New Haven Neil

Morning - physio-terrorism.  Back later.

Brockley Whins, BoD!  As Boldon Colliery (it's name in my time) , it is to appear in my next layout!  Think 24's on iron ore....101's.....ahhhhhh!

You won't get Chubby eating broccoli......

Debs, I think you and 'my' Debs are soul sisters!  She's a Cornish farm girl, and is pretty self sufficient in most things!  She can also drive a steam loco, drove for many years on a patrk based miniature passenger carrying line owned by friends.  True love....and she's a biker too!

Don, another virtual shoulder of support here, should you need.  Awful times for you.

Deb (H) took me out in the camper today, I was really surprised with the number of lambs in the fields, loads of them.  Didn't used to be until late January or February up north, most of these looked 2 - 4 weeks old.

My Debs is a dab hand at splitting logs, she pretends it's her boss.....I just do the chainsawing!  The local hardware shop were dubious about sellingher the biggest axe....she's not a gurl to be trifled with.

As for music - there used to be a nice music shop not far from here, in Peel, proprietor by the name of Wakeman, nice bloke with long blonde hair   Shame he's left the island now.

Indeed I don't use the chansaw for anything above ground level myself.  Having a wood burner though, it does see a lot of use normally, but this winter we had to buy 'ready to run burn' due to my hip.  You are well advised to treat these things with respect, yes.  I look like Robocop when I'm sawing!

Morning.  Slow start as the hip is going bananas for some reason.

Chainsaws.... several years ago whilst cutting wood I had an accident which crushed several toes, despite having protective boots on - heavy tree and another person wasn't  watching what they were doing.  While getting patched up the surgeon asked how it had happened (noticing protecive trousers etc) and afterwards showed me that day's 'Times'.  A gent was up a tree chainsawing, dropped the chainsaw and all but cut off his helpers head....dead. Needless to say I am more than careful whilst using ours!  Yes, it has a wrist brake, which presumably the 'dropped' one did not, and I have the relevant training to use it.  Useful tools, but deadly if not respected.

Now about the cyclist....Darwinism indeed, have you called the ambulance service to be on standby?

Andy, as someone who has just had hip surgery, and with a dear wife who has had three rounds of knee surgery, I think your charming neigbour will pay dearly for doing too much, too soon on his knee.  His choice not to listen to the surgeon and physio.  Neil, ex-NHS service manager!

Ah, ANPR - our Manx plates give it a fit!

Morning, a long night suffered as Mrs NHN appears to have contracted the winter vomiting virus.  Her first day off work for years, of course she was the only cover for her area of work today, lets hope the Minister is off too.  The trouble with living in a small country is you don't have to be very senior at all to be directly serving our lords and masters.

Never mind, not long until TT now....

Morning, and NY to all.

Recorded Jools Holland too, for consumption later.  As for Andre Rieu, is he the modern version of James Last - they both have the ability to murder any sort of music!

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BTW, Neil, the zimmer stage isn't a bundle of laughs - nor is going up and down stairs on your bum, which normally accompanies the zimmering.  However, it does make sure that you don't put weight onto a recently repaired joint, and it does speed recovery - I was meant to be on a zimmer for 6 weeks, but complications meant it was much longer, but the end result was a better outcome, so just hang on in there.

 

I'm off as I haven't had a good look round for a few days.

 

Regards to All

Stewart

Hi Stewart

Message received!  Luckily we have a bungalow, bought as Mrs NHN has a bad knee and we don't intend to move again.  This period is frustrating but as you say I have to take care now to allow the joint to heal.  One more week of no weight bearing and then I can take those damn DVT stockings off too!  Then we're beginning flexion past 60 degrees and partial weight bearing, if I can get down to one crutch that will be so helpful, i will be able to carry something without using the zimmer!

Sorry about the wind, but it's been even worse here overnight, and is still howling.  The garden railway is losing it's ballast!

Best regards to all for New Year, we shall celebrate by being sound asleep hopefully, and may those who suffered this year have a better 2013.

Ohhh, the N5!  Love that photo, proper railway atmosphere.

A windy dull morning here in the Irish Sea.

As a 53 year old with a (temporary!) zimmer frame I won't be seeing new year in either, I'm afraid.  Next year maybe, Don!!

Had an uncomfortable night, must have done too much yesterday :-(  I presecribe train DVD's to inspire armchair (or slouch on couch) modelling.

Moghrey mie indeed DD failt eriu, and to the rest of you non Manxies, good morning    Mind you, given the amount of time it takes me currently to get what passes for a shower and dressed, it would soon be fastyr mie. (good afternoon!)

A windy, windy night doesn't seem to have done too much damage, and has cleared the garden of the hated sycamore leaves.  Good job done!

Slaine lhiu.

Neil

I find the walk from Ronaldsway Station to the Airport amazing. Victorian to 21st centuary in a few hundred yards. I managed to include a trip on the railway in my business expenses claim.

Don

Oh, thank you for supporting our railway!  The walk you describe of course is a potted summary of our little island.  Victorian and 21st century side by side.  Being laid up currently I have not been able to take advantage of the extra trains the bus strike has promulgated - there's a 21st century bit!  A pal sent me some nice shots of 'Hutchinson' last week to tease me.

The only Crown dependency that might have 'Jake the Peg' as it`s leader!

Avoiding getting drawn into politics, but as ours are different to yours.....if we did have JTP, he may be better than the current incumbent.

In reality, the three legs are so the standard manx alky can get home without falling over, let's not forget we are '80,000 alcoholics hanging onto a rock' !!!  Closer examination of our motto may confirm this..... Quocunque Jeceris Stabit 

Olddudders, I've just had a trawl through Shaefer, and there is no mention of grey (or gray!) DL109's.  Three various shades of dark green, the warm orange (that I had forgotten previously!), the 'Cranberry' and poor 0759 in McGinnis looking like a hippo in a tutu are all mentioned, but no grey.  I'm fascinated now!

I think we're going to have to put anchors out here, or we'll be 10 miles closer to Scotland soon.....to say it's windy is somewhat of an understatement.

A wet and windy good morning from Fraggle Rock, and may peace descend gently upon those so ill.  One of the downsides of middle age certainly is the loss of older persons close to yourself.  I also find writing about trauma therapeutic, I'm sure the medics would be able to advise why, but anything that helps in such situations should be grasped.

DD, I have 'Fiskars' in mirror image on a foot from exactly the same experience!  They ALWAYS go pointy-end down !!

My heart goes out to you and yours Don, got that T shirt and it's no fun.

Morning, after a wild windy and ark-buildingly wet night on Fraggle Rock.  Chilly too now, with a mere 4c.

Hope all goes well Mike, I've seen enough of hospitals to last me a while at the moment.

May venture outside today, in the campervan, I can get into that!

Ashers, a greenhouse here would suffer the same, shelter in the shade or suffer the winds across the northern plain of the island. So, Mrs NHN has to manage without one, and the veggie plot gets a rough time.  We have a stand of large sycamores at the bottom of the garden which shelters us from easterlies, but the prevailing westerlies ane not much abated by a bungalow!

Best wishes to those ill over the holidays.

Neil

A fact of life I suppose that the minority spoil things for the majority - in many hobbies and walks of life.  Keeps me in a job though....

MM, not really the best smilie but the nearest I could find!

Got a pile of Kiwi railway DVD's to watch sent from another forum friend, the presenter guy Marcus Lush is....ummm...somewhat off the wall!  Good stuff though, enjoying them.

It was all Romans in primary school for me, and Modern (1900 - 1945) British history for a JMB O level in the Grammar school, 197, er, 4.  I majored on the General Strike as there were a lot of train stories !

Debs, couldn't agree more about the cyclists, they always seem to have had a manners bypass around here too, and folk in general tend to be very polite in our small community over here on Fraggle Rock so it highlights itself even more.

Good morning, see I do arise before noon!

Thank you for your welcomes!

M®s Ashcombe, a colleague had a resurfacing last year, he has recovered well too, but as you thought mine is unfortunately a longer job.  It is good however that I retain my own joint, as it isn't arthritic, it was the mechanical impingement problem that caused the damage.  Apparently this would cause arthritic damage if not addressed, in the past the hip would have been replaced but new techniques allow a repair to be made for which I am thankful.  Oh, and you'll be pleased to know high heels aren't in my wardrobe....

Debs, those are three lovely dogs - Mrs NHN (also Debs!) best friend has two collies, Doona and Ffinlo, which she walks out with most days, given a chance!  I'm more of a cat fancier, but we are currently between cats, more's the shame.

Olddudders, that grey/gray livery is a new one on me, I don't have that book.  I must get NH Power off the shelf this morning to see if it is mentioned, I failed to stay awake long enough last night     Over 50's disease!!

Best to you all, whatever the day brings.

Hi Stewart

Yes, this part of the forum is very like some of the others I have posted on for years, very friendly.

As for the hip, it was 'femoral acetabular impingement' I had to google...  After the local general hospital told me there was nothing wrong, a good physio my GP referred me to took 10 seconds to diagnose the cause of the pain!  Only trouble was that was two years ago.  Things slowly got worse, then in October a bomb went off in there, turned out part of the impinging bone has come away and cut off the edge of the cartilege.  Ow.  Operated on 27/11, removed the parts of bone and cartilage, ground bone off the pelvis and femur to prevent a re-occurence, pulled cartilage around the joint and re-attached via stitches in holes drilled in the pelvis! Ow again.  I had to go to the UK for all this as it was so specialised, Mr Mohammed at Wrightington Hospital in Lancashire (centre of excellence for hip surgery) did the operation and declared it a better success than they had hoped, especially as the damage was greater than had been feared. So 6 weeks no weight bearing and no more than 60 degrees flexion, and 4 months partial weight bearing.  I have to say the flight home was a nightmare, I don't want to do that again in a hurry!

OK, enough waffle, sorry for the gory details folks not interested in hips!  

The 60 degree thing means I can't sit upright, so no workbench, just a lot of daytime TV and train DVD's.  Oh, and RM Web I discovered whilst slouching here with the laptop, adding to the other forums I post on!  That 16t mineral thread kept me busy for days, the era I used to model in my BR modelling days, and that I will return to in the future.  The company here helps keep me sane, so thank you for your forebearance.

Neil