The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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MypinchofItaly said:
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Have you asked your doctor for help? My wife and I both gave up with the help of a course of Champix pills. Somehow they take away the cravings, allowing you to break the habitual behaviour. Good luck - you will feel much better for giving up and save yourself a small fortune as well!
 
epicuric said:
Have you asked your doctor for help? My wife and I both gave up with the help of a course of Champix pills. Somehow they take away the cravings, allowing you to break the habitual behaviour. Good luck - you will feel much better for giving up and save yourself a small fortune as well!
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I gave up about 5 years ago after almost 50 years of smoking (around 25/day on average). I was coughing so much that it was keeping me awake at nights; so I just said "that's it, no more". I cannot say that I've lost the craving completely as a nice cigar would be appreciated but luckily cigars are not widely available here. When I stopped, cigarettes were around £1.10/pack of 20; now they are around double that. Still, considering the amount of my inadequate pensions and the current state of the Sterling it is a welcome monetary saving.
 
epicuric said:
Have you asked your doctor for help? My wife and I both gave up with the help of a course of Champix pills. Somehow they take away the cravings, allowing you to break the habitual behaviour. Good luck - you will feel much better for giving up and save yourself a small fortune as well!
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All the GPs in our area used to refer people to the local smoking cessation clinic. Owing to NHS cuts, this was closed a couple of years ago. Now you have to go to the pharmacy-run sessions, if you can get an appointment earlier than several months.
 
Yorky said:
I gave up about 5 years ago after almost 50 years of smoking (around 25/day on average). I was coughing so much that it was keeping me awake at nights; so I just said "that's it, no more". I cannot say that I've lost the craving completely as a nice cigar would be appreciated but luckily cigars are not widely available here. When I stopped, cigarettes were around £1.10/pack of 20; now they are around double that. Still, considering the amount of my inadequate pensions and the current state of the Sterling it is a welcome monetary saving.
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When I last gave up they were around £4 per pack. I believe they are twice that now over here!
 
Lawn Mower.

Thursday and Friday last week, we went to look at petrol engine lawn mowers. On Saturday, we bought one but when we arrived home it had started to rain quite heavily so it was parked in the car port. The rain eased off on Sunday so we attempted to start it. Firstly, there was two manuals, one for only the engine and one for the mower plus engine. The engine manual covered 8 different engines and we couldn't determine which model we have. The mower manual didn't appear to belong to our mower at all. Anyway, my wife, with her extensive knowledge of petrol engines proceeded to prime the engine by pumping fuel in until the cylinder was flooded. We parked it up and left it for another day.

We tried again on Monday without using the prime but nothing. My wife called the shop and a "technician" came around (less than 1 kilometre). He proceeded to pump the fuel primer until he too flooded the engine. In the end, he asked us to return it to the shop and he would provide a replacement (he was on a motorbike). He tried the replacement outside the shop (using fuel from the original) and it started. By the time we returned home, it was raining heavy again so it was parked up again for the night.

On Tuesday, it started easily after only two pulls and no priming however, it has only one speed and it is apparent that it is going to move quite fast; in fact, my wife will have to run to keep up with it. We still haven't put it to work in earnest as it has been raining ever since; and still is.
 
Yorky said:
We were pretty busy today but were invited to a retirement party by a neighbour.
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The Hobbits' retirement party.

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This morning we had a steady walk into town and had a look at parts we don't normally see, remnants of really old buildings built in 1060 and onwards, we found a fantastic Korean supermarket and a Vietnamese restaurant that was really busy. Definitely want to eat in the restaurant and will go back to the supermarket.

Normally we know what we want so we drive in, park up, get what we want then leave, today we walked in and had a mooch around and really glad we did. A lot of money has been spent over the years on regenerating the town and the university has built many more buildings and the architecture is quite stunning.
 
Lullabelle said:
This morning we had a steady walk into town and had a look at parts we don't normally see, remnants of really old buildings built in 1060 and onwards, we found a fantastic Korean supermarket and a Vietnamese restaurant that was really busy. Definitely want to eat in the restaurant and will go back to the supermarket.

Normally we know what we want so we drive in, park up, get what we want then leave, today we walked in and had a mooch around and really glad we did. A lot of money has been spent over the years on regenerating the town and the university has built many more buildings and the architecture is quite stunning.
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It's surprising what you find (or what has disappeared) in your own town if you have a leisurely mooch round. The Australian restaurant has closed down, which is a shame because the food was lovely, and the Japanese noodles bar and Vietnamese restaurants are long gone, but the Brazilian and one of the Italian restaurants seem to be thriving. The largest fusion restaurant has now moved into even larger premises, and nearby the three Thai restaurants that were all on top of each other have now become five even though the nearest one to where I live has disappeared off the face of the earth - they shared half of what used to be a pub with another restaurant, which is also gone. The premises have now reopened.....as a pub! And we also seem to have a huge Chinese wholesaler, which supplies all sorts of oriental foods to the public as well.
Unfortunately the old town was more or less annihilated in the 1960s by the local Council, although most of the churches, a pub and a few other buildings have managed to survive. We have at least won a battle with the Council to ditch their plans to build a modern restaurant complex right in front (yes, you did read it correctly!) of the beautiful old main church right in the town centre.
 
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