Re: Wet

[Macabre of Auchterloonie]

Sn!pe wrote:

> It's persisting down here.

It's stopped, now.

--
Old Nick

[Macabre of Auchterloonie]

Sn!pe wrote:

> Macabre of Auchterloonie <nico...@foobar.hellsuncles.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Sn!pe wrote:
>>
>>> It's persisting down here.
>> It's stopped, now.
>

> Yes, here too also and as well.

Indeed, the sun has got its hat on in flaming Norwich, and I'm supping a
pot of Elm Hill Tea in the Tea House in the vicinity of Elm Hill.

Find it on twatter, farcebook and twitadvisor.

--
Old Nick

[Dustbin]

"Sn!pe" <sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Macabre of Auchterloonie <nico...@foobar.hellsuncles.co.uk> wrote:
>

>> Sn!pe wrote:
>>
>> > It's persisting down here.
>>
>> It's stopped, now.
>

> Yes, here too also and as well.
>

Testing... testing....

This morning, about nine it became so dark here cars were using headlights.
One flash of lightning and then the rain came down.

Right, let's see what happens.

LdB

[Dustbin]

>>
>>> Sn!pe wrote:
>>>
>>> > It's persisting down here.
>>>
>>> It's stopped, now.
>>
>> Yes, here too also and as well.
>>
> Testing... testing....
>
> This morning, about nine it became so dark here cars were using
> headlights. One flash of lightning and then the rain came down.
>
> Right, let's see what happens.
>
> LdB

HA!!! <glee>

[Dustbin]

"Sn!pe" <sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message

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>>
>> Right, let's see what happens.
>

> We'll all be washed away, Lyd.
> Now then, where did I leave that ark.
>
Looky! I got the '>'s back.
<big smirk>

Mind, I am running XP on this fell machine - in a window.

LdB

[Macabre of Auchterloonie]

Kindly mop-up that puddle, madam .

--
Old Nick

[Macabre of Auchterloonie]

Sn!pe wrote:

> We'll all be washed away, Lyd.
> Now then, where did I leave that ark.

Over there, floating in Covenant Garden

--
Old Nick

[Macabre of Auchterloonie]

Sn!pe wrote:
> Dustbin <marrowjam@{out}blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>

>> "Sn!pe" <sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:1kmetv4.1ngb3251e7jkwoN%sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk...
>>>> Right, let's see what happens.
>>> We'll all be washed away, Lyd.
>>> Now then, where did I leave that ark.
>>>
>> Looky! I got the '>'s back.
>> <big smirk>
>

> Hooray!

>
>> Mind, I am running XP on this fell machine - in a window.
>>
>> LdB
>

> Ayup, Lyd.
>
> Did you get any hailstones as big as golf balls, like
> they've been telling us southerners about on the telly?

'Appen that Aggers 'ad 'oles in his roof. *He* thinks it wos hailstones
wot done it (and ran away), but I know better. He sent his wife up there
(bu his own admission) to have a gander, but she didn't tell *him* she
were takig 'ammer oop there.

--
Old Nick

[Dustbin]

"Sn!pe" <sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message

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>
>> Mind, I am running XP on this fell machine - in a window.
>

> Ayup, Lyd.
>
> Did you get any hailstones as big as golf balls, like
> they've been telling us southerners about on the telly?
>

Nah, just rain, rain, rain and one flash of lightning. Huh.

I just got back from the docs. Huh, again.
Blood tests all normal. Liver, gall-bladder and pancreas all firing on three
cyliders and happy-happy.
'There is nothing wrong with you, Mrs. L and how is the pain? Let me prod
you under the ribs...'
'ARGHHHHHH!'
'Like I said, nothing wrong with you. Does it hurt when I do this?'
'YES!!!! And in my neck, too....'
'Ahhhh..... '

Ahh, indeed. Might be adhesions but he is putting his money (3p) on refered
pain from the crumbling back-bone.
The man is a wag. He should go on TV.

he then took me off all my pain killers which he (and I) do not like and put
me on two others. Goodbye industrial strength co-codamol (and good ridiance)
and hello something that gets dealt with by the kidneys that has to be taken
with food.
This is a pest as I am already guzzling some whopping tablet that has to be
taken two hours before food. if I have to take the pain killers say... half
an hour before digging The Man out of his bed at about 8:45 this means I
must swallow the whoppers at 6:45, or earlier-ish. I can probably do it.
Perhaps a couple of hours can be squashed to an hour and a half? 7:15 seems
a more reasonable time to wake up especially as I usually wake about half
four and go back to sleep again after letting the bloody cat out. Huh.
I usually wake up at eight. Oh damn and blast. I am buggered if I want to
stay up from half four onwards just in case.
Is there anwhere else in the day when my tummy is empty for two hours? I
doubt it. Does tea count as a full tummy?
No early morning tea?

Must dance through Google. Gawd help us what with inhale this and jab that
and suck up the dust (now that IS a strange one. Comes with a natty machine
that drives two sikes into a capsule. larger version can be found in
torture chambers. Just insert your.... thingy in there please...' JAB!)

I'll get my coat.

LdB

[Dustbin]

>>
>> This morning, about nine it became so dark here cars were using
>> headlights. One flash of lightning and then the rain came down.
>>
>> Right, let's see what happens.
>
> Kindly mop-up that puddle, madam .
>

That is no joke as we have a short drive (just over a car-length) which
slopes downwards towards the house and is covered with disintigrating
tarmac.
Hard rain gives us - and them next door- a lake by the kitchen and in my
case a flood in the garage.

Only this morning, waiting outside for a taxi, I thought it is high time the
drive was covered with something permiable and a drain (soak away) was
inserted the width of the house - especially in front of the damn garage.
ŁŁŁ

Grrrr. Would bricks work? Gravel would just wash down the slope and bank up
over the drain - like what the tarmac dust does at the moment. Good for
growing weeds though.

LdB

[Dustbin]

> It's time for my annual blood sugar test, which involves
> 24 hours abstinence and 12 hours fasting. I leave as an
> exercise for the dear reader to guess which requirement
> is inhibiting me from letting the vampires at my antecubital fossa.
>

Ugh! How nasty for you - well, unpleasant, then.
I am getting used to black tea first thing in the morning.
Deep reading for information (why? But WHY?) resulted in discovering my tabs
taken on empty tummy... Bits 'bonded' with the stomach lining and if milk or
food was taken the poot things also tried to line the milky extras.
I might not have understood most of the article but it did give me a decent
reason so I am happy.

According to one expert in yahoo some tablets should be taken with food to
'help push the tablet down the gullet.' Yahoo. Haroo.

> Besides, Ther Doctor wants to put me on statins and I dug
> my heels in last year. I don't like pillses, I don't.
>
I know the feeling which is very strange. Look at us. I used to drink and
now I am hooked on nicotine again but have never, ever had the urge to
swallow happy tabs and treat prescribed drugs with deep suspicion.
According to the pundits and an 'adictive personality' I should be guzzling
codiene with gusto.

Drugs 'do things, and sometimes not nice things. I rest my case.

Oh Gawd! I just asked The Man 'why does 'Statins' ring a bell?
he reminded me that these are the little white tabs, a year's supply' which
he refuses to take because they make his arms so weak but the doctor doesn't
believe him..
I remember. Not to 'treat' but to reduce 'risk'.
Ronald demands a large bowl of porridge each morning instead. 8(

Cor that spelling chicken had better kick in. Even I know you don't spell
codeine like that.

LdB

[Lydia Dustbin]

"Sn!pe" wrote in message
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Dustbin <marrowjam@{out}blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> Cor that spelling chicken had better kick in. Even I know you don't spell
> codeine like that.

[beam]

Soz for not being very forthcoming of late, usual excuse.
Normal service (hah!) will be resumed ASAP.
---
Have I ever moaned about it? No, I have not.

ANYway I have been using virtual xp for replies and where the blue-blazes
are they?


Good to see that you've got yourself a halfway sensible
News client at last, BTW. There's hope for you yet, Lyd.

In other news: fell off the non-smoking wagon to the extent
of two half-ounce packets of rolling baccy and regretted it
for a week. Ho-hum, still on the electric dummies.
-----------------------------------

Wrote a long, and pathetic report of the last week in xp but it has fallen
into a black hole.
Will not repeat just in case it appears from the.... You really expect me to
spell aether?

I don;t know what to do about ciggies. My best option seems to be having no
money at all in the house.

R says I smell again. 8((
I hope he means of smoke and nicotwhatsit. How galling.
her-next-door, who has a hooter on her like a vacuum cleaner spotted the
smell after two days.

LdB - gloomy.

[Lydia Dustbin]

I know, I know. I succumbed to a packet of ten Royals the other day
and smoked them all in one afternoon. I really, REALLY should learn -
they were 'orrible and did for my wind for three days.
--------------------------------
I waver between Pall Mall green for cheap, but you only get 19 in the pack
and Richmond green - all big size and yes, am back to 30 a day with no
trouble at all.

I didn't mean with no wheezes, but thanks to the arsenal of inhalers ....

Let me tell you about my visit to the chest clinic, yesterday. 8(
Don't know if I mentioned being taken off co-codamol and given some
Ibuprofen look-alike and them foul tummy-tablets (on an empty stomach)?
Well, the tummy-tabs seemed to be working because the dull pain round my
gall bladder subsided - apart from a couple of warning shots across the bows
that made me hop and go quite quiet for a few horrified seconds. Monday
night I ate dinner, felt awful, returned dinner along with a interesting mix
of bright red blood.
I stopped taking the ibuprofen, fastest. Due to see GP next day and I wailed
full sore. Sore, being the operative word, but not in my tum.
He insisted on prodding me again (that sounds good)

'You have gallstones...'
'We all have gallstones at our age,' I complained.
'But yours want to go places. Cut down on fats.'
'What? No more slow-roasted belly pork with crackling?'
'Good grief, no! Have you been eating that?'
'No more butter-soaked home-built Kurma and deep fried samosas...?' he
looked amused. 'No more toast with my butter and marmalade?'
'Come back in a fortnight. If you are still getting stabbing pains, then
it's a scan.'
Bugger and bum.

Then yesterday was the chest clinic. I arrived early (the taxi-driver was a
MANIAC) so had a soothing fag. I was expecting to get told off and I dare
say I deserve it.
I found the right hall and sat, slap-bang, in front of the doors that had
names I recognised.
My name was called... Uh? A lady doctor was beckoning me over from the far
side of the room and she disappeared down a corridor leaving me hobbling
behind. 'Wait for me! Wait for meee!'
We entered her lair.

I dropped my walking stick. Bending over to retrieve it hurt my back and I
hollered. The yelling made me cough, which I did, at length, and the
coughing hurt my gall bladder which i clutched and moaned.
'And how are you feeling, Mrs L?' she asked when the tears stopped pouring
down my face.
'Not bad....' I told her I had started smoking again, and blamed my back,
trying to look pathetic.

She had a bevy of test results, and made me read out the x-ray report, out
loud, off the screen.
Nothing abnormal found. Signs of that COPD.. minimal. Also blood oxygen
good, lung capacity good, puffing down the tube now good, in fact...
'Healthy, ME? ' Whahahahahah!!! But she only was interested in the lungs.

'You are completely healthy.... Pause... BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN START
SMOKING AGAIN WITHOUT RISK!'
Arghhhhh! And she looked such a nice lady too.
You came in with an bad infection - you can say that again! the bloody GP
hadn't treated it for two weeks.
'Come back in six months and by THAT time....'

I know! I know!!!
So. Hold on while I get my stick, clutch my ribs and then leap like a
kangaroo up the hill, because I am completely healthy. Must be true, they
told me so.
And I HATE dry toast and marmalade. 8(

------------------------
I just wish I could
like barbequeueues.
- - - - -

I have never seen the attraction. I can understand it in a country where
outdoor living is more the norm, but all that happens here is come a hot day
and by tea-time the air is thick with the fumes of whatever people use to
get a fire and then of meat. The man makes me shut the windows.

Now next-door-on-the-other-side, they go in for entertaining in a big way
and their barbies are noisy, happy affairs and he has built a custom open
shed, brick, at the bottom of the garden. Now that, I see the point. They
have a party and a good time is had by all, but from the other gardens you
more often than not hear the sound of shrill whining complaints and bass
swearing until someone ends up in tears. Sometimes the father.

daft, I call it. And don;t tell me it is to give mummy a rest from kitchen
because I have heard what some of the mummies say about daddy leaving them
to do all the clearing away and washing up.

Must order tesco... am thinking of changing to Asda.

LdB

[Dustbin]

>
> I've had the second reminder from the surgery to have a blood glucose
> test sitting on my desk for a week. As I'm sure you know, it's necessary
> to be abstinent for 24 hours and to fast for 12 hours before the test.
> Guess which one I'm having trouble with...
>
I suppose I did know but it never registered having never had to endure
these tests myself. It sounds dodgy to me and I bet the test is for the
middle of the morning as well.
Do you have to drive there?
When you say abstinent' which form of abstination (I like that word) are
talking about.. Bah! Of which, etc. etc, are you talking?
If alcohol, I cannot help. There are no sticky patches for boozers - more's
the pity. if smoking, then stick up or something. If, perchance, you are
boasting that you can go 6 hours without getting your leg over, then you
know my address.

Whatever - said she, ruminating that if a bloke turned up here with any such
proposal he would get a swift clip over the ear.

>> daft, I call it. And don;t tell me it is to give mummy a rest from
>> kitchen
>> because I have heard what some of the mummies say about daddy leaving
>> them
>> to do all the clearing away and washing up.
>

> O-o-o-h yes. In a former existence it was decreed that we were going
> to have a BBQ party for all our little chums and I was designated
> sausage-incinerator in chief. All very well and good BUT I was also
> expected to sort out all the crockery and cutlery, the drinkies and the
> salad WITH if you please dressing,

And I should think so, too! Nude barbeque chef? Perish the thought!

while Mrs S the First caroused with
> her^W our pals. It was not a success. For the avoidance of doubt,
> I write of the success of the BBQ rather than of our marriage, although
> you could be forgiven for any misunderstanding on that.
>
Heh. I thinks you and Bloss are lovely peeps. Troubles bond - somethimes.
The other is sadly true.
You know, I still bogle when I think of the people I know - and I thought I
did know them - who said 'leave him...' after The man was reduced to semi
bed-rest and hobble and all that jazz.
Dear God. So you grab the good times and pack your bags when the going is
not to your liking?
What has happened to us all?


> Ooh look, it's time for my tablet.

Oh don't! Even though I have mine on a list - made for taking to docs and
hospital to save carrying the damn boxes - I STILL find myself standing in
the kitchen thinking 'did I puff on the whoozit yet? have I taken that
yellow one?
Like some doddery thing I now go down and lay out a pile of tabs and puffers
and don;t stop until they are all used up and put back into the box.
But even this morning I dragged myself back upstairs bearing two cups of tea
and thought 'I missed something , Oww! Ouch! What was it? Gor Blimey!
Ooomeback.'
Pain killers which are from yet another ruddy box.
Getting like Boots the shelf of that cupboard is. Box for me, box for him
and box for pain killers - various. And worm tabs for the cat.

>
>> Must order tesco... am thinking of changing to Asda.
>

> As it happens Mrs S the Second, my Beloved, has today been having an
> up-and-a-downer stylee row with boodly John Lewis over a double charge
> for a mail-order item. There was so much steam coming out of her ears
> that I thought it prudent to retire to the shed until the storm-cones
> came down. Waitrose may well become a casualty of this situation;
> I hope I don't...
>
Oh, I say, remember - though there is no reason why you should - the fun we
had with Maplin? Wonderful place. On one occasion we had four halogen room
heaters (two to be returned), then another two arrived, and at the same time
two large CD carriers with shoulder straps had appeared instead of one - on
offer, not to be missed.
When I told the very nice but harassed guy that another double order had
turned up he said 'Oh keep them both and don;t say anything!'
So I did.
It is by far the handiest thing I ever had for CDs. Richard took the other
one away, rejoicing.

Now everything goes on a stick.
Like a tally?

We are progressing rapidly backwards - a bit like my Roomba which tried to
climb out the back door this morning. Seemingly outside would be less
trouble than my living room. Oh, I do love that beastie. 8)

LdB

[Lydia Dustbin]

Whaddaya mean I should
> have faith that Apple [genuflects] have got it all exactly right?...
>
Well, I suspect Apple will be easier to deal with than Microsaft but a new
operating system is always a pain.
Is it a new system or will 99% be the same?

How did the test go - I mean, what was the day like, not the medical
details?

This morning, having new offers sent from cheapo Premier Man I did order
another dressing gown for the man, and things, and more things then oh,
look! An electronic ciggy set!
USB?Blimey... But my laptop doesn't smoke - famous last words. [99]
They are very good on delivery. I will let you know how I get on. It's for
up here, by the computer. The worst danger area. The rest of the house I am
okay.

L Dustbin

[99] Talking of smoking computers. I wonder if there was any truth in what I
read once, that with the old Pet - remember the integrated desk-top machine?
Posh at the time - there was a command you could type in that forced some
sort of electrical upheaval and Poof! Smoke appeared from within the case,
if not your actual flames.

Perish the thought that such a thing could happen to current machines. It
would be a hackers dream. Virus with teeth.

[Lydia Dustbin]

"Sn!pe" <sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message

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> Znep <E-0C0013...@cleopatra.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>> There have long been rumours of a Halt & Catch Fire (HCF) instruction.
>> As far as I am aware, it's not actually part of any instruction set.
>
<snigger>

> [faintest ringing of bells in the back of my bonce]
>
> Wasn't it something to do with a poke that caused a tight loop?
> I never had a Pet myself so I barely remember, but I do recall
> reading something about it in one of the geek mags of the day.
>
That's right! I looked it up after you said this. It brings a whole new
meaning to poking the fire.
Peeking and poking. Oh my.
I remember <blush> having a sticker on my camera case saying 'Ohio rules,
POKE a' and some guy coming up to me at The Black Country Museum (about
1980) and asking, in a broad American accent, which part of Ohio I came
from.

LdB

[R C Nesbit]

Lydia Dustbin spoke:

> Well, I suspect Apple will be easier to deal with than Microsaft but a new
> operating system is always a pain.

Yesterday I had occasion to un-forget a hosting company we used a decade or so
back, on the support office wall was a large block of black foam with
Microsoft on a label above it.

> This morning, having new offers sent from cheapo Premier Man I did order
> another dressing gown for the man, and things, and more things then oh,
> look! An electronic ciggy set!
> USB?Blimey... But my laptop doesn't smoke - famous last words. [99]

I bought one of they - it makes me cough!

--
Rab C

[Lydia Dustbin]

>
>> This morning, having new offers sent from cheapo Premier Man I did order
>> another dressing gown for the man, and things, and more things then oh,
>> look! An electronic ciggy set!
>> USB?Blimey... But my laptop doesn't smoke - famous last words. [99]
>
> I bought one of they - it makes me cough!
>

Really? Oh, don;t say that! 'They' have given me some terrible green and
yellow cough and spit tablets and I hack and whoop far too much as it is.

Did you know whooping cough is back on the rise and in an adult it's just
like a nasty cough? perhaps I have whooping cough. Can you have whooping
cough for six months? Best way to stop coughing is a good drag on a nice
healthy menthol cigarette. Gawd....

It's the ritual I am hoping the ciggy might help. I tried breaking the habit
of reaching for a faggy as soon as I sit at the computer but it didn;t work.
I tried alternatives like liquorice wood which turned me rancid.

We will see.

LdB

[Lydia Dustbin]

"Sn!pe" <sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message

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> Lydia Dustbin <marrowjam@{out}blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> It's the ritual I am hoping the ciggy might help. I tried breaking the
>> habit
>> of reaching for a faggy as soon as I sit at the computer but it didn;t
>> work.
>> I tried alternatives like liquorice wood which turned me rancid.
>>
>> We will see.
>

> Good luck with it, Lyd. In other news: I've clambered onto
> the wagon today, prior to visiting the vampires tomorrow.
> No good will come of it.
>
Oh, okay, riiiiight.

Sympathy. I will be thinking about you.
>

LdB

[Lydia Dustbin]

"Sn!pe" <sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message

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> Lydia Dustbin <marrowjam@{out}blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I will be thinking about you.
>

> Mission accomplished, normal service will now be resumed.
>
> Damn, any minute now it will be +++ OUT-OF-FAGS ERROR +++
>
8)
Welcome back! My, haven't you grown?
So when will you hear the results?

My Roomba is playing up again this morning despite acting normally after a
deep clean yesterday.
I can't be bothered with all this any more.

I want a new cleaner but R wants me to get more spare parts. Which ones,
though? To identify now the pundits are talking about SCUZZI interfaces and
programs on the computer - a factory run - and HEX and .. I don't wanna!

I just want to press a button, like a normal person.

Talking of which, how is the Mac?

LdB

[Lydia Dustbin]

>> So when will you hear the results?
>

> Apparently I'll hear from the surgery in a couple of days if
> there's anything untoward. I'm getting to the point where I'm
> reluctant to tell the doc. about miscellaneous twinges in case
> it's something I don't want to know about...
>
Ohhh, I know that feeling.

>> My Roomba is playing up again this morning despite acting normally after
>> a
>> deep clean yesterday.
>> I can't be bothered with all this any more.
>>
>> I want a new cleaner but R wants me to get more spare parts. Which ones,
>> though? To identify now the pundits are talking about SCUZZI interfaces
>> and
>> programs on the computer - a factory run - and HEX and .. I don't wanna!
>>
>> I just want to press a button, like a normal person.
>

> Heh! Life is too short to bother about programming an /automatic/
> vacuum cleaner!

Who the heck programs? Nah, my Roomba sort of bumbles about in random
directions, bouncing off the walls - a bit like me first thing in the
morning.
Or, it did...

>> Talking of which, how is the Mac?
>
>

> +++ WARNING +++
>
> It ain't like Windows!

<little hurt voice> I know!

Hey, the electron ciggy arrived and I think, suspect, it is doing me no
good.
Now I am not at all breathless at the moment except perhaps after slogging
up The Hill, but after charging up via the USB I have used the thing while
sitting here and suddenly find myself gasping for breath. After about five
spaced-out puffs.
Attending to a yell from the man, and trotting back upstairs left me sucking
in air like crazy and I have developed a sudden throbbing headache.

Test it. Will shelve it for today. I still have 40 fags here, anyway. Then
do a test run when I feel chipper again, tomorrow. One more throb and
sudden wheeze and it goes out the window.

LdB

[R C Nesbit]

Lydia Dustbin spoke:

> Hey, the electron ciggy arrived and I think, suspect, it is doing me no
> good.
> Now I am not at all breathless at the moment except perhaps after slogging
> up The Hill, but after charging up via the USB I have used the thing while
> sitting here and suddenly find myself gasping for breath. After about five
> spaced-out puffs.
> Attending to a yell from the man, and trotting back upstairs left me sucking
> in air like crazy and I have developed a sudden throbbing headache.
>
> Test it. Will shelve it for today. I still have 40 fags here, anyway. Then
> do a test run when I feel chipper again, tomorrow. One more throb and
> sudden wheeze and it goes out the window

I told you! Didn't I?

--
Rab C. Nesbit
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.
If you can fake that, you've got it made

[Lydia Dustbin]

>> Test it. Will shelve it for today. I still have 40 fags here, anyway.
>> Then
>> do a test run when I feel chipper again, tomorrow. One more throb and
>> sudden wheeze and it goes out the window
>
> I told you! Didn't I?
>

You did; you did do that, you did.

Yesterday's test resulted in a tight chest but it was late at night.
Doing final test now.

Have taken usual morning spiriva capsule then a chug of ventolin to make
sure breathing felt clear and normal. The term 'normal' in this case being
relative. 8(
This thing doesn't taste at all like tobacco. Sort of... cookie dough
flavour. Who makes these things? Ben and Jerry?

I have read what I can find on COPD and e-ciggies and the jury is still out.
Must say while I am sitting here nursing the wretched thing I don't feel the
urge.
Sun has come out so I am off to put out laundry.
I will continue to puff and let you know what happens.

LdB

[Lydia Dustbin]

>
> My e-dummy uses cartridges, you can get them in a range of strengths
> of nicotine content. Being me (I always tear the arse out of things)
> I got the extra strong ones. There's no doubt that honking too hard
> on them gives me a headache, I'm going to get medium strength ones
> next time. I choose the menthol flavoured cartridges so that I'm
> actually aware that I'm inhaling something - they're actually quite
> pleasant. You can also get various other flavours, fruity ones mostly,
> or e.g. vanilla.
>
Is it a recognised brand name? Mine isn't, <glum> and I have no idea what
the strength is.


> I'm back up to 25+ a day real gaspers and wheezing like a bad-un.
> I have two left in the packet and I'm going to resist manfully (hah!)
> buying another packet. I think I'll try using nico-gum as well as my
> dummy.
>
It's a pest, isn;t it? I am also back to about 30 a day. I am sure that if
it wasn't for all these capsules and inhalers I would also wheeze full sore
but I am/was lulled into a sense of false security and bang! Back on the
fags because I had such a good chesty report.

Sheer stubborn stupidity.

Investigating my booklet I find made in China for Tenso etc. etc... Most are
made in Chine it seems... Can't find a name. Model number MG85-401. Where's
the box... I'm getting a thick head...
Another Problem Solved by 'Good Ideas.'
Furtive lot, aren't they? Oh, hang on, what's on the filter???
E-cigarette. Is that a brand name or a description. Puzzling.

LdB

[R C Nesbit]

Sn!pe spoke:

> My e-dummy uses cartridges, you can get them in a range of strengths
> of nicotine content. Being me (I always tear the arse out of things)
> I got the extra strong ones. There's no doubt that honking too hard
> on them gives me a headache, I'm going to get medium strength ones
> next time. I choose the menthol flavoured cartridges so that I'm
> actually aware that I'm inhaling something - they're actually quite
> pleasant. You can also get various other flavours, fruity ones mostly,
> or e.g. vanilla.

Mine also - E-Lites http://e-lites.co.uk/ from our local 7-11 shoppe

but *why* is the LED *green*?

> I'm back up to 25+ a day real gaspers and wheezing like a bad-un.
> I have two left in the packet and I'm going to resist manfully (hah!)
> buying another packet. I think I'll try using nico-gum as well as my
> dummy.

My motivation is that I've reached the end of my 2Kg cheap Polish
baccie, and the tail-end is a bit dry and has a habit of dropping
burning bits on to my hands, clothes, and car when driving, so I'm
*trying* to use the dummy in the car.

[Lydia Dustbin]

>
> Having finished off my three remaining gaspers this morning
> I'm now using the gum again with top-ups from the dummy.
>
> Who's the dummy? I am, Mummy!
>
Dummy? You should have seen me the only time I tried the gum. Stuck to my
plastic fangs - and gave me tummy ache.
The plot is unfolding - see next post.

LdB

[Lydia Dustbin]

>
> Mine also - E-Lites http://e-lites.co.uk/ from our local 7-11 shoppe
>

Ha-ha! I got that now!

> but *why* is the LED *green*?
>

According to what I read, so that nobody would mistake the e-cig for a real
one and start a rumpus.

>
> My motivation is that I've reached the end of my 2Kg cheap Polish
> baccie, and the tail-end is a bit dry and has a habit of dropping
> burning bits on to my hands, clothes, and car when driving, so I'm
> *trying* to use the dummy in the car.
>

Well I was out of fags last night at nine and decided to rely on my cheapo
dummy.
I was not convinced. I still yearned for a real smoke.

Half eight this morning I was down at our very small corner shop - under new
management - and bought two packs of Pall Mall and told the lady about
recent experiments with e-cigs and behold! She bought down a display box of
e-lites, single ciggy in a box, said there were six on Friday when he
brought them, two strengths, only two left. I traded back a packet of fags
and bought the last medium strength e-lite.
The owner also bought four chargers and four packs of alternative filters,
including two menthols but they had all been sold.

It was difficult enough getting a pack of twenty menthols of the old owner,
this new man is far more savvy.
I asked the lady to present my compliments to him and more menthol filters,
pleeeese?

Then home to try my charger but alas! The male/female screw is reversed and
the width of the e-lite a little smaller. Bummer.

Found the taste ot the e-lite far nicer and less sickly-sweet. Used this
a.m. when son and wife came a-calling. Worked okay.
Quote: 'Ooo, a card. Oh, who's birthday was it?'
'MINE!'
'Oh heck. When?'
'YESTERDAY!'

But no rancour. Neither of us send cards or things like that. It just
cheered me up, wailing.

Anyway. If you can also gets strange flavours I might experiment. I dare say
the price in the corner shop will be greater than on the web but I will pay
that willingly because if I went down there, cashless, and with my tongue
hanging out, I could always get fags on tick and that is worth cultivating.

So my e-lite is now up here, at the moment resting in my ashtray among the
ash and butts of yesterday (and this morning, ho-hum) just where a faggy
should be, ready to hand and please, please don;t let me forget and try to
light the end.
Perhaps I should move my lighter downstairs....

LdB

[Lydia Dustbin]

>
>> The plot is unfolding - see next post.
>>
>> LdB
>

> Ooh! I'm all agog, Lyd.
>
Blimey, tou were quick off the mark!!

[Lydia Dustbin]

"Sn!pe" <sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message

news:1kod6qe.eldjjq1jr0ku8N%sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk...

> Lydia Dustbin <marrowjam@{out}blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>

>> So my e-lite is now up here, at the moment resting in my ashtray among
>> the
>> ash and butts of yesterday (and this morning, ho-hum) just where a faggy
>> should be, ready to hand and please, please don;t let me forget and try
>> to
>> light the end.
>> Perhaps I should move my lighter downstairs....
>

> Several times I've tried to light mine, eeh, I felt such a fool.
>
I took a drag from the wrong end this morning. The light flickered like mad.
I thought I had broken it, but no....

ANYway, I think I have cracked it.
Local shop down-the-hill promised to get charger and filters for the e-lite
but nothing so far.
Two days ago I was up-the-hill and bought absolute disposable, no charger
facility nicolites high, good as forty fags.
Brilliant!!
Really feels as though I have taken a good drag. So, I will keep the medium
ones up here where I smoke far too much and uneccessarily, and use the high
tar first thing in the morning and downstairs where I hardly smoke at all
but really need it when I do (either that or strangle The Man).

Twenty pack of real faggies lasted three days. ha! Still can;t bring myself
not to buy real fags yet. Booo.

Wondering though if these things effect the back. Can hardly hobble. Have
stripped the edges of my small philips screwdriver and need a replacement to
fix the Roomba. That means long walkies down another bit of the hill then
back up.
To hell with it, she says. What sort of house doesn't have three or four
small screwdrivers knocking about?
Buggerit.

LdB
>

[R C Nesbit]

Lydia Dustbin spoke:

> Twenty pack of real faggies lasted three days. ha! Still can;t bring myself
> not to buy real fags yet. Booo.

For some bizarre reason I've cut down smoking.

Completely unintentionally!

I make my own using one o' they chamines and tubes. My Polish business partner
brings cheap backie back occasionally, and in January 3 of us clubbed together
to pay for a cheapo flight and he brought back 2Kg of backie each. Mine lasted
8 months! I usually buy 100gm drums of Bayside which barely last a week.

The 1st drum I bought since January on Saturday is still 1/3 full.

[Lydia Dustbin]

"R C Nesbit" <sp...@ukrm.net> wrote in message
news:VA.00003e1...@ukrm.net...

> Lydia Dustbin spoke:
>> Twenty pack of real faggies lasted three days. ha! Still can;t bring
>> myself
>> not to buy real fags yet. Booo.
>
> For some bizarre reason I've cut down smoking.
>
> Completely unintentionally!
>
> I make my own using one o' they chamines and tubes.

What? Baffled for a few seconds then... Smack!
Repeat after me... This, is, not, the, shed....
One trace of a ROT and I scream and go for the jugular, right?

My Polish business partner
> brings cheap backie back occasionally, and in January 3 of us clubbed
> together
> to pay for a cheapo flight and he brought back 2Kg of backie each. Mine
> lasted
> 8 months! I usually buy 100gm drums of Bayside which barely last a week.
>
> The 1st drum I bought since January on Saturday is still 1/3 full.
>

100 anything drum sounds dreadfully large. Much larger than 2Kg which is why
I end up looking at tins on special offer and finding they are the size of a
small dustbin or, a small pot of something that would barely cover one Ritz
cracker yet cost an arm and leg.

A friend of my son's, who used to come here during uni breaks for nattering,
used to roll his own with one hand...
I hated this. One day I sat and practiced. For ages I practiced until I was
surrounded by mangled papers and a sea of spilled tobacco.
Mike sat and watched this performance with an indulgent eye, waited until I
had produced an almost smokable tube, then picked up three fluffy cat toys
and started juggling them.

We are no longer on speaking terms.

LdB - I am not sure of the apostrophe in son's, but 'friend of my sons'
sound as if I have more than one.
perish the thought.

[R C Nesbit]

Lydia Dustbin spoke:

> > I make my own using one o' they chamines and tubes.
>
> What? Baffled for a few seconds then... Smack!
> Repeat after me... This, is, not, the, shed....
> One trace of a ROT and I scream and go for the jugular, right?

Soz! Ma Bad.

<GD&RFC>

[Lydia Dustbin]

"R C Nesbit" <sp...@ukrm.net> wrote in message
news:VA.00003e1...@ukrm.net...

> Lydia Dustbin spoke:
>> > I make my own using one o' they chamines and tubes.
>>
>> What? Baffled for a few seconds then... Smack!
>> Repeat after me... This, is, not, the, shed....
>> One trace of a ROT and I scream and go for the jugular, right?
>
> Soz! Ma Bad.
>
> <GD&RFC>
>

Mind, I call people abstrads under my breath.
You can take the person out of the shed but you can't take, etc. etc.
etc....

Softer side:
Son sent me a pressy on a stick and I watched it this morning early.
Life Story, the Watson and Crick and Franklin and Wilkins story.

It's so saaaaad.
Bawled my eyes out again.
Supposed to be a triumph? Oh, oh. oh.
Felt so sorry for that lady.
>
Will cheer myself up later by watching Alexander Armstrong play Clive
Sinclair in Micro Men.
Always makes me laugh, that little series.
Yay! Yay! Acorn!

LdB