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Old 21st February 2020, 10:28   #151031
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Morning all, Wet & Breezy here.
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Old 21st February 2020, 11:09   #151032
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Good morning all..... thank you for reading.

Thank you Steve for the crabbing update. With your special insight, it’s fascinating to read through it and see everything.....


I have just flown from Nairobi to London, changing planes in Addis Ababa on Ethiopian Airlines.

Ethiopian Airlines still flies to and from China via Addis.

On the flight from Nairobi to Addis a Boeing 737-800, a local got onto the plane, a large man carrying 3 laundry bags and he was having a problem placing them into the overhead bins as they were quite large and were slightly too big.

The man came beside me, with a terrible smell of rancid body odour. I was in an aisle seat.

As he was trying to stuff his bags into the full overhead bins, he was sweating profusely and sprayed his perspiration over myself and some of the other passengers who complained, shouting “Get off” !!

Fortunately for us he was upgraded from economy and moved into business class.

His sweat had dropped onto my hands and arms. Yuck and horrors!

When I complained to the cabin stewardess, I was taken to the toilet and told to wash....

and when I came out, the stewardess gave me large dollops of disinfectant cream to apply to my hands and arms.

I touched the toilet door handles, using paper towels to open and close the doors.

(Does anyone else do this?)

It was a heavy landing, the 737 came in “hot” and fast.....

In Addis Ababa when I went into the transit terminal, all the staff were wearing gloves and masks.

I had to go into the men’s toilet to have a slash and I found a group of men looking as though they had just arrived from China, queuing up for the urinal stalls and the lockup’s.

Some of them were wearing masks and some were not. I did not hang around and left. I thought I will have to hold it in.

The flight to London was on a new Airbus A350. Lovely with mood lighting and plenty of leg room, the plane was half empty, a flight of 8 hours. On arrival in terminal 2 at Heathrow, there was no screening, no temp checks and no one was wearing masks or gloves. That was 3 days ago.

I didn’t see anyone with any symptoms or hear any coughing.

2 days ago, I had the scan in London and the technician doing the scan, a vascular scientist gave me the results straight away. The Aortic Aneurysm has grown to 4.5 cm. In Nairobi they said it was 5.2 cm and at 5.5 cm it has to be repaired with a graft. So relief I don’t have to go under the knife. He said I am to be rescanned in 6 months time.

I am philosophical about it and don’t complain, as there are others worse off or they are not in a position to have a second chance. I have to wait to have the results confirmed by the surgeon when I see him on 5 March
Morning Phil - glad you're safely here - despite the tribulations of the flight!
I hope your visit to the surgeon confirms the technician's diagnosis - it would be great if you could have a year without any medical traumas

You must be feeling the cold - up here, the wind has returned, meaning that despite the nominal temperature, it's a fair few degrees colder once you step over the threshold.
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Old 21st February 2020, 11:30   #151033
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LOL Have you heard the latest! they're considering bringing in a Wood burning stove scrappage scheme https://airqualitynews.com/2020/02/2...ned-from-2021/
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LOL Have you heard the latest! they're considering bringing in a Wood burning stove scrappage scheme https://airqualitynews.com/2020/02/2...ned-from-2021/
From a purely selfish point of view Ian, it might stop three of my neighbours from covering my car in burnt (& unburned) particles of green timber - and stop the wife's washing coming in off the washing line stinking of burnt timber
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From a purely selfish point of view Ian, it might stop three of my neighbours from covering my car in burnt (& unburned) particles of green timber - and stop the wife's washing coming in off the washing line stinking of burnt timber

I can sympathise Rod, there are about 6 of my immediate neighbours who have wood burners & on a Winters evening it smells just like it did when I was kid.


Reading 'Scrappage scheme considered for wood burning stoves' just tickled me
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Old 21st February 2020, 15:02   #151036
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LOL Have you heard the latest! they're considering bringing in a Wood burning stove scrappage scheme https://airqualitynews.com/2020/02/2...ned-from-2021/


Ha ha that’s it, the world has officially gone bonkers 😂😂😂


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Morning Phil - glad you're safely here - despite the tribulations of the flight!
I hope your visit to the surgeon confirms the technician's diagnosis - it would be great if you could have a year without any medical traumas

You must be feeling the cold - up here, the wind has returned, meaning that despite the nominal temperature, it's a fair few degrees colder once you step over the threshold.
Cheers Rod It would be great not to have anymore ops in the year ahead.

Yesterday I drove from London to Bristol in the 75 and what happy motoring it was, everything in the car worked. When I arrived in the flat (we are on the 4th floor), it was showing up inside as being 14C, so I didn’t have to put the heating on no problem.
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Cheers Rod It would be great not to have anymore ops in the year ahead.

Yesterday I drove from London to Bristol in the 75 and what happy motoring it was, everything in the car worked. When I arrived in the flat (we are on the 4th floor), it was showing up inside as being 14C, so I didn’t have to put the heating on no problem.
Music to my ears those words "I didn’t have to put the heating on"
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Music to my ears those words "I didn’t have to put the heating on"
Ha ha!

What plans Rod do you have for this year with the house? A new floor?
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Evening all, What a miserable rainy day it's been here.


I made a cottage pie with some green beans for tea.


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