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I have to admit in such conditions a mobility scooter can be hard to control so at times was a bit scary there was a young mum with a kiddy in a pushchair and she was not having a good time either.
The staff at the surgery are all friendly and helpful so I can’t fault them I am quite lucky to be on this surgery’s books really.
Mood I give some hugs for all who need them and congrats for all the great artworks that never fail to astound me.
 
For anyone following the ongoing PA/AA arguments.

A nice little segment on BBC news gives a good background to the issue.

BBC News - A toxic staffing row is splitting the NHS
www.bbc.com

NHS physician associates and doctors locked in 'toxic' staffing row

A toxic row has engulfed the NHS, say ministers. So why have doctors turned on physician associates?
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com
 
6.0 this morning.

Torrential rain here in central Norfolk. Am so pleased that Mr K is driving me in to Norwich this morning.

Overdid it a bit yesterday. My ankle started complaining in the 3rd class last night. Stubbornly (or maybe a more accurate word is stupidly) I refused to use the Nordic pole and carried on teaching without it as I wanted to achieve 6 days of teaching without it.

By the time I got home ankle was ouchy ouchy. Luckily this morning it is absolutely fine. But I have learned my lesson. I will use the pole today. :) :) :)
 
Morning all from a wet and breezy L.A - Bert, is that you? Today I need to trawl through the thirty odd data points from yesterday's bloods, compare and contrast with previous levels then cogitate. Despite the main outcome of yesterday being as I wanted all I keep thinking about is my weight, the impact of steroids thereon and why Elsie Keto doesn't really deliver for me any more. Granted I was fully dressed for a cold day, with fluid and food so not as my morning weigh in.I really, really don't like needing to eat at breakfast time just to take steroids. I also don't think Elsie Keto in any form I can tolerate will provide me with the right ammunition for the battle ahead. AFAIC two years of immunotherapy masked Keto's shortcomings and delivered by far the best T2 control I ever achieved. The data and some further research on the impact of steroids and nutrition 101 may dominate the next few days - weeks? @Krystyna23040 take it easy today and use that NW pole. @JohnEGreen hug for the fbg but good news on the wound responding to the new device. Have a carol - Keto mince pies may be made this weekend so can't share them. Ignore my drivel, avoid Bert's worst effects and still have a good weekend.
 
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ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a wet and breezy L.A - Bert, is that you? Today I need to trawl through the thirty odd data points from yesterday's bloods, compare and contrast with previous levels then cogitate. Despite the main outcome of yesterday being as I wanted all I keep thinking about is my weight, the impact of steroids thereon and why Elsie Keto doesn't really deliver for me any more. Granted I was fully dressed for a cold day, with fluid and food so not as my morning weigh in..I really, really don't want to weigh 12 stone 3 (just shy of 6 feet tall now) or eat anything at breakfast time just to take steroids. I also don't think Elsie Keto in any form I can tolerate will provide me with the right ammunition for the battle ahead. AFAIC two years immunotherapy masked Keto's shortcomings and delivered by far the best T2 control I ever achieved. The data and some further research on the impact of steroids and nutrition 101 may dominate the next few days - weeks? @Krystyna23040 take it easy today and use that NW pole. @JohnEGreen hug for the fbg but good news on the wound responding to the new device. Have a carol - Keto mince pies may be made this weekend so can't share them. Ignore my drivel, avoid Bert's worst effects and still have a good weekend.
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Thanks for the carol much appreciated.
 
I wonder if anyone on this forum knows many old fashioned Music Hall songs. I've been trying to write down the lyrics for all the ones my father taught me but two I can only partially remember.

One has the line "You stay where you are..." I have the chorus and the second verse, but the first verse eludes me.
The other has the first line of its chorus "Ha ha ha, he he he...." and, again, I have the second verse but only part of the first.

I've spent hours online looking for these two songs but no luck. I know this is the wrong forum for this but just wonder if any of you do know these songs.
 
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Annb said:
I wonder if anyone on this forum knows many old fashioned Music Hall songs. I've been trying to write down the lyrics for all the ones my father taught me but two I can only partially remember.

One has the line "You stay where you are..." I have the chorus and the second verse, but the first verse eludes me.
The other has the first line of its chorus "Ha ha ha, he he he...." and, again, I have the second verse but only part of the first.

I've spent hours online looking for these two songs but no luck. I know this is the wrong forum for this but just wonder if any of you do know these songs.
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The second one sounds like, Little Brown Jug don't I love thee! Best wishes to you Ann.
Derek
 
Annb said:
I wonder if anyone on this forum knows many old fashioned Music Hall songs. I've been trying to write down the lyrics for all the ones my father taught me but two I can only partially remember.

One has the line "You stay where you are..." I have the chorus and the second verse, but the first verse eludes me.
The other has the first line of its chorus "Ha ha ha, he he he...." and, again, I have the second verse but only part of the first.

I've spent hours online looking for these two songs but no luck. I know this is the wrong forum for this but just wonder if any of you do know these songs.
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No idea on the first one but think the 2nd may be a version of "Little Brown Jug". Apparently there are several.

Little Brown Jug​

Song by​

Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
Me and my wife live all alone
In a little log hut we're all our own;
She loves gin and I love rum,
And don't we have a lot of fun!
Chorus:
Ha, ha, ha, you and me,
Little brown jug, don't I love thee!
Ha, ha, ha, you and me,
Little brown jug, don't I love thee!
When I go toiling on the farm
I take the little jug under my arm;
Place it under a shady tree,
Little brown jug, 'tis you and me. '
'Tis you that makes me friends and foes,
'Tis you that makes me wear old clothes;
But, seeing you're so near my nose,
Tip her up and down she goes.
If all the folks in Adam's race
Were gathered together in one place,
Then I'd prepare to she'd a tear (I'd let them go without a tear)
Before I'd part from you, my dear.
If I'd a cow that gave such milk,
I'd dress her in the finest silk;
Feed her up on oats and hay,
And milk her twenty times a day.
I bought a cow from Farmer Jones,
And she was nothing but skin and bones;
I fed her up as fine as silk,
She jumped the fence and strained her milk.
And when I die don't bury me at all,
Just pickle my bones in alcohol;
I'ut a bottle o' booze at my head and feet
And then I know that I will keep.
The rose is red, my nose is too,
The violets blue and so are you;
And yet, I guess, before I stop,
We'd better take another drop.

Songwriters: Joseph Eastburne Winner, Yuma Bandou. For non-commercial use only.

@lindisfel beat me to it!
 
Good late and dark afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen.

I took my blood sugars this morning they were in the sixes, where in the sixes I know not, or care not.

I am having a little chat with most of me, me’s and myself about the vagaries of the engrish language and it occurred to me that the previous paragraph could be read as I took my blood sugars out to some other geographical location and left them their, there they’re. It’s a strange modern language.

Hugs where needed, a smile wear kneaded and a swift knee in the …. If required

Stay safe, stay dry and stay warm all.

Edit
Anybody else remember the Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band?
 
septua said:
No idea on the first one but think the 2nd may be a version of "Little Brown Jug". Apparently there are several.

Little Brown Jug​

Song by​

Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
Me and my wife live all alone
In a little log hut we're all our own;
She loves gin and I love rum,
And don't we have a lot of fun!
Chorus:
Ha, ha, ha, you and me,
Little brown jug, don't I love thee!
Ha, ha, ha, you and me,
Little brown jug, don't I love thee!
When I go toiling on the farm
I take the little jug under my arm;
Place it under a shady tree,
Little brown jug, 'tis you and me. '
'Tis you that makes me friends and foes,
'Tis you that makes me wear old clothes;
But, seeing you're so near my nose,
Tip her up and down she goes.
If all the folks in Adam's race
Were gathered together in one place,
Then I'd prepare to she'd a tear (I'd let them go without a tear)
Before I'd part from you, my dear.
If I'd a cow that gave such milk,
I'd dress her in the finest silk;
Feed her up on oats and hay,
And milk her twenty times a day.
I bought a cow from Farmer Jones,
And she was nothing but skin and bones;
I fed her up as fine as silk,
She jumped the fence and strained her milk.
And when I die don't bury me at all,
Just pickle my bones in alcohol;
I'ut a bottle o' booze at my head and feet
And then I know that I will keep.
The rose is red, my nose is too,
The violets blue and so are you;
And yet, I guess, before I stop,
We'd better take another drop.

Songwriters: Joseph Eastburne Winner, Yuma Bandou. For non-commercial use only.

@lindisfel beat me to it!
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Thanks @lindisfel and @septua. That's another one I'd forgotten. Unfortunately it's not the one I'm thinking of.

The bits I can remember are:

???????
Fishing outside of an asylium,
???????
???????
Ha ha ha, he he he,
How many fish have you caught, said he,
I've been here all day and I haven't had a bite
Said the barmy bloke, "Well come inside".

A pair of lovers, dressed in their best
Were sitting beneath a cooing dove's nest
When all of a sudden that silly young dove
Dispatched a message from up above
Ha ha ha, he he he,
That might have spoilt my clothes, said she
But ain't I glad that missed my eye
And I'm also glad that cows can't fly.

Some of these Victorian Music Hall songs are very silly.

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Just remembered a bit more of that first verse:

Something something something something
Fishing outside of an asylium
When all of a sudden he heard a bawl
And a barmy bloke looked over the wall
Ha ha ha etc.

Very non woke and unkind language but this comes from a time when "moron" was accepted as an official description and "barmy" was a commonly used word.

My goodness, how did I manage to salvage that from my memory after all these years?
 
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alf_Josiah said:
Good late and dark afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen.

I took my blood sugars this morning they were in the sixes, where in the sixes I know not, or care not.

I am having a little chat with most of me, me’s and myself about the vagaries of the engrish language and it occurred to me that the previous paragraph could be read as I took my blood sugars out to some other geographical location and left them their, there they’re. It’s a strange modern language.

Hugs where needed, a smile wear kneaded and a swift knee in the …. If required

Stay safe, stay dry and stay warm all.

Edit
Anybody else remember the Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band?
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Yes. But only the one song - very 60's - The Urban Spaceman. More of a comedy act really, from what I remember.

Our water has gone off. Probably ice in the filters or something. Just as well my dinner was already in the oven. I have about a cupful of water left in the kettle that I didn't use when cooking so Neil can have that for some hot coffee. I've had a hot meal.

Already put an extra layer on, it was getting cold despite the oven being on.
 
alf_Josiah said:
Good late and dark afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen.

I took my blood sugars this morning they were in the sixes, where in the sixes I know not, or care not.

I am having a little chat with most of me, me’s and myself about the vagaries of the engrish language and it occurred to me that the previous paragraph could be read as I took my blood sugars out to some other geographical location and left them their, there they’re. It’s a strange modern language.

Hugs where needed, a smile wear kneaded and a swift knee in the …. If required

Stay safe, stay dry and stay warm all.

Edit
Anybody else remember the Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band?
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Yes!
Saw them in Loughborough......
 
jjraak said:
For anyone following the ongoing PA/AA arguments.

A nice little segment on BBC news gives a good background to the issue.

BBC News - A toxic staffing row is splitting the NHS
www.bbc.com

NHS physician associates and doctors locked in 'toxic' staffing row

A toxic row has engulfed the NHS, say ministers. So why have doctors turned on physician associates?
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com
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Sorry for repeating but for many of us, and our families this conversation may have massive impacts.

x.com

x.com x.com

www.theguardian.com

What if your ‘physician’ wasn’t actually a doctor at all? Beware this new reckless experiment | Rachel Clarke

The NHS says it’s not trying to replace qualified doctors with physician associates. But we can see the terrifying truth, says the palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a wet and breezy L.A - Bert, is that you? Today I need to trawl through the thirty odd data points from yesterday's bloods, compare and contrast with previous levels then cogitate. Despite the main outcome of yesterday being as I wanted all I keep thinking about is my weight, the impact of steroids thereon and why Elsie Keto doesn't really deliver for me any more. Granted I was fully dressed for a cold day, with fluid and food so not as my morning weigh in.I really, really don't like needing to eat at breakfast time just to take steroids. I also don't think Elsie Keto in any form I can tolerate will provide me with the right ammunition for the battle ahead. AFAIC two years of immunotherapy masked Keto's shortcomings and delivered by far the best T2 control I ever achieved. The data and some further research on the impact of steroids and nutrition 101 may dominate the next few days - weeks? @Krystyna23040 take it easy today and use that NW pole. @JohnEGreen hug for the fbg but good news on the wound responding to the new device. Have a carol - Keto mince pies may be made this weekend so can't share them. Ignore my drivel, avoid Bert's worst effects and still have a good weekend.
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good luck with your further research on the impact of steroids and nutrition @ianpspurs.

Today was really strange. I had non-stop classes and 1:1s from 9.30am to 3.30pm in my venue. Not one break. My ankle was completely pain free and not once did I need the Nordic poles. Even after the journey home and the 4.30pm Zoom class - absolutely no discomfort.

It makes no sense at all that I had so much pain in Friday after a very relaxing day and only 3¾ hours of teaching.
 
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