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Suppose I must get up then. I've been stalling. this morning. Off to my second home ''NHS' for 10.45am pre op assessment. Date set for Nov 6th. Think i'll get hubbs to tek me somewhere nice for lunch afterwards. Feeling very very mardy this morn. One younger sis in hospital poorly at Nottm, my older sis having major surgery here in W-ton tomorrow and my turn on the 6th. BUT. we have got the fabbo NHS to look after us. So many people in the world don't have anything. So i'll shurrup now. There.....towd yer I was feeling mardy today!

Hi everyone. I've just discovered this amazing forum as a result of googling to jog my memory of where Nottingham's tenpin bowling alley was in the 1960s.... Barker Gate of course! My family moved to Nottingham when I was 4 in 1948. After living in rented rooms in Mapperley for a few years we moved into a brand new council house in Bilborough in 1951where I stayed until I married in 1967. After that I lived with my family in Bakersfields until we moved to rural Lincolnshire in 1988 where I still live. My late husband was born and grew up in Mapperley. In Bilborough I went to Glenb

Happy eightieth PP. Fun and games this morning. I did a bit of shopping and thought I would wash the car when I got back. All went well until I was rinsing. I dropped the flippin hose nozzle. It landed on the handle and shot a stream of coldwater right up me trouser leg. I jumped away from it but the handle had locked. all over my shirt now and glasses. I couldn't see nowt. It was like something out of a Laurel and Hardy movie. That's two showers today. One when I got up. The second fully clothed in the driveway. I think I'll stay in for the rest of the day.

Sing along to slow blues....hum.hum..de hum... Woke up this mornin feelin quite fine...hum hum de dum... Octogenarian! This is my time... hum, hum..... Cards were arrivin, an bottles galore. hum hum... What can a man wish for? hum hum de dum... Nothin much more.... hum hum de dum.. Rowin machine there to test my resolve..hum hum de dum dum.... Broke sweat.... but good for my soul. hum hum de dum.... Birmingham called for a hearing upgrade hum hum de dum..... Spare parts fitted and not afraid.hum hum de dum... Tuned up nicely and

No sore head this morning Looking forward to a days fishing at Formark Res. Need to start testing the new prototype fly rods that I designed. Hoping to incorporate a new company within a few days but the prototype products are untested as yet Been testing cobbled together stuff all season so they should be OK. 80 = a new start .......

Many Nottstsalgia people will remember last year Photobucket stopped their free hosting of images, and demanded a large payment to allow photos to appear wherever they’d been posted. It meant that most images on Nottstalgia disappeared and were replaced by this…….. It seems that Photobucket have now realised they screwed things up and have backtracked. Hosting will now continue to be free….just like it used to be. All images which disappeared have now returned. (Look back through Nottstalgia for proof.) The funny part of it is that the executive who thought

What a welcome! Thank you everyone. I am still in the process of finding my way round the site...trouble is, I keep getting side tracked by interesting threads/posts, then forget where I've seen them and get lost trying to find them again! I'll get the hang of it eventually. I visited Nottingham last week for the first time in about 10 years and it has made me very nostalgic. The reason for the visit was that I have a friend who said she has never been to Nottingham and would like to see it so we came on the train from Lincoln and I gave her a guided tour of the city centre. You'll all be

Same everywhere, Den. Here its a robot answering machine that wastes your time with an announcement about office hours followed by "Press one for Spanish Two for English etc. If you ever get to a human being you've forgotten why you called in the first place.

You all could be telling stories about our dogs. Theyve all got emotional and fearful problems. Sushi when misbehaving we ask her if she wants to have a bath. She scoots off and hides head down to make herself look smaller, yet she loves the pool and swims quite a while. Misty when she goes to the vet is fine until we get out of the car, so uphill all the way is a torment, she drags and sits down . In the waiting room she sits on my knee and tries to hide behind me as does Sushi. She's very wary of any dogs who enter, shes curious but at the same time a bit frightened. The 2 chihuahuas are ju

After my bypass apparently my statins are absolutely necessary. Then I was told I’m borderline diabetic. Today’s headline in the Express, “Statins give you diabetes”. More and more I’m coming to agree with “The Latest Decalogue” ... “Thou shall not kill, but needst not strive/officiously to keep alive”

I know CT, I have got to the stage where I darn't say we will come because some B%!*#y appointment comes along and throws a spanner in the works Miduck. Yant seen mi for a couple a years you say..........some would say that is a blessing. Appointments allowing, we will be back on the meetup list again as soon as possible. We do miss coming to see you all. Soz.

I'm a dinosaur, OK.?

When we’ve been in America I’ve noticed how often prescription drugs are advertised on the tv. I don’t think I’ve ever seen drugs advertised on the telly over here. Suppose folk go and buy this stuff rather than pay to see a doctor? Then in Jamaica they advertise Cement on the telly! Really interesting adverts showing bags of cement on a conveyor belt, LOL. They advertise funerals too, showing a photo of the deceased, time and place of the funeral service, I bet they get dozens of strangers turning up for the ‘ham tea’

I have been watching the Magic Numbers series presented by Prof Hannah Fry on BBC4. It was excellent. In lay person's terms Hannah made numbers and the development of maths so interesting. Programme 3 was last night and Hannah related quantum physics to biology and particularly photosynthesis. Using entanglement theory from quantum physics she explained how absorption of light energy from photons by chlorophyll allows the energy to be shared by all the molecules. Particles are synchronised. The link for the detail of the programme is: www.open.edu/openlearn/tv-radio-events/tv/magic-

Hope someone was taping it! LOL.

Cliff Ton.... Pot? Kettle? comes to mind!

Oh, I haven't been called mi'duck for years! That's lovely, thank you and thank you to Jill for the welcome.

After the dreadful weather i have lately i would like to share this spectacular sunset taken today, my idea was to show the skyline but sort of missed the houses.

There should be a separate thread entitled ‘Vets’, especially if others have plenty of stories like we do. We had a beautiful Rhodesian Ridgeback for 14 years. We loved her so much. Unfortunately she was accident prone and spent a lot of time wearing a cone and on one particular occasion she managed to get the cone off while I was out and then chewed off stitches on her front leg. Fortunately I hadn’t been out for long but after wrapping her leg in a towel I got her in the car and drove to the vets. She didn’t like going there at all and once we got in the door and I sat down, exhauste

It's very true that animals don't forget discomfort they've experienced at the vet. Some years ago, we had a cat named Spock. A very special moggie was Spock but just after his first birthday, he decided to go walkabout in the early hours of a June morning and nipped out of a window at my partner's house. He was hit by a vehicle which didn't stop and he was seriously injured. He spent 2 weeks in hospital, having lost the use of his back legs, tail and bladder. The vet was very negative about the situation but I had seen his tail move slightly and Richard felt Spock move

We’ve paid into a Private Health Insurance scheme for over 30 years and every year when we receive the renewal documents we umm and arrh about cancelling it but so far we’ve hung onto it. Each year the monthly premiums rise quite substantially because of our age and because of the claims they’ve paid out. My husband has had his money’s worth from it over the years ........4 heart procedures which eventually cured Atrial Fibrillation, prostate cancer radiotherapy and associated treatments and just a few months ago he had a total knee replacement. However when I had to have major surgery twice

Photobucket is still a charge site for embedding photos, as far as I'm concerned, they can go screw themselves, it's not the charging that pees me off, it's the way they shut embedding down without a single warning to all it's loyal members.

When we arrived late on a Friday night, the two regular waitresses, Madge and Ann if I remember rightly, would bring us extra cobs, side salads and then apple pies. Super. Of course, they were tipped well !

White glass dance floor, with lights underneath. Very sophisticated, to an Arnold girl anyway!

In these days of constant surveillance they probably were. I know the guy next door has a camera covering his driveway. I don't know if it sees mine. I'm probably already going viral on FB and YT. I know I could never have staged the way it happened.

I've been watching that, too, and really enjoying it apart from Hannah's seemingly endless walks up, down and around that particular landscape - where is it anyway? I was also particularly interested In how the subatomic particles in the chlorophyll synchronise with each other..... fascinating stuff! I wonder if there will ever be a unified theory of 'everything'.... perhaps it will have a 42 in it somewhere (or not)

Used to be when I lived in the UK they never took my blood pressure when I made some routine visit. Here they take it if you show up with a hangnail. First doctor visit I made in the US was for a persistant cough. Mrs. L fusses about such things. I reluctantly went and he prescribed a bottle of cough syrup which I could probably have bought over the counter. He really fussed over my blood pressure and prescribed some noxious medication. This caused me endless trouble afterwards as my travel insurance company refused to cover me any more and my health ins' premiums we

Bet the boys were doing an impersonation of Muttley!

Is Ben giving lessons now?

A former colleague's father was prescribed those, Loppy. He used to say to her, " Where's me dog tablets?" Always made me laugh.

My blood pressure was high when the nurse took mine although I took it myself before I left for the surgery, twice, and it was within the bounds of normal. I told her it was because of her charm so she said "OK I'll take you figures then"

Sometimes I have to laugh at the names they give to some of their expensive junk. One night I was watching the news when one of their constant drug commercials came on. one said something about, "You need 'Clopidogrel' . As a dog nut I almost choked on me tea. I can't remember what Clopidogrel is supposed to do, but I just thought I've already got two. They just wear me out!

A visit to the quack often raises blood pressure in some folks. (White coat hypertension) It's ok though, because then they can put you on blood pressure meds.

My GP’s surgery in Lowdham no longer does blood tests and by arrangement are to be carried out at Carlton or Arnold and I was instructed to get my annual test at one of those places. I didn’t bother because I thought that was totally ridiculous to expect people to make the journey. When I had my annual blood pressure check on Tuesday I was asked why I hadn’t had the blood test and I told the nurse that the alternative arrangements were stupid so she said come back tomorrow and I’ll do it for you. God knows why she couldn’t do it at the time! She told me she was totally p****d off with the situ

The thing being Dave, the feds don't have the legal power to implement a health care system like other countries, that's reserved for the states and people under the 10th. All the feds powers are enumerated within the Constitution, if it's not there, then it's covered by the 10th, ie reserved for the states.. Mind, 99% of what Congress does is unconstitutional...

Don't forget, "You are......" lengthy pause...."16th in the queue!" followed by a tinny electronic rendition of Mozart's 40th. He was only 36 when he died. Couldn't afford private medicine!

I've read the previous posts with interest. They all make valid points. Some how it would seem that there is no system totally satisfactory to any of us. The US uses a so called totally private system. They react to any mention of a system similar to the UK or Canada as if you are advocating a form of extreme communism. They conveniently forget that all is paid by insurance companies who are obviously a for profit organization. So you now have an expensive middleman berween you and your doctor even to the point where they can dictate what treatment they will pay for and what t

I agree with Jill . A lot depends on the situation at the time. In a way I don't agree with private care but thats the situation here , either you pay or wait months for an appointment that can't be dealt with in A&E. I have had private consultations and had treatment "con la mutua" ( equivalent to NHS)At the moment I'm still under the protection in oncology who keep me content for 3 months at a time. Tomorrow I have a MRI thanks to a private dr who put me on the correct track whilst my own dr gave me pain killers saying that they were what the antalgic clinic started off with, and d

She needed to be catheterised and, believe me, no one wanted to know! See your GP was the response from everyone I spoke to and you can't bundle an immobile and traumatised person into the car and let them sit in A&E for hours...well, not if you have any compassion, you don't. The GP didn't have much time for the elderly ill. I told him in no uncertain terms what I thought of his attitude. Apparently, he's now the palliative care lead! God help them!

I would never belittle the NHS. It does a sterling job on a shoestring...a shoestring which might be a little longer if it could successfully address the thorny issue of wasted money. Sometimes, however, it takes too long to deal with a potentially serious problem and private consultation is the only option. I was forced to take this route with my mother who, as a result of a degenerative illness, could no longer empty her bladder. The GP didn't want to know but eventually agreed to refer her to Clay Cross Hospital to see a urologist. We heard nothing. The bladder was full and I wa

Carni KEEP CALM AND EAT CREAM CAKES OR AT LEAST THINK ABOUT THEM IF YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT DROPPING CREAM EVERYWHERE. Seriously don't worry everythings going to be fine.

Nowt wrong wi bein` a bit mardy duck. We will all be rooting for you so as Jill says grit yer teeth and get through it like the Nottingham gal that you are!

Hope all goes well, Carni. Grit your teeth and then get them stuck into a great big cream cake!

Shipley Boad was never a Berni. Last I heard it was MFN. I don't know if it still is.

Do that already, but have to make sure the Council road sweeper truck isn’t anywhere near. They get a bit upset. We have a petrol blower, collect into those big bags that sand or top soil are delivered in, drag out to the road and let the Council deal with it. We average 17 Frank Key bags dumped in the gutter each year Just found this from a couple of years ago

One of my two spaniels happily climbs into the car to go to the vet but as soon as we start to move she starts to sing loudly. On getting there she shuts up and walks in quite happily but expects to be seen straight away, everytime the door to the consulting room opens she pulls to go in. When it is finally her turn it is weighing first, this results in a puddle on the scales. Then the vet fusses her (in the meantime getting a nurse to mop up the aforesaid puddle) and gets her to the table, only thing is as soon as he tries to pick her up there is another puddle. At this point things are becom

Years ago we had a few sheep. One cold winter’s day we discovered one of the ewes with a broken leg, we think she’d panicked and run into a chain harrow that was kept in the corner of the field. My husband carried her and put her in the back seat of his nice Mercedes car and drove to the vets. This caused shocked surprise when he walked into the waiting room carrying a pregnant ewe. Suppose a farmer would shoot an injured animal but this girl was one of our pets. The vet fixed the break and put the leg in plaster and then we had to keep her in the barn for several weeks. She went on to

I’m afraid mine are in the don’t catagory, it can be embarrassing as once they decide “no” it is very hard to change their minds. Even if they go on scales there is always a leg not on, put that on and there will be another one not on. At least they enjoy going to vets, meeting other dogs etc. My friends dog will not even get out of her car and wedges herself into a corner, if they manage to get her into vets she screams the place down. Being a very large German shepherd their consultation is usually done in the car park.

I got this one from "Britain from the air". It shows a feature I'd never seen before; Sneinton tunnel on the Suburban Railway viewed from the south. You can see the cutting leading to the tunnel entrance at the bottom/centre of the photo. This is the tunnel which became (still is?) a rifle range, but is usually shown from the Carlton Road angle. The road going left/right across the centre is Cardale Road - note no houses yet on the far side - with Carlton Road at the left, and Sneinton Dale is coming up from bottom right.