The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[Boac]

All the best, HF - my D-i-Law runs the Edinburgh kidney transplant centre which may have been your centre.

[Groundgripper]

Brilliant news HF, hope it's up and fully functioning soon.

GG

[TheGreenGoblin]

Fuller Hall on the campus on fire. Totally heartbreaking to watch.

The Jagger Library that houses the African Studies section, with 85 000 pieces including Rudyard Kipling manuscripts amongst other irreplaceable papers, is on fire.

Total bloody disaster.

[4mastacker]

Best wishes for a full recovery HF. Does this mean you are excused indefinitely from washing up and other domestic chores?

[CharlieOneSix]

Fantastic news, HF - all the best for your recovery.

[Woody]

Latest bad news

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-56793317

[izod tester]

Daughter No 3 lives in Newlands about 150m East of the M3. Keeping fingers crossed that the fire doesn’t jump across the Road.

[jimtherev]

Wonderful news HF.
Love and prayers from N of Derby.

[bob2s]

Great news HF,now for a speedy recovery to enjoying a normal life.

[EA01]

Yes HF, congratulations and wishing you all the best for your recovery!

[TheGreenGoblin]

Latest bad news

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-56793317

I have Kodak cine film of my mom standing next to Mostert's Mill back in the early 60's taken by my father when they were courting. They are both gone and now so is the mill. I used to study in the Jagger Library every day for the first 2 years of my course and worked there as a part time librarian at night for 3 years to pay my university fees. I cannot tell you how depressed this carnage makes me. The loss of the so many historical texts, books and first editions is a loss to the world, not just South Africa (apparently they lost the original Rudyard Kipling manuscripts they had there). There can be no replacement for material like this.

Standing in front of Jagger back in better days.

Wrack and Ruin

There is a poignancy in the degradation of a soul,
a soft ambience in the slow fall into the abyss
like the terrible finality witnessed by the Enola Gay
I suppose...
a battle for dark supremacy
in back alleys and city streets awash with shadows
watching recalcitrants wander aimlessly
brains filled with angels fighting for headspace.
their worldly possessions in shopping bags
held together with duct tape,
and tied with string
with an oblique understanding
of how the world works
with no real concern on whether it'll all end;
tomorrow or the next
and as jets pass overhead filled with people
going somewhere else
no one really gives a flying crap
if everything has gone to
wrack and ruin...

- D Edward Barnett

[Karearea]

All the very best to you, handsfree, wishing you an uneventful recovery and hope the new bit does all that's required.

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks. Bloody great news HF. All the best with the new bit. So it was not a 'transplant' just a 'plant'. And yes, nursie who used to work in theatres has also explained to me the logic behind the extra one. When she used to work on the liver transplant team whenever they did one it was liver for lunch in the staff canteen. She is sure they did it on purpose.

Very bad news from down south. thoughts with you GG.

A bright but cool day

[handsfree]

Good morning one and all and thank you so much for all the good wishes and prayers.
Billy the Kid(ney) would appear to be functioning extremely well from the very start
and is getting into his stride. My right hand side is a beautiful shade of purple this morning
and aches a fair bit but that will go quite quickly, especially after the Tramadol that I'm about
to take.

I've had a chance for a quick read through now and it would appear that gravity has been unkind
out there. Ibbie I hope your wife makes a quick recovery from her ordeal.

Must go, back to the Nottingham City Hospital this morning bright and early to check on Billy's
general health.

Take care you lot.

[OFSO]

Great news HF. Your news promoted a flurry of investigations of your type of surgery as nobody in my family knew of it, yet it seems usual and (fingers crossed) has a high success rate. Prompted a discussion between the OFSOs as to what other organs could be doubled up on to promote health and marital harmony. However, that's a discussion for a less-serious thread....

[TheGreenGoblin]

Fog, fog but I can see clearly now, my black mood is lifting. Nothing like an hour's calisthenics to lift a man's soul or kill him outright. In the midst of my gloom in the wee hours, I contrived to send the following to my ex-wife and nary a glass of whisky or anything like that as an excuse...

Out of control - Sums up South Africa. Incompetence, lack of order, decay, degeneration and disorder of people's minds, morals and general modus operandi. Even the slack line on the helicopter tells a story. Long rigged, contrary to good operational procedure. It could blow back into the tail rotor and cause the aircraft to crash. A metaphor for a country and people of all races who have lost their way.

Needless to say it outraged her but made me laugh this morning. What a horrible person I am..

A long line as a metaphor for failure, for God's sake... poor buggers, they were doing their best, two ended up in hospital. I shall send a donation in expiation for my guilt at such an unfair assessment.

Anyway good to hear that some here are not ailing, and those that are, are getting better. All power to all elbows here, and no long lines allowed.

Tea, a shower, a contract review... bacchanals, dancing girls and music. It is Monday, let the trumpets sound!

[Pontius Navigator]

Latest bad news

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-56793317

Partially destroyed they say but gutted would seem more accurate.

[Wodrick]

Morning all,
Overcast, 15˚with a target of 21˚ who knows ?
I'm writing at 10.26 40 minutes ago I had my 11.30 telephone appointment with the doctor.
It's good that they can observe a booked appointment.

Mucho shopping, might save some for the afternoon to allow the market crowds to dissipate.

[reddo]

Good one HF, very pleased for you. It really is life changing surgery.
Your poor bladder will need a bit of adjusting to the new flow rates too
A former bf got a new kidney some years ago. It gave him a new life. I believe it's still going strong decades on.

They don't take the old ones out unless cancerous as it's quite invasive surgery.

[OFSO]

Back from the hillside forest with this evening's firewood. About 90mins climb up and back, the latter not on a path, which is foolish. Now home, a knackered old man.

One of the wizened farmers drove by me as I was loading the Mondeo.. Gave me a hard stare from his pinched bespectacled gombeen face. Begrudging me picking up twigs for a glimmer of heat come the night.