Today I've mostly bin...

[MBH]

MBH They didn't have computers when I was at school. I remember my brother (who's 6 years older than me) was at university, and they were the proud owners of a computer. It was the size of a small building!!

We didn't actually HAVE a computer at school. It was the local authority mainframe that we communicated with vai:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter

... storing our programmes on the famous Punched Paper Tape :O

I remember he did a project on writing a programme to make it write a single line of music. My, how things change!!

Yeah! Now nobody is taught how to write programmes

[Looby]

no computers when i was at school only typewriters and they weren't electric.

We didn't even have typewriters at my school!!

[giraffe]

Nor mine!

[brian]

To see my GP for check up at request of cardiac consultant - everything OK
Brought her up to date on three day incarceration in hospital caused by a nose bleed of all stupid things. (Using warfarin means it doesn't stop like what it used to)

Then to Health centre for anti coagulant check with all the other wrinklies -- unfortunately the District Nurses had decided it was a good day to get all the new mum's in as well and the Podiatry people were having a drop in day. Total confusion.

Then to Hospital where I am the lay member (unpaid of course) on the clinical audit committee (basically persuading the medicos to use a laptop rather than scribbling on bits of paper.)

Just think of the full life we pensioners have!

[Bunnylump]

Using warfarin

Did you realise that this is rat poison?

Glad to hear check up was all ok Brian. All these medical appointments will certainly be keeping you out of trouble and off the streets, anyway!!

[brian]

Any rat that bites me is in for the shock of its life!

[strep98]

Brian would you like to transfer hospitals and come and help me in the Plastics Dept in sunny Devon, seems you know your way around them. I need a good holiday relief. One lady consultant not too demanding, unless pushed, but does dictate exceedingly long letters.

[Wulfruna]

in sunny Devon,

Hey, yes, I recommend Devon for pensioners (though have yet to test the hospital facilities )

We moved here (to Exmouth) just over a year ago - from Salford of all places! We lived quite close to the main hospital there, which goes by the glorious name of "Hope" hospital. Don't know if that's the one you are involved with, Brian?
Mind you, we moved South in the hope of warmer climes.... (and less damp than Manchester ) - only to suffer from the heaviest frosts they have seen here for years!

[strep98]

Yep I'm in Torquay and it's been a bit sharp of late, so come on Brian put your thermals on and join us.

[Bunnylump]

Do they make snail thermals?

[MBH]

Insulated 'Shell' suits perhaps?

[LAT]

[Bunnylump]

Very good!

[brian]

Hi to Wulfruna,

Yes the hospital is Hope -- although it is now called rather grandly Salford Royal Foundation Trust.
I was a Governor when the name was changed and spent hours telling them that if you asked a cabbie to take you to Salford Royal you would end up at a block of flats near the RC Cathedral!
Don't forget to log on to www.salfordcityradio.org (particularly on Thursday morning when I am on!)

And strep - dragging the nhs into the 21st Century as far as admin is concerned is a long drawn out job (as you obviously know) Most wards at Hope have wireless terminals so a consultant can type his/her observations in just as fast as he/she can scribble them down and there is then no possibility of errors creeping in through bad handwriting. (Between ten and fifty per cent of patients in hospitals have mistakes made in treatment - mainly only small errors admittedly. BUT)
Incidentally I reckoned the two consultants from ENT sorting out my three day nose bleed the other week were aged about 14. Lovely smiling girls with happy faces as they stuck cameras up my nose, but didn't look old enough to pay full fare on the bus!
My wife Ann was a medical sec at one time and reckoned that if a wonder drug was invented that immediately cured all ailments it would still take the NHS 20 years to wind down.

[giraffe]

Today I've mostly bin...........Banging my head on the desk and throwing rotton tomatoes at the computer.

[Bunnylump]

Aw, poor Giraffe. Computers are REALLY annoying sometimes, aren't they? Hope you get it sorted out ok.

[BassBloke]

Today I are totally bin... Riding my bike to Donnington Park and back (60 ish miles each way) for a Classic Japanese Bike Show which... WANS'T ON. Apparantly, it's next weekend, despite all the advertising in the papers saying it was this weekend.

By the time I got home I was absolutley FROZZZZZEN to the core.

But hey, at least I got the bike out. First time since well before Christmas. AND. I get to go out on it again next weekend. Result.

Cheers. BB.

[Laura]

today I've mostly bin....

Shopping (which I hate), and watching the strictly come dancing live tour at sheffield!

Now a M&S ready meal is in the oven, and I'm sitting in front of the computer. Not a bad day, all in all.

[Scurra]

Doing some tidying up. Which I do once a decade, whether I need to or not.
Alas, I didn't find the thing I was actually looking for...

[Bunnylump]

Oh BB, how frustrating!! Mind you it was a lovely day for a bike ride - think positive!!

Laura - well at least you managed to do something you liked to help you forget about the darned shopping!! I'm with you there. These people who like to spend their Saturdays wandering around shops for no reason astound me!!

Scurra what is this thing called "tidying up"?? Oh yeah, I remember, that thing you do when you get everything out, sort it out, and then can't fit it back in the cupboards isn't it?

Today I've mostly bin...
Driving round the countryside with my Mum in my lovely NEW CAR!! Woo hoo - I don't have to drive the dreadful courtesy car which looked like a black and white roller skate any more!!