Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

lostinrates

Sad news on chick watch. One of the two hens sharing the nest squashed their baby.

''My''chicks are all still ok. They've been out to play a couple of times with the big ones,with no real bad event. If it werenot for the buzzards I'd let them out all day.

vivatifosi

This is a message to the men of the forum.

As you know, I've had run ins with melanoma skin cancer. A news report has come out today stating that the number of men dying from melanoma has doubled in the UK.

As this is too big to add to my sig, can I please, please ask you to wear sunscreen and report any changing moles to your doctors. I've recently had my third suspect mole removed. Its an easy procedure, doesn't for the most part involve hospitalisation other than outpatient surgery and is much better than premature death!

Its pretty straightforward, if a mole looks anything other than round, has unusual borders, is multicoloured or very dark, is larger than a pencil top (6mm) then get it looked at next time you visit your doctor. If you have any of these and it is also changing size or shape, or itching or bleeding, then its worth making an appointment to see your doctor. Women of the forum, please check your menfolk all over, could be fun but very important...

Sorry for getting on my soapbox, but its very important to me. Thanks for reading.

lemonjelly

vivatifosi wrote: »

This is a message to the men of the forum.

As you know, I've had run ins with melanoma skin cancer. A news report has come out today stating that the number of men dying from melanoma has doubled in the UK.

As this is too big to add to my sig, can I please, please ask you to wear sunscreen and report any changing moles to your doctors. I've recently had my third suspect mole removed. Its an easy procedure, doesn't for the most part involve hospitalisation other than outpatient surgery and is much better than premature death!

Its pretty straightforward, if a mole looks anything other than round, has unusual borders, is multicoloured or very dark, is larger than a pencil top (6mm) then get it looked at next time you visit your doctor. If you have any of these and it is also changing size or shape, or itching or bleeding, then its worth making an appointment to see your doctor. Women of the forum, please check your menfolk all over, could be fun but very important...

Sorry for getting on my soapbox, but its very important to me. Thanks for reading.

I acknowledge this is a serious subject Viva. For my tuppence worth, giving fair advice about self protection is way clear of getting on a soapbox. No harm in reminding everyone of this.

That said, I did (naughtily) giggle at the bit in bold!:D

tomterm8

vivatifosi wrote: »

As you know, I've had run ins with melanoma skin cancer..

Thanks for that.

Melanoma skin cancer is not the only form of skin cancer, however, so a little heads up especially to anyone over 40 (although this can affect any age group)... the most common form of skin cancer is basal skin carcinoma. if you have a spot or sore which never goes away, and which starts to grow very slowly over time, or which bleeds or is itchy, or a scab that never heals or if any region... however small... looks like an insect bite but doesn't heal after a month, get it checked out.

Had to tell my mother to go to the doctors, because I recognised the signs. A brief outpatient opeation, and everything is fine.

Basel skin cancers when treated promptly are nowhere near as bad as melanoma, but the odds mean it is almost certain that at least one person who is reading this thread will have one at some point over the next decade.

Davesnave

I do my best with the sun cream, but I guess some wears off during the day and, as I wear specs, I don't do my face, just my neck.

I used to spend a high proportion of the week indoors, but now I'm outside for 8-10 hours or so most days. I certainly keep an eye out for any changes....:)

treliac

vivatifosi wrote: »

Anyone else watching Child of Our Time? Licked any paper yet?

No, I don't often look to see what's on. Silly, because I miss some really good stuff. Will catch up with this one on iPlayer. Thanks, very much, viva.

SingleSue

I'm absolutely over the moon tonight....just got my TMA score back and it is my highest yet!

I really thought it would just about scrape me through as it was rushed (had a nightmare fortnight with appointments with 3 on the day before it was due alone, plus youngest off school ill), not as well prepared as I usually do, I rushed my research, my writing of it, my typing it up and the last question was answered not as fully as I would have liked.

Oh and I submitted it with only 4 minutes to spare.

At the moment, I am doing better on this course than on the level 1 degree course although I feel I am struggling more.

Weird.

treliac

Well done Sue. You're doing amazingly and deserve every bit of your success. Keep it up! :beer:

(Think champagne glasses rather than beer jugs. )

lostinrates

Nice people, may I vent a little?

Today I went to the Bath and West show. I haven't been on a weekday for many years, and it was nice to go on a calmer day but I did get frustrated. If anyone heard the excellent series on the demise of the Royal show on Radio four (perhaps I'm biased but one of the best things to be on radio four, a recorded moment of a change in our culture) you might know the changing nature and demands on Agricultural shows. In recent years there have seemed more alpacas than sheep, more hot tubs retail than tractor retail.

The Bath and West is commencing an immense and expensive regeneration. Tickets today cost £20 for an adult. Now, I LOVE ag shows, but I'll be honest, I suck my teeth at this. There are so many small cheaper things the Bath and West could do to enhance its show and increase competitor entries (I hate, hate hate the smller showing rings and even the main ring is to the eye very unlevel). It seems to me expensive refurbishment and ever increasing prices will not draw in more people. Now while I didn't see an unhappy person today, the kids were enjoying playing on the grass (a group of small girls doing handstands my the main areana made me smile) and looking at the cattle in a sort of unknowledgable but fond way. To me a better enhancment of the show would not cost millions. To sort out the rings should be doable very easily, quickly and relatively cheaply and would boost the equine entries. More barns, bigger, would be more expensive, but should be doable. Then, getting people through the door: I can't help feeling better prices and deals on multi tickets would get more people in that fewer tickets at a high price.

Better education would be free. Its almost really good. The smaller country side ring is always one of my favourites, and today had excellent police horse exhibition. Not as flashy a the taking saddles off while jumping but a quieter display explaining preparing horses for crowd control. Later, in the main ring there was somethin that was almost brilliant...if a little, haphazard...a parade of ways of working the land through local history...fronted my a mail coach....(an excellent and well known coachman but slightly...wrong in )the setting, he could have held the interest with a display of his own better IMO) but then oxen, a pair of shires, then tractors, from the ancient to the new....there was a voice over telling you the history of each one, but all those professionals hadn't figured out that after the fourth engine was running no one could HEAR the voice over through the sound system. It made me frustrated, because such good ideas so half thought through. But you know why people stayed...because each driver waved and smiled over the din...and people had inividiual moments of eye contact and wave. All the money in the world can't better that moment .....and yet here it will be ploughed in (no pun intended) and I'm sure everything will be shiny and cosy.....but it needs humanity, and attention to less flash detail.....not big bucks.

Davesnave

SingleSue wrote: »

I'm absolutely over the moon tonight....just got my TMA score back and it is my highest yet!

Well done, Sue. :jI don't know how you manage it, but your success shows that you can focus and give something your full attention, even when circumstances mean subliminally thinking of other things too,

I'm doing some multi-tasking ATM and, like most men, I'm rubbish at it!