philmayfield 5,001 Posted April 1 Report Share Posted April 1 The only river cruise we’ve been on was from Newark to Nottingham and back but we took a week to do it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 14,948 Posted April 1 Report Share Posted April 1 Cruised down the river Leen once with my best mate Harry when we were about Ten........in a painters 'Dinghy' they'd been painting under the bridge at the back of Vernon Park and gone for their dinner i think....... Got as far as ''Billy Bacons'' field and tied (moored) it there.........couldnt take it back Current too strong....... Painters not best pleased........... 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 5,001 Posted April 1 Report Share Posted April 1 I remember, at the age of ten or eleven, a couple of us hired a rowing boat at the Trent embankment and rowed up to the toll bridge and back. Our parents didn’t seem too worried about us doing it and there was no problem with hiring. How times have changed! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 1,717 Posted April 1 Report Share Posted April 1 Going cheap One river Cruise in Portugal on the river Duro. Contact Saga Please not me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 5,001 Posted April 1 Report Share Posted April 1 Saga! I may be old but not that old! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
doodle 35 Posted April 1 Report Share Posted April 1 I don't consider 50 old - it's so long ago for me though & I still don't consider myself old just Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,214 Posted April 1 Report Share Posted April 1 I’m not old, although my body sometimes tells me otherwise Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 4,950 Posted April 1 Report Share Posted April 1 I'm actually only 27..... but have 50 years experience... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alpha 128 Posted April 1 Report Share Posted April 1 2 hours ago, philmayfield said: Saga! I may be old but not that old! Was that Saga or Gaga! Phil? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 5,001 Posted April 1 Report Share Posted April 1 Synonymous! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN FINN 464 Posted April 1 Report Share Posted April 1 Did you do your deliveries in the dingy ben? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 3,672 Posted April 1 Report Share Posted April 1 Thinking of you PP. Very best wishes to you and your missus. B. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,031 Posted April 2 Report Share Posted April 2 On 3/31/2022 at 10:37 PM, DJ360 said: P.S. 'Pre Op Assessments' have a 'lifetime' of 12 weeks, so I'm hoping that if this one goes OK, I'll get the surgery done in a f w weeks. I hope all goes well DJ. You have waited long enough. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,048 Posted April 3 Report Share Posted April 3 I’m about to cheer on Oxford in the Boat Race. The captain of the crew, Tobias Schroder, is a Mapperley Park neighbour of ours! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nonnaB 4,610 Posted April 4 Report Share Posted April 4 Adventures by 10-11 yr olds years ago. Don't you think the kids were more grown up and " responsible" then? Or maybe now there are more dangers to be aware of. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 4,950 Posted April 4 Report Share Posted April 4 I think kids are nowhere near as adventurous, in fact I don't think they know how! This is not their fault, it's mostly ours, the parents who mollycoddle them. Since 'think of the children' became the battle-cry of the timid, plus elf 'n' safety, we see monsters and bogeymen around every corner, though In fairness the amount of traffic and lack of places to play have dramatically reduced. The rise and availability of technology has also compounded the situation. There are games that need little to no imagination, just quick fingers and entry into a digital world – remote playmates optional. Smartphones and peer pressure also serve to make kids risk averse and anxious to fit in. We tend to decry kids of today, but is it really any different to ours? How many times during the long school holidays did we say, “I'm bored, there's nothing to do”? If PlayStations around back then would we really play cricket in the street, skipping, snobs, dobbby-off-ground or marbles etc.? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 9,251 Posted April 4 Report Share Posted April 4 I can honestly say I was never bored during the school holidays...but I was often bored during term time! I wasn't the kind of child who played with other children very much and my amusements were mostly imagination-based inside my own head, reading or pestering relatives for family information. I never felt the urge to fit in with the others and still don't but my childhood was blissful. I wouldn't care to repeat it today. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 5,001 Posted April 4 Report Share Posted April 4 Where we lived in Woodthorpe in the 40’s/50’s we were not far from the countryside before it was built on. In the school holidays we out in the fields all day. Our parents didn’t seem to mind as long as we turned up at meal times which we always did. I remember once, aged about 11, cycling as far as Gunthorpe, and we regularly went over Mapperley Plains to Lambley Dumbles. Woodthorpe park was another favourite haunt and we used to be given a few pence to play pitch and putt. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,214 Posted April 4 Report Share Posted April 4 Phil - just the same as me but we girls didn’t generally go round with boys (that came later j so our paths probably wouldn’t have crossed much…. , Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 5,001 Posted April 4 Report Share Posted April 4 Urgh! Didn’t play with girls in those days! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alpha 128 Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 17 hours ago, philmayfield said: Urgh! Didn’t play with girls in those days! In retrospect Phil, I bet you would have now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 5,001 Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 Get locked up for doing it now! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,141 Posted April 7 Report Share Posted April 7 Since this is already in 'How's Your Day', rather than 'Ailments..Aches..etc.. Today I went for a THIRD 'Pre-Op' Assessment as a precursor to knee surgery. They did the routine swabs, tests etc.. as a matter of course.. but it was mostly about me meeting another Anaesthetist. Another very pleasant chap..who asked me (yet again.) whether I experience breathlessness, ankle swelling, chest pain.. (No..to all) We once again discussed the increased risk of me popping my clogs as a result of said surgery, compared to my risk of popping my clogs due to inactivity because I can't walk... We once again went through the whole saga of how modern technology renders it impossible for World renowned Wrightington Orthopaedic Hospital, to communicate with Wigan Hospital..all of three miles distant, and St Helens Hospital an epic 10 miles distant...such that no left hand knows what any right hand is doing and nobody is able to get as few as two Ducks in a Row..much less several.. Still.. this chap cheered me up no end by informing me that if I'm keen on going ahead with surgery, I really ought to have a conversation with my family.. about risk... I assured him that his Cardiologist colleague in Wigan Hospital had assured me last week by telephone that I have at least a fighting chance of surviving surgery.. Whereupon he explained that he needed that in writing before 'listing' me for surgery. Then..in an astonishing aside.. he told me that he's finally established contact with my latest Cardiologist in St Helens, who had sent him a report..from which he quoted.... I slowly drew in a breath and..as far as possible excluding emotion from my voice.. informed him that he was reading from the very same report which I had supplied to the Surgeon's Secretary at the point where I was first referred, in Sept. 2021... Finally, the Anaesthetist declared that I was fit for surgery (subject to increased risk), "once he had received the report from their Cardiologist". Given that I waited for 6 weeks for a phone call from this Cardiologist.. I was not encouraged. Yet.. when I arrived home.. I found a letter in the porch, copying me into a Cardiology report from Wigan to my GP. I fervently hope that same report has found its way to the Anaesthetist... Almost speechless.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 9,251 Posted April 7 Report Share Posted April 7 Re my friend's forthcoming hernia repair operation, I have now been informed by Patients Know Best that he's having this on the given date later this month. Yippee...except...it was I who put that information on there! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 4,950 Posted April 7 Report Share Posted April 7 I've just had a telephone consult about my hearing: Do you work in a noisy environment? No, I'm retired Ever had a head injury No Do you work nights? ? no I'm 77 this year Would you like to make a hospital appointment, or go to Specsavers NHS Do you have problems with balance Yes When at work, in a crowd, or a group of people ............ Give me strength... is there any point? Twenty minutes buggering about on the phone, she even asked what type it was, to answer questions that would take less than 5 minutes face to face. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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