I forget most nights, Tommy.

Beautiful here, today, Tommy. We hope you and yours are well too.

I've remembered tonight.
Goodnight all.

Saving.

Good morning and goodnight, Bill.

Goodnight to Fugue, YT, Canny and all decent folk out there.

Found it...:)

Too late for me - I went to bed hours ago.

That'll do for me.

Goodnight Tommy, Stevie and anybody else still up.

Good morning, fellow wasters.

Goodnight Bill.

It's 1974 here.

night all....im offskis

Good morning Bill.

Please do, Bill. There are some lovely places around here once you get out of the city and most of the people are still really good sorts, thank goodness.
For instance, I've just had a very interesting conversation through the window with a nice bloke about drains!

No one seems to know where the smell is coming from, Bill. It's all a bit of a guess at the moment.
I thought it was my neighbour's usual Monday stint of 6 hour cabbage boiling last week, but it wasn't.
I'm sure we'll**it, eventually.

Sorry I missed you earlier AITL. Goodnight.

Goodnight again to Bodil.

Goodnight all.

'Allo ' allo, Bills been captured by an out of date Gestapo officer.

Goodnight all.

goodnight all.

Apologies for absence, been in hospital.

*sorry

Apologises for delay in replying, typed it all out full length but for some reason lost it all.

I was on here at lunch time on Friday and got pins and needles in left forefinger, I have had this before, quite a few times so I vigorously shook my hand but this time it did not go away but travelled across my hand, up my arm and down the left side of my face. I phone Mrs AITL who was in London and then went to her parents house for lunch. After lunch I had a cigar in their garden then walked home. I felt drained so went to bed to try and sleep it off, but gave up after half an hour and came back down stairs. Within five minutes the pins and needles returned to my left hand so I phoned for an ambulance. When they arrived I had ECG leads on my chest an oxygen mask and a pulse thingy on my finger. I insisted on walking to the ambulance, but was told afterwards that my blood pressure had dropped through the floor and wasn't allowed to walk anywhere again.

I arrived at the hospital about 4pm, by the time I saw a doctor it was 6pm and they told me I was staying in over night and having a chest xray the following morning. I had a restless night due to the noise of the rest of the ward, got a chest xray at 8am and it was another 2 hours before I saw a doctor who allowed me to go home.

Apparantly I had a TIA and all the other cases of what I thought were pins and needles were also bound to be TIAs. People who suffer TIAs tend to get a 2nd one within a month of the 1st one, so I have had quite a few, with the last one being most serious. 3% of the population who suffer TIAs generally go on to have full blown heart attacks unless they change their lifestyle.

The chief contributing factors are being overweight, unfit, diabetic, but the biggest risk of all is to smokers. I have virtually packed up smoking now and last week showed me how unfit I have become when mowing the front lawn, where the grass was 2 feet high, all in one go. At the end my chest was heaving, sweat was pouring from every pore in my body and I could not speak as I was gasping for oxygen (its a big lawn). Hopefully, with a change in lifestyle I will not have to go through this again, but will visit my GP to see if I can be prescribed a drug begining with D that I cannot remember the name of in conjunction with 75 mg of aspirin to prevent clotting of the blood .

Heres hoping I don't get a repeat of it all.