The Canary Dave

Morning, Dave; morning, all.

Andy Snr is 80 today. A big family celebration tomorrow at a steam railway in the midlands that hosts a couple of Princess Royal class engines - “proper engines” (just as old leather footballs are “proper footballs”). He has a large model railway at home in his garage of which he is very particular. Only LMS, and there is a particular year it’s set (which I can’t remember). His love of steam has rubbed off on me quite a bit so I’m really looking forward to tomorrow as well.

 

Morning Andy, many happy returns to Andy senior and enjoy the celebrations

 

Thanks, Dave, I’ll pass that on.

 

Morning all, grey and damp currently, and little chance of it improving much today.

When I was a youngster I would go to watch the steam trains picking up water from the troughs just outside Bushey Station. It was quite a sight to see the Flying Scotsman approach a full trough, and once it had passed the water had all been scooped up into the engine. Enjoy the celebration Andy.

 

Wow.. I love trains and am thinking about reigniting my child hood hobby.. I had a big hornby three rail layout.. Now would not know where to start.. As you can get digital or analogue [emoji15]

Enjoy the [emoji322] celebration

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This may amuse you all
Once again The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternative meanings for common words.
The winners are:
1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n), olive-flavoured mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (n.), emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.
The Washington Post's Style Invitational also asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
The winners are:
-Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
-Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
-Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
-Inoculatte (v): To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
-Osteopornosis (n): A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
- Karmageddon (n): It's like, when everybody is sending off all these Really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
- Glibido (v): All talk and no action.
- Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
- Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating.
And the pick of the literature:
- Ignoranus (n): A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

 

Just to show how silly I am I found them all funny and clever but number 7 made me laugh out loud!

 

The very last one apples to our very good friend Mark Lawenson

 

OK you lovely people, I'm off to bed!

Night all

Night H

 

Good morning all from a mild and dry Weston-super-Mare!

Have a good day!

 

Morning all. Lots to do this morning before the rain/storms/clouds/glimpses of the sun arrive this afternoon. Take your pick time from the forecasts. Between them there will be one that is right.

 

Some weeks are good, some not. This week (year) has been sh**.
We got up early Monday as Mrs L had to inject her blood thinner and then get to the hospital within 4 hours for her blood to be analysed. Cost was an extra £100 nearly to get peak rate trains. Still we did it and saw the oncologist. We expected to find out what they were going to do to balance the blood thinning against clotting. Instead we were told the cardiac department could not work out why the blood clot in her heart was not responding to blood thinner. Mrs L needed to see a cardiac specialist. Why? We know nothing - it is for them to work out. She has had blood taken a dozen times this year and had 3 MRI and Ultrasound scans. Surely they are the ones to find an answer. Nothing we could do. Now she has been sent an appointment for another cardiac MRI - she had one 4 weeks ago so what will this achieve? To top it she was told they had not taken enough blood on Monday to analyse the speed her body metabolyses the heparin (like warfarin). So today we had to go to the more local hospital to have that blood test done again so they could send it to the Royal Free. So Monday was a total waste of time. On days when Mrs L goes to London her blood pressure goes through the roof - great for someone with a stent in their heart and a thrombus too. Since January it has been like a Kafka novel - just a tunnel of dark.
To cap it all I started the week with tonsilitis, got an upset stomach, a stinking cough and now have conjunctivitis. I don't even feel I have the right to moan at home
Sorry for this post but sometimes it is good to let it out.

 

Love and hugs to you both, I hope things improve rapidly Leo Love and best wishes to Julia xx

 

Really sorry that life is so bad at present Leo. Hopefully the hospital really do know what they are doing, there are very few in the country as good. We will continue to keep you both in our thoughts and hope that you feel better soon.

 

Thanks Dave you know we are both thinking of you too.

 

Thanks. Just needed to get that off my chest as it has been an awfully long week.

 

The PL clubs have voted against the use of VAR for next season according to this: http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/43755203

It doesn't sound an unqualified success where it has been used at home or abroad.

 

Cheers Leo... [emoji106]

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Does this mean that they will not complain about penalties not given or off-side goals allowed?

Neither do I

 

OK you lovely people, I'm off to bed!

Night all

Night H