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That's the thing its not new, I've had to fight to make them listen about my back problems which has been for years and I've been ignored for soo long. But managed to gets the scans and tests done and it's such a relief to get some answers finally. I knew my neck was fused but now they are taking it more seriously.

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I'm glad they're sorting it out at last.

I know what that's like - I have been sick (feeling and being) for nearly three years now. Last week when I was at the clinic they told me off for loosing weight too quickly. I pointed out I feel sick most of the time so don't like eating.

They got one of those tongue things and stuck it in my mouth - oddly after I spewed on the dr they took me seriously too now ;)

More tests but at least they are sorting it.

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@ dilli and peanut.

Nothing worse than Doctors dismissing your concerns so I am glad that you are both now being taken seriously. Hopefully something will be possible to at least relieve some of the discomfort you must both have been suffering for these previously dismissed conditions.

<<hugs>> to you both.

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Sorry to hear that peanut :(

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3 weeks on and still learning more about Harvey's personality. I'm fortunate in that he came already knowing some basic commands and is house trained but as each dog has its own thoughts and understandings I wanted to figure him out even more.

He has lots of little quirks and ways but if I'm tickling his belly but go to do something else he gets up and blocks me from moving. If I try to go in a different direction he comes over and blocks me again and this carries on for as long as I let him.

This damn sheepdog is trying to HERD me....

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Been back in hospital today and the new is GOOD :) - I'm now in my air cast. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY :)

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Glad Harvey is settling in nicely :)

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Watching Keane my dog enjoying the sun in the back garden, he seems to be enjoying the sun rays the only part he isn't to impressed with is when the birds go to the bird feeder.

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Very pleased to hear your good news, dilli.

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Yippee!! The weekend is nearly here ... :D

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I know, will be glad to see the back of this week.

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Mark since you have not had a good week, this weekend kick back and relax and enjoy the weather as it is meant to be sunny. Enjoy the weekend ...

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Unfortunately i am working all this weekend.

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There was Osem Jnr #2 and myself enjoying an impromptu barbecue in the garden when I needed to go inside to get a plate to serve his food on. As I returned I tripped on one of the garden steps and fell quite heavily, scraping my arm and side as I hit the wall and winding up in a state of shock on my back like a traumatised beached whale. The instant response from my special lad to my obvious plight you wonder? "Sausage!", "Bread!"

How wonderful to have a life unconcerned by the pain and suffering around you... :)

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Hope you all have a great W/E. Weather in Glasgow is brilliant this morning

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The sun is out :D

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Will be painting the fencing that was put up last November, only just gone really nice so I can get out there and paint it.

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Meeting up with an old school friend tomorrow, it's been a very long time and I can't wait :)

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Enjoy your day MadGamer, it's always good to have a catchup the only problem is the time seems to fly by.

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Yes its looking good for today as well.:)

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Good luck with the fence Mark, and hope everyone else enjoys there W/E

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:Sun:

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l wonder if you will have the same outlook come this evening bud.:omg::redcard:

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I wish I could enjoy a nice sunny day ;) but it's best I keep out of it ;)

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Went along to my first Parkrun 5k since August when I had my PB of 23:23 which I was happy with but as I've been training for distance rather than pace since then I was worried I wouldn't get near it. I was hoping to get a sub-24 but thought I'd get 25 minutes-something.

In the blazing hot weather I smashed my PB by almost a minute coming in at 22.25. Absolutely amazed and well happy. My next target is a sub-20 :)

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:cool:

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Throughly enjoyed the day spent with my friend, and we will be seeing a lot more of each other :)

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Had a lovely BBQ with Osem Jnr #2 this evening and managed to get through the entire evening without falling down the steps into the garden in spite of the beer.... :)

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That's great to hear ... :)

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Glad you had a good night hope Osem Jnr #2 had a great time too :)

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Fighting next Sunday Open Tournament in Worcester. I am overweight out of shape but still gonna give it a go. Light continuous not full ( no where near fit enough for that )

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The wee one is going to his new high school tomorrow and Tuesday to give him a taste of high school and to get a chance to meet his new peers and teachers, he is really looking forward to it. I hope he enjoys it and hopefully he will know someone. As a mother I'm really hoping that their will be someone in his class from his primary. Can't believe he is starting High School full time after the summer where has my wee boy gone he is growing up fast, too fast IMO.

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That's the wee one off to High School for two day's, when I dropped him he looked tiny compared to the one's in 6th year but then again they will be around 17 or 18 years old. I'm sure he will be fine along with his fellow pupils the Mum's looked more nervous than the children.

Sunny day here, washing out. ;)

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A mystery hospital appointment which caused a lot of stress turned out to be for physio - hydrotherapy. Normally have to wait around 8-10 weeks to get in and not 4-5 days.

Such a huge relief.

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Very pleased to hear that peanut but I can understand your worry especially with the tests you had.

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Thanks :tu:

He sure did! He had a big dish of pasta and vegetables first followed by, from the grill:

3 x large Brockwurst sausages
4 x whole garlic mushrooms
1 x lean beef quarter pound burger
1 x small baguette - half in the form of garlic bread and the other plain.
1 portion of BBQ chicken - I cooked a whole small bird spatchcock style.

My God that boy has hollow legs but then he's incredibly active so he needs the energy and burns it all off.

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Sounds you all had a great time and I know what you mean about hollow legs it must be a boy thing LOL. Sometimes the messages are not even out the shopping bags and my two are like vultures raking to see what goodies have been bought.

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l have today got the results of my CT scan on the Bowel , Liver and abdomen and everything is clear.:):hyper:

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Excellent :)

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Thank dilli.

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That is great news Den. :)

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Well done Russ.

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Phew!

Really pleased for you - congratulations. :)

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Excellent news denphone :)

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That's brilliant Russ :)

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Cheers :)

Was taken on as a Mystery Shopper by one of the largest organisations in the country that gets contracted by companies to undertake this sort of research and am off on my first 3 assignments today. The kind of information I have to record is pretty extreme and the methods I have to use almost make this like spying :erm:

Looking forward to it though.

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Sounds great Russ enjoy, now that is a job I would love.

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Today has been a GOOD day ;)

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:tu: Den

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I was out of a cast for a whole TEN days this time :)
Back in a bright yellow one now.

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Sorry to hear that dilli but at least the Yellow finish will look bright and cheerful.

Pity you can't get a custom made ones with Velcro fastenings. Would be a lot easier and you could invest in a good art job on them to make a real fashion statement. :)

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Sorry to hear that dilli.

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We have just spent a couple of hours at the South Devon Railway and very enjoyable it was too.:D

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Sorry to hear about that dilli but at least you have a colourful cast now.:)

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Thank you all - yellow is certainly my colour :)


in other news.....

Interestingly my housing priority just shifted to band 2 (only people without an actual home are higher now).

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Lets keep our fingers crossed for you in the hope that you will get a new place very soon dilli.

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Both my current bids for two bedroom bungalows have just gone to number one ;)

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Fingers, toes and eyes crossed for you dilli. You should have been top of the list a long time ago.

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Best of luck mate. :tu:

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Fingers crossed it all works out for you dilli.

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Meeting up with my friend again tomorrow :)

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Glad it is going well for you MadGamer, enjoy your day. :)

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Just been to seen Prince at Leeds Arena - fan-freaking-tastic guitarist.

He played for over two and a half hours.

My ears are still ringing.

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Glad you enjoyed Prince, and no wonder your ears are ringing Hugh were you not in the front section?

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A true musical genius in every sense of the word.

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Yes, I was (not Standing, but just behind there).

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he's brilliant in this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y

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Had a brilliant time with my friend again yesterday:)

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Still 1 of 13 on both bids at the moment. Bidding closes on Wednesday, the suspense is killing me ;)

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Hopefully your patience will be rewarded dilli.

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I can understand that Wednesday seems ages away but the waiting will be over soon dilli and fingers crossed you will be reporting good news on Wednesday. Fingers crossed it goes your way. :)

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Managed to get a tree surgeon, he is coming out at 5 to give a report. Glad hubby is here today as neighbour might behave and stay indoors instead of shouting about her tree's and the one that is mainly my garden and according to the insurance far to close to our house. Holly tree has been planted 6 inches away from our house :(

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Had a good few days. we went to visit my sister & family in Tayport, near Dundee. We enjoyed it.

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Very busy day digging over the garden, weeding, planting lavender.

Aching a lot now - time for a bath, and then off out for a meal..

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After getting a tree surgeon to come out today at 5 ... guess what yip that's right a no show :mad: why do people not phone and say they can't make it instead of wasting my time along with my family.We could have did something today instead of waiting in.

Happy thought tomorrow lunch with my friend :)

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I hope you have a better day tomorrow :)

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Thanks dilli. I just think that manners cost nothing and all it would take is a phone call to say sorry need to cancel today can we arrange another day that suits both.

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It does grind my gears when people don't turn up without letting me know.

But the opposite is also true I don't like people turning up unless they let me know.

edit - reminds me of one of my friends who I told reputedly I was away the next week. He drove here called me to ask why I wasn't here as eh wanted to visit.

I told him he was more than welcome to join me in Ireland if he wished to ;)

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It is terrible when someone's does this to us Dill, most annoying

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Great news :tu:

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Good luck

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Off out for lunch now ... then going to the garden center to buy some bedding plants and a couple of hanging baskets. :)

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:tu:
Great news heero.

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Clever man Heero

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Impress I'm sure you will mate. Hope it all goes well for you!

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Good news indeed heero. Always a satisfying feeling when new work comes in. :tu:

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Supposed to have gone to Milton Keynes tomorrow for a meeting but I don't have to go anymore... happy days!

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One of the sites I maintain at work had to be taken off line yesterday when the software running a service it relies on suddenly decided to commit suicide at some point between 12am and 9am yesterday morning. After several hours, my colleagues managed to get the service back online, and the site is back. That's not the good news.

After being told by the service's original designer (it was custom written in Java) that it was impossible, I've managed to write a little bit of code that, should this service fail again, takes the site off line and emails me with the exact details of the error given by the service.

So, while it won't stop the service malfunctioning in the future, it should at least give me some advance warning when the service does malfunction.

Admittedly, the code is only working on our test site at the moment (it will be implemented on the live site along with a few other changes when we have tested them properly), and while the code functioned correctly when I was able to engineer failures of the service (the test site uses a test version of the service), but there is no real way to be 100% sure what will happen with an actual failure.

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Technology, a wonderful thing when it works properly. When it goes wrong, it becomes a pain in the backside.

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MK that bad is it? ;)

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Mind you, although I consider him a friend, the original designer is lazy. One page on the site needed to obtain certain information from the service. Information that was not offered in a form that the site could use without having to generate a lot of calls to the service . The page needed to list equipment, but needed three calls to the service per item of equipment (and there are hundreds of items) to generate all the info it needed.

I told him what info I needed, and asked for a function to retrieve it. When he said No, write it yourself, I did, which resulted in a page that could generate up to 600 calls to the service and take several minutes to update. The guy left, and I talked to the guy who took over from him. Within 2 days, I had a function that retrieved all the info I needed with one call to the service and took 5-10 seconds as opposed to several minutes.

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The land that time forgot.... with added cars as there's never normally anywhere to park.

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Last week I saw a pair of shoes that I really really liked but hated the price tag so never got them, but I did today as they were on sale at more than half the original price that made my day. Thank goodness I never bought them last week or this post would have been on moans and pet hates. ;) Just need a new dress to go with them now sadly don't get paid till next week so the new dress will have to wait till then.

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Love your happy thought weenie. I have a small liking for shoes myself. https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2016/10/1.gif

My happy thought has been a lovely day with our Grandson. We have him most Wednesdays but I have been flat on my back with the pain from a torn muscle since last Thursday and didn't expect to see him to-day. Industrial strength pain killers are great. Guess I will pay the price tomorrow but I don't care. A day full of giggles and hugs is worth any price.

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I love bargains like that. :)

NOT handbags and high heels I should add! :erm: :)

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Yes I do need a new handbag as well heero thanks for reminding me LOL, my Granny used to say to me that a girl can never have to many shoes or handbags and the bonus is they will always fit :D

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I thought it was time that Osem Jnr had a treat for being such a good lad and being so cool with his 'difficult' younger brother so I just bought him a 5 inch dual SIM phone. It'll be a nice surprise and a small token of my appreciation.

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Nice he will love it, it is always nice to give gifts and if it's a surprise gift all the better. Osem Jnr sounds lovely you must be so proud of him Osem.

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After been let down for the last few day's with people who are meant to be professionals in their field of work I have now managed to get a tree scientist coming out tomorrow at 12.30 he seems a very clever man and is used to doing reports for insurance companies,court procedures etc if only I had his number at the start of my search would have saved a whole load of time. He is alot more expensive than a tree surgeon but I suppose you get what you pay for at the end of the day. He has more qualifications than the ingredients of a Mars bar LOL it seems. He has a masters in forest science etc but more importantly a registered chartered consultant which suits all parties involved in the problem I have. Really hope he does not let us down like the tree surgeons. Fingers crossed. I am so happy now in a way that we were let down by the tree surgeons as this guy seems the business so it just goes to show you as the old saying goes "what is for you won't go by you" :erm: if you get my meaning. I had never heard of a tree scientist before but then again had no need to search for one. Happy things are moving forward again as they were at a stand still for a while there.

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Off to the Detroit Bell Isle Grand Prix Saturday & Sunday :)

http://www.detroitgp.com/

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That looks pretty good Cobby so l hope you enjoy yourself there this weekend.

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Good for you Weenie. Debenham.s is like that their prices go up and down each week. I bought a bag for £45 for my sisters birthday and the next week it was half price,

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I hate when that happens nashville.

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Tree scientist came out yesterday and he is sending his report to our insurance company so we will just have to wait and see hopefully neighbours trees will not be a concern for them but we will see and then it is up to them in what they want do do, hopefully nothing too concerning will come up but I doubt it as it was noted in the boundary survey report that some of the neighbours trees were far too close to any building never mind a house "Holly tree within inches from our home and she has also planted a tree in our property nightmare". Happy things are now out my hands as if anything needs to be done it is in the hands of the insurance rather than us having to deal with neighbour, as our neighbour is not to nice to deal with tbh since claiming our land all communication has broken down which is sad but what we meant to do give her the front garden. Ehh no chance work to hard to give it away ;)

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Getting a new phone tomorrow :)