questions are quite beyond my brain but once in a while I find myself yelling the answer at the radio when the hapless teams cannot divine it for themselves. This is a futile gesture of course but what the heck. Another distraction is 'Father Brown' which has begun a two-week run on daytime TV. This re-interpretation of G K Chesterton's character is skilfully done and a good restful way of spending 45 minutes. Would you rather spend the time ironing? No, neither would I. Tomorrow sees another postponed appointment with Dr Colo-Rectal. Perhaps I should look for the appointment letter. I was talking last night with a mate who had been waiting for an appointment with another clinic. He wandered into the hospital yesterday and discovered that the appointment is this coming Friday! "You should have had a letter" said the receptionist in fluent bl33ding-obvious. What would my reply have been, I wonder? Chris 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 What we need are more Tram pictures! Tony - do you have trams working on a layout? I remember your interest in them, 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Morning All, It is another grey morning here in this part of the world. It was raining pretty heavily on the way into work - which is a bit of a shame because the little guy is spending the last week of the school holidays with his Grandparents and has been champing at the bit to get out. It looks like today is going to be spent at home learning his French Vocab (which he will be ecstatic about) I must admit that I often find this time of the year very depressing - and that is not helped by the fact that so many people seem to be ill, or going through very difficult times at the moment. On the subject of headlamps and rear fog lamps, which came up early yesterday morning, I think one of the problems with headlamps are these modern automatic systems. Some cars seem to wait until it is very dark before they actually switch on. Other cars put the lights on much earlier. I still have manual headlamps in my car, and I almost always drive with headlights on. Rear fog lamps are more problematic here in Germany. If you have your rear fog lamp on, you are limited to 50kph. Also he couldn't understand how someone from Essex knew Germans. I met my ex-wife in Essex - which proves that Essex and Germany do come into contact with each other occasionally Have a good day everyone... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 What we need are more Tram pictures! Tony - do you have trams working on a layout? I remember your interest in them, Do you also desire a street car? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted January 5, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 5, 2016 Morning all. Off to a funeral today in Leicester today. It's at times like this when I realise how precious our time on this planet is. Have a great day Baz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
28XX Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Hey-hey! Childcare hat off, jobbing builder's hat on. A bit of storm damage to repair at a friend's house today. Hope it stays dry. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted January 5, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 5, 2016 Morning all. Not quite sure what the day will bring as I haven't opened the curtains yet. However I'm off to Bradford to buy some timber to make carrying cases for the scenic parts of the layout. If the weather plays ball I may even get chance to do some woodwork this afternoon and start using the timber. Regards to everyone, time now to feed the cats, then have breakfast. Jamie 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Smiffy2 Posted January 5, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted January 5, 2016 Morning all. Dawn is breaking over Carshalton-sur-Mer and, unlike yesterday, I'm not standing outside a railway station giving out leaflets. And it's a lot warmer today, which is a bit annoying. Much medical matter to comment on at the moment. May I just offer supportive best wishes to all, and the hope that as we go into the new year the apparent tide of problems ebbs. And thank all of you who commented so supportively after my post about young Laurence. Much appreciated. Not much happening today, after a busy day yesterday in which I managed to get a Lidl display case on the wall and fill it with my small collection of locos. Julie's off to a shop in Wimbledon to collect Christmas stock and replenish, and then I've no idea. My modelling area is now clean and tidy, so maybe I'll hang out there for a bit. Some small politicals to take care of. My work area after tidying. It may not look like this much longer... Have a good day, all. 25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted January 5, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 5, 2016 Are you actually allowed to spray in there? Don 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthesnail96 Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Morning all. More illness amongst us and our loved ones- best wishes to all as appropriate. Jock's space hopper sounds particularly unpleasant! Nothing much doing here. Christmas tree disposed of last night (in the pouring rain). Our Stroud DC distributes large skips in various car parks for them, which is uncharacteristically thoughtful of them. Nearest one is just down the road from us, handily. Would have been preferable if folks hadn't just dumped them all in the front of the skip mind, I had to climb through a prickly forest to get mine in the space at the back. Ahh well. Paperwork day at work today. On headlights, I must admit overly bright lights (at both ends of the car) are a particular bane of mine. The latest generation of luxobarges seem to be the worst culprits- all the glass (including wing & rear view mirrors) on the Land Rover is clear (no tints) and they are genuinely blinding. Most mornings I have an executive saloon sat a car's length behind and a foot to my right just waiting for the opportunity to dive past me and sit up the tail of the car in front of me- perfectly positioned to dazzle me via the wing mirror- it's not the same one each morning either! It's another one of those features that makes the vehicle safer for the occupants to the detriment of everyone else- the answer seems to be to fit brighter lights to one's own car to combat this and the cycle continues. I feel much the same about excessively large windscreen pillars etc, I don't like driving most modern cars for this reason, combined with the trend of trying to remove you from the outside world as much as possible (computer screens, more controls and functions than you can shake a stick at, heavy soundproofing, overly damped controls etc) they just don't sit comfortably with me. My little Marina estate with glass everywhere, about 4 switches and 3 dials is brilliant in this respect and I feel consciously more aware of my surroundings when driving it. I think I'm just an old fart before my time... On steam engines vs livestock, the chap that owns the steam roller I crew on was a fireman at the very end of steam in these parts. He once told us of being the next train through the section after a 9F/ herd of cows interface- not a pleasant experience by any stretch of the imagination, it sounds like it was a challenge working out how many of the beasties were involved from the remains. Anyhoo- enough grumbling for one morning, all is pretty good here really (and it isn't even raining at the moment). Have a good day all 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Barry O Posted January 5, 2016 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 5, 2016 did someone ask for Trams? Some of Leeds finest hat, coat, by for now 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyB Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Accidently clicked on page 1 of this thread rather than the most recent. Bit scary! What new forum are they all talking about migrating to? I've only been offline for a matter of a few hours! Anyway, morning all. Misty, damp, chilly here; so experimenting with my new Christmas jumper as a defence mechanism. Quite tired as the boy was struggling to sleep last night and woke up at 04:10 with a bad dream. Actually that was quite good as he normally goes straight to mum, but this time it was "DADDDDDDYYYY!!!". This morning's query from the children was: "Which chair is your colleague sitting in at today's meeting?" "Why?" - as if I needed to ask the two mischief monkeys who were each sporting a whoopee cushion. 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium southern42 Posted January 5, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 5, 2016 ' Morning all from red dragon land. At present it's dry. Currently getting stuck into my layout track plan - get one bit you want sorted and end up needing to re-sort another! Still, I'll plod on. Wishing you all well and hope today is better than yesterday. 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted January 5, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 5, 2016 Morning all. Quite sunny, not quite as warm as it has been. I did manage to persuade Aditi to let me take down the outside lights yesterday while it was dry. I will pack away the indoor stuff today. My only other scheduled task is a trip to Southend Airport. Despite the sign outside I don't think anyone local calls it London Southend! Tony 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Despite the sign outside I don't think anyone local calls it London Southend! Any more than anyone calls Lydd Aerodrome "London Ashford Airport" 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 5, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 5, 2016 Morning all from Estuary-Land. Weather is not to bad at the moment but due for a haircut so a trip into town beckons, probably tomorrow. I was going to get a haircut before Christmas but the barbers was packed out so I decided to give it a miss. Commiserations and congratulations where neccessary, be back later. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiffy2 Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Are you actually allowed to spray in there? Don Yes - the grey box on the desk is a collapsible spray booth with extractor (though as I use acrylics it isn't so critical). 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 I used to have a work desk like that. Haven't seen it for about ten years. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 5, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 5, 2016 I used to have a work desk like that. Haven't seen it for about ten years. Same here. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 You could have bought a different model if you had wanted it. Then turned it upside down. ....and watched auzzie rules football and Neighbours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium skipepsi Posted January 5, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 5, 2016 Morning all, back in the office and my diary is not as full as I thought. Still very tired but slowly getting up to speed, DD2's trip to Preston was in vain as her lectures for the week were cancelled... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiffy2 Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 I used to have a work desk like that. Haven't seen it for about ten years. I don't get to see it very often... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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