I thought it was your right arm that lifted your spirits

It is indeed but for drinking beer I generally use my left hand. That way it feels like someone else is doing it     

Well done son. Hope you're back to 100% soon. 

 :goggleeyes:Thanks dad

An interesting day Monday. Since I have had medication for my leukaemia, my red cell count has being going down. I quickly ran out of steam and couldn't walk very far without getting out of breath. So on Friday I went for a covid swab and on Monday they had me in for an iron infusion. 30 mins with a bag of what looked like rusty water pumped into my wrist, I now feel a lot better. I don't know if this will be a regular thing, but the results are great.

Wow. Good news, though! 

Maybe you and I should do a blood swap. I just dumped 380 ml last week to get rid of iron! 

SWMBO had one of those almost 2yrs ago and it has stabilized her to date. So may last a while if you are lucky.

Today is the first day that Hornby TT120 hasn't shown up in my recent unread posts.



About blinking time 

John P

Tursday I did a run down to the local Tesco, and as the fuel gauge was around a quarter full decided to fill up, even though it was £1.91.9p a litre.....

but the forcourt was busy and I decided to fill up yesterday instead....

as I went into the garage yesterday I saw the diesel price had changed overnight, by 5p 

so I topped the tank up at £1.86.9p a litre. 

so something that actually went down at Tesco 

Yesterday I had an email from a local pub/restaurant reminding me that twelve months ago I booked for an event on 6th December and did I want to do it again this year. Commendable marketing, but the event I booked was the wake after my wife's funeral, and I won't be going for a repeat this year. So you might wonder how this is in the "happy thread". Well it is simply because I am still here 12 months on, and the wake was a memorable occasion after all.

After not having the big TV over the weekend for the Australia - Argentina game, the nice lady from the TV helpline rang and suggested I switch it off at the wall, then switch it on again.

I wanted to do this initially, but didn't in case it didn't come back on and voided the warranty. Anyway, at her suggestion, I did.

Sure enough, all well. 

used to work with the coffee and vending machines where I worked years ago.

we referred to it as rebooting, rather than simple booting when things hung up and didn't drop.

well you couldn't work a 12 hr night shift without coffee, could you.

Ah, the old stand by when a piece of electrical eqipment stops working - switch it off for a few minutes. Thinking about it, something very similar happened to us a few weeks ago, the satellite box just switched itself off. I took the fuse out of the plug, put in a known good one and switched on - nothing. I checked the circuit, all okay, plugged the box back in and it worked fine. It is a standing joke in our house that, when owt goes wrong electrically, I blame 'Ethel' - our ghost! (And I am not going gaga, but I am convinced that we do have an 'Ethel'.  ).

I would rather have an Ethel in my house than a banshee

At least you would be sure of the heating