The Night Mail

[jamie92208]

39 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

I'd concur with that :

 

Or as @iL Dottore once kindly remarked about me, the scan may show normal hardware but says nothing about the software.

 

Jamie

[Winslow Boy]

44 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

Or as @iL Dottore once kindly remarked about me, the scan may show normal hardware but says nothing about the software.

 

Jamie

Sorry Jamie I recall that and I don't think he was saying it kindly.

[Winslow Boy]

Update on the fiendishly, cunning and down right diabolical plan to finally achieve sheddom.

 

I can't get into the garage as I've lost the key and the thingy me gig isn't working.

 

So World - 1, Me - 0

 

Frustrated of Manutopea.

[iL Dottore]

51 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

Sorry Jamie I recall that and I don't think he was saying it kindly.

Take it as you will, Winnie dear boy, take it as you will!

[iL Dottore]

Alas, alas, alas! It seems that the erudite, informed, sage and venerable members of TNM have been fully taken in by The Bear's dastardly propaganda.

 

Let me make this abundantly clear  I AM NOT ANTI-BEAN, I quite like beans, many of my favourite Northern Italian dishes (like pasta e fagioli, Tonno Con Borlotti etc.) have beans amongst the ingredients.

 

I am definitely anti tinned baked bean especially cheap baked beans as all of them, to a greater or lesser degree, are full of UPF ingredients, have no discernible identity or taste beyond that of sweetened "tomato" sauce and they resemble the real thing much like I resemble an  Olympic Marathon runner!

 

Once you've had proper Boston baked beans, the tinned ones pale into insignificance beside them 

Edited 16 hours ago by iL Dottore
Typo

[PhilJ W]

9 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Why aren't the owners and senior management of these places ever held accountable?  Friends in high places I suppose (much like senior NHS management).

 

As much as one has Walter Mitty-esque thoughts of drumhead tribunals and summary firing squads for such individuals, this - of course - is unlikely to be.

 

But what these people do fear is publicity and exposure. A constant stream of "name and shame" exposés will have an impact. I wonder how many "respectable members of the business community" would like to have a microphone shoved under their noses and questions asked about "making profits by starving people's grannies"

 

Very little gets me really angry: but exploiting the defenceless and vulnerable (including animals) is definitely on that short list..

 

I feel so strongly about it, that if I had to eat baked beanz every day to see the culprits face proper justice (up to and including the gibbet), I'd be on the phone making a bulk order with Heinz!

This does concern me as I'm now 76 and though my general health is pretty good for my age I have mobility problems. Add to that I have no family able to support me I can see the day coming when I will have to enter such an establishment. 

[polybear]

3 hours ago, Tony_S said:

Not quite beans but we nearly had an innovative chick pea based meal yesterday. Aditi needed to make a sauce when she realised that the “tomato puree” she had removed from the freezer was frozen raspberry. Labelling mishap. 

 

Hmm, Raspberry Puree- based Pizza.....Aditi could be onto something there....

[Tony_S]

5 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

Hmm, Raspberry Puree- based Pizza.....Aditi could be onto something there....

@Grizz will I am  sure correct my impression but when we went to Denmark, quite a few of the meals we ate seemed to have jam served with the meat.

We were really relieved to get to Denmark as we had stayed in Lubeck for a few days and all the food there was so salty. We had wondered if it got saltier as we moved north but fortunately it didn’t .

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

 

Hmm, Raspberry Puree- based Pizza.....Aditi could be onto something there....

Many years ago Beth's uncle gave her a 'frozen salmon' to bring down to Leeds for my Mil.  It went into our freezer.  Some months later, Bessie asked us to thaw it out. It gradually went a dark red.  It turned out tbe a complete fillet steak.  Bessie offered to share it with us.  The decision to accept was made very quickly. 

 

Jamie

[jjb1970]

The best place for accommodation on a ship is somewhere near midship. 

 

The bow and stern experiences a lot more movement, pitching and heaving. The stern experiences a lot less slamming than the bow but makes up to a degree with vibration from the propeller(s). And if the weather is at the right angle to come in under the stern it can get very lively at the back.

 

A reason big containerships were often very good is the accommodation is set well back from either the bow or stern. On the other hand, the very high fretboard combined with high superstructure means rolling movement can be violent.

 

However, modern bow and stern design can radically alter assumptions about how ships behave in heavy weather.

[Happy Hippo]

We are all set up for the show tomorrow at Telford.

 

When I left, The Colour Squadron RAF Regiment, were still practicing their Advance in Review Order and the General Salute, in anticipation of Dave Hunt's triumphal arrival after his flu jab.

 

 

[Northmoor]

9 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

This does concern me as I'm now 76 and though my general health is pretty good for my age I have mobility problems. Add to that I have no family able to support me I can see the day coming when I will have to enter such an establishment. 

Not suggesting you will be this position but some of the stories of family-less care home residents can be incredibly sad and others incredibly heart-warming.

 

The first kind are the ones where at the funeral, nursing home staff outnumber friends and family.  One of my favourite examples of the second kind was a chap who died in a home in Portsmouth in 2013 (something similar happened in 2021), here's the story from the (sorry) Daily Mail: 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2282231/James-McConnell-Royal-Marine-70-family-gets-grand-send-vicar-rallies-mourners-Facebook.html 

[Winslow Boy]

1 hour ago, Northmoor said:

Not suggesting you will be this position but some of the stories of family-less care home residents can be incredibly sad and others incredibly heart-warming.

 

The first kind are the ones where at the funeral, nursing home staff outnumber friends and family.  One of my favourite examples of the second kind was a chap who died in a home in Portsmouth in 2013 (something similar happened in 2021), here's the story from the (sorry) Daily Mail: 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2282231/James-McConnell-Royal-Marine-70-family-gets-grand-send-vicar-rallies-mourners-Facebook.html 

Yes it can be quite touching when people rally round to ensure that the deceased does get a decent send off.

 

I recall one such event where the British Legion did an appeal and were quite overwhelmed by the response. People who had known or simply served with the individual turned up.

 

I suppose though when someone hasn't been in the services and don't have any family and/or outlived them it can be very difficult to make the 'numbers up'.

Edited 7 hours ago by Winslow Boy

[polybear]

2 hours ago, Northmoor said:

Not suggesting you will be this position but some of the stories of family-less care home residents can be incredibly sad and others incredibly heart-warming.

 

The first kind are the ones where at the funeral, nursing home staff outnumber friends and family.  One of my favourite examples of the second kind was a chap who died in a home in Portsmouth in 2013 (something similar happened in 2021), here's the story from the (sorry) Daily Mail: 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2282231/James-McConnell-Royal-Marine-70-family-gets-grand-send-vicar-rallies-mourners-Facebook.html 

A friend of mine’s Momma was in a care home with dementia, because of which she had no comprehension of time.  So after she’d got up to go wandering instead of going to bed the two “carers” got fed up and tied her in the bed….

That was a Police job - it went to Court but the Judge directed the Jury to find the defendants not guilty (dunno why).

That was the same day the Boss of the care home chain received a Knighthood(?) in the Queens honours list….

[J. S. Bach]

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

[iL Dottore]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

A friend of mine’s Momma was in a care home with dementia, because of which she had no comprehension of time.  So after she’d got up to go wandering instead of going to bed the two “carers” got fed up and tied her in the bed….

That was a Police job - it went to Court but the Judge directed the Jury to find the defendants not guilty (dunno why).

That was the same day the Boss of the care home chain received a Knighthood(?) in the Queens honours list….

Demented patients are often restrained for their own safety. One of the problems with full blown dementia is that these patients tend to be very susceptible to fractures and if not restrained can seriously injure themselves by trying to get out of bed* And a fall out of bed in such a patient can be fatal or, worse, result in a hip fracture. In a younger person a hip fracture is no big deal, but in an older person, this usually means that they will be permanently confined to bed with an untreated hip fracture (the NHS rarely fixes hip fractures in the over 80s), which will leave them in constant pain and definitely shorten their lifespan.

 

So the Judge was right in his summing up.

 

The real opprobrium should be reserved for the Care Home Chain who doesn’t employ enough staff to ensure that such patients are regularly ambulated and thus minimise the need for restraint.

 

In Japan there are a lot of elderly people, but they tend to be in better shape than their Western counterparts - a large part due to a healthier diet and lifestyle. We are already seeing the consequences in the UK of an unhealthy lifestyle, UPF rich diet - the generations coming after us (the “Baby Boomers”) are expected - in the UK - to have a shorter average lifespan (https://www.health.org.uk/publications/reports/mortality-and-life-expectancy-trends-in-the-uk?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADunFmQnLuCUn8YeO4qOf94OkanKM&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIy-TY6en1iAMVvamDBx2kjjtEEAAYAiAAEgKPwPD_BwE). Diet remains a major factor and anyone with a functioning brain should be horrified by this: https://www.euronews.com/health/2024/10/04/ultra-processed-foods-account-for-nearly-half-of-calories-eaten-by-uk-toddlers-study-finds

 

* as you age your sense of depth perception alters, as does proprioception, your bones become more brittle and thus more likely to break even with a minor fall and healing takes longer…

[AndyID]

4 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Demented patients are often restrained for their own safety. One of the problems with full blown dementia is that these patients tend to be very susceptible to fractures and if not restrained can seriously injure themselves by trying to get out of bed* And a fall out of bed in such a patient can be fatal or, worse, result in a hip fracture. In a younger person a hip fracture is no big deal, but in an older person, this usually means that they will be permanently confined to bed with an untreated hip fracture (the NHS rarely fixes hip fractures in the over 80s), which will leave them in constant pain and definitely shorten their lifespan.

 

So the Judge was right in his summing up.

 

The real opprobrium should be reserved for the Care Home Chain who doesn’t employ enough staff to ensure that such patients are regularly ambulated and thus minimise the need for restraint.

 

In Japan there are a lot of elderly people, but they tend to be in better shape than their Western counterparts - a large part due to a healthier diet and lifestyle. We are already seeing the consequences in the UK of an unhealthy lifestyle, UPF rich diet - the generations coming after us (the “Baby Boomers”) are expected - in the UK - to have a shorter average lifespan (https://www.health.org.uk/publications/reports/mortality-and-life-expectancy-trends-in-the-uk?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADunFmQnLuCUn8YeO4qOf94OkanKM&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIy-TY6en1iAMVvamDBx2kjjtEEAAYAiAAEgKPwPD_BwE). Diet remains a major factor and anyone with a functioning brain should be horrified by this: https://www.euronews.com/health/2024/10/04/ultra-processed-foods-account-for-nearly-half-of-calories-eaten-by-uk-toddlers-study-finds

 

* as you age your sense of depth perception alters, as does proprioception, your bones become more brittle and thus more likely to break even with a minor fall and healing takes longer…

 

Similar problem in the US and even in Japan there are concerns about modern diet. The good news is beanz don't seem to make the top ten list of UPFs.

Edited 23 minutes ago by AndyID

[AndyID]

On the same subject, not long after we moved from Paisley to Arizona we were driving to the Grand Canyon with our three young children the oldest of whom was no more than seven. We stopped at a diner and while we were there another couple came in. The waitress showed them to a booth.

 

There was no way in hell the poor gent could possibly squeeze into a booth. Our children had never seen anyone of such gigantic proportions and we were terrified they were going to say something or start laughing. Fortunately, with a bit of prompting, they were very well behaved 😄

[AndyID]

21 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

I'd concur with that :

 

 

My haircut is nothing like that.