The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[Wodrick]

Morning all,
Hazy and cool, just 13c at present, throws some doubt on the guess of 24.
I see he has revised it to 19c.

*LimeyGal* sends her best.

Nice change it seems, with the e-mail being stuffed I did not even check last night.
Well done *Alison*

Now I have reached septuagenarian status people who know that have started telling me I don't look more than 60.
It's the fat padding out the wrinkles.

Nothing planned apart from the ritual lunch.

[handsfree]

Same here 4mastacker, without the boat bailing, but the sun is peeking out now.
It's been a rough week down here (or up here depending on reader's co-ordinates) with several
friends houses flooded. Even worse the local pub was out of action for a couple of days due to the
cellar being flooded. Praise due to the brewery who were quick to replace the coolers and lines and sanitise
the cellar in short order once the waters receded.

My mate who lives on a narrow boat abandoned ship due to the inability to get to it. He was also in fear that the
riser on the floating pontoon wasn't long enough to accommodate the rise in water level. It was about 6 inches away from
the pontoon decoupling itself and floating away down the Trent. Not a good place to go as the weir further downriver
would have made quick work of anything going over.

That all said, there are folk in Wales and the North Country having a hell of a worse time of it. Poor souls.

Well done on the neck op Ex-A's and what an inspired choice of anaesthetic.
Hope Mrs Ibbie gets sorted soon. That has gone on way too long.

Keep washing your hands everybody. We don't want these pages to become infected with the Chinese disease.

Happy Birthday Wodrick

[Wodrick]

Thanks *HF* it was 20 days ago now just a comment today.

[DBx]

Genuinely, not trying to boast, much more expressing amazement at his natural abilities. Grandson Jack has just come fourth in the U15 long jump at the English National Athletics Championship in Sheffield (indoors so no wind factor!). He's disappointed (!!!) as he didn't quite match his pb which would have put him up a place.

If I was really bragging though I'd mention that a couple of weeks back he did 12.95 m in a triple jump event, which is the longest recorded indoors jump EVER done in the UK!!!!!!!!!

As I said, we're all astonished by all this as there is little sign of sporting abilities in any of the family histories.

[handsfree]

Well done that lad. Quite an achievement.

Friends are taking their 17 year old daughter up to Manchester today to run a 200m race.
There were grumblings about a 5 hour return trip to watch a 25 sec race.

[Wodrick]

Good young Grandson Jack

[ricardian]

We need the snippets from the Stronsay Limpet and the Botswanen Bush Telegraph in equal measure.

And now you can access all 175 editions (soon to be 176) of the Stronsay Limpet online thanks to a few sessions of slaving over a warm document scanner.

[Alisoncc]

04:00 am, just returned from over three hours sitting in Emergency at hospital. Much earlier three teeth, held together by fillings, crumbled, leaving me with gradually developing stinking headache. Went to hospital in the hope of getting some half-way decent pain killers. In the end gave up and returned home empty handed.

Left dog outside, she not too impressed with this, kept all the neighbours awake by barking. In the morning need to make my peace with them.

Alison

[Rwy in Sight]

You have my sympathy Alison for the teeth.

[OFSO]

Oh yes, the usual snakes-in-the-grass, teeth in the gums. Brewing up plots and infections during months or years of quiescence. Always at weekends, too. I have also once been outside the dentist at 04:30 on a Monday, waiting for the dental angel to arrive and take the pain away....Get well soon !

[Capetonian]

I remember having a tooth abscess with flared up on a Saturday night. Nothing relieved the agony. None of the local hospital OPDs (in CPT) would deal with a dental emergency. Fortunately I was able to contact my dentist's emergency number and he met me at his surgery at 0900 on the Sunday morning. I think I was waiting outside at 0700, and would have paid him my life savings and more.
The incredible thing was that once he'd drained it, the pain went almost immediately and it was if the previous night had been a bad dream.

[Pontius Navigator]

My peak flow was 240 or 270 the other day, but I remember years ago that it was not high.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Tooth pain is right up there with ear ache as bad pain to have. Both can also be triggered by barotrauma as can sick inducing sinus pain.

[larsssnowpharter]

Bless you Alison. Almost nothing worse than really bad toothache.

[reddo]

Ouch Alison, hope you're feeling better now.
My good peak flow is about 450-470. Can't get much higher Good for my height and sex.

If people want to discuss the British Royal family, so be it. There's a lot of threads I don't read because they don't interest me. So long as people are not rude and delibarately inflammatory, obey the forum rules, fair enough.

[llondel]

I remember having a tooth abscess with flared up on a Saturday night. Nothing relieved the agony. None of the local hospital OPDs (in CPT) would deal with a dental emergency. Fortunately I was able to contact my dentist's emergency number and he met me at his surgery at 0900 on the Sunday morning. I think I was waiting outside at 0700, and would have paid him my life savings and more.
The incredible thing was that once he'd drained it, the pain went almost immediately and it was if the previous night had been a bad dream.

I had one that flared up as I was getting ready go to do an end-of-year exam at uni. Afterwords, in accordance with the rules, I went to see the Director of Studies to give my reason why my performance in the exam might have been affected. He took one look at my face and told me to go see a dentist Right Now and that he'd make a note. Then I discovered that my dentist was on holiday, so I ended up at a different one (who happened to be a friend). When he drilled out the filling the pressure caused what was underneath to squirt out (it tasted foul) but there was instant relief.

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks 22 degs overcast. 13 mm rain yesterday. Must invite people for lunch more often. Also a bit windy early morning. 04.30 huge crash. As can be seen it missed the house by inches. To be more specific missed our bedroom by inches. Removal operation taking place.

14th and last day on antibiotics Seems to have worked but feel very groggy.

[Karearea]

^ That was close, Ex-A! Glad no closer.

Best wishes with the gnashers, Alison.

I still have 32. Hoping for no trouble in future...

[OFSO]

Wow, that was near. Our eucalyptus bend near double in the 150kph winds but so far only had one limb detach and fall into neighbours car park and they have not been down for years - heard house also for sale. Cut up and removed by our Czech treeman.

[Capetonian]

Letter in this morning's Irish Times:


Sir, – Computer scientist Larry Tesler has died and yet to most he is an unknown figure, but his work is a part of every working day – he developed “cut, copy and paste” for computers and word processors. This technology is the bane of school teachers who see so much of Wikipedia directly cut and pasted into students’ work, although generally without attribution. The teachers themselves cannot complain as most of their school reports are cut and pasted from a collection of wise, and proof-read, words of wisdom and inspiration.

No office would survive today without his contribution and yet few would know of his work or passing.

Vale Larry Tesler, and in honour of him some of this letter was cut and pasted.– Yours, etc,

DENNIS FITZGERALD,

Melbourne,

Australia.