The Chill Out Zone

[Lancpudn]

Originally Posted by trikey

Fire up the V8 Bob, we need more global warming!!!

just catching up with some emails from my mates in Canada, -37C there in Alberta


My other mate in Ontario is -15C with 12" deep solid tyre ruts in his street he said you cant get out of them once the car gets in them.

[elroy]

Originally Posted by Gate Keeper

Thank you Roy, I have not had any coffee for 3 weeks and the black tea is not a hardship. One day at a time

It has to be coffee for me ,. At the mo I,m in my man cave with a very large cuppa sorting my youngest ,s school assignment out 😀. It's going to be another grand day here in sunny Tucker's Ford , so I will be cutting some vents out in my neighbours shed and sorting him a new bench but I will probably have 3 more coffee,s before then. Have a great day Phil 😎

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[stevestrat]

Morning, weather forecast talking about record temperatures again, need to be convinced about that, decidedly parky at the moment.

[reworht]

Morning all - welcome to newer visitors to the LCOZ - and a special greeting for Phil this morning - sounds like at long last your medical hiccups (no pun intended!) might be sorted out. Hopefully, a few years with no alarms in view

Another sunny, blue sky day up here, but a tad cool for starters, after a heavy dew/slightly frosty night. Once the sun is a bit higher things should warm up.

[Rev Jules]

I have just read in the Daily Mail they are going to issue free condoms to the over sixties, they say it could stop unwanted diseases, or maybe unwanted pregnancies, wtf?.

I dont know about the rest of you who are of a certain age on here, as for me I woulnd not be able to get Willy Wonker stiff enough to put one on, certainly not without a pair of tweezers small enough to stretch it.

Rev

[WillyHeckaslike]

Originally Posted by reworht

My sister-in-law tripped over her high threshold, double glazed rear door last August. She broke her left wrist and her right arm (between the elbow and shoulder), and is only now, slowly and painfully, getting some use back into her arm. She's had three operations to reset it, break it again and finally screw the bones together with plates and screws.
By coincidence with your post, my brother is having replacement front and back doors, with low threshold frames, fitted today!

I feel for your sister-in-law Rod and I wonder how the injury figures pan out nationally if any are recorded. Tripping hazard aside I have often found the higher thresholds a nuisance to negotiate when having to carry furniture and other large items over them. As my brother's small westie grew old and succumbed to arthritis he had to carry it over his high threshold and that together with observations of the difficulty they presented to elderly relatives prompted him to change to a lower and more sensible arrangement.

I will be looking to change ours on an opportunity basis or maybe sooner if the worst happens as in the case of your relative. Personally I think that they are a retrograde step and on safety alone I'm a bit surprised that maybe something like building regulations did not prevent their approval if indeed they require it.

[FLYING BANANA]

Originally Posted by Rev Jules

I have just read in the Daily Mail they are going to issue free condoms to the over sixties, they say it could stop unwanted diseases, or maybe unwanted pregnancies, wtf?.

I dont know about the rest of you who are of a certain age on here, as for me I woulnd not be able to get Willy Wonker stiff enough to put one on, certainly not without a pair of tweezers small enough to stretch it.

Rev

Or use them as rain hats.

[Rev Jules]

Originally Posted by FLYING BANANA

Or use them as rain hats.

Yea! Right and get called a d**k head.

Rev

[FLYING BANANA]

Originally Posted by Rev Jules

Yea! Right and get called a d**k head.

Rev

Not in your case surely..................

[stevestrat]

Pops is due at the groomers again tomorrow. On his advice I got some tranquillisers from the vet but not too happy with the vet's dosage advice, 10mg tabs, said to give her half (5mg) but looking online it says 0.25-0.3mg per kilo, she weighs 6 kilos so that comes out at 1.8mg, 5mg would knock her out! Going to try her with a quarter, 2.5mg which seems nearer the mark.

Another thing I discovered, at the vet Pops had a painkiller jab after ripping her dew claw off and four tranquilliser tabs, £43! The tranquilliser tabs are available online (with a vet's prescription) for 23p each