After a long period of burrowing I have unearthed in the loft a 70 year old box of Christmas lights, the first birthday present my wife received when just six months old. There is no wiring but it is, hopefully, a perfect project for the Repair Shop’s 2023 Christmas Special. Fingers crossed.
I sincerely hope they didn't inject your Sciatic nerve, @Obelixx, or you would have never walked again. they probably infiltrated around the nerve. various cocktails of drugs can be used in epidurals, which have different durations of action.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Just read a post in the Curmudge thread and one of @Fairygirl's replies was 'That wid gie ye the dry boak...' made me smile and to ask her will you teach me the language please?
Probably so @punkdoc. I do remember the anaesthetist showing a junior colleague how he was identifying th enerve using the scanner and then plunging in a large needle. I looked away at that point and closed my ears.
@Lizzie27 I used the equivalent of Immac with some trepidation having had allergic reactions to that and waxing way back in the 80s.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Just read a post in the Curmudge thread and one of @Fairygirl's replies was 'That wid gie ye the dry boak...' made me smile and to ask her will you teach me the language please?
Just read a post in the Curmudge thread and one of @Fairygirl's replies was 'That wid gie ye the dry boak...' made me smile and to ask her will you teach me the language please?
Roughly translates as "Would make you heave".
It's the way @Fairygirl tells it and the accent. I know most of the phrases up here now but it's the way Scots slip em in. Pure, dead brilliant.
A dry boak is a bit more than just throwing up. It is that stage where there is nothing left but your gut won't accept that yet and keeps going. The implication is that whatever is upsetting you is worse than mere vomit inducing.
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various cocktails of drugs can be used in epidurals, which have different durations of action.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
@Lizzie27 I used the equivalent of Immac with some trepidation having had allergic reactions to that and waxing way back in the 80s.
Roughly translates as "Would make you heave".
@KT53 has given the translation though. 'Puke your load' would often be the translation here
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...