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  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
    Gone fishin'
    • Sep 2011
    • 30163

    It's been a funny old day. This morning I went out in a blizzard, (having found a broken metal coil under my car, I thought I'd better find out if it was a serious matter: apparently not), came back in sunshine, had lunch looking out at another snow flurry - and now it's sunny again with barely a cloud to be seen!


    I don't think it's the Benelyn!
    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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    • salymap
      Late member
      • Nov 2010
      • 5969

      Originally posted by Anna View Post
      Indeed it is Caliban It is the month I was born - Nay, inflicted upon humanity, and how cruel is that!
      Many thanks to kind people who have replied to my moans. Our doctor left to go private some time ago and we have a series of locums who seem to pop in occasionally. Iam quite capable of making a fuss, but surrounded by a waiting room full of people with 'hacking' coughs it is difficult to do that. A lot of illness around atm.
      However, after Easter I will insist on a doctor at the first opportunity, promise.

      And Anna, I'm an April baby too. And no lilacs out of the dead ground here either.

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26524

        Originally posted by Anna View Post
        Indeed it is Caliban It is the month I was born - Nay, inflicted upon humanity, and how cruel is that!
        A scourge, a veritable scourge to we born in the balmy aquarian days of February
        "...the isle is full of noises,
        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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        • Anna

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          A scourge, a veritable scourge to we born in the balmy aquarian days of February
          Aha! So Saly and I are Aries - the first sign of the Zodiac - courageous, fearless, questing warriors. You are right as a wish-washy child of never-never land and all that hippy Aquarius take your clothes off nonsense and talk to flowers to quiver and shrink in our path as we unleash our arrows!
          Oh well, that's my fantasy for this evening sorted!
          Funny to see snow still falling and rather a nice sun suddendly revealed in the West before settig.

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          • ahinton
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 16122

            Originally posted by Anna View Post
            Funny to see snow still falling and rather a nice sun suddenly revealed in the West before setting.
            Well, you kept the latter of those well and truly to your very Welsh self! I didn't see it here at all, over the now entirely misnamed Black Mountains in Herefordistan...

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26524

              Originally posted by Anna View Post
              You are right as a wish-washy child of never-never land and all that hippy Aquarius take your clothes off nonsense and talk to flowers to quiver and shrink in our path as we unleash our arrows!
              Oh well, that's my fantasy for this evening sorted!
              Delighted to have been of service...
              "...the isle is full of noises,
              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              • mangerton
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 3346

                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                Indeed it is Caliban It is the month I was born - Nay, inflicted upon humanity, and how cruel is that!
                I read below that you and salymap are both Arians. I am a fish, and your remark above indicates to me that you're fishing for compliments, though I must say I do like your Wodehousian turn of phrase.

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                • mangerton
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 3346

                  Originally posted by salymap View Post
                  Many thanks to kind people who have replied to my moans. Our doctor left to go private some time ago and we have a series of locums who seem to pop in occasionally. Iam quite capable of making a fuss, but surrounded by a waiting room full of people with 'hacking' coughs it is difficult to do that. A lot of illness around atm.
                  However, after Easter I will insist on a doctor at the first opportunity, promise.

                  And Anna, I'm an April baby too. And no lilacs out of the dead ground here either.
                  I must add my good wishes, saly. I do hope you get better soon. I know it's difficult to make a fuss, but sometimes it's the only option.

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                  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                    Gone fishin'
                    • Sep 2011
                    • 30163

                    Originally posted by mangerton View Post
                    I read below that you and salymap are both Arians. I am a fish, and your remark above indicates to me that you're fishing for compliments, though I must say I do like your Wodehousian turn of phrase.
                    "Never fish for compliments in polluted waters." (Harvey Feinstein, Torch Song Trilogy).
                    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                    • BBMmk2
                      Late Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 20908

                      I am a Gemini!! :)

                      Well, what a turnaround! Down these neck of the woods, its like a spring day. Aleit, rather nippy still!
                      Don’t cry for me
                      I go where music was born

                      J S Bach 1685-1750

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                      • amateur51

                        Originally posted by salymap View Post
                        Many thanks to kind people who have replied to my moans. Our doctor left to go private some time ago and we have a series of locums who seem to pop in occasionally. Iam quite capable of making a fuss, but surrounded by a waiting room full of people with 'hacking' coughs it is difficult to do that. A lot of illness around atm.
                        However, after Easter I will insist on a doctor at the first opportunity, promise.

                        And Anna, I'm an April baby too. And no lilacs out of the dead ground here either.
                        i've been telling her for weeks to burst into tears in the surgery but will she push herself forwards, Jules? You gotta be bold, Mister Horne

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                        • Serial_Apologist
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 37636

                          Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                          i've been telling her for weeks to burst into tears in the surgery but will she push herself forwards, Jules? You gotta be bold, Mister Horne
                          My father, aged 92, was taken for a check-up at Whipps Cross Hospital in Walthamstowe. While waiting to be seen, to he got chatting to another elderly patient, who mentioned to him that this was the third time she had attended, after threel cancelled appointments, having travelled by bus all the way from West Ham. Shortly, a member of staff arrived to tell the lady that he was sorry, but they were unable to see her that day, and she would have to make another appointment. "Now just you look here, young man", Dad butted in, "this poor lady has had to come all the way here three times already. If you don't attend to her right away, I shall be writing to the Daily Telegraph and getting in touch with my MP, who just happens to be a government minister, to say what a rotten service you offer at this hospital". "Um, I'll see what I can do" replied the flustered attendant. Within five minutes a much more important looking employee in a suit emerged, and told the woman, "I've made arrangements for you to be seen to in the next half hour".

                          That seemed to work!

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                          • amateur51

                            Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                            My father, aged 92, was taken for a check-up at Whipps Cross Hospital in Walthamstowe. While waiting to be seen, to he got chatting to another elderly patient, who mentioned to him that this was the third time she had attended, after threel cancelled appointments, having travelled by bus all the way from West Ham. Shortly, a member of staff arrived to tell the lady that he was sorry, but they were unable to see her that day, and she would have to make another appointment. "Now just you look here, young man", Dad butted in, "this poor lady has had to come all the way here three times already. If you don't attend to her right away, I shall be writing to the Daily Telegraph and getting in touch with my MP, who just happens to be a government minister, to say what a rotten service you offer at this hospital". "Um, I'll see what I can do" replied the flustered attendant. Within five minutes a much more important looking employee in a suit emerged, and told the woman, "I've made arrangements for you to be seen to in the next half hour".

                            That seemed to work!
                            Attaboy, S_A's dad!!

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                            • EdgeleyRob
                              Guest
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12180

                              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                              It's been a funny old day. This morning I went out in a blizzard,..................................came back in sunshine, had lunch looking out at another snow flurry - and now it's sunny again with barely a cloud to be seen!
                              Similar sort of day in Manchester.

                              Originally posted by salymap View Post
                              Many thanks to kind people who have replied to my moans. Our doctor left to go private some time ago and we have a series of locums who seem to pop in occasionally. Iam quite capable of making a fuss, but surrounded by a waiting room full of people with 'hacking' coughs it is difficult to do that. A lot of illness around atm.
                              However, after Easter I will insist on a doctor at the first opportunity, promise.

                              And Anna, I'm an April baby too. And no lilacs out of the dead ground here either.
                              Best wishes from me too Saly.

                              I share my birthday with Brahms and Tchaikovsky no less,oh yes!

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                              • Serial_Apologist
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 37636

                                Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                                Attaboy, S_A's dad!!


                                For all his reactionary authoritarianism towards myself and Mum, he did on occasion overcome his obsequiousness - that other side to his dual personality - and take on authority when it really mattered.

                                Two things I forgot to mention were that the senior person he summoned at that hospital - "I want to speak to whoever is in charge!" - was in fact the senior administrator, who happened to be on the premises at the time; and to add that he didn't in fact know any government minister - he made that one up!

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