I got a reproduced 1975 Britool catalogue and went about highlighting what I had... until I highlighted the wrong plastic handled spinner. This annoyed me, so I sought out a D75 ratchet handled variant to add to the collection! Very happy
Yumm.
Just looking at that I can feel my arteries hardening.
Wimp
Todaywell, yesterday actually [but I'm usually late to any party] I received news I didn't want to hear, when attending a hospital clinic. Apparently the daily chemo capsule I've been taking for three years [along with associated and assorted other drugs] is no longer working at keeping my cancer at bay, and the Consultant is changing the regime/drug(s) to another one.
So, as of next week I'll be visiting hospital 40 miles away every week to have this drug administered by injection under the skin, following an infusion [luckily lasting c 10 minutes iirc] of another one. As far as I [or they?] can tell, it'll be weekly for 10-12 weeks[?], then fortnightly for a similar period then every month from then on. That'll be my Tuesdays mapped out for a while then....
The Consultant is going to try to get these eventually done at our local [very small] hospital, subject [I think] to a suitably trained Member of staff being available. This would be much more convenient and cut out loads of travelling. He also wants a video consultation [the facility is available there, I believe] the day before I undergo treatment #5 at Raigmore hospital in Inverness, presumably to check there have been no cumulative bad side effects.
I did a quick mental calculation of the cost(s) associated with the chemo capsule treatment over these past three years and the figure comes to....
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........£325,000!
I didn’t think there was a railway at Fowey any longer, long gone & built over.
New, old stock.
You sad git...
top notch. Like it. I'd have done the same.
We’ve got to get our kicks somehow!
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