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#10301 Post by Malvernian » Wed Dec 07, 2022 11:37 am

Both still testing +ve for Covid. Mrs M felling slightly better, I feel fine now. Heater in workshop switched on before I venture in there, for more lathework today

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#10302 Post by OFSO » Wed Dec 07, 2022 1:27 pm

Bought €90 worth of logs this morning, loaded trailer (with help) druv home, unloaded (without help). Greatest pleasure is the wood yard guard dogs, three: big, bigger and much bigger, with long shaggy coat. Fed with my biscuits, then ear and neck rub session, telling each "you're beautiful". Even the smallest can look me in the eye, standing on back legs, front paws on my chest. Not sure how much affection is biscuit-fuelled, but they go all soppy-eyed when I pull their ears. Lovely dogs.

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#10303 Post by limeygal » Wed Dec 07, 2022 4:09 pm

Good luck Ibbie. :-bd

Welcome back Jim :YMHUG:

Harry clampers here again this morning. Had to take Hubs for a doctor's appointment across the bay. Very heavy fog on the bridge. If I can't see well, then I know that the idiots driving at 60mph who are overtaking me can't see either-morons.

My favourite seed catalogue arrived yesterday aka garden porn. I am busily compiling my list of veg seeds to order. I have already ordered from another catalogue and thought I was done, but the temptation to order more is too great. Hubs says it's a sickness. I shall remind him of that the next time I have to stand waiting for him to finish drooling over tools at Lowes/Home Depot.

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#10304 Post by OFSO » Wed Dec 07, 2022 6:20 pm

My phone just rang, an old lady, "Is that Paul. My carer? Are you coming to do my supper? " We saw call was from Buxton Derbyshire UK. Mrs OFSO called Buxton social services, office staffed at 18:00, nice lady there is checking lists of care firms for names and numbers, will follow up. One example of how technology (and a caring Mrs OFSO) saves the day.

Social services just called back, they've traced the old lady, she'd also missed lunch, only had a mince pie, so will go round and see her with food and drink.

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#10305 Post by Opsboi » Wed Dec 07, 2022 6:24 pm

OFSO wrote:
Wed Dec 07, 2022 6:20 pm
My phone just rang, an old lady, "Is that Paul. My carer? Are you coming to do my supper? " We saw call was from Buxton Derbyshire UK. Mrs OFSO called Buxton social services, office staffed at 18:00, nice lady there is checking lists of care firms for names and numbers, will follow up. One example of how technology (and a caring Mrs OFSO) saves the day.

Social services just called back, they've traced the old lady, she'd also missed lunch, only had a mince pie, so will go round and see her with food and drink.
Bravo the OFSOs!

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#10306 Post by OFSO » Wed Dec 07, 2022 6:34 pm

I'd have done something when I thought about it, maybe tomorrow, although I did look up the number of social services in Buxton. But my wife springs into action immediately. Social services were so thankful she'd got in touch.

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#10307 Post by PHXPhlyer » Wed Dec 07, 2022 6:52 pm

Welcome back Jim
Best wishes Ibbie

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#10308 Post by TheGreenAnger » Wed Dec 07, 2022 6:55 pm

limeygal wrote:
Wed Dec 07, 2022 4:09 pm

My favourite seed catalogue arrived yesterday aka garden porn.
While I am not an avid gardener by any stretch of the imagination, I have become a fan of Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time. I find it somehow soothing, a sea of gentle tranquility in the electronic discord of all the electronic channels that bombard our battered senses. All that, and the fact that the participants all seem, as befits gardeners, to have earthy, but often excellent senses of humour.

See what I mean...

More innuendo than a Carry On film. =))
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#10309 Post by Boac » Wed Dec 07, 2022 7:09 pm

No 5 is excellent advice. :))

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#10310 Post by Karearea » Wed Dec 07, 2022 7:12 pm

OFSO wrote:
Wed Dec 07, 2022 6:34 pm
I'd have done something when I thought about it, maybe tomorrow, although I did look up the number of social services in Buxton. But my wife springs into action immediately. Social services were so thankful she'd got in touch.
Well done! She did a Good Thing. :-bd

Karearea - many apologies for messing up your earlier posts - i was trying to split the 'geeks' computer stuff into their own thread and made a pig's breakfast of it! Hopefully all restored. I'm blaming it on glasses of wine.
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#10311 Post by Boac » Wed Dec 07, 2022 8:59 pm

Bit of a laugh in Peru - the President was facing an impeachment, so he dissolved Congress, but they ignored that and voted he be impeached. I understand he hurriedly left Parliament to seek asylum in some embassy but was 'arrested' en route. Good plot for a film.

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#10312 Post by 1DC » Wed Dec 07, 2022 9:27 pm

Mrs 1DC wanted some cash today and she was near our local branch of the Halifax building society.She went in and inserted her Halifax debit card into the cash machine. The machine swallowed her card and indicated she should contact her provider. She saw an assistant who went behind the scenes and retrieved her card. You clearly haven't realised your card expired last January! says the assistant. As you rarely used it you were asked if you wanted it replaced and you didn't reply. She was offered a new card and accepted the offer.She then sheepishly left the building..

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#10313 Post by OFSO » Wed Dec 07, 2022 10:03 pm

Night walk over. 5000 steps. Full moon. Nobody about, neither humans dogs cats nor follets, green or otherwise.

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#10314 Post by CharlieOneSix » Wed Dec 07, 2022 10:17 pm

First snow of the winter tonight, just a couple of centimetres so far but crunchy underfoot. Windchill -4C.
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#10315 Post by Hydromet » Thu Dec 08, 2022 12:13 am

Out early this morning to drop car in for service and pink slip. Ran into former next door neighbour there on his way to tennis - haven't seen him for a few years. Good walk home in the cool of morning. Pottered in the garden and processed some spider photos from last night, and will probably go for a walk with the camera this afternoon, before collecting the car.

Sunny, clear and 23c now with a cool breeze.

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#10316 Post by bob2s » Thu Dec 08, 2022 12:39 am

Well, the reader of the chicken entrails has declared that La Nina is showing signs of weakening and Oz will start returning to a less moisture
ridden atmosphere, this I will not place a lot of faith in because we all know what lying buggers they are. :^o

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#10317 Post by llondel » Thu Dec 08, 2022 2:27 am

bob2s wrote:
Thu Dec 08, 2022 12:39 am
Well, the reader of the chicken entrails has declared that La Nina is showing signs of weakening and Oz will start returning to a less moisture
ridden atmosphere, this I will not place a lot of faith in because we all know what lying buggers they are. :^o
You're assuming they're doing it deliberately, so you clearly favour conspiracy theory over cock-up theory.

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#10318 Post by OFSO » Thu Dec 08, 2022 5:56 am

Morning, all. CH needed a reset to start this morning, the boiler likes cold weather as little as I do. Laundry Day but also public holiday so we get cheap(er) electricity all day. I shall go for a walk before the forecast rain arrives.

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#10319 Post by TheGreenAnger » Thu Dec 08, 2022 6:32 am

First local light snowfall of the year last night. -3 degrees here currently, so have just put the heating on as we tend to switch it off and hunker down under the duvets at night.

EGSS 080502Z 0806/0912 30007KT 9999 FEW020 PROB30 TEMPO 0806/0810 8000 BKN008 PROB30 0821/0902 6000 BECMG 0900/0903 BKN005 PROB30 0902/0910 3000 BR BKN003 BECMG 0910/0912 FEW015

Still pitch dark and I have cleared all work correspondence. I am now hooked on the 04:00 hrs "early to rise early to bed" regimen, which makes TGA, stealthy (SWBO gets infuriated if I wake her up early), wealthy (debatable) and dead (most likely)!

Good news overnight, our outfit has sorted all the IRS bureaucracy and the "mighty empire" is set to go stateside, with a client in Des Moines (can there ever be good news when it comes to the taxman?).
My necessaries are embark'd: farewell. Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.

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#10320 Post by Ibbie » Thu Dec 08, 2022 8:00 am

Morning all.

It's grey, damp and some drizzle is falling. This machine says 15c at present.

Thank you all for your good wishes for my hospital visit yesterday. They appear to have worked. Not the outcome I expected and delighted.

Saw one of the head honcho prostate consultants, who had taken the time to read my notes going way back. He spoke excellent English. Also when I looked him up, found he had written several papers on prostate cancer and well respected.
No time constrate on the consultation at all. He disagreed with the consultant at Marbella , who had recommended me to his hospital for radiotherapy, as the next step, on several points. Basically a new view on why my PSA is high, the two extremely small tumors that are in my prostate are not growing, as a comparison of the last two scans proved and are not the reason for rise in PSA. So we go onto active monitoring. Go back to see him in March . I am now his patient. That is pleasing , as he gives me confidence in him and his team, which I did not have with the people in Marbella. I feel lucky to now be under his care.

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