Looks like the one Jessica Buettner (big powerlifting inspo) has on her arm to measure glucose levels in the blood - is that the same thing? Pretty cool

They are but they only last approx 14 days and will cost £50. Not sure I can justify it.

Sounds like you’re having a well deserved important time away. I’m glad you have a better room to sleep in, which will hopefully leave you more refreshed. How long has it been since you saw your friends last?

are you still sitting there from your morning coffee?

When it's quiet on the forum like this, I do wonder if everyone has gone off to a new forum and not told me.

When it's quiet on the forum like this, I do wonder if everyone has gone off to a new forum and not told me.

WOS opened up again. Were you not told?

Heh, it's always the same in summer. Our most prolific posters don't really post here anymore either.
@Grim...
@Craster
@doctor Glyndwr

WOS opened up again. Were you not told?

Stuart Campbell walks out of the shower and the last 13 years melt away.

I'm all up in the coil spring flu thread!

None of us post like we used to. Have you seen how funny we were ten years ago?

I’m not a huge cricket fan, but seeing good players smacking the ball around for three hours was great fun.
There was a really nice atmosphere in the ground as nobody really cared who won. They just wanted a nice night out with some food, drink and music to fill the gaps.

I’d recommend it if there’s a match you can get to.

I used to work less than quarter of a mile from that parking spot.

I used to live less than quarter of a mile from lark lane.

There was even an overlap of those two facts.

Ha! I can remember when we had to use cameras to take photos.

I've got three myself, a Ricoh 35mm with a part used roll in it, an Olympus C50 Zoom and an Olympus e-500 DSLR that I treated myself to when I got a big overtime payment during the great VoIP Phone Upgrade Project of November 06.

Don't think we have any unused lampshades left though.

Nooo… I mean, why? Apart from the word ‘puff’, none of the rest of the song makes sense in terms of drugs.

That can’t constitute making a single explicit, surely.

After the song's initial success, speculation arose—as early as a 1964 article in Newsweek—that the song contained veiled references to smoking marijuana.The word "paper" in the name of Puff's human friend Jackie Paper was said to be a reference to rolling papers, the words "by the sea" were interpreted as "by the C" (as in cannabis), the word "mist" stood for "smoke", the land of "Honahlee" stood for hashish, and "dragon" was interpreted as "draggin'" (i.e., inhaling smoke). Similarly, the name "Puff" was alleged to be a reference to taking a "puff" on a joint. The supposition was claimed to be common knowledge in a letter by a member of the public to The New York Times in 1984.

The authors of the song have repeatedly rejected this interpretation and have strongly and consistently denied that they intended any references to drug use. Both Lipton and Yarrow have stated, "'Puff, the Magic Dragon' is not about drugs." Yarrow has frequently explained that the song is about the hardships of growing older and has no relationship to drug-taking. He has also said that the song has "never had any meaning other than the obvious one" and is about the "loss of innocence in children." He has dismissed the suggestion of it being associated with drugs as "sloppy research".

‘By the sea means by the C which means by the cannabis’. That entire thing is more than a bit of a stretch.

My parents set up a bluetooth record player so they can enjoy their old LPs. I was flipping through the classic "All Aboard" children's album I used to play constantly back in the day, and realised that "Goodness Gracious Me" and the "Banana Boat Song" were not really appropriate. As for the Rolf Harris tracks...oh dear.