Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

GDB2222

It's really interesting that the forum nanny designed to protect us from rude words allows Arsenal through, but not the first four letters on their own. Obviously football fans amongst the programmers.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

You'd have though so but apparently the default is for kids to be taken by ambulance from Hemel (no A&E) to Watford or Welleyn (A&E but no peadeatrics) to Stevenage.

Somehow although we are nearer to WGC than Hemel and quicker to Stevenage than Watford we come under Hemel and Watford. Watford can take a very long time in traffic from here. It is a shame they decided against the teaching super-hospital in Hatfield (Although the other side of Nimbyism it would have put an awful lot of pressure on local infrastructure.

Down this way there's one hospital, probably 20-35 miles for most people .... next one's in another county 60-80 miles from most people.

You're all spoilt and don't know it.

SingleSue

Middle son's birthday today.....for some reason, this family likes October for birthdays (I blame Christmas merriment :rotfl:), so up early for him to open some presents and then it is down to my parents after school for a little tea party sort of thing.

I had a sleep test last night to see if I have sleep apnea (sp?), blooming awkward trying to sleep with all the kit on, especially as the position most comfortable for the equipment was the position least suitable for my joints, consequently, my joints are very bad today.

Think my doctor is trying to catch up on my health as I have rarely visited him, he put me through a fasting blood test a couple of weeks ago to see if I had diabetes (result was low side of normal, which was what I expected - I have still been getting low blood sugar symptoms) and a shoulder x ray the same week..the actual thing I went to the doctor about!

Goodness knows what he will think of next........

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

Down this way there's one hospital, probably 20-35 miles for most people .... next one's in another county 60-80 miles from most people.

You're all spoilt and don't know it.

Here we have a little cottage hospital which shuts at 10 (or it could be 9.30) but it is a waste of time going there for anything more than a small cut or graze...they only send you up to the big hospital anyway.

So the next proper hospital is a 20 minute journey away if you can maintain the allowed speeds or more likely 30 minutes in normal traffic for the town.....and then you have parking, just don't get injured during the day, parking is an absolute nightmare!

Davesnave

GDB2222 wrote: »

It's really interesting that the forum nanny designed to protect us from rude words allows Arsenal through, but not the first four letters on their own. Obviously football fans amongst the programmers.

Ah, that's because there are added letters.

So, you can write cockerel, but not !!!!. (see, told you!:D)

Doesn't work though if you want to discuss house prices in S!!!!horpe.

Well, obviously, there have to be limits. :cool:

chewmylegoff

lemonjelly wrote: »

Eh?

The midlands, in the middle?

waaaaaaaaaaaay north?:huh:

even though i am from the black country, i still regard it as the far north!

i try to avoid going north of the river, and into any post code with an "E" in it if i can possibly avoid it!

Davesnave

SingleSue wrote: »

I had a sleep test last night to see if I have sleep apnea (sp?), blooming awkward trying to sleep with all the kit on, especially as the position most comfortable for the equipment was the position least suitable for my joints, consequently, my joints are very bad today...

My DW thinks I have that. Sometimes I just stop breathing and it freaks her out. Can't say I notice.

Mind you, the other night I did wake up with a huge snore, or gasp for breath, or something, but I was spark-out on the sofa at the time with the cat on top of me. It was so loud I leapt up in surprise and the cat flew across the room. :rotfl:

This morning something similar happened, but it was down to a new, keen post person, who decided to hurl stuff through the letterbox two hours early at 06.30, detaching the inner storm flap with a crash. The cat shot up in the air without assistance from me then. She knew it was still an hour before 'chicken time,' so potentially a serious mad-axeman scenario, or something.

lemonjelly

Inspired by the lack of knowledge about my wonderful CITY I found this to share with you all:
http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/history/farley/oldwlv.htm

lemonjelly

chewmylegoff wrote: »

even though i am from the black country, i still regard it as the far north!

i try to avoid going north of the river, and into any post code with an "E" in it if i can possibly avoid it!

Really? Where in the black country are you from?:)

I have only briefly visited London & last year was the first time I spent any actual time there. Don't know the norf/sarf divide properly there.

Because of my wierd JtR fascination, I loved wandering around Whitechapel.

Wheezy_2

lemonjelly wrote: »

Inspired by the lack of knowledge about my wonderful CITY I found this to share with you all:
http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/history/farley/oldwlv.htm

That's interesting, especially the section about the 'great fire'

The total cost of the damage was assessed at over £8500, a vast amount for the end of the twentieth century. In September 2003 the inhabitants of Wolverhampton purchased a fire engine and twenty-four buckets for the water.