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    I have just had my boiler service company ring me to tell me that the part there was supposed to be fitted this afternoon has been delayed the original one was broken in the box I've still got hot water indoors and I don't need the heating on so I can get by . Explain to her that I was going to Stoke Mandeville national spinal injuries unit as a elective patient and she got onto the odp are you having to go into hospital and I told her it's not poor me I've elected to go in there , because they're physiotherapists who are spinal specialist are actually the best in the world and three weeks in there I don't know what they're progress but I do know that I will progress although really they do all the work and I just have to do the jumping up and down bit . For highly educated degree level people they can't count because they tell you to do 10 squats and when you've done 10 will say 5 now 6 none of them can count but I was telling the call centre lady that I was very pleased to go in there and I had seen some absolute miracles including a teenage girl doing stairs in a wheelchair up and down and a few other things that I've seen and she said thank you so much for sharing that with me do you know you really made my day .

    It set me on thinking how easy it is to do tales of Woe moaning about brexit whinge about the politics and feel sorry for us in general it's a shame we should have before I say anything miserable I should post something happy
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    to all the tales of woe merchants have a walk through a childrens cancer hospital it puts your life in prospective ? if you can make someone smile everyday and not moan about the stupid things?jp

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    with the moans about Brexit , immigrants , the government , the oppisiion , chutch all bring us down , lets smile and be happy
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    Sometimes situations that cause anger can develop into a good family laugh, that go down forever, this is one from my family. It was my wife 70th birthday, and we had gone out to lunch, and on return to the house, along with letters the post had put through, was one of those notices that had to be collected from the sorting station. the note did say there was excess postage to be posted on the item. Now i live in Shanklin and the sorting station is in Sandown , a couple of miles away, so into the car i go, and off to Sandown, absolute pig to park there, but having cruised around for a while manage to get parked. Into the sorting office and present the note from post, plus my driving licence ID, the young guy looks the package up and then says *this is for Mrs Tindell, wheres her ID *, my wife i explain, not good enough he says, so spitting feathers, i get back in the car, drive home, pick up wifes passport, and back down to Sandown, repark and back in the office. When the guy brings the package, turns out to be a birthday card from my son to the wife, with one of those kids badges on it to say happy birthday, and it won't go through the post office former, so extra 7 pence to pay.When i got home we had a laugh at it, and still do to this day.
    So i expect all the moans about Brexit, and many other things we carp on about here, will also give us a laugh in time to come, kt
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    Rob England is the land of my birth and I. Will always have good memories of the past. However as regards your politicians they have lost all credibility as far as I am concerned. It was through their duplicity that the country is in its present state non agreement among the populace. You now have half the population who know no different and the other half who can remember when things were more to their liking. You need a proper statesman who believes in Britain to pull the country up by the bootstraps. Your present PM is proving quite inadequate and is getting by for now on the usual Polly gobble. She is digging her own grave as far as politics goes. JWS.

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    #4... Keith like me as you get older will realise that anger gets you no where. When younger most of us may have been bantam cocks but this gets less with age. We all meet people in life who put our hackles up , but learn with age it gets you no where. Far better to treat the same with disdain and ignore, this does more damage to their self inflated ego than any shouting or screaming. As married men we probably learn that earlier than most and learn to shut up when your better half is having her say. At least those people we meet that we dislike we don’t have to bother with at all, that’s why I can’t understand the people who continue to argue on site. Strange I call it and not referring to John in Oz. Cheers JS

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    Talking of family laughs I'll never forget this one.Many years ago a friend of my wife was given some material by a ships captains wife and asked to run up four curtains on her sewing machine.I remember at the time that this material was about the equivalent to a weeks wages for me per yard.The girl only had a hand machine so she asked my wife would she do the job on her top of the range model.The job was done and the lady was delighted with the job.I seen the off cuts and i said to my wife you have made them curtains to short,people dont pay that kind of money to have remnants that big,well they were the measurements I was given said my wife.My wife went upstairs so I opened the front door and rang the bell and saying come in please,nobody there of course.I went upstairs and said to my wife the lady is downstairs with the curtains and she does'nt look to happy.I went downstairs and sat waiting to see the look on my wife's face when she entered the room.when my wife seen the lady was'nt there she attacked me (playfully of course)I was laying on the settee rolling with laughter and my wife giving me a few smacks,Just then there was a ring on the doorbell,you've got it it was the lady with the curtains nearly in tears,the curtains were about a foot short.Time for me to exit stage right.
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    I was talking to someone a couple of years ago who does a lot of work for a local multi-millionaire and his family they were working on a house in Portsmouth and the owner said she was waiting for the people who come from Harrods to measure up the curtains they were actually working on the heating system at the time when the man came from Harrods he priced up the curtains and measured them for the windows in the lounge and the total bill 10 years ago was over £30000 so I hope they got there straight to the bottom of the floor
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