I don’t see anything wrong in principle with foreign investment in the UK. God knows we need it especially after Brexit and as I keep reminding you. UK companies have massive investments abroad relative to the size of the country. It’s up to the Government and the multitude of regulators that lie beneath it to ensure the industries in question are properly managed, whether they be strategic infrastructure, vital to our way of life (eg newspapers), defence related etc. They also need to protect fair competition in non-strategic industries, such as sports.
Bit of a scare today. Woke up hardly able to breathe and struggling. Been very chesty for a while now and get out of breath easily. Anyway as I was not getting better the wife called 999. Now she is resgistered blind and can't see telephone dials and stuff so it is not easy for her. Quick answer and they went through the 20 questions. Ambulance with 2 paramedics arrived within 10 minutes much to my surprise. Very thorough chaps they were. 3 hours later having checked everything possible they left having spoken to my GP and organised a prescription which my daughter collected. I now have my normal 5 pills a day and antibiotic pills and steroid pills which I take 6 at a time for 5 days. They did not want to take me in and subject me to multi hours of wait in a carpark but would not leave till they had me under control and breathing properly or as near as damn it. Good job Argyle are away tomorrow because there is no way my Mrs would let me out even if I bounced out of bed in the morning. Feeling 80% better now having swallowed a shed load of pills and puffed a whole load of puffer stuff. 3 cheers for the NHS from me this time.
Sounds nasty Sensible, glad you’re OK. Have you had previous symptoms? There’s been something going around which has been dubbed The 100 Day Cough but which is actually whooping cough. Either that, or you’ll have to cut down on the amount of shouting at linesman you do.
Not being able to freely breathe can cause panic and that is very understandable. Whooping cough used to be a regular occurrence back in the 1940's....I had it and it leaves you totally weak and exhausted.....it used to run its course after three weeks or so. The other ailment of that time when young was boils...puss fill swellings on the neck and in the arm pits....my mother used to bathe them with hot water....you felt that the end of the world was neigh. Well that's enough of cheering sensible up.....those linesmen would have had a free Saturday if Argyle where playing at home today.
I saw something recently about inoculations for shingles. My maternal grandmother died after a bout of shingles when she must have been relatively young: in her 50's perhaps so I thought I should enquire. I spoke to a medical person. The debate widened into my general inoculation status. I told her that I'd had all the childhood diseases including chickenpox which is related to shingles (German measles twice somehow btw, always pro-European). I'm sure I had all the childhood vaccinations too: I went to junior school with a boy who'd had polio, being left with legs in braces. Nobody was stupid enough to be an anti-vaxxer back then. In this discussion, I said I remembered that when I was 4 or 5, I was moved into isolation in my parents' bedroom during an illness and being kept in semi-darkness for a couple of days lest whatever it was harmed my eyes. This bamboozled the medic. She knew of no childhood disease which required shielding the eyes. I'm wondering now what my parents were doing when I was confined to a darkened room for no reason and with nothing to do or read. Was I that bad a child.....? Had my mother been duped by some weird folk-lore.....? It turns out BTW that if you've had chickenpox you should be OK but shingles vaccinations are as of 1st Jan 2024 available to the over 60's rather than over 70's as was the case before.
One of the symptoms of measles can be swollen red eyes....so a darkened room could help you to feel more comfortable for the first week of that illness.....common knowledge back in the 1940/50's.....in the days of black & white. OR Your parents where keen photographers and they used their bedroom to develop their films....and you where just a nuisance and they weren't changing just because you where ill.
Definately measles notdistant. I had it as a kid and my parents put me in a room with the curtains drawn to keep sunlight out. I have had a cough for months now which kept coming and going in severity throughout. It was mentioned by the paramedic yesterday. Their diagnosis was a bad chest infection which had been there for a while and was now kicking off. I had breakfast this morning and followed it up with 10 pills. My breathing is much improved today now the panic has gone away. Sadly (he says with a smirk on his face) I have been told to take it easy and not exert myself for a while. Just have to put the old feet up and watch tele then....... To some extent this was a bit of my own fault. I should have sorted out the cough and breathlessness a while back but it kept sort of clearing. I have had a dose of "I told you to see somebody about it ages ago" . They never miss an opportunity do they. Anyway 3 points today and all willl seem well with the world.
I did think it was when I had measles of some sort. I suppose they moved me out of my own bed because I was sharing a room with my younger brother. I wish I’d remembered the darkened room ruse when I had young kids in the house. It would have been a damn good way to get some peace and quiet.
Hey Sensible, i hope your ok and feeling better my man.. hope fully your be ok for the FA Cup replay.. Not distant i had Shingles in September, wow what painful ness i was in Edinghburgh at the time .. all i could do was put some cream on, i did have a 5 day course of tablets.. Not a great help. but it was hanging around for 8 weeks.. Sore and pain in the back and stomach.. when thet said it was shingles from the photo i had to send to Gp i thought its just a few spots and no pain .. then it started .. I didnt have chicken pots as far as i can remember .. as have had no parents to ask .. but you can get it more than once .. no thanks so get your jabs
Sadly will be watching the replay from my armchair Joe. Went to daughters today and struggled a bit after a while. Not going to risk a walk in the park at that time of night too soon. At the minute I do 10 yards and puff and pant like an old traction engine. Have bought a ticket though but it will be put to good use and not go to waste. At least I was rewarded today with my wished 3 points. Think you must have had chicken pox by the way as shingles is the dormant thing coming back. It sounds quite innocent when you say shingles but it aint funny if you get it. Not had it myself by know several who have, Right bugger to get rid of and it can last for months.
Steven Schumacher is obviously in a steep learning curve at Stoke....he might be earning more money....some would say 30 bits of silver.....and some of his under performing squad will be on high wages and might not be to keen on a new manager blaming them publicly for not doing the business......but they are only 4pts above a relegation spot....and we know that Stoke's owners are not slow in changing their management....quite a long list in recent years. Will he still be there when we play them in April ?
I admit to a small smirk like yesterday but am generally over him now. Can't see why pasoti needs an ongoing thread to wish him ill at every opportunity. He's gone and is now just a memory.
"Don't tell him Pike" actor Ian Lavender has died at 77yrs old....blimey i'm starting to feel old now,
Well glad your feeling a bit better, step by step.. yep shingles is not nice very painfull .. cleared up now.. thank fully, i was just going to leave it but a friend of mine is a pharmacist tech and she said get some cream and tablets Enclyia > it worked
I see Derek Adams has walked away from Ross County after only 12 games. He has been commenting about the state of Scottish football....and he regrets having taken the Ross job.....it was probably more of an heart decision seeing that over the years he has played for them twice and now managed them three times.
Our Labour led council in Plymouth are threatening to take legal action against the leaseholders of the old Plymouth Airport site. https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/plymouth-airport-leaseholder-given-one-9087831 This is supported by literally hundreds of people in the 0.25m population of the city. https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/hundreds-sign-new-petition-protect-9084525 To say I'm infuriated to have the council spend my Council Tax on an expensive legal case to recover an airfield big enough only for propellor driven aircraft would be a fair representation of my position on the issue, especially when councils all over the country are in financial difficulties. Face facts you morons - IT'S TOO SMALL. Runway Lengths: Newquay EGHQ 9,003 ft Exeter EGTE 6,811 ft Plymouth EGHD 3,806 ft
