Alan Stubbs
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It was a year ago yesterday that I signed a consent form for a triple bypass - Ironically to cure the same thing that killed my father on the very same day 8 years previously.
The sugery was on 19th October and I was back at work on 3rd January.
The NHS has its detractors, but I can't thank them enough for the care they gave me. There are people queueing up to finish their training at the Heart and Chest hospital in Broadgreen, Liverpool. I can fully understand why.
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Gutless bastard ,pity armed response were,nt first on the scene
Nobody should die in the course of doing their job.... not even a soldier in a battle zone.
This is really gang warfare gone way too far. I gather he had two armed officers alongside when he was in the dock this morning. I admire their restraint.
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All,
Have you seen the Iphone 5 panorama feature. Pretty cool. And to think it's just a telephone.
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On the other hand, the much vaunted map feature is pathetic....
Leamington Spa is listed as 'Royal Spa' and is located where Daventry is.
Shakespeare's birthplace is wrongly located, and according to the map, Woolworth still have a store open.
How clever. Another triumph of hype over content.
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One t-shirt left, if anyone is interested.
I'll give you £20 for the other one.
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Make no mistake that a lot of people living on benefits are seriously short of a bob but equally there are some on a nice little earner - especially when the landlord is a family member and silly amounts of housing benefit are involved.
It strikes me that plans to put a cap on the amount of benefit that can be paid to families were eminently sensible but they appear to have been scuppered in the lords as a result of the bishops saying neh.
What do we think of unelected clergymen having a say in the political process of our parliamentary democracy ?
There's no harm in bishops having a say, we don't have to listen. The C of E has offered such poor leadership over the last 45 years or so it amazes me that people still listen.
They're talking about not capping benefits at £26k, which isn't a surprise as the maximum stipend for a vicar is £22,000.
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What colour are its legs and bill?
If they're red, it's a chough...very coastal... otherwise I'm sure from the description it's a raven.
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I resigned from the RSPB after 40 years after I became annoyed at the constant self interest masquerading as conservation.
The only conservation the RSPB has a mandate for is birdlife and that is what they do - although their methods are frequently dressed up to be somewhat wider. If they were genuinely interested in the full 'conservation schtick' they'd look at fishing in a more fair-minded way.
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A beautiful summation of a wonderful lady.
I was having an emotionally strained day when she called.
She promptly deflected my issues and talked openly and in depth of her health issues.
It is a special kind of friend who does that....
I got very upset when people chose to have a go at Jan, simply for being Mrs Newt.
Sometimes Jan and I had divergent opinions, but such was the lady's inner beauty, we always reconciled
these by explaining our respective rationale and remained forever friends.
May Newt find solace in the knowledge that Jan was treasured as a friend by many, many people.
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Although I never met Jan,I feel as if I have known her forever.
I did manage to talk to her when last she was over here.
I feel as if I have lost a true friend ,goodness only know what Newt and his family are feeling.
Such a shock
Another star in the sky
Do not stand at my grave and forever weep.
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn’s rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circa
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and forever cry.
I am not there. I did not die.
Judy, so touchingly appropriate.
I wept when Elton called. I've been in a daze all day.
Xx
Shell shocked Judith xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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I had a few days back in hospital at the start of the week.
Gastritis and aggravated gallstones.
This is trivial in the scheme of things after Elton called me this morning.
My entire thought process is focussed on Newt and his family.
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I spent 25 minted looking for my glasses the other day.
You know, the ones I was wearing! D'uh!
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It takes a lot for me to rant.....
Woman got into her car as I was crossing the road on a crossing.
No indication and reversed across the crossing and around a corner.
The words 'Blind, braindead f*ckwit' were uttered. With feeling.
Apparently, I should have looked where I was going. I was within an inch of being hit by her..... in fact, my hand print forms the dent on her boot.
I wanted it in her face...with a passion....but it's against my moral principals. She had a woman and child sat on woman's lap in the front passenger seat of the car.
Nice.
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Alan, Newt,
With my condition - every person I meet is a "new friend".
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Since the op, my attention span is shorter than a scene from a US sitcom, Phone.
I'm in the same boat.
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Thanks all. Minor setback yesterday.
Got up to go to the newsagent, but forgot to allow time
for my b/p to stabilise. Got outside and fainted. Twice.
I was terrified for the girls, but with help they got me up
off the floor and back into bed.
This morning, I set the alarm for my meds and breakfast
and sat on the edge of the bed for 20 minutes. Felt much
better and walked to the newsagent, the coffee shop and
a friend who's 40 today. I sat and laughed for a couple of
hours and his wife drove me home.
All in all a good day.
Small daily steps add up.
Tomorrow a necessary trip into Liverpool One.
Scary!
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Thanks to everyone for their good wishes.
8 days and 5 bypass grafts later, I am home recuperating. Well, OK, I did walk to the local newsagent and coffee shop and back earlier.
From the outset, I want to say that we in the North West are lucky ot have a facility like the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital to call upon.
The work these people do is little short of outstanding and they genuinely care about the little things that make a difference in additiion to the basics.
The NHS takes mch abuse, but I will always maintain that it sets the benchmark for overall healthcare. My GP aside - who is at best a deaf, semi-literate buffoon,
I have had care at the hands of the Rotal Liverpool and the LCHC trusts which was phenomenally good. from first presenting with a suspected heart attack to transfer to the LCHC was 3 weeks. At the Pre-op assessment, Mr Darryl Cheung said 'When do you want it done?' 'I've been off work for 6 weeks and I'm bored with the limitation of mobility....' 'Fair enough. How about next week - come in Thursday and we'll do it Friday morning.'
As it turned out I had a call on the Tuesday and they said, 'We've got a theatre slot available...it's yours if you come in at 2 today and we'll do it tomorrow afternoon'.
Sorry to labour the point, but the selling point to me sa talking to a staff nurse oing the pre-op tests who said she had the heart and kidneys of a young scots lad. She'd had a heart and kidney transplant the year before in the same hospital with my consultant. A hell of an incwentive, don't you thnk?
What I will say to you all as a bit of an evangelist.... dont ignore chest pains - go to the A&E. Secondly, learn to eat sensibly and listen to yur body.
I've been very lucky and don't weant to waste the second or third chance. OK, I didn't want to be preachy, but like the newly non-smoker - or even Elton and his giving up the booze, I feel I speak from A) experience and care for my fellow man - care for your body an watch your diet.
Thanks for allowing me to write this.
Alan
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Well, this time last week I was feeling very rough, less than 24 hours after the start of what transpired to be 7 hours' surgery and 5 hour's on ventilation afterwards.
Today I got myself out of bed (it hurt) without help. Showered myself, dressed, had lunch and am waiting for the pharmacist before being allowed home. I climbed two flights of stairs without having to pause. A first for over two years.
Thanks to all those on AN for their support and encouragement - especially Elton, the Vail's, Rob Ward, Rob Stubbs (and Imogen!) and Adam Humphries. Thanks to you all for making the site what it is.... A brilliant resource.
Just in case you missed the point, I'm home today!
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Thanks all.
Can't really feign surprise as I've got previous history in this area. It runs in my father's side of the family.
That said, the engine needing new fuel lines has come as a bit of a shock.
Still, I've already been making plans to be on the river and canal by March, and the lakes earlier.... much to Bernadette's pleasure.
Oh yes, my better half likes me when I'm fishing...she calls it 'joining the hman race!'
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Not been online much lately, here. Been a guest of the local hospital.
Had a small heart attack on 5th September, and going back into hospital for a triple bypass.
It's been good to keep in touch via the iPhone with a few of you, particularly
Elton and Adam247, the Burgess Brothers and our resident nurse, the lovely Judy.
I reckon it'll be mid-November before I'm able to post regularly.
In the meantime, keep the good work going!
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This had me in fits!
http://www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/Tourist-...tail/story.html
Richard Cranium..... if it wasn't so pathetic, I'd laugh fit to burst!
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I use a gate needle, it works just as well and you can thus cut down on the stuff you take with you.
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Your showing your age there Dave
I'd suggest that metaphorically speaking, he is still a damned sight younger than I fell this week!
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Nice one mate! I (for what its worth) would say you were "float ledgering"
I think the way I would differentiate between "laying on" and "stret pegging" in flowing waters though would be to say that laying on would use a normally set up and shotted stick float rig but fished way over depth and held from moving downstream.The float "cocked" at an angle by this.
"Stret pegging" I would be using a set up more like "float ledgering" but the float would lay flat on the surface (not "cocked") with a bow of line (between lead and float) going down stream in the current.
Both methods are fished static but by lifting up the rod you can move the rig down stream a bit to slowly search it.Simply moving it then waiting a period for a bite and if none is forthcoming move it a bit more.
I would term "holding back" as using standard top and bottom floats trotted down stream but retarded so that the hook is traveling in front of the float rather than being dragged behind. "holding back hard" would be completely stopping the trotting set up and allowing the bait to rise up well above the bottom.Normally done at the end of the trot.
I thought stret-pegging was a style of fishing over-depth, but shot to give minimum initial resistance when the bait is taken. To me, 'holding back' was something I did as an integral part of trotting.
Confusing, this fishing stuff!
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It's very satisfying that what got me excited appears to have got people talking and teaching.
Thanks everyone.
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Yep, that's what I understand by stret-pegging John. Alan's set up I would describe as float leger, but there is a whole spectrum of methods between that and stret pegging.
It doesn't matter what you call it, the main thing is that someone is experimenting with using a float over depth and succeeding.
There are already too few anglers with float-fishing skills, we are fortunate so many of them are on this forum.
Good on yer Alan!
Thanks! I'd not heard of float legering, but your description really sums up what I was doing perfectly.
I was with Steve and Budgie at Budgie's 50th last year, when Steve commented that I've always been a thinking angler, but I've only got 10 years' experience of fishing, and when I first met Steve about 8 years ago, he said I was very deferential, to the point of not asking questions for fear of confirming my stupidity! There's a satisfaction on thinking through a solution by resorting to the less popular.
The most satisfying parts for me were the baiting and the use of the swivel to resolve two issues. I'd have been happy getting bites, but actually catching was an unexpected bonus.
Image if it this were a
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Ryan Bertrand of Chelsea withdrew from the England squad to play against San marino with a sore throat.
What I want to know is, can Paul Wood can still make 'wood'?