Ding!

[lydiadu...@gmail.com]

On a snipe hunt.
Can I email you? If so where? Lydia addy will reach me.

Please dip in bleach before posting.

La Dustbin

[RustyHinge]

Hello Lyd. I've escaped the clutches of a 'care home' and am back home,
falling over ang generally making a nuisance of myself, but happy.

How's you?

--
Rusty Hinge
To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer and the BOFH.

[Sn!pe]

Ooh, 'ello, Lyd, I've just re-subbed and there you are.
YHM

--
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My pet rock Gordon just is.

[Sn!pe]

RustyHinge <rusty...@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote:

[...]

> I've escaped the clutches of a 'care home' and am back home,
> falling over ang generally making a nuisance of myself, but happy.

[...]

Ayup, Mr 'inge.

[RustyHinge]

On 02/05/2021 12:16, Sn!pe wrote:
> RustyHinge <rusty...@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote:
>
> [...]
>> I've escaped the clutches of a 'care home' and am back home,
>> falling over ang generally making a nuisance of myself, but happy.
> [...]
>
> Ayup, Mr 'inge.
>

Ay-up, ar Snipe.

Beek oop!

[Sn!pe]

RustyHinge <rusty...@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote:

> On 02/05/2021 12:16, Sn!pe wrote:
> > RustyHinge <rusty...@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >> I've escaped the clutches of a 'care home' and am back home,
> >> falling over ang generally making a nuisance of myself, but happy.
> > [...]
> >
> > Ayup, Mr 'inge.
> >
> Ay-up, ar Snipe.
>
> Beek oop!

Indeed, indeed, no illegitimate carborundums here.
How's yerself?

[RustyHinge]

On 05/05/2021 11:37, Sn!pe wrote:
> RustyHinge <rusty...@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 02/05/2021 12:16, Sn!pe wrote:
>>> RustyHinge <rusty...@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>> I've escaped the clutches of a 'care home' and am back home,
>>>> falling over ang generally making a nuisance of myself, but happy.
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Ayup, Mr 'inge.
>>>
>> Ay-up, ar Snipe.
>>
>> Beek oop!
>
> Indeed, indeed, no illegitimate carborundums here.
> How's yerself?
>

Just in case you rilly want to know, pretty (not pretty) boodly 'orrid.
Can't stand porperly - must have support; almost constant visual
migraine (no bonceache, but disturbed, rippling vision); hearin not
improving either - eh? What's that?

Just had an arj - oops! Sorry, this isn't another place - just had a new
front door made and fitted. Solid oak with a large obscuring glass
double-glazed panel which lets in an amazing amount of light, which is
handy, seeing as the door opens directly into the front room innit. 19th
century farmworkers' cottages didn't do unnecessary things like
hallways. (Farmers! Hallways tight?)

Pleased to be home after more than a year in hospital and so-called
respite care. There, of course, I caught covid19, and that made me a tad
subgruntled, as they told me the day I was due to go home.

Sense of smell and taste still rather faulty.

Looking forward to getting out and about again soon (ish) as I'm missing
fungal cornucopia.

How's you?

[Sn!pe]

RustyHinge <rusty...@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote:
[...]
> >>>> I've escaped the clutches of a 'care home' and am back home,
> >>>> falling over ang generally making a nuisance of myself, but happy.
> >>> [...]
> >>>
> >>> Ayup, Mr 'inge.
> >>>
> >> Ay-up, ar Snipe.
> >>
> >> Beek oop!
> >
> > Indeed, indeed, no illegitimate carborundums here.
> > How's yerself?
> >
> Just in case you rilly want to know, pretty (not pretty) boodly 'orrid.
> Can't stand porperly - must have support; almost constant visual
> migraine (no bonceache, but disturbed, rippling vision); hearin not

> improving either - eh? What's that?f

>
> Just had an arj - oops! Sorry, this isn't another place - just had a new
> front door made and fitted. Solid oak with a large obscuring glass
> double-glazed panel which lets in an amazing amount of light, which is
> handy, seeing as the door opens directly into the front room innit. 19th
> century farmworkers' cottages didn't do unnecessary things like
> hallways. (Farmers! Hallways tight?)
>
> Pleased to be home after more than a year in hospital and so-called
> respite care. There, of course, I caught covid19, and that made me a tad
> subgruntled, as they told me the day I was due to go home.
>
> Sense of smell and taste still rather faulty.
>
> Looking forward to getting out and about again soon (ish) as I'm missing
> fungal cornucopia.
>
> How's you?

Firstly, sorry to hear of your trials and tribulations, well done for
coming throught it all with your sense of humour still intact.

Myself, I've recently had my second jab and I'm about to break cover for
almost the first time since early last March. I have somewhat advanced
COPD and I don't relish the prospect of a further challenge to my poor
old self-abused lights so I've been pretty much shielding at home.

But still, Spring is here and 'tis the season for going out and about so
I'm being a little more adventurous. I do wish pubs were properly open
again; I miss bellying-up to the bar, foot on rail, and bantering with
the lads.

Are you in touch with Lydia? I was so sorry to have missed her when she
she posted a year ago. I did try writing to her posting address and one
other previous address that I have but I haven't so far had a reply.

[RustyHinge]

On 11/05/2021 00:23, Sn!pe wrote:
>
> Firstly, sorry to hear of your trials and tribulations, well done for
> coming throught it all with your sense of humour still intact.

t's either that, or sleep until oblivion innit.

> Myself, I've recently had my second jab and I'm about to break cover for
> almost the first time since early last March. I have somewhat advanced

> COPD -

Ah, my doctors diagnosed that too, and I stuck to the régime until I
could only walk five paces before I had to stop for a breather, Dr.
Twentyman at the Norfolk & Norwich University hospital, (bless him!) -
had other ideas and said: "I don't think you have COPD, you don't fit
the profile." putting me on a nebuliser, for the best part of a week,
which was an astounding success, then put his finger on the real cause:
the beta-blocker - uggbre! Can't unforget its name, but I will, I will
(to misquote someone-or-other). The side-effect of this beta-blocker was
to narrow-down the airways in the lungs to practically zilch.

Soon returned to usual puff after a while. If you're on a beta-blocker,
tell me what it is and you might rement me.

> and I don't relish the prospect of a further challenge to my poor
> old self-abused lights so I've been pretty much shielding at home.
>
> But still, Spring is here and 'tis the season for going out and about so
> I'm being a little more adventurous. I do wish pubs were properly open
> again; I miss bellying-up to the bar, foot on rail, and bantering with
> the lads.

Now is the month of maying
When merry lads are playing:
Fa-la, la-la, la la la la-la,
Fa-la la, la, la la-la.
Each with hi bonny lass
A-seated on his - oops! A-seated on the grass
Fa-la la-la-la-la la la la,
Fa-la la la la la la.

I unforgot that from my days in the school choir - 1950s, no less.

> Are you in touch with Lydia? I was so sorry to have missed her when she
> she posted a year ago. I did try writing to her posting address and one
> other previous address that I have but I haven't so far had a reply.

'Frayed knot, but I think he's on ome farcebuk grüp or other. I don't do
Farcebuk or Twatter.

Beek up, again.

[Sn!pe]

RustyHinge <rusty...@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote:

[...]

> > Myself, I've recently had my second jab and I'm about to break cover for
> > almost the first time since early last March. I have somewhat advanced
> > COPD -
>
> Ah, my doctors diagnosed that too, and I stuck to the régime until I
> could only walk five paces before I had to stop for a breather, Dr.
> Twentyman at the Norfolk & Norwich University hospital, (bless him!) -
> had other ideas and said: "I don't think you have COPD, you don't fit
> the profile." putting me on a nebuliser, for the best part of a week,
> which was an astounding success, then put his finger on the real cause:
> the beta-blocker - uggbre! Can't unforget its name, but I will, I will
> (to misquote someone-or-other). The side-effect of this beta-blocker was
> to narrow-down the airways in the lungs to practically zilch.
>
> Soon returned to usual puff after a while. If you're on a beta-blocker,
> tell me what it is and you might rement me.

Coo, I've never heard of that before, but I'm not on a beta blocker.
Alas, I do fit the profile having been a smoker, on and off, for most
of my life. I was 9 yo when I purloined my first ciggie from my dad's
packet. Whatever, it's a self-inflicted wound with no one to blame
except myself. So it goes.

[RustyHinge]

On 15/05/2021 20:29, Sn!pe wrote:
> RustyHinge <rusty...@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote:

Beta-blocker closing airways in the lungs rare-ish side-effect.

>
> Coo, I've never heard of that before, but I'm not on a beta blocker.
> Alas, I do fit the profile having been a smoker, on and off, for most
> of my life. I was 9 yo when I purloined my first ciggie from my dad's
> packet. Whatever, it's a self-inflicted wound with no one to blame
> except myself. So it goes.

I *was* a smoker, but it was mainly a pipe and occasionally some sort of
cigar, but not so often and neither of them heavily. I gave up tobacco
when I was in a hurry one day and was out of puff trotting a hundred yards.

This rang alarm bells: I used to run a half marathon before breakfast
every morning and sometimes cycle ten miles to school and do a
cross-country run either as part of a PE period or during lunch-hour.

I joined the cross-country team to get out of the rugger I hated so much
and as a consequence rose to the position of house cross-country
captain, and later, joint school cross country captain. (Joint because
the other half - not 'The Other Half' - belonged to the Closed Brethren
and wouldn't run on a Sunday).

Leaving school after 6th form, I went to work in the East End of London,
and when I moved there about a year later, had to knock running on the
head, and finding a hundred yards a trial irked me somewhat, so, walking
back to the car I dumped all smoking ancillaries in the litter bin and
never indulged again. That was around thirty years ago.

It's prolly a bit late to try to rectify the matter now. I do hope
things improve.

[Sn!pe]

RustyHinge <rusty...@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote:

> It's prolly a bit late to try to rectify the matter now.
> I do hope things improve.

Thanks for the kind thoughts but COPD being a progressive
ailment, like Life itself, it's a terminal disease. No big deal,
I'm in no hurry to shuffle off and I've already outlived both
my parents but when the taxi hoots outside the door I'll be
packed and ready to go.

Meanwhile I get on and do what I can while I still can. Tomorrow
we're off to visit Number One Son as it's his birthday. Where did
those 43 years go?...