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Parking was terribly expensive when I was in hospital, I'm so glad I get transport for my appointments,

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Well parking was as bad as we feared as it took us near on half hour to find a spot and thank god we left early as l would have never made the appointment on time else.

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Joys of motoring Weenie

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Yes sadly there is always another expense on it just around the corner.

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The problem with locking wheel nuts (Especially the really cheap and rubbish ones Rover uses) is that they're not really designed to take the full torque of tightening a wheel nut/bolt. You can try and lessen the chance of the key breaking by removing the locking nut/bolt first, then the other wheel bolts.

However, what guarantees that they break is that a number of "less than skilled" tyre fitters (especially at the national chains) just whizz up the nuts with an impact gun when changing the tyre, rather than using the correct procedure (that is wind the nuts in with the gun, but use a manual torque wrench to control final tightening)

Another fun part of wheel changing is when a car hasn't had copper grease smeared between the (usually alloy) wheel's rear face and the steel hub on the car. What this means is that the alloy electrolytically corrodes (essentially welds itself) to the hub. Removing the wheel then becomes very difficult, if not impossible, without heavy tools and a lot of swearing.

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After much deliberation I have chosen to have blood dialysis which is good.

But after a lot of looking into things I don't think I can do it at home unless Natalie gives up work to help me do it. So what with my other hospital stuff looks like visits to hospital will mount up to four days a week.

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A big decision dilli and one that will not have been easy, Here's hoping that, in the not too distant future, you will will have a new kidney to cut down on the hospital visits. <hugs> to you both.

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I am still hoping for a double transplant :) either way the waiting list is around three years.

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.... and you are young grasshopper.

No seriously, any decision you make now can be reversed if circumstances change and advances in organ transplant procedures could make make more donar organs available. The only thing you can do is make the best decision on how things stand now to stay as stronge as you possible can,

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well I can't complain too much I do have lots of support :)

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Keep your chin up dilli as we are all hoping for your health to get better sooner rather then later.

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Hope all goes well Dill

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I wish people would stick to what they say, I'm supposed to be hearing back from the Jobcentre this morning. Now half 3 and stuff all from them. Think if they haven't called by tomorrow morning I will chase them. Although the person calling me was on leave until today so they may have a lot of stuff to go through before they can do anything else.

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Not heard anything back today either. Will be speaking to someone tomorrow at the Jobcentre when I go down to sign. Bloody shocking they haven't stuck to calling me back.

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RIP after 18 years faithful service

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Packed up at a gig this evening and I didn't have a backup :doh:

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Someone in this family needs to learn to keep their germs to themselves. Yes I know he can't help sneezing and coughing but he could cover his face when he does.

Now I have an infection for Easter. I wonder who is going to be cooking the Sunday lunch now?:mad:

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That annoys me as well Maggy. If anyone in public does that, I sit there and go thanks for your germs. They all look at me like I've got two heads.

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Mouth ulcers! At the moment eating anything is like eating a bag of nails as I have at least 6 of them.

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Sorry to hear you have the mouth ulcers back Maggy. I seem to remember you had problems finding anything that helped to clear them in the past. <hugs>

I am just getting over a horrible sore throat and hacking cough but have been lucky that the small ulcer I got from continually sucking Strepsils seems to be going. :)

John's moan is that I seem to be getting my voice back after over a week of just being able to manage the odd whisper.. :D

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Wish I had a voice, now getting into my third month with no voice. No throat or chest infection (well not a couple of weeks ago but think I have one brewing now) and just keep saying gargle with warm salt water, voice will come back when it is ready. Mean time, I have to put up with whispering all the damn time.

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Hope you are all feeling better soon.

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TFL's Oyster system.

Tried to renew my travelcard over the weekend, ordered it online and zapped my card to upload the ticket. Apparently, thanks the laughable design of their website, I have managed to order the travelcard on an Oyster I reported lost last year.

No problem, I thought. I'll get them to transfer the order to my current card. I phoned them and apparently they cannot do this. I asked about cancelling the order, and was told it would take 5-7 days. They advised me a wait a couple of days. Apparently when the ticket is not uploaded after a couple of days, the order will be cancelled automatically and my card will be refunded.

Unfortunately, I have to wait as the ticket is over £1,000, and I cannot afford to lose that amount.

Why on earth would the website enable me to order a ticket on a card that has been reported lost? Why, when this does happen, do they not offer a way to correct it quickly?

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Went to IKEA today which was ok but I pushed myself round and it looks like I did too much :(

I'm just irritated because I refuse to let it all beat me and I should be able to do more by now.

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Remember Dilli the body can take a long while to heal so don't get irritated and just do what you can do as its important that you don't overdo it as that can set you back even more.

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I'll swap if you want dilli, you can have my body and I'll take your body. And all problems swap as well.

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There are only two people that spring to mind I'd do that to. But I'm not that nasty yet ;)

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Well the ulcers aren't aided by the heavy head cold I'm also suffering..What I currently feel about people who don't stay at home with a cold but go out and spread it forth would get me banned if I put it into words.:mad::mad::mad:

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l hope you get better soon Maggy as there is nothing worse then being under the weather.

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These are terrible painful, Bomjella I find is good

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My lovely eldest son leaving the bathroom an absolute mess for me to tidy first thing this morning, at 22 he really should know better. I can only assume he came home a little worse for wear last night or should I say the early hours of this morning. Although I must say it is not like him as he usually leaves things the way he finds them.

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Maybe somebody else is guilty? :D

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Is he suffering today. Weenie

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He didn't seem to be suffering nashville as he went out for lunch with his mates before starting his 8 hour shift (2-10) at Sainsburys.

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People who promise to do things, and then don't stick to it. Went for an interview for a work placement kind of thing through the Jobcentre, bloke said he would call the woman in charge of it with a start date for us. This was supposed to be 2 weeks ago (the phone call anyway), with the provisional start for this morning. Apparently, when chased by Jobcentre they hadn't decided on how many of the 9 interviewees they want to train and when they want the training to start for those successful ones.

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Went to M. &. S and Debenhams And BHS with my vouchers, Never got a thing,

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Just bide your time and make them work for your vouchers nash.

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:(

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Ridiculous plastic speed humps just installed at my local supermarket car park have knackered the back/centre section of my exhaust. I'll be going there later with the digital calliper gauge to measure them so a claim might well be coming their way.

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And this again. 3 calls today not returned. Absolutely outrageous. Will be making my feelings clear on Thursday when I sign on.

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It's funny, if you had behaved like this, you'd be sanctioned. I hope you get things sorted.

My moan, Steve Wright in the afternoon. I like Radio 2 but my god he is insufferable.

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Liked him when he did TOTP 2 but cannot listen on the radio either. Yes, I agree if it was me I would be sanctioned immediately.

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The computer throwing a wobbly this morning and starting with a temporary profile. Ugh! The whole thing looks like <insert suitable word of disgust> And all the mail has vanished as well.:mad:

Instead of neat and tidy it's gone all Fisher Price and clunky. At least the registry hacks are still in place to tame the worst excesses.

Fiddled about and seem to have fixed it. I think I'll take a specific backup copy of my profile including all the hidden stuff to a separate drive in case it does it again. System restore points are active but I'd like to be selective.

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I usually get something eventually :). Den

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We all agree here at my place of work with that. Why does he all ways over talk the music, cutting it short. Why does he call it the big show as well.

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My moan is I have a score on the back of my neck that is now really sore. It seems to be taking ages to heal mainly due to the fact my hairbrush keeps hitting it every time I brush my hair.

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My moan, is the wing mirror glass fell off the car smashing, then 20mins later I had a blow out from a tyre! Have been told it wasn't from the glass as the tyre was worn right down on the centre edge leaving no rubber! So now £162 lighter in pocket and also need to get the other tyre done as that is the same!!!

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Very important, get your suspension and steering checked out. Tyre wear like that is symptomatic of severe misalignment. Usual culprits are lower ball joints and/or track rod ends.

A check of suspension geometry can usually be done at the tyre centre with their laser stuff.

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Thanks for the tip, got a service and mot coming up soon so will get checked then.

On a positive note my tyres for my car have reduced in price alot since i last got them 15 months ago!

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Mum phoned up earlier and she told me she fell down part of the stairs yesterday but apart from a few bruises thankfully she seems alright apart from being very shaken.

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Hope she's ok - sounds like she's got off lightly.

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Yes it could have been a lot worse that's for sure and l think what it has done is make her think about getting a stair lift to make it easy to get up and down the stairs as its getting harder and harder now for her to get up and down.

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Thank goodness your Mum's okay den. A stair lift is a great thing I know my Mother and Father in laws life has been made a lot easier since they have had one installed. It also gives us piece of mind.

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Glad she's ok :tu:

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Hope you're OK too mate! :tu:

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Thanks dilli and l hope you are getting better as the days and weeks go on..

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I'm doing ok cheers, just tired and cold. But I have renal clinic and a visit to Papworth this week so doing ok :)

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Glad she's ok :tu:

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Sport. Woke up this morning and knew that nothing would go my way today with sport.

Glad your mum is OK den, and hope you feel better dilli.

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Yes you and Lewis don't seem to be bosom buddies Mark.:D

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Or me and Arsenal, me and Stevenage don't seem to be friends at the moment either. Really wanted Reading to win last night and Stevenage had a chance to book a playoff place but bottled it. As per under that useless idiot Westley.

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Yes l know what you mean as we should have sealed our play off place weeks ago yet Sheridan seems clueless away from home.

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Good to hear she's OK. :tu:

My mum's getting a bit wobbly on her pins too and has had a fall or two recently, partly due to overzealous medication by her GP for blood pressure since corrected by a specialist, so I understand your concern.

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My PC is acting up again - my dad got me a new SSD for it which is nice, but I just can't a)see well enough to put it in b)still too weak to even lift the case c)hate relying on others for anything :(

Still Natalie is always saying she wants to learn new things so today will be an interesting one I'm sure ;)

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Been trying to ignore it, but will have to face facts. Nearly 6 years after having surgery on my knee, it is playing up again. Keeps locking on me and every now and then feels like someone is stabbing me in the side of the knee. Surgeon said I would suffer from osteoarthritis, looks like it has begun aged 30.

dilli, how did the new SSD drive installation go?

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Well if its playing up again Mark then you would be best to see your GP again.

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I know den, but dreading it being something worse.

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That will be painful. Take Care

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We got it in ok I'm the end with only one really small problem (when I cloned the drive it forgot my chrome tabs) much quicker now :)

Now - I hope you get sorted soon. I learnt a long time ago best not to wait for these things if you can if it is a bigger problem than you expect you can sometimes get it sorted easier if you get it looked at earlier.

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Yeah, going to try and book an appointment tomorrow morning, but with a merge with another GP practice appointments are even more like gold dust.

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Well.........

One of my friends from church is in Papworth having had a new heart valve put in - her prognosis isn't so good :(

Renal clinic just called me with more news just to top my day off but the less said about that the better so quite frankly screw you world I am going to bed to hide!

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Oh dear dilli. Hopefully some good news soon.

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Thinking of you sweetie. <<hugs>>

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Need to get my laptop looked at, a couple of USB ports not working. Also printer gone up the wall, not happy as just bought new cartridges for the bloody thing as well. Seen a nice printer on Tesco but not sure if it comes with cartridges, need to look at that before purchasing.

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What operating system are you running MarckC1984. XP, Windows 7, 8.1, 10

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Always something going wrong. Hope you get something sorted

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Windows 8. Think it just needs a good strip down and clean, trying to avoid doing a clean install of Windows if I can.

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Cyclists
Specifically those that don't wear helmets, have earphones in and have no respect for traffic in the centre of York. No sympathy from me if you get smacked by a car or bus

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I hate people who let their dogs fowl on the pavements and streets

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I dislike those that refuse to use the off road cycle tracks that run right alongside the road and made available by the local council,maintained by them and paid for out of my council tax.:mad:

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Yay! road tax renewal time. Another £485 lighter.

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What type of car have you got Peter?.

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A couple Den but the one I've taxed today is an Impreza WRX STi with goodies.

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l have seen them in pictures and they do look nice l have to say.

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I share your pain......

Z4M

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Ah yep, a friend of mine has the 3.0

His inevitably frequent rear tyre bill is not pleasant reading

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I bought shares in Pirelli :D

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Think yourselves lucky that Brown didn't get the chance to implement his last planned raft of retrospective VED changes. :eek:

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Ha! Brown and his previous cronies were the ones to bring in this sliding scale of VED. I seem to remember el gov recently complaining about losing vast amounts of revenue due to more and more people buying energy efficient cars.

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What do they say about death and taxes? :)

Just to remind anyone who's forgotten how bad it would have been however:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/...ar-owners.html

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My moan is people who are meant to be your friends, but clearly have other ideas, about what being a friend really means. I can't seem to have an opinion, or say anything, without upsetting someone, be it on or off Facebook. I sometimes feel as though I'm walking on egg shells with some people. Oh well rant over

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In that case, you are probably better off not speaking to them at all. A mod on another Forum has a saying:

If you lend a friend £20 and never see them again, it was £20 well spent.

Got to say I agree with that.

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Yep you are right, though I've never heard of that saying before :)

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@ MadGamer true friends are the ones who have nice things to say about you behind your back.

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True friends will stick with you through thick and thin no matter what as they know you will also do the same for them as well.

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It just really infuriates me at times guys that's all :)

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The electrician was meant to be here today and he never turned up. We can't really hassle him as he's a mate and doing the work for a fraction of what it should be costing. Hopefully he will be here tomorrow. The kitchen is absolute chaos atm the new radiators are getting fitted tomorrow and we were hoping that the electric works would have been completed today. If only heero lived near by ;)

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Main fan oven just blew up. Talk about pyrotechnics.Flash, bang, wallop.:erm:

I'll have to do the evening meal in the small worktop unit.

Then it's onto the net to get a new element on order.

---------- Post added at 17:23 ---------- Previous post was at 17:21 ----------

Sorry, half a country away.

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Just had a latter from the hospital putting me on a low phosphate diet...... Just as well they sent me a letter mind you as that means NO SMEGGING MARMITE!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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Sorry but I find that hilarious. :D

With all you have been through, all the things that you have had done to you, all the mind warping restrictions you have coped with your breaking point is a jar of Marmite. Jo backs away giggling like a loon. :D :D :D

I will personally buy and send you the largest dam bottle of the stuff once you get the all clear to indulge your addiction. <Kiss Kiss>

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it's probably addiction that caused the high levels in the first place ;)