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I remember Northwick Park for several reasons, even though I don’t think I ever went there.
Firstly was the “Elephant Man Drug Trial” back in 2006 and later the ludicrous waste of money spent on new hospital trolleys that wouldn’t fit through the majority of the hospital’s doors!! ( I remember it well but can’t find anything online about it.)
JCD, 5 feels about right. Where has that gone?
Just gone, along with the other 47!!
I was 20 when life last felt it was just ticking over. Finished my apprenticeship at the GPO and just about to move into my first flat. Then it was skating Saturdays till 10.30, Wimpy Bar or Golden Egg for supper, midnight movies at the Odeon and back to the flat for a party till Sunday morning. Wimpy Bar for breakfast and wine bar for lunch, bed by 10 ready for work on Monday.
Nostalgia – it’s not what it used to be.???
Speculating, I would have said about 5 years now – MM disappeared 2 years ago and it was a while before that.
I was going to ask first or second class, but that looks like one chilled out lad!! Obviously vaping cbd!!
More likely Forumites getting over being nearly broken by the pace of everything around Christmas – whether that be the need to get presents for all or making preparation to be invaded by the family.
I know I’ve been chillin’ for the last few days.??
Ref the businesses, I very rarely get sight of the Home page except when I need to Login after a site ‘adjustment’. I sit with the Latest Replies page open on a tab and refresh it through the day. From my limited point of view, make what you can from them as I won’t be seeing much of them anyway – unless they turn out to be very interesting Blogs!!?
Regarding the “country blocking” – which I only came up against when I let Kaspersky Secure Connection look after my browsing – the site thought I was logging in from Amsterdam!! Needless to say I gave KSN the elbow. Is there a way to whitelist existing members even if they VPN’d or proxy’d their way onto the site?? Something I know nothing about so could well be talking out my ass!!
Whichever way anything goes, thanks Lee for overseeing the site over the last year, it takes a lot of effort behind the scenes and I, for one, am truly grateful the old crowd still has a place to congregate and be together.
Something on my New Years to do list is to Donate to the “Keep it Going” fund and would humbly remind others that do it periodically like myself, that time has come around again.
Christmas is behind us now – apart from the headache/hangover and the decs, so all the best for 2019 to everyone here, and of course, their loved ones.
Hi John – THIS place has a whole variety of sized boxes and they title them in Litres, but each page has the product dimensions.
If you look for something between 20l and 40l you may well find one the correct shape.
EBAY has a 36 litre that’s not too much bigger ( 48cm x 38cm x 32cm ) If you’re not too restricted by dimensions that might do you.
Though I’m sat here in home alone pj’s! So I’m not sure which way my Xmas is about to go!!!
The kids will soon let you know your Christmas Destiny and the wife will tell you to get on with it!!????
Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year, with all you wish for to enable you to enjoy with those you share your life with.
Peace and Love!!????
Have a good one Bob, home or hospital, you’ll have those you love close by.
Thanks all – I even got a version of a Happy Birthday from Google!! I was logged into G+ and had a map up on screen – I went to look at street view and the usual orange figure was a bear holding balloons, and when I clicked on it a Happy Birthday banner came out!! I was touched.
Thanks guys – just been out for a Birthday lunch so I’ll probably fall asleep in the chair this afternoon.
It’s really sad when you get old (er) – I just bought myself a present, it’s a blood pressure monitor!! No F’in justice!! Years ago it would have been a new hifi, TV, PC whatever.?
Couldn’t agree more, Richard. ?
Which in itself is strange as I spent best part of 40 years in and out of it every day, 25 years on BT and 15 on the flower stall. Anne also spent 35 years working in London, a good few of those when she also lived in London.
When asked about it she would say she loved living in the countryside but enjoyed being amid the hustle and bustle that was London.
When I was diagnosed and I transferred from our local hospital to the Marsden we were at the main hospital at the Brompton Road in Fulham. We’d only stopped working ( around half a mile away ) 5 years earlier, yet the journeys in and out were horrendous, time consuming and stress inducing – how quickly things change!! On a side note I found the journeys were easier when the schools were off – it’s amazing what a difference that makes to journey times and congestion. I was very glad when my treatment regime meant that I had to use the Sutton branch of the Marsden – it took an hour off the journey time!!
We rarely go back into London these days, but about a month ago there was a family gathering in Putney Heath, near where Anne was brought up and still central for a few family members. We picked our son up from Stratford ( velodrome ) which took an hour and a bit to get there from home. The journey from there to Putney Heath took a further hour and a half and this was on a Sunday!!
Never again is a cry frequently heard here when discussing journeys or plans into London. I feel your pain.
That is superb news Bob – not the car, but who gives a hoot on the back of great news!! Keep on moving forward.
That’s good to hear, Richard – any positive variation of circumstances is always a relief, and very welcome in these times.
Congrats – that’s a nice early Christmas present from an unexpected source – DWP!! Well done.??
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………………you’ll be getting monitored more closely than you would not being on a trail.
That’s something I should have remembered. When I visit the GP next week, I’ll be going armed with a cross sample of 5 years’ worth of BP readings.?
Richard – clinical trials, one could write a book about them and ( probably ) some have.
When I got my diagnosis ( locally ) they said there was a clinical trial available for those with my variety of Lymphoma and they wanted me to go straight on to it. I felt that I was being rushed into a choice and would be used as cannon fodder to go into the trial, but even then it was 50/50 whether I got the new wonder drug or the old standard treatment. I was in a real quandary!! That sort of time-sensitive decision both focuses the mind, encourages paranoia, but also sends it off in all sorts of strange directions
I was fortunate, in that my son’s partner’s sister worked in the Marsden and I felt sure that if I went there I would be on the new drug. They initially adopted a ‘Watch and Wait’ brief and 6 months later decided I could go on the trial if that was what I felt was right.
Having grown up in the era of Tomorrow’s World and multiple Medical scientific breakthroughs, whether they were in Cancer cures, AIDS treatments or flu vaccines, I felt, rightly or wrongly, that my best shot at getting through was on the leading edge.
I signed up for the treatment on the Clinical Trial at the Marsden and the rest, as they say, is history!!For my metabolism and my version of Lymphoma, the new drug actually turned out to be a wonder drug. Apart from the first allergic reaction to the anti-body each session of 1 x anti-body and 2 x chemo’s was like taking a pain-killer for a bad headache – it just worked. I drove home from the hospital feeling better than when I drove down there.
I had an ‘off-day’ on the second or third day after the session but it was just a downward dip, if that makes sense.
Five years on and the only things that I have to worry about are my Cholesterol ( statin controlled ) and my blood pressure ( currently under review – more next week ) and a ( Marsden scan noticed ) Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm – it has expanded by 1mm since my last scan in May this year and by 7mm over the last 18 months.Good luck with your wife and the choices you both make.
Best of luck, Richard.
Glad all is OK – building work can be one of two things straightforward or problematic – there doesn’t seem to be much middle ground.
Hope you end up with what you want.?
It was down earlier when I tried just before 8. According to “isitdown” the server was down.
Lee has had builders running riot at the moment and he’s just upgraded to FTTC so maybe a hiccup from one of those??
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