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![]() Not great news buddy. Hope they get you sorted quickly. A golfing friend of mine has had PC since ‘92. Still alive & kicking… Just the word “cancer” can set all sorts of demons running around... |
Forum: Idle Banter
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![]() Made it from my bed to the sofa and briefly to the dining table. I might have had a couple of bottles of wine yesterday. Almost human now. |
Forum: Idle Banter
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![]() Merry Christmas to you all, and best wishes for the coming year. Off to friends for lunch, then it’ll be a quiet evening in front of the TV with the cheese board and a good port. |
Forum: Idle Banter
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![]() Cheers guys. Party at lunchtime with friends in the local hospital where one of our friends has been for almost 6 weeks. Curry night tonight… sleep tomorrow |
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![]() Very similar to Keanu Reeves film, Minority Report. Arrested for crimes they might commit in the future. Will we get done for speeding when we put a leg over the bike or open the car door? Bit of a... |
Forum: Idle Banter
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Forum: Idle Banter
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![]() Maybe one for smile of the day. Today sees 5 years retired. 5 years and 2 days since the bowel cancer op. 4 years 346 days since we moved to southern Spain, although the morning temps in last week... |
Forum: Idle Banter
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![]() Aircon on all day. It was 37* at 9am this morning. Had one of those 5min jobs, repairing garden furniture, that took 45mins. Was dripping by the time I’d finished. Temp in the sun, currently 44*. |
Forum: Idle Banter
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![]() I feel your pain. We paid ours last month, €248 for the year. Water is €7 a month, and rubbish collection is €8 a month. All in, just over €400 a year |
Forum: Idle Banter
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![]() We looked at EV but there’s even less charging points in Spain than there are in the U.K., especially down here in southeast Spain. We bought a Kia Niro hybrid. Lovely car… well, at least I loved it.... |
Forum: Idle Banter
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![]() I am an immigrant here in Spain, and have been since before Brexit. To gain Residencia I had to prove income. And even though there is a Spanish Health system we didn’t/don’t qualify, and as part of... |
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![]() Cheers Guys. 63 seems very old… or I thought it was till I got here…PARTY! :rave: |
Forum: Idle Banter
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Forum: Idle Banter
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![]() My lovely HP i7 laptop failed its bounce test. As I rarely watch TV this was a dire result. Repair time, whether I do it or use the local shop is at least 2 weeks, more so getting stuff through... |
Forum: Idle Banter
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![]() Maybe we were lucky in southeast Spain during the previous waves - guess we were when I think of how bad it was in Madrid a year ago. This current wave, finally dropping away, has seen a number of... |
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![]() This has been going on since forever. At least a third of the population has MRSA. Not too much of a problem for healthy people but a potential killer in someone who is sick or old and infirm. The... |
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![]() Full trial data and subsequent efficacy in those inoculated in each of the vaccines is readily available. The MHRA approval data is also readily available, as is the adverse reaction data. Adverse... |
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![]() Bib, the ONS Gov website shows excess deaths, and by cause. By week and by month/year. All the data is out there. You can search by flu deaths if you wish. And no, they are not being kept quiet.... |
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![]() And shock of shocks, its the Tories that have taken NHS Supply Chain back in-house from being majority DHL owned. Whether the cynic in me sees it as an opportunity to now sell it to a mate is a... |
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![]() We get to meet up with friends today as the local lockdown is lifted. Bars, restaurants and sports facilities open - max 4 people together. Municipal boundaries still closed for travelling but that... |
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![]() Things will get better Gary. Life goes in cycles, ups and downs. You might be in the middle of a down right now but it will improve. 30 years ago I was in the middle of a divorce, shell-shocked... |
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Views: 1,168
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![]() Looking from outside the UK, I couldn't believe the Cheltenham Festival went ahead. But in terms of when the UK imposed its first lockdown and travel restrictions the UK wasn't that far behind other... |
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![]() Not everything about 2020 was bad. There were some highlights. On a personal level, a new g'son - still not seen him yet because of Covid. We moved house - got what we wanted for the old one and now... |
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![]() Hindsight never makes a mistake. Getting ahead of the curve about something that no one has ever experienced before is extremely difficult. Is Piers Morgan right? He will be about some of it but... |
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Views: 1,455
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![]() And trying to get Cumberland sausages here in Spain has got a whole lot harder... add pretty much every UK commodity. There's an Iceland we use for a few things where we haven't switched to Spanish... |
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