classic33
Leg End Member
You were dreaming, and you're not going to have a pub lunch today.
The Retirement Thread
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Do we have to answer that ???I have just put some worktop oil onto my countertops . How exciting is that
I think putting my blue bin out was more exciting
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Definitely not dreaming....MrsD confirms that.
No pub lunch though.
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
Never mind, it’s nearly fish Friday
Are you getting me mixed up with a certain disreputable person who resides in Devon ?Never mind, it’s nearly fish Friday
D
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I've been for a bimble this morning, 28 miles, my Eathorpe loop, it was a decent cycling morning, bright, sunny, a tad breezy and chilly. the path by the allotments is still closed so I had to use the Leamington road and cross the A45 to get into Bagington , there's still roadworks by the airport, but it was nice to get out into quiet lanes, worked my way through Ethorpe to Princethorpe where I turned onto the Fosseway, crossed the A45 again and on through Woolston, Binley Woods and into Coventry, the work on the flyover to take the A46 over the Binley Road is coming on, I remember when it was all countryside round there, turned right onto Hipswell Highway and up Sewall Highway home, it was a good ride, I'm still slow, 28 miles in 2 1/4 hours, but it was nice to get out and I enjoyed the ride.
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
Well done Dave. Apart from the fact I would get blown over on the bike today, afraid I still have very little enthusiasm for it. Hope some better weather eventually helps.
numbnuts
Squire
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
I've "liked" all the above...........now what else can I do
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Well, THAT was very weird... 
I was due to have my blood test this morning. As I have mentioned before, these days it is done with a single drop of blood taken from a pin prick on a fingertip. Years ago it used to require a tube of blood from a vein. I think it was 2018 when I last had to give a venous sample, when the machines became unreliable due to a nationwide problem with faulty test slides.
It was cold this morning and I decided to walk rather than cycle. I got dressed and headed for the door. I was wearing a tight long-sleeved top under my fleece jacket. I was about to open the door, when a little voice in my head said... "Venous sample today!" That would have required me to strip my top off to uncover my arm. I turned round, went upstairs, and put a short-sleeved cycling jersey on instead. I put arm warmers on to keep the chill off.
I went off to the station to get a Metro (about 50 left in the pile at 09:15) then headed off to the health centre. I got called in and the nurse started to apologise... Even before she got the first sentence out, I could see the problem - no hand-held test machine on the desktop. Yes - my premonition was correct - needle in arm time!
Fleece and one arm warmer off, sample quickly taken. Thankfully this nurse was one who was good with a needle. It was almost as painless as the recent Covid and flu jabs had been. Jabs into muscles seem a lot less uncomfortable than needles in veins. I have had one or two really clumsy nurses who have poked around trying to find a vein and that can hurt A LOT!
The problem was the nurse who had used the machine yesterday had finished off the supply of finger-prick needles and not replaced them. Today's nurse hadn't noticed when she picked up the device to bring to the health centre.
No big deal, but... HOW DID I GUESS THAT IT WOULD HAPPEN TODAY!!!
I was due to have my blood test this morning. As I have mentioned before, these days it is done with a single drop of blood taken from a pin prick on a fingertip. Years ago it used to require a tube of blood from a vein. I think it was 2018 when I last had to give a venous sample, when the machines became unreliable due to a nationwide problem with faulty test slides.
It was cold this morning and I decided to walk rather than cycle. I got dressed and headed for the door. I was wearing a tight long-sleeved top under my fleece jacket. I was about to open the door, when a little voice in my head said... "Venous sample today!" That would have required me to strip my top off to uncover my arm. I turned round, went upstairs, and put a short-sleeved cycling jersey on instead. I put arm warmers on to keep the chill off.
I went off to the station to get a Metro (about 50 left in the pile at 09:15) then headed off to the health centre. I got called in and the nurse started to apologise... Even before she got the first sentence out, I could see the problem - no hand-held test machine on the desktop. Yes - my premonition was correct - needle in arm time!
Fleece and one arm warmer off, sample quickly taken. Thankfully this nurse was one who was good with a needle. It was almost as painless as the recent Covid and flu jabs had been. Jabs into muscles seem a lot less uncomfortable than needles in veins. I have had one or two really clumsy nurses who have poked around trying to find a vein and that can hurt A LOT!
The problem was the nurse who had used the machine yesterday had finished off the supply of finger-prick needles and not replaced them. Today's nurse hadn't noticed when she picked up the device to bring to the health centre.
No big deal, but... HOW DID I GUESS THAT IT WOULD HAPPEN TODAY!!!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
@Dave7... The photography link in your signature takes me to a website builder advert rather than your site!
Question to you all: How many of you can see signature links like Dave's on CycleChat? I can't see them on my phone but can on my laptop. I was thinking of knocking up a puzzle game site once I have one or two games ready, but I wonder how many CycleChatters would even see a signature link pointing to it.
Question to you all: How many of you can see signature links like Dave's on CycleChat? I can't see them on my phone but can on my laptop. I was thinking of knocking up a puzzle game site once I have one or two games ready, but I wonder how many CycleChatters would even see a signature link pointing to it.
BoldonLad
Not part of the Elite
- Location
- South Tyneside
classic33
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D
Deleted member 1258
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Well, THAT was very weird...
I was due to have my blood test this morning. As I have mentioned before, these days it is done with a single drop of blood taken from a pin prick on a fingertip. Years ago it used to require a tube of blood from a vein. I think it was 2018 when I last had to give a venous sample, when the machines became unreliable due to a nationwide problem with faulty test slides.
It was cold this morning and I decided to walk rather than cycle. I got dressed and headed for the door. I was wearing a tight long-sleeved top under my fleece jacket. I was about to open the door, when a little voice in my head said... "Venous sample today!" That would have required me to strip my top off to uncover my arm. I turned round, went upstairs, and put a short-sleeved cycling jersey on instead. I put arm warmers on to keep the chill off.
I went off to the station to get a Metro (about 50 left in the pile at 09:15) then headed off to the health centre. I got called in and the nurse started to apologise... Even before she got the first sentence out, I could see the problem - no hand-held test machine on the desktop. Yes - my premonition was correct - needle in arm time!
Fleece and one arm warmer off, sample quickly taken. Thankfully this nurse was one who was good with a needle. It was almost as painless as the recent Covid and flu jabs had been. Jabs into muscles seem a lot less uncomfortable than needles in veins. I have had one or two really clumsy nurses who have poked around trying to find a vein and that can hurt A LOT!
The problem was the nurse who had used the machine yesterday had finished off the supply of finger-prick needles and not replaced them. Today's nurse hadn't noticed when she picked up the device to bring to the health centre.
No big deal, but... HOW DID I GUESS THAT IT WOULD HAPPEN TODAY!!!
Weird!
