A pilgrimage across southern England

[Mendip]

^ Call me picky but I'd rather have someone from the medical profession carry it out. Well, the first one, anyway.

[malmomike77]

^ Call me picky but I'd rather have someone from the medical profession carry it out. Well, the first one, anyway.

Just ask if any of them are moonlighting

anyway.

Have you got an updated itinerary you can share

[Joe 90]

Have you got an updated itinerary you can share

This one might be just the ticket..

[Edmond]

Will be 10kg lighter this time tomorrow.

[Mendip]

^ I'll ignore that.

^^ Joe, I don't think that itinerary is suitable for an 11 year old? Besides, that guy looks like a bit of a twat but he does have a good taste in shirts.

^^^ Mike, I'm gonna really get serious on the itinerary once I get home, after I write my letter to Lufthansa.

I seem to remember London is firmed up between Aug 1st - 4th already, just need to book hotels and train tickets. It's just over two weeks and the osydidy begins!

I'm starting to wish I called the the thread something different cos every time I type it I have trouble spelling oddysy... odysey.... journey.

[Edmond]

Will be 10kg lighter this time tomorrow.

I'll ignore that.

That's just from the back shave.

[Mendip]

^ Do you have a lot of friends up in Chiang Mai?

[DrWilly]

^ I didn't fall for that one again.

To be honest it's been on my mind that I'm overdue for a prostate exam... but that is no longer a part of the offshore medical. I guess with the aging workforce too many people would fail these days.

But how to ask for a prostate examination without sounding weird? I did ask one young lady if she could help out but it turned out she was just in to sell insurance.

They dont have to stick their fingers up your arse anymore for checking prostrates. Though I suppose you could still request it...

[Mendip]

^ So where do they stick them now?

And surely one finger is enough?

[DrWilly]

Blood test.

[danno5]

Mendip - a decade or so ago I was working in Malaysia and travelled back to the east coast of the US annually for a home visit. I was flying British Airways since they had the shortest flying time connecting through London. I had a similar experience - got to the airport for my return to MY, about a 6-hour delay, loaded on to the plane and after 2 hours disembarked. Spent another 2 hours in line (flying business but no separate agents after they kicked us off the plane) only to be told to go away and come back the next day. No offer of reimbursement for expenses, just go away.

Anyhow, the point of all this (other than to gripe about BA who I never flew again) is that I ultimately got about $800 USD in compensation from them (for both my wife and myself) through the program associated with european travel. Check it out - it might provide a little satisfaction for delays knowing you are getting something back from them!

[Edmond]

Chiang Mai?

Cebu.

friends

You mean like 5 dogs + 1 dodgy Welsh bloke?


Let's just say that Nooners is okay, but ya got me on the dogs.

[Mendip]

^^ Thankyou Danno, as soon as I get home I'll be on to this. It's not the delay or missed flight that pisses me off, that's life.... it's the complete contempt that Lufthansa showed it's customers that has got me, and their total disinterest in making it right. Two days later and no contact whatsoever.

And thanks for the first sensible post in many pages. You see what I'm up against here.

^ It's 7 dogs. And you don't need the adjective 'dodgy' in front of 'Welsh', by the way.

[bsnub]

Mendy will be back on the sauce. You need to start a YT channel with live posts from the garden.

[BLD]

^ Day rental. 144 quid I think it cost. Didn't do any locks. A few nice country pubs on the route

I wouldn't fancy living on one full time. There's some right bedraggled characters out there that do.

That sounds like a fooking great day out Reg. Right up my alley that I reckon. A barge. Canals and bevvys. What could possibly go wrong

[BLD]

It was never nice walking past early afternoon, what them girls had to go through. Had a few nights out with Shaun and no one can get paid enough imo.

Au contraire. And I beg to differ I've always thought lolitas quite classy . because me slippers didn't stick to the carpet.

[BLD]

They dont have to stick their fingers up your arse anymore for checking prostrates. Though I suppose you could still request it...

I always insist on both. To be sure to be sure

[BLD]

Very sad. Very very sad.

I cried a tear.

He does tend to use a lot of passport pages I suppose.

[malmomike77]

because me slippers didn't stick to the carpet.

Posh bastard, went for the first class service inside rather than the passing trade open air gobble.

[BLD]

Exactly. Bld ain't no kee nee aw farang

[Neverna]

But how to ask for a prostate examination without sounding weird? I did ask one young lady if she could help out but it turned out she was just in to sell insurance.

The doctor doesn't need to stick his finger up your arse these days to do a prostate check. Technology has moved on. An ultrasound scan by a nurse is much more pleasant for hetero guys.

A blood test will check for prostate cancer, but it's not 100% reliable apparently.

[Joe 90]

A blood test will check for prostate cancer, but it's not 100% reliable apparently

I believe it's just a pin prick test as well, no need to get excited

How's the pub crawl going Mendy?

We need pics of beer,bars and boobs

Go Mendy!


Go Mendy!

Oh, don't forget the early morning burger pic outside Nana plaza for Snubbles

[Mendip]

The doctor doesn't need to stick his finger up your arse these days to do a prostate check. Technology has moved on. An ultrasound scan by a nurse is much more pleasant for hetero guys.

A blood test will check for prostate cancer, but it's not 100% reliable apparently.

Thanks Nev, but surely an index finger is a lot smaller than one of those ultrasound heads?

But anyway, this thread has gone way off course from it's intended diary of a father and daughter's oddysey of discovery across southern England. I had in mind a kind of 'Laurens van der Post' style exploration of the Kalihari kind of theme in mind, but I can see that won't happen here.

So anyway, to get back on topic as best I can...



And to keep you bloody northerners included...

[Topper]

Let's just say that Nooners is okay,

Nooners is in Cebu?

[Reg Dingle]

A barge. Canals and bevvys. What could possibly go wrong

BY CATHY OWEN
15:21, 26 MAY 2022UPDATED15:25, 26 MAY 2022
A canal barge sank after reportedly hitting other boats during a boozy stag do. It is alleged by locals that a group from Wales had hired the boat last weekend.

The barge, one of three hired from ABC Boat Hire on Friday, ended up under water on the Droitwich Canal in Worcestershire. A nearby road also flooded as a result.

Narrowboat owner Amanda Huxtable., who later called the police about the behaviour, wrote on Facebook : “There's a reason why you shouldn't let your boats to stag parties. I have now had ABC come to find the boat that hit me has been abandoned."

It is alleged the group had failed to get one of the boats hired through a lock on the canal, but rather than trying to sort it out they ditched it

Stag party causes chaos by sinking barge on canal and flooding road - Wales Online

Also, we were told to lock the below rudder away inside the boat when getting off it as there are some unsavoury folk around who like to steal all kinds of shiny metal things and will leave you up shit creek without a paddle