The Good News Thread

[andrewc]

That is not AndrewC. That is his butler. Or so he tells us...

I'd never employ a butler who was younger, slimmer,  better dressed & better looking than I am !

[Gus]

Just got a Call from a friend, I have an ekstra ticket for the PJ Harvey concert on monday, Are You interested?  Oh yes please 

[Jakob W]

Had a commissioning email from one of my editors for a good chunk of work. It won't be until next June or so, but it should be a decent contribution towards the n+1 fund...

[rafletcher]

My wife is due back from Chicago today, and her flight is showing as being an hour ahead of schedule     

[Salvatore]

I haven't got glaucoma after all.

... and 364 days later I still haven't.

Another year gone, and still no sign of glaucoma. The doctor I saw said that next year they might discharge me and leave the testing to  an optician.

After the is-it-or-isn't-it glaucoma of 2013 (it is) and 2014 (it isn't despite what we said last year), back to normal "all clear and see you next year" yesterday.

And now it has been decided that I don't need an annual eye clinic examination, as there is "no evidence of glaucoma" after several years of monitoring, and I can go back to an annual (free)  examination by optician.

[Canardly]

Good news indeed!

[lou boutin]

I'm going to see Brian Cox in Dec

[Mr Larrington]

The original Hannibal Lecter or the mountain-climbing helicopter-bothering cleverness dispenser?

[Cudzoziemiec]

The clocks have gone back. I know a lot of people don't like this, and I don't like the actual change, but whereas dark evenings are simply gloomy, dark mornings I find really hard to cope with. Or rather to get up in. Getting up before the sun is just wrong. And now I don't have to. 

[phantasmagoriana]

The clocks have gone back. I know a lot of people don't like this, and I don't like the actual change, but whereas dark evenings are simply gloomy, dark mornings I find really hard to cope with. Or rather to get up in. Getting up before the sun is just wrong. And now I don't have to. 

Now I have to get up in the dark and come home in the dark, instead of just getting up in the dark. Yay!

[ElyDave]

And I'm going to Aberdeen next week, extra gloominess

[hellymedic]

At least Aberdeen is in the East...

[Mrs Pingu]

The clocks have gone back. I know a lot of people don't like this, and I don't like the actual change, but whereas dark evenings are simply gloomy, dark mornings I find really hard to cope with. Or rather to get up in. Getting up before the sun is just wrong. And now I don't have to. 

Now I have to get up in the dark and come home in the dark, instead of just getting up in the dark. Yay!

Indeed!

[Mrs Pingu]

And I'm going to Aberdeen next week, extra gloominess

But you get to leave....

[Cudzoziemiec]

Went down the LBS to moan about my bike being stolen, and to ask them to keep an eye out for it on the off chance, and to buy an inner tube. Mechanic there, who is always good for a natter, pointed out that if my bike gets flogged cheaply on gumtree, cash converters or whatever, it might become someone's cheap entry into cycling so I will indirectly have made a convert. So it all comes round in karma, or dogma, or cyclema or whatever. And everybody's still alive.

[Si S]

Cheque for damage to the bike from the guy who left hooked me on Friday turned up.

[Jaded]

It is going to last another 6 years

[Cudzoziemiec]

The refit, which will include the replacement of worn parts and a repaint of the exterior, will be carried out by the Screen Machine's original builders, French-based Toutenkamion.

Name! 

[sojournermike]

My youngest, 11 years old, daughter is coming home from hospital today after being ambulance in on Sunday afternoon with a severe asthma attack/exacerbation. Triggered, we believe, by a nasty viral infection and requiring significant IV drug administration as the nebuliser failed - given her peak flow had fallen to 60, from c.200, that's not really a surprise.

Needless to say, we're very very grateful to have her back.

The only amusing moment was her suggestion on Monday night that she'd run away from the hospital - I might have pointed out that if she could run they'd let her go. At that point, quote apart from a canula in each arm and two drip stands, she also had constant heart and blood oxygen monitoring,  and couldn't breathe well enough to walk to the loo.

Mike

[fuzzy]

Scary stuff Mike. Glad she is recovering.

[Canardly]

Oh dear glad to hear that she is on the mend. Suffered from Asthma as a child, not nice.

[ElyDave]

And I'm going to Aberdeen next week, extra gloominess

But you get to leave....

I hope so, trip postponed to this week.  As long as the chopper comes on Friday...

[barakta]

Erk Mike, how scary!  Glad she's on the mend and I hope she doesn't have any more scares like that!

[sojournermike]

Thanks All

Yes, scary and very relieved she's back. I've told her she's a few days grace to get away with 'stuff'. Off now to make sur she's taken today's Pred.

Mike

[perpetual dan]

I've wrapped the last of my Christmas presents.