Stormy Weather

[Serial_Apologist]

Also, can I recommend the booklets available from the British Heart Foundation?

Anyway, completely offtopic from things medical: Mangerton’s story reminds me of when I had my new sofa delivered …. Much scratching of heads and muttered curses before the penny dropped that something wider than a doorframe suddenly changes shape and dimensions when tilted!

I’ve had a lovely day! The showers and clouds disappeared and although very breezy it’s been a pleasant 22°, I’ve washed (with my repaired machine) and dried some of the backlog, and picked my first harvest of French beans for tonight’s dinner - tomorrow I think the first ripe tomato is ready for eating!

Next door invited me over to meet Aged Aunt and her friend who are staying for a long weekend and we sat on the patio with a glass of wine. Aunt is 91 years old and until about 5 years ago a regular Prommer and every year attended the Vienna New Year’s Concert, both extremely knowledgeable about classical music and we discussed the Proms. Talk then turned to Radio 3. Aunt enquired “What is it with all these Tweets? Do you think it’s some sort of obsessive-compulsive behaviour?”

I think she's probably got that diagnosis just about right!

[french frank]

Good to see you back, S_A - and so swiftly at your keyboard too!

I thoroughly echo everything you said about the NHS, after my bout in 'orstipal earlier in the year. Worth every penny and more. I even enjoyed the hospital catering

Sorry to have been away without the chance to inform everyone. Had a mild heart attack 3 or so weeks ago, it was reckoned - a week's tests interned at Kings Coll Hospital in Camberwell, concluding with a stent inserted in one of the artery valves under the heart yesterday afternoon - done under local anaesthetic! Was released this morn. Seven drugs per day regime from now - seems like the first day of the rest of my life - have to wonder if I'll ever do those long cycle rides again.

Lovely thunderstorm has broken out unexpectedly here in past 5 minutes.

[Nick Armstrong]

Random travelogue: it's a glorious, cloudless evening here in Eastbourne. I am sitting at the open windows in my side-room in the Grand Hotel which to my delight has (as well as free wi-fi) a rather fine sea view facing south west, and I have on the ipod/headphones the Siècles/Roth recording of La Mer which as many will know Debussy wrote (completed?) in this building.

There is one solitary yacht on the sea, picked out bright white by the low sun. The serener section early in the last movement, which is on now, is suiting it ideally...

So I'm having a bit of a Cali-epiphanic moment here, which I thought I'd share with the company

I'm going to go exploring before dinner and find Suite 200 which is apparently where Debussy stayed.

[amateur51]

Random travelogue: it's a glorious, cloudless evening here in Eastbourne. I am sitting at the open windows in my side-room in the Grand Hotel which to my delight has (as well as free wi-fi) a rather fine sea view facing south west, and I have on the ipod/headphones the Siècles/Roth recording of La Mer which as many will know Debussy wrote (completed?) in this building.

There is one solitary yacht on the sea, picked out bright white by the low sun. The serener section early in the last movement, which is on now, is suiting it ideally...

So I'm having a bit of a Cali-epiphanic moment here, which I thought I'd share with the company

I'm going to go exploring before dinner and find Suite 200 which is apparently where Debussy stayed.

Triffic post, Caliban

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm going to go exploring before dinner and find Suite 200 which is apparently where Debussy stayed.

And one assumes, left his Chou-chous outside the door at night.

[Nick Armstrong]

And one assumes, left his Chou-chous outside the door at night.

We'll put that one down to the drugs, S_A!!

Look - no Chous!!!

[amateur51]

And one assumes, left his Chou-chous outside the door at night.

See you, Jimmy ..?!

[amateur51]

Great pic, Caliban!

[Nick Armstrong]

Great pic, Caliban!

And there's more!



Debussy's room, as far as I can work out, was the first set of arched windows plus balcony beyond the main "Grand Hotel" central bit, on the second floor...

That's all from the Debussy tour - checking out soon to go and find my great uncle's memorial bench and thence to Glyndebourne...

OT: the weather this morning down here speaks for itself from the above

[amateur51]

another great pic, Caliban It looks to be a lovely day there.

Btw did you go for the full English breakfast or the Continental?

[Petrushka]

Great picture, Cali. What a splendid view. Not sure I can afford the room rates though: http://www.grandeastbourne.com/tariff-6

[Anna]

Great picture, Cali. What a splendid view. Not sure I can afford the room rates though: http://www.grandeastbourne.com/tariff-6

Oh, no doubt it's all part of a freebies Corporate Jolly combined with the trip to Glyndebourne this afternoon ..... It certainly seems that there will be beautiful weather in Sussex this afternoon (unlike here where it's been steady rain for the last two hours and no end in sight until Tuesday!)

I've been thinking about S_A a lot and his unexpected heart problems, and it reminded me of a guy I used to work with, more or less same age as him, just coming up to retirement, tall, slim, sporty, who felt unwell after a game of badminton with his son. Son luckily drove him straight to hospital where it transpired he was in fact suffering a heart attack (not the type you see on tv medical soaps involving clutching of chest, just a sort of sweaty palpitations) - and it transpired he never went to the doctors as he was so fit and well, therefore had no need and so had never had BP or cholesterol tested in his entire life. Sorry to sound gloomy but isn't it is a good idea to have these things (which have no symptoms) checked out when you reach a certain age? What a Little Ray of Sunshine I am!! (He recovered with meds and physio, and I saw him just a few months ago looking very hale and hearty)

[cloughie]

Random travelogue: it's a glorious, cloudless evening here in Eastbourne. I am sitting at the open windows in my side-room in the Grand Hotel which to my delight has (as well as free wi-fi) a rather fine sea view facing south west, and I have on the ipod/headphones the Siècles/Roth recording of La Mer which as many will know Debussy wrote (completed?) in this building.

There is one solitary yacht on the sea, picked out bright white by the low sun. The serener section early in the last movement, which is on now, is suiting it ideally...

So I'm having a bit of a Cali-epiphanic moment here, which I thought I'd share with the company

I'm going to go exploring before dinner and find Suite 200 which is apparently where Debussy stayed.

With the availability of good tearooms in Eastbourne did you manage to fit in a Cake-walk?

[salymap]

Oh, no doubt it's all part of a freebies Corporate Jolly combined with the trip to Glyndebourne this afternoon ..... It certainly seems that there will be beautiful weather in Sussex this afternoon (unlike here where it's been steady rain for the last two hours and no end in sight until Tuesday!)

I've been thinking about S_A a lot and his unexpected heart problems, and it reminded me of a guy I used to work with, more or less same age as him, just coming up to retirement, tall, slim, sporty, who felt unwell after a game of badminton with his son. Son luckily drove him straight to hospital where it transpired he was in fact suffering a heart attack (not the type you see on tv medical soaps involving clutching of chest, just a sort of sweaty palpitations) - and it transpired he never went to the doctors as he was so, therefore had no need and so had never had BP or cholesterol tested in his entire life. Sorry to sound gloomy but isn't it is a good idea to have these things (which have no symptoms) checked out when you reach a certain age? What a Little Ray of Sunshine I am!! (He recovered with meds and physio, and I saw him just a few months ago looking very hale and hearty)

And S_A and others, it's a very good idea to read all those leaflets that come with the tablets. However, I had occasion to ring the Osteoporosis Society and they told me not to take their tablets with others, as I had been doing, but to make a break of an hour or so between tablets. Yes, boring stuff,but it might just make a difference.

Speak to your pharmacist [which I still think of as the chemist] and they will give advice too. You don't have to take it but it might help recovery.

[Anna]

Saly, I think we shouldn't give any more medical advice - poor old S_A will think we're fussing over him like a pair of Mother Hens! I don't wish him to feel embarrassed .... now, if you put away your stethoscope I'll take off my surgical scrubs!!

Ontopic: rain eased, watery sun, 18.8°, but heavy stuff will return shortly and overnight. I have been uber-domesticated today, taken down and washed some curtains (!) and am busy reorganising kitchen cupboards - I am to lose one wallmounted one due to new boiler so contents have to be integrated into existing, also I have to completely empty two floor units and The Black Hole of Calcutta (aka the cupboard under the sink!!) That is so the trickle pipe can be plumbed into the waste outlet. Suddenly I know a lot about condenser boiler installation! Thought I'd make a start today rather than leave it until the last minute. (Also have a very small chook quietly roasting, plan to eat and then relax with the tv Prom tonight after my exertions)
I did the Butterfly Count again yesterday (it's open until the 11th for reported sightings) and was thrilled to see three Peacocks and one Red Admiral, so beautiful.