Author Topic: The Good News / Bad News Thread (Read 398024 times)

hellymedic · « **Reply #3250 on:** 13 January, 2024, 12:58:58 pm »

I have a little artwork on the shelf above the radiator in my house.

It reads ‘This house is protected by an ever-present coating of dust’...

barakta · « **Reply #3251 on:** 14 January, 2024, 08:06:55 pm »

My mum gave me a fridge magnet about ignoring the dust and turning out the light. For all her faults, snootiness about cleanliness isn't one of them (she'd lose!).

andrewc · « **Reply #3252 on:** 16 January, 2024, 01:15:32 pm »

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On Thursday my dentist X-rayed me & told me to come back in a year for my next check up.

Today’s lunch involved pork crackling. A large fragment of molar sheared off. I’ve a feeling this is going to be expensive & painful to repair….

Tooth repaired & she re-opened the account from last week & only charged me the difference! She said if it fails again a crown might be required, that tooth is about 75% filling!

Guess what happened yesterday...... not the same tooth but a chunk sheared off another rear molar. Crusty sourdough to blame this time.

Dental appointment next week.

That tooth was repaired on the 14th of December. I had some crusty sourdough on Saturday & the repair came off , leaving me crunching on it. I phoned the dentist yesterday & got a next day appointment (NHS via MyDentist). She's repaired it using a different material, but says that if it goes again I might need to have the entire massive filling replaced or a crown fitted.

hellymedic · « **Reply #3253 on:** 18 January, 2024, 02:13:09 am »

Many of my contemporaries seem to be having heavily teeth coming to bits…

Mum (87+)’s teeth seem to be holding up pretty well, though a restoration cracked when she fell last year.

Regulator · « **Reply #3254 on:** 18 January, 2024, 10:02:54 am »

Good news: my thyroid scan has been moved forward from the end of March to next Friday.

Bas news: I can't eat seafood for the next week... and the majority of the meals I ordered for next week are seafood based.

andrewc · « **Reply #3255 on:** 18 January, 2024, 02:17:15 pm »

Mum's new fridge-freezer was due to be delivered today between 11:30 & 13:30. I got the train up to give her a hand clearing the way for the delivery men.

Bastarding John Lewis delivered & installed it 3/4s of an hour early so I had a wasted trip!

Canardly · « **Reply #3256 on:** 21 January, 2024, 12:08:18 pm »

OTOH if you had not gone.......as sure as eggs is eggs!

HTFB · « **Reply #3257 on:** 30 January, 2024, 09:46:53 am »

That envelope of cash (yes, really, in 2024) shouldn't have been left where those removal men could spot it.

OTOH they only removed about a third of the contents. Could have been worse.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3258 on:** 13 February, 2024, 02:21:43 am »

Hurrah: I have just applied for a TfL Over-60s Photocard

Bah: I am entitled to a TfL Over-60s Photocard :'(

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #3259 on:** 13 February, 2024, 04:32:56 pm »

Pingu will be joining you shortly...

robgul · « **Reply #3260 on:** 13 February, 2024, 07:41:46 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 13 February, 2024, 02:21:43 am

Hurrah: I have just applied for a TfL Over-60s Photocard

Bah: I am entitled to a TfL Over-60s Photocard :'(

Huh! - wait until you have to renew your driving licence every 3 years!

Pretty much just a couple of questions: Are you warm and standing up, and can see OK with/without specs?

Jurek · « **Reply #3261 on:** 13 February, 2024, 08:44:44 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 13 February, 2024, 02:21:43 am

Hurrah: I have just applied for a TfL Over-60s Photocard

Bah: I am entitled to a TfL Over-60s Photocard :'(

I found it to be a double-edged sword.
Happy with the free travel, (even though I still have to cough full whack when I board the 05.56 Ginger Line from Forest Hill of a morning).
Less happy with succumbing easily to the inclination to reduce my cycling miles.

andrewc · « **Reply #3262 on:** 13 February, 2024, 08:52:45 pm »

We get free travel on Merseyside as well, from Southport down to Chester. Another 8 months for me to wait.

Flite · « **Reply #3263 on:** 13 February, 2024, 09:42:43 pm »

I've had a travel card for about 15 years.
I've used it twice.^*
Both occasions I drove about 25 miles to the city and got on the park and ride to the hospital.
I'd probably need to book B&B to get there using public transport.
^* OK 4 times if you count the return...

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3264 on:** 14 February, 2024, 01:36:29 am »

Quote from: Jurek on 13 February, 2024, 08:44:44 pm

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 13 February, 2024, 02:21:43 am
Hurrah: I have just applied for a TfL Over-60s Photocard

Bah: I am entitled to a TfL Over-60s Photocard :'(
I found it to be a double-edged sword.
Happy with the free travel, (even though I still have to cough full whack when I board the 05.56 Ginger Line from Forest Hill of a morning).
Less happy with succumbing easily to the inclination to reduce my cycling miles.

The vast majority of my tube/bus use is at sensible hours, thought I'll likely have to pay full whack to get to LHR in September chiz.

Giraffe · « **Reply #3265 on:** 14 February, 2024, 04:09:19 pm »

Had mine for nearly 17 years. It saved me a fortune in the Lakes in '09, especially as I'd found a B&B for 7 nights trans-weekend (don't Google for that, children) so that I could do Kendal - Shap and back for nowt.
Buses are, atm, £2/trip - bearable in all but principle.

Pingu · « **Reply #3266 on:** 15 February, 2024, 04:48:30 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 13 February, 2024, 02:21:43 am

Hurrah: I have just applied for a TfL Over-60s Photocard

Bah: I am entitled to a TfL Over-60s Photocard :'(

Me too also, but it's a 'National Entitlement Card' up here.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3267 on:** 15 February, 2024, 05:12:51 pm »

Which presumably leads to tedious joaks about the entitled oldies.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #3268 on:** 16 February, 2024, 10:18:12 am »

Not exactly because the yoof have them too, in order to get their free bus travel, I believe.

CommuteTooFar · « **Reply #3269 on:** 23 February, 2024, 05:53:43 pm »

GN: Today I made ten curry meals so that is nine future meals in the freezer.
BN: I am about to wash the dishes

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3270 on:** 06 March, 2024, 07:54:17 pm »

Bah: Microwave stopped microwaving

Hurrah! Microwave restarted microwaving after a reboot

Kim · « **Reply #3271 on:** 06 March, 2024, 10:23:39 pm »

I've noticed that our microwave's performance tails off alarmingly during times of Silly Oak vole shortage. Which is mostly in the evenings and around lunchtime, obviously. It took 7 minutes, 6 seconds^[1] to almost completely fail to defrost a curry the other day.

_{[1] Throwback to our previous - much better - microwave, which in its twilight years suffered from a corroded membrane keypad, with the effect that the '0', '2' '5' and 'auto defrost' buttons were non-functional^[2]. As a result we've developed some peculiar habits when it comes to arbitrary durations for microwaving things.
[2] There was a brief reprive when Hananananah The Astronononmer^[3] and I carefully peeled it apart and applied conductive paint to the b0rked bit.
[3] Optical, so has entirely normal attitudes towards microwave ovens.}

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3272 on:** 07 March, 2024, 01:04:38 am »

If it’s to do with cookery shouldn’t she be an astonomnomnomer?

jsabine · « **Reply #3273 on:** 07 March, 2024, 08:00:27 am »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 07 March, 2024, 01:04:38 am

If it’s to do with cookery shouldn’t she be an astonomnomnomer?

Only if she's associated with Brum's second university ...

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3274 on:** 07 March, 2024, 10:26:45 am »

Quote from: jsabine on 07 March, 2024, 08:00:27 am

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 07 March, 2024, 01:04:38 am
If it’s to do with cookery shouldn’t she be an astonomnomnomer?

Only if she's associated with Brum's second university ...

It was late, is my excuse