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computedshorty

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  1. I think that the best time of life is right now, why? Because I am still here at 79. I take no medication as I don't go to a Doctor, don't drink as it makes me ill, or smoke I used to smoke over a hundred Players a day but watched a film thirty odd years ago of an operation removing a lung and the surgeon cutting it open and pouring the Tar from it, that stopped me smoking there and then, a hard thing to do as at that time my pastime was doing jigsaw puzzles, I still have the part full packet of cigs. I go to bed when tired whatever time of day, get up when it gets light, thankful that I have woken up to a new day, not easy to rise though or put on my clothes, the cat gives her welcome or is it for food? There is always something to do, but each time I do, it takes longer and might take a few attempts before it gets done. I never normally retire until the washing up is done and all tidied up and everything put away. I have no regrets of my life, only that those who shared it with me have now died, but I have memories of them. What have I learned of life? Use it and enjoy it. Don?t waste it on causing others to be miserable. If you can help them you will be happy.
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  3. You could always plead that you were not turning right out of the road but reversing into it to turn left, thats if it is a single picture as evidence. or offer to buy a couple of tickets for the Policemans Ball.
  4. Perhaps a vagrant uses it to sleep over night and leaves the doors open to give it an airing. Keys just go to a car breakers and you could pick up dozens of disgarded keys.
  5. Here is the reply to me on NHF by the new female assistant? admin. I wonder why I am just one of the EDF who still show interest there. Looks like she cant take criticisum Her post. Only you can tell us why you're attracted to maintaining your membership of the Nunhead Forum, Shorty. It's a voluntary position though. But I hope you won't be asking for your P45 just yet. I read it as the reverse, but then would I argue? Walks off with P45 in bag on Zimmer.
  6. Scaffolding Firms dont like removing the Scaffold back to their depot they wait until the next job comes up and move it direct to the next site. it does not mean that the hirer is still paying for its hire just an inconvenience to the residents of the flat. A call to the Council reuesting its removal as you are worried that theives could use it to climb up to your flat, explaining should you be robbed, then they after not acting on the information given them would it would be furnished so your Insurer.
  7. Daizie likes to collect small flowers to link and make her Daisy chains, she learned this when a young girl, and the skill that she still retains. Not feeling well decided to see her Doctor, but did not want make a fuss, just managed to get herself dressed and queue then get on the local Bus. Good morning Doctor I hope you don't mind me coming and dropping in, I have noises from my tummy and pain that travels along my intestine. The best thing that can be done for you, as I cant help here at all, is that you have a thorough examination at the specialist Hospital. They put me in a bed, then later wheeled me to have X-rays made, they showed me the X-rays and pointed out the affected bits displayed. Now an operation is recommended to alleviate your pain and cure. just take a sniff of this then you wont feel a thing that you will endure. The Surgeon spoke all though the operation telling of how he went, here is the offending bits, he found parts as six metres of intestine was evident. Removed these bits and was put in a jar to give to me later to see. perhaps a use for them could be found but just what could that be. Nurse Muck replaced the repaired intestines back by folding into place, she?s very skilled at this operation learned at the sausage factory to lace. Only four metres of intestine now, the painful and the noisy bits are gone, recovering now and there is the thoughts of getting back again to home. The Doctor said the best way is by therapy so keep busy, it will help you by far, its alright for him to say that to me lying here, looking at the contents in the jar. I?m busy now making up my chains, no Daisies here to thread into the chain, so a substitute is available so close here on hand, the solution is quite plain. Look out on the necklaces for sale thread all profits to the Hospital Charity. some of the items there are not listed to explain them in much clarity. The Daisy Chains are new an bright and give a nice scented smell. the other ones could be bits of macaroni, I know but I will not tell.
  8. Bring back the stocks to Goose Green. There might no longer be free grazing Geese there that could be stolen and the thief put in the stocks, but there must be persons who would have allowed animals to cause nuisance to the populace and their apparel. There could be Aviators causing disturbance over Common ground to the discomfort of the peoples way of life. A seated stocks for two souls would sufice. Under health regulations any rotten fruit or vegetables thrown at the thieves must afterwards be removed to be discarded in the Brown Wheelie Bins.
  9. Just to remind you that up till 1946 the London Aerodrome was in fact based in Croydon, the expansion was expected to be limited by the area of land that was available, so Croydon Aerodrome was then just used for the small aircraft then closed. Heathrow was chosen to be enlarged, and became London Airport, it is still being extended and is causing our noise. But what if the Croydon Aerodrome had remained and expanded? The old site extended to Purley Way this is I think as the crow flies some six miles over the hill from E. Dulwich, the flight paths would be far nearer, and the upper parts of E. Dulwich would be more aware of the noise. I can remember the landing area behind Horniman?s Museum Gardens, where the Zeppelin Airship Balloons had been tied to the metal rings in the hillside the fields were then called Furze Hill, this is now bordered by Westwood Park, should this area not have been built on it would no doubt be ideal for the Helicopters to use as a South London Base. Should this have been done then I fear that there would be more concern of constant noise.
  10. Welcome PsndG. A Noise? During my lifetime of seventy eight years there have been many noises here in SE22. Just a few that were endured because we had no choice other than live with it, Planes yes out side but they become soundless inside as you have double gazing in your home. They are only allowed to fly at a height that had a minimum limit. I would think that any person looking to live in SE22.must know of the planes paths beforehand. We had Trams that passed our front door, noisy dusty and very dangerous. We used them so we put up with them. We endured noisy Flying bombs with the flame from its rocket at the rear, our worry was when it stopped, we knew that somebody would lose their homes and lives. We had no choice of the sound when the Doodle Bugs and V11 Rockets exploded nearby. We had no choice when the noise of the anti aircraft guns fired shells into the sky when noise of exploding all of those fragmented shells fell to earth as jagged pieces of shrapnel the noise that it made on roofs and those injured. There is also noises from in car radios, it might not be your choice of music or the volume. There is now music played in car parks in France, and in our large stores and Supermarkets, and on your phone whilst waiting for connection. How many people consider you while they make their calls on their mobile. Dogs make noise because they are untended. A neighbour throws stones at birds because they sing, and swats any living insect he sees. There is so much noise now everywhere, that in the future there might be a tax for Silence. Have you ever thought do you make a noise that others might find offensive? You might find somewhere more quiet, but then agains you might find many far worse. My advice ignore the plane noise, listen to the birds.
  11. Do you use your fork by the left hand to dig the garden?
  12. My cat Snowy was on guard just saw a lost bird.
  13. On holiday one year we were walking along the beach, at Hopton I saw what I thought was a black ball so I went to kick it but it moved slightly looking closer I saw that it was a large bird covered in black oil, I picked it up and put some tissues around it and took it back to the chalet. Going to the camp shop I asked for some cleaning preparation that would be suitable to clean the bird .The assistant said it would be better to rub margarine into its fathers then flour to absorb the oil. We did get the bird reasonably clean, but it sicked up black oil and passed a lot through him, it was now obvious that it was a Guillemot and had been in contact with the oil from the wrecked oil Tanker. My thoughts were to feed it we tried cat food but was told it would only eat fresh fish so we went to Lowestoft to buy some leaving the bird in our chalet, on return the Chalet maid had called and seen the bird but frightened of it left without doing a clean. Guilly as we called it became slightly better but we were told that the oil would have burnt it intestines, it used to venture out of the chalet and was admired by other campers. When our holiday was up we had the think of returning it to the sea, early morning we placed it in the waves and it swam out into the receding tide, it was sinking as it went, the feathers no longer had a air cavity between its body and the feathers as they had all natural oils removed. It managed to get back to where we were exhausted and lay on its side at our feet. We decided to bring it back to Lordship Lane where we could continue to treat it, it was quite tame so I put it loose in the back of my small van, I set off but as I came to any roundabout or bend the standing bird would be shuffled from one side to another. At one bend I was worried so looked in my internal mirror to see if it was all right, it was but looking out of the rear window the following car passengers must have seen its movement from one side to the other, and were laughing. It settled down for the journey. We were living in the top flat, with two cats these ignored Guilly, we decided to let it stay in the bath room but it would squat and cover the floor with black and whitewash, it occurred that here we were never going to be able to buy fresh fish, even Billingsgate had it frozen. It was now recovering well. When I went to work I let it stay in front of the gas fire, it loved to lay on the raised tiles this with it beak a few inches from the wire shield. I wish I had taken a picture with the cats each side. It would come to the room door to greet me for about ten days, coming home one evening I could not open the door it was behind it but dead.
  14. In 1955 Perez Prado and his orchestra had a hit with ______________? 1955 A Time To Remember
  15. In 1953 Walt Disney released the first of his full-length wild-life films, Bear Country
  16. Woody Allen had his first big box office hit in 1977 with Annie Hall
  17. Back in 1984 young women were wearing "--------"? Mini Skirt
  18. This post is not really about cars having no Road Tax it is the thought that persons could even think of parking in HIS ROAD so that they can be removed. That is so anoying. Hi There are a number of vehicles in my road which are untaxed. How do I go about reporting them (so that they can be removed)?
  19. loz. I have the chain from my Zimmer to my wrist to stop it getting stollen. While getting my breath back I paused for a while on the pavement leaning on my Zimmer frame, only to be shouted at by a person who wanted to get past, I did try to do so as soon as possible but still got the usual ?Get that bloody thing out of the way? . I had been reading about a person who fell over a frame and made a complaint the user was charged with personal injury while causing an obstruction. I thought I might enquire about getting some insurance. But it is not easy as there seems to be no specific form to fill in. I tried the search for a company but got none, eventually I was given a phone number to call. A male answers: Hallo this Chang Soo how can I help you? his accent was Chinese I came to the conclusion that I had been connected with an Asian Insurance Company. Me. Hallo you don't know me , I would like to take out an insurance. Him. Yes Mister Sir, your name Pleese. Me. My name is Arthur Tallman, you can call me Shorty. Him. Ow old are yu. Me. Seventy eight but I don't know how to say that in Chinese. Him. Vere you liv? Me. On the left going up Lordship Lane just before the Plough, it?s the house with a stuffed dog in the window, it looks real its only to frighten any burglars. Him. How long you drive for. Me. Well I had a motor cycle in 1947, so that?s sixty two years, I had to go to Norbury for the test. Him. Have you any Convictions? Me. No, only a fixed penalty for going 34 miles an hour in Lewisham. The points have gone now. Him. What make yu want to insure? Me. Zimmer. Him. Yu mean Commer? Me. No with a Ziii. Him. Wot year it made. Me Well so far its got to this year. Him. What C.C. is it. Me. Its made of aluminiun tubes Him. How many Wheels it got? Me. No wheels only rubber feet. Him. How many peoples get in it? Me. None, I cant get in it either. Him. How Many miles do you cover in a year? Me. About three. Him. Where yu keep it at night? Me. Under the stairs in the passage. Him. Has it got any modifications made? Me. No but it goes faster if I clean it. Him. How many previous owners? Me. At least one looking at the travellers stickers stuck on it. Him. You want it for Fully Comprehensive? Me. Can I have it for Computedshorty? Him. Vot is the value? Me . Well its a bit of an antique, it must be about a hundred quid. Him. Have you a No claim discount. Me. Yes I have, can you discount the Tax applied to the policy? Him. Do you want to insure this policy?s No claim bonus? Me. I will have to think about that, as I might not be about next year. Him. To make Insurance for this will cost thirty pound sixty pence Stirling. Me. Do I get an Over Sixty Five discount? Him. Your Certificate will be sent to you as soon as it is available. Me. Thank you Chang for you patience in filling in the application. I would be lost without my Zimmer, and not able to get to the Post box to mail my claim.
  20. When I go out I have a chain to my wrist and when I come in doors, I have locked up my Zimmer
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