LizzieM

Warmer out than in today!

Thanks @Stuart.Call a bit clearer now. Still waiting for our DWP letter but it looks like we’ll get £250 each, which will be welcome but won’t go very far on our upcoming holiday celebrating hubby’s big birthday, but at least we won’t be leaving the heating on at home during the trip.

Are they being more generous this year? I thought we got £200 per household, shared between the pensioners. My husband will be 80 in a couple of weeks, suppose he’ll get more next year. About time us oldies applied for Attendance Allowance and Blue Badges, let’s get all we can for the NI we’ve paid in years ago, and the tax most of us are still paying.

Well done Col, glad you’ve been done, speedy recovery to you.

Thankyou Ian. I know how debilitating Sciatica is, I had it several years ago following major Bowel surgery. I went privately to see Mike Grevitt, a very well respected UK Back Surgeon who, within seconds, told me I had a ‘slipped disc’ but he said that he didn’t want to perform surgery intervention until it was much worse! It eventually got better with physio.

Hope all goes well at your appointment tomorrow Ben. My husband has had great care from the NHS in the past couple of months, following his mini stroke at the end of July. A CT scan, admission to the QMC Stroke Ward within an hour of a follow-up MRI Brain Scan, several telephone consultations, a visit yesterday by a Community Nurse, and another CT scan at QMC this afternoon. As I sat in the waiting area at the QMC Treatment Centre today there were two ‘emergencies’ with Ambulance staff arriving and trundling patients off on trollies, causing delays in the scan department. I was won

A good friend of mine, a Consultant Anaethetist, recommends I x 400mg Ibuprofen and 2 Paracetomol 4 times a day for pain control. However when I recently fell and fractured a couple of ribs …… did I mention that to get a bit of sympathy at the time? Anyway, my GP told me to take 2 Co-codamol plus 1 Ibuprofen 4 times a day. I must say they worked a treat on me and my ribs are now mended.

I love Billy Connolly. Saw him at the Concert Hall several years ago and enjoy watching him on TV but only repeats these days since he became unwell.

You’ve had better days then Ben but as CT says, you can laugh at your problems, tell us all and cheer us up.

Surprised at you Rob! Roger did that one night at Arnold Sainsburys many years ago, realising his mistake as soon as he pulled out into the main car park. He left the car there and caught the bus home and got Audi to deal with it.

On a similar vain, I nipped into town today, not something I’d normally do on a Saturday afternoon but I was astounded to just look around at other shoppers. It was like being in Beijing or Tokyo. Ok we’ve got 73,000 students in Nottingham now (so I’ve been told) but it strikes me that many thousands of those are from the Far East. Pretty obvious where the money is!

Noise reduction and improvement of concrete road surfaces is just one of the services our company performs. Our kids run the show nowadays and I don’t know much about it except they’ve completed works on the M20, M18, M25 which have all been approved and now waiting for the order to do a bigger section of the the M25. They’ve also worked on the autoroute around Madrid and another big job in Jordan. They’ve only got one machine at the moment but got another on order from USA at an eye-watering cost of £750,000 each. If you’re really into ‘boring stuff’ you can read about it on their website

When I was about 15 my two friends and I decided we wanted to be at Goose Fair when it ended at midnight (?) on the Saturday. Another friend (Deirdre) and her brother lived up Sherwood Rise and invited us to stay at their house that night. All went to plan and we went up to Deirdre’s house at midnight. Maybe we were a little noisy but their Dad, a retired Army officer, appeared in the sitting room (in his underwear) and told us three little girls to get out! We stood outside in the fog, a bit frightened. We couldn’t all go home, to Arnold and Mapperley, because we’d told our parents we’d

I heard and then saw it, just north of city centre, what a lovely sight too. I think it circled a couple of times.

We’re only a 15 minute walk to Goose Fair and generally go down there for a little walk around but rarely spend any money, other than the side shows. Last year our son came up for it and our 9 year old (at the time) granddaughter went on a few rides with her Daddy but we’re too fragile for that malarkey now! 10 days is far too long and despite criticism and comments that the showmen are being greedy, I bet the City Council are expecting big returns to help the disastrous deficit in their budget.

It’s good but I prefer the ‘Canal Art’ if that’s what you call it.

Wow, are you back in your homeland for Christmas Kath?

That’s wonderful Mrs B, you have my admiration! I was only ever let loose on the Triangle at school! we’ve only been the RAH once too, to a Concert in aid of AIDS, and it was an evening never to be forgotten with the stars who performed, it was just amazing and the building is fantastic. Last Night of the Proms was brilliant last night, loved it.

Our old next door neighbour’s Dad, George Ward, owned a flying school at Cranfield in Beds. His son, our neighbour, learned to fly there and was a Commercial pilot until a couple of years ago ….. he doesn’t need to work with the inheritance he got from his parents. Absolutely wonderful and unbelievably generous family, we were treated to days out at lots of sporting events, racecourses, Wimbledon, cricket and football and George even booked an entire Ryanair flight to Biarritz to take us all to one of their family weddings in Santander and paid for all the rooms at the hotel. Lovely man.

It’s unbelievable that a helicopter can’t be landed at QMC seeing as it’s a Major Trauma Centre for the East Mids. I can’t be that difficult to paint a big ‘H’ on the roof and stick a lift in next to it.

I went on that river cruise Margie! Don’t think I knew you then though, it’s probably 10 years ago. We went from Colwick eastwards and back whilst enjoying a Sunday roast.

Our neighbour Sheku Kanneh-Mason Is performing at the Proms this evening.

What another beautiful day we’ve had again so I decided to sit/lounge in the garden to get some Vit D. I was still out there at 6pm when loud bangs rang out across the area. I honestly thought some nutter was out shooting people. All the local dogs started barking, birds were flying around looking for shelter. When it went on for several minutes it was obvious that it was fireworks ….. but at 6pm in daylight? Then I heard a chap on a loudspeaker so assumed it was a cricket tournament on the local ground (that used to be the Police Training Ground in our youth) All was fairly quiet until 10.

Oh dear @ Trogg, sounds like you’re in the dog-house again. So sorry to hear about the injuries Mrs Trogg sustained and hope she has a quick recovery, otherwise you’ll be chained to the kitchen sink even more! I’ve been dragged through mud by our Rhodesian Ridgeback many years ago, she used to ignore other dogs (she thought she was human) and on this occasion she ignored a dog going the other way and then turned suddenly to make acquaintances. I didn’t get hurt but it was embarrassing walking the rest of the way home, covered in sludgy mud.

I was still at school when Paul Smith was working at the Birdcage and no way could I afford to buy gear from there, on my Saturday job wage of £1. However, once I started earning, I did get him to make me a pair of wool gabardine trousers, with turn-ups too, when he moved into Byard Lane, up a rickety staircase if I remember correctly? Back to the topic title though, the prices will be beyond the reach of yer normal fashion shopper surely?