bbishop Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 Pfizer gave me an itchy arm. Just read though 53 pages of on line training with an assessment tomorrow. Previously I completed modules in Cardiac Arrest, Heart Attack, Choking and Major Bleeding. 100% in three of them but only 80% in the fourth. Guess which one? The one you wouldn't expect given I've bounced up and down on real chests often enough and when the London Ambulance Service checked my competence I achieved 100% on a rigged annie. Yup, I got less than 80% on CA, only because compressions are done by a mouse click. And the module expected me to do rescue breaths. Present instructions are chest only unless in full PPE3. Bill 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted February 4, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 4, 2021 26 minutes ago, bbishop said: Pfizer gave me an itchy arm. Just read though 53 pages of on line training with an assessment tomorrow. Previously I completed modules in Cardiac Arrest, Heart Attack, Choking and Major Bleeding. 100% in three of them but only 80% in the fourth. Guess which one? The one you wouldn't expect given I've bounced up and down on real chests often enough and when the London Ambulance Service checked my competence I achieved 100% on a rigged annie. Yup, I got less than 80% on CA, only because compressions are done by a mouse click. And the module expected me to do rescue breaths. Present instructions are chest only unless in full PPE3. Bill In days of yore part of a first aid kit was a resuscitator. This was a mask that fitted over the mouth and nose that was attached to a handle which was connected to the facemask via a bellow and a one way valve. It was a bit like using a bicycle pump, and allowed you to breath for the casualty without having to contact their face. It could also be fitted with an NBC filter! They got discontinued because resus training was not as thorough, and quite a few people were killed by being blown up: Literally! The rescuer pumping frantically and not to a timed rhythm resulted in the lungs being continually inflated with no exhale function inbetween. 1 3 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 4, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 4, 2021 My covid jab is due Tuesday afternoon. Not looking forward to it but its got to be done. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted February 4, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 4, 2021 13 hours ago, Oldddudders said: Exactly. Real railways, wherever they can, invest in multiple copies of locos, thus making spares- holdings and maintenance procedures simpler. Far too many of us have a half-Noah principle, of wanting and justifying one of every loco our chosen company used. Sherry has forwarded a most odd and unsavoury story of a boy who filmed himself abusing Prof Chris Whitty in the street - and then posted it on YouTube. Prof Whitty, in shirtsleeves, is waiting to buy a lunchtime sandwich - so a most humble thing to be doing - and m'laddo, who does not seem to have a London accent, calls him a liar about Covid. I understand his mother is mortified and has taken away his playstation. Cutting his nuts off, without benefit of anaesthetic, of course, would seem a minimum to me. Pass me the rusty scissors.... And then treat the "wound" with iodine, lots of it! 3 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted February 4, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 4, 2021 12 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: Again, I've been told that this system was used as it allowed the frames to flex a little more when running over track whose foundations were not quite as well laid as they should be. Especially 4-4-0s, the last ones were (here) were built in the late 1920s. 6 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SM42 Posted February 4, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 4, 2021 (edited) 55 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: My covid jab is due Tuesday afternoon. Not looking forward to it but its got to be done. Mines due around May I think In the meantime I am taking advantage of not working till saturday and enjoying an alcoholic beverage or three. I've spent most of the evening applying decals to 4mm vans and really need something to uncross my eyes. Gauge 1 is looking attractive Andy Edited February 4, 2021 by SM42 What day is it again? 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbishop Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 So I have to remember two protocols. The LAS one is simple, get on the chest, stay on the chest. A second person can get all gucci with an OP and OXG, but the human body stores at least five minutes of oxygen. Bill 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted February 5, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2021 I have just been informed that cleaning and tidying is required this morning. I laugh in the face of such adversity (whilst looking for an escape route). 2 2 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted February 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 5, 2021 (edited) A brighter start today (except for the weather, which is grey and murky) as all after effects of the jab have receded. My SiL tells me that playing music to plants helps them grow and flower so to encourage the little thingies that the vaccine has introduced into my system I'm playing them an Eagles album. Off to the study to do some work for a magazine now. Fish and chips tonight - the local chippie takes orders over the phone for a specific collection time then someone meets you in the car park to effect the handover. A bit like a spy novel really. Isn't life exciting at times? And to think some folk consider lockdowns to be dull.... Dave Edited February 5, 2021 by Dave Hunt Predictive text again - I'll throw this bl**dy thing in the bin one of these days 11 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted February 5, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2021 5 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said: I'm playing them an Eagles album The Astra Zeneca vaccine used a genetically modified virus that affected chimpanzees so perhaps something by The Monkees would be appropriate? 1 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canal Digger Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 and then The Kinks Ape Man 3 3 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 5, 2021 Are they playing King Kong at the local cinema? 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 5, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2021 If I'm lucky, I may get vaccinated before the end of the Summer. I'm 72 but France is not good at this sort of thing. 1 1 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurenceb Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Friend of mine was jabed on Saturday and rejoined the human race on Tuesday, it realy knocked him about 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted February 5, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2021 16 minutes ago, laurenceb said: Friend of mine was jabed on Saturday and rejoined the human race on Tuesday, it realy knocked him about This might sound harsh, but if the innoculation did that to him, he's needs to consider what might have been as the virus would would have given him an even worse trampling. 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurenceb Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 He is not complaining, just spent a couple of days sleeping it off 4 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted February 5, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2021 2 minutes ago, laurenceb said: He is not complaining, just spent a couple of days sleeping it off Sounds like he was at one of PB's cake and whisky fests. 1 1 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florence Locomotive Works Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 2 hours ago, Dave Hunt said: Predictive text again - I'll throw this bl**dy thing in the bin one of these days Dave, are you typing this on an Apple device or a desktop? I ask as it’s possible on an Apple device to disable this function. Douglas 3 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted February 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 5, 2021 Yes, Douglas, it's an iPad but it actually belongs to Jill so I'm not allowed to "mess with it". I'll still throw it in the bin one of these days though. This afternoon I'm doing what I hope is the final bout of work for a magazine so with luck I may get some workshop time in over the weekend. We shall see.... Dave 3 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted February 5, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2021 We were in the garden until it started to rain. I then did a bit more work on the Dapol 20t brake van. 10 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SM42 Posted February 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 5, 2021 (edited) In cross eye mode again. More van lettering. Got a few to do, see previous photo. Only problem is that as most numbers are made up of bits, I'm waiting for the first part to harden off before tackling the next part. It's slow going do a bit of each side at a time and I fear I may lose track of where I had got to on any particular wagon. After that it's a vast weathering campaign Andy Edited February 5, 2021 by SM42 typing with the screen out of range of my glasses 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted February 5, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2021 2 hours ago, Dave Hunt said: I think the editor has deleted Dave’s comment about not being allowed to change Jill’s iPad. Similar here but the other way round. Aditi has all predictive text or autocomplete options off for all her devices. If I borrow any I have to leave them alone. This is fair enough as I used to really not appreciate people fiddling with settings on my work computers. This ceased when we were network based as the settings belonged with the logged on user rather than the device. When Aditi first started her doctoral dissertation I would often hear her telling off her computer “I know it is a long sentence...” or “no, I can assure you hermeneutics is a word”. So she turned all support off. Her dissertation had no spelling or grammatical errors but the external examiners did find a surplus full stop in a reference. She was shocked. 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 5, 2021 Just imagine this with predictive text and spill chucker thrown in for good measure. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SM42 Posted February 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 5, 2021 Time for weathering 2 down, a dozen to go. Andy 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted February 5, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2021 2 hours ago, Tony_S said: When Aditi first started her doctoral dissertation I would often hear her telling off her computer “I know it is a long sentence...” or “no, I can assure you hermeneutics is a word”. So she turned all support off. Her dissertation had no spelling or grammatical errors but the external examiners did find a surplus full stop in a reference. She was shocked. If that's what they were reduced to commenting upon, then they must have been really desperate! 7 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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