Chris Jones

Retired NHS Blood and Transplant employee. Grandad to four girls. Real ale lover, @SNCVvolunteers member, ex-biker and grammar pedant.

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@medibot33 TMI

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@suttonguardian Your picture is of Wallington, not Sutton KFC. Does nobody check this stuff before you hit the publish button?

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I’ve just paid £16.40 for two pints of beer in a London pub, and thought to myself ‘that’s not too bad’.
What in Gods name have I become?

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Hats off to @Morrisons for their £15 tomahawk steak deal. Did a reverse sear @WeberGrills cook today and it came out perfectly.

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@suttonguardian The linked story says ‘BMW’ in the headline. Does nobody proofread these stories before someone hits the ‘publish’ button?

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@BigJetTVLIVE @HeathrowAirport Great to have you back, but please take it easy. Start small, then build up to the longer shows.

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Have to say a big thank you to the audiology dept at St Helier Hospital today. Called at 09:00 to say hearing aid faulty. Went in at 13:45 and had a new one sorted by 14:30. Well done #NHS

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@JeremyClarkson Something fishy going on here.

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@Morbidful A wonderful, heartwarming ending to a story that could have ended in tragedy. However, I suspect that it was a team of prosthetists rather than doctors who 3D printed and this. Another example of the great work the professionals allied to medicine perform.

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@DaveWallsworth Got a BBC ‘B’ in 1982 (my then-girlfriend got an engagement ring). Learned to program in Basic and produced some half-decent results given it only had 32K of RAM and no disk drive.
Later used a Wang computer at work (don’t think it was ever used for any real work though).

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@carshaltonviews I think you’ll find they’re Canada geese, not Egyptian.

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@Morbidful In the UK, @NHSBT have been doing this for years.

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By some miracle, my 17 year old car has passed its MoT with no advisories. Wonders will never cease.

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@RevRichardColes I was recently fitted with Oticon Optims on the NHS. Took a bit of getting used to, but now feel lost without them. They have a noise cancelling function accessible via an app and a speech in a noisy environment setting which is directional. Good old NHS, saved me a fortune.

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@fesshole As a (retired) biomedical scientist, I’m pretty sure that drinking in the workplace is not permitted, given it was banned decades ago.

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@carshaltonviews That’ll be the Sutton Nature Conservation volunteers @SNCVvolunteers and Sutton Biodiversity team.

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@TrevorB67203437 @nationaltrust Lovely pics. The top left one could be Painshill Park in Surrey though.

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@RevRichardColes Has a place in my heart as it was the first film I saw on one of those new-fangled colour televisions.

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@carshaltonviews I remember playing around the pond as a child, so it was probably filled in around the 1970’s. I’m sure local historians can provide an accurate date.

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Just had two main meals and four locally brewed dark beers for the princely sum of £24 in Prague. I’m liking this place already.