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I don't want to go over the top, but it might be worth buying alcohol swabs for the hands. I will probably raid the stores on Monday. Hugs John
On Saturday, 29 February 2020, 16:29:27 GMT, John Miller via Groups.Io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
Dearest Jude, Not sure when your MRI is coming up, but just want to reassure you, it is totally safe. I'm not so happy about the CT/CAT scans, but I think it is within the level of a radiation worker. Just don't want to get any more soon. Everyday I knock back a pint of semi-skimmed milk & take my Vitamin D. I worked round really high field magnets, at least 500MHz. They will even put pregnant women in them. There his no health risk from MRI. Hugs to you & Peter John
On Saturday, 29 February 2020, 15:35:18 GMT, John Miller via Groups.Io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
Dearest Jude, I was writing up my PhD, probably, about 1998, when this really big hornet flew in. I decided to handle it with a 30 min coffee break. Thank Goodness it was gone after that John
On Saturday, 29 February 2020, 15:16:51 GMT, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
Heating? Oh yes! Most essential! ?I have a heater with an integrated timer, so when I go up there in the afternoon, it’s nice and cozy. I also get visitors, such as a hibernating wasp a couple of weeks ago; luckily, it was not a queen and was quite easily persuaded to use the door! Regards
On 29 Feb 2020, at 12:44, zuiko via Groups.Io < zuiko@...> wrote: Thanks, Susan, it is airy; we had it refurbished in 2014, at a cost four times our original estimate (!), but as soon as the walls and roof were uncovered the builder and surveyor found that the roof plate had moved as the walls had lacked support. ?So, as well as the new insulation and boarding and walling they needed to brace the walls with a grid of timber matrices and a huge steel beam. ?You can just see the beam going up the wall next to the tall radiator. ?Oh well, but at least selling the house, if we ever do, should be easier with a more modern Annex.
Do you have heating in your cabins? :-)
Chris
That looks lovely and airy, Chris. ?We had two cabins made and installed but Harvey doesn’t use his very much. Mine really exists to take the place of the fourth bedroom we had in our last house and which was originally used also as part of our business admin. I had a Windows PC in there with Quicken 6 for Windows on it. ?We now use Easy Books for our household accounts - which are no longer audited! ?:DRegards Susan
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Well, my best friends son, has had a few "rays", after a diving accident. I'm a bit carefull, about any more I get. For a while at least John
On Saturday, 29 February 2020, 17:18:14 GMT, John Miller via Groups.Io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
I don't want to go over the top, but it might be worth buying alcohol swabs for the hands. I will probably raid the stores on Monday. Hugs John
On Saturday, 29 February 2020, 16:29:27 GMT, John Miller via Groups.Io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
Dearest Jude, Not sure when your MRI is coming up, but just want to reassure you, it is totally safe. I'm not so happy about the CT/CAT scans, but I think it is within the level of a radiation worker. Just don't want to get any more soon. Everyday I knock back a pint of semi-skimmed milk & take my Vitamin D. I worked round really high field magnets, at least 500MHz. They will even put pregnant women in them. There his no health risk from MRI. Hugs to you & Peter John
On Saturday, 29 February 2020, 15:35:18 GMT, John Miller via Groups.Io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
Dearest Jude, I was writing up my PhD, probably, about 1998, when this really big hornet flew in. I decided to handle it with a 30 min coffee break. Thank Goodness it was gone after that John
On Saturday, 29 February 2020, 15:16:51 GMT, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
Heating? Oh yes! Most essential! ?I have a heater with an integrated timer, so when I go up there in the afternoon, it’s nice and cozy. I also get visitors, such as a hibernating wasp a couple of weeks ago; luckily, it was not a queen and was quite easily persuaded to use the door! Regards
On 29 Feb 2020, at 12:44, zuiko via Groups.Io < zuiko@...> wrote: Thanks, Susan, it is airy; we had it refurbished in 2014, at a cost four times our original estimate (!), but as soon as the walls and roof were uncovered the builder and surveyor found that the roof plate had moved as the walls had lacked support. ?So, as well as the new insulation and boarding and walling they needed to brace the walls with a grid of timber matrices and a huge steel beam. ?You can just see the beam going up the wall next to the tall radiator. ?Oh well, but at least selling the house, if we ever do, should be easier with a more modern Annex.
Do you have heating in your cabins? :-)
Chris
That looks lovely and airy, Chris. ?We had two cabins made and installed but Harvey doesn’t use his very much. Mine really exists to take the place of the fourth bedroom we had in our last house and which was originally used also as part of our business admin. I had a Windows PC in there with Quicken 6 for Windows on it. ?We now use Easy Books for our household accounts - which are no longer audited! ?:DRegards Susan
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Ooh, hornets are bad news if they sting you! I’m glad you avoided that. Regards
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Dearest Jude, I was writing up my PhD, probably, about 1998, when this really big hornet flew in. I decided to handle it with a 30 min coffee break. Thank Goodness it was gone after that John
Heating? Oh yes! Most essential! ?I have a heater with an integrated timer, so when I go up there in the afternoon, it’s nice and cozy. I also get visitors, such as a hibernating wasp a couple of weeks ago; luckily, it was not a queen and was quite easily persuaded to use the door! Regards Susan On 29 Feb 2020, at 12:44, zuiko via Groups.Io < zuiko@...> wrote: Thanks, Susan, it is airy; we had it refurbished in 2014, at a cost four times our original estimate (!), but as soon as the walls and roof were uncovered the builder and surveyor found that the roof plate had moved as the walls had lacked support. ?So, as well as the new insulation and boarding and walling they needed to brace the walls with a grid of timber matrices and a huge steel beam. ?You can just see the beam going up the wall next to the tall radiator. ?Oh well, but at least selling the house, if we ever do, should be easier with a more modern Annex.
Do you have heating in your cabins? :-)
Chris
That looks lovely and airy, Chris. ?We had two cabins made and installed but Harvey doesn’t use his very much. Mine really exists to take the place of the fourth bedroom we had in our last house and which was originally used also as part of our business admin. I had a Windows PC in there with Quicken 6 for Windows on it. ?We now use Easy Books for our household accounts - which are no longer audited! ?:DRegards Susan
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Yes, I have some handwash gel but of course I’ve had it for ages and it’s the wrong sort, not alcoholic! Regards
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I don't want to go over the top, but it might be worth buying alcohol swabs for the hands. I will probably raid the stores on Monday. Hugs John
On Saturday, 29 February 2020, 16:29:27 GMT, John Miller via Groups.Io < johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
Dearest Jude, Not sure when your MRI is coming up, but just want to reassure you, it is totally safe. I'm not so happy about the CT/CAT scans, but I think it is within the level of a radiation worker. Just don't want to get any more soon. Everyday I knock back a pint of semi-skimmed milk & take my Vitamin D. I worked round really high field magnets, at least 500MHz. They will even put pregnant women in them. There his no health risk from MRI. Hugs to you & Peter John
On Saturday, 29 February 2020, 15:35:18 GMT, John Miller via Groups.Io < johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
Dearest Jude, I was writing up my PhD, probably, about 1998, when this really big hornet flew in. I decided to handle it with a 30 min coffee break. Thank Goodness it was gone after that John
Heating? Oh yes! Most essential! ?I have a heater with an integrated timer, so when I go up there in the afternoon, it’s nice and cozy. I also get visitors, such as a hibernating wasp a couple of weeks ago; luckily, it was not a queen and was quite easily persuaded to use the door! Regards Susan On 29 Feb 2020, at 12:44, zuiko via Groups.Io < zuiko@...> wrote: Thanks, Susan, it is airy; we had it refurbished in 2014, at a cost four times our original estimate (!), but as soon as the walls and roof were uncovered the builder and surveyor found that the roof plate had moved as the walls had lacked support. ?So, as well as the new insulation and boarding and walling they needed to brace the walls with a grid of timber matrices and a huge steel beam. ?You can just see the beam going up the wall next to the tall radiator. ?Oh well, but at least selling the house, if we ever do, should be easier with a more modern Annex.
Do you have heating in your cabins? :-)
Chris
That looks lovely and airy, Chris. ?We had two cabins made and installed but Harvey doesn’t use his very much. Mine really exists to take the place of the fourth bedroom we had in our last house and which was originally used also as part of our business admin. I had a Windows PC in there with Quicken 6 for Windows on it. ?We now use Easy Books for our household accounts - which are no longer audited! ?:DRegards Susan
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Well, hornets can be dangerous. My time in the USA exposed to me yellow jackets too. Which I had a policy of you don't mess with them, they won't mess with you. But I was having a lie-in one Saturday morning when something scampered down my arm & leg. Found out it was a Palmetto bug:
as one of my fellow alumni describes. It was the size of my palm & shrieking at me & waving it's antennae back & forth. The last time I saw a bug that big was "Starship troopers".
?So I went off to Eckerds and asked for something to kill, very, very big bugs. Got Raid Ultimate. I have to say it was a game bug. I'd covered it so it was silver in insecticide, but it still kept going, for a minute or so. John
On Saturday, 29 February 2020, 22:17:53 GMT, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
Yes, I have some handwash gel but of course I’ve had it for ages and it’s the wrong sort, not alcoholic! Regards
I don't want to go over the top, but it might be worth buying alcohol swabs for the hands. I will probably raid the stores on Monday. Hugs John
On Saturday, 29 February 2020, 16:29:27 GMT, John Miller via Groups.Io < johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
Dearest Jude, Not sure when your MRI is coming up, but just want to reassure you, it is totally safe. I'm not so happy about the CT/CAT scans, but I think it is within the level of a radiation worker. Just don't want to get any more soon. Everyday I knock back a pint of semi-skimmed milk & take my Vitamin D. I worked round really high field magnets, at least 500MHz. They will even put pregnant women in them. There his no health risk from MRI. Hugs to you & Peter John
On Saturday, 29 February 2020, 15:35:18 GMT, John Miller via Groups.Io < johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
Dearest Jude, I was writing up my PhD, probably, about 1998, when this really big hornet flew in. I decided to handle it with a 30 min coffee break. Thank Goodness it was gone after that John
Heating? Oh yes! Most essential! ?I have a heater with an integrated timer, so when I go up there in the afternoon, it’s nice and cozy. I also get visitors, such as a hibernating wasp a couple of weeks ago; luckily, it was not a queen and was quite easily persuaded to use the door! Regards Susan On 29 Feb 2020, at 12:44, zuiko via Groups.Io < zuiko@...> wrote: Thanks, Susan, it is airy; we had it refurbished in 2014, at a cost four times our original estimate (!), but as soon as the walls and roof were uncovered the builder and surveyor found that the roof plate had moved as the walls had lacked support. ?So, as well as the new insulation and boarding and walling they needed to brace the walls with a grid of timber matrices and a huge steel beam. ?You can just see the beam going up the wall next to the tall radiator. ?Oh well, but at least selling the house, if we ever do, should be easier with a more modern Annex.
Do you have heating in your cabins? :-)
Chris
That looks lovely and airy, Chris. ?We had two cabins made and installed but Harvey doesn’t use his very much. Mine really exists to take the place of the fourth bedroom we had in our last house and which was originally used also as part of our business admin. I had a Windows PC in there with Quicken 6 for Windows on it. ?We now use Easy Books for our household accounts - which are no longer audited! ?:DRegards Susan
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Cockroaches.... is that all you have to worry about! ?Come down to Australia then with the world's most dangerous snakes and spiders for a start :-)
Snakes are a worry where I live. ?We've lost at least three big beasts over the years to snakes. If you see a bull go down and die in under 20 minutes and he weighs over a ton then what chance would a person have.?
My husband and I this afternoon in discussion decided we have had snakes in the house every house we have owned in Australia.?
Lord know how we survive. ?Husband managed to find one on his nightly snake check - damned thing was behind a large sofa.?
Always best to play it safe. This one was not venomous, but they can bite nevertheless and mouth is dirty so then you need hospital visit.
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LOL Jude!! Have heard of the Western Taipan. I think it is about the most dangerous creature on earth, though some may argue the black mamba is up there. For my MSc in pharmacology I worked with Tetrodotoxin (venom of the puffer fish) to block sodium channels. I had a new found respect for venomous creatures after living in the USA. Copperheads, brown recluse spiders etc.? As a boy, I loved spiders. They were the one thing I knew could get rid of my sister. Sister repellent! Hugs John
On Sunday, 1 March 2020, 08:01:57 GMT, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
Cockroaches.... is that all you have to worry about! ?Come down to Australia then with the world's most dangerous snakes and spiders for a start :-)
Snakes are a worry where I live. ?We've lost at least three big beasts over the years to snakes. If you see a bull go down and die in under 20 minutes and he weighs over a ton then what chance would a person have.?
My husband and I this afternoon in discussion decided we have had snakes in the house every house we have owned in Australia.?
Lord know how we survive. ?Husband managed to find one on his nightly snake check - damned thing was behind a large sofa.?
Always best to play it safe. This one was not venomous, but they can bite nevertheless and mouth is dirty so then you need hospital visit.
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Would love to visit you & Peter, but alas, I think my tourism days are gone. If I had a seizure on a long haul flight they might have to divert, which would cost millions. No one is going to step up to that kind of insurance. Guess I was lucky in a way, because I was rejected by the British Antarctic Survey just before the seizures started. I would have really liked to have stepped foot on all the continents of the earth, & maybe held my thumb up and covered the planet, as the Apollo astronauts said
On Sunday, 1 March 2020, 09:06:47 GMT, John Miller via Groups.Io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
LOL Jude!! Have heard of the Western Taipan. I think it is about the most dangerous creature on earth, though some may argue the black mamba is up there. For my MSc in pharmacology I worked with Tetrodotoxin (venom of the puffer fish) to block sodium channels. I had a new found respect for venomous creatures after living in the USA. Copperheads, brown recluse spiders etc.? As a boy, I loved spiders. They were the one thing I knew could get rid of my sister. Sister repellent! Hugs John
On Sunday, 1 March 2020, 08:01:57 GMT, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
Cockroaches.... is that all you have to worry about! ?Come down to Australia then with the world's most dangerous snakes and spiders for a start :-)
Snakes are a worry where I live. ?We've lost at least three big beasts over the years to snakes. If you see a bull go down and die in under 20 minutes and he weighs over a ton then what chance would a person have.?
My husband and I this afternoon in discussion decided we have had snakes in the house every house we have owned in Australia.?
Lord know how we survive. ?Husband managed to find one on his nightly snake check - damned thing was behind a large sofa.?
Always best to play it safe. This one was not venomous, but they can bite nevertheless and mouth is dirty so then you need hospital visit.
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Wow!
That’s enough to keep me away from the country, Jude. ?I’ve lived in several different countries of the Middle East, but insects were generally the only hazard (except when the locals took exception to the presence of the Brits, of course).
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Cockroaches.... is that all you have to worry about! ?Come down to Australia then with the world's most dangerous snakes and spiders for a start :-)
Snakes are a worry where I live. ?We've lost at least three big beasts over the years to snakes. If you see a bull go down and die in under 20 minutes and he weighs over a ton then what chance would a person have.?
My husband and I this afternoon in discussion decided we have had snakes in the house every house we have owned in Australia.?
Lord know how we survive. ?Husband managed to find one on his nightly snake check - damned thing was behind a large sofa.?
Always best to play it safe. This one was not venomous, but they can bite nevertheless and mouth is dirty so then you need hospital visit.
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Yes we found copperheads aplenty when staying on a dude ranch in Tennessee. ?The owners came and carried out a cull in the 100yd radius of the cabin and found 12.
That’s also when I found out that snakes could swim . . .
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LOL Jude!! Have heard of the Western Taipan. I think it is about the most dangerous creature on earth, though some may argue the black mamba is up there. For my MSc in pharmacology I worked with Tetrodotoxin (venom of the puffer fish) to block sodium channels. I had a new found respect for venomous creatures after living in the USA. Copperheads, brown recluse spiders etc.? As a boy, I loved spiders. They were the one thing I knew could get rid of my sister. Sister repellent! Hugs John
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I had a pretty friendly reception in the good 'ole USA. I did feel disturbed, that there was such a difference between the very rich, and very poor. Thank Goodness I am back in Blighty. It is not ideal, but better than some places
On Sunday, 1 March 2020, 11:14:28 GMT, zuiko via Groups.Io <zuiko@...> wrote:
Yes we found copperheads aplenty when staying on a dude ranch in Tennessee. ?The owners came and carried out a cull in the 100yd radius of the cabin and found 12.
That’s also when I found out that snakes could swim . . .
LOL Jude!! Have heard of the Western Taipan. I think it is about the most dangerous creature on earth, though some may argue the black mamba is up there. For my MSc in pharmacology I worked with Tetrodotoxin (venom of the puffer fish) to block sodium channels. I had a new found respect for venomous creatures after living in the USA. Copperheads, brown recluse spiders etc.? As a boy, I loved spiders. They were the one thing I knew could get rid of my sister. Sister repellent! Hugs John
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Still taking a pint of milk a day (semi-skimmed) and Vitamin D. Can you build some bone density into me? Hugs to Jude & Peter
On Sunday, 1 March 2020, 11:23:09 GMT, John Miller via Groups.Io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
I had a pretty friendly reception in the good 'ole USA. I did feel disturbed, that there was such a difference between the very rich, and very poor. Thank Goodness I am back in Blighty. It is not ideal, but better than some places
On Sunday, 1 March 2020, 11:14:28 GMT, zuiko via Groups.Io <zuiko@...> wrote:
Yes we found copperheads aplenty when staying on a dude ranch in Tennessee. ?The owners came and carried out a cull in the 100yd radius of the cabin and found 12.
That’s also when I found out that snakes could swim . . .
LOL Jude!! Have heard of the Western Taipan. I think it is about the most dangerous creature on earth, though some may argue the black mamba is up there. For my MSc in pharmacology I worked with Tetrodotoxin (venom of the puffer fish) to block sodium channels. I had a new found respect for venomous creatures after living in the USA. Copperheads, brown recluse spiders etc.? As a boy, I loved spiders. They were the one thing I knew could get rid of my sister. Sister repellent! Hugs John
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Oh yes, they are very good swimmers! Not that I’ve seen them in action, other than on TV! Regards
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On 1 Mar 2020, at 11:14, zuiko via Groups.Io < zuiko@...> wrote:
Yes we found copperheads aplenty when staying on a dude ranch in Tennessee. ?The owners came and carried out a cull in the 100yd radius of the cabin and found 12.
That’s also when I found out that snakes could swim . . .
Chris
LOL Jude!! Have heard of the Western Taipan. I think it is about the most dangerous creature on earth, though some may argue the black mamba is up there. For my MSc in pharmacology I worked with Tetrodotoxin (venom of the puffer fish) to block sodium channels. I had a new found respect for venomous creatures after living in the USA. Copperheads, brown recluse spiders etc.? As a boy, I loved spiders. They were the one thing I knew could get rid of my sister. Sister repellent! Hugs John
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