Flops' Friday mini blog

Ooh, I managed to miss your latest pic, Sir Flopps - until now, that is.

Hope you all enjoyed a super day with birthday-girl Faye and had a lot of fun together. :D
 
Went walkabout today in central Londinium on Sunday and ended up in HMV Oxford Street where I copped hold of this vinyl offering.

Lovin' it. Good quality recording too and imo the only good thing he's released since Too Rye Aye.

I also picked up the 'Something Else' Album from The Move on CD as I seem to have been waiting forever for it to be released on vinyl, as was promised.

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There was me thinking it was a vintage album :blush::lol: Must have been those fabulous trousers!
 
Holy thread revival Batman! :eek: Zee ageing floppy one just won't keep quiet.

So...

This afternoon I visited the hospingtail for to talk to the heart nurse cos my ticker had not been behaving itself recently. She let me know the results of tests and it kinda worked out about 98% good, which cheered me, cos at my age 2% not so good ain’t so bad.

When I reported in to reception I noticed a wall-mounted board giving the names of doctors working various hospital departments. I noticed with some amusement there was a Dr Pee and a Dr Tremble. Dr Pee was working in gastroentology but I feel the good doctor may have been better suited to the Urology Department. Dr Tremble worked in a cardio unit but with that name I think they would have better suited the Sexual Health department.

It’s a funny old world.
 
The names of those doctors are priceless Flopps! There is a solicitor in town, who has a very suitable last name too... it's Costley! :D

Very glad to hear that your test results were so good. Always a relief to receive good news for a change. :thumb:
 
In this area there used to be a car body repairer by the name of Eric Dent. :D

And Pipe, the Plumber. :D
 
So what's occurring in the wild weird and wonderful world of Sir Floppington of Flopsicle Mansions? As ever, not a lot. Two weeks ago I took my Playststion 3 and it's 24 games down to a GAME shop and sold them on a part exchange basis. For this I received the princely sum of £105.

I used this to put a deposit on an Xbox One S cos I fancied one. I was told then all the stock of the new machine they were going to receive had been allocated and it was sold out but if there was a cancelled order I'd be first in the queue. So I went to the shop today and I don't have the shiny new toy I'm after :(

The Xbox One S appears to be sold out everywhere, including directly from Microsoft and it looks as though until some more machines are manufactured there won't be any for sale. C'est La Vie, I'll just have to be patient I suppose.

I've owned 3 consoles now, an original Xbox, an Xbox 360 and a PlayStation 3. Of those the 360 was the one I enjoyed the most I never really took a shine to the PS3 and the Forza racing series was a lot more fun than the Gran Turismo series. And for some reason the games Red Dead Redemption and Bayonetta played better on the Xbox 360.

Prior to the hospital appointment I mentioned here in a previous post I went for a scan at the Royal Brompton Hospital in Kensington where they have a scanner that does MRI scans that specialise in having a look at the heart. The scan was supposed to last 45 minutes where you lie in this tube. It's quite claustrophobic and you can't move.

Part way through the scan they inject you with two kinds of stuff, one in each arm for which you have tubes inserted prior to, one is a dye the other is a drug that acts on the heart and I was told it will produce side effects which may include one or more of the following: Chest pains; breathlessness; dizziness; hot flushes; bright lights in front of the eyes. Oh joy, oh rapture.

Oh well, thought I, it's worthwhile. Ten minutes in I develop an itch on the side of nose but because of this big tray-like device across my chest I can't reach to scratch. Gaaaaaa! Driving me nuts but I tolerate it. Then, 25 minutes in, disaster struck - I developed a cramp in the calf of my right leg. I tried my best to wiggle my leg to stop the cramp - to no avail. After a few minutes I was in agony and almost shaking with pain so I had to scream out and tell them to get me out pronto.

I managed to stop the cramp simply by walking around a little.

I felt such a wuss but as I'm getting older me body parts don't seem as flexible as they once were. And apparently they couldn't continue the scan where they left off, they'd have to start the whole thing over again. So that was that, I slunk out of the hospital with my tail between my legs feeling like a complete div.

On the plus side they did say the information they'd gleaned before my cramp set in was recorded and they'd forward that info to my Hospital consultant so it wasn't a total waste of time.

So that's it folks, I live a lifestyle that's a laugh a minute eh? :D
 
floppybootstomp said:
Sir Floppington of Flopsicle Mansions
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Hehe :thumb:

That's a bit annoying about the wait for the Xbox One S, did they give you any indication of how long it might be? I like the new styling - it's very dinky and sleek. Have you got a 4K display?

Sorry to hear about the pain you were in during the scan. I can sympathise - had an MRI once when I had very bad sciatica and lying flat on my back was agony. When there's no escape and no way to make yourself more comfortable it's very frustrating! Hope the results are good though. If you do need to get another one, maybe stretch off beforehand ;)
 
Here's hoping some nice person will decide that they no longer want their ordered Xbox One S, and that you're the next in line! Well, you never know..

Oh... and indeed ouch! Cramp can be the worst when it takes a grip. So sorry that it had to grip you right at that moment. Bummer! :(

I had an MRI very recently too - to investigate an ear problem. Still had to go all the way inside the tube thingy though. There was a decent amount of air being wafted around inside, so I didn't find it too claustrophobic, but my own (dodgy) back was not over-happy about lying on that hard surface. It was also pretty noisy (...did I mention I was there because of an ear problem...? :rolleyes:) Quite a sense of relief when I was finally released.

Hope they have enough data so that you don't need to repeat the scan. All the best to you Sir Floppington. :)
 
I had my fair share of 'scans' a few in the noisy one, fortunately, they give you headphones and play music through them, I all but fell asleep. :rolleyes:

PC games FTW. :p
 
Tonic water works for getting rid of cramp. I use Morrisons cheapest in the small bottles with lemon flavour. Half a bottle if the cramp is not too bad and a full one if it is add in a little bit of walking around and presto cramp vanishes and most importantly does not come back.

I been having fun with the Steam Console and driving games. XBox shmexbox :lol:
 
Thanks for the tonic water tip o barbaric one, I'll get me's some tonic water. As I recall tonic water has quinine in it and is also recommended for gippy bellies so maybe it's the quinine that does the biz.

I still haven't got an Xbox One S and I'm actually having a change of heart about it, I've lived without a console (the PS3) for a few weeks now and tbh I hardly ever played it anyway.

List price for an Xbox One S is £350 but Amazon are currently listing the ones available for £500. El ripoff! :eek:

So I dunno, I may just not go for it and spend the money I received for the PS3 + games on Steam games in the GAME shop.

And what's the point of a Steam console then? I can play all my Steam catalogue on a PC, a fair amount of them in Linux too.
 
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