The FOC thread.

Bill Walker said:
You gotta hand it to the producers, making a series of shows starring a fucking kangaroo :)
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I watched a programme a while ago, where the producers said they had about a dozen or so Kangaroos in a compound of sorts, filmed the ones they could see the best at the time, and cobbled it all together afterwards.

I must admit, I liked watching it as a 9 year old.
 
NPBlue said:
I watched a programme a while ago, where the producers said they had about a dozen or so Kangaroos in a compound of sorts, filmed the ones they could see the best at the time, and cobbled it all together afterwards.

I must admit, I liked watching it as a 9 year old.
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Yeah there was a few Skippys, they were actually Wallabies, small Roos, not the big tough fuckers in the outback.

Wallabies used to come into our backyard when we lived on acreage. They loved the odd carrot.
 
Bill Walker said:
Yeah there was a few Skippys, they were actually Wallabies, small Roos, not the big tough fuckers in the outback.

Wallabies used to come into our backyard when we lived on acreage. They loved the odd carrot.
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Big, tough Roos like this?


 
KS55 said:
Camp coffee with chicory essence served with sterilised milk.
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Jeez, yes - and always with 100% milk, heated in a pan with the strange glass 'rattler' to warn when it was bubbling up.

'er indoors 'treated' me to a bottle a few months ago. One sip and the rest went down the sink...
 
Bill Walker said:
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Brings back memories
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And we used to peg a playing card to the fork, so it made the 'ack-ack' acceleration sound as you built up speed

Lost count of the times somebody would crash blindly into something because they were staring down at the card - because apparently it wasn't satisfying enough just to listen to it... :-)
 
Vienna_70 said:
I’m not doing too badly, thanks.

It’s slowly getting better, but I will still hear or read something that will set me off into a flood of tears.
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I don't mean to intrude - because I'm sure that some of you know each other in 'real life' outside of this forum - but a good bawl can be really therapeutic, so try to embrace them when they come.

Mum always said that after she lost Dad - her absolute soulmate - the fact she was so destroyed every now and again just reinforced what a lovely life they'd had, and that in itself was a comfort.
 
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I don’t know where this really belongs but perhaps only an FOC could post this.
This morning I went over Rombalds Moor between Airedale and Wharfedale.
It was stunning with thick grey cloud hanging low overhead. Very dramatic. On the very top there was a pair of red kites just circling slowly looking for the tell tale signs of small animals moving in the undergrowth.
I arrived in Ilkley to visit a spine specialist. He was excellent (thank you NHS) and said I was suffering from age related degeneration of the spine. There is nothing that can be done about that but I was encouraged by the next bit. He said he wanted to try a pain management treatment in which the nerves carrying spinal pain were ‘frozen’ by a series of injections and then destroyed by ‘burning’ them off chemically. I’m all for it.
I travelled back via the valley route passing Moon Mill in Guiseley. The mill was founded in 1837 and I think is the last woollen mill operating in Yorkshire.
In fact they employ more people now than they did at the height of the Yorkshire wool trade in the 19th century. They specialise in high quality fabrics to meet huge demand from China and elsewhere in East Asia.
Arriving home I was greeted in our garden by a pair of redwings, not so common round here.
A very good morning by FOC, spine damaged, standards.
 
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It’s a bummer that. I’ve had that for years and no amount of exercise helps and I’m loathe to take pain meds long term.
Keep us informed as to how successful your treatment is. I might need to follow your route.
 
noseve said:
Jeez, yes - and always with 100% milk, heated in a pan with the strange glass 'rattler' to warn when it was bubbling up.

'er indoors 'treated' me to a bottle a few months ago. One sip and the rest went down the sink...
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Exactly my introduction to coffee.
Oh how sophisticated mum thought she was with this foreign drink!
 
denislawsbackheel said:
It’s a bummer that. I’ve had that for years and no amount of exercise helps and I’m loathe to take pain meds long term.
Keep us informed as to how successful your treatment is. I might need to follow your route.
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Will do. The specialist said he was opposed to pain killers on the grounds that they don’t work on spines. He is right. I’ve had physio and, not surprisingly, that doesn’t work either.
 
KS55 said:
Will do. The specialist said he was opposed to pain killers on the grounds that they don’t work on spines. He is right. I’ve had physio and, not surprisingly, that doesn’t work either.
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Ditto and ditto!
 
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