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message 801: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Just going to put some more music on if we're having a party
Turn it up loud

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H-Y7M...


message 802: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments Another great blog post as usual Jim.

Good thing we're friends on Facebook or I'd never see them!

http://jandbvwebster.wordpress.com/20...


message 803: by M.T. (new)

M.T. McGuire (mtmcguire) | 8051 comments Yeh, that was a good one.


message 804: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Well here's another one then

http://jandbvwebster.wordpress.com/20...

The automatic link from blog to author page does work, but there's nothing to tell people that there is a new blog page up because you can hardly expect people to keep checking our author pages, or they'd not have time to read the books


message 805: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments Good thing you've got this here author thread, eh Jim?


message 806: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments Oh and you'll find we've both linked to the same blog post.

I knew two in one day was too good to be true. :(


message 807: by Will (new)

Will Macmillan Jones (willmacmillanjones) | 11324 comments That's where technology gets you, isn't it..


message 808: by M.T. (new)

M.T. McGuire (mtmcguire) | 8051 comments What, in the same place twice?


message 809: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments M.T. wrote: "What, in the same place twice?"

'There and back again, a Hobbit's Holiday' :-)


message 810: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments My friends and I are just popping in for a light meal.


message 811: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments For someone whose books have an awful lot of food in them, I confess that my culinary skills are limited


message 812: by Will (new)

Will Macmillan Jones (willmacmillanjones) | 11324 comments That's OK Jim, just feed them on light. A few differently coloured light bulbs should do it


message 813: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Perhaps something psychedelic?


message 814: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments Mmmmmmmmushroomsmmmmmmmmmm


message 815: by Will (new)

Will Macmillan Jones (willmacmillanjones) | 11324 comments A new film to be released shortly.

A Field in England.

Brief plot as outlined on Radio 2 today.

An eclectic group of people escape through a hedge to escape a battle in the English Civil War. There they meet an alchemist, who feeds them mushrooms and it all gets a bit bizarre.


message 816: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Will wrote: "A new film to be released shortly.

A Field in England.

Brief plot as outlined on Radio 2 today.

An eclectic group of people escape through a hedge to escape a battle in the English Civil War. T..."


Actually an alchemist wouldn't do mushrooms, they were 'scientists', mushrooms is 'witch' territory :-)


message 817: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Things are a bit strange, I've just had my first cataract operation, on right eye. So my glasses don't work properly, and not wearing them doesn't work properly, and it'll take a couple of days for various eye drops to wear off and I can focus properly etc.


message 818: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments Oh Jim.

How uncomfortable!

Eyes heal really quickly though. Dave's dad said he was fine the next day. Lets hope you are too.

*hug*


message 819: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Thanks.
I think I'll have an early night, I had to be there for 8am and because by definition you cannot take a car, I walked so left home about 6am to be in good time


message 820: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Just to add that I'm under strict instructions to stay inside and take things easy, no dirt, no dust

That is going to be tough especially if the weather gets nice


message 821: by David (new)

David Staniforth (davidstaniforth) | 7935 comments Should have gotten some spoken word books in, easy on the eyes :~)


message 822: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments Just take care of yourself for as long as necessary, Jim.

It's best for you in the long run.


message 823: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments I know, but I do tend to be an outside person :-(


message 824: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments Well yeah. That's where your tractor is.

Better a few days now than a month or longer later though.

I'm sure your ladies are telling you exactly the same.


message 825: by Will (new)

Will Macmillan Jones (willmacmillanjones) | 11324 comments Wow Jim, you kept that quiet.

Hope it's gone really well for you.


message 826: by M.T. (new)

M.T. McGuire (mtmcguire) | 8051 comments Him, my dad had it done a couple of years back. It doesn't take long to get back to normal. Hope it went ok, I'll lay bets you'll feel a lot more chipper tomorrow.

Cheers

MTMo


message 827: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments David wrote: "Should have gotten some spoken word books in, easy on the eyes :~)"

Easy on the eyes? Well there was a rather pretty nurse....
At my age they're all rather pretty :-)


message 828: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Hi all
My right eye seems to be focusing a bit better, there said it could be a while before everything wore off. Then I'm putting drops in it four times a day which is tricky. I have to lie down on the bed to do it, I cannot manage it sitting down.
The surgeon pointed out I have quite deep sunk eyes, he said it was like working at the bottom of a well :-)

To be fair, my treated eye is already massively better than the untreated one.
And I've catching up with Cadael :-)


message 829: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments Oh Jim that's good news.

Will you be having the other done at some point?


message 830: by Jim (last edited Jun 28, 2013 12:47PM) (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Patti (Number 69) wrote: "Oh Jim that's good news.

Will you be having the other done at some point?"


Everything is being done on the assumption that I will do. This depends on how fast the first eye sorts itself out. Normally they say six weeks but the surgeon said it might be four, I see him next Thursday.
Actually today I went to the doctors, thought I'd get a sick note. Waste of time, she did me one but it's useless because the rules have changed and the self employed don't get sick pay (Last time I claimed was in 1982 when I had my appendix out so I'm not exactly up to the current situation.)
But I did something I've never done in my life. I walked wearing a pair of sunglasses.(as well as the more usual garments expected of one) I've always had glasses that were too thick for clip-ons (and I always have glass lenses not plastic because welding slag doesn't melt them. This seems to make then thicker)
My right eye isn't fully settled but without glasses it's not a lot worse than my left eye, with glasses.
But it finds things a lot brighter than the left eye :-)


message 831: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments It's just wrong that you can't claim sick pay!!


message 832: by Jim (last edited Jun 28, 2013 03:03PM) (new)

Jim | 21813 comments I've got to fill in a heap of forms giving family income, savings, details of other benefits etc etc, and frankly, for two weeks sick pay!

The joys of being self employed

edited to add that things have actually improved, when I first started work the government hadn't bothered including the self-employed in the EEC joint medical agreements. So a cousin of mine wasn't allowed on a school trip because if she fell ill, she wouldn't be covered because both her parents were self employed.


message 833: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments I smell smoke


message 834: by Will (new)

Will Macmillan Jones (willmacmillanjones) | 11324 comments Cooking or curtains?


message 835: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments Pants


message 836: by Jim (new)


message 837: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments Spooky


message 838: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments or smokey?


message 839: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments Miasma.


message 840: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments quite cleared up now thank you :-)


message 841: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments Yourasma?


message 842: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Patti (Number 69) wrote: "Yourasma?"

breath coming in short pants


message 843: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments Rinse them out before they get crusty.


message 844: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Patti (Beach Bunny) wrote: "Rinse them out before they get crusty."

cutting edge stuff


message 845: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments The irony is that managed to avoid the whole 'shorts' jokes by writing 70K novels, only to drop myself in it


message 846: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Just packed 'Learning a Hard Trade' off to be published


Gingerlily - The Full Wild | 34228 comments Sounds like you sent it off to boarding school!


message 848: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Gingerlily (The One and Only) wrote: "Sounds like you sent it off to boarding school!"

And it's going to come back all growed up.

(better than saying it's coming back bu$&*()?~'


Gingerlily - The Full Wild | 34228 comments Well we hope it is all polished and shiny. But looking at the title, it might have lots of dirt under its nails and a grimy collar.


message 850: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments It's all about how to sell fabric to young ladies whilst not wearing your shirt


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