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Post by jameso on Mar 18, 2009 12:33:41 GMT
When I first read Nick's post upthread I thought it was Karl and, I tell you, it didn't make a lick of sense that way.
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Post by Cullen on Mar 18, 2009 16:47:38 GMT
took a deep breath at the dump today, love that place! I try not to take a deep breath when I'm at the dump. |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 18, 2009 17:34:58 GMT
It was unusually safe enough to go for a nice walk by the canal this afternoon. It's usually a no-go area due to the gangs that roam up and down it tormenting folk. I've had a close call myself, previously. But it was busy enough with 'normal' folk so I thought I'd risk it. Was just building up a nice head of steam when I saw a gang purposefully blocking the way to all walkers so I thought 'never mind' and headed back.
Nice day though. It's actually warm outside.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 18, 2009 18:30:01 GMT
Had another day off today. Went to a talk at the museum about how birds evolved into dinosaurs (sic). Apparently archaeopteryx was an ancestor of Cretaceous dinosaurs like T-rex and Velociraptor, as well as modern birds. It was supposed to be 30 minutes but ended up an hour and a quarter. Never got boring though. I returned home to find three huge cardboard boxes on my patio, containing 30 plant pots, containing the English yew hedge that I ordered from www.hedgesdirect.co.uk . Spent the next two hours planting it in the ground. Very happy with the condition of the plants. Late winter / early spring is definitely the time of year to do gardening. Any later, and whenever I have energy for gardening the lawn needs mowing, but in March I've really got carried away this year planting stuff: lavender, rosemary, sage and thyme out front, a camelia in a pot at the side, a rhododendron, an azalea, two rose bushes and two blackberry bushes in the back. Very, very therapeutic. Martin |
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Post by Gav on Mar 18, 2009 18:30:47 GMT
The missus is currently making chicken curry - and sent me out to the local chinese takeaway for some prawn crackers (it's only about 2 minutes walk away). On the way back, a mother and child were passing. The child could be no more than 4 years old. He had one of those old-school laser guns you used to see all the time, lighting up and making 'brrroooop' sounds. The child looked at me, smiled and shot the gun at me. I instincively went 'aaargh' and clutched my chest as if I was shot. I looked at the mother, expecting some sort of smile in return for playing along with the wee man's jape. She kind of tutted and dragged the child on his way. YOU CAN'T EVEN PRETEND TO BE SHOT ANYMORE.
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Post by grahamthomson on Mar 18, 2009 19:40:35 GMT
What is the world coming to?
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Post by Hero on Mar 18, 2009 20:31:27 GMT
I did some gardening today, which is normally early in the year for me. I am glad I did though because of less grass to run the old mower through as well as the snowfall helping to flatten the ground some.
I'm getting a grow-bag or two soon for some tomato growing, maybe some beans too.
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Post by legios on Mar 18, 2009 21:12:07 GMT
I'm quite fortunate this year, in that I don't really have any spots in the garden that need anything planted. Everything seems to have made it through the winter pretty much intact (I had to replace some of the Rosemary last year as it hadn't weathered the conditions).
My serious gardening doesn't start until later in the year when various plants need to be trimmed to keep them in check. (Both my Ivy and the heebies in the back garden would expand to monstrous proportions if left alone.)
The weather does seem to have good today - sadly I didn't see much of it first hand as I was working late, but it was nice to have the windows open in the office this afternoon and get some fresh air into the place.
Karl
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 18, 2009 22:06:24 GMT
Did some work today, went for a run tonight, had dinner watched House of Cards.
All in all a good day!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 19, 2009 11:31:09 GMT
SHOCK NEWS JUST IN!
STRIVE (yon place that helped me get a job) have been given some funding from the Lottery and are doing some positive promo to sell the service. They've asked me to help. So I'm doing an interview, with the manager, on local radio tomorrow morning and an interview with the local paper next Wednesday. I'm told there may also be a picture, but we'll see!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 19, 2009 11:32:41 GMT
Fame at last!!!!!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 19, 2009 11:39:13 GMT
My contribution may, realistically, be little more than a line or two (knowing the media) but I'm happy to big up the service and as I'm still waiting on a job start date I've got the time. And anything to get across the message that the unemployed are not work-shy morons is A Good Thing.
-Ralph
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Post by karla on Mar 19, 2009 13:32:06 GMT
ralph on radio XD you may discover a hidden talent yet!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 19, 2009 14:37:16 GMT
Bastarding pc has a virus. No work getting done today as I fix the fecking thing.
Cock!
Andy
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Post by Dave on Mar 20, 2009 11:04:47 GMT
Wireless broadband is back and at the expected speed. Seem to have had that Hub Virus everyone was on about for the past few days. Tried getting some work done but ended up having a sort out instead - and er got a bit carried away, I was tearing up carpet and everything.
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 20, 2009 13:53:25 GMT
doin' Uni work. There's a thing in emergency medicine of using mnemonics. Prob is, there're so many mnemonics, you need a mnemonic to remember the mnemonics! One of my chumbs on the course actually makes her own. She's got lists and lists of mnemonics!
Amoung my personal faves of 'official' mnemonics are:
TICLS - Used as a rapid assessment tool for unwell paediatrics. T - muscle Tone. I - Interactiveness with care-givers. C - Consolability. L - Looks at objects or unfocussed gaze. S - Speech or cry.
WETFAG - (? Wet Fag?!!) Used to calculate various bits and peices for paediatric resuscitation. W - Weight (Age plus 4 times 2 gives aprox weight in Kg). E - Electricity (for shocking, 2 joules per Kg). T - Tube size for intubation. F- Fluid amount. A - dose of Adrenaline. G - amount of Glucose.
AVPU. (Have Poo!!!) For assessment of an individuals level of consciousness. A - Aware, V - Verbal (reacts to verbal stimuli), P - Pain (reacts to painful stimuli), U - Unresponsive.
ALAN. The four drugs that can be given via an endotracheal (ET) tube. Adrenaline. Lignocaine ('cept we don't have Lignocaine anymore). Atropine. Naloxone.
and as this is a Transformers forum:
SLUDGE. Used to remember the main signs and symptoms of poisoning by organophosphates or other nerve-stimulating agents. S - Salivation, L - Lacrimation, U - Urination, D- Defacation, G - Gastrointestinal activity, and E - Emesis. Lovely.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 20, 2009 17:22:25 GMT
Did the radio thing this morning. Quite fun. Damn it, I want control of a microphone!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 20, 2009 17:49:03 GMT
Sounds like fun.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 20, 2009 17:53:26 GMT
took a deep breath at the dump today, love that place! I try not to take a deep breath when I'm at the dump. Or, indeed, when I've had a dump Back in Swindon. Was meant to be having a couple of days at Mum's but our child minder's kid took ill, meaning J couldn't go there, meaning Liz couldn't mark. |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 20, 2009 18:52:02 GMT
Youtube uploader doth irk me this evening. Keeps falling over.
-Ralph
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Post by Hero on Mar 20, 2009 21:29:52 GMT
Our new neighbours have built a shanty house type structure and are keeping a hen in it. I got a bit worried for the hen assuming it would be a free roaming meal for Zip and Star, or any other cat and hungry predator. I read up on keeping hens and it seems to be a catching on trend for back gardens. Telegraph article. The bit about cats is reassuring. |
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Post by legios on Mar 20, 2009 21:56:47 GMT
Our new neighbours have built a shanty house type structure and are keeping a hen in it. I got a bit worried for the hen assuming it would be a free roaming meal for Zip and Star, or any other cat and hungry predator. Friends of the family when we lived in Wales kept ducks in their back yard. They had five or six as egg-layers. It isn't something I had heard of much since. Mostly I just run into folk in tenement flats keeping pigeons. Interesting to read that poultry rearing is making a bit of a resurgence. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 20, 2009 22:00:11 GMT
It's a fowl business!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 20, 2009 22:43:30 GMT
But now and hen you have to try these things
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 20, 2009 22:46:39 GMT
Takes a while to crack it.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 20, 2009 22:52:13 GMT
I dunno, I'd demand some eggspert opinion.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 20, 2009 22:56:10 GMT
True. It's no yoke after all.
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2009 18:58:12 GMT
I suppose it was to be eggspected!
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 21, 2009 19:10:14 GMT
Hen-ce the need for caution!
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Mar 21, 2009 20:16:59 GMT
Last night I went to my first Premiership football game (West Ham vs West Brom) in about 12 years and it was a drab 0-0 draw. Ho hum.  I went to my first ever premier league game (only my fourth ever game of football in fact) less than 2 months ago. It's fun having a local team in the top flight. Been to a few more since and yet to see them win though. Andy |
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