MarchHare007 
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Nice to see in a new day isn't it Lesley - when it's all shiny ..... lol
Lovely choice of music to head off to bed by - I'll save mine for lunch time, being 10 minutes away!
Sleep Well. xx
Reply #3881. Oct 13 11, 7:23 PM
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| trojan11
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Not Friday here yet, still a few hours to go. Leave fraught behind, Lesley, and relax. It is truly nice to see the way that your friends have gathered around you - must make you feel just a little bit good. :)
Reply #3882. Oct 13 11, 7:36 PM
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| lesley153
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| It does, it does. There is nothing like a rallying of friends to keep the good in and the bad out. And now I am *yawn* really am going! Sweet dreams, everyone. |
Reply #3883. Oct 13 11, 7:53 PM
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satguru
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Night Lesley, I thought the last attempt was a bit early for you ;)
Reply #3884. Oct 13 11, 8:35 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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Good night, Sis'ta! Really wouldn't pay much attention if it weren't for you! Looking forward to your stuff...:)
Reply #3885. Oct 13 11, 8:47 PM
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flopsymopsy
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Oh there was a little frisson of excitement... as you were, chaps, as you were. :)
Reply #3886. Oct 14 11, 1:31 AM
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| lesley153
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Morning everyone! *yawn* *stretch* Well, not quite morning. :) I just had nine beautiful hours' sleep.
VM, I'm sorry sis! Would you like me to stop so you can escape?
Excitement - what excitement? something happened while I was asleep.
Tiny bit of excitement yesterday while I was having my echo - a young woman, aiming to be a cardiologist, was doing it, she was perfectly competent and we were relaxed and it was all fine. (One man a few years ago had to call the hospital technician to find out why the machine wasn't working. The technician came in and switched it on.)
Yesterday, he breezed in, uninvited and unannounced, laid a Friendly Hand on my thigh, and asked how "the girls" were getting on. Aargh... shudder. How to undermine a qualified colleague, and patronise the living daylights out of two grown women!
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Reply #3887. Oct 14 11, 6:32 AM
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| lesley153
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| Just had a phone call. Jonathan is coming for a Succot service this evening, on his tod, and he's staying over. He wasn't sure he'd be able to, so I am pleased. That's enough excitement for me! |
Reply #3888. Oct 14 11, 6:34 AM
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flopsymopsy
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My best friend at university really let the female side down. After we graduated she went back to Canada and got a job teaching Spanish at a university in Toronto. In those days languages were taught using the big reel to reel tape recorders (nod if you're old enough to remember them, visit a museum if you're not) and on her first day she couldn't get the machine to work. She tried everything, unthreading the tape, winding it round the tapeheads again, making sure it wasn't twisted, turning the tapes over, everything she could think of and still the darn thing wouldn't work. Much to her disgust the male students all insisted they could fix it in that condescending male way (sorry guys but you know it's true) but they couldn't fix it either. So poor Elly had to phone the university electrician... who walked in and turned the switch on at the wall.
*sigh*
Reply #3889. Oct 14 11, 7:00 AM
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| lesley153
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I'm nodding!
Poor Elly.
*laughs guiltily*
I don't know what it is about the Tarzan-like cry of superior ability with machines, but a lot of them seem to learn it. "I can make anything work! Real Men don't read instructions!" |
Reply #3890. Oct 14 11, 7:49 AM
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| trojan11
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Is that why twenty years ago my MFI kitchen units collapsed all around me? :)
I too am nodding, dozing off, now wondering what I was nodding at.
Reply #3891. Oct 14 11, 8:05 AM
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flopsymopsy
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I've just mended the cistern in the bathroom so am feeling quite handy today.
Of course there are two more loos in this house so I can't afford to be too complacent - any sign of that and they'll both go into flood mode in unison. Then I'd have to call a plumber and then to the bankruptcy court. I really have no idea why I went down the academic route, plumbing would have been much more lucrative.
Reply #3892. Oct 14 11, 8:49 AM
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| C30
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Real Men don't read instructions!" ............add........."Unless all else fails"!
I must admit to letting my sex down......if anything needs fixing in this house, the best option is "The Gasman Cometh" syndrome! DIY and I have never been good "bed mates"....in fact at woodwork (which I loathed) at school, I was the only one in the class who managed to spend an entire term doing a dovetail joint - and still got it wrong!
My wife, and the other hand, does not fit the stereotype female image.......she has her own tool box, power drill, and has been responsible for 99% of successful DIY projects in our home.
Cleaning, painting, decorating & gardening.........I'm your man....electrical work, carpentry, plumbing, general DIY - forget it!
Reply #3893. Oct 14 11, 9:53 AM
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bloodandsand
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I know this may be a little "off topic" but what do you recommend for getting rid of nasty smells in your fridge? I've checked, and nothing has died in there (nothing that wasn't dead before I put it in), and I've cleaned it, but there is still a smell :(
Reply #3894. Oct 14 11, 11:34 AM
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flopsymopsy
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Bicarbonate of soda. Preferably do this with an empty fridge to start with. Get a pot/packet of bicarb, open it up and just leave it in the fridge. Should take about three days for the smell to clear. Throw that bicarb away, stock the fridge, put a new bicarb in the fridge and leave it there. Stir from time to time - it will be effective for about two months.
Reply #3895. Oct 14 11, 11:53 AM
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| trojan11
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Alternatively...have you tried actually switching the fridge on? :)
Reply #3896. Oct 14 11, 1:14 PM
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bloodandsand
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Now there's a thought, trojan!
Thanks flopsy, I'll try that tomorrow.
Reply #3897. Oct 14 11, 1:16 PM
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| lesley153
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I've only got two loos, Flopsy, so I'll just have to be careful with them, and hope for the best. Although, if all else fails, I have got a big back garden!
Ray, I'd be more than happy with cleaning, painting, decorating & gardening. When are you coming to Bedford?
How's the fridge, Bev? Plugged in, switched on, fragrant? Trojan, that was inspired.
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I got in touch with the hospital PR office on Thursday evening, and left a compliment for the relief receptionist, and a grumble, containing the word "respect" twice, about the attitude of the technician: undermining, patronising...
Why sound like he's already assumed that she won't do it right? Why not assume she will do it right: even better, don't say anything to her in the presence of patients?
I got a couple of emails and a phone call on Friday. It seems that he did need to come in, because trainees must be monitored and supervised, for everyone's protection. Fair enough. Just the way he talks to people is all wrong. My comments were passed to the head of department, who spoke to the technician, who apologised for causing offence. I'm sure he'll do it again tomorrow.
The compliment has been passed on too.
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Jonathan had planned to go home after lunch today, but he said he wasn't hungry at one, or at two... and even at three except by then I'd got fed up waiting, and cooked lunch. Then he decided to see if he could get a new phone in Bedford town centre instead of waiting till he got back to London. Mission accomplished but we bumped into someone we knew. She's a violinist and she told us she'd just finished rehearsing for tonight's concert. So we went to the concert and he's going back tomorrow. :) |
Reply #3898. Oct 15 11, 4:57 PM
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bloodandsand
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You seem to be having a good weekend, Lesley :)
A tub of bicarb is sitting in the fridge as I write. Too early to say if it has worked but fingers crossed!
Reply #3899. Oct 16 11, 5:46 AM
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Professer
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It worked for me Bloodandsand, i now have a little device i got from Asda that keeps my fridge smelling fresh.
Reply #3900. Oct 16 11, 6:05 AM
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