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It's just a shame it's full of Welsh people :Sprint: :cool:

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Lol lol lol

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yup in Wales for the week :)

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started work on 2 new scripts. :)

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Have a nice time.

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In Wales? Not really.... :p:oops::Sprint:

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Oh you are in trouble now.:Yikes::eeek:

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Home, decent telly and internet. Bliss :D

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Indeed there is no place like home.:)

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I hate having to poop in someone else's toilet lol

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At least you don't have to clean it...

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Snap ! Happy thought when get get back home my den with have a "Huge" canvas picture of me with tink, giving me a kiss on the cheek . Thanks rugrats I would have never asked "her" . I so love Walt Disney world ( product placement at its worst):D

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I was with Google in London today, and I got to try out GLΛSS for 10 minutes.

Freakin' amazing - I want one now!

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Don't do it Hugh, the man will be watching your every move :waving:.

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Got myself a free pair of running shoes thanks to Parkrun and Sweatshop. :tu:

Spent about an hour getting my gait and running style analysed before walking out with a pair of shiny new Mizunos. Got a 10K on Thursday to break them in.

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On my way to the doctor who experience :)

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Don't forget to go into the Tardis.:)

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It was pretty cool. We're at Barry Island now

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Doing the Gavin and Stacey tour??

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Just came back from 5 days in Disneyland Paris with my daughter, just one word...Wow!

We were very fortunate in that a relative paid for it but I did think it would just be a very expensive trip to a large theme park. Well yes it was all that but MUCH more.

Firstly my daughter is almost 10 so she doesn't believe in the characters or fairy tales but she does still love the whole Disney thing however I had no way of anticipating the whole 'magic' of the place. Nothing there is cheap, I don't just mean the prices but the way it's built, laid out, everything. You can see the way Disney have it set up - their goal is that EVERY child (and probably some adults too) walking in through the doors has the most ultimate visit. The staff (or 'Cast Members') are simply awesome. Forget everything you thought you knew about customer service, everybody from shop workers, ride controllers to street cleaners, EVERYBODY is hyper cheerful, happy and smiling. There's no way on earth I could keep that up for more than 5 minutes but none of it is false. If you walk past someone emptying a bin and they see you make eye contact with them they stop what they're doing, smile, say 'Good Morning' and ask how your visit is going. I've never seen anything like it in my life.

The weather wasn't the best but that helped keep the queues down a bit. Every child in the place went nuts when the Parade Train did it's hourly tour and my daughter had her picture taken with Donald Duck, Winnie the Pooh and Mickey. But when I pointed out a Disney Princess was nearby she went nuts! I have no idea which one is which but she reliably informed me it was Rapunzel so she had her picture taken with her and 'Rapunzel' asked my daughter how her visit was going etc. Truly magical.

As the trip was for my daughter I had to ask if she'd let me do the Star Wars tour - and it was great!

They were selling these expensive (200E) Light Sabre that looked the business, complete with sound effects and the guy doing the demo asked me if I wanted him to show me how to use one. So I took it off him and asked if HE wanted to be shown how to use it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nkXB7cPup0

All in all it was truly magical for my daughter. I know not everyone will be able to do it as it is VERY expensive even after you've bought your ticket but no child will be disappointed, I've been to loads of theme parks and kids' attractions but nothing compared to this. If you have kids and you get the chance to go, you simply cannot pass it up.

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LOL
I reckon you've been practicing with nunchucks.

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Very pleased to hear the holiday went so well Russ. Your daughter now has a memory that time will only enhance. Your Dad will have a grin as big as yours.

My happy thought today is simply that our rescue cat Ben came in from the garden when I called his name this morning even though he wasn't hungry. A simple thing but Ben had major trust issues when we took him in and responding to his name without a bribe is a big step forward.

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Hmm it's not as good as 'fat kid with lightsabre', you have a lot to learn young padawan and much weight to gain :D.

Glad your daughter enjoyed it.

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Well done Ben :tu:

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Cats do take a while, but when they do trust you then they will never leave you alone. A relatives cat wouldn't even come out when I was there, now when I'm there she will sit by me and want to be stroked forever.

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Natalie went to a chocolate factory today. She was in her idea of heaven. I thought I'd lost her first at one point.

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Your wife going to a chocolate factory reminds me of that Willy Wonka film and l hope she did not over indulge.:)

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We're back - it was a great week - I even got to fly the TARDIS :)

I may post couple of pictures when I've caught up on all my paperwork.

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l am glad you all had such a wonderful time dilli.:)

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My new wheelchair design - Natalie's new mate and my new bathrobe ;)

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Love the new Wheels but don't think too much of Natalie's new guy though I expect he has to be an improvement over the current one. :D

As for the dressing gown.

Must admit I assumed you already had one seeing as you love all things with a Dr Who link. I do think you could still add
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2013/05/12.jpg and https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2013/05/13.jpg to finish off the look. :D

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Nice - very nice :)

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Just had a lovely BBQ in the garden with my two lads (too cold for the missus to stay outside despite the clear blue sky lol). My eldest will be 19 in a few months and I'm becoming aware of how soon I'll probably lose him to university and/or some girl somewhere. As for my youngest, well I'm beginning to think about losing him too but for different reasons - namely the point at which we might no longer feel it's fair on us (or him for that matter) to continue to control every aspect of his life for him.

So, happiness mixed with sadness I suppose but c'est la vie! All I'll say is that it's been a lovely evening sipping beer and chatting man to man with my no. 1 son whilst no.2 son concentrated consuming vast amounts of garlic breaf, sausages, garlic mushrooms and beef burgers... :)

Happy days.

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Happy days indeed Osem. I remember the day our son moved out. We had had a lovely summer with him having finished A levels and waiting to go to University. The house was always full of him and his friends, impromptu BBQs and never seeming able to keep the fridge stocked. Not to mention the noise of so many young people filling the house and garden.

Then that momentous day when it all seemed to stop. Silence. An empty bedroom. Food in the fridge and no overflowing laundry basket. Looking back it was a hard few weeks but we realised that we had done our job as parents. We no longer had a child to nurture, we had a young man to be proud of who had the abilities to fend for himself out in the real world.

So thank you Osem for triggering some of my own happy memories.

Letting go can seem daunting but when the fledglings come back as adults the happy memories still continue to pile up to be be stored away for rainy days.

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Oh yes Osem how precious these fleeting moments are we must treasure them whilst we may, as time has a way of quickly passing and before we know they have gone.

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I had an odd letter fro the hospital this morning asking me to be a patient for the students in their final exam. free taxi food and paid for it too. nice

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I have another cast on as my feet got quite bad while I was away, but the good news is that they have a new colour at hospital :)

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That looks very bright and colourful dilli.:D

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Cheers :)

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I was the prodigal son in the church play today. :-)

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Found a £20 note in the garden while cutting the grass (and didn't go over it with the mower so bonus). It's quite exposed up here, so could well have cone from some miles away!!

Cheers

Grim

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Phew, I thought I'd lost that!! Well done mate. Can you just post it back to me. Cheers.

:D

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What was the fatted calf served with? :)

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Lashings of Red Wine. hic hic.

Maybe a slice of fatted calf would have lessened the impact.

Nobody ever believes my age heero, OK most of the time but it is a pain when I actually want to use my status as a pensioner, carrying proof of my date of birth around with me is something I though I left behind many, many years ago. :)

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I just keep getting called old :)

When we went to the 1940's thing in wales she kept asking me if I remembered any of it ;)

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Priceless. :D

Scary thought is that I do remember some of the 40's. Not a lot but enough. :D

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I have the cure for signs of old age - just put on enough weight to fill all the wrinkly bits... :D

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l am sure you are still young at heart though.:D

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I wasn't referring to me matey - just hoping to drum up some business for my fleabay money making sideline. ;)

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All three of my cats are finally getting along.

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Don't they all look cute dilli.:D

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Bless them they look lovely

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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...g-cocaine.html

:)

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Erm, Ok, that's something to be happy about?

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Yes! Can't stand chavs :)

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So I'm going to be a patient (for the students final exam) Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in a couple of weeks :) - They may wish to seek help now ;)

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@ dilli. I was a asked to be a test patient and I hope you get as much enjoyment out of the process as I did. I had been confined to total bed rest in hospital 3 months earlier from the day it was found I was pregnant.

Due to a bed shortage in the Maternity wing I had been tucked away in a small room on Women's Surgical and was under light sedation. Add to this a very low heart rate and no outward sign of being pregnant the 'powers that be' must have thought I would be a challenging test case and asked me to just answer any questions truthfully but to offer no information unless asked.

The Doctors were informed that I was not a surgical patient and everything went well until one very nervous young Doctor spent ages asking me virtually everything under the sun, tested all my reflexes and looked at the records of my vital signs.

Unfortunately my sedation took over and I fell asleep on him whilst he unsuccessfully tried to find my pulse.

My Consultant later told me that the student doctor's overheard mutterings that " I must have been terminal and that I was now deceased." was amusing but not, apparently, as amusing as his reaction when I gave a ladylike snore as he was leaving the cubicle :D

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oh yes im definately looking forward to it. my consultant from the foot clinic put me forward because of my interesting history apparently :)

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Wish I could have seen the face when he heard you snoring. Bet it was a picture. Gave me a laugh too as well.

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I dumped sky - which is great :)

But what was a great surprise to find that my sky wireless adaptor thing worked flawlessly with my BT Vision box :)

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...oh and I'm off out to cream tea with the vicar - nice :)

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I got fitted for my alb last night. Which is for while I'm doing my deaconing role at the church :)

MMMmmm - Looks a bit too much like a dress to me ;)

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Does it come with a hood? :Sprint:

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There is a hood ;)

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You look very dapper dilli.

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All you need is a light saber then :)

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I may well take Peters one next time I wear it :)

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Pah, I'm jealous now, Baptist deacons don't get to dress like Jedi. :p:

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Sign up, turn away from the darkside :D

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Make you look quite dapper, an orange cravat to match your caste would. Hmmmmmm.

:D

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Suits you Sir, makes you look very..............pious(?). :)

Spotted in our garden this morning............

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/1183/p1010830pa.jpg

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The question I have to ask Dilli is who has to keep it white lol

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That'd be me :) - I am, after all, the house husband ;)

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lol bless

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I have just received a gift from the gods

Attachment 24609

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l bet that would have cost a bit if you had to pay for it Peter.

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Well it's a bog standard tipple if you're across the pond but here you'll pay about 25 quid for the privilege.

That's 25 quid more than I am willing to pay while it's coming in via the duty-free route :)

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Unexpected plane trip to Newcastle today..

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l hope you have a safe pleasant trip Maggy and we have a little Unexpected trip later today to Gunnislake early this evening after Big Sis phoned us up last night.:)

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Well we are down Cornwall today and we are going to take in St Ives for starters.:)

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Nice one Den, weather not looking too promising, but you don't care do you?, St Ives is lovely in any weather. Have a lovely time.:)

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Yes we had a lovely time Tinky and the weather dried out by dinnertime and on Tuesday we are off to Looe and the weather forecast looks promising as well for that one.:)

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My 9 year old Nephew's team won a footy tournament, beating the favourites in a penalty shoot out, with him scoring the winning goal

:cleader::cleader:

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Hope you enjoy Tuesdays trip as much as you did sundays.

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:tu:

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I just had a letter from the DWP saying that I'm moving onto ESA on Julyu the 9th.

They tell me I've been put in the support group which I think is the one I wanted.

What's odd though is after I sent off all the stuff to ATOS I never heard a thing this is thee first I heard, so it looks like I didn't need an assessment after all.

I do feel a lot less stressed now, but no doubt I will be told I am just being even more of a bum as I didn't have to do a test.

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nice result mate they did you right :)

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That's excellent news dilli and l am so relieved for you as the stress levels can be very high whilst waiting for a decision.:)

No l won't have that last remark from you as you have been through more then most of us put together and you are a true legend in our minds.:nono::nono:

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QFT :tu:

Great news Dilli :)

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Excellent, must be a huge relief for you both. :tu:

I got a telephone call from the DWP to let me know that I was being put into the support group and no need for a medical, way before I got any paperwork through to confirm it.

ESA is set between 1-3 years before re-assessments, so I'm gearing up already for the next round.

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Spot on Den.

Very pleased for you dilli. You too peanut. We hear too much about genuine cases being missed so it's good to hear that the powers that be can get some decisions right.

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Cheers Jo, I recieved my results just before last Christmas from my assessment. I then requested an ESA65a (or 85a) form to find out the results and for how long I was awarded for and it was for 1 year. I think most are for one year before you get re assessed.

So I'm looking (or rather not looking) forward to go through it all again around September time, just in time for Christmas again. Luckily I did the ESA50 form on a pdf so hopefully just a case of reprinting it out and sending it straight off with the same letters from the GPs and consultants as nothing will have changed for the better (I'm not sure they understand what degenerative means).

The stress of it all is crazy you can never relax or take anything for granted.

It's the ones that have to go through the medicals and the appeals I really feel sorry for. How I'd cope with going through that I don't know. The waiting is terrible.

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Off to the O2 tomorrow night to see The Pet Shop Boys with my mum, and we're going to make a day of it in London too. I did try to convince her to walk over the O2 but she's having none of it :D

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There, fixed that for you. Well done in getting what you want. :)

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Heading to Spain on Friday :cool:

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I start my three days of being a patient for the students tomorrow :)

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Wow that was fun :)

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My family and l had a lovely day today in Looe and Polperro and it even stated dry.:D

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What's it like? Would love to be an experiment for students. Might donate my brain to science....

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I've been asked to go to Coventry on Thursday to see a loose windscreen. Not sure whether or not that's a good thing.

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that sounds nice :)

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it was very interesting, but I'm really tired now. Still two more days to go.

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lol Coventry is not to bad 80s ska would have missed a lot without Coventry

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Being sent to Coventry should be in the moans thread. Why do you have to see a loose windscreen? ;)

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Some up-coming new band that are going places I believe. The guitarist was a Soprano too, sounds like a talented bunch!

..Some good curry establishments in Cov, would be rude not to sample.