• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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    Spitfire !

    Oh, you lucky, lucky, man.
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    Blast From The past

    Don't remember, sorry. 1981 I read it.
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    Little critters

    Completely! The treatment of Indigenous Peoples across the North American continent has been inexcusable, and (to some extent) continues today. A parallel exists in Australia of course.
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    Little critters

    Like Rob, I cannot anthropomorphisise and call them cuddly. Disease-spreading, ecosystem wrecking, furbags. Sorry Benton, I watched them destroy our native reds here,and I am deeply minded to paraphrase a comment from WW2 re American servicemen: "over-paid, over sexed and over here" into...
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    Blast From The past

    I refer the right honorable gentleman to Clive James' autobiography re emptying same. Remember, we love photos...
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    What Birds Have You Seen Today

    From my back terrace: Pigeons Collared Doves Crows Sparrow hawk Blackbird "Sparras" Wrens Swifts (feathered, not bipedal) Magpies Visited the Inner Farne on Monday: Puffins (inevitably!) Guillimots Razorbills Gannets Gulls of all sizes Kittiwakes (Yes, I know, strictly, a gull, but not as...
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    Yahoo Mail Apple Mail OSX 10.13 SOLVED, probably

    Of course, the obvious, quicker, cheaper, way: "switch to an M.S. p.c." does not seem to be on option...:cool: As a user of both Macs and their mortal enemies since 1977, I do not understand the dogged determination by 'Appleites' to hang on to the barely-concealed extortion that Apple exerts...
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    Not a straight edge - a cautionary tale.

    That's the brand Andy, though the ones I saw had metal bodies. They were vaunted as the complete canine testicles, so maybe the hardware shop I was in had bought in 'seconds' but flagged them as the real McCoy? A lot of the builders I knew recommended them.
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    Not a straight edge - a cautionary tale.

    Absolutely. In the old days here in U.K., we had a species of level that was guaranteed to still function properly when dropped several stories off a scaffold (trés expensive). I carried out your test on some of them; rejected the lot. Finally found a straight Rabone Chesterman 4' that has...
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    The Benefits Of A Hobby After Retirement

    My textbook for final-year Entomology in 1980...I agree, soporific!
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    Bird table

    Seconded. My partner has a similar setup, and - after gorging - Rattus norvegicus simply dismounts, head down, slowly, gripping the shiny pole tightly and scanning for predators. Deeply impressive - in a negative way.
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    Blood pressure

    I have mixed faith in the N.H.S. The points made above re practice nurses overstepping their training and competency resonate strongly with me. Equally, the over-worked practice G.P.'s here are excellent, and when one is in dire straits, they move fast and effectively. They are let down by...
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    The Benefits Of A Hobby After Retirement

    I retired from teaching in June 2017. Our family unit was small, only 8, and almost immediately, we moved 253 miles (and "across the water") to consolidate it, be nearer our children. Cancer and Covid claimed two, one lost his job, marriage and mother in four months; another has just had major...
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    Blood pressure

    Hyponatraemia. My late wife had it as a complication of the Big C. She was incapacitated (read wheeelchair) for over a fortnight and hospitalised for a week of that. A very serious condition, which even intravenous salts (multiple ions) did not sort out for well over 10 days. Take care Folks...
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    Blood pressure

    Coming late to this, I ask two questions: a)How many of their group have actually had it done out of the entire group? b) What are the clinical (N.H.S.) statistics for this procedure? I have a hidden motive; my daughter went through ablation for C.V.T.; successfully, over a decade ago, aged...
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    Bees like the Blue False Indigo.

    Just a few from the garden yesterday.
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    Blood pressure

    Steve, I can only speak to oxygen saturation. Measured with a finger oximeter by shining specific light wavelengths onto surface capillaries, of which, the nail bed is the most easily accessed. The watch light emitter is similar, buried underneath the watch body, but the wrist skin capillaries...
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    Hot Heat 2026

    And nobody, but nobody, has complimented Steve for his accurate recreation of Emperor Palpatine 😳. Nice one, Steve.
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    Blood pressure

    Thanks Phil. I - for various bad reasons - didn't take my Indapamide, Losartin, Amlopidine, Atorovastatin (etc!) for two days last week and scared myself silly with 171/91. It took two days to return to 124/79, where I stubbornly reside; I need to lose a lot of avoirdupois....like you said...
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    Blood pressure

    Hmmmmmmm.....blood vessels dilate to flush hot blood up to the skin's surface to cool you. By definition, more available 'area' for blood to pass through, equals lower pressure. Simple human physiology. It neglects to balance an apparently benevolent measurement with the damage caused by heat...
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