I would just like to say

Stanleysteamer · Tuesday at 21:23

DanClarke said:
When I was an ickle-boy and we went back to live with my Nan after me Mum was gone she used to give us this stuff called Liquifruta it was really horrible. She also used to stand us in front of the fire and rub us with camphorated oil.
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If things were really bad we got rubbed down with White Horse Liniment.
Happy days!

Love the smells of all that old fashioned stuff!
Things peeps used to do to cure themselves before the National Health system came into being. Home made remedies passed on from generation to generation. and practices like going and standing near the tar barrel when road-menders were in the district, if you had a cold or a cough.
Onion poultice, salt water gargle, raw garlic and one I swear by, hot toddy with lemon and honey.
Even docs approve of quite a lot of them.

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DanClarke · Tuesday at 21:25

Stanleysteamer said:
Love the smells of all that old fashioned stuff!
Things peeps used to do to cure themselves before the National Health system came into being. Home made remedies passed on from generation to generation. and practices like going and standing near the tar barrel when road-menders were in the district, if you had a cold or a cough.
Onion poultice, salt water gargle, raw garlic and one I swear by, hot toddy with lemon and honey.
Even docs approve of quite a lot of them.

14 All-Natural Home Remedies for Fast Cold & Flu Relief

WebMD describes home remedies that may speed your recovery from colds or flu.

www.webmd.com

Funniest one I have heard of is slices of onion in your socks on the soles of your feet. I mean how on earth can you do that?

Stanleysteamer · Tuesday at 21:32

Freddie17 said:
Well 8kg of washing, when wet, will be heavier than 9kgs!
Did you not go to school?

Sorry, is that you talking to my missus?
I did of course say similar, but I left out the reference to whether she went to school or not!

Stanleysteamer · Tuesday at 21:35

Freddie17 said:
Well 8kg of washing, when wet, will be heavier than 9kgs!
Did you not go to school?

Her excuse was that it had been spun dried! But I know she didn't spin it at high speed.

Stanleysteamer · Tuesday at 21:37

DanClarke said:
Funniest one I have heard of is slices of onion in your socks on the soles of your feet. I mean how on earth can you do that?

Might be a wind up, like the famous cure for acne, "Wash your face in your own wee"

There will always be some dumb adolescent who'll fall for it!

Hippo · 2024-10-30T02:32:36+0000

Hippo · 2024-10-30T02:39:32+0000

Had a difficult conversation wiv edgar this morning. He's proud to be part of naychair. Creating oxygen ferrus and being part of the biodiversty fing. Taking in co2 and hiding it ter help the planet. He dun't ask fer much. He prefers to live a simple modest life. He gorrup set when eye explained under the new guv rules he ain't a wuker.

Turktowner · 2024-10-30T05:36:56+0000

Stanleysteamer said:
Oh dear.
I lost 8mm off the end of my left index to a plunge saw a while back. And it was slowing down in mid air when it happened, no power to it at the time. I'd decided I couldn't make the cut I wanted to make with it set up the way I had done so, so I was lifting it away from the work. The left hand side of the base plate is a damn sight narrower than a normal circular saw, as I discovered.

Hope you lost a lot less than I did.

Serious sympathies, mate!.

Just a ickle chunk removed, will be right as rain.. Ta

kevstar · 2024-10-30T07:40:28+0000

Morning all, have a jolly wee day.

Hippo · 2024-10-30T08:02:51+0000

Stanleysteamer said:
well...
Spent a while today trying again, unsuccessfully again, to get into my Barclays accounts.
This being cos I am rather late in moving dosh around before tomorrow's budget.
Ended up on the phone to some blokey who agreed that the wimmins who was supposed to send me two missives, sent the one and not the other, without which I couldn't even log on.
So once it was obvious that the blokey couldn't really help me very quickly I decided to drive to ringwood, our nearest, and part time, branch tomoz a.m. to empty the account.
What a state of affairs.
Blokey said "If you have the app...." etc etc. Stick that my friend. Online at home on a pooter whose batt isn't going to fail in the middle of a transaction, that is not going to get lost or stolen from my pocket or my car is the way I wanted to go.
So be it.
Anyway he is going to report it as a complaint, etc. They will be losing a not incosiderable amount of dosh from their coffers as a result of their incompetence.

Grr.
Rant over!

The app will be passwurd protected.

DanClarke · 2024-10-30T08:14:22+0000

Morning All.

The "Cold" has progressed to the coughing/wheezy chest stage.
Did get some sleep though. Stridor is no fun though. Infection deep inside comes next.

Have a Wonderful Wednesday.

landowner · 2024-10-30T08:42:53+0000

Mornin
Dry again today
Dentist this morning, another 30 odd quid for a check up

Had a good sleep in me own bed last night, might suggest every other night to gf

Grass still growin, roses still bloomin could do with a good overnight frost.
Still lookin local for a Land Rover to tow the caravan, got till spring though

Budget today, filled truck up last night
Stay calm all

Hippo · 2024-10-30T08:49:20+0000

Edgar finks we're gerrin a budgie today.

landowner · 2024-10-30T10:10:41+0000

landowner said:
Mornin
Dry again today
Dentist this morning, another 30 odd quid for a check up
Had a good sleep in me own bed last night, might suggest every other night to gf
Grass still growin, roses still bloomin could do with a good overnight frost.
Still lookin local for a Land Rover to tow the caravan, got till spring though
Budget today, filled truck up last night
Stay calm all

Dentist £26.80 so not too bad, still waitin, never get done on time

Stanleysteamer · 2024-10-30T11:47:27+0000

Turktowner said:
Just a ickle chunk removed, will be right as rain.. Ta

Phew!

Stanleysteamer · 2024-10-30T11:59:15+0000

Went to Ringwood.
Barclays turned out to be a room in the library, a table, a blokey and a laptop.
Hmm!
Anyway luckily I had brought all the right stuff and he did the biz.
It should be emptied and closed sometime today and the money transferred to where I want it.
But he wouldn't have been able to have given me a bankers draft. Ho no! "We is paperless, better for the planet (and we don't have a printer)" For flip's sake!
So got back, checked on W and gave her a lempsip wiv honey in, then pootled back out to get her some Merocets or Merocaine and fill up the Disco. "Merocets? Never heard of them." quoth the ladies in the chemists. So they check online and apparently they are discontinued, or antiques or summat, so the best throat lozenges you could buy are now no more! So I got her some others with lidocaine in, we'll have to see how they go.
Sainsbury's petrol station was busy but not real queuing, i.e. not back out to the dual carriageway.
Shoved 100 sovs wuth in.
Hadn't taken the Pluriel as when I started it it was making a funny noise from... you guessed it... the timing belt area.

Rude words spoken. It sounded OK when I started it after readjusting the tensioner tother day.
Hmmph.

So when I got back I started it up again and the sound had gone. :stars:

So I got my stethoscope out and had a wee listen all around the timing belt case and sho nuff there is a wee noise coming from inside it, not even regular, a faint wuff, wuff noise, quiet, not like a dog barking. Methinks it might be the water pump. Just my luck having not changed it as you all know. Maybe having a properly tensioned belt is now putting a bit more pressure on the bearing surfaces in it.
So I'll take it out and fill it up, have a few, strong words with it and see if it is any wuss when I get back.
Hey ho!
At least it isn't raining, just high pressure gloom.
Have a good day folks!

kevstar · 2024-10-30T12:23:16+0000

Stanleysteamer said:
Yip, corf medicine, not sore froat medicine!

I had her gargling with mouthwash, salt water, Lemsip, etc. It relatively quickly got better.

Ok since its during school hours & not AG I will move on.

kevstar · 2024-10-30T12:25:00+0000

Will catch up tonight, bacon rolls for lunch. Yum

Lad has told peeps he's bought my tratter but I aint seen any money yet. Haha

Stanleysteamer · 2024-10-30T15:10:04+0000

Watched a bit of the budgie.
Felt it was fairish.
Thought some of it was funny.
I'll shut up now as there is a proper fred for it!

Stone56 · 2024-10-30T17:39:30+0000

DanClarke said:
When I was an ickle-boy and we went back to live with my Nan after me Mum was gone she used to give us this stuff called Liquifruta it was really horrible. She also used to stand us in front of the fire and rub us with camphorated oil.
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If things were really bad we got rubbed down with White Horse Liniment.
Happy days!

And a spoon full of malt and another of cod liver oil to wash it down

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