Data wrote: Sat Oct 09, 2021 10:26 am I do indeed smeg! We really must meet up sometime. I seem to remember I was going to ride to your area sometime last year so we could meet up for lunch somewhere. But we all know what happened to those plans eh! May be another time and we can compare GTS stories over a bacon butty! I'll even show you pictures of my big end from my workshop manual!! If you are anything like me, that'll excite you! Seriously though, a meet up would be good if you still fancy it sometime.

Data wrote: Mon Oct 11, 2021 11:52 am Lucky so and so! I mean about the weekends away. It would likely be next year now anyway. I'm in and out of hospital quite a bit at the mo and am going in tomorrow for some more work. In hospital next month too for more work on another body part, and in again after that to restore the vision in my left eye. It's never ending at the mo... The delights of getting older eh!

Data wrote: Mon Oct 18, 2021 1:50 pm Yes, the face to face time with a doctor has been non existent almost unless you are about to die. But our local surgery has been seeing us face to face now for the last couple of months or so and it's been fine. Don't have to book an appointment, just turn up before 10am and take a seat. They guarantee you will be seen by a doctor. So it's not bad now. Currently the covid situation in our local trust hospitals is not so good. The ICU is full of mostly younger people aged between 26-48yrs of age, all unvaccinated, nearly all with covid. Some won't survive. We have a large number of nhs workers as neighbours and friends, one who is head of nursing for the trust. She tells me it's so unnecessary. Just a couple of jabs would stop this non sense. Lets hope more and more folks take the jab if they can.