What's Everyone Doing These Days?

[Martin56]

Hi Elton, I'm still posting the odd Tip & Pic's, but probably won't get off fishing until this April, our 1st Club Match. Still making my own Floats and other bits & bobs. which I've posted on here. Oh yes, I had a Stroke recently & made a good recovery (and, got away with "Full Use" of etc, etc)

Take care bud, yourself & Family.

Martin.

[Zigs]

Blimey, has it been that long?

I'm in Kent now, we've got a small campsite and a cactus nursery. Can't get out fishing as Mrs isn't very well and can't sit on a beach for long. She's not too keen on eating fish that have been living in sewage either

Kids are all grown up now, still in touch with my youngest.

Although we live in the middle of the county we can just see the North Sea from the bottom of the garden.

Spend my days growing veg (and cacti) and listening to Radio Caroline. I have 2 Youtube channels, Ziggy's Cactus Channel and Ziggy's Coast and Countryside. Neither of them make any money

 

Just bought a Beehive

[John S]

25 years! I remember you contacting me about the fishing database before the site even started. Happy days

Now, health problems mean I haven't been fishing for years, though I live in hope of visiting the local park pond sometime in the near future. I've been away from here for too long, but am back now  

[BoldBear]

Joined the forum in 2007 and although I haven’t posted for a while; as my old iPad stopped letting me; as it was getting a tad too old (aren’t we all?); I still look in now and then and have started post from my new IPad 

it’s a shame we have lost so many of our old contributors though.

I also miss the Species hunts we used to have during the seasons on here.

Keith

Edited June 15 by BoldBear

[chesters1]

Seems the old timers are dead or half dead .I was very poorly on that damned Metformin and hardly left the house for a year (thinking about it was over two years) (yes if I went out I had plastic pants but found not eating the day before helped most) I got off those Then I had (or was happening all the time)problems with Warfarin ,they worked fine but you bruised so easily so they did thin the blood! But I couldnt go to the constant almost weekly tests at £30 guide a shot as for my early problem I could only go by taxi so I got prescribed a lesser drug rivaroxiban ,no idea if they work there's no tests to see if they are you just accept they are .

Then to confuse the symptoms I had severe pain in my muscles and joints and thought about Sportman and his problems with Statins I asked the doc for alternatives and started to try every bloody statin out there rather than just except with me statin = pain (extreme pain like someone pushing their knuckles into you ) .must have been 5 or 6 types

I started on it got pains ,came off them after a week they went away but to make sure it was them and not my head repeated it more than once so after a year then doc finally relented and prescribed something else and have almost been pain free since I get more aches than pains now due to laziness and occasional effort for a few hours at a time now the big shiny yellow ball is back.

I will wander down the river to get my disappointment there's nothing but trout and streamer weed unfortunately My best stretch was sold and the old owner moved and I have no idea who owns it now ,not worth finding out even for the £7 or whatever it is to look it's so neglected there's hardly 10 yards of gap to chuck in a bread fly . The other stretches were decimated by cormerants I visited several times last year (with several bog rolls wet wipes and a change of dress)and only caught trout and saw crayfish so I guess my fishings days are over aswell .

As cleverer people have said doctors don't prescribe 100% great drugs they simply treat the side effects of problems and introduce more ,and no-one ever mentions if that handful of drugs you just took are mixing up more drugs in your stomach making it all worse ,you just hope the drugs side effects are less than the medical problems side effects your taking them for .

My biggest fear is prostrate cancer I had the high bps for years and am on two drugs to shrink the prostrate (they do little!) all the consultant wants to do is scrape the inside of my eurethra but I want the gland removed completely and he refuses scraping will never stop cancer he wants to fix the side effects not the potential problem .

Edited June 15 by chesters1