Recent content by Harry Bloomfield

I had an oil drum as a garden incinerator, but it quite quickly rusted away. I then got hold of a large, stainless steel washing machine drum, and bolted three legs to it, to raise it off the ground. Not as big as an oil drum, but anything put in it burns away quickly, due to lots of air holes...

I only saw his initial posts, this incarnation - then blocked him. If everyone simply did the same, he would be starved of his audience, and response, which he seems so desperate to have. Starved, he will find somewhere else to make his insane posts.

Hospital consultant, started me on Bempedoic last week, sending a letter to my GP's. GP put it on repeat, but failed to actually approve it, so it was prescribed/sent to chemists. A quick phone call to GP, and it was sorted out, approved, and sent to chemists - 2 hours later, I collected it.

Thanks, greatly appreciated! They were telling me, I would no longer be able to have a soak in the bath, because of the risk of infection, lying 'in my own muck', but would have to make do with showers. The concerns seemed to be mostly in regard to the capped end of the PD catheter. I took a...

That is correct - a room where the thermostat is located, should NOT be fitted with a TRV.

They are just basic, old fashioned mechanical thermostats. If correctly fitted, then turning BOTH down to a low setting, should switch the boiler to off, unless the installer has made some error.

If you are pulled, and your licence suggests you should be wearing glasses, you can get done for not wearing them when stopped. I've just received a text, informing me that the results of my eye screening check, from earlier this week, are available to be viewed. It shows I pass easily...

Tarmac + cement?

I've just looked again at the card, and it is marked as First Class postage, and so even worse than I at first thought. I have numerous times filled the form in and told RM, we do not want the junk mail, but it makes no difference at all. The one thing we can be guaranteed to get, is the junk.

Where I live now, is far from the area I grew up, where I grew up was demolished decades ago - and no great loss. The overgrown village where I now live, has no 'swarthies', that I am aware of, and is designated a very low crime area. At the end of the street, used to be a general shop, run by I...

Likely, the installer has accidentally left the 24v link in place, in the boiler. The 24v allows the boiler to ignore the controls, and just run on the boilers own stat. Best not to interfere with it at all, just turn the boiler temperature setting down to a level which provides some background...

This morning, they delivered a post card invite, to a couple of meetings with the railway planners, about the ongoing upgrade work. Fine you might think, no problem there - except the meetings actually took place 3 days ago, which suggests RM simply sat on them for at least 7 whole days. I...

All were white, no large families, all families, apart from widowed ladies living alone. We lived in a two up, two down, no bathroom, and the toilet down the street, with squares of newspaper, hanging on a nail. The only warm room in the house, in winter, was the living room, where the coal fire...

Moped, then motorbike. Passed test on that, then got a Reliant, learned to drive in that, then borrowed a school car for an hour, to pass car my car test.

Not entirely by myself. In desperation, I wrote to the Kidney Foundation, listing what seemed to be the result of my symptom gathering, log. One of the members took the time to email me back, with a very similar list of symptoms, that the Uraemia is known to cause. The worst part of the many...