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Helen The Melon wrote: "Post Soviet wrote: "...On way back got into the forest (we never waste the opportunity!) to check for wild mushrooms. Picked enough yummy chanterelles for protein rich, combined with boiled spuds p..."YUCK!
Serial wrote: "Helen The Melon wrote: "Post Soviet wrote: "...On way back got into the forest (we never waste the opportunity!) to check for wild mushrooms. Picked enough yummy chanterelles for protein rich, comb..."Yummy for soup!
So, the gig. It was one of the regular's 60th birthday (mine was in May and a miserable time was had by very few) and it WAS a free gig. There was a laughable attempt at social distancing (although no explicit taking of contact numbers) and the numbers were limited but I've been to a good few gigs there with fewer in attendance when there was no Covid. Got there very early and they'd only just started clearing away the Sunday lunch servery gear and rearranging the seats. Needn't have bothered rushing as one of the barstaff had made seating decisions and Blind Col and I were on the front row only 1.5m from the band instead of the normal 1m! Robin Bibi's a reliably entertaining bluesman but he played almost exactly the same set he played in late August in the outdoor gig there, even down to the Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac covers. Back then he made great fun of getting the crowd singing along silently but now we were in close proximity indoors he was conducting full force singalongs including 'Happy Birthday' to the man of the hour. Great couple of hours but not one for the Covid-cautious.Wasn't a one-off either, should be doing it all again there next Sunday with Bad Day Blues Band. Oh Covid, where is thy sting?
Brass Neck wrote: ""calling for the resignation of Di(l)do Harding, head of Track & Trace..."Did she move from Test & Trace, then? Must be why my parcels are going missing.
.....standing up on behalf of wheelchair users, pram pushers, pedestrians and wee old ladies on mobility scooters who walk their dogs! yeah! man of the people!halfwit from building site across the road parked completely on the pavement at the apex of a corner, forcing all who passed on to the busy road or across an obvs muddy patch of grass. this is a main access to the bus stop. chinned a worker on his way in to the site if they could contact the moron who owns the car and tell him he's got half an hour before i call it in. moved within 5 mins.
power to the people.
Tech XXIII wrote: ".....standing up on behalf of wheelchair users, pram pushers, pedestrians and wee old ladies on mobility scooters who walk their dogs! yeah! man of the people!halfwit from building site across the..."
Brilliant!
Tech XXIII wrote: ".....standing up on behalf of wheelchair users, pram pushers, pedestrians and wee old ladies on mobility scooters who walk their dogs! yeah! man of the people!halfwit from building site across the..."
Nice one!
You're the Wolfie Smith of Scotland.
Tech XXIII wrote: ".....standing up on behalf of wheelchair users, pram pushers, pedestrians and wee old ladies on mobility scooters who walk their dogs! yeah! man of the people!halfwit from building site across the..."
Where I come from 'chinned' means hit?
In our and the neighbouring village we have a new by-law, clearly signposted, against parking on verges or pathways and it is enforced - I've seen 3 cars ticketed, 2 on our little cul-de-sac. One of the latter has a skip down their drive and two cars. Their Audi (aggressive k***heads' choice of motor?) which got ticketed is parked down the drive up against the skip but the woman who drives the second car also tries to park on the drive so it sits completely across the pavement and even pokes its back end into the road! Not much of a learning curve evident there! When people have parked up on the path and I've been out and about I always point out the new law and most haven't registered the signs despite being on every road covered by it - same have been grateful for the heads up, others have looked at me like I'm some some of turd they've just stepped in. Folk, huh? There are some roads so narrow they have signs exempting them so the verges resemble the Somme and huge vans leave only the narrowest bit of path to squeeze by. Overall though I'd say it's been a success.
Brass Neck wrote: "Tech XXIII wrote: ".....standing up on behalf of wheelchair users, pram pushers, pedestrians and wee old ladies on mobility scooters who walk their dogs! yeah! man of the people!halfwit from build..."
You wait till the whole pavement is snaked with extension leads, as everyone charges their electric cars
"the Wolfie Smith of KILLIE!"but, right on, dude!
if i encounter a vehicle (almost always a 'works' van) parked on a pavement, and the driver is in the van, i always challenge his sensibilities as regards not leaving space for citizens to pass without going on to the road. mostly they comply, but if i get any snash out of them, i just take a step back and make a show of reading the company's name on the side/door, nod and move on. this works too.
"You wait till the whole pavement is snaked with extension leads, as everyone charges their electric cars"Not sure if the types who would block the pavement in such a way would go for an electric car, at least without some serious incentive ...
Isabella wrote: ""You wait till the whole pavement is snaked with extension leads, as everyone charges their electric cars"Not sure if the types who would block the pavement in such a way would go for an electri..."
Agreed - much more likely to be white vans or Chelsea tractors (yummy mummy's 'little runabout').
electricity? this is kilmarnock, you know! all the cars are clockwork.
Isabella wrote: ""You wait till the whole pavement is snaked with extension leads, as everyone charges their electric cars"Not sure if the types who would block the pavement in such a way would go for an electri..."
They'll have no choice eventually.
Should be fun for car owners in tower blocks. They'll need a hellish long lead.
Serial wrote: "Isabella wrote: ""You wait till the whole pavement is snaked with extension leads, as everyone charges their electric cars"Not sure if the types who would block the pavement in such a way would ..."
People who inhabit tower blocks as opposed to luxury penthouse condominiums tend not to own many cars. Big council high rises from the 50s and 60s did have some garage provision and parking areas separate from the towers but between low incomes limiting car ownership and concerns about vandalism which you can do sod all about from the 18th floor, they weren't much needed. Most tower blocks were built on cleared inner city sites with plentiful bus provision again negating the need for cars - I used to travel past this lot on the second of my two buses each way journey to school every day for 6 years;
https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/fo...
In my first year of teaching the school ran a looky-see fieldtrip the first stop of which was to decamp and walk around the Park Hill flats which filled me with unease as a native Sheffielder, especially when the trip leader warned the kids about the red and yellow box-junction style markings on the floor in places below the flats where it was quite possible for large unwanted items or milk bottles etc to be heaved over the balconies. We didn't go back in subsequent years.
Wards, a now defunct Sheffield brewery, ran a promo where they divided all their pubs into 4 geographical areas and you had to visit each pub and get the landlord to stamp the passport - 1 full passport got you a t-shirt, all 4 got you all sorts of goodies and a polypin of beer. One of the pubs was the Target (of what?) tucked into the middle of the development on Park Hill so 5 of ventured carefully in there, had the swiftest half-pints ever and legged it sharpish. Grimmest boozer I've ever been in. We did fill all 4 'passports'. A famously 'eggy' brew was Wards and instantly recognisable by its bouquet - the next morning's farts and more were summat to behold; they must've laced the stuff with so much sulphites as preservative?
Mostly I are trying to sit still nursing some chronic back pain which is difficult with a pup to entertain/keep from mischief. Curiously or ominously, whichever appeals, my back went into spasm 3 weeks last Friday when I brought Minnie home from the rescue kennels - all I did was squat down to fuss her but then it's usually something non-strenuous which brings it on. Normally I'm in some degree of agony for a day or so and then with the help of ibruprofen things ease up nicely. This has been niggling away at a lowish level for most of the last 3 weeks but this morning it's ramped up shedloads, again without any obvious contributing events. Tried to persuade Minnie to pee on our front lawn but it fell on deaf ears so we had to go to her fave corner verge. A little later, in an effort to tire her out I struggled to the car with her hoping to get her somewhere before the rain really sets in where she can zoomy around off lead but I could not bend sufficiently to swing into the driver's seat so we had another little pootle/limp around the neighbouring few streets and then back. She duly produced a poop and I nearly couldn't get down to pick it up and bag it - slowly descending on one knee like a nonagenarian being knighted (feeling benighted more like). Oh well, I can just about get to the hi-fi so tunes and puzzles it'll have to be until she shows signs of needing further 'relief'.
It's usually twisting & lifting that does my back in. the last time I did it I was only lifting an oven shelf after replacing an element. But even lifting such a light weight can be a problem if you twist your spine while doing it. Like you, I usually have a couple of days struggling to move (turning over in bed is particularly difficult) and then it eases off. Keeping moving is good for lower back pain, though (assuming it's not caused by major damage), so it's worth struggling on with the puppy shuffles.
Yes, I'm a long-term martyr to my lower back - seems more likely to be muscle spasm then any major issue, one of the bonuses of being tall and having a 'hollow' back - I can't flatten it against a wall, you could put your arm in the space left.I think it may be to do with the massive drop-off in exercise and movement since she's a moocher (didn't know when I named her Minnie) who stops to investigate smells, sticks, berries, noises, etc every 3 steps so it's a slow stop-start walk for me where before I was doing dumbbell weights almost every day.
Anyway she peed on the carpet without any warning or pining at the door necessitating getting down to clean the patch ...... which was niiiiice.
Brass Neck wrote: "Yes, I'm a long-term martyr to my lower back - seems more likely to be muscle spasm then any major issue, one of the bonuses of being tall and having a 'hollow' back - I can't flatten it against a ..."Ahhh lovely, she's making herself at home properly now.
What is it with backs, or knees even?
Last time my back 'went' I reached down for an empty bucket!
Weird.
Building more on the extension today, glad to say it's at the height now there's no more kneeling or stooping involved.
"hollow back"goes wi' yur hollow heid!
i could send you both some trammies! 'cept i'll need them (and really, need to get off them!) i may have mentioned my back once or twice (or a hundredth), but, yes, it can be the daftest slightest things that can set it off, and when it does, it's like someone following me holding a red-hot poker along the small of my back, constantly. i have a suspicion that it may be ****ed!
I remember once talking to a pharmacist from Glasgae, who said a suspiciously high number of his patients seemed to "find" packets of tramadol on the bus.He's since moved to Los Angeles. I'm sure there are no problems with illicit substance use there.
I'll just stick with alternating doses of paracetamol and ibuprofen, I have enough dubious 'habits'. Used to get 600mg ibuprofen prescribed but make do with the 400s now.Anyhoo, things improved to take her out and you could tell we hadn't had the 2 hour midday adventure as she has very set limits to her local patrol normally but, at her insistence, we went much further into the village's many nooks and crannies. It was the first dark evening walk by a main road and I wasn't expecting her to suddenly leap out at an approaching car's headlights and very nearly come off ..... dead. Duly noted and filed away.
Shouldn't all this owd men's moanin' be on t'life's niggles thread? ('ow's your Bert's lumbago?' as the Small Faces improbably sang).
Unfortunately, tramadol makes me sick and faint.
Lez wrote: "Unfortunately, tramadol makes me sick and faint."Get the scrip and deal it Lez.
Years ago when I lived in Cornwall, we used to buy 't's and 'v's. Temazepam was 1 pound, Valium 50p
:0 Ha ha.
It was a nice trip on the passenger ferry at Fowey across to Polruan and a house there.
Mispent youth, most certainly.
Lez wrote: "Unfortunately, tramadol makes me sick and faint."I think it's best not to find the effects of tramadol pleasurable, given how difficult it is to stop taking it (ditto pregabalin, gabapentin, zolpidem, zopiclone, midazolam, clonazepam, diazepam, ...).
Brass Neck wrote: "Shouldn't all this owd men's moanin' be on t'life's niggles thread? ('ow's your Bert's lumbago?' as the Small Faces improbably sang)..."Oh, mustn't grumble...
Decided, for reasons unknown even to myself, to search YT for 'Yardbirds Grimsby'. I was not at most of the gigs there and others I was at I'm not visible. I was however at this brilliant John Otway gig (at which I laughed like a drain throughout) and was surprised that I am visible. Given that I'm tall, most Grimbarians are munchkins, I wear glasses and tend to drink from the bottle at standing gigs it shouldn't be too difficult to work out which one I are. You may of course be entirely disinterested especially since I don't turn round ..... which may also be taken as a blessing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOdqG...
Edit - I DID turn round! His merch seller was at the back of the room and when Otway sang 'There is a house .....' the guy shouted 'Where is it?' '...in New Orleans ....' 'What's it called?', etc so I took a peek at around 1.15. I want appearance money!
Brass Neck wrote: "Decided, for reasons unknown even to myself, to search YT for 'Yardbirds Grimsby'. I was not at most of the gigs there and others I was at I'm not visible. I was however at this brilliant John Otwa..."Nevermind yourself, Brass. What a brilliant performance from John Otway.
Serial wrote: "Brass Neck wrote: "Decided, for reasons unknown even to myself, to search YT for 'Yardbirds Grimsby'. I was not at most of the gigs there and others I was at I'm not visible. I was however at this ..."As I said, he was an absolute scream. I'd seen him with Wild Willy Barrett earlier in the Summer at the Cleethorpes Blues(!!!) Festival which was enjoyable but solo, with his excellent band, he was twice as good. I'd see him again in a heartbeat.
Biblical rain here today, relentless lashing wet stuff.Made the 3 kids get their erses up and out for a walk with the Dog, somewhat invigorating walk. A bit like a combination of wind tunnel and car wash.
Felt better to get some fresh air, but now there's an almighty pile of wet clothes hanging up above the range.
Yes rainy here too but not overly heavy. Went for an off-lead walk - I was no trouble and always came back to Minnie when she called - around the country park just down the road. She was quite perplexed by the pair of swans just inches away in the lake by one of the bridges. Very few other dogs around and none of them wanted to play. I am now very wary when walking alongside roads with traffic and so disaster was averted when she lunged at a couple of passing vehicles but I did stand on one of her front paws as she darted across me resulting in a high-pitched yelp but no lasting damage.
I don't like reading about her off-lead walks! Isn't she too young?
Serendipidity strikes. My dad has vascular dementia amongst many other ailments and his driving was worrying my mum and any other family members who'd witnessed it. I had to go over to take him to an assessment centre for his driving to be, well, er, assessed. Everyone in the family had their fingers crossed that he would be stopped and it came to pass that on a scoring system of 1 being very good and 4 being oh shit/WTF most aspects were at 3 or 4 - all he heard was that he was a bit handy with his right foot; no Dad, it's everything! They were very good about it, 'It's not you, it's the condition' but he was still reluctant to accept that this was the end even though they couldn't have been clearer. They have a 14 plate car which is serviced and MOTed but which hasn't left the garage in over a year except to get at the mower or some such.Our son, at the ripe old age of 27 and after 10 years of lessons has finally taken his driving test and passed 1st time (he's had to do 4 theory tests, 2 because they lapsed and the 4th because he actually failed the 3rd by overthinking what was a hazard in the simulations) and so needs a car. Putting the reg and extremely low mileage into we buy any car came up with £3750 (but no-one ever gets that price once the assessor/buyer comes round and chips away for all the minor defects), mum was prepared to take £3500. Anyhoo my sister was up and asked for a price from the garage they bought it off and it came up way lower so the upshot is he gets a decent reliable car for £2500 and we didn't have to do any awkward haggling with the 'rents (they don't need the money). Bargain and serendipity in action.
Serendipity was the name of the long-standing local quiz team I was a member of which has now folded as we could never get the full team of 4 out over the last year, truncated as it was by Covid.
Presumbly you'll now have to give more lifts, BN, but won't be so worried about him crashing ro getting lost.It was hard when my dad lost his licence because of Alzheimer's, even though he had barely driven for a couple of years before that. He had been a lorry and bus driver earlier in his life, and cars had always been a big part of his life (because he couldn't afford decent ones and had to be doing constant maintenance to keep a car on the road). So not being allowed to drive was a blow to him.
The former Mrs D lives in constant fear of her mum's driving. Her dad gave up years ago but her mum still thinks she's safe, which is dangerous.
Only plans tonight are chasing up a Europe tee I ordered from Bornrocker over 3 weeks ago (stuff I ordered from China's come bloody quicker), then later on I'll watch either a Carry On film or a couple of eps of Numb3rs, with a can of cider. Mr B and Serial, don't get big-headed but try and stay out of my dreams tonight, will you please. A Brassy dream last week and a Serial one last night. Argh!!! What did I do to deserve that one ha ha. 😨😨
Collette wrote: "Only plans tonight are chasing up a Europe tee I ordered from Bornrocker over 3 weeks ago (stuff I ordered from China's come bloody quicker), then later on I'll watch either a Carry On film or a co..."Possibly a winning combo of the two tonight,C.
Collette wrote: "Only plans tonight are chasing up a Europe tee I ordered from Bornrocker over 3 weeks ago (stuff I ordered from China's come bloody quicker), then later on I'll watch either a Carry On film or a co...""A Brassy dream last week and a Serial one last night" - You must've been a very good girl for the former and an absolute cow for the latter!
How do you know who they are, Collette?
Brass Neck wrote: "Collette wrote: "Only plans tonight are chasing up a Europe tee I ordered from Bornrocker over 3 weeks ago (stuff I ordered from China's come bloody quicker), then later on I'll watch either a Carr..."Ha ha ha. 😝
Lez wrote: "How do you know who they are, Collette?"I've got a vivid imagination Lez...
Joke! Past pics. 😬
Collette wrote: "Lez wrote: "How do you know who they are, Collette?"I've got a vivid imagination Lez...
Joke! Past pics. 😬"
But, as far as I'm aware, my only pic has been of a cartoon robot from the Beano? I know you're bit of a metal fan but that's just weird!
Har har! You're forgetting your 5 minutes of fame, Oh Goatee'd One! And Serial Kilker had a profile pic up way back on Zon.
Collette wrote: "Har har! You're forgetting your 5 minutes of fame, Oh Goatee'd One! And Serial Kilker had a profile pic up way back on Zon."Bet you made it your screen wallpaper! The goatee's much longer, gone native since retiring, and joined up so not a goatee really, otherwise still just as debonair and ravishing.
Brass Neck wrote: "Collette wrote: "Har har! You're forgetting your 5 minutes of fame, Oh Goatee'd One! And Serial Kilker had a profile pic up way back on Zon."Bet you made it your screen wallpaper! The goatee's mu..."
So you've basically gone feral.
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Not as delicious as the mushroom recipe I saw in a food supplement in our regional newspaper yesterday - couldn't believe my eyes and yes, it did make me feel sick just thinking about the combination.
I have found the recipe elsewhere online & will happily share it with you all - https://dluxe-magazine.co.uk/food-dri...
It's the "Mushroom Meatballs" one. Yum.