The Friendly Cafe - Open for chinwaggin'

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 6:52 am

I love Wells. I think it is so beautiful. It was wonderful to visit there. Thank you for the photos.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 7:25 am

Last Tuesday evening (16 June) I had a terrific surging rise in my body temperature. It caused me to collapse and loose consciousness. I had fallen in a most cramped area in a corner and was wedged against the wall ! Hubby and son in a state of shock called for an ambulance ! My son, bless him was strong enough to pull me up and out of the corner to a more accessible position. Apparently I looked close to death's door and my breathing was very shallow !!! After about 8 minutes a paramedic arrived and did various things to try to stabilise me, then an ambulance arrived and I was given oxygen, put onto a trolley and wheeled into the ambulance. Off we went , with no siren, but advertising with the blues! The ambulance had travelled from about 20 miles away, and I queried this with one of the ambulancemen because there was an ambulance station only about 3 minutes away from our house ! It would seem that the more local ambulances had been called to Leicestershire somewhere so the Ashfield ambulance had to answer the shout. I despair of this damn country - it is slowly and surely becoming a third world country !

Various things were checked over and I was put on a drip as soon as I arrived in A & E at The Queens's Medical Centre. I had the saline drip, a paracetamol drip and an oxygen line into my nose ! I didn't have too much solid sleep over night each night because I was being checked on every 2 hours or more frequently for blood pressure, temperature and having blood samples removed from my arms ! I felt like I was in Intensive Care although it was a side room of an assessment ward, Obviously what had hit me was fairly virulent and consequently easily passed on to anybody else !

After so many tests, the docs (I never saw the same doc twice ! I even had a visit from a professor !) decided that I had been attacked by a very potent viral gastro enteritis, so no antibiotics - definitely not norovirus though. I was in hospital for 4 days and 4 nights. I was cared for brilliantly by all the staff, who were very diligent in their cleanliness, attention and care. Every time a doc or nurse etc. came into the room they had put on a special 'apron' and blue hospital gloves, and after they had completed their task, removed these items and put them in a special bin in the room and then thoroughly washed their hands in the special anti-bacteria fluid. I lost count of how many aprons and pairs of gloves had been used.

Anyway, I came back home Saturday late afternoon, feeling a lot better but feeling like I had been 3 or 4 rounds with Mike Tyson, with regard to energy ! Done a lot of sleeping.

Today, Thursday, I am still recovering and still doing a lot of sleeping.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 8:42 am

Nice to have you back amongst us and getting better.

What had you been eating ?

This weather a busy fly might walk over several delightful dietary supplements, before landing on your lunch.

Funnily enough I had an attack of the trots when I returned from Scotland some time ago (in a thread on here somewhere) but I was in an assessment ward amongst others who I helped with drink and put back into bed and other stuff.Had a letter from the local council later after I was discharged as it was notifiable.

Bloody job it wasn't ebola or we would all be doooooomed.

Smaug · Post by **Smaug** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 8:49 am

Hope you're feeling better soon, and make a complete recovery ASAP, G#Gill! There's some pretty NASTY stuff about at the moment. Take it EASY. :-6

:yh_wait

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 11:30 pm

G#Gill;1481286 wrote: Last Tuesday evening (16 June) I had a terrific surging rise in my body temperature. It caused me to collapse and loose consciousness. .........
When you said friendly chinwaggin' I thought you meant amusing discussions – cute, humorous, happy, delightful, joyful on a lark subjects. I never expected to have the wind knocked out of me. You must thank hubby and son for responding well, but you must also promise us to never, never, ever again have one of those collapses! I'm dead serious. I said “promise!

I'm still waiting for that promise.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 2:09 am

Blimey Gill you don't do things by halves do you :wah:

Must have been a scary time for you all, glad you are home and recovering. :-6

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 4:40 am

Thank you all for your good wishes, and yes it was rather traumatic probably mostly for my hubby and son who were looking at this "wreck of the Hesperus". I can't remember much about it as I was really "out of it" for some time. Anyway I'm on the mend now thank goodness, but HT I will do my best not to repeat the episode I can assure you, although I can't promise as these things happen out of the blue, don't they ? It is certainly not the sort of episode I would intentionally make a habit of !

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 5:06 am

OK, just for HT to cheer him up :wah: Some Australians demonstrating how to get a hit song ! Not sure how many songs they sing on this video, but it just goes to show that a person only needs 4 chords really! :guitarist

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 5:16 am

Or perhaps a little something more appropriate ?

:wah:

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 10:56 am

G#Gill;1481362 wrote: OK, just for HT to cheer him up :wah: Some Australians demonstrating how to get a hit song ! Not sure how many songs they sing on this video, but it just goes to show that a person only needs 4 chords really! :guitarist

That's going on my Facebook.

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 6:55 am

G#Gill;1481362 wrote: OK, just for HT to cheer him up :wah: Some Australians demonstrating how to get a hit song ! Not sure how many songs they sing on this video, but it just goes to show that a person only needs 4 chords really! :guitarist

Thank you Gill! I can sing better than they but I can only play one chord ¦. though I don't know which one it is ¦.. any chance of me becoming a rock star?

G#Gill;1481362 wrote: Or perhaps a little something more appropriate ?

Nice pins! I slid into puberty with the likes of these, particularly Terry-Thomas. No one knows how to produce a good farce like the 50's – 60's Brits and Frogs. Love it!

Smaug · Post by **Smaug** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 3:37 pm

The only instrument I can play is the buffoon, but I play it quite well!:wah:

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 9:16 pm

Smaug;1481601 wrote: The only instrument I can play is the buffoon, but I play it quite well!:wah:

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:29 am

High Threshold;1481614 wrote:

I just love this video ! Sets me off every time I watch it ! :yh_rotfl :-6

A belated thank you HT for including it !

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:44 am

G#Gill;1482807 wrote: I just love this video ! Sets me off every time I watch it ! :yh_rotfl :-6

A belated thank you HT fr including it !
Charming ain't he.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 12:09 pm

This thread disappeared off the radar, and I had to do a bit of searching to fetch it back !

Well I've not been feeling too good these last few days but I'm coping. I have a lovely hubby and son to keep an eye on me.

I watched a lot of Wimbledon the last fortnight and thoroughly enjoyed it, and wasn't the weather good? Pity our Andy Murray was knocked out, though. He'll be back next year!

Why is it that so many people get those little yappy dogs ? One of the houses about 80 yards away from our house, the occupiers must be out all day and they leave their two yappy dogs in their small walled garden all the time they are away from the house. There is a dog kennel and I suppose there is food and water left for them, but their incessant yap yap yap all day long at every passing person is getting me down just a tad ! They start yapping at just after 7 am. and go on and on till around 8 or 9 pm. I wonder if I could get hold of some ether :rolleyes: I joke honestly I do, but it is like a Chinese torture ! Because they yap all the time, it sets other folks' dogs off when they are put in the gardens for a comfort break.

Does anybody else have such a problem ?

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 1:04 pm

G#Gill;1482810 wrote: Why is it that so many people get those little yappy dogs ? One of the houses about 80 yards away from our house, the occupiers must be out all day and they leave their two yappy dogs in their small walled garden all the time they are away from the house. There is a dog kennel and I suppose there is food and water left for them, but their incessant yap yap yap all day long at every passing person is getting me down just a tad ! They start yapping at just after 7 am. and go on and on till around 8 or 9 pm. I wonder if I could get hold of some ether :rolleyes: I joke honestly I do, but it is like a Chinese torture ! Because they yap all the time, it sets other folks' dogs off when they are put in the gardens for a comfort break.

Does anybody else have such a problem ?
Could be that not that many people do “get those little yappy dogs. I believe that if you get a dog (little or otherwise) and leave it alone for hours on end that it will yap for the isolation and loneliness. If we could understand them we might find that they are yapping ...

“Someone please! I'm locked in this filthy place with nothing but sweaty, human odours the whole clapping day! Help! I have no wrist-watch and can't tell time anyway so I have no idea when that pig of a human is coming to feed me or if he (or anyone else) is ever coming back at all!

One neighbour, next to the flat we lived in some years ago, left their 8-month-old lab with a run of their flat and the open balcony .... all night long. That poor creature was out on the balcony howling like he was trying out for the part of the beast of the Baskerville moors.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 1:40 pm

Why do these selfish people even think of getting a dog when they know they will be at work all day. In order to stop the poor, lonely, frustrated animal from ripping everything inside the house to pieces, they rig up a dog kennel in the garden and shut it outside while they are at work. I really don't understand how some people tick. Why can't they put up with not having a dog till one of them is at home all the time, or take it to training classes to stop it yapping continually?

We have a dog, but there is always somebody in the house. One thing that folk can do to make the dog feel it is not all alone, is switch the radio on ! :rolleyes:

It is now 8.40 pm and that poor little dog is still yapping, so where are the owners ? Probably gone to the pub !

travelingjack · Post by **travelingjack** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 1:42 pm

i can beat that ,yappy dogs u have no idea lol to my estimate next door have possible 12 possible more may be pups as well , had a nightmare for 2 years starts some mornings at 4/5 am ..

even RSPCA dont want to know which surprises me i cant believe its fit for humans in the house to what i can see , oh yes and its a semidetached house

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 2:15 pm

Gawd, TJ, no wonder you have difficulty sleeping ! Can't your local council health and safey department do anything about that. The smell must seep through to properties either side ! If you can find out who your local councillor is, maybe he can do something about it. Apart from the health and safety issues, there is the 'nuisance' issue affecting your personal quality of life ! I would have thought that the council would not have approved of all those dogs being in a semi detached house, after all I wouldn't have thought that it was a licensed kennel, not in a private house !!!!

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:46 pm

G#Gill;1482812 wrote: Why do these selfish people even think of getting a dog when they know they will be at work all day.
Probably ridiculed at work and a carpenter down at the pub. He's got to have someone to take out his frustrations at the end of the day ...

... and mistake dependency for love.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 3:55 am

Awww ! HT those are so lovely. That's the trouble really, people see puppies like this and the puppies are so cuddly they have to have one. Then a lot of interest is lost when that dear little puppy grows into an adult dog ! It's just the same with cats. Kittens are so adorable and cute but they grow into cats !!!! There are far too many cats in this world.

We have always had a dog in our house. The first one we had was a gorgeous puppy which came from a litter that my mum's dog's sister had - he turned out to be a very quick learner and I managed to teach him all the basic commands (with hand signals so he did what was instructed with no voice commands !) within 4 weeks ! He was a joy to train ! All our dogs after, Freddy (who lived into his 16th year) were 'rescue' dogs from the RSPCA, most were around two years of age, but Rex (already named) was 8 years old, and a bit of a risk to take on as he must have had loads of 'baggage' AND he was a very large German Shepherd ! I looked at his mournful face through the fencing at the RSPCA and saw that he had a 'kind eye' - yes I could learn to love that huge dog in a very short space of time, and we all did ! We had Rex for 8 years, so he was another long-liver. We have loved all our dogs and have always said that if the dog is not allowed at anywhere, then we don't go. Our dogs have always been 'family members'.

The dog we have at the moment, 'Jessica' , is also an ex RSPCA dog. She is gorgeous ! Apparently she had been abandoned in a house, with another similar type of crossbreed dog, and there must have been a misunderstanding about them being left in the house when their owner was sent to prison ! A neighbour became concerned with continuous howling from this house and called in the RSPCA. Jessica cannot be left alone in the house at all because she just howls and howls. She just has memories about those years ago when she was left alone for at least a fortnight, thinking nobody is coming back ! But she was rescued, along with her friend, and she is much loved and living with her 'forever family'.

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 1:23 pm

G#Gill;1482833 wrote: Awww ! HT those are so lovely. That's the trouble really, people see puppies like this and the puppies are so cuddly they have to have one. Then a lot of interest is lost when that dear little puppy grows into an adult dog ! It's just the same with cats. Kittens are so adorable and cute but they grow into cats !!!! There are far too many cats in this world.

We have always had a dog in our house. The first one we had was a gorgeous puppy which came from a litter that my mum's dog's sister had - he turned out to be a very quick learner and I managed to teach him all the basic commands (with hand signals so he did what was instructed with no voice commands !) within 4 weeks ! He was a joy to train ! All our dogs after, Freddy (who lived into his 16th year) were 'rescue' dogs from the RSPCA, most were around two years of age, but Rex (already named) was 8 years old, and a bit of a risk to take on as he must have had loads of 'baggage' AND he was a very large German Shepherd ! I looked at his mournful face through the fencing at the RSPCA and saw that he had a 'kind eye' - yes I could learn to love that huge dog in a very short space of time, and we all did ! We had Rex for 8 years, so he was another long-liver. We have loved all our dogs and have always said that if the dog is not allowed at anywhere, then we don't go. Our dogs have always been 'family members'.

The dog we have at the moment, 'Jessica' , is also an ex RSPCA dog. She is gorgeous ! Apparently she had been abandoned in a house, with another similar type of crossbreed dog, and there must have been a misunderstanding about them being left in the house when their owner was sent to prison ! A neighbour became concerned with continuous howling from this house and called in the RSPCA. Jessica cannot be left alone in the house at all because she just howls and howls. She just has memories about those years ago when she was left alone for at least a fortnight, thinking nobody is coming back ! But she was rescued, along with her friend, and she is much loved and living with her 'forever family'.
If I am destined to be reincarnated as a dog, I hope that I end up on the floor of your home:

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 1:50 pm

High Threshold;1482845 wrote: If I am destined to be reincarnated as a dog, I hope that I end up on the floor of your home:

Oh for pity's sake, HT, that's a hilarious mini video !!! It's the kiddy's startled eyes that slay me. Ere, s'posin' I get reincarnated as a cat and we fetch up on the same floor ?? :yh_rotfl

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 2:09 pm

I like this sort of thing, as far as dogs are concerned.

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 9:36 pm

G#Gill;1482851 wrote: ...... Ere, s'posin' I get reincarnated as a cat and we fetch up on the same floor ?? :yh_rotfl
What a lovely thought!

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 9:40 pm

FourPart;1482852 wrote: I like this sort of thing, as far as dogs are concerned.
Oh my! I agree.

Smaug · Post by **Smaug** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 4:36 am

High Threshold;1482824 wrote: Probably ridiculed at work and a carpenter down at the pub. He's got to have someone to take out his frustrations at the end of the day ...

... and mistake dependency for love.

I could never be an RSPCA inspector. The first person I caught being wantonly cruel to a dog would end up in intensive care, and I'd have a criminal record for GBH!!

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 7:19 am

Smaug;1482871 wrote: I could never be an RSPCA inspector. The first person I caught being wantonly cruel to a dog would end up in intensive care, and I'd have a criminal record for GBH!!
Good job you didn't know me grand dad. He beat his dogs and his horses merciless. He wasn't all that lenient towards me either. He was a terrible, despicable man.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 3:32 pm

That is awful to hear about, HT. What makes people think they can 'rule' by fear ? That sort of thing has a habit of turning and biting back ! Makes my blood boil. There is far to much cruelty in the world.

Fuzzy · Post by **Fuzzy** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 6:17 pm

G#Gill;1482884 wrote: What makes people think they can 'rule' by fear ?

Religion?

Ted · Post by **Ted** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 7:50 pm

I can agree with Fuzzy to a certain extent. The right uses and has used fear to maintain their following. "You gonna burn baby". It was and still is an attempt to maintain control.. We live in a very unpredictable world. The right uses the issue of fear to maintain the security of the leadership and the security of the masses. It is a problem of uncertainty. People want security where none really exists so lay on the fear. Don't lay out the truth. Some Christians know there is no real security and live accordingly along with the uncertainty. Far too many take the Bible literally. This is not a valid approach. It must be done through Midrash. Literalism and evangelicalism is but a few hundred years old. A real look for security. Perhaps they don't trust the Divine. Thus the necessity for the Bible to be a written contract signed sealed and delivered. Lack of trust in the Divine.

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 8:09 pm

G#Gill;1482884 wrote: That is awful to hear about, HT. What makes people think they can 'rule' by fear ?
He was born in Palermo in 1898. He was an amateur "bare knuckles" boxer right through the first world war, and it is said that he had no more than 3 years of primary school. I'd say that punching people up to get what he wanted was the only method the old bastard knew.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Sat Jul 18, 2015 7:13 am

Palermo, HT, that's in Sicily - your grandfather was Sicilian//Italian! Sicily is noted for being the 'home' of certain people who are rather tough !? Perhaps that was why your grandfather was as he was ?

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Sat Jul 18, 2015 9:46 am

G#Gill;1482918 wrote: Palermo, HT, that's in Sicily - your grandfather was Sicilian//Italian! Sicily is noted for being the 'home' of certain people who are rather tough !? Perhaps that was why your grandfather was as he was ?
Some years ago I heard one of the family secret suspicions that he had to flee Sicily because he had murdered someone there. So I did quite a bit of researching and have come to the absolute conclusion that the rumour cannot possibly be true. I am amazed at how much documented information (copies of the originals) one can find if you have a starting point and find the right connections to take it further.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Sat Jul 18, 2015 4:05 pm

My oldest brother did much genealogy quite a few years ago, tracing family trees of various branches of our family, his wife's family, my other brother's wife's family, my sisters husband's family, and my hubby's family etc. He found it most engrossing, fascinating and quite enlightening ! For instance I now know that some of my ancestors were criminals (one was even arrested for fraud, as he tried to board a ship and leave the country !) :yh_blush :yh_shame :sneaky:

As you say, HT, you can find out so much with a bit of concentrated research !

Smaug · Post by **Smaug** » Sat Jul 18, 2015 6:07 pm

Can't believe how many religious threads there are at the moment. It's like being invaded by chuffing locusts!!:-3

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:01 am

G#Gill;1482970 wrote: My oldest brother did much genealogy quite a few years ago, tracing family trees of various branches of our family, his wife's family, my other brother's wife's family, my sisters husband's family, and my hubby's family etc. He found it most engrossing, fascinating and quite enlightening ! For instance I now know that some of my ancestors were criminals (one was even arrested for fraud, as he tried to board a ship and leave the country !) :yh_blush :yh_shame :sneaky:

As you say, HT, you can find out so much with a bit of concentrated research !
Stowing away is considered fraud? My, oh, my ... what a criminal blood-line in your family! Do you often get the urge to do something nauty but can't understand why? :wah:

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:11 am

Smaug;1482975 wrote: Can't believe how many religious threads there are at the moment. It's like being invaded by chuffing locusts!!
The Lord - Our Holy Beefburger - works in strange ways.

Do not jest of the Coleman's, my son ..... for one man's mustard is another man's condiment.

Post by **LarsMac** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 7:21 am

Smaug;1482975 wrote: Can't believe how many religious threads there are at the moment. It's like being invaded by chuffing locusts!!:-3

I have to apologize to AHSO!

I think he may have been right. He said that if we ignore them, maybe they'll go away.

Good luck with that.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 8:26 am

LarsMac;1482989 wrote: I have to apologize to AHSO!

I think he may have been right. He said that if we ignore them, maybe they'll go away.

Good luck with that.

I have started threads that have died a death from lack of interest, nobody replies and they die, simple.

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 11:58 am

The sudden upsurge in the last few days is because of the return of Ted. He's a religious scholar I believe and was a regular her for years. He's obviously picked up several religious threads and brought them all to the fore.

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 12:00 pm

Bruv;1482994 wrote: I have started threads that have died a death from lack of interest, nobody replies and they die, simple.

We've all had them. I know I certainly have. There was a time a long while back where I wondered whether I had been put on ignore by every one

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 12:32 pm

Snowfire;1482998 wrote: We've all had them. I know I certainly have. There was a time a long while back where I wondered whether I had been put on ignore by every one

Hello !

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 12:36 pm

This business of an increase in so-called religious threads is all very well, and maybe one can take 'em or leave 'em so long as they don't breed like rabbits in the Garden ! :rolleyes: BUT I do think it's infradig when people of a religious leaning start posting and pushing their religious stuff on threads which were not intended to have religious content or sermons posted on them ! We do have an example of an attempted religious take-over on this very thread ! :-5 I blame Fuzzy for starting the attempt on this thread, a couple of days ago, when all he typed was 'religion ?' in answer to a previous question, and 'Ted' leapt in ! Ted, I know you mean well, but could you confine your sermons to 'Religious' threads............... Thank you muchly.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 12:41 pm

Snowfire;1482999 wrote: Hello !

Hello !....................lo.....................lo.............................lo.............................lo........................lo.......................lo

There's an echo in here ........ere..............ere......................ere...............................ere....................ere................ere.............. :yh_rotfl

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 12:44 pm

G#Gill;1483000 wrote: This business of an increase in so-called religious threads is all very well, and maybe one can take 'em or leave 'em so long as they don't breed like rabbits in the Garden ! :rolleyes: BUT I do think it's infradig when people of a religious leaning start posting and pushing their religious stuff on threads which were not intended to have religious content or sermons posted on them ! We do have an example of an attempted religious take-over on this very thread ! :-5 I blame Fuzzy for starting the attempt on this thread, a couple of days ago, when all he typed was 'religion ?' in answer to a previous question, and 'Ted' leapt in ! Ted, I know you mean well, but could you confine your sermons to 'Religious' threads............... Thank you muchly.

To be honest Gill, Ted is a polite, gentle man and is not a fanatic like some we could mention. It's just unfortunate that his return coincides with a glut of bilge and bollocks from a couple of nutcases.

His heart is in the right place, unlike the few others

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 12:45 pm

Snowfire;1482999 wrote: Hello !

Hello.

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 12:45 pm

G#Gill;1483001 wrote: Hello !....................lo.....................lo.............................lo.............................lo........................lo.......................lo

There's an echo in here ........ere..............ere......................ere...............................ere....................ere................ere.............. :yh_rotfl

Ah well I'm not on your ignore list then

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 12:46 pm

Bruv;1483003 wrote: Hello.

Nor yours