Early Risers.

[Barry O]

Ey up!

Today has been deemed "blood letting" day. Her indoors vilunteered both of us to take this test. Sister Drac will not be amused by me giving away some of my blood!

 

The parcel, once completed, must go into an NHS Priority post box.. which happens to be next to the sub post office I also need to visit today.

 

Have a good day everyone!

 

Baz

[Andrew P]

Well another absolutely fabulous day here near the Souf Coast, almost tropical, well O.K. I did exaggerate the last bit, but it certainly is a nice one, so a quick look around here before doing my Blood Pressure, then its orf to the Bathroom and then out for a walk before breakfast.

Not a great deal planned other than the Sainsbury delivery due about 10 ish, he / she (nice young lady last week) is normally spot on 10am.

 

Hoping you all had a good weekend, I've not read of any further  injuries to anyone which has to be good.

 

Keep well, stay safe one and all.

[Tony_S]

2 hours ago, chrisf said:

wonder if DVD players count as non-essential goods?

They do seem to be generally available online for delivery or click and collect. If you haven’t purchased one recently you will need to check if it has compatible connections. A lot of modern DVD players don’t have Scart sockets as used in older TVs. If your tv isn’t ancient it will have the necessary hdmi socket. If it doesn’t then Argos sell a DVD player with a scart connector. 
 

[Tony_S]

Morning all.

I think it is cloudier than it was earlier. 
Otherwise nothing to report. The most exciting thing appears to be waiting for the damp bathroom carpet to dry after the cistern leak .

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Arthur Itis woke me up this morning but a brace of paracetamol soon sent him on his way. I will need to go to Tess Coes today to stock up, the fridge is looking empty at the moment but first to run a bath.

[Tony_S]

I decided watching bathroom carpet dry was tedious so I have pulled it up to allow the floor chipboard to dry. It doesn’t appear to have got wet enough to be damaged. The bathroom carpet underlay is some sort of rubbery foam stuff not the thick hairy stuff used elsewhere in the house. If we ever replace the bathroom I suspect we may not use carpeting. I didn’t in the en suite bathroom. 

[The Lurker]

Greetings all from Sidcup where the earlier sun has been partly replaced by clouds.

 

Younger Lurker, who successfully recovered his trainers from lost property on Friday, has been deposited at school again.

 

The weekend was its usual dull self, enlivened by a family call to wish a cousin happy birthday. He has managed two lockdown birthdays. And mothers day was the usual thing of the Lurker boys doing nothing for their mum....although I did cook the meal that she requested for lunch.

 

And now it is back to another week of work...have a good day all

[Erichill16]

Morning All,

The talk of blood, ‘guts’ and general squeamishness reminds me of an incident involving my sister.

She was travelling down the M1 with her then boyfriend when theyarrived at the scene of the ‘Kegworth’ air crash. Being a final year medical student she got out of the car to help. Her boyfriend did the same but on ‘doctor’s’ made a hasty retreat to the car, as he was more of a hindrance than a help.(Sight of the human carnage being the cause)

Sister only told this part of her experience and has never mentioned any other details. 
It is not a funny story but does highlight how those trained can ‘deal’ with the situation whist most of the others can’t.

On that sombre note I’ll bit you all a pleasant day and be back later. I think I can here the garden calling.

Robert

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

Well it’s sunny outside, but there are some very ominously dark clouds just to the east, so I think I’ll stay indoors today. The last part of the cellar wall that needs the paint removing has still to be done, so I’m hoping to get half done today and the rest done tomorrow. But to give my back a rest (all the work is at floor level) I shall do it in small sections, with short rests in between. 

 

Stay safe, stay sane, enjoy whatever you have planned for the day, back later. 

 

Brian

Edited March 15, 2021 by BSW01

[tigerburnie]

Morning, we too have some brightness, though with fresh snow on the hills the wind coming off them feels like it's straight from the North Pole, apparently there's a Walrus turned up in Ireland, not surprised if it's as cold over there. Stay safe and warm all.

[polybear]

1 hour ago, Erichill16 said:

Morning All,

The talk of blood, ‘guts’ and general squeamishness reminds me of an incident involving my sister.

She was travelling down the M1 with her then boyfriend when theyarrived at the scene of the ‘Kegworth’ air crash. Being a final year medical student she got out of the car to help. Her boyfriend did the same but on ‘doctor’s’ made a hasty retreat to the car, as he was more of a hindrance than a help.(Sight of the human carnage being the cause)

Sister only told this part of her experience and has never mentioned any other details.

 

 

Bear has seen internal photos of that fuselage shown during an Aircrew Survival Course; apparently the doctors were surprised by the number of head injuries.  The photos show big "V" notches in the seat headrests, caused by the overhead lockers coming down.  Worth bearing in mind when you're next asking the stewardess to help you lift that anvil into the locker above your seat - put it above someone else's seat if you must....

 

Buddy next door arrived as arranged to help clear the kitchen; Bear is now scraping the kitchen floor to remove any loose remnants of self-levelling compound from the floor.  Some bits are "looser" than others , whilst the bits that don't want to shift without the use of a Kango are staying there.

Bear will be limited to toast, cereal and "ding" dinners for the next few days; cake is unaffected, fortunately.

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, tigerburnie said:

Walrus turned up in Ireland,

I saw that news item. The article suggests the walrus had fallen asleep on an ice floe and had drifted across the Atlantic. 

Edited March 15, 2021 by Tony_S
Spelling of floe

[New Haven Neil]

Morning, just.

 

Joking aside, the foot injury  a couple of years ago was a 'Lisfranc' fracture and not an experience I wish to repeat. So much pain and damage caused so easily.

 

This morning was spent once again in the same hospital, but for eyes this time as my optician had expressed concern about something, so this was a Consultant poke and prod to see what was going on.  Precursor (no, not LNWR...) to cataracts apparently, probably caused by the period of high blood sugars prior to diagnosis of being diabolical.  Under control now and sort of OK, 6 month reviews for the rest of my natural.  Consultant surprised by my knowledge of diabetes, as he went into lecture mode, so had a good and informative discussion with him.  I left reassured.  But....why do eye drops sting so much? Surely in this day and age they could make something that doesn't!  

 

Builder/handywitheverythingman friend in doing some work today, he's a real grafter.  Known as 'Tank' - he is, as they say, a big lad. I too am stepping back from DIY's more awkward tasks, Arthur Itis being as unhelpful as he is. Tank is repairing the garden gate/fence and re-setting and pointing the paving pathways as they have become a bit higgeldy-piggeldy over the intervening 18 years since I laid them.

[Winslow Boy]

14 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

Morning, just.

 

Joking aside, the foot injury  a couple of years ago was a 'Lisfranc' fracture and not an experience I wish to repeat. So much pain and damage caused so easily.

 

This morning was spent once again in the same hospital, but for eyes this time as my optician had expressed concern about something, so this was a Consultant poke and prod to see what was going on.  Precursor (no, not LNWR...) to cataracts apparently, probably caused by the period of high blood sugars prior to diagnosis of being diabolical.  Under control now and sort of OK, 6 month reviews for the rest of my natural.  Consultant surprised by my knowledge of diabetes, as he went into lecture mode, so had a good and informative discussion with him.  I left reassured.  But....why do eye drops sting so much? Surely in this day and age they could make something that doesn't!  

 

Builder/handywitheverythingman friend in doing some work today, he's a real grafter.  Known as 'Tank' - he is, as they say, a big lad. I too am stepping back from DIY's more awkward tasks, Arthur Itis being as unhelpful as he is. Tank is repairing the garden gate/fence and re-setting and pointing the paving pathways as they have become a bit higgeldy-piggeldy over the intervening 18 years since I laid them.

Thats no way to talk about a mate. Yes he might be a bit higgeldy-piggeldy but no need to broadcast the fact.

 

So long as its not going to trigger an episode of PTS but just how did you injure your foot? Playing footie with a cannon ball? Squashing it into a stilheto three sizes too small? Clogg dancing without cloggs?

[Barry O]

Did my "volunteer" blood donation of antibodies checks this morning. Took sages to deposit 600mil of my precious blood into a phial. Then off to post it in a NHS Priority pots box.  

 

As a bricklayer arrived at 07:15 am today to build the "walls" in next doors mud heap no sleep in for us. He has now realised he needs to keep pumping the water out to allow the mortar to set.. one day he might get a decent pump.. Looks like our garden should be a lot drier due to the dam he has built... (he has finally realised that his garden is higher than ours s o our garden doesn't flood his(!)

 

@Winslow Boy.. read the back pages of ERs if you want to understand what has gone on in the past...

 

Baz

 

 

[TheQ]

12 minutes ago, Barry O said:

 

 

@Winslow Boy.. read the back pages of ERs if you want to understand what has gone on in the past...

 

Baz

 

 

You can get arrested for torturing someone

[New Haven Neil]

@Winslow Boy Unbelievably simple - slid down a muddy bank in Groudle Glen, going to do a job on the boiler of one of the locomotives.  Foot lodged against a tree root, I couldn't stop as I twisted and turned.....broke the foot in half basically, despite having heavy duty footwear on.  It was a possible partial amputation I was warned, before surgery, but thankfully went back together reasonably well, but has left me with a lot of residual pain issues.

 

The really annoying thing was John (the owner, my bestie) and I were taking the loco (the Steamplex) to the Ffestiniog Railway a few weeks later for the Quirks and Curiosities gala, which of course I missed.  Pah!  It would have been great fun, and poor John really struggled on his own. Then he broke it too, which wouldn't have happened if I had been there. C'est la vie.

 

NHN piloting it on another visit elsewhere. (taking a risk posting....)

 

 

[The Stationmaster]

G'day all,

 

iropracted I have been, plus a very brief shop in Waitrose and a visit to WHS to purchase a magazne which covers an unmentionable subject.  Not bad outside but it s definitely blowing a bit.

 

One interesting effect of the Summer Time all year experiment was the impact it had on train punctuality.  Previously every year the end of summer Time saw a definite decline in opunctuality which it took agaes to recover from but with no change of the clocks the decline just ceased to happen, so lots of commuters had more punctual journeys home.  once we went back to changing the clocks back we went to a concurrent dip in punctuality.   Not so bad once the railway got rid of loco hauled trains.

 

Mind you the thing I can't understand about all this nonsense involved with changing the clocks is that it doesn't give any more daylight or darkness - nature controls that.  All it does is move it to a different place on the artificial construct of a clock face - discuss.  Before people had clocks they got up with the dawn and went to bed when it got dark and many still do because of their occupations;  and animals still work like that.

 

As for blood and stuff I can say from experience that scalp wounds bleed like merry whatsit with, in many cases,  virtually nothing to show after the mess has been cleared up.  I can quite understand what Robert ('Erichill') had to say about his sister's involvement at Kegworth.  Until you have seen the results of a human body coming it contact with something  - even at relatively high speed you probably wouldn't believe what can happen to it.   Slow speed contact with a train or rail movement is one thing although it may well involve loss of limbs but a collision at even 50 or 60 mph won't leave much for the medical profession to deal with and I doubt the situation in the interior of something fairly solid which suddenly stops from this, or higher, speeds would not be much different depending on its interior layout and safety equipment.

 

On a more positive note my plan for a redesign of the back door step when it ceases to be a pallet with loose slabs on top and becomes something permanent has been approved by management.  Its unusual design is a consequence of my being unable to replace the previous large slabs without immediate hospitalisation to repair a hernia so it is based around using much smaller slabs which I have in stock.  i do however need to order various things such as sands and cement and a few bricks - if I can get blue engineering bricks (i like to keep some of those in stock as supplies of them are irregular to say the least).

 

Have a good day one and all and stay safe

[polybear]

45 minutes ago, Barry O said:

He has now realised he needs to keep pumping the water out to allow the mortar to set.. one day he might get a decent pump.. Looks like our garden should be a lot drier due to the dam he has built...

 

Bear sees scope for a 4mm/ft bouncing bomb.....

[jamie92208]

I never had a problem dealing with blood and guts. I did some in Mountain and Cave rescue before leaving home. As a young sprog bobby we had to act as the pathologists assistant in our little 1 slab morgue. A baptism of fire but I seem to have escaped unscathed, for which I am very grateful.  The gut wrenching things that will always live with me are the death warnings after fatal incidents. The living are far harder to deal with than the dead.

 

A good railway modelling friend was an eminent  orthopod and one day travelling through the peak district he was first on scene at a motorbike crash where the rider had a badly broken leg. The next two cars that stopped contained a consultant  anaesthetist and a theatre nurse between them. The ambulance crew that eventually turned up were rather surprised that three random civvies had cared for the rider and recuced a nasty open fracture before they arrived.

 

Jamie

[The Lurker]

Well it has rained in Sidcup,

 

I have now been invited to book for the jab. I have done so, for the 20th of March. So they are down to the next bracket below the 56-59 one that they were talking about on the news the other day.

 

I used to live next door to a bloke called Tank when I lived Northampton. His wife was also large. She explained that when they first went out, she was slim. They went for a meal but when she went to leave some food on her plate, Tank told her off and said "If you're gonna be my girl, you're gonna have to learn to eat properly".

 

And the rest is history!

[New Haven Neil]

Tank isn't fat - he's just mahoosive!  Think American Footballer but without the armour.  Same shape.....LOL 

[Winslow Boy]

2 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

@Winslow Boy Unbelievably simple - slid down a muddy bank in Groudle Glen, going to do a job on the boiler of one of the locomotives.  Foot lodged against a tree root, I couldn't stop as I twisted and turned.....broke the foot in half basically, despite having heavy duty footwear on.  It was a possible partial amputation I was warned, before surgery, but thankfully went back together reasonably well, but has left me with a lot of residual pain issues.

 

The really annoying thing was John (the owner, my bestie) and I were taking the loco (the Steamplex) to the Ffestiniog Railway a few weeks later for the Quirks and Curiosities gala, which of course I missed.  Pah!  It would have been great fun, and poor John really struggled on his own. Then he broke it too, which wouldn't have happened if I had been there. C'est la vie.

 

NHN piloting it on another visit elsewhere. (taking a risk posting....)

 

 

Many thanks NHN for your erudite explaination. It just shows how even the most simplest 'bangs' can have the most frightening of  consequences. Many thanks to other ER's for allowing this indulgence and i promise in future not to cause irritation at such a blatant infringement of ER etiquette. 

Edited March 15, 2021 by Winslow Boy
Insufficiently grovelling.apolegy.

[jamie92208]

The day has moved on. The new wallpaper was painted and now it's dried you can hardly see the join. My name is now on the pharmacists waiting list for the AZ vaccine. Even better the ironing  has been done. Brownie points earned. As Beth was out this was done in the sitting room with the stereo on. Aural anaesthetic  was 2 vinyl albums, the Stones, Through the Past Darkly and Help by the Beatles.

 

Jamie

Edited March 15, 2021 by jamie92208

[petethemole]

16 hours ago, petethemole said:

Have you figured out why you keep hurting the same place? You might be doing something wrong.

 For clarification, this referred to the preceding post by Tesudofan, which initially was repeated about 5 times, rather than to NHN's injured foot or anybody else's injury.

 

Yesterday was a bit hectic, mainly with mundane household tasks which came in bunches.  Then my wireless mouse proceeded to die, a long, drawn-out and infuriating process.   I was Ebaying stuff and had to give up.  Fortunately  Martyn had a spare USB mouse that I got him as a spare, So I scrounged that back.  It lights up!  Also, yesterday evening RMweb was running very slowly, and is now doing so again.

 

Time to get ready and go out

 

Stay elfy,

Pete