RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 26 1 hour ago, Tony_S said: I can see why so many people went to Australia from South Essex in the past. Apart from the Harbour bridge and the warship it looks just like the Thames Estuary… 49 minutes ago, polybear said: They got caught. Actually for the majority of those deported the Thames Estuary was their last ever sight of blighty as there were many prison hulks moored in the estuary waiting for the next ship to Australia. 1 5 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Tony_S Posted February 26 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 26 (edited) 22 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: Good on you, how many pets are put down because they have a treatable medical condition. Or even worse allowed to die in pain. I was surprised how many said that I could have bought 10 hamsters for what I paid in dental expenses. Matthew had said I could use all his pocket money if necessary. When Zippy died of old age (for a hamster), Matthew said he didn’t want another hamster. About a month later he decided he would like one so Coco was selected to be family pet. Edited February 26 by Tony_S 5 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted February 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 26 38 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said: And to further add to your side of the ledger, the Thames Estuary has a very admirable lack of Bullsharks ( the worlds most crap sharks!) There are sharks in the Thames Estuary and a few were swimming around in the SeaLife Centre when we last visited. I think Tope are the biggest but the one on display at the aquarium wasn’t 2metres long. I just looked up what else had arrived and it seems there are venomous sharks in the Thames Estuary now called Spurdogs. 12 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 26 Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. I've checked my rather depleted larder/fridge and decided that the shopping can wait another day. The main reason is that it is cold and windy out there. Tonights dinner will be egg and chips followed by a yoghurt for dessert. 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 1 minute ago, PhilJ W said: Tonights dinner will be egg and chips Not spam, egg, chips and spam? 🤪 2 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 26 3 minutes ago, Tony_S said: There are sharks in the Thames Estuary and a few were swimming around in the SeaLife Centre when we last visited. I think Tope are the biggest but the one on display at the aquarium wasn’t 2metres long. I just looked up what else had arrived and it seems there are venomous sharks in the Thames Estuary now called Spurdogs. So @polybear will not be going paddling down Sarfend any time soon.😬 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted February 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 26 Afternoon Awl, On exiting this establishment with Ben I spotted the roof of our post box, that gave me an idea.. Ben chose the long walk which in this wind turned out to be a good idea, with it being a somewhat chilly north easterly, when going into the wind we were mostly sheltered from it, the more exposed areas it was behind us. Much muddling done, including the idea, which was for roofing the mill, I've now built the basic structure, the covering is the idea.. Flashing tape!! I'm off for a long soak in the bath, need to ease some joints. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 Just now, Hroth said: Not spam, egg, chips and spam? 🤪 Have you seen the price of a can of Spam recently! 3 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 26 Just now, Hroth said: Not spam, egg, chips and spam? 🤪 No spam I'm afraid. Apparently you can get frozen spam fritters in the supermarket now. 4 1 2 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lurker Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 12 minutes ago, Tony_S said: There are sharks in the Thames Estuary and a few were swimming around in the SeaLife Centre when we last visited. I think Tope are the biggest but the one on display at the aquarium wasn’t 2metres long. I just looked up what else had arrived and it seems there are venomous sharks in the Thames Estuary now called Spurdogs. There have also been porpoises - or dolphins; the local rags can't make up their mind - at Gravesend in the last few days. Maybe the convicts on the hulks off the North Kent marshes would have seen them....shades of David Copperfield 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 5 minutes ago, Mark Saunders said: Have you seen the price of a can of Spam recently! No, but I was thinking of making some corned beef hash some time ago, and the price of a can of corned beef put me off the idea! 1 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lurker Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 3 minutes ago, Hroth said: No, but I was thinking of making some corned beef hash some time ago, and the price of a can of corned beef put me off the idea! you could always make your own: https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/home_cured_corned_beef/ I am sure Triple D visited somewhere that made their own. Guy Fieri was well on his way to Flavourtown IIRC 8 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post monkeysarefun Posted February 26 Popular Post Share Posted February 26 (edited) 38 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: Actually for the majority of those deported the Thames Estuary was their last ever sight of blighty as there were many prison hulks moored in the estuary waiting for the next ship to Australia. All things considered, if you weigh it all up you'd have to say that apart from the risk of mistreatment and disease during sea voyage and the risk of scurvy or whatever, (google the notorious Second Fleet) those that got transported ended up with a pretty sweet deal. So for example @PhilJ W, if you were convicted of stealing something not expensive enough to get you hung, you'd be sent down here, usually for 7 years. On arrival you'd be assigned to either government work (eg building roads, wharf facilities etc) or assigned to a settler as a source of labour. Your working day was a set number of hours, and was enforced, so if you were working for a settler who tried to work you beyond them you did have access to a means of complaint - and employers were held to account and risked losing their free labour if they breached these conditions. . This is just one way that convicts are different from slaves, although they are often inaccurately equated. An even bigger difference to slaves was that If you were of good character, after a couple of months you were free to offer your after-hours labour to settlers or the government and get paid for it. Further, you would be given a "ticket-of-leave" which entered you into a parole style system, which while banning you from boarding boats or travelling to certain areas of the colony, basically gave you freedom of passage throughout the colony. In addition, the government could grant you land for farming, which you were free to do in the hours that you weren't fulfilling your government work. In this way, many convicts from places like the Thames Estuary, who would have never had any hope of owning land back home due to the British class system, found that they were eligible for 50, 100 or 200 and more acres of land as a grant to farm and build a livelihood upon. . They would in turn be allowed to employ recently arrived convicts as labour, and so the cycle continued. Very few convicts returned "home" to their former situation after their sentence was completed. Of course, if you were convicted of a crime while serving you original sentence, you could be sent to the secondary punishment settlements of Port Arthur and Sarah island/Macquarie Harbour in Tasmania, the Newcastle coal mines or Norfolk Island in NSW and the other one in Brisbane that I cant remember but @Ozexpatriate will since we all learned this stuff in primary school. These places were the "hell on earth" that gave transportation its grim reputation. Edited February 26 by monkeysarefun 1 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 20 minutes ago, Tony_S said: venomous sharks Wow, even WE dont have those! 13 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ian Abel Posted February 26 Popular Post Share Posted February 26 Mornin' Weekends sometimes seem to go by and I can't even remember much of what was done/accomplished, past weekend a good example! Only noteworth/memory is getting up o-crack-sparrow on Sunday as we were singing at two services. Choir director insists we appear at 8am for a "final rehearsal" of stuff we've sung regularly for the past 20+ years <yawn> Following that, a brief rest, short walk as it was very nice outside and finally a Zoom with or friends in Arizona. Today, back working and have an afternoon meeting with someone up the food chain from me to discuss my "annual goals"! Not sure the point of this after 50+ years in the business. I've never met this guy before, a new/transplanted bod, and best I can tell I've been it IT several years more than he's been ALIVE. Primary goal will be to NOT fall asleep listening to him 😀 Nothing planned for aprez toil. Weather the week is defined as STUPID. +1c first thing, sunny and a high of 15c expected, likely will break the record high. Tonight down to -8c and -12c tomorrow night, with -6c high Wednesday, THEN highs around 10c to 19c Thursday through next weekend!!! Madness I tell you. Onward. 1 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Barry O Posted February 26 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted February 26 (edited) 6 hours ago, PhilJ W said: Good on you, how many pets are put down because they have a treatable medical condition. Or even worse allowed to die in pain. My friend is retired vet.. he did it because he wanted to.. money was not his main objective of being a vet. If an animal was in pain or incurable he always offered the owners the choice of putting the pet to sleep. Some of the newer vets (like some Doctors) are only in it for money so will drag it out to maximise earnings.... Baz Edited February 26 by Barry O 1 1 2 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 26 30 minutes ago, Tony_S said: There are sharks in the Thames Estuary and a few were swimming around in the SeaLife Centre when we last visited. I think Tope are the biggest but the one on display at the aquarium wasn’t 2metres long. I just looked up what else had arrived and it seems there are venomous sharks in the Thames Estuary now called Spurdogs. 6 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said: Wow, even WE dont have those! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurdog 6 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 26 In fish and chip shops in the UK you can order huss or rock salmon, which is actually another species of shark, the dogfish. The two species are often confused and you could be eating spurdog instead of dogfish. I must confess that I prefer rock salmon to cod as it doesn't have all those little bones. 14 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted February 26 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 26 Another day is passing quickly by. Joanne came and cleaned along with a young colleague who was being shown what to do. She left her work phone behind which looks similar to mine. It was only when I picked it up and put it in my pocket that I realised I lalready had my own phone in my pocket. A quick call to the company and she returned to collect it. Sadly she leaves at the end of this week for a new job in the NHS so I will have to get used to someone else. I've been to see some friends along the road who told me all about their recent long trip to Australia and Hong Kong, when I got back it was lunchtime. Since then I've been out for a longer walk and had another virtual trip to Switzerland to travel from Stein an Rhein in the north to Winterthur. I also fell asleep again for a short time, when will I stop feeling tired I wonder. Soon it will be time for tea, probably a ham sandwich and youghurt but some blackcurrant and apple pie may also be eaten. Then TV, reading and a crossword seem likely. David 19 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post iL Dottore Posted February 26 Popular Post Share Posted February 26 As far as I am concerned the only criteria applicable for any sort of veterinary intervention are two: Will the animal benefit from the intervention? Will the animal tolerate the intervention (and intervention aftermath - such as post-op activity restriction)? If the answer is YES to both questions, the intervention takes place. Cost should never be a factor. We have a moral and ethical responsibility to ensure that our companion animals are happy and pain free for as long as they can live. If you can't or won't take on that responsibility you shouldn't have a companion animal. Case in point is Lucy (the Dutch Kooikerhondje belonging to a friend) at 17 she was blind and deaf and a little rickety on her pins (not to mention a little demented) - but she was happy and not in pain. She eventually died from old age (her heart gave out and the vet "helped her on her way") 6 2 1 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted February 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 26 56 minutes ago, Hroth said: Not spam, egg, chips and spam? 🤪 They were right out - they only had spam, spam, spam, spam, egg, chips and spam. 1 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 ... students and resits - I feel like saying, “You wouldn’t be here if you’d done the work in the first place.” ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/02/26/covid-enquiry-in-wales-from-tomorrow-rare-vaccination-side-effects-students/ 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 I offer this screenshot of an interesting news feed (available only to registered professionals) about some medical matters in France - which may be of interest to our correspondents in La Belle France. I shall refrain from comment, observation or witticisms........ 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 4 minutes ago, iL Dottore said: witticisms........ That'd be a first . 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted February 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 26 20 minutes ago, iL Dottore said: I offer this screenshot of an interesting news feed (available only to registered professionals) about some medical matters in France - which may be of interest to our correspondents in La Belle France. I shall refrain from comment, observation or witticisms........ As all but one of the female inhabitants of the village are beyond their reproductive age I'll not add to that statistic. Jamie 2 1 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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