[Bob Williams]

Great news Nolan, you were due a win! Just in time for Christmas too.?

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[Bob Williams]

Great news Nolan, you were due a win!

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[Bob Williams]

Don’t have a wired mouse handy Ed, so I sent for this HP item:

http://tinyurl.com/y8lg6f5k

My thinking was that

1 – I really should have a wired mouse available anyway, one of those items that is handy to have in reserve.

2 – an HP 1000 dpi model at <£6 has to be worth a try.

Let’s see what happens when SWMBO tries it. ??

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[Bob Williams]

Richard, many thanks. You describe to a ‘T’ what happens to me, “coal mining” fits perfectly! I will push for ENT investigation.

As for the Typing text problem: I wonder if a wired USB mouse would work to remove the problem?

Dave, you gave me a clue: the text jumble also only happens on web pages. Opening Open Office Writer and typing, is fine. I get the annoyance second hand, via SWMBO’s frustration and her belief that I know everything.??? (That only happens when something goes wrong!)

It appears that the more we try to get rid of cables, the more we discover that we may actually need them!

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Oh, I lived somewhere very rough John, actually in the house we bought and sold at a loss to move here. It was mid-terrace NCB estate house: when the pit closed, the community was destroyed. Many of my oldest friends and family members, moved away. The older miners, some living in those house since the late 20’s, were gradually dying off. Many houses left empty were taken over by a really crap Housing Association. They were eventually taken over by the County Council, whose lefty barmpots completed the ruination of a community I had been born and grew up into by moving in “problem families”. Junkies, burglars, vandals and just plain rough buggas filled these homes and most were trashed within weeks. We lost about £5,000 on the sale, but were glad to go.

When you have a full scale riot on the street, and a junkie OD’ing on your drive, you do your level best to get out.

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Too right Ryan! Some nights I find my best, deepest sleep is from around 4 or 5 am: the rest of the night is broken by my enlarged Prostate. Good job the WC is right next to the bedroom! My missus understands and does not wake me. Strangely, after getting up around 10 or 11 am, I then feel physically exhausted, so slob about in my dressing gown, eat breakfast and feel better after a shower and shave. Some weeks ago, I woke as my senior granddaughter came through the door. “Why are you in bed Granddad?” That is one of the very few times I have seen my missus angry at a grandbrat. “Leave granddad be! Do you not understand what he has gone through this year? He sleeps until he wakes, now get out of the bedroom and keep your voice down!” I love my GD, but she does tend to speak (loudly) before engaging her brain. She also has definite opinions about everything and everyone. Someday she may learn that not everything is as clear-cut as she sees it. Perhaps some of that is my fault, I have always had no barriers between my grandbrats and myself and have always spoken to them as if they were adults, even from their early years.

EDIT after reading Nolan’s post: fatigue is definitely worse than the pain. I still cannot get used to not doing what I used to be able to do. For example, as a mechanic and motor engineer, I had tremendous hand strength, right up to my Pancreas op in April this year. The aftermath of that, and the chemo, has robbed me of that strength. I lost so much weight, so quickly, that I still have batwings under my upper arms and much of my muscle wasted away. It is gradually returning, but forgetting that I cannot do this or that, is often disturbing and sometimes painful.

I know it’s coming back, because yesterday I filled my new toolbox and managed to lift it onto its trolley, with ease.

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Too right Ryan! Some nights I find my best, deepest sleep is from around 4 or 5 am: the rest of the night is broken by my enlarged Prostate. Good job the WC is right next to the bedroom! My missus understands and does not wake me. Strangely, after getting up around 10 or 11 am, I then feel physically exhausted, so slob about in my dressing gown, eat breakfast and feel better after a shower and shave.

Some weeks ago, I woke as my senior granddaughter came through the door. “Why are you in bed Granddad?”

That is one of the very few times I have seen my missus angry at a grandbrat. “Leave granddad be! Do you not understand what he has gone through this year? He sleeps until he wakes, now get out of the bedroom and keep your voice down!”

I love my GD, but she does tend to speak (loudly) before engaging her brain. She also has definite opinions about everything and everyone. Someday she may learn that not everything is as clear-cut as she sees it.

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I am doing OK atm thanks, tomorrow that may change as I visit my insultant Consultant to discover results of multiple scans and tests. I don’t mind the constant 40 mile round trips, think I can drive the A16 blindfold now! (Some drivers appear to be doing that anyway?) I also continue to have Free Parking, which is great, if only there were more Blue Badge spaces.

I cannot get the powers that be to understand that my nose and sinuses need checking out. Every morning there is a discharge of old blood and mucus, some of it black and obviously old. I intend to ask for an ENT appointment when I see the aforementioned consultant. I am convinced that my recent severe infection, causing a hospital stay of 2 weeks in a quarantined ward, began in my nose and sinuses. Sometimes medical people will not listen to a complaint outside their area of expertise.

Tell your wife that I also suffer pains outside of areas that one would consider caused by ops or associated treatment. I refuse to let it affect me and refuse to think “Is this something else?”

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A few surviving Mammoths might have been around then Steve, although the Neolithic Brits loved Mammoth Burgers and slaughtered them for meat, tusks and skin for clothing. Pterodactyls were living in the Late Jurassic, between 164 and 145 Million years ago, way before the distant ancestors of humans arrived. There have been several Pterodactyl fossils found in Southern Britain though. Looks like they would have been tough to eat:

Skinny, bony, legs and wings. Not as nice as the Chicken I had last night. And a lot uglier.

Good win today!

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A few surviving Mammoths might have been around then Steve, although the Neolithic Brits loved Mammoth Burgers and slaughtered them for meat, tusks and skin for clothing. Pterodactyls were living in the Late Jurassic, between 164 and 145 Million years ago, way before the distant ancestors of humans arrived. There have been several Pterodactyl fossils found in Southern Britain though. Looks like they would have been tough to eat:

Skinny, bony, legs and wings. Not as nice as the Chicken I had last night. And a lot uglier.

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Jukebox wrote:

Have you tried plugging the USB transmitter into a different socket?

Thanks but that was my first move Jukebox.

 

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Thanks Richard. I doubt that the KB is to blame, but I will check out the Wls mouse.

How are you? Missus OK?

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I also find it fascinating Dave. Another interesting discovery, was the presence of manufactured stone tools in Ireland and some European locations. The stone came from the Cumbrian Langdale axe industry:

http://tinyurl.com/ybacb3jp

Reading the WIKI article gives information I find particularly interesting: Lincolnshire had the largest concentration of Langdale tools. In my wanderings across Lincolnshire beaches, I have only looked for flint knappings and tools, but now I will search for the Langdale items. During the years of beach Renourishment* to provide better protection for Lincolnshire coasts, in the Season I mainly searched the more deserted spots that Grockles do not know. I have found a great and varied amount of flint knappings, a very few actual tools such as scrapers, arrow and spear heads, very seldom a hand axe. These go to a local museum.

*A Netherlands company (who else?) annually dredges our offshore seabed and pumps up sand, stone and other detritus, all along our coasts. This is then allowed to partially dry before heaping up and leveling into a slope, close to what was once a Seawall. Dune grass is planted and, over the last few years, high dunes have grown, with small hummocks between them. This makes for perfect picnic spots out of any wind. The idea is that a severely high tide will roll up to the dunes until the height is too great to go further, then the water drains out through the sand, back to sea. It does work, much better than the old concrete seawalls, now buried by the sand and the dunes. Among the stuff along the beach after a big tide, are scatterings of stone knappings and some expired sea life. Apparently, before the North Sea cut us off from Europe, Doggerland was the scene for annual meets between European and ‘British’ neolithic peoples. Tools, clothing and even people were exchanged, the people being youngsters who found new partners and went West or East to make new families, thus increasing genetic diversity among a relatively small population.

What interesting times our distant ancestors lived through, however briefly! And they found no distinction between ‘European’ and ‘British’, there being no such titles for people then. All spoke a variety of the same language, probably had the same beliefs.

Thought-provoking, for Brexiteers???

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I don’t have much to add regarding PPI, there is already so much useful advice given.

However, this is the name of the company I first contacted, wanted to conduct a “Free” investigation for me by charging 24% of whatever I may receive: Consumer Refund Service. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Paperwork is professionally done, but there is loads of small print. I did read it all, discovering that they practically owned the case and the money until they decided it was time to give me my 76%.

Thanks, but no thanks.

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I received the forms from this bunch of Northeast shysters John, but did not sign and definitely did not return them: I kept the forms as an example of what not to do.

Bankruptcy is an awful place to be and I sympathise with you, having once reached a desperate stage when we could have lost the house we once owned, through disability, losing my well paid job and the DWP refusing to give me DLA or Incapacity for over a year. Eventually we sold the house at a loss and moved here to Lincs and rented accommodation, eventually being given Sheltered Housing. We were lucky, as my wife had an op go wrong and was also jobless, shortly after me. Having no income for that long period, we could well have been in your shoes.

I wish you all the best John.

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Dave Rice wrote:

They were up your way too Bob, western Europe’s oldest plank built boat was found in the Humber Estuary. Bloody economic migrants, they’ve been up to it for thousands of years

Yes I have seen that boat Dave. What tickles me about people coming into the land later known as the British Isles after the Ice left, is winding up a certain type of Irish person. Fact: after the ice gradually withdrew, there were no humans of any species in these islands, with the very vague possible exception of certain parts of Southern England and west Wales, but these areas suffered temperatures so low as to be uninhabitable for any human species of the time.

Fact: The first Neolithic ‘immigrants’ came into what is now southern Britain and spread West as the climate warmed. Ireland was completely without any human population at this time. Neolithic peoples moving West, eventually emigrated again – to what became Ireland. So one can say that our Neolithic ancestors living in Britain, were the people who became the Irish.

Please be careful in your choice of Irish pub in which to tell this tale!??

It’s a pity that they did not build bigger, more ocean-going boats. If they had kept moving West, perhaps America would be very different now! Just a thought…

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Wheels-Of-Fire wrote:

I do not want to give the EU another red cent. 39 thousand thousand so they can tell us what to do ? For the odd holiday in the sun ? Nah

Of all the pointless, irrelevant, inaccurate, insensible posts you have made here, that takes the prize.

Federalisation, in your later post? I am one of a large and growing number of British Republicans who believe that an unelected, over paid, over-privileged Royal Family has outlived its usefulness and should be scrapped to make way for a fairer system, on the German model. Scotland, Wales, NI and England would become part of a Federal nation. Some areas of England would perhaps have to be split into federal states. Rule from London would become less powerful and overbearing and the incredible amounts of money spent upon projects such as Crossrail would be questioned on an economic basis: what does this do for the rest of the country? Federal states would have more freedom to set their own laws and taxes. There would be an elected Upper and Lower House of national government.

Anyone who has examined and perhaps lived under, the FRG system, would agree that it is a much fairer system which does not feature 95% of property and money, being held by less than 1% of the population. The FRG is not perfect, but it is a lot closer to perfection than our own flawed, Establishment-ruled shambles of a democracy.

Our nation is ruled by descendants of those who came over with William I: the Normans are still here.

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[Bob Williams]

Thanks for the Link Jukebox! I will need that soon.

Cheers, Bob.

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John I am going through the process myself, nearly fell for the “Free check” which became a 24% fee to the company. Dump that search, find the actual company that you took out the Loan/Mortgage/whatever with, and go to their website, which should have a page or link to PPI claims. In my case it is the Halifax and they are searching back to 1992, through one merged Estate Agent and another, busted agency. If you have any paperwork at all, that will help: photocopy and send.

Unfortunately, after 3 moves including to another county, I don’t have anything, but Halifax are defo pursuing it. They are sending updates and information requests to my mobile.

Good Luck! Going to the actual company that you had the PPI with, is free, backed by government legislation.

EDIT: check out Tippon’s Link to MSE above, it’s very useful.

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[Bob Williams]

Steve, you cannot class Oz, NZ and Canada as “poor countries”. Many of the other, let us say, ‘culturally different’ former colonies, do have great wealth. It’s just held by a very small percentage of the population.

An even smaller percentage than the UK, which is really saying something.

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