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John Crace's experience at St Georges echoed my own at Kings College 12 years ago, when I had a stent put in by the same vascular route, following a similar mild heart attack. He would have been nearly the same age as I was at the time. I think I feel a bit more secure with my stent keeping the shrunken artery in question open, than with a presumably one-off drug injection. -
My new bank cards arrived through the post this afternoon, thus concluding my present day period drama with the online scammers, so this should be my last episode. One thing that seemed strange was that they had only sent new pin number details for one of the cards, and so, assuming the other card pin number had not been changed, I tested it just now on the local ATM, and it worked using the old pin number. The other new card will only come into operation for general purchases after chip and pinning it for the first transaction. I suppose this it to guard against interceptors
My gas boiler passed its annual MOT this afternoon, apart from its perennial leak, for which the woman engineer - a first time ever for me, incidentally - was able to fix a visit tomorrow morning, which I think is pretty good service, although I have my doubts if the leak will be fixed. .Comment
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Coincidentally our boiler had a service last Friday which revealed a similar fault, and we've just been told the engineer is on his way with the new part. It shows how useful it is to have them checked. It could have been trundling on from week to week withoiut our realising a fault was slowly brewing.Comment
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A small leak last year - but not enough to make a puddle which is why it took a while to work out what was happening - was the reason my boiler was losing pressure, which beyond a certain point stops it working. It has an annual service but I also check the pressure gauge periodically which was how I picked up that the drop had gone beyond normal slight decrease over the year. Luckily it proved to be a simple easily solved issue.Originally posted by smittims View PostComment
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When I'm next in the Netherlands it will be very useful to know that the Dutch for "Fish doorbell" is "Vis deurbel".Originally posted by oddoneout View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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More here.Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostMaybe this "news" is real - still not sure.
There is work going on elsewhere in Holland to do with fish migration, so I see no reason to doubt this is "real" - it's a form of citizen science.
https://edepot.wur.nl/417050#:~:text...r%20to%20spawn.Comment
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While we're on clever animals let me bore you with Billy's lucky escape.
Billy is a very chunky British Black cat who is feeling the onset of spring by 'boldly going' where he hasn't gone before, such as a drawer in my tallboy while I was changing, and then climbing over the back of the drawer , trapping himself in the space behind it. After much miaowing while I contempleted dismantling the wretched unit, I pulled out the bottom drawer as far as it would go and he squeezed out like a limbo dancer. I hope 'lessons have been learnt' now.Comment
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There seems to have been a noticeable increase of late in the number of active users - 200 at the time of posting!Originally posted by french frank View PostA general point
the homepage shows that there are currently 163 "active users" - these being registered members active in recent days - whether 10 days or 30 days the vBulletin admins can't agree..
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Good news (I guess)
2024 Radio Academy Awards Nominations include Essential Classics for Best Music Entertainment Show and Radio 3 for UK Station or Network of the YearComment
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Last time (the first time?) R3 won UK Station of the Year it was very much a down-page story for the media. They want one of the big hitters to win because that will attract more interest from the public. Usually their criterion is 'has it made news with big stories during the past year?' I suspect R3 gets a nomination now and again to show they know it exists. Only programmes with large audiences such as EC or In Tune get nominated. As I've pointed out, Essential Classics gets a big audience because it's 3 hours long (more people can dip in and out) and because it's the post-breakfast prog, a 'peak-time' slot. Some people will listen to anything as long as it's on when they want to listen.Originally posted by LMcD View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Yes, we've been having a steady flow of new registrations. We usually manage to weed out the obvious spammers before they post. The highest number of posts in a day during the past year was Nov 8 with 234 (with 206 on Nov 3 and 199 on Feb 26 - so all in the past 4 months)Originally posted by LMcD View Post
There seems to have been a noticeable increase of late in the number of active users - 200 at the time of posting!It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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