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  1. On 02/12/2023 at 13:48, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

    did the pits just rely on First Aiders in the pit getting the injured to the surface to be collected by the NHS ambulace?

     

    21 hours ago, Symptoms said:

    My Grandmother had to pay the Doctor for the home visit and for the ambulance

    I wonder why a doctor or an ambulance couldn't attend to the injured at the pit? I mean, moving a back injury isn't the most sensible thing to do. Would it perhaps be because the pit would have to pay the 2/6d.

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  2. On 31/08/2023 at 00:45, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

    Hi Canny Lass!Long time since we chatted![Health issues with my Wife]

    Don't you forget to make time for yourself! Caring for a loved one can be hard work at times and you need time for rest and relaxation if you're going to cope and keep your health intact.

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  3. It's a very small percentage of trees that are exported and we import from Denmark to make up the deficit. There are about 4.5 million households in Sweden and about 3 million of them buy a tree. About 2.8 million of them are Swedish the rest are Danish. Of course, there are plenty of families who don't buy a tree as they own plenty themselves. Funnily enough it's not really acceptable to chop down one of your own so there's a lot of stealing in late December. It usually evens itself out. You take one of somebody else's trees and somebody takes one of yours. Not that I'd ever do anything like that 😇

  4. 22 hours ago, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

    Just wondered with Google showing 63% of Sweden is covered in forests if you had been affected, like Canada, by rising temperatures this year. 

    Which "rising temperatures" would that be? Coldest summer I've experienced in almost 40 years here!

  5. On 19/08/2023 at 11:57, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

    Hows the weather and forests in Sweden

    The weather is mainly COLD and WET! The forests are also mainly COLD and WET! Nine out of ten forest fires here are caused by people rather than climate so this year there have been much fewer forest fires as people haven't been outdoors BBQing and leaving 'single-use BBQs' to smoulder in anywhere near the usual amount - because of the weather

    Of the attached maps the first, mainly blue, shows July rainfall this year. The second, mainly green, shows rainfall this July as a percentage of July rain in the years since 1991. July 2023 must have been, literally, a gift from heaven for the fire brigade!

    We did have four days of 'proper' summer weather in June and then the BBQers, and the fire brigade, were out in force.

     

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    Rain as percent of normal for July 2023.png

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  6. 3 hours ago, threegee said:

    I think the focus there is on the females are able to multitask and males aren't - myth. 

    I prefer the word ’notion’ myself because the idea that women are better than men, when it comes to multitasking, hasn’t been proved either one way or the other. ”Myth” rather suggests that it has. Studies have shown a great deal of inconsistency, to say the least with results ranging from: they are, they aren’t, they sometimes are, they might be and they are in some types of multi-tasking – yes there are several types apparently, including even a type where the tasks involved ”do not need to be carried out simultaneously ” (Sorry can’t remember the researcher but it was quite recently, Bergen University, I think) - but you're right, we really shouldn't knock it and just be grateful that somebody can (she says while rocking the youngest great grandchild's 'bouncer' with one foot, scratching her lower leg with the other foot, reading a story to his brother, trying to write this and planning dinner!)

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  7. On 05/08/2023 at 20:08, Mal said:

    Now if we had said that Canny lass!!!!!😂😂😂

    Now, if you had said that Mal, I would have thought ”Now there’s a sensible man who really understands the complexity of the female’s cognitive functioning. A rare animal indeed! :whistle:

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  8. On 03/08/2023 at 21:21, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

    New trains will all have automatic doors, like the London underground trains, and operated by the multitasking train driver

    On 03/08/2023 at 21:21, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

     

    ..... only female drivers then?

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  9. On 29/06/2023 at 19:42, Vic Patterson said:

    ttps://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/politics/new-name-for-berwick-upon-tweed-constituency-while-wansbeck-and-north-tyneside-seats-to-be-abolished-4200276?fbclid=IwAR3Dt4wiY7vr8-RFjnd4ZbIIKfrRRMXSprS3dcfe6P7LBlIoYxTAWSkGZ9E

    Quote:

    ”North Tyneside and Wansbeck will cease to exist, while new constituencies will be created elsewhere to reflect population changes.

    The BCE is under a legal obligation to propose constituencies within 5% of the electoral quota, meaning the number of registered voters for each constituency in the country must be between 69,724 and 77,062” (my underlining)

    Procreation! That’s the problem! There’s clearly not enough of it in Wansbeck. Get that  improved and we can swing this the other way in 18 years!

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  10. On 23/07/2023 at 13:57, threegee said:

    he extent of the problem is that the digital clock gismo in our bedroom (on the cool, north facing side of the house) was indicating a mere 35.5C when I entered it around midnight. That was with a large fan jammed in the window, expelling air for a prior several hours.

     

    On 23/07/2023 at 13:57, threegee said:

    I've thermometers on other aspects of the house, but it's not as easy to call up a graph without getting out of this seat.  I've seen measurements of 50C+ in the shade from the south side of the house in previous years.  We are still weeks away from the statistically hottest part of the year, too!

    Well, you're probably getting Sweden's share of the 'heatwave'! Coldest July I've ever experienced with temps between 9 and 17, and this is usually our hottest month! I've had to get the winter duvets out of storage.

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  11. On 07/10/2021 at 17:20, Canny lass said:

    The virus is going to run amok this winter.

    Don't let anybody tell you it's over! It's still running amok. Despite five vaccinations and still rigorously hand washing, I am  now recovering from my second dose pf Covid in 3 MONTHS!! Feeling, and probably looking, like a half wrung out floor cloth at the minute. Trying to catch up on the reading but don't expect any real input from me for a while. Stay safe!!!

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    Derek Johnstone 1946 - 2022

    It is with a great deal of sadness that I recently learned of the passing away of a valued member of this forum. Derek Johnstone, better known to us as ’Rigger’, is no longer with us. I first met Derek when he and I entered class JR1 at Westridge Secondary Modern School in Bedlington about 1959. I remember him there as a rather quiet, well mannered and very intelligent teenager who was very well liked and respected by pupils and teachers alike. He was a good classmate and I can’t remember Derek ever being in trouble for misbehaviour of any kind. I have particularly fond personal memories of being helped by Derek when struggling with the intricacies and mysteries of ’tech drawing’ which in my naivety I’d chosen to embark upon instead of needlework. He had the patience of a saint.

    It wasn’t just in the academic subjects he made his mark, Derek, a keen sportsman played football for the school team and went on to devote many hours of his time in training and matches with Bedlington Juniors where he was goalkeeper (pictured below in the scchool team, top row, 3rd from left). He became a keen golfer in later years, so his love of sport had clearly remained with him.

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    After leaving school Derek became an electrician working first in his native Bedlington, at the Doctor Pit, before moving to the coalfields of Yorkshire then South Africa before returning to the UK to take up the very responsible position of overseeing safety in the Aberdeen Offshore Oil Industry. He remained in Aberdeen until his death.

    Derek was a family man. His marriage to New Delaval girl, Patricia (Pat) Brown, gave him three lovely sons: Kristian, Julian and Graeme. Tragically, Pat died very young leaving Derek to shoulder not only his grief but also that of the children and the responsibility for their upbringing. He seems to have done a remarkable job with Kristian now living and working in Dubai, Graeme living and working in Thailand (seemingly having followed in his father’s footseps in the offshore industry) and Julian living and working in Belfast. Derek did remarry but, sadly, once again a caring role was suddenly thrust upon him when his second wife, Irean, developed Alzheimers disease.

    After many, many years my path crossed again with Derek’s when he became ’Rigger’ a member of this forum. Rigger was not a frequent visitor but his posts were always informative and interesting, sharing valuable knowledge of people and places in and around Bedlington. Helpful as ever, he’d never forgotten his Bedlingtonian roots. Even in other areas of the Internet, Derek has left an an enormous legacy to anyone having have roots in Bedlington. His work ’Bedlington Soldiers Who Died in the Great War: Summaries of the brave soldiers from Bedlington and the surrounding area who did not return from the 1914 – 1918 War’  is a one-man masterpiece.

    (http://www.newmp.org.uk/memimages//05.%20Enlistment%20Project%20Compiled%20Version.pdf)

    It is, I’m sure, the result of years of patient research and writing on his part paying homage to the brave men of Bedlington who gave their lives in the Great War. I also know that this work was a tribute to his grandfather whom he loved and admired. It is not just an essay, it is a work of academic standard well worth a read and a valuable source of information to those, like myself, researching family history.

    Last year, Derek was diagnosed with an aggressive and inoperable brain cancer to which he succumbed after only five months. He died in November 2022 aged 76 years. His person has been described to me by his life-long friend David Cowans as ”a friendly boy and a nice man” who ”had a positive manner and a genuine, easy-going charm”. I cannot other than agree.

    Thank you for your contribution. Rest in Peace Rigger.

    Thank you to Derek’s brother Ray, David Cowans, and Glynis Lynn who have provided me with information and photos.

     

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  13. Hi Heather, welcome to the forum.

    Nesbitt has been  a fairly common name in Bedlington, Netherton and Cramlington. It's popped up often during my research. Can you say anything more about Thomas: date of birth or parents names are always a good start. Do you know his place of birth or his occupation?

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