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#1081 Re: what are you doing ?

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Replanking a bench in the garden... 20 years since I last did it, and that was in teak... got to angle-grind the old coach bolts off...
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I was going to do ours last summer but the price of the teak slats put me off...cheapskate as usual...
Sandrine was sitting on it this afternoon but suggested that I didn't risk it...the cheek of it.
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#1083 Re: what are you doing ?

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Sitting in a Travelodge near Lincoln, eating a 6" sub, crisps, and a bottle of Tango.

I know how to live. :lol:
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I just bought myself 75kg of Italian fun.

Nice to have a project again !
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I'm having a Coronation avoidance day. :)
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I'm celebrating by driving to Oxford and back.
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Had a Republican Breakfast...
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I'm not sure I like the sound of that !

I was in the butcher's yesterday, briefly, talking to Richard as usual.
An elderly bloke came in and asked for a chicken. Richard had to apologise and say they had run out, loads of people had been buying them both Thursday and Friday, he said he couldn't understand it.
I suggested that 'Coronation Chicken' was the reason.
It was obvious that neither of them had thought of this !
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jack wrote: Sat May 06, 2023 10:35 am Had a Republican Breakfast...
shame on you....snigger
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#1090 Re: what are you doing ?

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ed wrote: Sat May 06, 2023 11:05 am
jack wrote: Sat May 06, 2023 10:35 am Had a Republican Breakfast...
shame on you....snigger
Can't eat a whole one...

Nice music. Can't help thinking of Titus Groan and Gormenghast...
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gonna have to watch it now. I haven't watched it since the original beeb series. somebody bought me the dvd and it's still unopened in it's original cellophane.

It was the first time I'd seen Neve McIntosh and I immediately fell in love. I'm not disillusioned by her portrayal of the lizard women in Dr Who.

I digress, as you were. I'm not sure I could eat a whole one. Much better to let somebody else it them.
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pre65 wrote: Sun Apr 23, 2023 7:22 pm Sitting in a Travelodge near Lincoln, eating a 6" sub, crisps, and a bottle of Tango.

I know how to live. :lol:
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Savaged by the bees yesterday - 8 stings. They're normally so placid, but the changeable weather really unsettles them.

It's swarming season, plus the apple blossom is fully out. 250,000 apple trees around my hives and the bees are going crazy.

As of today, I have 14 "supers" on - each holds about 11kg of honey when full. There will be two and possibly three rounds of extraction, so at least 250kg of honey again this year.
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Plastering a doorway I built last week from studwork and plasterboard. Just having a cup o’ tea waiting for it to go off to a state where it can be polished up. I’m normally completely crap at plastering, but after watching a youtube tutorial the other day, I have finally managed to produce something worth looking at. It’s not perfect, but not bad for an amateur. I’m quite pleased with the job. :)

Rather than saying, “I’ll do it when I feel better,” I said instead, “I’ll feel better when I’ve done it.” :lol:
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#1095 Re: what are you doing ?

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Not the Saturday I was planning, but as it turns out, hopefully a good result...

Yesterday I noticed a slight blurring in my right eye's periphery...

As the morning wore on, the smudge crept across until it was nearly at the centre of my vision...

Recognizing the symptoms, I presented at our nearest eye hospital, but they could do nothing and rang St Thomas's who said come straight in...

So most of yesterday at St Thomas's undergoing a barrage of tests and then pre-op checks.

No slots in Friday's surgery lists, so 08:30 this morning it was...

Detached retina. Lots of it and in many places.

Charming lady surgeon who took just 90 minutes to sort me out under local anesthetic: block (behind eye anesthetic), vitreous humor sonic ablation (removal - micro blade at about 1kHz), cryogenic welding (liquid nitrogen), 100s of argon laser pulses (200mW in 400mS pulses - a sort of "stitching with lasers"), micro aspiration - draining all the fluid from behind the retina etc. Very thorough indeed - carefully went all round and over the retina fixing all the issues they could find. Then they fill the eye with C2F6 and close it up. All done through a tiny hole in the white of the eye with micro-manipulators and tiny tiny cameras...

Fascinating stuff. Surgeon was really good at explaining what was going on - I could only see blurry stuff and hear weird noises, plus the occasional odd sensation - e.g. the cryo bit felt like a cool waterfall down the back of my eye - almost refreshing...

Now I have to maintain what they call "posture" for a week - lying face down for at least 45 minutes of every hour, day and night. 7 days of that then 7 days of doing absolutely nothing.

Post op check this Monday at St Thomas's then another visit in 2 weeks, hopefully for sign-off...
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