Recent content by BJintheUK

I wouldn't call it that good, but it kept me occupied and off the streets for a while. 👍 I still put fingers to keyboard sometimes if the muse visits, but she hasn't been around lately. I'm beginning to think she's lost my address!! :eek:

Where to start? I've done quite a few things in my life since I left school in 1966 at age 15 to when I retired at 67, and a couple since then, so here goes. Despite the extrordinary length of this tome, this is an abridged version, as the longer one would fill at least one, or possibly more...

An old girlfriend of mine told me that she and her younger sister got into their grandmother's Morris Minor when it was parked at their house. They tried all the buttons and switches in the car, and suddenly the windscreen washer came on. They weren't sure which switch had started it, so ran in...

I still like the opening credits song to Cheers. I've no idea where to get it from, but I can hear it playing in my head, and it always cheered me up to hear it playing on the TV.

Nothing. No wedding ring (even though I am married, and happily so) no tattoos, don't wear a watch or have any piercings. The only thing I do have is a gold filling in one of my back teeth that's been there for nearly 50 years. When I go out I nearly always wear some kind of hat as I'm now...

Lovely pics. Where is that?

White T shirt, blue jeans, old black shoes with thick sports socks to make them fit more comfortably. It's 23c here, which is around 76f in old money, with a clear blue sky and no wind. It's hot, much too hot for me to venture out in, so I'm staying indoors today, but tomorrow it's due to be...

Years ago I worked as a database report designer and got sent all over the UK. One time I flew up to Scotland, and hired a brand new Volvo estate car to go from Aberdeen to Dundee. As I was driving along the dual carriageway (4 lane highway that has 2 lanes each side separated by a central...

The best way is to use a sharpie and write on the front of the unit the date the battery was installed. That way the date won't rub off, and you can see each year how soon the 10 years are up.

Yes, I have to take Prednisolone for my PMR, but because the medicine leaches the calcium from bones, I also have to take Vit D chewable calcium tablets to counteract it.

I suffer from PMR (PolyMyalgia Rheumatica) and the people on the forum I'm a member of in the UK (PMRGCAUK) seem to be better versed than the doctors most of us meet. I recently volunteered to be a 'patient' for young hospital doctors to examine, so that a panel of older doctors could judge...

Don't forget it's April Fools day today!! :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: 👍

Has anyone here ever read "Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut? If so then you know he predicted this back in 1951 or so.

I have a copy of Chickenhawk by Bob Mason, and I recently also bought the sequel, Chickenhawk, Return to the Real World. Both amazing books, and a testament to the damage the war did to so many people, both American and Vietnamese. Let's hope there's never a repeat of the Vietnam war, for anyone.

Likewise! I was okay till I had Covid in October 2021. Since then I've never had the strength, stamina, or energy that I had before. I'm now 75, but due to the PMR (PolyMyalgia Rheumatica) I've gone downhill quite rapidly since 2021. So do I feel older or younger than my age? Older physically...