The Lurker Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Greetings all from a cold and drizzly LBG. The weekend has passed - Mrs Lurker and MiL met SiL for a girls' day out in town on Saturday, staying over in town and back late morning. That left me to cook, put the washing on and iron in addition to the gardening (well chopping stuff back) and hoovering I had scheduled in. Managed to tweak my back doing the chopping back and still suffering from it now. I didn't fall for the no need to tidy up, and had not only carried out the aforesaid tasks but had cooked lunch for Sunday too. So I felt very virtuous …. ! Work is currently full on year end... 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Kingzance Posted October 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 21, 2019 16 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: I absolutely hate having needles stuck into me. I put it down to when I was at school and there was mass innoculations. This was before the days of disposable syringes, they had about 3 interchangable needles to use on a class of 40 kids. They used the (alphabetical) class register and went down it doing each child in turn. My surname begins with a W and I was about two from the bottom of the register. This meant by the time my turn came round the needles were blunt. Despite the huge number of intervening years, I still have the slash mark where some public health doctor chose to use a razor blade on my infant arm to ensure some virus was implanted into a baby Kingzance. I too am of an age where "sharing the needle" was unrelated to getting high. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Tony_S Posted October 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 21, 2019 (edited) 10 minutes ago, Kingzance said: Despite the huge number of intervening years, I still have the slash mark where some public health doctor chose to use a razor blade on my infant arm to ensure some virus was implanted into a baby Kingzance. I too am of an age where "sharing the needle" was unrelated to getting high. Probably different now but like many babies with an Asian parent, Matthew had a TB jab before he left the maternity ward. At a subsequent school inoculation session(MMR?) the nurse demanded to know what the mark was. She got very suspicious when I said it was a TB jab site. This wasn’t a young nurse. She stomped off to get advice. I think she thought we had been torturing the child! Tony Edited October 21, 2019 by Tony_S 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AndrewC Posted October 21, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 21, 2019 On a related vein (see what I did there) I remember when my dad first went into hospital following a heart attack. The poor nurses always had a hell of a time finding a vein. I knew he used to donate blood on a regular basis but had no idea how much. After he passed and I was cleaning out some of the boxes of his workshop "stuff" I found his 50 and 100 pint certificates from the Canadian Red Cross. No bloody wonder they couldn't find a vein. He was a pin cushion. Found out from his sister many years later that he'd always donated blood partly as guilt for not being able to fight in WWII due to polio as a child. She figured the 100 pints in Canada was about what he'd already given in the UK and less than half his real Canadian total. 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ian Abel Posted October 21, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 21, 2019 Moaning all... Very busy weekend with no sensible time to check in on ERs. Return home Friday was marred by a 90 minute delay, equipment failure and the need to wait for a replacement aircraft. Incredibly diligent captain who kept us well informed (some of the numbnuts at the gate area insisted he kept us over informed - they need to fly with some of the "lesser" airlines then, I appreciated his updated) and was an extremely good representative for Delta. Given I therefore got in after 11PM, it was a real chore to get up, going and out the door by 8:30 Saturday, the Mrs and myself picking up Trevor along the way, as we headed out to close the cabin for the season. At least armed with coffee and donuts I was able to appear awake Cabin dutifully closed, pump removed, leaves raked and mulched, and the Mrs pride-and-joy row boat picked up by the local marina guy, a new face in the community and a very enthusiastic young guy making a new business work it seems - good for him, AND, we don't have to rent a van to haul the boat home this winter Saturday afternoon late, I was happy to be "DONE" for the day, though we did take a quick check-in at the old place. The renters have early access as they wanted to do some painting - uh huh... they've ALREADY painted all three bedroom and done a brilliant job, including removing all the wallpaper form the master bedroom before doing the work. They're a great family and it's nice to see them so enthusiastic about the house, the Mrs loves the idea of younger kids enjoying it again. Sunday - <phew> had to do some work on the old house that we'd planned, and start clearing out the last of our carp from the garage. Going from the 2+ oversized garage that can hold all manner of useless carp - and five bicycles?!?!?! - to a smallish single car garage is a real challenge. Sunday afternoon, all the kids/significant others were over as the Mrs had decreed an early holiday/Christmas picture was required as we apparently have to get any communications out SOON since we have a change of address and she's worried all the Christmas cards will go to the old/wrong place and disappear... Reasonable results followed by a wine and cheese effort. Today, working diligently, also awaiting a repair on our fridge. Ice maker not working/leaking, bit of a first world problem I know, but as it's a new fridge (couple of years old at most, came with the house) seems stupid to not be able to get ice for drinks etc. Jemma leaves late afternoon for her first 4 day tour as a Delta first officer. 7 and raining first thing, supposed to manage 12 if we're lucky, and rain off and on all day, overcast and dreary, a Minnesota Autumn for sure. Have a good start to the week awl... 16 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 3 hours ago, Tony_S said: Probably different now but like many babies with an Asian parent, Matthew had a TB jab before he left the maternity ward. At a subsequent school inoculation session(MMR?) the nurse demanded to know what the mark was. She got very suspicious when I said it was a TB jab site. This wasn’t a young nurse. She stomped off to get advice. I think she thought we had been torturing the child! Tony Everyone knows of your proclivities....... Which don't include child torture, some people try and do what's right for the wrong reasons, something like that anyway. Ian, I like your portico, pretty classy for the MidWest (North)! Best, Pete. 15 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post trisonic Posted October 21, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 21, 2019 19 hours ago, Coombe Barton said: On our local Facebook Group for the village "Anyone missing any chickens? I have three in my garden." They should consider themselves lucky. I just looked out of my window and counted 7 Whitetail deer in the backyard. These are both big and very well built muscle - wise. The sinjgle male looks as big as a smallish horse........ Still my Westie, Mayzee can still frighten the bejasus out of them rather easily. Of course, the deer eat everything except weeds. Best, Pete. 7 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted October 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 21, 2019 Interestingly the doctor who administered the TB jab was German and said she was surprised that the English thought only children with Asian relatives travelled anywhere. She said she had her children inoculated against TB. I checked and now only the “vulnerable “ are even checked. Tony 7 5 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted October 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 21, 2019 29 minutes ago, Tony_S said: Interestingly the doctor who administered the TB jab was German and said she was surprised that the English thought only children with Asian relatives travelled anywhere. She said she had her children inoculated against TB. I checked and now only the “vulnerable “ are even checked. Tony All my kids got a TB innoculation at a few weeks old as at the tine I was a desk sgt in a busy cell area and we were all classed as being at risk. Jamie 7 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted October 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 21, 2019 Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Spent this afternoon catching up on a bit of housework, no ironing was involved. Time to put the dinner on, be back later. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted October 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 21, 2019 Evening. Needles, yeah. OK if I don't watch! Like Keith, I had a larrrrge one, in this case inserted into a hip joint for MRI reactive agent insertion, the Dr radiologist (supported by a devestingly pretty radiographer - ooh! A distraction technique!) asked if I wanted to watch the real-time x ray screen - NO! The agreement was I would look away when they got the telegraph pole needle out, and they would do their best to hide it! The were superb, it wasn't the most comfortable procedure but wasn't as bad as it looked! My blood test last week I alluded to was of course a PSA (amongst other things) as a result of investigations into a real lethargy issue I currently have. Thankfully the PSA was fine, normal for a man of my age, and as it happens everything else was too, thus giving no insight into the problem! Worrying weekend though, the mind works on these things. The best news was the HbA1c for diabetes is licked, down to 36 or 5.4% in new money - whoop! Low carbohydrate diet, exercise, weight loss and no medications. I'm lucky. 11 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted October 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 21, 2019 Good evening from a dark and dry Charente. A busy day has been had. Nursey arrived before 8 then the builder. Beth was up early for the nurse. After that some errands were done and I also replenished stocks of red falling down water, some 10 litres were purchased, which should keep us going for a week or two. I even nanaged sone work in the shed and had a practice with the router as preparation for making a new shutter for the side door. This afternoon as a strange yellow object was sighted in the sky, I managed to cut the weed patch near the house. 2 sets of visitors then came and went and I gained some brownie points by producing a macaroni cheese. Then after a break the plum crumble was heated up. I managed to retain my provisional cooking licence by managing to spill the custard powder and ended up looking like a Homepride flour grader from the waist down. I did however manage to produce sone custard. Beth is rather tired after all the visitors and has gone to bed. Not a lot else to report except that it will be an early start in the morning. Regards to all. Jamie 12 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted October 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 21, 2019 I think my last two weeks of travelling has caught up with me today..so Goodnight all! baz 2 4 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurenceb Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 (edited) My line on needles is that I prefer to be on the other end. (too many years as chief jabber of recaltisent bovines) Edited October 21, 2019 by laurenceb 7 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted October 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 21, 2019 Good evening. A busy day in and around the shed. origanlly I was going ot help a friend fault find on his layout ready for warley but he had some tasks to do so postponed till tomorrow. That did allow me to go and get a few lengths of timber , so work on the canopy conitued allowing me to fix the gutter and put a mid rial up ready to take the bamboo screen when it arrives. Some modelling carried out involving fitting Kadees to a loco of mine and also for someone else. The fox was standing on the paving by the shed in the PIR light when I went back to the shed after dinner. He soon dissappeared. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 17 minutes ago, laurenceb said: as chief jabber Gaffer Jabberwok? 3 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerburnie Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Evening all, on the needle thing, they don't bother me at all, though I might not volunteer for another lumber puncture and similar the epidural before knee surgery was a tad uncomfortable, I too was a blood donor who now has veins that collapse and move apparently when nurse drac is trying to get lunch. Another lazy day at home doing very little, quite nice being retired ain't it lol. Running low on comestibles, so a whizz round tess co's or similar my have to happen tomorrow, I have a moratorium on Asdas, don't like the way they are treating their staff, so they've lost my custom. Fairly sure other shops also miss treat their staff these days too, but as a dyed in the wool awkward so* and so Asdas are getting, or more to the point they aren't. Don't buy from Amazon either for similar reasons. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Coombe Barton Posted October 21, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 21, 2019 Some progress today. https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2019/10/21/coping-04/ 15 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted October 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 21, 2019 8 hours ago, Kingzance said: I still have the slash mark where some public health doctor chose to use a razor blade on my infant arm to ensure some virus was implanted into a baby Kingzance. That would probably be the smallpox one, as it was usually done by scratching the skin. My mother was our doctor's secretary when there was an outbreak in Birmingham c1960. Due to the workload of a mass vaccination programme I got roped in to help and the doc paid me piecework for recording the names and addresses of all of those done. 8 hours ago, Tony_S said: Probably different now but like many babies with an Asian parent, Matthew had a TB jab before he left the maternity ward. At a subsequent school inoculation session(MMR?) the nurse demanded to know what the mark was. She got very suspicious when I said it was a TB jab site. This wasn’t a young nurse. She stomped off to get advice. I think she thought we had been torturing the child! Tony Routine TB vaccination at school around 13 years old used to be the norm in the UK but this was stopped in 2005 when the Health Ministry decided that those children were unlikely to get TB. How they decided that I don't know as vaccination had been universally done in schools since 1953. It was decided that only certain groups such as health workers and families or those living in areas where the disease occurred regularly should be done. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Kingzance Posted October 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 21, 2019 23 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said: Some progress today. https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2019/10/21/coping-04/ Nice tale about childbirth John. I was not around for the birth of my daughter, being somewhere between Panama City and San Francisco, but was at home for the youngest. That occurred at The Royal Berks Hospital and the birthing process was a very well managed event as it turned out. Our village midwife was about to go on holiday to China and was determined to see the arrival of the little Kingzance sprog before she left on 4th December 1982 so she "initiated" the process just before tea on 2nd December. Under her strict instructions, I took SWMBO into the RBH avoiding potholes and at a decent but not excessive speed in my V8 Rover SD1, far more comfortable than the little Datsun cherry SWMBO used. Meanwhile, the midwife called our GP and he arrived at 20:05, just after Simon - our son - (20:02) and just in time to do a bit of sewing. I had sandwiches and a flask ready for a long stay at the hospital, I was back home within 2 1/2 hours, phoning family and sipping a bit of Glenmorangie. My tastes in uisge have broadened since. Take care of yourself and Kerry. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Gwiwer Posted October 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 21, 2019 Evening all. A Moan-day and a half here. A day during which there were multiple train cancellations through the House of Fun variously because of "unavailable" staff, faults on trains, faults with points and "A problem under investigation" which means that the responsible location has not entered any reason for the delay or cancellation and it cannot (currently) be attributed. Then there were our own staffing issues. I start at 07.00. At 06.45 I was asked if I would start early to cover the non-arrival of an 06.00 starter. I did so. At 07.30 the 06.00 starter sauntered in and sought to take over from me with not a word or by-your-leave. I'm not even sure he had signed on but he was definitely spotted by our duty team leader who ...... did nothing. Then there was the radio call to our duty medics; we have two on duty every morning peak these days and often kept busy mostly dealing with mild fainting as the Great Unbreakfasted emerge from packed steamy trains into the cold outside. We thought nothing more of this until we heard a faintly cryptic message about there being "no return to work". One of our own had been taken ill and was being removed to hospital where he remains as far as I know though for specifically what complaint I don't know. Things happen in threes, yes? So as the morning wore on we learned that a colleague who is currently serving a disciplinary suspension pending investigation has resigned. It is not our lot to know whether he was offered the option before he was pushed or has chosen to cut and run. I came home, had lunch and had a sleep through the afternoon. I needed that rest and mental refreshment when SWMBO got home as she has had another rough day and is unable to break free from a circle of anxiety causing physical symptoms which in turn drive her anxiety into overdrive. She has described the feeling as "impending doom" and is again scared to sleep in case she doesn't wake up. I have to admit I am running out of ideas - though not of patience, love and support. She has a counsellor but has used her entitlement of free consultations so any call she makes now is charged at £25 basic plus a time-based fee. Answers on a postcard, please ....... I'm off to bed. Whether I get much of a night's sleep will be determined by external influences. I'll let you know how it goes. Best wishes to all. 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Kingzance Posted October 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 21, 2019 Hope you and Mrs Rick have a decent night's rest and a better tomorrow. There's nothing I can suggest from here as I have inn the past been referred to as "an anti-social worker". 1 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted October 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 21, 2019 chickens We kept chickens in the backyard for the whole time we lived in Australia. As in we kept them - we didn't let them get away On one occasion we returned home to find three more had arrived unannounced! They had strolled up the drive and - being unable to access the backyard which was gated and secured - they had set about nesting in the car port. It turned out they belonged to a neighbour a few houses down who young child had managed to slip the coop lock and their driveway gates ..... They were returned home later that day including the eggs they had produced meantime! We can't do that here as it contravenes most of the local council by-laws We also kept bees and were licensed bee-keepers with just a single hive. Subject to meeting requirements that too is lawful there but not here. We harvested our own honey and could taste the flowers we had recently enjoyed having in season - lavender and pear in particular. The hive was donated to a rural bee-keeper when we left. The chickens lived out their lives and at the end the one remaining was given to a friend who also kept them on her property. None ever went to the kitchen though the eggs certainly did. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Gwiwer Posted October 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 21, 2019 Here's a few of the pictures I was fiddling with yesterday. A "double-coast" view of Porthmeor beach, St. Ives with Hayle beach in the background - both on the north coast. One of the many laneways through Penzance which offer plenty of scope for nocturnal photography Penzance Promenade with the Jubilee outdoor bathing pool in the distance A hand-held motion-blur shot of sea and rocks below the Pedn Olva Hotel right by St. Ives station. No filters used for this although I do sometimes use a neutral-density filter. And lastly early sun illuminate Mount's Bay but St. Micheal's Mount remains firmly in silhouette off the coast at Marazion. 22 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerburnie Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 G'night all 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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